The "password hacking attempt" at the bottom of the page had me concerned for a moment, but after seeing that it was just iterating common words found on my FB page with random l33tsp34k, I stopped worrying. I liked how they labeled one of my best friends (best man at my wedding) and my god daughter as stalking targets. I wasn't that impressed with the site.
Thank you for this information. I was looking for a way to see how much of Michigan was covered... and now I see that the entire state is affected. Guess it's time to spread the word:p
Maybe you should look closer at the part about it being a proof of concept bug created by the antivirus company that's reporting it? This makes at least the second time in recent time that this company has done this - go out of their way to come up with an exploit, and then dump a press release to warn everyone about it and brag about how they were the first to update their antivirus software to combat it.
Actually, this company's been sending up false flags on the Mac side since at least 2004 - see http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/crying_wolf - so I wouldn't trust them any farther than I could comfortably spit out a rat.
Wow. I was part of the team that installed these machines back in 2005. I'm shocked that they're still in service. They were dinosaurs years ago. Obsolete hardware, no way to run current software, like web browsers - yes, I said browsers. This is PowerPC hardware in those eMacs. Nobody writes plug-in or browsers to support that architecture any more. And if they're doing any sort of networked storage, they have to pull the PowerPC-based (and no longer supported) XServes as well... gonna be spendy.
Yes, I believe you missed the part where the disease he has causes the muscles in his body to stop working. It's a fairly safe bet the muscles that work his lungs or digestive system... or pretty much any other part of his body... will stop working before this heart fails. Someone with this disease is "lucky" to make it to twenty.
There are still a lot of people that use dialup - 30 million, by one study I found (heck, my parents were still dialing into AOL until this year), and it's still a recognized symbol of "going online". That sound won't be going away for quite a while.
"You can't expect everyone to have working technical knowledge in cryptographic systems and anonymity."
At this stage of the game, why would they have to have that knowledge? PGP was almost point-and-click easy ten years ago. With all the captchas and logins and general interface fluffery folks have to deal with these days online, how much more troublesome would it be to incorporate a key generator into the process of creating a new account somewhere?
Localized problem? Maybe now, long after the fact, but at the time...
"Four hundred times more radioactive material was released than had been by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The fallout was detected over all of Europe except for the Iberian Peninsula"
"The suck-and-salvage technique was developed in desperation across the Arabian Gulf following a spill of mammoth proportions -- 700 million gallons -- that has until now gone unreported, as Saudi Arabia is a closed society, and its oil company, Saudi Aramco, remains owned by the House of Saud. But in 1993 and into '94, with four leaking tankers and two gushing wells, the royal family had an environmental disaster nearly sixty-five times the size of Exxon Valdez on its hands..."
I came here to suggest LogMeIn. I can't get Back To My Mac to work from behind my router, but LogMeIn works like a charm.
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The people you DON'T follow make it interesting, too. Thanks to my mindless personal ramblings on Twitter that other people found, I have learned about, among other things:
o Where to buy a good digeridoo o Modern-day old-school radio plays being performed in Britain o The benefits of acupuncture over chiropracters
I have also won a $25 Amazon gift card thanks to Twitter, and gotten a free cell phone upgrade (from my provider's support contact) as well!
I used to have the same complaints about Facebook that others have about Twitter. Just like any other service on the Internet, Twitter is what you make of it.
For a month or so, I did this as a temp job. My job consisted of manually logging into a server every two hours and manually running a command to gather log files, and then another to send those files to a second server. I honestly have no idea what kind of system I was logging into, I just know that I was told they were unable to automate the process, so there needed to be a warm body to run the commands. For that, I got to sit in a windowless basement data closet with no access to TV, radio, or open Internet. At least it was a paycheck, and I got to catch up on some reading, writing, and sleep.
And we have nothing but trouble getting Exchange to work with Macs for calendaring. Works great with Winders machines, but that's only about half the staff in our department.
