Aside from this specific instance of a security vulnerability in McAfee products, seriously. McAfee *was* a decent product. In, say, 1993. For DOS. Because it was just about the only antivirus protection you could get at the time.
Now, you have *many* choices. I don't see why you would ever want to choose a McAfee product as any level of protection (be it firewall, antivirus, anti-spam, or whatever) - it's just that the software has evolved into this huge monolithic POS that crashes your system, slows it down ungodly, bugs you like a Japanese whore (OMGLOLIBLOCKEDAHAX0R!) and, I don't have much doubt at all that it corrupts your system far beyond what's been reported before, just out of pure experience with anomolies on customers' computers with it installed.
AVG. Seriously, it's much simpler, faster, and *just*doesn't*mess*with* Windows like McAfee does.
What are you smoking? Firefox is built upon the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine, which is built upon the Netscape Navigator rendering engine, which was rewritten once.
I'm sure there are improvements with this new release, but how much can you really improve upon a structurally flawed program? It's like Vista... They always tout "It's the BEST Windows EVER" and "The most SECURE OS!" and all that garbage...but what happens 2 weeks after it's public release? Flaws. Flaws, flaws, horribly unexplainable flaws that should have been caught with some basic QA *before* release.
Firefox rules. It was built from the ground up to AVOID the problems created by poor programming in IE.
What do Sheriffs care about peoples' wireless network devices? Unless I'm bashing my wife over the head with my access point, I don't want a Sheriff to even tell me what to do with my freggin' network.
What's next? Are they going to start testing peoples' front doors to see if they're unlocked? Again, it's none of their business, and it's wasting taxpayer money. Stick to your department, which is upholding the law.
I live in the United States. I spent yesterday looking at other countries and what qualities of government they have, because I am just plain sick of it here. Every week, I read at least one story about our rights and how they are being taken away through the back door. It was difficult to find a country where there weren't any drawbacks - all forms of government seem fundamentally flawed in (at least) one way or another. We don't NEED it on the Internet.
This world-wide network has gained a momentum, and there are people in power that are AFRAID of that momentum. With no REAL commercial core, with free speech and architecture giving itself power and stance... These people feel threatened that they will be disregarded. So they start fighting it in their world.
MPAA/RIAA lawsuits. DRM. Internet taxation. F*CK THAT.
How about open standards. Open SOURCE CODE. Open practice and ethics. These are all the backbone of the Internet, such as the Tier 1 Internet providers, Internet exchanges and other entities that share information freely. We *KNOW* how to govern ourselves. It's actually very inspiring, isn't it? No real central authority (except for standards and protocols, like the IEEE and DNS root servers)... These people who don't see how it works right now intend to change it so THEY are the ones calling the shots.
No thanks, I think we can do it ourselves.
He's right. We need to fight. Keep it in the hands of everyone, not a just a few corruptable, power hungry mother f*ckers who want to either make money from it or pat themselves on the back knowing that they are in control.
Certainly to 'abstract'. No kid under 15 would even know WTF they're talking about. It's like anti-propoganda, and it's not interesting.
Hate to say it, but they need to think more like....the MPAA in terms of entertaining and informing at the same time. It reminded me of a really bad 50's "instructional" video, where the narrator spoke to fast (and in monotone), and the animation followed no actual plot (and no likeable characters, just a bunch of random scenes).
Bah. Good job guys, but we need to be more creative than showing Tux on a "MythTV" DVR - like anyone is going to understand that anyway (especially those who spend a LOT of time watching movies).
Usually a Black hat is a person who maintains knowledge of the vulnerabilities and exploits they find as secret for private advantage, not revealing them either to the general public or the manufacturer for correction.
I don't have a photobucket or flickr or del.ic.ious (or whatever) account either...but it makes me wonder how 'honest' these services are if they're being integrated into an OSS web browser... I've seen plenty of photobucket.com posted pics, what are the privacy concerns for these services? Should I trust them, or should I continue to use Firefox and my own web server, manually uploading stuff?
When our lives do not align, we comprimise - the comprimization (sp?) involves mutual sacrifices and understanding, so we both win. I know moving / drastic changes in lifestyle are hard to comprimize on, but if you are both true to wanting your family to thrive and be happy, then your seperate minds should be thinking alike anyway. The only thing that I can see holding either one of you back is fear of change.
