A zero-day vulnerability is widely recognized to be a vulnerability that is found only because it's being exploited, which is how the four vulnerabilities appear to have been discovered. I suspect that the author of the article reasoned that a zero-day vulnerability remains a zero-day vulnerability even after a patch is available for it.
I don't think there's any guidelines for when, if ever, an exploit stops being called a zero-day vulnerability and becomes just a normal one.
Don't feel bad. I'd be embarrassed too, if I fell for an article from The Sun. Fortunately, I know that they're about as reliable a news source as The Weekly World News (but Bat Boy is absolutely, undeniably real. Elvis told me so!)
This article has a fairly good explanation of the phenomenon, albeit in relation to politics and not troubleshooting hardware. It's the same thing, though... present people with facts that prove that their beliefs are wrong and they will often cling even more tightly to what they believe.
There is no way that eating a couple of tortillas changed a great mood into a suicidal one in a couple of hours. At worst, something in them made her more emotional and caused her to reveal the thoughts that she'd been hiding from you. She went with the tortilla explanation because it was easier than admitting the truth.
You don't say how long ago your anecdote took place, but if it's in recent history, I would suggest that you pay close attention to your wife's behavior and watch for signs that she's hiding suicidal thoughts. Don't wait for her to write another letter.
I used examples from the PC because they're easily available. To argue that they're invalid, you would have to provide some evidence that indicates that consoles gamers are more likely to pirate games than PC gamers. There is no such evidence and the fact that the groups of console and PC gamers overlap heavily would suggest quite the opposite... console gamers are very likely to behave exactly like PC gamers.
Bandwidth is a straw man argument as well, since game piracy was very common before the internet ever existed. The first examples of piracy go back to (if I recall correctly) the 18th century and involved sheet music. People wanting a free copy is not a new phenomenon by any stretch of the imagination.
And viruses? Please. You can't get most people to stop opening attachments in spam. Why would you think they would hesitate to run a pirated program?
Once it got into the public perception that pirating games was easy and virtually risk free, I think you'd see a whole new floodgate open that really would destroy the gaming market.
ROFL
What alternate universe did you come from? Pirating software is and always has been easy and virtually risk free. Look at the experiences of Reflexive and 2D Boy, for example. Reflexive released a game with DRM and 2D Boy released one without... both found piracy rates were around 90%. Reflexive estimated that, for every 1,000 pirated copies their DRM eliminated, they gained 1 sale.
Do you think the 90% of people who pirated those programs suffered any reprisal at all? Can you find even a single instance of someone being punished for copying either program? Of course not. Piracy is virtually risk free.
Breaking DRM may be difficult, but it only has to be broken once. The vast majority of the people who download pirated software are just grabbing a copy that's already broken and know absolutely nothing about DRM. For the majority, it's as easy as clicking a link.
And yet... not only has the gaming industry continued to exist, it has grown enormously. Your declaration that piracy being easy and risk free would destroy the game industry is completely, utterly wrong because piracy IS easy and virtually risk free and the game industry has not been destroyed.
The undeniable truth is that the vast majority of pirates aren't interested in buying software. No amount of DRM is going to change that. It's just as true that removing DRM doesn't turn the 10% or so who do buy software into pirates. The figures stay the same regardless of DRM.
Despite what you believe, it seems that about 10% of humanity is selfless enough to support a thriving software market on what is, in fact, mostly an honor system.
Don't forget the difficulty in choosing the proper paper. It has to have just the right subtle off-white coloring, just the right tasteful thickness.... oh my god, it should have a watermark!
You're massively overestimating how much tuna someone would need to eat. 10 ounces is enough to meet protein for anyone other than a bodybuilder and is more than most people need.
Even that amount is unnecessary, however, because virtually everything we eat has protein. Someone could try to live on nothing but tuna, of course, but they'd quickly discover the joy of scurvy, rickets, goiter and a host of other diseases that stem from nutritional deficiencies.
A normal diet (which is not the "OMG buffet must eat pounds of meat" approach many people have toward diet) would only need to include around 4-6 ounces of tuna and the rest of the needed protein would come from vegetables, grains and other sources.
A quote from an "American diplomatic official" becomes the Obama administration's position in an article and then becomes what Obama himself wants in the/. story that links to it.
