One of my clients has an office with 3 guys, one of whom is the owner, and two women working in it. Both the women and men can throw around comments like this, and there's never any offense taken, because they know it's said in jest, rather than anything serious. One of the guys gets comments about the FedEx guy hitting on him, and one of the women gets comments about sending dirty MSNs to someone, and everybody can laugh about it, including the target of the comments.
Sure, sometimes you get a jerk that makes comments that they're serious about, but that person wouldn't last long in this company. In fact, every job interview they've ever done involves making sure that the potential employee has a good sense of humour about things like this.
The net is evolving. Much like our genome, which if you haven't looked, is 95% nothing. Those of you who believe in intelligent design should ask yourself, "What intelligence would design something so poorly."
I'm a cystic fibrosis carrier. It's a disease caused by a genetic mutation. If that mutation had happemed in "nothing" as you put it, it would be harmless. Maybe "nothing" is an insurance policy against random, radiation-induced mutations. I'd ask my wife, as she's the geneticist, but she's not here....
So somebody breaks in, changes your password, and you change it back from the computer you used last week. The computer used to break in was used only a few days before, so it's on the approved list to log in with the old password. You see where I'm going with this?
Under this system, the attacker would gain permanent access to your account, as long as they logged in once a week.
If this is your idea of a "good method" to prevent an attacker from changing your password, I'd suggest the subject line of this thread describes you perfectly....
Windows users still outnumber Mac users by a large margin. Considering even the summary says this was "relatively old," it would be trivial for Apple to set up an automated virus scan for app store submissions. I'd argue theyshould have been doing this all along.
I'm 37, with 3 kids, 6, 2-almost-3, and 3 months. I'm always looking into new things I can learn, because I enjoy it. Do I manage as much as I did before kids? No, but I still do some. I consider it a hobby. Pretty much everybody has a hobby outside of playing with their kids, and this is no different.
There are idiots in every profession, certainly. However, in IT, and this may be just my perception because of my familiarity with the industry, they seem to coagulate in certain locations much more than any other industry.
Possibly the good ones, especially the ones with the rational type "anti-idiocy" personality types, quit and move on when they've got to deal with idiots on a daily basis, so the business hires someone to replace him. This continues until the business' IT dept is staffed by nothing but idiots.
In short, xTrashcat shouldn't plan on getting too comfortable in this job, because dealing with this style of coworker continually might just drive him off the deep end.
The fact that they were trying a standard, existing image on entirely new hardware tells me that they're not paddling with all oars to begin with. This is usually a recipe for a BSOD, and even if you can get it working, you've got a bunch of old driver cruft, which slows down the machine.
The Canadian music industry negotiated the "blank media tax" back when people were taping from cassette to cassette. They got a sweetheart of a deal, in which I pay the music industry to record my own music that's copyrighted by me. In exchange, the public can copy music for personal use without breaking copyright. That's how it works in Canada. Since the rise of p2p, the same music industry is trying to sue people for downloading music. Unfortunately for them, the way the blank media tax loophole is written (which was probably written by the music industry itself), downloading by p2p counts as copying for personal use, but computer hard drives don't count as blank media. Various courts in Canada have ruled this way.
So, when they stopped getting fantastic gains from their purchased laws, they desperately tried to get it changed, That didn't work, so they tried to get a DMCA equivalent passed. Huge public outcry stopped it. So they tried again. Again, public outcry. So they tried again....etc. Eventually, after a LOT of attempts, they got a weakened version through.
So the laws were not even in place when the network was created, at least in Canada.
I think I quite clearly said _I_ don't run antivirus. There was no implication that it was a good idea for others; at least, I didn't mean it. If you took it that way, then maybe I need to be more careful how I word that statement.
Boot time isn't the only way your computer can be slowed.
And we still don't know if it was a zero-day exploit or not. For that matter, we don't know if it would have even infected you. Did you know that Avast's web shield doesn't know if you're vulnerable to the exploit or not? It simply warns you when it sees a malicious file, even if you don't have the vulnerable plugin. Just because it blocked something doesn't mean you would have been infected without A/V.
Why does everyone think the only way to know if you're infected is to run some resource-sucking A/V software?
Because with well-written malware it is the only way to know, unless you routinely snapshot your system and do off-line verifications that your system files have not been modified.
Which is essentially what I do, thanks to a security project I've been working on for a few years.
Besides, with well-written malware, even A/V software can't tell you're infected without an offline scan.
Ok, so it was a flash exploit. That still doesn't say whether it was zero day or not. If it wasn't, then you were unpatched, and I wasn't, and I'd be safe. If it was zero-day, I was doing a lot of experimenting with Chrome at that point, which has sandboxed flash since at least 2010, meaning I'd still be safe. All without flashblock.
