ew ew ew ew Shutting down browser, turn system off, low level format the drive, reload OS, cover system with kerosene, light it on fire, book tickets to a hermitage far from the existence of computers.
Still not clean, still not clean, still not clean.
Funny how as Giant software it received top honors in recent spyscanner shootoffs, but now labeled as Microsoft it just can't get a top spot. I would be interested in seeing how the old Giant freeware compares to the new Microsoft Antispyware to see if people are just being blinded by their Microsoft bias in both directions.
One reader pointed out that the older article meant the software was tops, but in truth Spybot and Ad-aware, while they are great together for spyware removal, are not sufficient on their own and just not enterprise-ready. Webroot Spysweeper however, has a version of their software that serves the corporate market and is the right tool to compare against Microsoft's which is bound to get woven into Active Directory for centralized management. Webroot is being heavily marketed compared to Spybot and Ad-aware, so I no longer have faith that they will be the top scanners in a year's time. I've seen Webroot everywhere from a Dell configuration page to a WalMart shelf.
Another tool I would like to see it compared against is Sunbelt Counterspy because it was licensed from Giant and is still functionally identical in the GUI to what I'm seeing in the new Microsoft Antispyware. A test like this against identically infected systems would give an indication of whether Microsoft had altered the internal workings of the scan engine. If I recall, Counterspy did scan for tracking cookies, so it is possible that we are witnessing Microsoft's disassembly and reassembly of the product to better fit into the OS. Keep in mind that Microsoft Antispyware is still in beta, so any comparisons should be taken with a grain of salt until we have true apples to apples for comparison.
HOWEVER, if this product is made available to plug holes in their operating system, why is it that the information known about these holes (known holes!!!) cannot be used to either fix them permanently, or apply patches to the OS that effectively provide the same monitor agent functionality? I would also prefer that in the case of browser hijackings the browser just gets reset to "about: blank". Frankly, on alternate browser hijackings, I would prefer Microsoft to police their own turf and leave other products to manage their own security issues. While I love Mozilla products, I recognize that the Mozilla folks tend to live off the "we have no bugs" marketing, so if they have a problem with their browser getting homepage hijacked, they should fix the issue and not rely on Microsoft.
Unless I can see the same feeds in the same status from any location regardless of whether my home computer or work computer is on or even nearby, it is inconvenient. That's why I use a web-based feed reader such as Feed On Feeds. If I go to the nephew's house, I don't have to try to remember all my feeds to configure his aKregator (stupid stupid name, folks) for my tastes. Local aggregators are plain dumb except for those people that explicitly divide their home and work lives and can maintain two or more separate feed lists, or those that just need a single place to view their news.
The FoF interface is very simple and really useful, and with my patch you can even republish select articles from mixed feeds to another RSS feed.
Sixteen electronic computerized sensors embedded in the gun's grip
I have a feeling that it's going to be hard fooling all 16 sensors in the time it takes to break into someone's house and rummage around making tons of noise before confronting the homeowners. What I wonder is how the gun will behave if someone changes their grip after using it. And what about the home owner fumbling to fire the thing in the dark of night at an intruder (hopefully not little Jimmy sleepwalking)?
I certainly wouldn't do without my Apache, sendmail, etc, because UNIX is much more manageable from the commandline for centralization.
Windows is pretty crippled when it comes to this sort of management so you depend on GUIs and funky agents to get things centralized. Maybe when MSH comes out it will make it easier to remotely manage tons of workstations, but I have doubts.
Of course, dealing with SOX compliance really brings out how many of these things are truly out of your control.
That's cute, but I would fire your ass for pushing some half baked crap like that. Most tools these days have a "Corporate Edition" that allows centralized management to give you a status of each system. If you're not using something with built-in automation you:
a) don't have any true oversight on what the status of the system operations are when it comes time to report b) don't have any way of pushing installs, updates, or removals of the program or definitions or configs to the machines c) are wasting a LOT of time doing sneakernet d) isn't centralized so that people BESIDES YOURSELF can check in on the system e) all of the above!