Fast DVD Copy to re-compile DVD and burn it to another DVD with my Mac. I only have a single-layer burner, so I get to walk through and de-select content like foreign language audio (like I can speak French!) to make some discs fit, but there's still things shipping these days on single-sided media that will fit with no re-compression.
This is how I protect the investment I make on the DVDs I buy for the kids - make a backup, give the kids the backup, hide the original. When the backup gets trashed, just re-copy the original.
My sentiments exactly. I have this username as an account name on another system, and I honestly get about one spam a week to that account. Maybe there's something to this z thing.
"Vice Admiral William P. Blandy addressed nervous people about the effects a nuclear bomb would have with the following quote:
The bomb will not start a chain reaction in the water, converting it all to gas and letting all 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!"
I had a user come up to me last month saying that his Mac's anti-virus software was giving him a message. It turns out that he received an infected Word doc from another user, and the Mac software picked it up.
That incident right there encouraged me to start installing anti-virus on our new Macs, if only to do our part to try and keep the Windows side that much cleaner:)
Since when is $40+ a month not as expensive as 50 cents or even a buck a call?
Not everyone NEEDS to be constantly accessible, and not everyone lives where a cell phone work. I don't have a cell phone, my wife doesn't have a cell phone, and our home sits in the middle of a dead zone - lake to the north, and crowded subdivisions all around in the other directions. No point in getting a cell phone if it can't be used where 95% of our calls originate.
Buy a ringtone from AT&T / Verizon / etc. for $2.50. You don't get to pick specifically what you want to use as the ringtone from that download, and in addition, you don't get to have the entire song that you want to make into that ringtone.
So, for $2, you get an entire song, and up to a 30 second ringtone custom configured so you can hear what you want to hear Or, for $2.50, you get a ringtone of a pre-determined length, and only that ringtone, no entire song
"It's only a small step from saying disconnect someone infected with the Storm Worm and saying diconnect someone infected with Linux."
What? It's nowhere near a small step. It's a huge step to go from "let's get infected, unsecured spam factories off the Internet" to "let's destroy peer to peer". Spam botnets have nothing in common with P2P networks. Spamming is illegal under Federal law, P2P is not.
And "infected with Linux"?!? You sound like a Microsoft shill. Nobody gets "infected" with Linux, they install it of their own free will - unlike Storm, or Sasser, or any of thousands of other viruses, trojans, and hacks that can get installed on your machine without your permission simply because you happen to run Windows.
"Protest the end of SL Casinos! http://slurl.com/secondlife/Clementina/188/122 Protest Encroachment of Real-Life US law into Second Life... 1 PM today... pplease IM all your friends about this demonstration at governor Linden's Mansion.."
My son is 10 years old. I kept a series of web pages up while my wife was she was pregnant with him that were pretty reminiscent of today's blogs - quick little entries about things that happened, complete with little indicator icons about what kind of entry it was, like the "mood" icons that they use now. Sadly, the Internet Archive never made copies of my pages; all I have is hard copies.
Precisely. Everyone's howling how this can't possibly replace Firefox or IE. Well, guess what - it's not supposed to do that. What it's supposed to do is get the iPhone's web interface out to all those developers that are clamoring for an iPhone dev kit, because His Steveness announced that the way you get apps on the iPhone now is to make them AJAX friendly web pages. And since there's only going to be one web browser on the iPhone, you better be able to test functionality on it, regardless of where you're designing the app.
Also, how everyone mewling about how buggy and unfinished it is... HELLO! It's a first release BETA, of course it's unfinished!
Some people... jeez, if Apple released a handheld cure for cancer, they'd complain that it only came in a brushed metal case.
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The "password hacking attempt" at the bottom of the page had me concerned for a moment, but after seeing that it was just iterating common words found on my FB page with random l33tsp34k, I stopped worrying. I liked how they labeled one of my best friends (best man at my wedding) and my god daughter as stalking targets. I wasn't that impressed with the site.
