Sounds a lot like (but not exactly the same) as the 'previews' of various pdfs in many online stores, such as drivethrustuff.com The one described in the article is a little fancier, but it sounds pretty much the same to me. I'm sure slashdotters can find many many other examples which are even better than that.
One trick that I heard about a long time ago that was supposedly used in "Hollywood Accounting" involved renting equipment you already owned to yourself for an inflated rate and then also claiming depreciation of the same gear. End result, they had a huge, but fictional, expense.
It's all fine and good to point out that for every porn site there are 99 non-porn sites that have malware. But what are the percentages of said catagories infected?
What percentage of porn sites have malware?
What percentage of non-porn sites have malware? If the percentages are high enough for a category, it is a good idea to avoid that category, even if it is a tiny percentage of total sites.
When dealing with malware, viruses, worms, backdoors, etc., there are many things they can do if they are live.
The way to shut them down for the moment is a clean boot of a clean verified uninfected source, something like a cd or usb if the hardware/bios permits, also, pull out the network plug, some malware will propagate to other machines over the network, even if you don't think you're accessing it. Two things to look out for, some computers may seem to let you boot from those sources, but still load something off the hard drive, which can result in the malware being loaded. You have what looks like a clean boot, but isn't. Another thing, always do that clean boot from a completely powered off state. Not sleep mode, not hibernate, and absolutely not a reboot. Some laptops do not make that an easy thing. There is a simple reason for this. The memory wipe that supposedly happens when you reboot not only isn't complete, but can be changed to do even less. In other words, there are numerous malware out there that laugh at reboots. Some of them even survive simple resets. A trick I used to do in high school, play a game, turn computer off, turn it back on in 10 seconds, put in a particular memory execution command, and resume the game exactly where it was when I shut off the computer. There aren't many malware that can duplicate that, but there are some. Rule of thumb, leave the computer unpowered for at least 30 seconds.
Does this stuff sound kind of apocalyptic? Maybe, but it's all true. Are you likely to encounter those types? If you aren't doing anti-virus (or other anti-malware) stuff a lot, it's unlikely. But yes, it does happen, and as a computer professional, you are supposed to take steps to avoid those possibilities. (Not to mention it might save you some hair.)
By the way, they really need a current and high quality antivirus with current definitions (KEEP THEM CURRENT) to reduce the re-occurrence of infections. It's kind of like doing an emergency tracheotomy on someone every couple weeks because he's allergic to flan, and yet there are reasonably effective anti-flan allergy pills out there. It's really bad karma to not insist the fool starts taking them on a regular basis. (Counseling them how to avoid it in the first place is also important, but we both know how well that works on some people.) At least if you strongly insist that they get proper protection (and keep it up to date), then you'll have done everything you reasonably can, and nobody can accuse you of unprofessionalism.
It wasn't clear from the blurb if you were doing a full clean boot, so this is just to make sure, and besides that, since you made mentions of it trying to writeback to your media, it's pretty obvious it wasn't a clean boot.
Been done (look it up), and since YOU completely own that particular space, YOU can do whatever you want, more or less.
On the other hand, your car and everything on it can be argued to be yours, but the state requires you display the license plate 'number' in a readable state, however, I don't believe there is anything that allows them to obscure that same license number or to display advertisement you didn't specifically allow on your property (car). It's obviously that I'm not a lawyer, but heck, even I can see some really big obvious flaws in this, not the least of which is totally pissing off the constituency.
It's not about the guy that was executed, it was about an official, and extremely serious and somber statement, made via what many consider the lowest form of communication. What if you had a wedding, and the bridal march was done by some guys farting, or your Masters Degree was on a post-it note?
Some forms of communication are just not considered to be appropriate for some types of information.
Trojan: A program the is presented as one thing when in reality it is another.
For example, You download and install the new freeware game Tetris-Extreme, expecting to play some version of Tetris when you run it, it instead deletes all your picture files, and changes all document files to read "HAHA! FOOLED YOU!". The name is derived from the legendary Trojan Horse.
These have been around since the early days when someone wrote a script file to delete your hard drive and named it readme.
Technically, a trojan doesn't even need programming skill, just the ability to trick people.
