It's economies of scale, mostly. When big companies (not just retailers, either) are saving $30/PC and they buy hundreds of thousands a year, it relieves stresses on other parts of their infrastructures that can lead to them spending more in other areas of the economy. The average consumer isn't directly affected, but even a minor drop in the cost of a component becomes a big cost saver for the major players.
Since you have a British-style parliament, aren't you able to do things like votes of no confidence to get rid of a PM (or any MP, for that matter)? That's a far sight better than what most of the U.S. states have -- wait for the term to expire and hope like hell you can get another candidate with better name recognition on the ballot.
I would bet that the reason the affected numbers are so low is because a large number of corporations know to delay the application of patches for at least a day. This isn't the first time McAfee has done this, and it definitely won't be the last. It's the same concept with Microsoft/Apple/other OS patches. Every organization needs a patch strategy and the good ones include some kind of lab environment to make sure stuff isn't going to break before it's rolled out.
I saw something about a fix to a long-standing and extremely difficult memory leak being finalized by Mozilla devs recently. I think it was acutally here.
I second NoScript. I hate having to browse without it when I'm using someone else's computer. Usually, I just convince them to let me install it (not that hard when you're a network security professional).
I just tried generating a new key using GPG and you appear to be correct. I'll have to go back and try to figure out what I was doing that it recommended I use a key no smaller than 4096-bits.
And the additional revenue from the embedded advertising in almost every Google application (I haven't seen any in G-mail yet, but I have in Maps, Google Sky Map, My Tracks, and YouTube).
I always liked Calvin's quote that, "the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
I still remember going to Yosemite as a kid and my uncle dragging out his telescope. We set it up in what is probably one of the darkest spots in the US and he showed my cousin and me the moon, the rings of Saturn, and the moons of Jupiter. We also looked at Venus and could see its phases, and at Mars and could see great detail.
The original device was supposed to be under $300 and the one entering production is, according to the article, too expensive at $500. There is no way Apple will release a tablet for less than $500, so it's already not affordable by the standards applied.
In the meanwhile, I'll go back to waiting for an affordable tablet to use while laying on the couch. If nothing else, I have the iTablet to look forward to!
If he things Apple is going to release "an affordable tablet" he needs a reality check.
Mamajek is continuing his efforts to find planets around nearby stars, but his attention is not completely off Alcor and Mizar. "You see how the disk of Alcor B doesn't seem perfectly round?" says Mamajek, pointing toward an image of Alcor and its new companion. "Some of us have a feeling that Alcor might actually have another surprise in store for us.
It just goes to show you that there's always something more to learn.
I think what you meant to say is someone who owns a lot of Congressmen and women needs to lose for there to be reform. It doesn't matter what the "average Joe" thinks about patent reform, to really get change, you have to get to the below-average people who make the laws.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/Metasploit_Unleashed_Information_Security_Training
By the nice folks who distribute BackTrack Linux, by the way.
It's economies of scale, mostly. When big companies (not just retailers, either) are saving $30/PC and they buy hundreds of thousands a year, it relieves stresses on other parts of their infrastructures that can lead to them spending more in other areas of the economy. The average consumer isn't directly affected, but even a minor drop in the cost of a component becomes a big cost saver for the major players.
Someone in that group is an old-hand at this (or has access to a lot of back-issues of 2600).
*applauds* Well played.
I guess now we know which government agency is going to have the next big document release on WikiLeaks...
If it's public domain, it's probably already available for free on-line somewhere so you don't need to get it from the library.
Since you have a British-style parliament, aren't you able to do things like votes of no confidence to get rid of a PM (or any MP, for that matter)? That's a far sight better than what most of the U.S. states have -- wait for the term to expire and hope like hell you can get another candidate with better name recognition on the ballot.
I would bet that the reason the affected numbers are so low is because a large number of corporations know to delay the application of patches for at least a day. This isn't the first time McAfee has done this, and it definitely won't be the last. It's the same concept with Microsoft/Apple/other OS patches. Every organization needs a patch strategy and the good ones include some kind of lab environment to make sure stuff isn't going to break before it's rolled out.
I saw something about a fix to a long-standing and extremely difficult memory leak being finalized by Mozilla devs recently. I think it was acutally here.
I second NoScript. I hate having to browse without it when I'm using someone else's computer. Usually, I just convince them to let me install it (not that hard when you're a network security professional).
Remember, Google is an advertising company at its heart.
I didn't grab the file myself. The link is from comments the original blog poster had made at isc.sans.org.
Here's a link to the report from VirusTotal when you upload an infected atapi.sys.
http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/85aa49f587f69f30560f02151af2900f3dc71d39d1357727ab41b11ef828a7ff-1265925529
I just tried generating a new key using GPG and you appear to be correct. I'll have to go back and try to figure out what I was doing that it recommended I use a key no smaller than 4096-bits.
I'd say that depends on two things:
And newly generated keys for PGP/GPG are suggested to be at least 4096 bits.
And the additional revenue from the embedded advertising in almost every Google application (I haven't seen any in G-mail yet, but I have in Maps, Google Sky Map, My Tracks, and YouTube).
I always liked Calvin's quote that, "the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
Stretch, over at Packet Life has a great lab set up that anyone who needs to test Cisco configurations on can sign up for and use.
It seems to me that in our current state of over-blown paranoia, building a jumbo-jet simulator in your basement (while cool) is kind of a bad idea.
I still remember going to Yosemite as a kid and my uncle dragging out his telescope. We set it up in what is probably one of the darkest spots in the US and he showed my cousin and me the moon, the rings of Saturn, and the moons of Jupiter. We also looked at Venus and could see its phases, and at Mars and could see great detail.
The original device was supposed to be under $300 and the one entering production is, according to the article, too expensive at $500. There is no way Apple will release a tablet for less than $500, so it's already not affordable by the standards applied.
If he things Apple is going to release "an affordable tablet" he needs a reality check.
It just goes to show you that there's always something more to learn.
I think what you meant to say is someone who owns a lot of Congressmen and women needs to lose for there to be reform. It doesn't matter what the "average Joe" thinks about patent reform, to really get change, you have to get to the below-average people who make the laws.