It's simple, really. Of all the computers that I have ever had to clean, I looked through the logs, and 80% of the time or more, found that one or more users had been to porn sites. I followed the links that they used, and usually found some sort of malware trying to install itself. "To view this content you must install blah-blah codec. Do you wish to continue?" Other viruses were more of the drive-by type, in that they don't ask at all. There is a catch to free porn, as often as not.
Porn isn't the only vector, of course, but that is the first thing I look for when someone brings me a sick machine, and it's almost always there.
Windows is so very "helpful", in that it maintains very specific logs about your internet browsing! Which, is reason number two that I don't run Windows myself.;^)
Our friends in Europe are waging a war against ACTA that we Americans were to stupid and/or to lazy to wage for ourselves. TPP is being negotiated in the same secrecy with which ACTA was.
For the most part, these are lawyers. There are, after all, basically two kinds of lawyers. One, is the lawyer who (at least used to) believe that he could do the world some good, redress wrongs, and see justice carried out. Two, is the parasite who was unfit for any profession, so he went into law to be better able to suck money out of people.
For the parasites, RIAA and MPAA are "productive" endeavors.
It need not be a "slow day at the office". If the boss says, "Find out why it crashed and burned", the techie is going to find out, or at least point to the porn and tell the boss, "I'm quite sure that's the vector, I just can't find the virus or trojan that came as a payload." And, the boss (whether he's technically literate or not) probably just accepts that you, the user, got a virus while looking at porn.
What percentage of people are "deliberately installing malware"? All the same, we read of malware on government networks, corporate networks, banking networks, small business networks, as well as home networks.
On the one hand, I won't have a machine on which I cannot become root. On the other hand, if I have to administer a machine, I really don't want the user to be able to install anything.
jhoegl wrote, above, "Not that I dont trust employees to know better, but I dont trust ALL employees to know better."
I add, "If I can't trust ALL employees, how do I determine which ones I can trust?
"in fact they lose money for the extra data transferred as adverts over and over again for no reason other than to push up a metric that says the advertisement was viewed,"
I should send a letter to my ISP, asking for a discount, since I don't see adverts. My router doesn't even pass requests to advertising sites. Multiply the savings by four computers, I'm saving them a LOT of money!
I've had far more than 20 tabs open at the same time. Hell, I've had more than 20 in Firefox, and more than 20 in Chromium at the same time. When you're searching for things on the web, those tabs just seem to multiply by the second.
I'll correct you. I'm pretty sure that the "official" recommendation for WinXP is 256MB, and some vendors have actually sold computers with as little as 128.
From experience, 192MB is just to little for any meaningful multitasking. Yeah, I was able to start a browser, and connect to the internet. Doing anything else at the same time meant waiting on virtual memory. It sucked so bad, I rolled that laptop back to WinME, and got rid of it. I would have installed Linux, but doing so meant diving straight into Driver Hell. At that point in time, there were to many other machines that were fully supported by LInux to make this particular machine worth bothering with.
Little boy has discipline problems, to the extent that he is considered for a general discharge.
The army is desperate for personnel, so they counsel and threaten little boy, he agrees to behave better.
Little boy gets into multiple disagreements with supervisors, at one point verbally assaulting a female supervisor who is sure that she is about to be physically assaulted.
Little boy stands in front of those superiors who are responsible for disciplining him again.
Little boy promises to do better - to show up for work assignments, for instance.
Little boy is convinced that his mates are laughing at him - and they may well be laughing at him.
Finally, our little boy decides to "get even" with all those assholes.
Now, I could easily have traded "little boy" off for "little fairy". Same story, same results. I might even have taken a little satisfaction from the "little fairy" angle. But - I didn't. Know why? Because, like them or not, gays have indeed been serving this country for a long, long time. SOME of them have been flakes, not worth the powder required to blow their brains out. But, others have been excellent, outstanding members of the service.
Manning is crying foul, along with his idiot supporters, on the basis that Manning is "gender confused". I call BULLSHIT, loud and clear. My shipmates who were gay, and were also shitbirds, were not shitbirds BECAUSE they were gay. They were shitbirds who happened to be gay. And my shipmates who were gay, and were also 4.0 sailors weren't 4.0 because they were gay. They were 4.0 sailors who also happened to be gay.