Remember in Kindergarten when the teacher taught it's students to share openly with other students? This is no different - Microsoft is acting the child that as always kept his toys to himself but always wanted to play with everyone elses' as well. Now he is saying "Let's all play together".
Well, Microsoft, WE have ALWAYS played nice with everyone who shares with us as we do with them. It's your turn to open source the code you want to share with the world so you can use ours as well. Sharing is a two-way street with the GPL - there's no way around it.
If you had kids and a wife/husband, the "YOU make your OWN life" paragraph would never have come out of your mouth (or fingers, as is the case here). The fact of the matter is, when you have a spouse and/or kids, guess what? You've now got other people's wants/needs to think about. Ideally, you find yourself putting those people's wants/needs ahead of your own.
Actually, I'm married to the best girl in the world (I'm 25).
I am not saying that parent poster didn't have other peoples' needs to think about, but there's a line to draw when you put others' before your own, as well as making good judgement for the good of the whole family.
RE: All your hypotheticals, in every one of them there is a choice to be made. If you don't WANT your kids to live in lower-income housing/areas, that's your CHOICE. The blurbs about getting mugged, finding your '83 on the side of the road dead are just fears that are factoring into your decisions (fears, that IMHO, are imposed by a society that likes it's people to live in fear, so little change takes place and the hierarchy of classes continues instead of forcing yourself to change and possibly better the lives of you and your family).
Unfortunately, nothing anyone could every say would convince you of just how ridiculous your "maybe you should relocate and find alternate means to travel" is...but once you move out of your bachelor pad and get a family of your own, you'll start to see things from a very different perspective.
You have no idea how often I hear this. As I said before, I'm married. I have no kids (yet) but when I do, I'm going to teach them to stand up for themselves and make their lives what THEY want to make them, and not be "forced" into a particular class, lifestyle or personality by their society. It seems as though you've already "given up" and chosen to complain then to make your life better.
Move to Europe. There's plenty of great transportation there. I live in Northern California - a place riddled with blocked freeways and 10-minute 3 mile drives. I absolutely hate it. But I know it's my choice to be here, I'm not doubting for a minute that I could hug my wife (and kids if we had any) and say "Sweetheart, we're moving."
Head of the household is a term rarely referring to the husband/father in a family anymore, because complaining/bitchy/needy wives (and subsequentally children in these cases) as well as television/media become the head of the household when the fathers don't take a stand and put their feet down on basic lifestyle decisions that affect the whole family. Don't like your kids sitting in front of the TV all day after school? Cut the cable. Tell them why, and provide them with alternate means of entertainment, otherwise commercialism is going to form their little heads into SUV wanting, greedy adults which everyone stereotypes today. Same goes for your wife! You're the MAN of the house, and however many people cringe to that statement need to realise that the MAN of the house isn't always an asshole, he's the one that provides insight, focus and direction to a family. And yes, this concept was invented before "Leave it to Beaver" was on TV.
Dual income households have become mandatory in most areas unless you're part of the relatively privileged few who can afford to have a spouse stay home and still maintain a roof over their heads and food on the table.
"Priviliged few"? Like people are 'chosen' to be priviliged.
Seriously. I don't have kids, so you won't listen to a word I say most likely, but I'll say it anyway:
YOU make your OWN life. Nobody TELLS you who to be or how to live. And if they do, you need to change that. You're in control of your life - not your wife/husband, not your kids. Get some guts and start making your own decisions. If you're living somewhere where it's necessary to fix your house and pay for your 12MPG SUV, then maybe you should relocate and find alternate means to travel.
Nobody is locking you into your lifestyle, you're just acting a scapegoat because it's easier to accept than to change.
- Children have brains as adults do - Children do not like to be 'leashed' as adults do not - Children are smarter than adults think and therefore will circumvent the system by any number of obvious means
The ultimate outcome of this service will be:
- Human tracking will be more accepted in society - Human tracking will continue to be precise only in governmental/highly paid commercial instances - Human tracking will lead to other various means to seemingly invade our privacy, take away more freedoms we enjoy today and further erode individuality and sense of personal privacy (which, IMHO, will lead to a really, really dull world where nobody truly benefits but those that are not tracked)
"Well basically what we've done is created a hybrid shuttle. Given a Toyota Prius electric motor, we started playing with it. We ended up attaching solar panels to the side of the shuttle, which provide energy to the motor once the shuttle leaves the atmosphere. This provides us with enough remaining government funding to actually launch the ship, with gas prices at THREE DOLLARS AND FIFTY F**KING CENTS, PEOPLE!!"
