'The irony appears to be that ChoicePoint has not done its own due diligence in verifying the identities of those 'businesses' that apply to be customers,' said Beth Givens
ChoicePoint: "Who goes there?"
Voice: "Thurston Howell III"
ChoicePoint: "A likely story!"
Voice: "Sherlock Holmes"
ChoicePoint: "We weren't born yesterday!"
Voice: "Landshark"
ChoicePoint: "That's better, here's 35,000 files, let us know if you need anymore."
Microsoft researchers have developed a tool, named "Strider Ghostbuster" that can detect rootkits by comparing clean and suspect versions of Windows and looking for differences.
Sounds almost malaprop. "It works, I threatened to rip a copy of Ghostbusters II onto my HD and I heard a tiny scream! My spyware aragorn!"
However the paper admits that the only way to be sure that you have killed a kernel rootkit is to completely erase an infected hard drive and reinstall the operating system from scratch.
That sounds rather drastic. How about drilling a hole through it, smashing it with a sledgehammer and throwing it into the Tiber while you're at it? Microsoft seems to be making a stronger case all the time for not exposing a Windows PC to the internet. Maybe it is time to look at a Mac.
That's not their only problem with the name:
What were they thinking when they named a flight sim "Icarus", whose piloting career consisted of flying too close to the sun, melting his wax wings, and falling into the sea? Or is this a subtle reference to the quality of the M$ product that their sim rides on?
Sit too long, too close to those CRT's under the table and you won't need to worry about a vasectomy.
Named the Sim Icarus Flight Deck, it accurately recreates the primary flight accessory controls of the Boeing 777, and interfaces directly with Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.
They'll probably get sued over the name. Hopefully it'll find a home on Source Forge =)
With all the bribes Microsoft gives to politicians, it's no wonder why he is the former White House cybersecurity and counterterrorism adviser
Microsoft's bribes had nothing to do with that. He was competent, professional and honest. He didn't realize the crap Wolfowitz was pushing into the president's head until it was too late. Sadly, Rice sat there and lied to the Senate and still has been confirmed as the SoS.
As for Microsoft's bribing, they had a commendable record of trying to stay the heck out of politics for years, until it became evident that without greasing certain palms that Washington DC would turn on them. Now they make sure enough lucre is spread around Washington and they have many wagging tongues at their disposal and many ears to listen.
I wonder if anyone will finally start listening to him?"
I believe after his book that many people in Washington stopped listening to him.
"the war is really hard, uh, you see and we, uh, we're trying to make them all free and... Karl, what's the buzzing noise?"
"Ignore it Mr. President, that's just a reporter refering to something Richard Clarke said."
"Who?"
A friend was lamenting how overloaded and lagged the local free WiFi was. Lag always put me in mind of a constipated network.
Seems a bakery chain would have the fibre thing covered to keep your traffic moving smoothly, inside and out.
The Florida Appeals Court, Fifth District said that Beverly Ann O'Brien "illegally obtained" records of husband James' online conversations with another woman as the two played Yahoo Dominoes together.
The woman, tech-savvy enough to install spyware and obtain the results, should have no problem finding a new husband on Slashdot, where doubtlessly her activities have gained her a certain cred and mystique and a following.
in today's news Beverly Ann O'Brien sought a mass restraining order against a poster on slashdot.org who has been stalking her and sending poems, such as 'r05e r r3d, v1o13t r b1u3, a11 my ba53 r b310ng t0 y0u'
These new chips are obviously not aimed at the Canadian market, or any market that has severe winters. We use our computers to heat buildings, fry eggs and cook bacon.
And when there's no electricity, we burn them for heat.
Oh... I'm sure you can find a way to overclock them, and carry a car battery around for power, that should keep you nice and warm and fit in the GWN, eh!
I'd patent Paper-Shuffling, foot-dragging and obfuscation, but I see there's Prior Art.
The players:
European Parliament's Conference of Presidents
the Commission
the Parliament
The new Commission
the Council
Ok, I'm lost. Though I think I can see why nothing's happening.
It reminds me of a The Committee Game someone wrote on our PDP11 about 25 years ago. (The committee forms to form a plan of action
to deal with the nefarious Kally Spaeth, but first they head up to McDonalds for refreshments in the arcane Dodge Dart, and generally it's a lot
of running around without actually doing anything about the nefarious Kally Spaeth. I think it was in parody.)
Did you notice that this was a study aimed at IT administrators, not home users?
