Every security product "fails." It is impossible to prevent all threats. The point of security is to reduce the risk of compromise. There will always be some risk.
If an antivirus product stops now viruses at all, then it's a failure. If it lets some through but stops others, then it is actually a success because it reduces risk.
When referring to nationality, "American" means US citizen. When referring to other things, like botany, "american" can mean "new world" in some cases.
You clearly don't work in IT security. Viruses come in on thumb drives, iPods, etc.. You don't need to be on the internet to have malware rip through your network.
Impenetrable security doesn't exist, but it is far far cheaper to have a team of dedicated IT security auditors, analysts, and pen testers than it is to carpet the continent in backup generators. You don't have to have perfect security, just enough to make it not worth an attacker's while.
AT&T's land-line revenue is shrinking at a fantastic rate. The people who work in the land-line divisions are simply going to continue to lose their jobs. It's inevitable, and it's not T's fault. You can't take someone from the land-line billing department, stick a shovel in her hand, and tell her to go build cell towers.
Do you live in a small redneck town in the middle of the US? Have you never traveled internationally? Have you never been grocery shopping somewhere other than Wal-Mart?
Cordless phones don't have robust computers; cell phones do. Adding features, such as address list synchronization, is a thousand times easier to do using Java (on a smartphone) than it is to do using PIC microcontroller assembly (on a cordless phone).
You want cordless phones with cell phone features? Expect to pay $400 for your set of four, rather than paying $60 for the set you currently have.
You are clearly confused. This is about a flaw in the SSL protocol, not a flaw in X.509/PKI. The only real difference between PGP and X.509/PKI is in key management. Using PGP's extremely expensive, time-consuming, and error-prone key distribution method is the reason PGP is going extinct. Your grandma will never go to a key-signing party.
Another thing you are confused about: smart cards? What? What do they have to do with anything? Smart cards typically use X.509, not PGP. And in this case, smart cards would make things less secure than, say, passwords.
It sounds like you took a bunch of random crypto words and strung them together. Are you a bot? If you're not sure, go try some CAPTCHAs and see how you do.
The simple fact of the matter is that the pins on the US plug are so short that by the point it is far enough out of the socket to expose enough of the pins to touch them with your fingers, it's unplugged.
I have shocked the everlovingshit out of myself while plugging in a US plug. I was a child. I was doing it wrong, but your statement is still false.
It's not really luck. It's science. A computer cannot randomly get a virus; it must be exposed to a virus in a way that can infect it. Prevent your computer form being in such a position, and it will not get a virus.
But I like that you keep slashdot's "bad car analogy" tradition.
Not all chiropractors are crooks; he may provide help for pain. But chiropractic is a profession which encourages con artists. When they claim to cure skin diseases and the like, you know they're the bad sort.
i'm personally a fan of placebos, though many arent. truthfully, if it works, it doesnt matter if i'm being tricked
The problem is that the people who practice placebo treatment never just sell themselves as providing pain relief; they sell magical cures for real medical problems which need real medicine.
I would be happy if the FDA allowed "alternative pain management" to be sold and regulated, so long as they threw everyone claiming their hocus-pocus cured diseases into prison. Can you imagine how wonderful it would be to see chiropractors, homeopaths, and faith healers behind bars?
How many successful viruses are you aware of which used vulns in Flash? Keeping plug-ins and other software up-to-date is important, too, but getting hit that way is so improbable I didn't list it intentionally.
On Windows you can get along without AV, too. The three main vectors for malware to get on your machine are:
Direct network connections - mitigated by firewall/NAT router
Browser exploits - mitigated by avoiding IE and using adblock
Clicking dumb (running executables that come in from email or the web) - mitigated by not installing shit unless you know exactly what it is you're installing
I have followed these practices for about ten years, without ever using AV, and I have never had malware on my machine. Avoiding AV is important to me, because I play fast-paced online games.
That said, 99% of Windows users absolutely should be using AV, because my third point (not clicking dumb) requires technical sophistication most people lack.
TL;DR: You don't need AV if you know what you're doing.
If intelligence is a benefit, why aren't all animals already as smart as humans?
You see... evolution does not work that way. It is not zero-sum. It is not itself intelligent. It is perfectly possible that such a mutation is entirely beneficial, but simply hadn't occurred naturally.
Due to his enhanced memory, the rat could not push her out of his mind. The memories refused to fade with time. The slightest sight or scent would cause him not just to remember his intense passion and total devotion, but also to relive it, as if she were still there with him. Moments later, as reality returned, he inevitably re-experienced that October afternoon when she left. The despair cut to the bottom of his soul in a way far more intense than the original break-up had been, as shock had initially numbed his pain. No more. His perfect memory of perfect happiness lifted him up so high, the inevitable fall came from an unimaginable height, and terminal velocity does not apply to emotions.
After enduring this torture for what seemed an eternity, he finally gave in, and resolutely marched toward the wire-framed cheese, her angelic body still vivid in his mind...
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Without consumers, there are no jobs and no tax revenues! It is downright patriotic to buy stuff.
You don't 127.0.0.1 the advertising IP. You point them to a fake server which only serves up invisible ads.
