"Malware is not the same as defective software, that is, software which has a legitimate purpose but contains harmful bugs."
This software, while insipid in its implementation, was not designed to crash systems. It was not designed to reduce performance other than to (attempt to) prevent the infringement of copyright by duplication of copyrighted works.
The protections implied were to prevent people who wished to remove the software in order to duplicate the copyrighted works. The fact that they introduced security vulnerabilities was, again, not an expected or addressed concern. It was also not intentional.
The only attribute which fits your description is the fact that it was installed without the consent or notification of the user. Now, do we blame Sony for auto-installing the software to our computers? Do we blame Microsoft for making removable media automatically mount and run by default? Do we blame Microsoft for setting users as Administrators by default? I think we blame everyone; Sony for being so naive as to think that this would be unnoticed and cause no issues, Microsoft because it's always fun to bash them (and often necessary), and us for taking the creep of DRM to go unchecked by continuing to buy media which is locked down, crippled, and of no benefit to the consumer whatsoever.
You lower yourself by resorting to insults. You made your point, I offer a rebuttal. This is a civil discussion.
The UK is not a place to seek asylum. Asylum is to be sought in the closest possible nation to where you are trying to leave which is not under the same strain which caused you to wish to emigrate.
Unless you're emigrating and seeking asylum from France or RoI, there are closer countries. Asylum seekers seem to bypass all of Western Europe just to come here... I don't want to say it's because they want a free ride, but let's get one thing clear; Between Iraq and the UK there are at least seven Europnean contries, and Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan etc are further east (more countries distant) than that. Why, if they can make the choice to bypass all of those nations, can we not make the choice to send a few back for not being able to contribute in any way to the nation which offers them asylum?
Is it wrong to want the asylum seekers who can get work, pay taxes, build society to have enough of their pay left over from keeping the country running to have a better life than in the country they had left? Accepting any and all who say "asylum, asylum, asylum" at the border will not allow that.
The XCP copy protection system is not malware, it was poorly designed and implemented and allowed malware to hide using the same techniques used to hide the XCP system. In itself, it was not a program designed to adversely affect the operation of the computer; It was a by-product of poor implementation.
I'm fairly sure Sony would love to hear from you if you want to outright accuse them of spreading malware.
By the way, this did not answer the question asked, which was to provide a link to any credible source of information regarding a mainstream antivirus maker colluding with malware distributors, in order to further their own profits by selling more of their products.
We have 'lazy assholes living off the dole' who are British. I'm saying that we don't add immigrants to their number. How we resolve benefit fraud is not the topic of discussion.
That's fine, though. Please, do provide more insight into the topic below. I find poor reasoning and pointless insults very conducive to debate.
More than likely, the graphics-intensive games will be rendered at resolutions which make mid-level hardware fine for what they require. You won't find a hardcore PC gamer using this service; 1920x1080 will be his choice, and he'll have the hardware to back it up. I see this as being piped to a widescreen 720p TV at best, 17" monitor at 1280x1024 maybe. Hopefully it'll followed by an app for Windows, OS/X, and Linux which will save on hardware costs to the company and mean I can finally 3D game on a laptop without needing to spend Great Britain Pound Sterling2500 on some 5kg Alienware monstrosity with power consumption measured in kW.
Linux gaming is all I've wanted to make me switch.
Having to swap between Linux and Windows between getting games working and playing games just made me resent Linux for being too much like my day job. I don't come home to fix my OS; I come home to use it, and that's where Windows has the upper hand (at least as a gaming OS).
This service, if it runs on Linux, will make Ballmer quite literally shit himself.
Any person who cannot complete basic maths, science, and an "English as a second language" qualification, more than likely GCSE, written in their own language, is denied entry.
A lack of these basic skills will guarantee a life at the expense of the UK tax payer, and that's the really big string in the far right-wing party's bow; Living off money earned by others. Kill that issue, and kill far-right party support. Two birds, one stone.
You are not the person those warnings are meant for. If your nan gets to warning 3, and carefully considers that deleting explorer.exe file might be a bad idea, that's one less hosed system you need to go look at. You can turn them off because you know what you're doing, and if not you know how to fix it. So do that, and stop crying about MS not making it perfect just for you.