Thank you for this information. I was looking for a way to see how much of Michigan was covered... and now I see that the entire state is affected. Guess it's time to spread the word :p
Maybe you should look closer at the part about it being a proof of concept bug created by the antivirus company that's reporting it? This makes at least the second time in recent time that this company has done this - go out of their way to come up with an exploit, and then dump a press release to warn everyone about it and brag about how they were the first to update their antivirus software to combat it.
Actually, this company's been sending up false flags on the Mac side since at least 2004 - see http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/crying_wolf - so I wouldn't trust them any farther than I could comfortably spit out a rat.
Wow. I was part of the team that installed these machines back in 2005. I'm shocked that they're still in service. They were dinosaurs years ago. Obsolete hardware, no way to run current software, like web browsers - yes, I said browsers. This is PowerPC hardware in those eMacs. Nobody writes plug-in or browsers to support that architecture any more. And if they're doing any sort of networked storage, they have to pull the PowerPC-based (and no longer supported) XServes as well... gonna be spendy.
Yes, I believe you missed the part where the disease he has causes the muscles in his body to stop working. It's a fairly safe bet the muscles that work his lungs or digestive system... or pretty much any other part of his body... will stop working before this heart fails. Someone with this disease is "lucky" to make it to twenty.
There are still a lot of people that use dialup - 30 million, by one study I found (heck, my parents were still dialing into AOL until this year), and it's still a recognized symbol of "going online". That sound won't be going away for quite a while.
"You can't expect everyone to have working technical knowledge in cryptographic systems and anonymity."
At this stage of the game, why would they have to have that knowledge? PGP was almost point-and-click easy ten years ago. With all the captchas and logins and general interface fluffery folks have to deal with these days online, how much more troublesome would it be to incorporate a key generator into the process of creating a new account somewhere?
Localized problem? Maybe now, long after the fact, but at the time...
"Four hundred times more radioactive material was released than had been by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The fallout was detected over all of Europe except for the Iberian Peninsula"
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
And as for the worst disaster ever...
"The suck-and-salvage technique was developed in desperation across the Arabian Gulf following a spill of mammoth proportions -- 700 million gallons -- that has until now gone unreported, as Saudi Arabia is a closed society, and its oil company, Saudi Aramco, remains owned by the House of Saud. But in 1993 and into '94, with four leaking tankers and two gushing wells, the royal family had an environmental disaster nearly sixty-five times the size of Exxon Valdez on its hands..."
-- http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/gulf-oil-spill-supertankers-051310
Which doesn't mean this isn't the worst disaster the Western Hemisphere has seen, which is very likely will be by the time it's done.
I came here to suggest LogMeIn. I can't get Back To My Mac to work from behind my router, but LogMeIn works like a charm.
The people you DON'T follow make it interesting, too. Thanks to my mindless personal ramblings on Twitter that other people found, I have learned about, among other things:
o Where to buy a good digeridoo
o Modern-day old-school radio plays being performed in Britain
o The benefits of acupuncture over chiropracters
I have also won a $25 Amazon gift card thanks to Twitter, and gotten a free cell phone upgrade (from my provider's support contact) as well!
I used to have the same complaints about Facebook that others have about Twitter. Just like any other service on the Internet, Twitter is what you make of it.
For a month or so, I did this as a temp job. My job consisted of manually logging into a server every two hours and manually running a command to gather log files, and then another to send those files to a second server. I honestly have no idea what kind of system I was logging into, I just know that I was told they were unable to automate the process, so there needed to be a warm body to run the commands. For that, I got to sit in a windowless basement data closet with no access to TV, radio, or open Internet. At least it was a paycheck, and I got to catch up on some reading, writing, and sleep.
Worse casting? Rose McGowan will be Sonja - http://www.wildaboutmovies.com/movies/RedSonjaTrailer2009-RedSonjaMovie2009-RoseMcGowan.php
I can't WAIT to see the flood of suits in a friendly Kentucky court for and against all the domain squatters now, based on this ruling. What a mess.
And we have nothing but trouble getting Exchange to work with Macs for calendaring. Works great with Winders machines, but that's only about half the staff in our department.
