Read the post before his, then read his again. I would paste the relevant quotes, but Chrome is still bugged with copy paste. It is true that "pretty much every state" allows "this call is being recorded for quality purposes" to be considered consent to recording. I would be very surprised if any state had outlawed it as it is used on many phone systems.
To address the rest of your post which I didn't actually read till just now. It is common industry knowledge that Windows is the largest attack vector merely because it is the most common OS out there. You can feel free to Google it and come up with the studies. As far as the compromised machines, that is mostly due to people refusing to upgrade from XP and earlier OSes, as the problems that caused the exploits are no longer present on newer OS releases, much as if you still had a Linux install from 2002 that you never updated the Kernel or Distro version number on, and just ran the patches, the system would be completely compromised by now. This mostly happened due to the smear campaign against Vista, and the boondoggle of the Vista system requirements. Many people decided not to upgrade to Vista, even though it had proven security improvements over XP, but it was just so much better to stick with a 6 year old computer/OS combo.
As far as Linux/Mac being the predominant OS comment, if this ever comes to happen, you will have the same clueless people who can never seem to cleanup their PCs on those OSes, how would anything genuinely change?
Evidence? In order to install a program in Linux, Mac, and with Windows Vista and above, you need privilege escalation. In all of these OSes, the privilege escalation window is generally the same.
In Mac, it says this program requires privilege escalation to do "something" please enter your password
In Windows Vista and above, it says this "program" is trying to do something, please click yes or no
In Linux (Ubuntu in this case, as it is the only one I have seen which actually offers a prompt) it says, please authorize this program that is trying to do something. In other Linux, you sudo a command and run it.
In none of these cases do you actually get a comprehensive list of actions that are happening after the prompt, or before the prompt. So a bad user behind the keyboard is no safer with any of these OSes, as they will just ok the option and move on. There have been a few cases of viruses passed in software for Macs within the last year. People have compromised patches to software that made it into Linux repos for different distros, so saying that they are inhearently more secure for the various reasons you mention, is just hot air on the part of these people. I understand what they are saying, but it makes it no more secure as there have been cases in them all where it all broke down.
If you want to find out more about these cases, here are some google links:
The problem with the perspective you are speaking of, is this is the court, both parties are presumed innocent until proven otherwise. You are taking this to mean that the courts are on the side of big companies, when in truth it can go either way, and without being in the court during the proceedings, you are working on second third or forth hand knowledge of what happened. The bias you see may not be anything, but as I was not in the court at the time, I can't say anymore then you can that it is biased. The only bias that seems to exist in law is one of money, those with money are better represented, but even the common man can still win even representing themselves. It happens, get over it.
Not to disparage what you are saying, as I agree fully with this thought process, but I always saw the Loaves and Fish story as much akin to the story of Stone Soup. I don't believe that Jesus actually multiplied the loaves and fish, but that the people all shared what they had and there was copious amounts of food left over.
Yes, the original pirates were privateers working for various governments. Many of them had a charter from a king or queen, France, Britain and Spain all fighting wars through them against the other's shipping.
Even more odd, according to the above article, even the guys who didn't enter the house were charged with the murder. Does it make sense for the getaway driver to be charged with murder because someone inside got shot?
So it could make sense to hold Microsoft responsible for an OS with a horrible security record
And Linux, and Mac. They are all just as insecure with a bad user behind the keyboard. Windows has these problems because it is popular, when it is Mac, or Linux that is popular, it will shift.
Her last name, it very clearly states in the article that it was presumed it was someone else in the house who did it, and the grandmother would not have been held liable if it had not been settled (with no damages btw)
Um, except that they didn't pull anything off, SAP admitted to the copyright infringement and were just finding out what the damages are (which come half way between the high and low number of possible licensing cost)
In the US, the power distributed to houses is 2 x 110V, which is often combined in the dryer and AC, possibly other high draw items. Putting 220V to a car would then need 15Amp, 30Amp, or 67 (probably 80) Amp in the cases above. I can't see 80Amp being very convenient in a house, but possibly that could be good reason to run higher voltages to houses for this purpose.
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Read the post before his, then read his again. I would paste the relevant quotes, but Chrome is still bugged with copy paste. It is true that "pretty much every state" allows "this call is being recorded for quality purposes" to be considered consent to recording. I would be very surprised if any state had outlawed it as it is used on many phone systems.
Wow, someone pissed in his Cheerios. You must have an enemy there, sad he isn't man enough to use a login.
Even if he didn't do it originally, the prosecution will still do their best to ignore sarcasm to pin a crime on someone.
That would be epic, please do.
+1 funny to you and GP. I wish I had the points.
I would assist with that. It would be hilarious to me.