A lie is the intentional statement of knowingly false information. The polygraph detects stress responses, not lies. If you were hooked up to a polygraph and someone asked if you bought milk the last time you were at the grocery store, that's unlikely to get much of a response. On the other hand, let's say your favorite pet just died, and they asked you if you killed your recently deceased pet. You would have a big response, even if you aren't responsible. You'll probably be responding because of the grief and bad memories of your favorite critter dying. You might even be responding to the audacity and rudeness of that questioning scum even daring to ask such a stupid question. The polygraph doesn't know and doesn't care, it just measures the biological stress reactions. The determination of whether it is a lie or not is solely in the hands of the examiner, in other words, it's a technology that tells someone (who may have an agenda or massive bias) that you are reacting. Does he decide you're upset by the question, or that you're an animal abuse scuzzbag? Well, if they've hauled you in for questioning and wire you up to a polygraph, what do you think the answer is?
They don't even do that, they just read a variety of biological stress responses. (Brainwaves aren't on that list, so don't even go there, unless you're a telepath, and if you are a telepath, just try to read what I'm thinking about you now...)
Kind of reminds me of that story some cops told of when they used a polygraph-lie detector on a suspect. The main problem is they didn't have one, so they took a photocopier and put a piece of paper with the word "LIE" on it in big bold letters in the scan plate. Then they brought in the suspect, told him it was a lie detector, and started questioning him. Everytime they thought he was lying, they hit the copy button. Even though this was a few years back, I still find it hard to believe the suspect was that stupid.
Considering they lost one of the shuttles and it's ENTIRE FUCKING CREW due to A HEAT SHIELD FAILURE, it seems that taking advantage of any available research opportunity into heat shielding is A GOOD IDEA!
Maybe you don't like NASA spending money on space. After all, we don't know what gains we'll get from it. Now that may be true, but then again, they've got a really good 'payback' rate, even if they aren't a profit center. You like your cellphones, your satellite or cable tv, weather reports and warnings, tons of materials, medicine, maths, electronics, and so many other things you could write a book about it, and people have, you really should thank NASA. Their contributions to the total knowledge and even applications of that knowledge is absolutely huge and in almost all fields of endeavor. (Except porn, I really don't think NASA has done anything on human sexuality in space, but I'm not sure of that.)
So if you want to crawl back into your cave and ignore the contributions they made and ignore the even greater ones that can only come about if they are allowed to do that research you call "boondoggles", then just remember the reply Faraday gave when asked what use electricity was, he simply replied, "What use is a baby?".
except that I've seen articles indicating that companies are patenting genes without even knowing what they do, just that it's been fully sequenced and they shoot of a patent app.
It's always been my understanding that you can only patent things you create. Last time I checked, no company could honestly claim to have created ANY part of the human genome. Needless to say, I have no freaking idea how the patent offices could even entertain such a stupid idea, other than complete incompetence.
sorry, forgot about some exceptions I have seen. Small companies can be absolutely fantastic and completely honest. I've worked with one such company. It's total personnel was under 30 people. They even have a greeter dog in the front. Great folks, and they really care about their customers, even to the point of completely rewriting part of their software because another company was changing their license to something that would burden this companies customers with extra stuff they'd have to deal with. (Compare that to the large company that wouldn't fix an obvious problem that was going to snowball because they didn't want to crack open the kernel...)
At a company I used to work for (I was in tech support) we were always going down to marketing to yell at them to stop lying to the customers. I swear those douchebags would have told people our software would make instantly transform your feces into solid 24 karat gold it they thought it would get them a chance at 1 sale. Trying to clean up after their B.S. was a full time job, and then some. Imagine how ticked off a 28,000 seat customer can get when you have to tell him that no software on the planet can do that specific action, especially since it breaks the laws of physics.
Now I'm sure there are good and honest people in marketing and maybe even PR, but I've never seen them.
there's plenty of info out there that Steve forgets a lot of things, especially when he's wrong, it fails, or it was someone else's idea first.
Though I'm completely unsurprised that Gizmondo got snubbed this year simple because they 'scooped' some Apple proprietary information. Whether or not they did anything illegal, or unethical, or how much is of no regards to Apple not inviting Gizmondo. They have a history of being unfriendly to anyone who 'scoops' them by any means, though their responses have varied over the years.
Slashdot Mirror
is that exceeds "present" human progress, or "total of" human progress?
(Ones probably already past due, the other should be reached soon...)
Sounds a lot like (but not exactly the same) as the 'previews' of various pdfs in many online stores, such as drivethrustuff.com
The one described in the article is a little fancier, but it sounds pretty much the same to me.
I'm sure slashdotters can find many many other examples which are even better than that.