"One" step process for me.
Fast DVD Copy to re-compile DVD and burn it to another DVD with my Mac. I only have a single-layer burner, so I get to walk through and de-select content like foreign language audio (like I can speak French!) to make some discs fit, but there's still things shipping these days on single-sided media that will fit with no re-compression.
This is how I protect the investment I make on the DVDs I buy for the kids - make a backup, give the kids the backup, hide the original. When the backup gets trashed, just re-copy the original.
My sentiments exactly. I have this username as an account name on another system, and I honestly get about one spam a week to that account. Maybe there's something to this z thing.
Long time since I posted here, but that idea is full of win. I may have to run with it.
"Vice Admiral William P. Blandy addressed nervous people about the effects a nuclear bomb would have with the following quote:
The bomb will not start a chain reaction in the water, converting it all to gas and letting all 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!"
http://atomicplayboy.net/colophon/ is where I was able to find the quote, btw
A Windows virus.
:)
I had a user come up to me last month saying that his Mac's anti-virus software was giving him a message. It turns out that he received an infected Word doc from another user, and the Mac software picked it up.
That incident right there encouraged me to start installing anti-virus on our new Macs, if only to do our part to try and keep the Windows side that much cleaner
"cell phones aren't that expensive"...
Since when is $40+ a month not as expensive as 50 cents or even a buck a call?
Not everyone NEEDS to be constantly accessible, and not everyone lives where a cell phone work. I don't have a cell phone, my wife doesn't have a cell phone, and our home sits in the middle of a dead zone - lake to the north, and crowded subdivisions all around in the other directions. No point in getting a cell phone if it can't be used where 95% of our calls originate.
From that point of view, it sucks.
But, try it from this point of view:
Buy a ringtone from AT&T / Verizon / etc. for $2.50. You don't get to pick specifically what you want to use as the ringtone from that download, and in addition, you don't get to have the entire song that you want to make into that ringtone.
So, for $2, you get an entire song, and up to a 30 second ringtone custom configured so you can hear what you want to hear
Or, for $2.50, you get a ringtone of a pre-determined length, and only that ringtone, no entire song
"It's only a small step from saying disconnect someone infected with the Storm Worm and saying diconnect someone infected with Linux."
What? It's nowhere near a small step. It's a huge step to go from "let's get infected, unsecured spam factories off the Internet" to "let's destroy peer to peer". Spam botnets have nothing in common with P2P networks. Spamming is illegal under Federal law, P2P is not.
And "infected with Linux"?!? You sound like a Microsoft shill. Nobody gets "infected" with Linux, they install it of their own free will - unlike Storm, or Sasser, or any of thousands of other viruses, trojans, and hacks that can get installed on your machine without your permission simply because you happen to run Windows.
Just got this from one of my SL groups:
"Protest the end of SL Casinos!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Clementina/188/122 Protest Encroachment of
Real-Life US law into Second Life... 1 PM today... pplease IM all your
friends about this demonstration at governor Linden's Mansion.."
My son is 10 years old. I kept a series of web pages up while my wife was she was pregnant with him that were pretty reminiscent of today's blogs - quick little entries about things that happened, complete with little indicator icons about what kind of entry it was, like the "mood" icons that they use now. Sadly, the Internet Archive never made copies of my pages; all I have is hard copies.
Precisely. Everyone's howling how this can't possibly replace Firefox or IE. Well, guess what - it's not supposed to do that. What it's supposed to do is get the iPhone's web interface out to all those developers that are clamoring for an iPhone dev kit, because His Steveness announced that the way you get apps on the iPhone now is to make them AJAX friendly web pages. And since there's only going to be one web browser on the iPhone, you better be able to test functionality on it, regardless of where you're designing the app.
Also, how everyone mewling about how buggy and unfinished it is... HELLO! It's a first release BETA, of course it's unfinished!
Some people... jeez, if Apple released a handheld cure for cancer, they'd complain that it only came in a brushed metal case.