And incidentally, _all_ antivirus software slows your system down. Unless it's magic, it takes processing time to scan every file you open, meaning there's less processor time to use for what you want to do. This also adds latency to every single file access, while the file is being scanned.
Saying it doesn't slow your system down shows you either really have no idea how it (or a computer in general) works, or you meant "doesn't slow your system down as much as in the past" but just didn't say what you meant.
Why does everyone think the only way to know if you're infected is to run some resource-sucking A/V software?
How do you think A/V companies know to add something to their definitions? Does it have to show an infection in an antivirus scan? Maybe the fact that I don't get falsely complacent by running A/V software, means that when the A/V companies miss something like Flame for two years then I'd know about it on my machine before the AV warning, because I wouldn't be thinking "My A/V software shows nothing, so I'm not infected."
If you used Windows without AV software guess what? You are owned if you visited slashdot in late february or early march.
That's almost as vague as Google's warnings. Did the malware in this case target IE? Firefox? Chrome? Flash player? Java? Did it rely on a zero-day exploit? Or something that you just hadn't got around to patching?
I haven't run A/V for somewhere around a decade. I've never been infected. I visit/. on a regular basis, including the time in question. Obviously your blanket warning isn't accurate.
Somehow, I think if someone sees a form purporting to be from either Yahoo or Microsoft, but says right on it "Powered by Google Docs," and they still go ahead and enter their information, then they're stupid enough that they'll give away their information anyway at some point, so it doesn't make much difference if this stays up or not.
Incidentally, I did get a warning on the second one.
So you could play 12 copies of Crysis at the same time? Or maybe Crysis 1, Crysis 2, Doom 3, Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Assassin's Creed 3, Something Else 3, and still have a couple of cores left over to run Adobe Flash......
Incidentally, your sig:
I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the State of Texas
Does that make you a consumer of gasoline for your oversized domestic pickup truck? Or a consumer of bullets? Maybe both?:) (I know, I know....stereotyping.... You could drive a Corolla, for all I know...)
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One of my clients has an office with 3 guys, one of whom is the owner, and two women working in it. Both the women and men can throw around comments like this, and there's never any offense taken, because they know it's said in jest, rather than anything serious. One of the guys gets comments about the FedEx guy hitting on him, and one of the women gets comments about sending dirty MSNs to someone, and everybody can laugh about it, including the target of the comments.
Sure, sometimes you get a jerk that makes comments that they're serious about, but that person wouldn't last long in this company. In fact, every job interview they've ever done involves making sure that the potential employee has a good sense of humour about things like this.
The net is evolving. Much like our genome, which if you haven't looked, is 95% nothing. Those of you who believe in intelligent design should ask yourself, "What intelligence would design something so poorly."
I'm a cystic fibrosis carrier. It's a disease caused by a genetic mutation. If that mutation had happemed in "nothing" as you put it, it would be harmless. Maybe "nothing" is an insurance policy against random, radiation-induced mutations.
I'd ask my wife, as she's the geneticist, but she's not here....
So somebody breaks in, changes your password, and you change it back from the computer you used last week.
The computer used to break in was used only a few days before, so it's on the approved list to log in with the old password.
You see where I'm going with this?
Under this system, the attacker would gain permanent access to your account, as long as they logged in once a week.
If this is your idea of a "good method" to prevent an attacker from changing your password, I'd suggest the subject line of this thread describes you perfectly....
Windows users still outnumber Mac users by a large margin. Considering even the summary says this was "relatively old," it would be trivial for Apple to set up an automated virus scan for app store submissions. I'd argue theyshould have been doing this all along.
So it's designed to make copyright infringement of books easier. Got it.
It doesn't need a battery. It's powered by the flames of hell itself.....
So, by using PIN-to-PIN, Cuomo has foiled FOIL?
Is he related to Frosty Piss?
Learning new stuff is hard? Really?
I'm 37, with 3 kids, 6, 2-almost-3, and 3 months. I'm always looking into new things I can learn, because I enjoy it. Do I manage as much as I did before kids? No, but I still do some. I consider it a hobby. Pretty much everybody has a hobby outside of playing with their kids, and this is no different.
There are idiots in every profession, certainly. However, in IT, and this may be just my perception because of my familiarity with the industry, they seem to coagulate in certain locations much more than any other industry.
Possibly the good ones, especially the ones with the rational type "anti-idiocy" personality types, quit and move on when they've got to deal with idiots on a daily basis, so the business hires someone to replace him. This continues until the business' IT dept is staffed by nothing but idiots.
In short, xTrashcat shouldn't plan on getting too comfortable in this job, because dealing with this style of coworker continually might just drive him off the deep end.