I detest Manning. And, every gay activist in America should detest him as well. Manning has acted like a spiteful child, fully aware of the severity of his actions, and the severity of the consequences of those actions. Now, he compounds that by USING the gay community as an excuse for his actions!
"Oh, poor little me - I'm so gender confused, and my workmates made fun of me! Ohhhh, booo, hooo, hoo!"
And, the poor damned fools in the gay community suck it up.
Not to mention, the poor damned fools in the meida suck it up as well.
I can't wait til they have a murderer, or a mass murderer, on trial, who claims to be "gender confused", and blames his murder(s) on everyone who poked fun at him - real or imagined.
I'll remind everyone who is still following this thread - WE HAVE AN ALL VOLUNTEER ARMED FORCES TODAY! MANNING WAS NOT DRAFTED. MANNING AGREED TO BE WHERE HE WAS, AND TO DO WHAT HE WAS DOING.
If Manning were a draftee, I might show some sympathy for him. As things stand, he's a worm who promised to do a man's job, and failed miserably, and failed repeatedly. His parting "Well, I'll show everyone" turned him into a felon.
"Gender confused" my ass. He just thinks that he's special.
Perhaps you are challenged in some manner. Reading comprehension is available at a community college near you. I did not say what you have inferred. Go back. Read it again. Read it two or three times. Hell, six times even. I'm sure that you can grasp what I posted, without any stupid assed innuendos. I work moderately hard to choose my words, to convey my thoughts as accurately as reasonably possible. From there, it's up to you to read the words that I put in the post, and to understand them.
Go ahead, try. If you still can't grasp the meaning of my words, please post back, and I'll spend a few more minutes explaining the words in greater detail.
I'm a Navy veteran. Navy budgets work pretty much like any other government agency budget. You use ever last dime you can scratch up, so that there is NONE left over at the end of the month, the end of the quarter, and the end of the year. I did monthly, quarterly, and annual returns for my ships long enough to know how it works.
When you have zero dollars and some odd cents to turn back in, you can justify an increase in your next budget. If you turn in dollars, they justify a decrease in your budget. That goes for consumables, equipment, subsistence items, ammunition, paint, everything.
The budget process changes somewhat from one agency to the next, but not much. If you have it, YOU SPEND IT. If you can spend more, you ASK FOR IT. Even if you don't know how you would spend more, you ASK FOR ANYWAY.
Public servants are more responsible than people in the private sector? My ass they are. Or, if they are more responsible in any way, then it's in accounting for those government dollars. As a civilian, I can get away with spending a few dollars that I don't account for very precisely. A few. As a sailor, every goddamned penny was accounted for. I may have had to lie a little bit to account for them, but they were accounted for, in a very believable manner.
And, before you ask - I have never in my life misappropriated money for my own benefit. If/when I used "creative accounting", it was for the benefit of the mission - whether the mission was on behalf of the military, or a civilian employer.
Who, exactly, said that Christians and athiests DON'T deserve the same? Surely, it wasn't me. I can't think of any group of people, whether nationality, creed, race, religion, or whatever, that doesn't have some radical sumbitches. Despicable lowlifes come in all sizes, shapes, colors, or whatever variety you care to name.
As long as that despicable sumbitch makes noises that part of his group can identify with, the group isn't going to complain.
Where do you think that I drew my original conclusion from? Observing people, all around me, in day to day life. See? I don't for one moment believe those Muslims are any different than the people I know, the people I love, and the people I hate. People are people. Those Muslims don't give any bigger a damn about you or me, than the redneck down the street gives for black folk, or Arabs, or Muslims, or Russians, or whatever.
What is particularly bad about Islam is, there's a lot of them, and when push comes to shove, I won't be on their side. That wouldn't matter a whole lot, except that there are more and more Muslims every day - and fewer and fewer Euro-Americans. While they populate the world, we promote homosexuality, and abortion, and bend over backward to accommodate those women who don't wish to populate the world any further.
Mainstream anyone doesn't really give a damn. Look at the mainstream American. He doesn't care enough to be an activist for any cause. If this side wins, he's alright with it. If that side wins, he can live with it.