Shell and Exxon were not available for comment, as apparently the entire executive staff already had a Scrooge McDuck style 'vault swim' scheduled.
Someone want to tell me why this is a "full" story? I mean really....Pitfall? I could understand if it were something like...you know, Bible Blaster or something...but Pitfall?
I've never seen a better example for the phrase "Preaching to the choir" than this! Seriously. Someone who reads Slashdot who doesn't know what a hard drive is or how important privacy / data security is.
Picket outside the Best Buy front enterance with this message and you might get somewhere!
Oh come on...it's better than monochrome! Look at the bright vibrant colors. With Monochrome you wouldn't even be able to tell who your character was vs. the tree!
Seriously, AOL shouldn't be #1... They just got in really good with the 90% of non-tech savy Internet users from the beginning, and gave them a nice little interface to the Internet, making it easier for them to move around.
Doesn't matter if it costs 2x as much as any other ISP, or that the interface is so kludgy that you need to upgrade your video card, or that they censor the Internet to conform to it's mass majority of users' tastes, or that the "You've got mail" sound that hasn't changed...(ever?) makes most people want to wretch all over their keyboards, or that their spyware/virus "protection" is a miserable failure and should be uninstalled, or that their "Here's your 20th CD-ROM this month" ad campaign is probably the worst landfill culprit since the pet rock, or.....
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I acknowledged that the two scenarios were very different...
*douched*
A computer technician. I know, I know, they are very much different...but they're actually the same, too. ;)
.... *SLAP*
Tech 1: Ok, just got done replacing the power supply in this bad boy, let's fire it up.
Tech 2: Hey, where's my screwdriver....
*ZOT*
Tech 1: Oh, wait a minute.... oh, ok here's the problem, I left this screwdriver lying on the motherboard and it fried the motherboard!
Tech 2: Shouldn't you have looked inside the case before you put the cover back on?
Tech 1: Maybe we should put RFID tags on our tools so I won't do this again...
Tech 2:
How about, stop smoking the sticky-icky right before you work on very important things (I.E. computers, human bodies)...
Aside from this specific instance of a security vulnerability in McAfee products, seriously. McAfee *was* a decent product. In, say, 1993. For DOS. Because it was just about the only antivirus protection you could get at the time.
Now, you have *many* choices. I don't see why you would ever want to choose a McAfee product as any level of protection (be it firewall, antivirus, anti-spam, or whatever) - it's just that the software has evolved into this huge monolithic POS that crashes your system, slows it down ungodly, bugs you like a Japanese whore (OMGLOLIBLOCKEDAHAX0R!) and, I don't have much doubt at all that it corrupts your system far beyond what's been reported before, just out of pure experience with anomolies on customers' computers with it installed.
AVG. Seriously, it's much simpler, faster, and *just*doesn't*mess*with* Windows like McAfee does.
What are you smoking? Firefox is built upon the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine, which is built upon the Netscape Navigator rendering engine, which was rewritten once.
Which STILL seems to be better coded than IE.
And marijuana, why do you ask? =p
I'm sure there are improvements with this new release, but how much can you really improve upon a structurally flawed program? It's like Vista... They always tout "It's the BEST Windows EVER" and "The most SECURE OS!" and all that garbage...but what happens 2 weeks after it's public release? Flaws. Flaws, flaws, horribly unexplainable flaws that should have been caught with some basic QA *before* release.
Firefox rules. It was built from the ground up to AVOID the problems created by poor programming in IE.
What do Sheriffs care about peoples' wireless network devices? Unless I'm bashing my wife over the head with my access point, I don't want a Sheriff to even tell me what to do with my freggin' network.
What's next? Are they going to start testing peoples' front doors to see if they're unlocked? Again, it's none of their business, and it's wasting taxpayer money. Stick to your department, which is upholding the law.
...For those who have data which is being 'held hostage' by a purposefully non-booting system.
I live in the United States. I spent yesterday looking at other countries and what qualities of government they have, because I am just plain sick of it here. Every week, I read at least one story about our rights and how they are being taken away through the back door. It was difficult to find a country where there weren't any drawbacks - all forms of government seem fundamentally flawed in (at least) one way or another. We don't NEED it on the Internet.
