"The only way to eliminate this risk would be to force the user into a walled garden."
Yes, of course you are correct. It would be totally unfeasible just to disable autorun. I mean, I can't do that on Debian, or BSD, or Red Hat, or much of anything. And, it certainly can't be done on Windows. I wonder what would happen though, if autorun were just disabled? You know - a guy puts a removable media into his machine, and NOTHING HAPPENS!! How would the average person react to that? Would NO ONE open a file browser, and navigate to that media, and select that file he was interested in? NO ONE AT ALL?
Then, having selected the file, would NO ONE ever bother to scan the file with a virus detecting tool? Would NO ONE open the file in a text editor, to see what it really is, as opposed to what it claims to be?
"The only way to eliminate this risk would be to force the user into a walled garden."
Sorry, Pal, but millions of Windows users with a clue can prove you wrong. And, millions more Linux and BSD users can prove you wrong again. The fact that most people have poorly configured systems does NOT make a case for a walled garden. Your walled garden is but one possible approach to solving the problem of poorly configured systems. That approach seems to work for some people. Another approach is to treat all removable media with suspicion, and just don't permit it to run anything on your system.
One doesn't even require a modern machine, or a modern operating system to configure the system properly.
I've never actually looked - can autorun just be uninstalled on a Windows system? I know that a lot of stuff can be. I excised huge pieces of Windows XP using Nlite.
"Perhaps someday we—men and women alike—can all be treated like the grown-ups we theoretically are, and be trusted to judge a game by its content"
Grown-ups. Game. Grown-ups. Game. Toss those words around in your mind several times. I'm doing so right now.
Forgive me, but somehow, I'm having a hard time taking this article seriously. Yes, I realize that there is big money involved in catering to children of all ages. Gaming is big money. But, gaming and grown-up?
Ohh, the lizard hindbrain thing is kinda cute. Like, it's only boys who have that lizard hindbrain?
Sexism cuts both ways, boys and girls. Immature little boys are titillated with a little bare flesh, and immature little girls resent that. How about you ALL grow up? And, as long as you're major obsession involves GAMING, admit that you aren't all that mature yourself.
Now, if you happened to be working on solving world hunger or some such important thing, and you ran into sexual harassment, I would be happy to support your point of view.
Question is - why is it necessary for concrete to be reinforced? Obviously, the Romans didn't have steel or iron rebar. They formed and poured their structures without any rebar, and they've lasted a couple thousand years. It seems more than obvious that our architects and engineers can learn a few things from the Romans.
Supposing that all their study concludes that reinforced concrete is essential in some cases, does that mean Roman concrete is never to be preferred? Slabs of parking lot, sidewalk, and highway pavement would likely be better for using Roman, rather than Portland cement. If the concrete tolerates the weather better, and resists chipping and cracking better, that would mean all that reinforcement is wasted.
I've seen nothing to indicate that Roman concrete tolerates the cold better than Portland. Maybe parts of the world with annual freezing cycles wouldn't benefit. It's equally likely that we'll find that Roman concrete tolerates freezing conditions better than Portland.
Further - we could learn that hybrid structures are preferable. Build a core out of reinforced Portland, then bond a facade of Roman concrete to exterior faces to resist the elements.
Why does rebar corrode, anyway? Most Portland concrete is porous, of course. For this reason, the Hoover Dam has interior channels built into it to siphon the water away. The water just continously percolates through the concrete, and it has to be disposed of some way. Along with the water, you get salts, acids, or whatever from the environment. Apparently, the Roman concrete doesn't suffer from this infiltration.
By all means - we need to study the old recipes, and/or any new recipes, and see how they can be used to our benefit.
One might be moderately confused by the language contained in the constitution, and the bill of rights. But, if a moderately confused person were to go in search of the correspondence that passed between the authors and the signers of the constitution, and the bill of rights, the language contained therein would clear up any doubt. The people who authored those documents, as well as the signatories of those documents, clearly intended that all able bodied males between the ages of 18 and 49 be armed, with their own personal weapons. Those persons are your mystical "militia".
TOR is subject to a MIM attack - always has been, always will be. There may or may not be some back door, but if gubbermint is monitoring the internet backbone, then they ARE the MIM.