One trick that I heard about a long time ago that was supposedly used in "Hollywood Accounting" involved renting equipment you already owned to yourself for an inflated rate and then also claiming depreciation of the same gear.
End result, they had a huge, but fictional, expense.
They aren't coming up, they apparently got slashdotted.
Any mirrors out there?
It's all fine and good to point out that for every porn site there are 99 non-porn sites that have malware.
But what are the percentages of said catagories infected?
What percentage of porn sites have malware?
What percentage of non-porn sites have malware?
If the percentages are high enough for a category, it is a good idea to avoid that category, even if it is a tiny percentage of total sites.
When dealing with malware, viruses, worms, backdoors, etc., there are many things they can do if they are live.
The way to shut them down for the moment is a clean boot of a clean verified uninfected source, something like a cd or usb if the hardware/bios permits, also, pull out the network plug, some malware will propagate to other machines over the network, even if you don't think you're accessing it.
Two things to look out for, some computers may seem to let you boot from those sources, but still load something off the hard drive, which can result in the malware being loaded. You have what looks like a clean boot, but isn't.
Another thing, always do that clean boot from a completely powered off state. Not sleep mode, not hibernate, and absolutely not a reboot. Some laptops do not make that an easy thing. There is a simple reason for this. The memory wipe that supposedly happens when you reboot not only isn't complete, but can be changed to do even less. In other words, there are numerous malware out there that laugh at reboots. Some of them even survive simple resets. A trick I used to do in high school, play a game, turn computer off, turn it back on in 10 seconds, put in a particular memory execution command, and resume the game exactly where it was when I shut off the computer. There aren't many malware that can duplicate that, but there are some. Rule of thumb, leave the computer unpowered for at least 30 seconds.
Does this stuff sound kind of apocalyptic? Maybe, but it's all true. Are you likely to encounter those types? If you aren't doing anti-virus (or other anti-malware) stuff a lot, it's unlikely. But yes, it does happen, and as a computer professional, you are supposed to take steps to avoid those possibilities. (Not to mention it might save you some hair.)
By the way, they really need a current and high quality antivirus with current definitions (KEEP THEM CURRENT) to reduce the re-occurrence of infections. It's kind of like doing an emergency tracheotomy on someone every couple weeks because he's allergic to flan, and yet there are reasonably effective anti-flan allergy pills out there. It's really bad karma to not insist the fool starts taking them on a regular basis. (Counseling them how to avoid it in the first place is also important, but we both know how well that works on some people.) At least if you strongly insist that they get proper protection (and keep it up to date), then you'll have done everything you reasonably can, and nobody can accuse you of unprofessionalism.
It wasn't clear from the blurb if you were doing a full clean boot, so this is just to make sure, and besides that, since you made mentions of it trying to writeback to your media, it's pretty obvious it wasn't a clean boot.
Been done (look it up), and since YOU completely own that particular space, YOU can do whatever you want, more or less.
On the other hand, your car and everything on it can be argued to be yours, but the state requires you display the license plate 'number' in a readable state, however, I don't believe there is anything that allows them to obscure that same license number or to display advertisement you didn't specifically allow on your property (car).
It's obviously that I'm not a lawyer, but heck, even I can see some really big obvious flaws in this, not the least of which is totally pissing off the constituency.
It's not about the guy that was executed, it was about an official, and extremely serious and somber statement, made via what many consider the lowest form of communication.
What if you had a wedding, and the bridal march was done by some guys farting, or your Masters Degree was on a post-it note?
Some forms of communication are just not considered to be appropriate for some types of information.
Trojan: A program the is presented as one thing when in reality it is another.
For example, You download and install the new freeware game Tetris-Extreme, expecting to play some version of Tetris when you run it, it instead deletes all your picture files, and changes all document files to read "HAHA! FOOLED YOU!".
The name is derived from the legendary Trojan Horse.
These have been around since the early days when someone wrote a script file to delete your hard drive and named it readme.
Technically, a trojan doesn't even need programming skill, just the ability to trick people.
A lie is the intentional statement of knowingly false information.
The polygraph detects stress responses, not lies.
If you were hooked up to a polygraph and someone asked if you bought milk the last time you were at the grocery store, that's unlikely to get much of a response.
