I think this is a good moment for all of us to reflect on how rallying around this lying criminal stained our profession, and how we should practice the same objectivity with ourselves and those "in the downtrodden world of IT" that we expect in others.
How many charges were initially filed against him? How many charges was he found guilty of?
Note the discrepancy in those numbers.
At least now the facts are out and we can determine for ourselves whether the law was applied correctly (and if so, whether the law itself is at fault).
Speaking as someone who spent over a decade as an anti-virus researcher and anti-virus engine developer, the truth is that it is infeasible for AV companies to keep up with the flood of (generated) malware that engulfs modern PCs... and, believe me, it's not for lack of trying.
Why spend 10 years trying to identify all the "bad" code when it should be far easier to identify the apps that you want to allow to run on your machine?
The "scan" window pops up and tells them that they've been infected BUT IT IS OKAY because all they have to do is click here and the nice software from the friendly company will remove the nasty viruses for them.
Yay!!!
This is just a side effect of the "real" anti-virus/security businesses having no interest in reducing/mitigating the "virus" threat. It makes too much money for them.
Maybe it will cost them a fortune. Or maybe they'll make everyone trying to file a claim jump through unreasonable hoops and end up paying almost nothing.
Extending a license for 2 years costs them NOTHING if the customer would have left.
And that's just for home users. There's still no word on other users (like school districts).
I often wonder if plumbers reach a point in their career, after cleaning clogged drain after clogged drain, that they begin to hate plumbing. They hate pipes. They hate plumber's putty. They hate all the tricks they've learned over the years, and they hate the need to have to learn tricks. It's plumbing, for goodness sake: pipes fitting together and substances flowing through them. How complicated can it be?
Well for one, copper pipe v3.5 is still backward compatible with copper pipe v2.1 and will be forward compatible with copper pipe v5.0 and beyond.
You know how it will fail and how it will age up to the point that it fails.
With computers, you simply do not know. Systems could fail tonight because of some date/time error. Patches next month can break your test machines. But if you don't install the patches, drive by banner ads infections will go up as crackers exploit the buffer overrun. And a million other possibilities.
Frank cyber-walked his cyber-beat.
on
Fatal System Error
·
· Score: 5, Funny
He knew there was a cyber-gang out there waiting to commit their next cyber-crime. Frank knew he had to catch them with the cyber-goods. Frank's 45 wouldn't be much help on this cyber-collar. Frank needed something better. Frank needed a cyber-45. Frank knew only one person who could supply him with that, Cyber-Jimmy. The best cyber-fence in the cyber-world. Frank pulled up to the next cyber-phone to give Cyber-Jimmy a cyber-call.
In most enterprise environments McAfee is going to have real time protection against running processes.
It is "real time protection" even if that setting is set to "off".
McAfee's documentation specifically mentions turning it off because there is a high processor utilization bug still in it. Although you'd need to read the "read me" file that came with the patches.
Other than that, unless you choose the highest security setting, it is off by default in a BRAND NEW VANILLA install. But not if you had upgraded from a previous version where it was set to "on" by default.
Comedy Central censors a bit about intimidation and fear... because Comedy Central is afraid of the intimidation by groups claiming offense by other material in that episode.
The next best bit was whether they could depict Mohammad if the depiction was depicted inside a depiction of a truck.
They have sucked in the past, but this was pure genius.
The interface complaints are just what I keep hearing from programmers on various tech sites, including Slashdot, every time a story comes up regarding filesystems or somesuch. If kernel development doesn't, in fact, suck, then maybe there needs to be a better PR campaign to get the word out, because I've heard nothing but bad things.
Who cares? There will always be people who complain about something whether or not there is any factual basis for their complaints.
And there will always be people who repeat those complaints even if they have not taken the time to verify them themselves.
Meanwhile, there are hundreds of projects that run on Linux. From Apache to Samba to KDE.
Does Linux really need developers who have to be told that Linux is easy?
Slashdot Mirror
How many charges were initially filed against him? How many charges was he found guilty of?
Note the discrepancy in those numbers.
At least now the facts are out and we can determine for ourselves whether the law was applied correctly (and if so, whether the law itself is at fault).
Why spend 10 years trying to identify all the "bad" code when it should be far easier to identify the apps that you want to allow to run on your machine?
http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/corporate/mcafee_Solidcore.html
The "scan" window pops up and tells them that they've been infected BUT IT IS OKAY because all they have to do is click here and the nice software from the friendly company will remove the nasty viruses for them.
Yay!!!
This is just a side effect of the "real" anti-virus/security businesses having no interest in reducing/mitigating the "virus" threat. It makes too much money for them.
Consider that stolen. I will be using it the next time someone tries to subject me to a PowerPoint presentation against my will.
And it is CONTINUING because IE6 is on all the desktops.
The old apps require IE6 ... ... ... IE6.
The new apps need to be written to the "standard"
That "standard" is
So guess what is going to be around for a LONG time.
