It depends on what you're trying to do. A very targeted virus that successfully penetrates a single high value target may be a lot more valuable than yet another virus that creates yet another botnet.
I don't think that will ever happen. There's too many companies making too much money outsourcing from the West to China. Yet for some reason, they read the stories about Google and don't make the connection that the same thing is/could be happening to them.
Then, if something is trying to write a file to the OS portion of your drive, and that file is not recognized, it should block it (and MAYBE allow the user to override it after a few hoops and maybe online comparisons with the latest threat databases).
Microsoft more or less tried something like this with UAC on Vista, didn't they? Granted, it doesn't matter that much unitl you fix all the other security holes, but the point is that average joe users don't want it, and they make up the majority of the (non-open source) users. It seems to me that asking "Are you sure" before installing software is a good thing, but the marketplace apparently disagreed.
And the fact is, you can say "They'll learn their lesson after they get infected," but the truth is very few people will fess up to the fact that they are partially responsible for their computer getting infected.
Kittens don't have hands. They have paws. But yes, I agree with you. Maybe seeing a few pictures like that would get people to stop clicking the links.
Funny, when a statement like that concerning any other subject appears on the front page, it gets a "CorelationIsNotCausation" tag. But since it's an easy shot at MS, it gets modded up here...
The problem with that is that a lot of the links promise to take you to a picture of a kitten doing something cute. Unfortunately, there is no known method for keeping certain types of people from clicking on kitten-related links. Sad, but true.
No, it won't. Tufte's whole point is that the focus should be on the data, and that anything that doesn't contribute to understanding ("chart junk") should be dropped. It may well contain elegant graphs, though. The other thing you can count on is that Tufte won't let them pull dirty tricks, such as using log scales, charts with a y axis other than 0, non-propotional areas, etc.
I'd reccomend both his books and his seminar to anyone, by the way. You'll never look at another graph or powerpoint wihtout critiqeing it.
So what could be so hard about memorizing a measly 800 or so characters?
Pi might be hard. But for encryption keys, It's not hard at all. You just repeat "12345" one hundred and sixty times.
Now, I want half of you to mod this funny, because it is. I want the other half of you to mod it insightful, because we all know that when you put 4096 bit encryption into the hands of an average person, they really do type 12345 one hundred and sixty times.
I have been using this for years. Very nice plug in for Visual Studio. Note that you need the full version of Visual Studio, though, not the free-as-in-beer Express versions, as the Express versions don't support plug-ins.
isn't this an issue with the company not purchasing the proper licenses in the appropriate amount of time rather than an issue with DRM?
It's perfectly indicative of how DRM is bad. DRM assumes that everything would work perfectly, all the time. And when it doesn't, for whatever reason, you lose the right to use your own legally owned content. Just like the movie studio, a leagal user of the film, lost their capability. If the movie studios and their limited number of partners with gazillion-dollar pieces of equipment can't make it work, what chance do meaningless slobs like me have?
Answer: none. I need to just assume that sooner or later the content I paid for will just stop working. And that's wrong.
Even if society totally collapsed, there would be enough information left over for people to rebuild eventually.
The problem as I see it is that the Earth we've created isn't the Earth it was 100 years ago. Asssume for a moment that the population is reduced to 10% of what it is now. Would there be enough resources to keep all of our nuclear reactors, chemical plants, etc from leaking unprecidented amounts of poison into the environment. While the orignal volcano/virus/starvation/flood/PickYourCatastrophe probably wouldn't finish us off, perhaps the slow rotting of our own creations would.
How much are they really going to get from Web 2.0?
You'd be shocked. There's still this attitude by lots of people that what happens on the internet stays on the internet. Our local probation department routinely violates people based on facebook photos of them:
-In places they've been tresspassed from
-Consuming alcohol (if it's a condition of probation)
-Pointing guns at each other
-Being around children (sex offenders)
-Driving (Habitual Traffic Offenders)
Of course, the photos could be old, or (theoretically) doctored. However, like any other evidence, they have to be put before a judge, who determines if they are likely to be incriminating. (Probation violations require a judge's decision in our state, as opposed to parole violations, which do not).
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I can take a shit in a box and mark it guaranteed, but then all you have is a guaranteed box of shit.
It depends on what you're trying to do. A very targeted virus that successfully penetrates a single high value target may be a lot more valuable than yet another virus that creates yet another botnet.
Damn straight. I hate those Hypocrites.
--Sent From My iPhone
Then maybe we can get China to piss away two years of national growth by focusing an on-again/off-again merger proposition with Yahoo and Microsoft.
I don't think that will ever happen. There's too many companies making too much money outsourcing from the West to China. Yet for some reason, they read the stories about Google and don't make the connection that the same thing is/could be happening to them.