I dunno if that qualifies it as scientific or not, but I've found trying to run servers and scripts on Windows to be a great joy after installing their anti-spyware, which interefers with my scripts. It's so secure even *I* can't get very far.
This isn't gloating, it's war. We can gloat when the litigious bastards are out of business completely.
I prefer them to stay in business but completely disengage from their anti-Linux/anti-Open Source antics. Darl and his goons should leave and people with some damn sense should go in and revive the company and work with Linux and Open Source communities.
Slashdot is read by zillions of people who can not only sell their SCO, but also advise others to do so.
Are there actually any die-hard/. readers holding the stock? I think not, except possibly speculators who put $1000 in and are hoping for a lottery payout, but can afford to write off the loss if SCO dies. As far as advising people who hold SCO stock, if you hold stock it's in your best interests to follow it rather than rely on/.ers to call you up.
"d00d, dr0p ur sc0 st0ck!"
Slashdot is also read by all kinds of mainstream journalists who might not otherwise notice what SCO is up to. One could argue it's been a damned effective campaign so far. Were it not for/. clearing up the FUD, their stock would probably still be flying high on rampant speculation.
Hm. Slashdot has some good information, but a savvy reader looks to it as a starting point, not the endpoint of seeking information.
Well, TFA is a Reuters article pointing out that the SEC is considering de-listing a publically traded company because they are in arrears wrt the paper-work they are required to have on file.
So?
This publically traded company is involved in lawsuits that affect several companies and technologies.
As I already noted and I think pretty much every/. reader knows by now.
It's not as if it's a link to some guys blog -- clearly Reuters thinks it's worth mentioning.
There's a lot of stories on Reuters, damn few of which, even with artful references and such fail to make it as a/. post. I view the post as wishful thinking that this means SCO is dying. They may well be, but there's no guarantee the whole set of suits will go with the failure. Debt holders may evaluate the merits of each and continue on any they think are worthy.
I only know this because a company I worked for failed and existing suits kept right on going for the simple fact that any payout was revenue to debt holders who were likely to get zilch nada.
At present it has tanked > 7% which is at the $4.00 mark. Given the severity of the news, I would have expected it to take a dump a lot further than that - 7% is severe but stocks have lost more than that for relatively minor or unfathomable reasons before now.
-7% is hardly a harbinger of doom. With all the program trading these days it's not unusual at all to see 10% fluctuations in companies which are doing quite well, simply due to a sell-off when the price hit someone's mark.
SCO Stock is sitting at $4.30 at opening today. It'll be interesing to see where it goes from here."
While I'm no fan of SCO, particularly after their get-rich-quick plan to sue IBM and license code-which-may-or-may-not-be in Linux,
this whole story seems little more than gloating and hardly worthy of a/. post. Is the news that slow today?
Slashdot Mirror
ChoicePoint: "Who goes there?"
Voice: "Thurston Howell III"
ChoicePoint: "A likely story!"
Voice: "Sherlock Holmes"
ChoicePoint: "We weren't born yesterday!"
Voice: "Landshark"
ChoicePoint: "That's better, here's 35,000 files, let us know if you need anymore."
Either that or their eyes glaze over and you sneak a quick peck before they slap you silly.
"ah, l'amour"
Not likely, as you and I may have XP Developer Edition, but where are you in your patches? Hmm?
Seems the best way to handle this is to run all browser processes at a very low security level.
Funny how many people seem to take this lightly. The way I see it:
Reinstall Windows
Reinstall all Software, include some pesky registrations
Update all drivers to where you were before hand
Put back all your customizations, default settings, etc.
Yeah, not impossible, but makes a boot to the head sound appealing.
A Linux kernal build on that erased drive...
Sounds almost malaprop. "It works, I threatened to rip a copy of Ghostbusters II onto my HD and I heard a tiny scream! My spyware aragorn!"
However the paper admits that the only way to be sure that you have killed a kernel rootkit is to completely erase an infected hard drive and reinstall the operating system from scratch.
That sounds rather drastic. How about drilling a hole through it, smashing it with a sledgehammer and throwing it into the Tiber while you're at it? Microsoft seems to be making a stronger case all the time for not exposing a Windows PC to the internet. Maybe it is time to look at a Mac.
Microsoft's XBox Firewire
Kim Jong Il is taking good care of it. He says so regularly!
Sit too long, too close to those CRT's under the table and you won't need to worry about a vasectomy.
Seminoma maybe...