One of the neat things about the old dinosaur Sun hardware was that to add a card you just slid the new card into the chassis without opening anything up. Back then all the cards were super expensive and all the same size. Now, everything is different sizes, and some of the cards stick out further from the slot in all directions.
Instead, I imagine something more modular that looks like a brick or cassette tape with airflow holes wherever possible, taking up 1 or two slots, slides into the back of the PC and locks in place into a high density pin connector similar to what PC cards use in laptops. That same idea could be used for the front of the PC for drives (I've seen removable 5-1/4 drive bays for some time now) or card readers. You can then close a grillwork over it that is either stylized for the front, or covered in fans for the back.
A young pupil of mine named Carly Fiorina killed the old Compaq and helped hunt down the last of the good ones. Search your feelings, you know this to be true.
For anyone looking to outfit a company with spyware, enterprise remote managed solutions are the only choice. Spybot and Ad-Aware do *not* fit the bill. The question is how Giant's software is managed (through AD?) and monitored compared to management for Webroot SpySweeper or CA Counterspy.
Sorry, but with all the interoperability features that TiVo has added to their player, these guys are a couple of generations behind in PVR and just not good enough. Besides, what makes you think these guys aren't going to implement the Broadcast Flag for which everyone here seems to have turned their back on TiVo? Suddenly TiVo's happy little logo dude is a bad guy?
I for one *never* want flying cars until such time that we are rid of people who feel like drinking and/or drugging themselves into a stupor and then trying to pilot regular ground-based cars. We have enough trouble with drunk drivers crashing, I don't want to think about someone crashing a fully fueled flying car from a thousand feet up into a supermarket either mistakenly or purposely. We have a lot of maturing to do before we're worthy of that kind of technology.
And by the way, where the hell are you going that you need to fly there in a car and don't want to go to a small airport for the same trip? Have you heard of those? Or is it just something nifty that society owes you for your entertainment? To paraphrase the open-source priesthood, what are you doing to bring about that goal?
Remember that little C64 in a joystick that they recently started hawking on QVC? I wonder how clean their implementation really is, and whether they are violating the brand name.
The reaction to this earthquake and the resultant tsunami should be taken a practice run for the eventual small asteroid strike that will undoubtedly cause similar results. Our rush to aid fellow men in their time of need will hopefully be returned to us one day when we face the same. Or will they just turn their backs and look the other way?
So far under $100 million in aid has been pledged by various countries to help in a disaster that has ruined $billions and killed dozens of thousands of people. Is that good enough?
Maybe they can test this theory by catching one and deorbiting it over Mars just to make sure their plan is sound. We don't want to find out that it's not going to work right as it's entering the atmosphere over the Atlantic as one giant chunk. It figures we would kill ourselves off by our own stupidity. All this time the planet has been trying to keep the asteroids away with that nice moon of ours to deflect them, and we go and bring one right in.
Mother nature did this, not other humans. You'll have to excuse her, she's a little neutral to our little conflicts over who owned what grain of sand first. But I suppose someone will find a way to say the US and Bush did this.
Most of the affected countries couldn't give a crap if 280 million Americans disappeared off the face of the earth and many of them even pray for it. But, yes, 50,000 dead is a great tragedy. Comparing it to 9-11 is childish.
I hope you don't mind if we sit this one out. Maybe the rest of the world could lend a hand this time, seeing as they're not busy fighting terror?
Santa is obviously a higher being and we should welcome him as our new overlord. For it is he who will defeat the machines of Skynet and their undead cohorts this Christmas. And bring the presents, too, lets not forget that.
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Step one, get rid of that stupid sig. You're talking way crazier than a belief in Santa Claus. Maybe a little less of that is what we need.
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ew ew ew ew
Shutting down browser, turn system off, low level format the drive, reload OS, cover system with kerosene, light it on fire, book tickets to a hermitage far from the existence of computers.
Still not clean, still not clean, still not clean.
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Hum.