Wait - wait - wait - I'm straining my gray matter here. Just give it time. Something buried deep in my subconscious - it's fighting to get out -
http://www.onion-router.net/ This website comprises the onion-router.net site formerly hosted at the Center for High Assurance Computer Systems of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. It primarily covers the work done at NRL during the first decade of onion routing and reflects the onion-router.net site roughly as it existed circa 2005. As a historical site it may contain dead external links and other signs of age.
There you go - there's no way that the NSA might know about some back door in TOR. The Navy certainly wouldn't share any back doors with the NSA, would they?
Nope, there isn't any such rule. The Bible says "Thou shalt not murder" or "Thou shalt do no murder". It says nothing about killing. A homicide is always a killing, but it is not always a murder. There is plenty of room in the Bible for the concept we understand as "self defense".
Thank you for playing - run along and play with the other children now!
You are obviously confused. A neocon or a conservative would burn you on the green. They don't give a damn how many blades of grass might die while you burn.
Those liberals are going to haul you off to a quarry, or a basement, and render all the fat out of your body where it can't hurt any green living things.
Agreed. Unfortunately, there is no Dunkin' Donuts around my part of the country. I used to love their Soup 'n Sandwich menu. I liked their coffee. And, I LOVED their donuts!
"stand out when you load your drink up with cream, caramel, sugar, whipped cream, ice, and whatever else."
Bingo. Most Starbucks customers aren't really interested in the coffee at all. The so-called "coffee" is just a vehicle with which to deliver all those obscene additives.
People who demand good coffee don't go to overpriced ripoff stalls to find it. Most truckstops offer better stuff than Starbucks. I've been in three Starbucks, each far apart from each other. All three trips rewarded me with bilge water that I emptied on the side of the road.
With enough marketing, you really can sell shit sandwiches to people who aren't even hungry.
I've never seriously considered robbing a bank, or anything like that. No real larceny in my blood. But, this? This is SERIOUS!! I need to take a trip Houston, and hijack a truckload of coffee as it's leaving the piers! IS THERE LIFE AFTER COFFEE!?!?!
Actually - I use a dumb phone, and there's nothing on it that I care about. I mean, nothing. People's phone numbers are on it that I call frequently. There are pictures of broken machines on it. Text messages telling me that this or that machine is broken down, or misbehaving. I put nothing personal on my telephone. It's never locked. Hell, no one wants to steal a cheap-ass dumb phone, so I'm not worried about that either.
My computers are a totally different story. THEY are locked down, and I'm not surrendering anything that might enable anyone to read them!
Please, name those software suites. Is there a reward if I can make them run on Linux? I'm not greedy, just keep me filled with caffeine for a day or ten. Alright, you drive a hard bargain - one cup of coffee for each application I get running on Linux. Please, send the list quickly - I had to pay a lot of bills this week, and my can of coffee is already half empty!
I heard the NSA is already working on a new and improved version that works on dumb marketing guys. You can't get them to rush enemy positions, but they will rush hotel bars!
"Germans are monsters that enjoy doing horrible things to humans"
How about this one? Nazis were people, like people anywhere, who with proper indoctrination, can be conditioned to do almost anything. And, what about the Jews? An entire people basically submitted. How do you explain that? More conditioning, albeit from a different source.
I think it is safer to say that we still don't understand the human psyche, and that there are still a lot of surprises in store. Nazis were just as human as any of us, if less humane.
The honest answer is - we can't know accurately. But - we DO know fairly accurately back to the days of the Vikings. Beyond that, accuracy begins to drop off. Back beyond the birth of Christ, accuracy drops further, and faster.
Today, we have ever greater accuracy, and from today's accuracy they attempt to extrapolate nonsense back into history.
Whatever - I can give you a link to someone who can give an entirely different explanation to manmade global warming. Forget carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbon particulates - there is little to no correlation between increasing temps, and carbon content in the air. In FACT, recent NASA video demonstrates that carbon in the atmosphere actually REFLECTS more energy than it traps.
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"The only way to eliminate this risk would be to force the user into a walled garden."
Yes, of course you are correct. It would be totally unfeasible just to disable autorun. I mean, I can't do that on Debian, or BSD, or Red Hat, or much of anything. And, it certainly can't be done on Windows. I wonder what would happen though, if autorun were just disabled? You know - a guy puts a removable media into his machine, and NOTHING HAPPENS!! How would the average person react to that? Would NO ONE open a file browser, and navigate to that media, and select that file he was interested in? NO ONE AT ALL?