Ditto with Islam. Mainstream Muslim doesn't really care. Go back, reread what I posted. If Allah be willing - that removes all responsibility from the individual for taking sides.
Keep telling yourself that. Meanwhile, those radicals will cut your head off, rape the women of your family, and enslave your children. Mainstream Muslims will stand back and nod their heads. "The unbelievers will free themselves of oppression, if Allah be willing. Or, the unbelievers will die under the yoke of oppression, if Allah be willing. We don't really give a damn, because they are unbelievers."
Note that there is plenty of ignorance to go around. Yours is not the only variety.
Well, then, Sir Genius - let's start with this testing thing. Pick five Democrats, pick five Republicans, and throw in another five Independents and Libertarians. Let's get this fucking test put together, printed, and published for the next election cycle.
When I used the word "cheating" I wasn't referring to the people taking the test, so much as the people preparing and administering the test. But, if you see a way around those trivial details, just pick your panel, and get started. I'll stand back, and bask in the reflections from your awesomeness.
I won't support that idea. At least not until we can trust everyone not to cheat. FFS, we can't even do an honest election without any cheating, how are we going to administer the testing?
Perhaps you mistyped "Manning" where you meant to type "Assange". Like yourself, I've pointed out that Assange is not a citizen of the US, and that he is not subject to US law. Manning, however, most certainly is a citizen of the US.
It seems that you've missed much of the Manning story. Manning is a "gender confused" person, who felt that his supervisors and fellow soldiers somehow treated him poorly. He took the actions he took to spite them. Manning had no motivation that was noble. He wanted to expose and embarrass people who "misunderstood" him.
Manning is a pathetic excuse for a person, let alone a soldier.
Posted by Anonymous Coward. Interesting. However, I do agree with the first part of his post. Manning committed treason. The rest of the post is nonsense, IMO.
Ehhh. I get irritated with people who never seem to get anything correct, whether it be grammar or spelling. I get less irritated with people who get most of their sentences and paragraphs correct. The guys who manage to knock out five or ten paragraphs, and only make one or two errors are fine with me. At some point, it's just "good enough".
Face it, most people who post here are pretty smart. There may be a few idiots, but I doubt it. Most are pretty smart. But, being smart doesn't mean that they are linguists, or that English is even their first language. For that matter, we Americans and British like to snipe at each other for spelling differences.
For my money, if a person is pretty literate, and generally gets his point across, it's just "good enough", like most programming, engineering or other skills that most of us use.
Personally, I always hated English class. It seemed so pointless to conjugate verbs half the morning, when all I wanted to do was get outside and do something. I simply didn't care, even a little bit, until I discovered how much I loved reading. Even after I fell in love with reading, I still only cared that I was able to understand the author. Only rarely did I ever get hung up on some misspelling, or awkward grammar.
Where did I use the word "solely"? I said it's "all about", leaving room for fringe benefits, but I did NOT use the word "solely".
Express love? Sure. I love my dad, my brothers, my sons, my shipmates, and even some of my workmates. Doesn't mean I want to "marry" any of them.
Fuck off and die? Go right ahead. Feel free. And, that goes double for having attempted to put words into my posts that aren't there. You may or may not like my opinion, but you have no right to try to make my opinion something that it is not.
Moderation is the key. Kids in school need a beer now and then. They don't need a case or six each night. A kid who consumes a sixpack per week or two, and not all at one sitting, is well on his way to success.
You, on the other hand, who can't see any benefit from alcohol, or are unable to control your binge drinking, should never drink a beer. Please, stay away from the kids, and their beer.
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It's simple, really. Of all the computers that I have ever had to clean, I looked through the logs, and 80% of the time or more, found that one or more users had been to porn sites. I followed the links that they used, and usually found some sort of malware trying to install itself. "To view this content you must install blah-blah codec. Do you wish to continue?" Other viruses were more of the drive-by type, in that they don't ask at all. There is a catch to free porn, as often as not.
Porn isn't the only vector, of course, but that is the first thing I look for when someone brings me a sick machine, and it's almost always there.