Pretty insane you were only off by one though. Grats on that.
To address the rest of your post which I didn't actually read till just now. It is common industry knowledge that Windows is the largest attack vector merely because it is the most common OS out there. You can feel free to Google it and come up with the studies. As far as the compromised machines, that is mostly due to people refusing to upgrade from XP and earlier OSes, as the problems that caused the exploits are no longer present on newer OS releases, much as if you still had a Linux install from 2002 that you never updated the Kernel or Distro version number on, and just ran the patches, the system would be completely compromised by now. This mostly happened due to the smear campaign against Vista, and the boondoggle of the Vista system requirements. Many people decided not to upgrade to Vista, even though it had proven security improvements over XP, but it was just so much better to stick with a 6 year old computer/OS combo.
As far as Linux/Mac being the predominant OS comment, if this ever comes to happen, you will have the same clueless people who can never seem to cleanup their PCs on those OSes, how would anything genuinely change?
Evidence? In order to install a program in Linux, Mac, and with Windows Vista and above, you need privilege escalation. In all of these OSes, the privilege escalation window is generally the same.
In Mac, it says this program requires privilege escalation to do "something" please enter your password
In Windows Vista and above, it says this "program" is trying to do something, please click yes or no
In Linux (Ubuntu in this case, as it is the only one I have seen which actually offers a prompt) it says, please authorize this program that is trying to do something. In other Linux, you sudo a command and run it.
In none of these cases do you actually get a comprehensive list of actions that are happening after the prompt, or before the prompt. So a bad user behind the keyboard is no safer with any of these OSes, as they will just ok the option and move on. There have been a few cases of viruses passed in software for Macs within the last year. People have compromised patches to software that made it into Linux repos for different distros, so saying that they are inhearently more secure for the various reasons you mention, is just hot air on the part of these people. I understand what they are saying, but it makes it no more secure as there have been cases in them all where it all broke down.
If you want to find out more about these cases, here are some google links:
http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Mac+trojan
http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Mac+trojan#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=Linus+repository+compromised&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=8ac6b4cea9b27ecb
The problem with the perspective you are speaking of, is this is the court, both parties are presumed innocent until proven otherwise. You are taking this to mean that the courts are on the side of big companies, when in truth it can go either way, and without being in the court during the proceedings, you are working on second third or forth hand knowledge of what happened. The bias you see may not be anything, but as I was not in the court at the time, I can't say anymore then you can that it is biased. The only bias that seems to exist in law is one of money, those with money are better represented, but even the common man can still win even representing themselves. It happens, get over it.
Not to disparage what you are saying, as I agree fully with this thought process, but I always saw the Loaves and Fish story as much akin to the story of Stone Soup. I don't believe that Jesus actually multiplied the loaves and fish, but that the people all shared what they had and there was copious amounts of food left over.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_soup
Yes, the original pirates were privateers working for various governments. Many of them had a charter from a king or queen, France, Britain and Spain all fighting wars through them against the other's shipping.
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-t002.html
The common Christian saying is that God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are three facets of the same gem.
Even more odd, according to the above article, even the guys who didn't enter the house were charged with the murder. Does it make sense for the getaway driver to be charged with murder because someone inside got shot?
So it could make sense to hold Microsoft responsible for an OS with a horrible security record
And Linux, and Mac. They are all just as insecure with a bad user behind the keyboard. Windows has these problems because it is popular, when it is Mac, or Linux that is popular, it will shift.
It is to make the keys expensive? I know when my father went to replace his keys, they wanted $50 for the key and $50 for the remote.
Her last name, it very clearly states in the article that it was presumed it was someone else in the house who did it, and the grandmother would not have been held liable if it had not been settled (with no damages btw)
Again with acting like a 12 year old? You are funny, and pathetic all in one. I am done responding to your trollish behavior, so enjoy it.
Um, except that they didn't pull anything off, SAP admitted to the copyright infringement and were just finding out what the damages are (which come half way between the high and low number of possible licensing cost)
I don't know, but I would consider that a young person's statement. Miley Cyrus is for tweens, not old people.
You are such an enjoyable troll. Maybe when you are old enough to move out you will have grown out of the need for attention.
No, that would be Honcho, the Doc he got from medical school.
That is the funniest thing I have read, thank you. You deserve a medal for trolling the troll.
In the US, the power distributed to houses is 2 x 110V, which is often combined in the dryer and AC, possibly other high draw items. Putting 220V to a car would then need 15Amp, 30Amp, or 67 (probably 80) Amp in the cases above. I can't see 80Amp being very convenient in a house, but possibly that could be good reason to run higher voltages to houses for this purpose.
The very first link indicated that ICE knew they guy was an American, in their own documents they had his SSN.