They'll probably get sued over the name. Hopefully it'll find a home on Source Forge =)
In other news...XBox Firewire?
And George Bush Sr. and Ronald Reagan, remember?
I think QA is on the same door that bears the sign:
In Soviet Russia, Microsoft secures YOU!
Microsoft's bribes had nothing to do with that. He was competent, professional and honest. He didn't realize the crap Wolfowitz was pushing into the president's head until it was too late. Sadly, Rice sat there and lied to the Senate and still has been confirmed as the SoS.
As for Microsoft's bribing, they had a commendable record of trying to stay the heck out of politics for years, until it became evident that without greasing certain palms that Washington DC would turn on them. Now they make sure enough lucre is spread around Washington and they have many wagging tongues at their disposal and many ears to listen.
I believe after his book that many people in Washington stopped listening to him.
"the war is really hard, uh, you see and we, uh, we're trying to make them all free and ... Karl, what's the buzzing noise?"
"Ignore it Mr. President, that's just a reporter refering to something Richard Clarke said."
"Who?"
"uuuugghhh need more bran"
i originally penned it back when r0b proposed to kat4l33n. i see someone has borrowed it to sell on shirts.
The woman, tech-savvy enough to install spyware and obtain the results, should have no problem finding a new husband on Slashdot, where doubtlessly her activities have gained her a certain cred and mystique and a following.
in today's news Beverly Ann O'Brien sought a mass restraining order against a poster on slashdot.org who has been stalking her and sending poems, such as 'r05e r r3d, v1o13t r b1u3, a11 my ba53 r b310ng t0 y0u'
Oh... I'm sure you can find a way to overclock them, and carry a car battery around for power, that should keep you nice and warm and fit in the GWN, eh!
upgrade from your SGI workstation to a tablet today!
The players:
European Parliament's Conference of Presidents
the Commission
the Parliament
The new Commission
the Council
Ok, I'm lost. Though I think I can see why nothing's happening.
It reminds me of a The Committee Game someone wrote on our PDP11 about 25 years ago. (The committee forms to form a plan of action to deal with the nefarious Kally Spaeth, but first they head up to McDonalds for refreshments in the arcane Dodge Dart, and generally it's a lot of running around without actually doing anything about the nefarious Kally Spaeth. I think it was in parody.)
I dunno if that qualifies it as scientific or not, but I've found trying to run servers and scripts on Windows to be a great joy after installing their anti-spyware, which interefers with my scripts. It's so secure even *I* can't get very far.
I prefer them to stay in business but completely disengage from their anti-Linux/anti-Open Source antics. Darl and his goons should leave and people with some damn sense should go in and revive the company and work with Linux and Open Source communities.
Slashdot is read by zillions of people who can not only sell their SCO, but also advise others to do so.
Are there actually any die-hard /. readers holding the stock? I think not, except possibly speculators who put $1000 in and are hoping for a lottery payout, but can afford to write off the loss if SCO dies. As far as advising people who hold SCO stock, if you hold stock it's in your best interests to follow it rather than rely on /.ers to call you up.
"d00d, dr0p ur sc0 st0ck!"
Slashdot is also read by all kinds of mainstream journalists who might not otherwise notice what SCO is up to. One could argue it's been a damned effective campaign so far. Were it not for /. clearing up the FUD, their stock would probably still be flying high on rampant speculation.
Hm. Slashdot has some good information, but a savvy reader looks to it as a starting point, not the endpoint of seeking information.
So?
This publically traded company is involved in lawsuits that affect several companies and technologies.
As I already noted and I think pretty much every /. reader knows by now.
It's not as if it's a link to some guys blog -- clearly Reuters thinks it's worth mentioning. There's a lot of stories on Reuters, damn few of which, even with artful references and such fail to make it as a /. post. I view the post as wishful thinking that this means SCO is dying. They may well be, but there's no guarantee the whole set of suits will go with the failure. Debt holders may evaluate the merits of each and continue on any they think are worthy.
I only know this because a company I worked for failed and existing suits kept right on going for the simple fact that any payout was revenue to debt holders who were likely to get zilch nada.
-7% is hardly a harbinger of doom. With all the program trading these days it's not unusual at all to see 10% fluctuations in companies which are doing quite well, simply due to a sell-off when the price hit someone's mark.
While I'm no fan of SCO, particularly after their get-rich-quick plan to sue IBM and license code-which-may-or-may-not-be in Linux, this whole story seems little more than gloating and hardly worthy of a /. post. Is the news that slow today?