This happened before...quite recently in the grand scheme of things. Lives were lost, lives were ruined, towns destroyed. There's a small vial of dust sitting on a shelf in my parents' house.
I'd be interested in hearing about the new technology since then as well as what they plan to do. Detailed info seems scarce on the geological site.
Perhaps I mis-RTFA or just don't understand MMS, but whenever my mobile is active it causes amplifier noise (talk or send/receive SMS). CDMA or GSM. Computer speakers, car stereo, whatever. Wouldn't a constant transmission be noticable?
Not just for ebay...but for everyone. Allow users to download the GPG key from inside their account and sign all the legit email.
I realize that this somewhat complicates things for Grandma and Aunt Agnes, but the general public is going to HAVE to learn to deal with it in an effective way. GPG is an effective way...and PGP Freeware for Windows/Outlook is pretty idiot proof.
2/25/05 hay wutz up?? nuttin much happenin here. so some assclown from da ala said us bloggers suck like he wantz us 2 read moby dick or smth. funk dat. i type fine you can understand this right?? lol!!!
oh yeh anne sez that patty made out with some random guy after soccer practiz!!!!!! lolololololol i cant wate to im her with that chatting aim bot thing and pretend im him. i gots sum report due tomarow on some westing game book but i just googled it and got some kidz one. hahaha.
You: "What do we have to do to persuade networks that dealing with their own spam problem, even at significant short term cost---"
Boss: "Thanks for your concern."
Try #2...the CTO...
You: "What do we have to do to persuade networks that dealing with their own spam problem, even at significant short term cost---"
Director: "Cost? My hands are tied...shareholders are disappointed and the board needs convincing anyway."
Try #3...the board...
You: "What do we have to do to persuade networks that dealing with their own spam problem, even at significant short term cost---"
Board: "What is this 'spam' nonsense you're talking about? You know, when I was your age we never had all these technology woes. I don't see how this will benefit anybody. Next on the agenda....."
I tested the programs on a Windows XP computer I borrowed from my wife's cousin. The 3-year-old PC, a Gateway running Windows XP Home Edition, was basically unusable.
Me too, except this was a customer.
Error messages appeared when I tried to open the Task Manager, a Windows utility that shows running programs and processes. It refused to load Windows Update, Microsoft's site for downloading security patches and other fixes.
Those plus the TCP stack was corrupt on this machine...wouldn't renew the DHCP lease. Had to manually rebuild that as well.
To load Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool, I had to get it using another machine, load it on a USB drive and install it manually. (It's usually available through Windows Update.)
Or you could have just put the executable on a CD with SP2's executable and MS Anti-Spyware's executable. But that would make sense for someone in the system recovery business and we can't have that!
The tool looks for a limited number of pests, such as "Sasser" and "MSBlaster," so it didn't find the worm, "Netsky.P," that had infected this PC.
The program was designed to search for a few insanely critical bugs. It COMPLIMENTS your set of tools...not replaces them.
But bizarre behaviors -- including multiple pop ups, unwanted toolbars and generally sluggish behavior -- continued.
That's because you're not in safe mode and you haven't stopped the programs from regenerating.
So I rebooted the PC in safe mode...
Now we're going in the right direction!
After rebooting again, the PC continued to show signs of infection, though it did seem less bogged down. Having spent two days disinfecting the system, I broke down and reformatted the hard drive. I then reinstalled Windows XP and all its patches.
Pfffft. Ineffective computer technician.
I don't have the option to just backup whatever I feel is important on a customer's PC...they're paying me to recover their system, not pick which files have to disappear forever and cause them to lose all their settings and programs.
Once again for clarity: INEFFECTIVE COMPUTER TECHNICIAN.
MS Anti-Spyware has done an EXCELLENT job on every single customer PC. The Malware tools from MS make a quick and easy check during the in-home visit for those REALLY nasty bugs.
Who is this guy, anyway? Oh wait...
MATTHEW FORDAHL, AP Technology Writer
Technology WRITER. Leave the tech stuff up to the tech people and have fun with your little Word.
I'm glad I can secure my wireless network...and also effectively stop my radio, mobile phone and 2-way radios too.
The best part is when the wife takes the cordless phone outside...second she shuts the door, DISCONNECTED! This would be a great Valentine's Day gift...secure networks, but no phone.
Oh wait...that's okay honey...we'll get VoIP (on a wired phone) and we have internet radio. What? Divorce? Don't touch that wire..it's impor NO CARRIER
If I need to find a specific location, I'll send a text message to 46645 (GOOGL). Then, I'll use the street signs or the navigation system in my car.
If I'm completely lost, the only way object recognition would work is if I'm in an area with a lot of recognizable features...like a city...in which case I'd just ask somebody. I doubt taking a picture of a bush when I'm lost in the middle of nowhere will be helpful (see: car navigation system).
