What Windows program doesn't? I've long ago given up trying to run Windows in a non-admin mode. No problems so far.
Everything I write determines what level it runs at and adjusts accordingly. It also installs from guest on up, when possible. It's trivial to do when you actually know WTF you are doing.
Well, OK. But you've got it, right? Yes, but makes game playing while travelling a lot harder. Bring the disks, shorter battery life, risks of damage/loss to the disks
There's also the problem that some drives don't work with copy protected disks.
I stopped buying PC games because of the protection. All my game playing is on consoles now. It was cheaper to buy all the consoles than to keep an upgraded PC, and no worry about data corruption.
Doesn't let you run as non-admin Requires the disk destabilizes system possible erasure of USB drives possible corruption of dual boot machines incompatibility with WINE
With horrible copy protection, and requiring video cards that are several times more expensive than just getting an XBox (heck, the Windows license is almost as much as an XBox, more if it's not an OEM copy)
Users click "Yes" on downloading malicious code all the time, and do other things they shouldn't
And consumers could have a tough time knowing just what information they were sending. Though they'll be able to see the contents of a document, they may not recognize the significance of the technical data--such as register settings--that's being sent
They were caching negative responses as well as positive ones, and all the negative lookups were pushing the positive ones out of the cache.
I don't know what they finally did about the problem when I finally told them what the lookups were coming from, I never heard a peep out of them after that. I don't know if they stopped caching negative lookups, gave a seperate cache for them, or ignore blackhole lookups.
I got a "Your machine is trojaned" e-mail with few details. A thorough scan of my network showed diddley-squat. I finally got to reasonable level support and the issue was poisoning the cache with negative lookups. I was testing the mail, and URLs within the mail as well. I think there was an average of 20 lookups/mail.
People running MailWasher on Windows also got the same warning from RR. All this was probably about a year ago.
That's what companies like DoubleClick do, and MSN pulls tricks to allow the cookies to work across domains.
And it's tied to the domain of the site placing it, not the IP. Many sites have an image from the ad trackers (a single, invisible pixel, aka web bug) for placing the cookie. Those images can also be in e-mails that are rendered as HTML (look below the final </html> in the message source, they're commonly there)
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Microsoft didn't win, Microsoft caved.
MS paid Lindows the $20M to change. They knew they'd lose.
What Windows program doesn't? I've long ago given up trying to run Windows in a non-admin mode. No problems so far.
Everything I write determines what level it runs at and adjusts accordingly. It also installs from guest on up, when possible. It's trivial to do when you actually know WTF you are doing.
Well, OK. But you've got it, right?
Yes, but makes game playing while travelling a lot harder. Bring the disks, shorter battery life, risks of damage/loss to the disks
There's also the problem that some drives don't work with copy protected disks.
I stopped buying PC games because of the protection. All my game playing is on consoles now. It was cheaper to buy all the consoles than to keep an upgraded PC, and no worry about data corruption.
Doesn't let you run as non-admin
Requires the disk
destabilizes system
possible erasure of USB drives
possible corruption of dual boot machines
incompatibility with WINE
With horrible copy protection, and requiring video cards that are several times more expensive than just getting an XBox (heck, the Windows license is almost as much as an XBox, more if it's not an OEM copy)
As long as the account has "Load Driver" privilege, you don't need to reboot to install kernel level code. Unloading it takes a reboot though...
It's also not "vastly more complicated", it's a different interface and *gasp* requires correct code to not blue screen.
Who said anything about abandoning?
Change it so that you have to turn it on, not turn it off. You know, secure by default?
Sounds familiar
You should RTFA, and think as well.
Users click "Yes" on downloading malicious code all the time, and do other things they shouldn't
And consumers could have a tough time knowing just what information they were sending. Though they'll be able to see the contents of a document, they may not recognize the significance of the technical data--such as register settings--that's being sent
Right, anyone can.
Are you willing to pony up that money? Is a PHB willing to?
And those core files are sent around by default if the user doesn't intervene?
She collates the data and buys the court paperwork.
How much of an easier time would SCO have without bringing everything into the light?
How much of a shadow would still be on Linux because what happened in court stayed in court?
Try reading the DMCA.
Reverse Engineering for interoperability is explicitly permitted.
They were caching negative responses as well as positive ones, and all the negative lookups were pushing the positive ones out of the cache.
I don't know what they finally did about the problem when I finally told them what the lookups were coming from, I never heard a peep out of them after that. I don't know if they stopped caching negative lookups, gave a seperate cache for them, or ignore blackhole lookups.
I got a "Your machine is trojaned" e-mail with few details. A thorough scan of my network showed diddley-squat. I finally got to reasonable level support and the issue was poisoning the cache with negative lookups. I was testing the mail, and URLs within the mail as well. I think there was an average of 20 lookups/mail.
People running MailWasher on Windows also got the same warning from RR. All this was probably about a year ago.
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They can't run a DNS server properly to save their lives.
TTL is ignored, SpamAssassin is a "trojan DDOSing our network"
IIRC, there were some image buffer overflows that came out as an infection vector after that
netstat shows a pile open, none are accessible from outside, even with the firewall off.
What services that require network access can't be turned off?
The first thing I did when I got my new Mac was hook it up to the LAN and port scan the sucker. Took 15 minutes, and not a damn thing was open.
The answer to #1 is actually "yes"
IIRC, the educational license has a clause like that for devstudio.
John Doe identified by IP Address 192.168.1.1 on 1/1/2005 at 3:00 AM
That should be enough to get a subpeona to get the detailed info.
- Alive
That's what companies like DoubleClick do, and MSN pulls tricks to allow the cookies to work across domains.
And it's tied to the domain of the site placing it, not the IP. Many sites have an image from the ad trackers (a single, invisible pixel, aka web bug) for placing the cookie. Those images can also be in e-mails that are rendered as HTML (look below the final </html> in the message source, they're commonly there)
I've had hard drives that if they were connected (at all), the computer wouldn't boot.
Not exactly killing, since removing it resolved the issue, but strange things do happen.
So, if I go to a PHP page and do "view source", I see the PHP source code? Neat!