Nope. If a person is obsessive/compulsive, that person WILL become "addicted" to SOMETHING.
That does not mean that that thing is addictive.
In order to demonstrate that something is addictive, you'd have to be able to get an otherwise non-addicted person to become addicted to it.
... use of their time.
If you're "addicted" to PLAYING basketball (as opposed to just watching it) then you're probably in pretty good shape.
If you're "addicted" to fishing, at least it's a useful skill. As long as you like fish a lot.
If you're addicted to "the Internet" ... what do you have to show for it?
How much will it take to addict me?
How many posts until I have to come back every single day?
When will I start turning down other activities because I have to get back on /.?
Right now, dinner with friends seems a LOT more interesting.
No, the Internet is not addictive. Nor is texting.
Certain people are obsessive/compulsive.
If you pirate the software, you get all the downsides and none of the upsides.
You certainly wouldn't be getting any pay-out from McAfee for someone to fix your machine after the "pirated" software crashed it.
Maybe it will cost them a fortune. Or maybe they'll make everyone trying to file a claim jump through unreasonable hoops and end up paying almost nothing.
Extending a license for 2 years costs them NOTHING if the customer would have left.
And that's just for home users. There's still no word on other users (like school districts).
From TFA
Well for one, copper pipe v3.5 is still backward compatible with copper pipe v2.1 and will be forward compatible with copper pipe v5.0 and beyond.
You know how it will fail and how it will age up to the point that it fails.
With computers, you simply do not know. Systems could fail tonight because of some date/time error. Patches next month can break your test machines. But if you don't install the patches, drive by banner ads infections will go up as crackers exploit the buffer overrun. And a million other possibilities.
He knew there was a cyber-gang out there waiting to commit their next cyber-crime. Frank knew he had to catch them with the cyber-goods. Frank's 45 wouldn't be much help on this cyber-collar. Frank needed something better. Frank needed a cyber-45. Frank knew only one person who could supply him with that, Cyber-Jimmy. The best cyber-fence in the cyber-world. Frank pulled up to the next cyber-phone to give Cyber-Jimmy a cyber-call.
The cyber-phone cyber rang.
Cyber-Smurf here, came the reply.
There's no magic here. They have a signature that matches a specific version of svchost.exe.
They did not test the scan engine with that dat against that version of the file.
That's all it is.
It is "real time protection" even if that setting is set to "off".
McAfee's documentation specifically mentions turning it off because there is a high processor utilization bug still in it. Although you'd need to read the "read me" file that came with the patches.
Other than that, unless you choose the highest security setting, it is off by default in a BRAND NEW VANILLA install. But not if you had upgraded from a previous version where it was set to "on" by default.
This is 100% McAfee's fault on so many levels.
Well, one condition - that the v8.7 McAfee app scanned the svchost.exe file of a WinXPsp3 machine.
Which could happen under three situations:
1. You manually launched a scan.
or
2. A scheduled scan launched.
or
3. A setting in your policy said "scan processes on enable".
... why they didn't test the new dat file against Windows system files.
Seriously, we pay them a LOT of money for their product licenses and they cannot even test against known system files?
The terrorists only win when we lose the will to fight for our Freedoms.
If anything, this shows that Comedy Central has surrendered to terrorism.
But Matt and Trey are still fighting for Freedom of Speech.
Comedy Central censors a bit about intimidation and fear ... because Comedy Central is afraid of the intimidation by groups claiming offense by other material in that episode.
The next best bit was whether they could depict Mohammad if the depiction was depicted inside a depiction of a truck.
They have sucked in the past, but this was pure genius.
Who cares? There will always be people who complain about something whether or not there is any factual basis for their complaints.
And there will always be people who repeat those complaints even if they have not taken the time to verify them themselves.
Meanwhile, there are hundreds of projects that run on Linux. From Apache to Samba to KDE.
Does Linux really need developers who have to be told that Linux is easy?
"Show me the code!"
Who cares how they got there as long as their code can be demonstrated to be as good or better than the other approaches?
It's the results that matter.
If some college kid can get better results than coders who have been working on the kernel for 20 years, then that's great.
If you're right out of college, would you have the experience to work on the kernel IN ITS CURRENT STATE?
The kernel has come a LONG way since Linus first started it back in his college days.
The real question should be whether developers how have never touched the kernel before are joining the kernel team. Not how old they are.
Instead of just not paying for it, don't watch it at all. Or don't listen to it.
If you don't like their tactics, do not provide them with an avenue to distribute their products.
Yes. Because when patching, you want the process to be as simple as possible for the END USER.
The more steps the end user has to follow, the more likely that the end user will make a mistake somewhere.
If it can be done in one step at the end user's level, then it should be done in one step at the end user's level. No delays.
If all of those are worked out ahead of time, then there shouldn't be a need for a meeting for that information to be communicated.
The only REAL need for a meeting is during a crisis that you have NOT prepared for.