If you read the article you would see that they are complaining about the text tables the site provides not being marked up properly, not the use of flash.
The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors approved $3.8 million for the project, which includes development, implementation and system costs. However, Fillman said the sheriff's department completed the task $500,000 under budget.
The last paragraph is the most notable part of the whole article, as far as I'm concerned!
We expect that implementing them will cost less than 1 million Vista licenses
Do you not understand that under no sane circumstance would you ever be responsible for purchasing 1 million licenses? Volume or MSDN licensing would cover your situation quite handily. Repeating the above sentiment (esp with no smiley) just makes you sound ignorant.
If you want your results to be meaningful, you're going to need to figure out how to get some actual windows VM's into your mix.
Window's record is pretty bad, but Mac OSX hasn't been completed tested out in the wild yet because it's not very popular right now. More exploits might be coming as it gets used more. But Apple seems to have developed it with security in mind, so let's see what happens.
It's not really infringing on my rights if part of my gun buying process is a detailed background check, or even some sort of training / licensing system, ala getting a driver's license.
And how about a brief literacy test you have to pass before exercising your right to vote? Would that infringe on your rights? Why is the concept of inalienable rights so hard to understand?
I think in these rough economic times our government needs to really start exploring more OSS/free solutions out there.
Great point - think how good for the economy it would be if the gov't stopped buying commercial software altogether! Thousands of developers/QA/etc would soon find themselves out of jobs, and able to contribute to open source projects all day long while collecting unemployment!
Why is everyone buying into Obama's hype? He is dedicating, get this, 1% of the stimulous plan to high-speed rail. Out of $800 billion, only $8 Billion is being spent on this. If we were actually serious about getting some high-speed rail,we'd need to spend a lot more on it.
Schneier is a cryptography expert, but on his new, broader security (not even just computer security) focus, I don't see any evidence for him to hold a title above "pundit".
Hear hear! and if anyone replies to this post touting the IE development toolbar, I think I'll wretch. IE Dev toolbar is like Firebug's retarded inbread cousin.
Can we stop using the term "zero-day"? It is supposed to refer to malware that is released the same day the exploit becomes public knowledge. At this point, the excel bug still may not be fixed, but its been a heck of a lot more than zero days since it was publicized...
There is no point in doing anything with that machine if you don't tell dad to make his daughter a separate, non-admin account. That is advice that would be taken for granted with linux, but no OS can do anything for you if you have a teenager who is downloading and running P2P software while logged in as an admin.
and now, with Vista, display drivers are back to being in user-mode: At a technical level, WDDM display drivers have two components, a kernel mode driver (KMD) that is very streamlined, and a user-mode driver that does most of the intense computations. With this model, most of the code is moved out of kernel mode. That is, the kernel mode piece is now solely responsible for lower-level functionality and the user mode piece takes on heavier functionality such as facilitating the translation from higher-level API constructs to direct GPU commands while maintaining application compatibility. This greatly reduces the chance of a fatal blue screen and most graphics driver-related problems result in at worst one application being affected.
What I'm in the middle of fighting now is a seller claiming I never paid for an item, just to remove my _neutral_ feedback. This is a month after he shipped the item, and I paid for it before shipping (obviously).
"The bomb will not start a chain-reaction in the water converting it all to gas and letting the ships on all the oceans drop down to the bottom. It will not blow out the bottom of the sea and let all the water run down the hole. It will not destroy gravity. I am not an atomic playboy, as one of my critics labeled me, exploding these bombs to satisfy my personal whim."
This is about whether or not some large US corporation gets their cut of the profits. Nothing more. It should be no surprise that they behave the same way as the mafia.
Grisoft's Thompson said that his research had identified a 15-month-old vulnerability as one of those exploited by the attack code. The exploit, he said, targeted the MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components) bug patched in April 2006 with the MS06-014 security update. "They went to the trouble of preparing a good Web site exploit, and a good mass hack but then used a moldy old client exploit. It's almost a dichotomy," said Thompson.
Proof? Open up a remote desktop client and connect to a server, it displays a windows login prompt that gives away the OS version and if the machine is part of a domain, gives you a list of accessible domains or the name of the local system.
If thats actually a concern of yours, then just set the group policy NoDomainUI.
For a good rant on the section 2257 regulations and whats wrong with them, check out: http://www.ehowa.com/mythoughts/2257.shtml (site isn't porn, but may or may not be safe for work)
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Yeah, that XKCD was pretty clever, except for the fact that they've acknowledges the dangers of lithium batteries, and placed limits (based on Watt-hour capacity) for almost two years now:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/07/12/28/1944208/TSA-Limits-Lithium-Batteries-on-Airplanes
If you read the article you would see that they are complaining about the text tables the site provides not being marked up properly, not the use of flash.