Windows is so very "helpful", in that it maintains very specific logs about your internet browsing! Which, is reason number two that I don't run Windows myself. ;^)
Actually, we haven't stopped SOPA. SOPA is being recycled under different names, with different advertising soundbytes. Lamar Smith is authoring another SOPA already. http://www.itworld.com/security/251584/sopa-replacement-uses-child-porn-excuse-spy-997-percent-americans
http://www.gamermc.com/2012/03/02/tired-of-internet-censorship-bills-join-the-black-march/
Our friends in Europe are waging a war against ACTA that we Americans were to stupid and/or to lazy to wage for ourselves. TPP is being negotiated in the same secrecy with which ACTA was.
For the most part, these are lawyers. There are, after all, basically two kinds of lawyers. One, is the lawyer who (at least used to) believe that he could do the world some good, redress wrongs, and see justice carried out. Two, is the parasite who was unfit for any profession, so he went into law to be better able to suck money out of people.
For the parasites, RIAA and MPAA are "productive" endeavors.
It need not be a "slow day at the office". If the boss says, "Find out why it crashed and burned", the techie is going to find out, or at least point to the porn and tell the boss, "I'm quite sure that's the vector, I just can't find the virus or trojan that came as a payload." And, the boss (whether he's technically literate or not) probably just accepts that you, the user, got a virus while looking at porn.
What percentage of people are "deliberately installing malware"? All the same, we read of malware on government networks, corporate networks, banking networks, small business networks, as well as home networks.
On the one hand, I won't have a machine on which I cannot become root. On the other hand, if I have to administer a machine, I really don't want the user to be able to install anything.
jhoegl wrote, above, "Not that I dont trust employees to know better, but I dont trust ALL employees to know better."
I add, "If I can't trust ALL employees, how do I determine which ones I can trust?
"A laptop in possession of a trustworthy employee governed by policy is not losing physical control."
You, me, the US Army, and Bradley Manning might kick that around in a discussion. We might come to some interesting conclusions.
"in fact they lose money for the extra data transferred as adverts over and over again for no reason other than to push up a metric that says the advertisement was viewed,"
I should send a letter to my ISP, asking for a discount, since I don't see adverts. My router doesn't even pass requests to advertising sites. Multiply the savings by four computers, I'm saving them a LOT of money!
I've had far more than 20 tabs open at the same time. Hell, I've had more than 20 in Firefox, and more than 20 in Chromium at the same time. When you're searching for things on the web, those tabs just seem to multiply by the second.
I'll correct you. I'm pretty sure that the "official" recommendation for WinXP is 256MB, and some vendors have actually sold computers with as little as 128.
From experience, 192MB is just to little for any meaningful multitasking. Yeah, I was able to start a browser, and connect to the internet. Doing anything else at the same time meant waiting on virtual memory. It sucked so bad, I rolled that laptop back to WinME, and got rid of it. I would have installed Linux, but doing so meant diving straight into Driver Hell. At that point in time, there were to many other machines that were fully supported by LInux to make this particular machine worth bothering with.
There is no life after Firefox 3.6. You might as well just swallow that pill that was implanted into your molar tooth. It's all over, buddy.
Try this on.
Little boy wants to prove he's a man.
Little boy joins army to prove he's a man.
Little boy has discipline problems, to the extent that he is considered for a general discharge.
The army is desperate for personnel, so they counsel and threaten little boy, he agrees to behave better.
Little boy gets into multiple disagreements with supervisors, at one point verbally assaulting a female supervisor who is sure that she is about to be physically assaulted.
Little boy stands in front of those superiors who are responsible for disciplining him again.
Little boy promises to do better - to show up for work assignments, for instance.
Little boy is convinced that his mates are laughing at him - and they may well be laughing at him.
Finally, our little boy decides to "get even" with all those assholes.
Now, I could easily have traded "little boy" off for "little fairy". Same story, same results. I might even have taken a little satisfaction from the "little fairy" angle. But - I didn't. Know why? Because, like them or not, gays have indeed been serving this country for a long, long time. SOME of them have been flakes, not worth the powder required to blow their brains out. But, others have been excellent, outstanding members of the service.