Funny how as Giant software it received top honors in recent spyscanner shootoffs, but now labeled as Microsoft it just can't get a top spot. I would be interested in seeing how the old Giant freeware compares to the new Microsoft Antispyware to see if people are just being blinded by their Microsoft bias in both directions.
One reader pointed out that the older article meant the software was tops, but in truth Spybot and Ad-aware, while they are great together for spyware removal, are not sufficient on their own and just not enterprise-ready. Webroot Spysweeper however, has a version of their software that serves the corporate market and is the right tool to compare against Microsoft's which is bound to get woven into Active Directory for centralized management. Webroot is being heavily marketed compared to Spybot and Ad-aware, so I no longer have faith that they will be the top scanners in a year's time. I've seen Webroot everywhere from a Dell configuration page to a WalMart shelf.
Another tool I would like to see it compared against is Sunbelt Counterspy because it was licensed from Giant and is still functionally identical in the GUI to what I'm seeing in the new Microsoft Antispyware. A test like this against identically infected systems would give an indication of whether Microsoft had altered the internal workings of the scan engine. If I recall, Counterspy did scan for tracking cookies, so it is possible that we are witnessing Microsoft's disassembly and reassembly of the product to better fit into the OS. Keep in mind that Microsoft Antispyware is still in beta, so any comparisons should be taken with a grain of salt until we have true apples to apples for comparison.
HOWEVER, if this product is made available to plug holes in their operating system, why is it that the information known about these holes (known holes!!!) cannot be used to either fix them permanently, or apply patches to the OS that effectively provide the same monitor agent functionality? I would also prefer that in the case of browser hijackings the browser just gets reset to "about: blank". Frankly, on alternate browser hijackings, I would prefer Microsoft to police their own turf and leave other products to manage their own security issues. While I love Mozilla products, I recognize that the Mozilla folks tend to live off the "we have no bugs" marketing, so if they have a problem with their browser getting homepage hijacked, they should fix the issue and not rely on Microsoft.
Unless I can see the same feeds in the same status from any location regardless of whether my home computer or work computer is on or even nearby, it is inconvenient. That's why I use a web-based feed reader such as Feed On Feeds. If I go to the nephew's house, I don't have to try to remember all my feeds to configure his aKregator (stupid stupid name, folks) for my tastes. Local aggregators are plain dumb except for those people that explicitly divide their home and work lives and can maintain two or more separate feed lists, or those that just need a single place to view their news.
The FoF interface is very simple and really useful, and with my patch you can even republish select articles from mixed feeds to another RSS feed.
Um. No. No, man, it doesn't. Seek help now for your Bjorkophrenia.
Sixteen electronic computerized sensors embedded in the gun's grip
I have a feeling that it's going to be hard fooling all 16 sensors in the time it takes to break into someone's house and rummage around making tons of noise before confronting the homeowners. What I wonder is how the gun will behave if someone changes their grip after using it. And what about the home owner fumbling to fire the thing in the dark of night at an intruder (hopefully not little Jimmy sleepwalking)?
I certainly wouldn't do without my Apache, sendmail, etc, because UNIX is much more manageable from the commandline for centralization.
Windows is pretty crippled when it comes to this sort of management so you depend on GUIs and funky agents to get things centralized. Maybe when MSH comes out it will make it easier to remotely manage tons of workstations, but I have doubts.
Of course, dealing with SOX compliance really brings out how many of these things are truly out of your control.
That's cute, but I would fire your ass for pushing some half baked crap like that. Most tools these days have a "Corporate Edition" that allows centralized management to give you a status of each system. If you're not using something with built-in automation you:
a) don't have any true oversight on what the status of the system operations are when it comes time to report
b) don't have any way of pushing installs, updates, or removals of the program or definitions or configs to the machines
c) are wasting a LOT of time doing sneakernet
d) isn't centralized so that people BESIDES YOURSELF can check in on the system
e) all of the above!