It's perfect for the 99% of us who don't want to spend our evenings repairing dumbass mistakes by siblings and relatives.
However, my way of wording it is "The guy was suffering from bipolar disorder, causing him to latch onto any and all means of proving self worth at the expense of everything else. He was found out, put in prison, rehabilitated, and is now more in control of his neurological condition. He has found gainful employment by an employer who understands the issues fuelling his past behaviour, and has decided that the man's skillset is worth more than the risk (or the safeguards against) a repeat of prior events."
But I much prefer your way of putting it. It reminds me of political spin and headline-grabbing media coverage from the Daily Mail. I'm used to that kind of spoon-feed-me-my-morality reporting, after all.
If there was ever a comment deserving of a Troll mod, it's the parent.
All with mod points; Read more about the guy than you have heard from the media. This is not a simple issue, with opinions to be based upon hype and paper-selling hyperbole.
He could have. Take the insurance companies out of the equation and bring a civil suit.
If anything, he could have burned through a good chunk of that $100,000. Pyrrhic victory, but folks like that deserve to be dropped down a notch at every opportunity. Failing a notch, some stairs will do.
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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware
"Malware is not the same as defective software, that is, software which has a legitimate purpose but contains harmful bugs."
This software, while insipid in its implementation, was not designed to crash systems. It was not designed to reduce performance other than to (attempt to) prevent the infringement of copyright by duplication of copyrighted works.
The protections implied were to prevent people who wished to remove the software in order to duplicate the copyrighted works. The fact that they introduced security vulnerabilities was, again, not an expected or addressed concern. It was also not intentional.
The only attribute which fits your description is the fact that it was installed without the consent or notification of the user. Now, do we blame Sony for auto-installing the software to our computers? Do we blame Microsoft for making removable media automatically mount and run by default? Do we blame Microsoft for setting users as Administrators by default? I think we blame everyone; Sony for being so naive as to think that this would be unnoticed and cause no issues, Microsoft because it's always fun to bash them (and often necessary), and us for taking the creep of DRM to go unchecked by continuing to buy media which is locked down, crippled, and of no benefit to the consumer whatsoever.
You lower yourself by resorting to insults. You made your point, I offer a rebuttal. This is a civil discussion.
Free Gary McKinnon.
The UK is not a place to seek asylum. Asylum is to be sought in the closest possible nation to where you are trying to leave which is not under the same strain which caused you to wish to emigrate.
Unless you're emigrating and seeking asylum from France or RoI, there are closer countries. Asylum seekers seem to bypass all of Western Europe just to come here... I don't want to say it's because they want a free ride, but let's get one thing clear; Between Iraq and the UK there are at least seven Europnean contries, and Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan etc are further east (more countries distant) than that. Why, if they can make the choice to bypass all of those nations, can we not make the choice to send a few back for not being able to contribute in any way to the nation which offers them asylum?
Is it wrong to want the asylum seekers who can get work, pay taxes, build society to have enough of their pay left over from keeping the country running to have a better life than in the country they had left? Accepting any and all who say "asylum, asylum, asylum" at the border will not allow that.
As a curiosity, Sophos didn't pick up any of those files as malware.
I was free to unzip all of them with impunity, but stopped myself at pages with 42.zip.
The XCP copy protection system is not malware, it was poorly designed and implemented and allowed malware to hide using the same techniques used to hide the XCP system. In itself, it was not a program designed to adversely affect the operation of the computer; It was a by-product of poor implementation.
I'm fairly sure Sony would love to hear from you if you want to outright accuse them of spreading malware.
By the way, this did not answer the question asked, which was to provide a link to any credible source of information regarding a mainstream antivirus maker colluding with malware distributors, in order to further their own profits by selling more of their products.
We have 'lazy assholes living off the dole' who are British. I'm saying that we don't add immigrants to their number. How we resolve benefit fraud is not the topic of discussion.
That's fine, though. Please, do provide more insight into the topic below. I find poor reasoning and pointless insults very conducive to debate.