No, they don't.
The last paragraph is the most notable part of the whole article, as far as I'm concerned!
We expect that implementing them will cost less than 1 million Vista licenses
Do you not understand that under no sane circumstance would you ever be responsible for purchasing 1 million licenses? Volume or MSDN licensing would cover your situation quite handily. Repeating the above sentiment (esp with no smiley) just makes you sound ignorant.
If you want your results to be meaningful, you're going to need to figure out how to get some actual windows VM's into your mix.
Window's record is pretty bad, but Mac OSX hasn't been completed tested out in the wild yet because it's not very popular right now. More exploits might be coming as it gets used more. But Apple seems to have developed it with security in mind, so let's see what happens.
It's not really infringing on my rights if part of my gun buying process is a detailed background check, or even some sort of training / licensing system, ala getting a driver's license.
And how about a brief literacy test you have to pass before exercising your right to vote? Would that infringe on your rights? Why is the concept of inalienable rights so hard to understand?
I think in these rough economic times our government needs to really start exploring more OSS/free solutions out there.
Great point - think how good for the economy it would be if the gov't stopped buying commercial software altogether! Thousands of developers/QA/etc would soon find themselves out of jobs, and able to contribute to open source projects all day long while collecting unemployment!
Why is everyone buying into Obama's hype? He is dedicating, get this, 1% of the stimulous plan to high-speed rail. Out of $800 billion, only $8 Billion is being spent on this. If we were actually serious about getting some high-speed rail,we'd need to spend a lot more on it.
Schneier is a cryptography expert, but on his new, broader security (not even just computer security) focus, I don't see any evidence for him to hold a title above "pundit".
Yes, here's details on the English Language Proficiency Requirements for pilots:
http://www.anglo-continental.com/en/uk/courses/Aviation/aviation-english-division.htm#Standards
http://www.icao.int/icao/en/trivia/peltrgFAQ.htm
Hear hear! and if anyone replies to this post touting the IE development toolbar, I think I'll wretch. IE Dev toolbar is like Firebug's retarded inbread cousin.
IE8 comes with built in Developer Tools that aren't bad.
http://cooldrives.stores.yahoo.net/xb2usb20enha.html
Can we stop using the term "zero-day"? It is supposed to refer to malware that is released the same day the exploit becomes public knowledge. At this point, the excel bug still may not be fixed, but its been a heck of a lot more than zero days since it was publicized...
You should be familiar with what section 2257 actually means for website operators, its much more intrusive than you think.
Ernie has a good writeup (site possibly NSFW):
http://www.ehowa.com/mythoughts/2257.shtml
There is no point in doing anything with that machine if you don't tell dad to make his daughter a separate, non-admin account. That is advice that would be taken for granted with linux, but no OS can do anything for you if you have a teenager who is downloading and running P2P software while logged in as an admin.
If this helps get rid of the complete abomination that is SIFR, I'm all for it.
You've got to appreciate the fact that it actually works, but it is such a giant hack...
and now, with Vista, display drivers are back to being in user-mode:
At a technical level, WDDM display drivers have two components, a kernel mode driver (KMD) that is very streamlined, and a user-mode driver that does most of the intense computations. With this model, most of the code is moved out of kernel mode. That is, the kernel mode piece is now solely responsible for lower-level functionality and the user mode piece takes on heavier functionality such as facilitating the translation from higher-level API constructs to direct GPU commands while maintaining application compatibility. This greatly reduces the chance of a fatal blue screen and most graphics driver-related problems result in at worst one application being affected.
What I'm in the middle of fighting now is a seller claiming I never paid for an item, just to remove my _neutral_ feedback. This is a month after he shipped the item, and I paid for it before shipping (obviously).
Just tell the critics they are not Atomic Playboys....
"The bomb will not start a chain-reaction in the water converting it all to gas and letting the ships on all the oceans drop down to the bottom.
It will not blow out the bottom of the sea and let all the water run down the hole.
It will not destroy gravity.
I am not an atomic playboy, as one of my critics labeled me, exploding these bombs to satisfy my personal whim."
Vice Admiral W.H.P. Blandy, Commander Joint Task Force One, Operation Crossroads
This is about whether or not some large US corporation gets their cut of the profits. Nothing more. It should be no surprise that they behave the same way as the mafia.
You misspelled "makes back their R&D investment".
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/how_to_recover.html
Proof? Open up a remote desktop client and connect to a server, it displays a windows login prompt that gives away the OS version and if the machine is part of a domain, gives you a list of accessible domains or the name of the local system.
If thats actually a concern of yours, then just set the group policy NoDomainUI.
For a good rant on the section 2257 regulations and whats wrong with them, check out:
http://www.ehowa.com/mythoughts/2257.shtml
(site isn't porn, but may or may not be safe for work)