The fact that they were trying a standard, existing image on entirely new hardware tells me that they're not paddling with all oars to begin with. This is usually a recipe for a BSOD, and even if you can get it working, you've got a bunch of old driver cruft, which slows down the machine.
Probably none. It's not like the Canadian music industry hasn't been sued before for failing to pay royalties due under current contracts.
http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.php?section=article&articleid=1077
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5563/125/
But it's also completely forward compatible with the rock-sold ROT-910 standard.
The Canadian music industry negotiated the "blank media tax" back when people were taping from cassette to cassette. They got a sweetheart of a deal, in which I pay the music industry to record my own music that's copyrighted by me. In exchange, the public can copy music for personal use without breaking copyright. That's how it works in Canada.
Since the rise of p2p, the same music industry is trying to sue people for downloading music. Unfortunately for them, the way the blank media tax loophole is written (which was probably written by the music industry itself), downloading by p2p counts as copying for personal use, but computer hard drives don't count as blank media. Various courts in Canada have ruled this way.
So, when they stopped getting fantastic gains from their purchased laws, they desperately tried to get it changed, That didn't work, so they tried to get a DMCA equivalent passed. Huge public outcry stopped it. So they tried again. Again, public outcry. So they tried again....etc.
Eventually, after a LOT of attempts, they got a weakened version through.
So the laws were not even in place when the network was created, at least in Canada.
I think I quite clearly said _I_ don't run antivirus. There was no implication that it was a good idea for others; at least, I didn't mean it. If you took it that way, then maybe I need to be more careful how I word that statement.
Boot time isn't the only way your computer can be slowed.
And we still don't know if it was a zero-day exploit or not. For that matter, we don't know if it would have even infected you.
Did you know that Avast's web shield doesn't know if you're vulnerable to the exploit or not? It simply warns you when it sees a malicious file, even if you don't have the vulnerable plugin. Just because it blocked something doesn't mean you would have been infected without A/V.
Why does everyone think the only way to know if you're infected is to run some resource-sucking A/V software?
Because with well-written malware it is the only way to know, unless you routinely snapshot your system and do off-line verifications that your system files have not been modified.
Which is essentially what I do, thanks to a security project I've been working on for a few years.
Besides, with well-written malware, even A/V software can't tell you're infected without an offline scan.
Ok, so it was a flash exploit. That still doesn't say whether it was zero day or not. If it wasn't, then you were unpatched, and I wasn't, and I'd be safe. If it was zero-day, I was doing a lot of experimenting with Chrome at that point, which has sandboxed flash since at least 2010, meaning I'd still be safe. All without flashblock.
And incidentally, _all_ antivirus software slows your system down. Unless it's magic, it takes processing time to scan every file you open, meaning there's less processor time to use for what you want to do. This also adds latency to every single file access, while the file is being scanned.
Saying it doesn't slow your system down shows you either really have no idea how it (or a computer in general) works, or you meant "doesn't slow your system down as much as in the past" but just didn't say what you meant.
Why does everyone think the only way to know if you're infected is to run some resource-sucking A/V software?
How do you think A/V companies know to add something to their definitions? Does it have to show an infection in an antivirus scan?
Maybe the fact that I don't get falsely complacent by running A/V software, means that when the A/V companies miss something like Flame for two years then I'd know about it on my machine before the AV warning, because I wouldn't be thinking "My A/V software shows nothing, so I'm not infected."
If you used Windows without AV software guess what? You are owned if you visited slashdot in late february or early march.
That's almost as vague as Google's warnings. Did the malware in this case target IE? Firefox? Chrome? Flash player? Java?
Did it rely on a zero-day exploit? Or something that you just hadn't got around to patching?
I haven't run A/V for somewhere around a decade. I've never been infected. I visit /. on a regular basis, including the time in question. Obviously your blanket warning isn't accurate.
That's almost 10000!
Somehow, I think if someone sees a form purporting to be from either Yahoo or Microsoft, but says right on it "Powered by Google Docs," and they still go ahead and enter their information, then they're stupid enough that they'll give away their information anyway at some point, so it doesn't make much difference if this stays up or not.
Incidentally, I did get a warning on the second one.
So you could play 12 copies of Crysis at the same time? Or maybe Crysis 1, Crysis 2, Doom 3, Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Assassin's Creed 3, Something Else 3, and still have a couple of cores left over to run Adobe Flash......
Incidentally, your sig:
I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the State of Texas
Does that make you a consumer of gasoline for your oversized domestic pickup truck? Or a consumer of bullets? Maybe both? :)
(I know, I know....stereotyping.... You could drive a Corolla, for all I know...)
The word you're looking for is not "stupid." the word you want is "assholish."
how was the cloud help? it's not like the same people wouldn't have access either way...
Dr. Frankenstein created things....