Manning is crying foul, along with his idiot supporters, on the basis that Manning is "gender confused". I call BULLSHIT, loud and clear. My shipmates who were gay, and were also shitbirds, were not shitbirds BECAUSE they were gay. They were shitbirds who happened to be gay. And my shipmates who were gay, and were also 4.0 sailors weren't 4.0 because they were gay. They were 4.0 sailors who also happened to be gay.
I detest Manning. And, every gay activist in America should detest him as well. Manning has acted like a spiteful child, fully aware of the severity of his actions, and the severity of the consequences of those actions. Now, he compounds that by USING the gay community as an excuse for his actions!
"Oh, poor little me - I'm so gender confused, and my workmates made fun of me! Ohhhh, booo, hooo, hoo!"
And, the poor damned fools in the gay community suck it up.
Not to mention, the poor damned fools in the meida suck it up as well.
I can't wait til they have a murderer, or a mass murderer, on trial, who claims to be "gender confused", and blames his murder(s) on everyone who poked fun at him - real or imagined.
I'll remind everyone who is still following this thread - WE HAVE AN ALL VOLUNTEER ARMED FORCES TODAY! MANNING WAS NOT DRAFTED. MANNING AGREED TO BE WHERE HE WAS, AND TO DO WHAT HE WAS DOING.
If Manning were a draftee, I might show some sympathy for him. As things stand, he's a worm who promised to do a man's job, and failed miserably, and failed repeatedly. His parting "Well, I'll show everyone" turned him into a felon.
"Gender confused" my ass. He just thinks that he's special.
Perhaps you are challenged in some manner. Reading comprehension is available at a community college near you. I did not say what you have inferred. Go back. Read it again. Read it two or three times. Hell, six times even. I'm sure that you can grasp what I posted, without any stupid assed innuendos. I work moderately hard to choose my words, to convey my thoughts as accurately as reasonably possible. From there, it's up to you to read the words that I put in the post, and to understand them.
Go ahead, try. If you still can't grasp the meaning of my words, please post back, and I'll spend a few more minutes explaining the words in greater detail.
Run along now, sonny.
I'm a Navy veteran. Navy budgets work pretty much like any other government agency budget. You use ever last dime you can scratch up, so that there is NONE left over at the end of the month, the end of the quarter, and the end of the year. I did monthly, quarterly, and annual returns for my ships long enough to know how it works.
When you have zero dollars and some odd cents to turn back in, you can justify an increase in your next budget. If you turn in dollars, they justify a decrease in your budget. That goes for consumables, equipment, subsistence items, ammunition, paint, everything.
The budget process changes somewhat from one agency to the next, but not much. If you have it, YOU SPEND IT. If you can spend more, you ASK FOR IT. Even if you don't know how you would spend more, you ASK FOR ANYWAY.
Public servants are more responsible than people in the private sector? My ass they are. Or, if they are more responsible in any way, then it's in accounting for those government dollars. As a civilian, I can get away with spending a few dollars that I don't account for very precisely. A few. As a sailor, every goddamned penny was accounted for. I may have had to lie a little bit to account for them, but they were accounted for, in a very believable manner.
And, before you ask - I have never in my life misappropriated money for my own benefit. If/when I used "creative accounting", it was for the benefit of the mission - whether the mission was on behalf of the military, or a civilian employer.
Who, exactly, said that Christians and athiests DON'T deserve the same? Surely, it wasn't me. I can't think of any group of people, whether nationality, creed, race, religion, or whatever, that doesn't have some radical sumbitches. Despicable lowlifes come in all sizes, shapes, colors, or whatever variety you care to name.
As long as that despicable sumbitch makes noises that part of his group can identify with, the group isn't going to complain.
Where do you think that I drew my original conclusion from? Observing people, all around me, in day to day life. See? I don't for one moment believe those Muslims are any different than the people I know, the people I love, and the people I hate. People are people. Those Muslims don't give any bigger a damn about you or me, than the redneck down the street gives for black folk, or Arabs, or Muslims, or Russians, or whatever.