Then, having selected the file, would NO ONE ever bother to scan the file with a virus detecting tool? Would NO ONE open the file in a text editor, to see what it really is, as opposed to what it claims to be?
"The only way to eliminate this risk would be to force the user into a walled garden."
Sorry, Pal, but millions of Windows users with a clue can prove you wrong. And, millions more Linux and BSD users can prove you wrong again. The fact that most people have poorly configured systems does NOT make a case for a walled garden. Your walled garden is but one possible approach to solving the problem of poorly configured systems. That approach seems to work for some people. Another approach is to treat all removable media with suspicion, and just don't permit it to run anything on your system.
One doesn't even require a modern machine, or a modern operating system to configure the system properly.
I've never actually looked - can autorun just be uninstalled on a Windows system? I know that a lot of stuff can be. I excised huge pieces of Windows XP using Nlite.
"Perhaps someday we—men and women alike—can all be treated like the grown-ups we theoretically are, and be trusted to judge a game by its content"
Grown-ups. Game. Grown-ups. Game. Toss those words around in your mind several times. I'm doing so right now.
Forgive me, but somehow, I'm having a hard time taking this article seriously. Yes, I realize that there is big money involved in catering to children of all ages. Gaming is big money. But, gaming and grown-up?
Ohh, the lizard hindbrain thing is kinda cute. Like, it's only boys who have that lizard hindbrain?
Sexism cuts both ways, boys and girls. Immature little boys are titillated with a little bare flesh, and immature little girls resent that. How about you ALL grow up? And, as long as you're major obsession involves GAMING, admit that you aren't all that mature yourself.
Now, if you happened to be working on solving world hunger or some such important thing, and you ran into sexual harassment, I would be happy to support your point of view.
Question is - why is it necessary for concrete to be reinforced? Obviously, the Romans didn't have steel or iron rebar. They formed and poured their structures without any rebar, and they've lasted a couple thousand years. It seems more than obvious that our architects and engineers can learn a few things from the Romans.
Supposing that all their study concludes that reinforced concrete is essential in some cases, does that mean Roman concrete is never to be preferred? Slabs of parking lot, sidewalk, and highway pavement would likely be better for using Roman, rather than Portland cement. If the concrete tolerates the weather better, and resists chipping and cracking better, that would mean all that reinforcement is wasted.
I've seen nothing to indicate that Roman concrete tolerates the cold better than Portland. Maybe parts of the world with annual freezing cycles wouldn't benefit. It's equally likely that we'll find that Roman concrete tolerates freezing conditions better than Portland.
Further - we could learn that hybrid structures are preferable. Build a core out of reinforced Portland, then bond a facade of Roman concrete to exterior faces to resist the elements.
Why does rebar corrode, anyway? Most Portland concrete is porous, of course. For this reason, the Hoover Dam has interior channels built into it to siphon the water away. The water just continously percolates through the concrete, and it has to be disposed of some way. Along with the water, you get salts, acids, or whatever from the environment. Apparently, the Roman concrete doesn't suffer from this infiltration.
By all means - we need to study the old recipes, and/or any new recipes, and see how they can be used to our benefit.
One might be moderately confused by the language contained in the constitution, and the bill of rights. But, if a moderately confused person were to go in search of the correspondence that passed between the authors and the signers of the constitution, and the bill of rights, the language contained therein would clear up any doubt. The people who authored those documents, as well as the signatories of those documents, clearly intended that all able bodied males between the ages of 18 and 49 be armed, with their own personal weapons. Those persons are your mystical "militia".
TOR is subject to a MIM attack - always has been, always will be. There may or may not be some back door, but if gubbermint is monitoring the internet backbone, then they ARE the MIM.
Wait - wait - wait - I'm straining my gray matter here. Just give it time. Something buried deep in my subconscious - it's fighting to get out -
http://www.onion-router.net/
This website comprises the onion-router.net site formerly hosted at the Center for High Assurance Computer Systems of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. It primarily covers the work done at NRL during the first decade of onion routing and reflects the onion-router.net site roughly as it existed circa 2005. As a historical site it may contain dead external links and other signs of age.
There you go - there's no way that the NSA might know about some back door in TOR. The Navy certainly wouldn't share any back doors with the NSA, would they?