This world-wide network has gained a momentum, and there are people in power that are AFRAID of that momentum. With no REAL commercial core, with free speech and architecture giving itself power and stance... These people feel threatened that they will be disregarded. So they start fighting it in their world.
MPAA/RIAA lawsuits. DRM. Internet taxation. F*CK THAT.
How about open standards. Open SOURCE CODE. Open practice and ethics. These are all the backbone of the Internet, such as the Tier 1 Internet providers, Internet exchanges and other entities that share information freely. We *KNOW* how to govern ourselves. It's actually very inspiring, isn't it? No real central authority (except for standards and protocols, like the IEEE and DNS root servers)... These people who don't see how it works right now intend to change it so THEY are the ones calling the shots.
No thanks, I think we can do it ourselves.
He's right. We need to fight. Keep it in the hands of everyone, not a just a few corruptable, power hungry mother f*ckers who want to either make money from it or pat themselves on the back knowing that they are in control.
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You have enlightened me beyond normal means.
Certainly to 'abstract'. No kid under 15 would even know WTF they're talking about. It's like anti-propoganda, and it's not interesting.
Hate to say it, but they need to think more like....the MPAA in terms of entertaining and informing at the same time. It reminded me of a really bad 50's "instructional" video, where the narrator spoke to fast (and in monotone), and the animation followed no actual plot (and no likeable characters, just a bunch of random scenes).
Bah. Good job guys, but we need to be more creative than showing Tux on a "MythTV" DVR - like anyone is going to understand that anyway (especially those who spend a LOT of time watching movies).
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"...the company has employed black hat hackers...
By definition, if you employ hackers to test an operating system, they are NOT "black hat" hackers - they are, at best, "grey hat" hackers.
Definition from Wikipedia:
Usually a Black hat is a person who maintains knowledge of the vulnerabilities and exploits they find as secret for private advantage, not revealing them either to the general public or the manufacturer for correction.
I don't have a photobucket or flickr or del.ic.ious (or whatever) account either...but it makes me wonder how 'honest' these services are if they're being integrated into an OSS web browser... I've seen plenty of photobucket.com posted pics, what are the privacy concerns for these services? Should I trust them, or should I continue to use Firefox and my own web server, manually uploading stuff?
When our lives do not align, we comprimise - the comprimization (sp?) involves mutual sacrifices and understanding, so we both win. I know moving / drastic changes in lifestyle are hard to comprimize on, but if you are both true to wanting your family to thrive and be happy, then your seperate minds should be thinking alike anyway. The only thing that I can see holding either one of you back is fear of change.
Remember in Kindergarten when the teacher taught it's students to share openly with other students? This is no different - Microsoft is acting the child that as always kept his toys to himself but always wanted to play with everyone elses' as well. Now he is saying "Let's all play together".
Well, Microsoft, WE have ALWAYS played nice with everyone who shares with us as we do with them. It's your turn to open source the code you want to share with the world so you can use ours as well. Sharing is a two-way street with the GPL - there's no way around it.
You can't have your cake and eat ours too.
And is the court dissallowing this order for you to move? Is it impossible to get the court order?
CHOICE!!!
If you had kids and a wife/husband, the "YOU make your OWN life" paragraph would never have come out of your mouth (or fingers, as is the case here). The fact of the matter is, when you have a spouse and/or kids, guess what? You've now got other people's wants/needs to think about. Ideally, you find yourself putting those people's wants/needs ahead of your own.
Actually, I'm married to the best girl in the world (I'm 25).
I am not saying that parent poster didn't have other peoples' needs to think about, but there's a line to draw when you put others' before your own, as well as making good judgement for the good of the whole family.
RE: All your hypotheticals, in every one of them there is a choice to be made. If you don't WANT your kids to live in lower-income housing/areas, that's your CHOICE. The blurbs about getting mugged, finding your '83 on the side of the road dead are just fears that are factoring into your decisions (fears, that IMHO, are imposed by a society that likes it's people to live in fear, so little change takes place and the hierarchy of classes continues instead of forcing yourself to change and possibly better the lives of you and your family).
Unfortunately, nothing anyone could every say would convince you of just how ridiculous your "maybe you should relocate and find alternate means to travel" is...but once you move out of your bachelor pad and get a family of your own, you'll start to see things from a very different perspective.