What is particularly bad about Islam is, there's a lot of them, and when push comes to shove, I won't be on their side. That wouldn't matter a whole lot, except that there are more and more Muslims every day - and fewer and fewer Euro-Americans. While they populate the world, we promote homosexuality, and abortion, and bend over backward to accommodate those women who don't wish to populate the world any further.
Mainstream anyone doesn't really give a damn. Look at the mainstream American. He doesn't care enough to be an activist for any cause. If this side wins, he's alright with it. If that side wins, he can live with it.
Ditto with Islam. Mainstream Muslim doesn't really care. Go back, reread what I posted. If Allah be willing - that removes all responsibility from the individual for taking sides.
Keep telling yourself that. Meanwhile, those radicals will cut your head off, rape the women of your family, and enslave your children. Mainstream Muslims will stand back and nod their heads. "The unbelievers will free themselves of oppression, if Allah be willing. Or, the unbelievers will die under the yoke of oppression, if Allah be willing. We don't really give a damn, because they are unbelievers."
Note that there is plenty of ignorance to go around. Yours is not the only variety.
One of the dumbest things you've seen.
Well, then, Sir Genius - let's start with this testing thing. Pick five Democrats, pick five Republicans, and throw in another five Independents and Libertarians. Let's get this fucking test put together, printed, and published for the next election cycle.
When I used the word "cheating" I wasn't referring to the people taking the test, so much as the people preparing and administering the test. But, if you see a way around those trivial details, just pick your panel, and get started. I'll stand back, and bask in the reflections from your awesomeness.
I won't support that idea. At least not until we can trust everyone not to cheat. FFS, we can't even do an honest election without any cheating, how are we going to administer the testing?
Perhaps you mistyped "Manning" where you meant to type "Assange". Like yourself, I've pointed out that Assange is not a citizen of the US, and that he is not subject to US law. Manning, however, most certainly is a citizen of the US.
It seems that you've missed much of the Manning story. Manning is a "gender confused" person, who felt that his supervisors and fellow soldiers somehow treated him poorly. He took the actions he took to spite them. Manning had no motivation that was noble. He wanted to expose and embarrass people who "misunderstood" him.
Manning is a pathetic excuse for a person, let alone a soldier.
"but he is an enemy of the US, and a coward."
Posted by Anonymous Coward. Interesting. However, I do agree with the first part of his post. Manning committed treason. The rest of the post is nonsense, IMO.
Ehhh. I get irritated with people who never seem to get anything correct, whether it be grammar or spelling. I get less irritated with people who get most of their sentences and paragraphs correct. The guys who manage to knock out five or ten paragraphs, and only make one or two errors are fine with me. At some point, it's just "good enough".
Face it, most people who post here are pretty smart. There may be a few idiots, but I doubt it. Most are pretty smart. But, being smart doesn't mean that they are linguists, or that English is even their first language. For that matter, we Americans and British like to snipe at each other for spelling differences.
For my money, if a person is pretty literate, and generally gets his point across, it's just "good enough", like most programming, engineering or other skills that most of us use.
Personally, I always hated English class. It seemed so pointless to conjugate verbs half the morning, when all I wanted to do was get outside and do something. I simply didn't care, even a little bit, until I discovered how much I loved reading. Even after I fell in love with reading, I still only cared that I was able to understand the author. Only rarely did I ever get hung up on some misspelling, or awkward grammar.
Some people seem to care to much.
Well - that's my two cents on a boring subject.
Where did I use the word "solely"? I said it's "all about", leaving room for fringe benefits, but I did NOT use the word "solely".
Express love? Sure. I love my dad, my brothers, my sons, my shipmates, and even some of my workmates. Doesn't mean I want to "marry" any of them.
Fuck off and die? Go right ahead. Feel free. And, that goes double for having attempted to put words into my posts that aren't there. You may or may not like my opinion, but you have no right to try to make my opinion something that it is not.
Your "husband"? Barf.
I agree, but I see a touch of irony in that post being made by "Pope". ;^)
Moderation is the key. Kids in school need a beer now and then. They don't need a case or six each night. A kid who consumes a sixpack per week or two, and not all at one sitting, is well on his way to success.
You, on the other hand, who can't see any benefit from alcohol, or are unable to control your binge drinking, should never drink a beer. Please, stay away from the kids, and their beer.