Nope, there isn't any such rule. The Bible says "Thou shalt not murder" or "Thou shalt do no murder". It says nothing about killing. A homicide is always a killing, but it is not always a murder. There is plenty of room in the Bible for the concept we understand as "self defense".
Thank you for playing - run along and play with the other children now!
"burned alive on the campus green."
You are obviously confused. A neocon or a conservative would burn you on the green. They don't give a damn how many blades of grass might die while you burn.
Those liberals are going to haul you off to a quarry, or a basement, and render all the fat out of your body where it can't hurt any green living things.
Sandalwood? Wildflower? That's just so gay - and probably liberal. I'd hate to go home and tell the wife that some liberal faggot robbed me.
http://www.brutworld.com/
I heard that someone tried that once. It totally borked his Mr. Coffee.
Agreed. Unfortunately, there is no Dunkin' Donuts around my part of the country. I used to love their Soup 'n Sandwich menu. I liked their coffee. And, I LOVED their donuts!
"stand out when you load your drink up with cream, caramel, sugar, whipped cream, ice, and whatever else."
Bingo. Most Starbucks customers aren't really interested in the coffee at all. The so-called "coffee" is just a vehicle with which to deliver all those obscene additives.
People who demand good coffee don't go to overpriced ripoff stalls to find it. Most truckstops offer better stuff than Starbucks. I've been in three Starbucks, each far apart from each other. All three trips rewarded me with bilge water that I emptied on the side of the road.
With enough marketing, you really can sell shit sandwiches to people who aren't even hungry.
A rose is a rose is a rose, and it would smell as sweet by any other name. (somewhat close quote, I hope)
Middle Earth will be Middle Earth, no matter what outsiders might decide to call it.
I've never seriously considered robbing a bank, or anything like that. No real larceny in my blood. But, this? This is SERIOUS!! I need to take a trip Houston, and hijack a truckload of coffee as it's leaving the piers! IS THERE LIFE AFTER COFFEE!?!?!
Actually - I use a dumb phone, and there's nothing on it that I care about. I mean, nothing. People's phone numbers are on it that I call frequently. There are pictures of broken machines on it. Text messages telling me that this or that machine is broken down, or misbehaving. I put nothing personal on my telephone. It's never locked. Hell, no one wants to steal a cheap-ass dumb phone, so I'm not worried about that either.
My computers are a totally different story. THEY are locked down, and I'm not surrendering anything that might enable anyone to read them!
Please, name those software suites. Is there a reward if I can make them run on Linux? I'm not greedy, just keep me filled with caffeine for a day or ten. Alright, you drive a hard bargain - one cup of coffee for each application I get running on Linux. Please, send the list quickly - I had to pay a lot of bills this week, and my can of coffee is already half empty!
I heard the NSA is already working on a new and improved version that works on dumb marketing guys. You can't get them to rush enemy positions, but they will rush hotel bars!
"Germans are monsters that enjoy doing horrible things to humans"
How about this one? Nazis were people, like people anywhere, who with proper indoctrination, can be conditioned to do almost anything. And, what about the Jews? An entire people basically submitted. How do you explain that? More conditioning, albeit from a different source.
I think it is safer to say that we still don't understand the human psyche, and that there are still a lot of surprises in store. Nazis were just as human as any of us, if less humane.
That was a pretty slick reply, LOL! Sadly, I'm all out of mod points. :^(
No, they are not. That's why I don't have an iThing. They're "entitled" to nothing.
But - I folded my card up, and put it beneath the battery for safekeeping!
No, but we could hang it by it's neck until dead, dead, dead!
Oh, wait - does data have a neck?
Consider something different: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/30/blame-cfcs-for-warmin-idUSnPNTO244+78+PRN20130530
The honest answer is - we can't know accurately. But - we DO know fairly accurately back to the days of the Vikings. Beyond that, accuracy begins to drop off. Back beyond the birth of Christ, accuracy drops further, and faster.
Today, we have ever greater accuracy, and from today's accuracy they attempt to extrapolate nonsense back into history.
Whatever - I can give you a link to someone who can give an entirely different explanation to manmade global warming. Forget carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, carbon particulates - there is little to no correlation between increasing temps, and carbon content in the air. In FACT, recent NASA video demonstrates that carbon in the atmosphere actually REFLECTS more energy than it traps.
But - here - read this guy, who has found a direct correlation to pollution and global warming:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/30/blame-cfcs-for-warmin-idUSnPNTO244+78+PRN20130530