More than likely, the graphics-intensive games will be rendered at resolutions which make mid-level hardware fine for what they require. You won't find a hardcore PC gamer using this service; 1920x1080 will be his choice, and he'll have the hardware to back it up. I see this as being piped to a widescreen 720p TV at best, 17" monitor at 1280x1024 maybe. Hopefully it'll followed by an app for Windows, OS/X, and Linux which will save on hardware costs to the company and mean I can finally 3D game on a laptop without needing to spend Great Britain Pound Sterling2500 on some 5kg Alienware monstrosity with power consumption measured in kW.
At least you wouldn't need chillers on the top of Everest.
Linux gaming is all I've wanted to make me switch.
Having to swap between Linux and Windows between getting games working and playing games just made me resent Linux for being too much like my day job. I don't come home to fix my OS; I come home to use it, and that's where Windows has the upper hand (at least as a gaming OS).
This service, if it runs on Linux, will make Ballmer quite literally shit himself.
Any person who cannot complete basic maths, science, and an "English as a second language" qualification, more than likely GCSE, written in their own language, is denied entry.
A lack of these basic skills will guarantee a life at the expense of the UK tax payer, and that's the really big string in the far right-wing party's bow; Living off money earned by others. Kill that issue, and kill far-right party support. Two birds, one stone.
You more than likely take vehicle maintenance advice from someone who would do the same. If he gets that wrong, you could end up dead.
Name one TV show where the family lives in a house or an apartment realistic for what the income level for their job should be.
Now this is a story, all about how, my life got flip-turned...
I press the green "phone" button and get straight to the dialing interface. It loads instantly.
Strip out the bloat, and it runs really well. Three days battery life, no resets / powering off, and plenty of storage space.
Look, I don't have time to figure out if you mean petabits, kilobits, Libraries of Congress or Brassiere's Capacity of Katie Price.
12 what?
112589990684262400 (100 petabits)
10( years)
12 (months)
365.25 (days)
24 (hours)
60 (minutes)
60 (seconds)
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29731345.93 (bits per second)
29034.52 (kilobits per second)
28.35 (megabits per second)
This new line transfers the equivalent of one decade of fully-saturated domestic ADSL2 line (24Mb) traffic every second.
WinMobile is a no-go
Tell that to these folks
Tupperware and Windows: Only useful if you keep the box closed.
You are not the person those warnings are meant for. If your nan gets to warning 3, and carefully considers that deleting explorer.exe file might be a bad idea, that's one less hosed system you need to go look at. You can turn them off because you know what you're doing, and if not you know how to fix it. So do that, and stop crying about MS not making it perfect just for you.
It's perfect for the 99% of us who don't want to spend our evenings repairing dumbass mistakes by siblings and relatives.
Don't forget seminars on Furniture Ballistics.
All new products have launch parties. The attendees are just the folks standing outside in the queue, waiting for the stores to open.
I agree that they are all very, very sad, but by the same token, this is Slashdot. We're hardly the Patrick Bateman's of the world.
Except for that Reiser fellow.
The quantum machine gun is described as 'one of the most exciting theoretical proposals I've read in five years' by a leading quantum physicist.
The long winter nights must just fly by.
Agree completely!
However, my way of wording it is "The guy was suffering from bipolar disorder, causing him to latch onto any and all means of proving self worth at the expense of everything else. He was found out, put in prison, rehabilitated, and is now more in control of his neurological condition. He has found gainful employment by an employer who understands the issues fuelling his past behaviour, and has decided that the man's skillset is worth more than the risk (or the safeguards against) a repeat of prior events."
But I much prefer your way of putting it. It reminds me of political spin and headline-grabbing media coverage from the Daily Mail. I'm used to that kind of spoon-feed-me-my-morality reporting, after all.
If there was ever a comment deserving of a Troll mod, it's the parent.
All with mod points; Read more about the guy than you have heard from the media. This is not a simple issue, with opinions to be based upon hype and paper-selling hyperbole.
Exactly what I was thinking.
1. Encounter electronic Area of Effect weapons
2. Fire HERF gun. AoE weapon fails
3. Police draw truncheons
4. Fail.
He could have. Take the insurance companies out of the equation and bring a civil suit.
If anything, he could have burned through a good chunk of that $100,000. Pyrrhic victory, but folks like that deserve to be dropped down a notch at every opportunity. Failing a notch, some stairs will do.