You've obviously missed this nifty little tool -- it let's you run the W3C's Tidy in Firefox's view-page-source window. The only thing it's missing is a way to send the cleaned up HTML back to the browser window.
Actually, that's what I used. I don't see this Tidy in the source thing...all I see is a "local validation" which must send the file to htmlhelp.com and the standard W3C referer check.
Slashdot won't let you validate it...so I had to save a copy and validate it:
File: slashdot.html Encoding: utf-8 Doctype: HTML 3.2 Errors: 60
With a community full of nerds, you'd think SOMEONE would make an XHTML 1/CSS 2 version...that is, unless slashcode is such a mess that it's nearly impossible to make the changes.
Intriguing approach. Release fixes in the form of anti-spyware or anti-virus software and you look like a good guy fighting the evil hackers rather than a clumsy developer covering your mistakes.:)
Gates didn't get his wealth from programming...he got it from being a good businessman;)
Ok...if they know about the next flaw, and the next worm...shouldn't they fix the actual problem instead of "preemptive protection against the spyware?"
I don't think they know about the security flaws or possible worms - it's not a big conspiracy at MS. They're programmers like the rest of us, fighting fires as they come up.
While this is true to an extent, they provided the fuel for said fires. They also have the best programmers in the world working for them...and lots of them. Rest assured they have a stack of paper sitting there with nothing but bugs yet to be discovered by the public. Fixing them and rolling out a patch may be impractical, but at the very least they can offer some sort of interim damage control by this spyware program.
They wrote the operating system. They already know about the next security flaw....they already know about the next big worm. They just won't act upon it until someone on the outside discovers it and/or exploits it. This opens the door to preemptive protection against the spyware that exploits the security flaws.
Besides, the problem with the hijack stuff is that it's increasingly complicated to figure it out inside of MS's nonsense. Who better to offer protection than the people who invented the complexity?
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This happened before...quite recently in the grand scheme of things. Lives were lost, lives were ruined, towns destroyed. There's a small vial of dust sitting on a shelf in my parents' house.
I'd be interested in hearing about the new technology since then as well as what they plan to do. Detailed info seems scarce on the geological site.
Perhaps I mis-RTFA or just don't understand MMS, but whenever my mobile is active it causes amplifier noise (talk or send/receive SMS). CDMA or GSM. Computer speakers, car stereo, whatever. Wouldn't a constant transmission be noticable?
...and you will. I will. The customers will. Corporations pass these surprises expenses directly to the consumer.
Not just for ebay...but for everyone. Allow users to download the GPG key from inside their account and sign all the legit email.
I realize that this somewhat complicates things for Grandma and Aunt Agnes, but the general public is going to HAVE to learn to deal with it in an effective way. GPG is an effective way...and PGP Freeware for Windows/Outlook is pretty idiot proof.
2/25/05
hay wutz up?? nuttin much happenin here. so some assclown from da ala said us bloggers suck like he wantz us 2 read moby dick or smth. funk dat. i type fine you can understand this right?? lol!!!
oh yeh anne sez that patty made out with some random guy after soccer practiz!!!!!! lolololololol i cant wate to im her with that chatting aim bot thing and pretend im him. i gots sum report due tomarow on some westing game book but i just googled it and got some kidz one. hahaha.
peace xoxo
With all the reports of GPS being used to restrict the rights of innocent people, is this any better?
This is about CRIMINALS...people proven GUILTY beyond a reasonable doubt. You lose your rights when you're convicted.
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Ha! Every single person whose computer I've serviced that runs Norton is running a copy of 2002 with a virus dat from 2001.
:)
But once again, I'd like to thank the virus writers and the goof up from Norton. You drive my business
The colors look stupid. The world is used to QWERTY. You'll keep pressing the caps/numlock everytime you go to type.
This is a dumb concept, a dumb implementation and a dumb product. Someone must have been bribed to allow this into production.
You: "What do we have to do to persuade networks that dealing with their own spam problem, even at significant short term cost---"
Boss: "Thanks for your concern."
Try #2...the CTO...
You: "What do we have to do to persuade networks that dealing with their own spam problem, even at significant short term cost---"
Director: "Cost? My hands are tied...shareholders are disappointed and the board needs convincing anyway."
Try #3...the board...
You: "What do we have to do to persuade networks that dealing with their own spam problem, even at significant short term cost---"
Board: "What is this 'spam' nonsense you're talking about? You know, when I was your age we never had all these technology woes. I don't see how this will benefit anybody. Next on the agenda....."
I hear that a lot, too, usually from naked women.
;)
(complements)
Teeheehee. That's why I fix the computers and why Matthew Fordahl, AP Technology Writer, does the editing
OK, what happens when they're a Pakistani tribal chief's brat, who runs a series of StreamTorrent nodes around the Net?
;)
We "liberate" their country through force
What happens when someone hacks their XM receiver (or ham radio) to extract the raw aacPlus data, then streams from a Shoutcast server?