Then, if something is trying to write a file to the OS portion of your drive, and that file is not recognized, it should block it (and MAYBE allow the user to override it after a few hoops and maybe online comparisons with the latest threat databases).
Microsoft more or less tried something like this with UAC on Vista, didn't they? Granted, it doesn't matter that much unitl you fix all the other security holes, but the point is that average joe users don't want it, and they make up the majority of the (non-open source) users. It seems to me that asking "Are you sure" before installing software is a good thing, but the marketplace apparently disagreed.
And the fact is, you can say "They'll learn their lesson after they get infected," but the truth is very few people will fess up to the fact that they are partially responsible for their computer getting infected.
Kittens don't have hands. They have paws. But yes, I agree with you. Maybe seeing a few pictures like that would get people to stop clicking the links.
Funny, when a statement like that concerning any other subject appears on the front page, it gets a "CorelationIsNotCausation" tag. But since it's an easy shot at MS, it gets modded up here...
The problem with that is that a lot of the links promise to take you to a picture of a kitten doing something cute. Unfortunately, there is no known method for keeping certain types of people from clicking on kitten-related links. Sad, but true.
No, it won't. Tufte's whole point is that the focus should be on the data, and that anything that doesn't contribute to understanding ("chart junk") should be dropped. It may well contain elegant graphs, though. The other thing you can count on is that Tufte won't let them pull dirty tricks, such as using log scales, charts with a y axis other than 0, non-propotional areas, etc.
I'd reccomend both his books and his seminar to anyone, by the way. You'll never look at another graph or powerpoint wihtout critiqeing it.
Apparently another advantage of hard drives is that you don't have to let some other company add DRM to your tapes...
moot.
So what could be so hard about memorizing a measly 800 or so characters?
Pi might be hard. But for encryption keys, It's not hard at all. You just repeat "12345" one hundred and sixty times.
Now, I want half of you to mod this funny, because it is. I want the other half of you to mod it insightful, because we all know that when you put 4096 bit encryption into the hands of an average person, they really do type 12345 one hundred and sixty times.
Taste.
Anything that tastes at least as good as earth pig is fair game so to speak.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Aliens is gonna be all over you for suggesting we eat them. Then I'll have to hit a Tribble with a shovel.
How can scummVM be on iphone? It would let you run untrusted code.
You must be new here.
Eh... Whatever...
I have been using this for years. Very nice plug in for Visual Studio. Note that you need the full version of Visual Studio, though, not the free-as-in-beer Express versions, as the Express versions don't support plug-ins.
Dang. Messed up the quoting on my last post. Only the first line should have been quoted... Didn't look that way in the preview...
isn't this an issue with the company not purchasing the proper licenses in the appropriate amount of time rather than an issue with DRM?
It's perfectly indicative of how DRM is bad. DRM assumes that everything would work perfectly, all the time. And when it doesn't, for whatever reason, you lose the right to use your own legally owned content. Just like the movie studio, a leagal user of the film, lost their capability. If the movie studios and their limited number of partners with gazillion-dollar pieces of equipment can't make it work, what chance do meaningless slobs like me have?
Answer: none. I need to just assume that sooner or later the content I paid for will just stop working. And that's wrong.
Even if society totally collapsed, there would be enough information left over for people to rebuild eventually.
The problem as I see it is that the Earth we've created isn't the Earth it was 100 years ago. Asssume for a moment that the population is reduced to 10% of what it is now. Would there be enough resources to keep all of our nuclear reactors, chemical plants, etc from leaking unprecidented amounts of poison into the environment. While the orignal volcano/virus/starvation/flood/PickYourCatastrophe probably wouldn't finish us off, perhaps the slow rotting of our own creations would.
Roe V Wade
Thanks! It's been cold in my office all day. A nice flame war should make it nice and toasty.
They gave you the code. Get crackin'!
I don't see why we just let them exist and operate.
Because we have bigger fish to fry.
I agree. If ever there was a computer likely to become sentient and decide that the human race should not continue, it's this one...
How much are they really going to get from Web 2.0?
You'd be shocked. There's still this attitude by lots of people that what happens on the internet stays on the internet. Our local probation department routinely violates people based on facebook photos of them:
-In places they've been tresspassed from
-Consuming alcohol (if it's a condition of probation)
-Pointing guns at each other
-Being around children (sex offenders)
-Driving (Habitual Traffic Offenders)
Of course, the photos could be old, or (theoretically) doctored. However, like any other evidence, they have to be put before a judge, who determines if they are likely to be incriminating. (Probation violations require a judge's decision in our state, as opposed to parole violations, which do not).