You have no idea how often I hear this. As I said before, I'm married. I have no kids (yet) but when I do, I'm going to teach them to stand up for themselves and make their lives what THEY want to make them, and not be "forced" into a particular class, lifestyle or personality by their society. It seems as though you've already "given up" and chosen to complain then to make your life better.
Move to Europe. There's plenty of great transportation there. I live in Northern California - a place riddled with blocked freeways and 10-minute 3 mile drives. I absolutely hate it. But I know it's my choice to be here, I'm not doubting for a minute that I could hug my wife (and kids if we had any) and say "Sweetheart, we're moving."
Head of the household is a term rarely referring to the husband/father in a family anymore, because complaining/bitchy/needy wives (and subsequentally children in these cases) as well as television/media become the head of the household when the fathers don't take a stand and put their feet down on basic lifestyle decisions that affect the whole family. Don't like your kids sitting in front of the TV all day after school? Cut the cable. Tell them why, and provide them with alternate means of entertainment, otherwise commercialism is going to form their little heads into SUV wanting, greedy adults which everyone stereotypes today. Same goes for your wife! You're the MAN of the house, and however many people cringe to that statement need to realise that the MAN of the house isn't always an asshole, he's the one that provides insight, focus and direction to a family. And yes, this concept was invented before "Leave it to Beaver" was on TV.
Dual income households have become mandatory in most areas unless you're part of the relatively privileged few who can afford to have a spouse stay home and still maintain a roof over their heads and food on the table.
"Priviliged few"? Like people are 'chosen' to be priviliged.
Seriously. I don't have kids, so you won't listen to a word I say most likely, but I'll say it anyway:
YOU make your OWN life. Nobody TELLS you who to be or how to live. And if they do, you need to change that. You're in control of your life - not your wife/husband, not your kids. Get some guts and start making your own decisions. If you're living somewhere where it's necessary to fix your house and pay for your 12MPG SUV, then maybe you should relocate and find alternate means to travel.
Nobody is locking you into your lifestyle, you're just acting a scapegoat because it's easier to accept than to change.
This service is being put in place primarily to:
- BENIFIT CELL PHONE COMPANIES.
This service will be of no real benefit as:
- Children have brains as adults do
- Children do not like to be 'leashed' as adults do not
- Children are smarter than adults think and therefore will circumvent the system by any number of obvious means
The ultimate outcome of this service will be:
- Human tracking will be more accepted in society
- Human tracking will continue to be precise only in governmental/highly paid commercial instances
- Human tracking will lead to other various means to seemingly invade our privacy, take away more freedoms we enjoy today and further erode individuality and sense of personal privacy (which, IMHO, will lead to a really, really dull world where nobody truly benefits but those that are not tracked)
From the NASA website:
"Well basically what we've done is created a hybrid shuttle. Given a Toyota Prius electric motor, we started playing with it. We ended up attaching solar panels to the side of the shuttle, which provide energy to the motor once the shuttle leaves the atmosphere. This provides us with enough remaining government funding to actually launch the ship, with gas prices at THREE DOLLARS AND FIFTY F**KING CENTS, PEOPLE!!"
Shell and Exxon were not available for comment, as apparently the entire executive staff already had a Scrooge McDuck style 'vault swim' scheduled.
Someone want to tell me why this is a "full" story? I mean really....Pitfall? I could understand if it were something like...you know, Bible Blaster or something...but Pitfall?
You're speaking this to the slashdot crowd?
I've never seen a better example for the phrase "Preaching to the choir" than this! Seriously. Someone who reads Slashdot who doesn't know what a hard drive is or how important privacy / data security is.
Picket outside the Best Buy front enterance with this message and you might get somewhere!
Oh come on...it's better than monochrome! Look at the bright vibrant colors. With Monochrome you wouldn't even be able to tell who your character was vs. the tree!
Seriously, AOL shouldn't be #1... They just got in really good with the 90% of non-tech savy Internet users from the beginning, and gave them a nice little interface to the Internet, making it easier for them to move around.
Doesn't matter if it costs 2x as much as any other ISP, or that the interface is so kludgy that you need to upgrade your video card, or that they censor the Internet to conform to it's mass majority of users' tastes, or that the "You've got mail" sound that hasn't changed...(ever?) makes most people want to wretch all over their keyboards, or that their spyware/virus "protection" is a miserable failure and should be uninstalled, or that their "Here's your 20th CD-ROM this month" ad campaign is probably the worst landfill culprit since the pet rock, or.....
Yeah, I guess they deserve it. =p