Then XM sues them and they go to jail for violating the DMCA.
Next question?
The author is ineffective at system recovery.
I tested the programs on a Windows XP computer I borrowed from my wife's cousin. The 3-year-old PC, a Gateway running Windows XP Home Edition, was basically unusable.
Me too, except this was a customer.
Error messages appeared when I tried to open the Task Manager, a Windows utility that shows running programs and processes. It refused to load Windows Update, Microsoft's site for downloading security patches and other fixes.
Those plus the TCP stack was corrupt on this machine...wouldn't renew the DHCP lease. Had to manually rebuild that as well.
To load Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool, I had to get it using another machine, load it on a USB drive and install it manually. (It's usually available through Windows Update.)
Or you could have just put the executable on a CD with SP2's executable and MS Anti-Spyware's executable. But that would make sense for someone in the system recovery business and we can't have that!
The tool looks for a limited number of pests, such as "Sasser" and "MSBlaster," so it didn't find the worm, "Netsky.P," that had infected this PC.
The program was designed to search for a few insanely critical bugs. It COMPLIMENTS your set of tools...not replaces them.
But bizarre behaviors -- including multiple pop ups, unwanted toolbars and generally sluggish behavior -- continued.
That's because you're not in safe mode and you haven't stopped the programs from regenerating.
So I rebooted the PC in safe mode...
Now we're going in the right direction!
After rebooting again, the PC continued to show signs of infection, though it did seem less bogged down. Having spent two days disinfecting the system, I broke down and reformatted the hard drive. I then reinstalled Windows XP and all its patches.
Pfffft. Ineffective computer technician.
I don't have the option to just backup whatever I feel is important on a customer's PC...they're paying me to recover their system, not pick which files have to disappear forever and cause them to lose all their settings and programs.
Once again for clarity: INEFFECTIVE COMPUTER TECHNICIAN.
MS Anti-Spyware has done an EXCELLENT job on every single customer PC. The Malware tools from MS make a quick and easy check during the in-home visit for those REALLY nasty bugs.
Who is this guy, anyway? Oh wait...
MATTHEW FORDAHL, AP Technology Writer
Technology WRITER. Leave the tech stuff up to the tech people and have fun with your little Word.
I'm glad I can secure my wireless network...and also effectively stop my radio, mobile phone and 2-way radios too.
The best part is when the wife takes the cordless phone outside...second she shuts the door, DISCONNECTED! This would be a great Valentine's Day gift...secure networks, but no phone.
Oh wait...that's okay honey...we'll get VoIP (on a wired phone) and we have internet radio. What? Divorce? Don't touch that wire..it's impor
NO CARRIER
If I need to find a specific location, I'll send a text message to 46645 (GOOGL). Then, I'll use the street signs or the navigation system in my car.
If I'm completely lost, the only way object recognition would work is if I'm in an area with a lot of recognizable features...like a city...in which case I'd just ask somebody. I doubt taking a picture of a bush when I'm lost in the middle of nowhere will be helpful (see: car navigation system).
You've obviously missed this nifty little tool -- it let's you run the W3C's Tidy in Firefox's view-page-source window. The only thing it's missing is a way to send the cleaned up HTML back to the browser window.
Actually, that's what I used. I don't see this Tidy in the source thing...all I see is a "local validation" which must send the file to htmlhelp.com and the standard W3C referer check.
Wow...a Faraday Cage...what a novel idea...
Then radios, mobile phones, etc will be useless.....but who needs that with internet radio and VoIP, right?
Their almighty network just got slashdotted.
(insert rolling eyes smiley here)
Intriguing approach. Release fixes in the form of anti-spyware or anti-virus software and you look like a good guy fighting the evil hackers rather than a clumsy developer covering your mistakes. :)
;)
Gates didn't get his wealth from programming...he got it from being a good businessman
Ok...if they know about the next flaw, and the next worm...shouldn't they fix the actual problem instead of "preemptive protection against the spyware?"
Time, money, reputation. Not going to happen.
I don't think they know about the security flaws or possible worms - it's not a big conspiracy at MS. They're programmers like the rest of us, fighting fires as they come up.
While this is true to an extent, they provided the fuel for said fires. They also have the best programmers in the world working for them...and lots of them. Rest assured they have a stack of paper sitting there with nothing but bugs yet to be discovered by the public. Fixing them and rolling out a patch may be impractical, but at the very least they can offer some sort of interim damage control by this spyware program.
They wrote the operating system. They already know about the next security flaw....they already know about the next big worm. They just won't act upon it until someone on the outside discovers it and/or exploits it. This opens the door to preemptive protection against the spyware that exploits the security flaws.
Besides, the problem with the hijack stuff is that it's increasingly complicated to figure it out inside of MS's nonsense. Who better to offer protection than the people who invented the complexity?
Someone call Ken Jennings and have him review the changes being made.