The next step will probably be someone linking to the/. article and suggesting that God wants the world's nations to rise up against Wikileaks.
If we don't track people, TERRORISTS will KIDNAP your KIDS and use DRUGS to turn them into GAY SUICIDE BOMBERS!
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He didn't jump from janitors to waiters. The parent of the post he replied to said "Don't f* with the IT guy like at restaurant you don't f* with the people who handle your food!" and the post he replied to said "IT folks deal with a LOT more shit." His post refuted that idea since he's worked in a restaurant and IT and can attest to the fact that IT folks deal with a lot less shit than waiters do.
Everything in the article seems to require getting the user to download compromised code and run it on a game system. If you're stupid enough to download random software and run it, you're going to open yourself up to malware regardless of what OS or hardware you do it on.
Your argument is sound and explained very clearly, but it's equally clear that God made you say all that to test our faith, therefore creationism must be true.
I would have no problem putting the power output rating on the phone. I would then tweak the phones to crank up the power output to the highest limits allowed. Once I had everything ready, I'd start advertising about how higher power = fewer dropped calls (which isn't entirely untrue) and how much more powerful my phones are than my competition's.
Doing that would drive away the small percentage of idiots who are most likely to be problem customers. Beyond that, it would be a huge selling people to more knowledgeable people and it would help capture the "must buy the biggest numbered thing" market segment as well.
Are you going to buy a legal copy of the work in question in order to make the hash? If not, you're still violating copyright when you get a copy to make the has with. If f you do buy it, then there's no point in making the hash since you own the copy you'll use in your filter.
I clicked on the mod score on every post that I mentioned and looked at the moderation scores in the popup. Only one had a negative. If mod scores are disappearing all together, then there's a bug with slashdot, but it's not the same as being modded down
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A zero-day vulnerability is widely recognized to be a vulnerability that is found only because it's being exploited, which is how the four vulnerabilities appear to have been discovered. I suspect that the author of the article reasoned that a zero-day vulnerability remains a zero-day vulnerability even after a patch is available for it.
I don't think there's any guidelines for when, if ever, an exploit stops being called a zero-day vulnerability and becomes just a normal one.
> Yeah, I'm kinda embarrassed by this.
Don't feel bad. I'd be embarrassed too, if I fell for an article from The Sun. Fortunately, I know that they're about as reliable a news source as The Weekly World News (but Bat Boy is absolutely, undeniably real. Elvis told me so!)
It's not laziness and it's nothing new.
This article has a fairly good explanation of the phenomenon, albeit in relation to politics and not troubleshooting hardware. It's the same thing, though... present people with facts that prove that their beliefs are wrong and they will often cling even more tightly to what they believe.
There is no way that eating a couple of tortillas changed a great mood into a suicidal one in a couple of hours. At worst, something in them made her more emotional and caused her to reveal the thoughts that she'd been hiding from you. She went with the tortilla explanation because it was easier than admitting the truth.
You don't say how long ago your anecdote took place, but if it's in recent history, I would suggest that you pay close attention to your wife's behavior and watch for signs that she's hiding suicidal thoughts. Don't wait for her to write another letter.
Good luck.
IE user, I also do the same thing, except my search terms are sent to people all over the world that I don't know, along with everything else I type.
Not to mention your credit card numbers.
I used examples from the PC because they're easily available. To argue that they're invalid, you would have to provide some evidence that indicates that consoles gamers are more likely to pirate games than PC gamers. There is no such evidence and the fact that the groups of console and PC gamers overlap heavily would suggest quite the opposite... console gamers are very likely to behave exactly like PC gamers.
Bandwidth is a straw man argument as well, since game piracy was very common before the internet ever existed. The first examples of piracy go back to (if I recall correctly) the 18th century and involved sheet music. People wanting a free copy is not a new phenomenon by any stretch of the imagination.
And viruses? Please. You can't get most people to stop opening attachments in spam. Why would you think they would hesitate to run a pirated program?
Once it got into the public perception that pirating games was easy and virtually risk free, I think you'd see a whole new floodgate open that really would destroy the gaming market.
ROFL
What alternate universe did you come from? Pirating software is and always has been easy and virtually risk free. Look at the experiences of Reflexive and 2D Boy, for example. Reflexive released a game with DRM and 2D Boy released one without... both found piracy rates were around 90%. Reflexive estimated that, for every 1,000 pirated copies their DRM eliminated, they gained 1 sale.