They could be caching the rendered images. "Location: x, looking in direction: y" does not have to be rendered more than once.
Every security product "fails." It is impossible to prevent all threats. The point of security is to reduce the risk of compromise. There will always be some risk.
If an antivirus product stops now viruses at all, then it's a failure. If it lets some through but stops others, then it is actually a success because it reduces risk.
http://www.google.com/finance?q=TSE:UF.UN
Just buy a few hundred shares of UF.UN and you make money if the price of the stuff goes up. And you can tell chicks that you own uranium!
Is that a "school" or a couple ranting old kooks?
When referring to nationality, "American" means US citizen. When referring to other things, like botany, "american" can mean "new world" in some cases.
You clearly don't work in IT security. Viruses come in on thumb drives, iPods, etc.. You don't need to be on the internet to have malware rip through your network.
Impenetrable security doesn't exist, but it is far far cheaper to have a team of dedicated IT security auditors, analysts, and pen testers than it is to carpet the continent in backup generators. You don't have to have perfect security, just enough to make it not worth an attacker's while.
AT&T's land-line revenue is shrinking at a fantastic rate. The people who work in the land-line divisions are simply going to continue to lose their jobs. It's inevitable, and it's not T's fault. You can't take someone from the land-line billing department, stick a shovel in her hand, and tell her to go build cell towers.
Do you live in a small redneck town in the middle of the US? Have you never traveled internationally? Have you never been grocery shopping somewhere other than Wal-Mart?
Cordless phones don't have robust computers; cell phones do. Adding features, such as address list synchronization, is a thousand times easier to do using Java (on a smartphone) than it is to do using PIC microcontroller assembly (on a cordless phone).
You want cordless phones with cell phone features? Expect to pay $400 for your set of four, rather than paying $60 for the set you currently have.
You are clearly confused. This is about a flaw in the SSL protocol, not a flaw in X.509/PKI. The only real difference between PGP and X.509/PKI is in key management. Using PGP's extremely expensive, time-consuming, and error-prone key distribution method is the reason PGP is going extinct. Your grandma will never go to a key-signing party.
Another thing you are confused about: smart cards? What? What do they have to do with anything? Smart cards typically use X.509, not PGP. And in this case, smart cards would make things less secure than, say, passwords.
It sounds like you took a bunch of random crypto words and strung them together. Are you a bot? If you're not sure, go try some CAPTCHAs and see how you do.
We are a new species... of ape. We are also animals by every scientific definition.
I didn't use the word "all," but legit chiropractors get no sympathy from me, as they happily accept con-men into their profession.
I have shocked the everlovingshit out of myself while plugging in a US plug. I was a child. I was doing it wrong, but your statement is still false.
It's not really luck. It's science. A computer cannot randomly get a virus; it must be exposed to a virus in a way that can infect it. Prevent your computer form being in such a position, and it will not get a virus.
But I like that you keep slashdot's "bad car analogy" tradition.
Says who?
By the way, you may be surprised to learn that humans are animals. We're apes, more specifically.
Not all chiropractors are crooks; he may provide help for pain. But chiropractic is a profession which encourages con artists. When they claim to cure skin diseases and the like, you know they're the bad sort.
The problem is that the people who practice placebo treatment never just sell themselves as providing pain relief; they sell magical cures for real medical problems which need real medicine.
I would be happy if the FDA allowed "alternative pain management" to be sold and regulated, so long as they threw everyone claiming their hocus-pocus cured diseases into prison. Can you imagine how wonderful it would be to see chiropractors, homeopaths, and faith healers behind bars?
How many successful viruses are you aware of which used vulns in Flash? Keeping plug-ins and other software up-to-date is important, too, but getting hit that way is so improbable I didn't list it intentionally.
No person can ever know that as a certainty (see: rootkits). I have occasionally checked with trial or free AV for viruses, though.
On Windows you can get along without AV, too. The three main vectors for malware to get on your machine are:
I have followed these practices for about ten years, without ever using AV, and I have never had malware on my machine. Avoiding AV is important to me, because I play fast-paced online games.
That said, 99% of Windows users absolutely should be using AV, because my third point (not clicking dumb) requires technical sophistication most people lack.
TL;DR: You don't need AV if you know what you're doing.
If intelligence is a benefit, why aren't all animals already as smart as humans?
You see... evolution does not work that way. It is not zero-sum. It is not itself intelligent. It is perfectly possible that such a mutation is entirely beneficial, but simply hadn't occurred naturally.
Due to his enhanced memory, the rat could not push her out of his mind. The memories refused to fade with time. The slightest sight or scent would cause him not just to remember his intense passion and total devotion, but also to relive it, as if she were still there with him. Moments later, as reality returned, he inevitably re-experienced that October afternoon when she left. The despair cut to the bottom of his soul in a way far more intense than the original break-up had been, as shock had initially numbed his pain. No more. His perfect memory of perfect happiness lifted him up so high, the inevitable fall came from an unimaginable height, and terminal velocity does not apply to emotions.
After enduring this torture for what seemed an eternity, he finally gave in, and resolutely marched toward the wire-framed cheese, her angelic body still vivid in his mind...