On the other hand, let's say your favorite pet just died, and they asked you if you killed your recently deceased pet. You would have a big response, even if you aren't responsible. You'll probably be responding because of the grief and bad memories of your favorite critter dying. You might even be responding to the audacity and rudeness of that questioning scum even daring to ask such a stupid question. The polygraph doesn't know and doesn't care, it just measures the biological stress reactions.
The determination of whether it is a lie or not is solely in the hands of the examiner, in other words, it's a technology that tells someone (who may have an agenda or massive bias) that you are reacting. Does he decide you're upset by the question, or that you're an animal abuse scuzzbag? Well, if they've hauled you in for questioning and wire you up to a polygraph, what do you think the answer is?
They don't even do that, they just read a variety of biological stress responses. (Brainwaves aren't on that list, so don't even go there, unless you're a telepath, and if you are a telepath, just try to read what I'm thinking about you now...)
This is slashdot, english is like a second language here :)
Kind of reminds me of that story some cops told of when they used a polygraph-lie detector on a suspect.
The main problem is they didn't have one, so they took a photocopier and put a piece of paper with the word "LIE" on it in big bold letters in the scan plate.
Then they brought in the suspect, told him it was a lie detector, and started questioning him.
Everytime they thought he was lying, they hit the copy button.
Even though this was a few years back, I still find it hard to believe the suspect was that stupid.
Considering they lost one of the shuttles and it's ENTIRE FUCKING CREW due to A HEAT SHIELD FAILURE, it seems that taking advantage of any available research opportunity into heat shielding is A GOOD IDEA!
Maybe you don't like NASA spending money on space.
After all, we don't know what gains we'll get from it.
Now that may be true, but then again, they've got a really good 'payback' rate, even if they aren't a profit center.
You like your cellphones, your satellite or cable tv, weather reports and warnings, tons of materials, medicine, maths, electronics, and so many other things you could write a book about it, and people have, you really should thank NASA. Their contributions to the total knowledge and even applications of that knowledge is absolutely huge and in almost all fields of endeavor. (Except porn, I really don't think NASA has done anything on human sexuality in space, but I'm not sure of that.)
So if you want to crawl back into your cave and ignore the contributions they made and ignore the even greater ones that can only come about if they are allowed to do that research you call "boondoggles", then just remember the reply Faraday gave when asked what use electricity was, he simply replied, "What use is a baby?".
except that I've seen articles indicating that companies are patenting genes without even knowing what they do, just that it's been fully sequenced and they shoot of a patent app.
and has been a part of humanity since before recorded history...
It's always been my understanding that you can only patent things you create.
Last time I checked, no company could honestly claim to have created ANY part of the human genome.
Needless to say, I have no freaking idea how the patent offices could even entertain such a stupid idea, other than complete incompetence.
sorry, forgot about some exceptions I have seen. Small companies can be absolutely fantastic and completely honest. I've worked with one such company. It's total personnel was under 30 people. They even have a greeter dog in the front. Great folks, and they really care about their customers, even to the point of completely rewriting part of their software because another company was changing their license to something that would burden this companies customers with extra stuff they'd have to deal with. (Compare that to the large company that wouldn't fix an obvious problem that was going to snowball because they didn't want to crack open the kernel...)
At a company I used to work for (I was in tech support) we were always going down to marketing to yell at them to stop lying to the customers.
I swear those douchebags would have told people our software would make instantly transform your feces into solid 24 karat gold it they thought it would get them a chance at 1 sale.
Trying to clean up after their B.S. was a full time job, and then some. Imagine how ticked off a 28,000 seat customer can get when you have to tell him that no software on the planet can do that specific action, especially since it breaks the laws of physics.
Now I'm sure there are good and honest people in marketing and maybe even PR, but I've never seen them.
hmmmm.... Very good point.
I like that idea, too bad I don't know anyone with his phone number. Or even email address...
(He might be crazy enough to do it for laughs.)
Lie, make outrageous and impossible claims, try to get everything you can out of it.
As does the leader, so do the people.
there's plenty of info out there that Steve forgets a lot of things, especially when he's wrong, it fails, or it was someone else's idea first.
Though I'm completely unsurprised that Gizmondo got snubbed this year simple because they 'scooped' some Apple proprietary information. Whether or not they did anything illegal, or unethical, or how much is of no regards to Apple not inviting Gizmondo. They have a history of being unfriendly to anyone who 'scoops' them by any means, though their responses have varied over the years.
the legitimacy of almost any news organization out there these days is rather questionable, even really big ones like Faux...
Judge Dredd, he's tough but completely fair and unprejudiced.