Do you think the 90% of people who pirated those programs suffered any reprisal at all? Can you find even a single instance of someone being punished for copying either program? Of course not. Piracy is virtually risk free.
Breaking DRM may be difficult, but it only has to be broken once. The vast majority of the people who download pirated software are just grabbing a copy that's already broken and know absolutely nothing about DRM. For the majority, it's as easy as clicking a link.
And yet... not only has the gaming industry continued to exist, it has grown enormously. Your declaration that piracy being easy and risk free would destroy the game industry is completely, utterly wrong because piracy IS easy and virtually risk free and the game industry has not been destroyed.
The undeniable truth is that the vast majority of pirates aren't interested in buying software. No amount of DRM is going to change that. It's just as true that removing DRM doesn't turn the 10% or so who do buy software into pirates. The figures stay the same regardless of DRM.
Despite what you believe, it seems that about 10% of humanity is selfless enough to support a thriving software market on what is, in fact, mostly an honor system.
Ahem
http://blog.internetcases.com/2006/03/03/defendant-bails-nail-and-mail-fails-so-e-mail-of-summons-prevails/
Don't forget the difficulty in choosing the proper paper. It has to have just the right subtle off-white coloring, just the right tasteful thickness.... oh my god, it should have a watermark!
You're massively overestimating how much tuna someone would need to eat. 10 ounces is enough to meet protein for anyone other than a bodybuilder and is more than most people need.
Even that amount is unnecessary, however, because virtually everything we eat has protein. Someone could try to live on nothing but tuna, of course, but they'd quickly discover the joy of scurvy, rickets, goiter and a host of other diseases that stem from nutritional deficiencies.
A normal diet (which is not the "OMG buffet must eat pounds of meat" approach many people have toward diet) would only need to include around 4-6 ounces of tuna and the rest of the needed protein would come from vegetables, grains and other sources.
The poll must be accurate since nobody on a dating site would ever lie about themselves, right?
A quote from an "American diplomatic official" becomes the Obama administration's position in an article and then becomes what Obama himself wants in the /. story that links to it.
The next step will probably be someone linking to the /. article and suggesting that God wants the world's nations to rise up against Wikileaks.
It's a conspiracy.
It's... scandal-gate!
If we don't track people, TERRORISTS will KIDNAP your KIDS and use DRUGS to turn them into GAY SUICIDE BOMBERS!
He didn't jump from janitors to waiters.
The parent of the post he replied to said "Don't f* with the IT guy like at restaurant you don't f* with the people who handle your food!" and the post he replied to said "IT folks deal with a LOT more shit." His post refuted that idea since he's worked in a restaurant and IT and can attest to the fact that IT folks deal with a lot less shit than waiters do.
I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but...
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"
Fuck you if you think otherwise.
Everything in the article seems to require getting the user to download compromised code and run it on a game system. If you're stupid enough to download random software and run it, you're going to open yourself up to malware regardless of what OS or hardware you do it on.
It's as if millions of fanboys suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced
Your argument is sound and explained very clearly, but it's equally clear that God made you say all that to test our faith, therefore creationism must be true.
I would have no problem putting the power output rating on the phone. I would then tweak the phones to crank up the power output to the highest limits allowed. Once I had everything ready, I'd start advertising about how higher power = fewer dropped calls (which isn't entirely untrue) and how much more powerful my phones are than my competition's.
Doing that would drive away the small percentage of idiots who are most likely to be problem customers. Beyond that, it would be a huge selling people to more knowledgeable people and it would help capture the "must buy the biggest numbered thing" market segment as well.
> I wonder what my grandfather was able to experience that I'll never get the chance to?
Polio epidemics.
Are you going to buy a legal copy of the work in question in order to make the hash? If not, you're still violating copyright when you get a copy to make the has with. If f you do buy it, then there's no point in making the hash since you own the copy you'll use in your filter.
Of course I think it's going to include a lot of the same group of people who bought The Sims and tortured their sims. Poor Milo.
Slashdot would rather be funny than insightful
I clicked on the mod score on every post that I mentioned and looked at the moderation scores in the popup. Only one had a negative. If mod scores are disappearing all together, then there's a bug with slashdot, but it's not the same as being modded down