One of the neat things about the old dinosaur Sun hardware was that to add a card you just slid the new card into the chassis without opening anything up. Back then all the cards were super expensive and all the same size. Now, everything is different sizes, and some of the cards stick out further from the slot in all directions.
Instead, I imagine something more modular that looks like a brick or cassette tape with airflow holes wherever possible, taking up 1 or two slots, slides into the back of the PC and locks in place into a high density pin connector similar to what PC cards use in laptops. That same idea could be used for the front of the PC for drives (I've seen removable 5-1/4 drive bays for some time now) or card readers. You can then close a grillwork over it that is either stylized for the front, or covered in fans for the back.
Yeah, I guess you can consider an XBox Live subscription free if you ignore the money you exchanged for it.
A young pupil of mine named Carly Fiorina killed the old Compaq and helped hunt down the last of the good ones. Search your feelings, you know this to be true.
For anyone looking to outfit a company with spyware, enterprise remote managed solutions are the only choice. Spybot and Ad-Aware do *not* fit the bill. The question is how Giant's software is managed (through AD?) and monitored compared to management for Webroot SpySweeper or CA Counterspy.
Sorry, but with all the interoperability features that TiVo has added to their player, these guys are a couple of generations behind in PVR and just not good enough. Besides, what makes you think these guys aren't going to implement the Broadcast Flag for which everyone here seems to have turned their back on TiVo? Suddenly TiVo's happy little logo dude is a bad guy?
Compati-what?
I for one *never* want flying cars until such time that we are rid of people who feel like drinking and/or drugging themselves into a stupor and then trying to pilot regular ground-based cars. We have enough trouble with drunk drivers crashing, I don't want to think about someone crashing a fully fueled flying car from a thousand feet up into a supermarket either mistakenly or purposely. We have a lot of maturing to do before we're worthy of that kind of technology.
And by the way, where the hell are you going that you need to fly there in a car and don't want to go to a small airport for the same trip? Have you heard of those? Or is it just something nifty that society owes you for your entertainment? To paraphrase the open-source priesthood, what are you doing to bring about that goal?
Remember that little C64 in a joystick that they recently started hawking on QVC? I wonder how clean their implementation really is, and whether they are violating the brand name.
I've never actually tasted a lightbulb before, but now I know they taste like ment! Thank you, Anonymous Coward!
The reaction to this earthquake and the resultant tsunami should be taken a practice run for the eventual small asteroid strike that will undoubtedly cause similar results. Our rush to aid fellow men in their time of need will hopefully be returned to us one day when we face the same. Or will they just turn their backs and look the other way?
So far under $100 million in aid has been pledged by various countries to help in a disaster that has ruined $billions and killed dozens of thousands of people. Is that good enough?
I'm betting most of the viruses that infect these systems into becoming spam bots in the first place are coming from China.
Maybe they can test this theory by catching one and deorbiting it over Mars just to make sure their plan is sound. We don't want to find out that it's not going to work right as it's entering the atmosphere over the Atlantic as one giant chunk. It figures we would kill ourselves off by our own stupidity. All this time the planet has been trying to keep the asteroids away with that nice moon of ours to deflect them, and we go and bring one right in.
Mother nature did this, not other humans. You'll have to excuse her, she's a little neutral to our little conflicts over who owned what grain of sand first. But I suppose someone will find a way to say the US and Bush did this.
Most of the affected countries couldn't give a crap if 280 million Americans disappeared off the face of the earth and many of them even pray for it. But, yes, 50,000 dead is a great tragedy. Comparing it to 9-11 is childish.
I hope you don't mind if we sit this one out. Maybe the rest of the world could lend a hand this time, seeing as they're not busy fighting terror?
Don't be stupid, it's just precipitation.
Santa is obviously a higher being and we should welcome him as our new overlord. For it is he who will defeat the machines of Skynet and their undead cohorts this Christmas. And bring the presents, too, lets not forget that.
Step one, get rid of that stupid sig. You're talking way crazier than a belief in Santa Claus. Maybe a little less of that is what we need.