FTFA: It's when software developers naively use technology to try to solve our problems instead of addressing the underlying issues that people are actually facing.
This is nothing more than marketing hype. First step in marketing hype is to identify with your audience so they feel you're one of them.
Why does this matter? It has to do with critical mass and synergy, two vital value creation forces.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly.
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They get paid by anti-virus companies too! (its a joke laugh)
This happens more frequently than you think. Consider this: without a constant threat, these companies would have no business.
This user that somehow managed to Run Explorer, clicked Tools... Folder Options, clicked the View tab and unticked "Hide file extensions of known file types".
Hide file extensions for known types is default behaviour in Windows 2000 and XP (possibly others).
Actually, if you click refresh on a page from a link, it will resend the referrer as well. Most browsers do this. One more thing, you spelled HTTP_REFERRER correctly, which is wrong:) It's spelled HTTP_REFERER, only has one R. Reverse grammar nazi FTW?
All prosperous religions are non-violent by nature. The KKK is a christian organization. The inquisitions were done for religion. The holy wars (crusades) were done in the name religion.
It's not the fault of the religions, it's the fault of the extremists.
... or you could quit pampering your child and succumbing to their every wish. Teach your child to read and give them books. I wonder what effect this could have on a child.
That's a great idea, but if you don't link to it in the first place, the search engines won't know it's there (I accept the fact that users might do this for you or you might have done it long ago and can't reverse it). I would also suggest a trick on the spam spiders like this:
1. Set up your robots.txt to disallow random directory. 2. Put an index file in there that will add any ip that visits the page to your firewall blocklist.
What happens is that ALL good spiders obey the robots.txt and the bad ones use that file for harvesting more stuff. So, the bad spider will follow it and your script will block it at the firewall.
A wise man once told me that the right to free speech is not the freedom to say what you want. It is the freedom someone has to say things you don't want to hear.
After reading the article, I was left wondering. Why not use LEDs? They have a much better lumen/heat ratio than regular bulbs, from what I understand.
didn't it become a problem as soon as 802.11g hit the shelves?
B and G work together as it should (mostly). They're both on 2.4 Ghz. 802.11A is on 5.4 Mhz. G is backwards compatible with B, so either B or G will work on B or G. From what I've seen, if you have a heterogeneous B & G network, you will experience B speeds, whereas if you had a homogenous G network, you can expect the full 54. You probably meant 802.11A in your statement.
I'd rather my CPU not lock me into its integrate features when they might become obsolete.
Which is why you have expansion slots like PCI, AGP, and PCI Express (ISA, VLB). Your motherboard probably comes with integrated video, but you probably have upgraded it to an AGP card (or PCI Express). The same is true with the WiFi integration. They're not forcing you to use their WiFi (which has little/no linux drivers). You can always add an expansion card.
Do you think they can take out the internet permanently with clever VB viruses? Or DOS attacks?
They won't take the internet down permenantly, but they could find new holes (like the recent BGP) to exploit in critical tech hubs. It may be possible to shut down trunks of the net effectivly stopping communications in certain parts. Phone networks and the power grids could also cause lots of problems when shut down. Those are connected as well. If I were N. Korea and I was about to launch a massive attack, I would blind the U.S. first by crippling the phone networks like what happened in 1989(?) allegedly by MoD/LoD.
Do you think that those hackers can social engineer their way into getting US government/corporate passwords/manuals?
Maybe not social engineer, but people crack into sensitive government databases numerous times a day although they won't admit it.
There is no such thing as perfect security. All you can do to protect yourself is not make yourself low hanging fruit.
Being "smart" (i.e. being able to solve puzzles and grok math equations) is only a single, quite narrow aspect of "intelligence".
Intelligence measures two abilities: learning and reasoning. Being smart is the application of intelligence.
We all know the guy who's ultra-bright at science or math, but bloody useless in the "real world" or (gasp) interpersonal relationships.
People's motivations differ. That person who is ultra-bright may not see applying that logic as something to persue. The benefit of diversity is this: there will always be someone who can take that logic and apply it to something to make it useful to other people who don't care how it works.
What most people see as the goal of life is getting laid and having children (most of the time subconsciously) thus propogating the species. The basic law of nature (and man) is to survive by any means necessary. Most people make their attempt at immortality via offspring, some through presence (actors), others through published works/name recognition. There are also a number of people who create a fictitious being and place where they will live out eternity in bliss (religion).
Since it is illegal to test people's intelligence in the U.S. for a job, google is going to where the smart people are. I see nothing wrong with that. Reading a person on paper (that they wrote) is not a very accurate means for judging a person's intellect or skills. Testing their abilities just to get to the application is a smart thing to do.
None of this is about elitism. Some people do feel superior to others and are truly elitists, but it is generally the other people who feel inferior and have to tear the "elite" down by any means available.
None of this is an attack on you, so don't take it that way.
And let's be serious, how many employees really have access to valuable and confidential information?!
More than you would think apparently. Sysadmins, DBAs, developers... depending on your business model of course. At the very least, your organization would have sysadmins who would have full access to all the systems. Not one guy, but a group of sysadmins.
Even if MS gets all those hardware manufacturers on board with DRM, TCPA, etc, I am not concerned. There will always be that one company who makes a system which doesn't comply with MicroSofts TCPA. That one vender will be made into a very profitable company overnight.
Microsoft can flex its muscles all it wants. They've tried it for years. Like MSN blocking all but IE (failed), Sender-ID (failed), IIS not working with anything but IE (failed). MS Office is their only real stronghold, but that happened over 10 years ago (noting that wordpad was formerly known as MS Word 3?). I still run a windows 98 game for gaming. Mainly because it isn't as bloated. Windows 95/98 still run win32 binaries just like XP. There have been a few nice updates with 2000 (better SMB auth), but nothing worth upgrading for. What sheeple don't realize is that Microsoft can't break the binary compatibility of thier last OS version without cutting off tons of people. In order for TCPA and this USB lockout to work, there would have to be a MAJOR shift in PC hardware and most vendors won't cut off their customers.
Microsoft is just not big enough. By that I mean, there will always people out there who do not conform and succumb to marketing hype.
CapitalOne recently changed their homepage and I was actually too nervous to log in for a few days.
If you're too nervous to login, do some verification. I've got some frontends on one of my server that does dns, reverse dns, whois, netblock info, etc that let's me know that if I'm getting the right domain name resolutions on my local machines. There are many services like this, but this one is mine (http://www.scriptsharks.com/tools/host-info.php). SamSpade.org is another good one that has been around a while. Checking the what other nameservers resolve to compared against yours is a good way of verifying the machine you are connecting to is the actual machine the site is on.
If the root nameservers are compromised, it's another story. If the box the actual site is on is compromised, it's another story. If your ISP is compromised, it's another story.
Basically, all you can do is unplug your ethernet or take some chances. Welcome to the internet. Have a nice day. (this is in no way an attack on the parent)
Lots of viruses and worms modify the hosts file on Windows (yes there actually is one just like on Unix). They usually point domains/subdomains like symantec.com liveupdate.symantec.com, norton.com, etc to non routeable addresses or somewhere they control. The point of doing that is so when people click "update virus definitions" or whatever, they don't actually get the updates and continue to be suceptible to viruses/worms. You don't hear much about it because you probably don't read into too much detail about the virueses.
...as soon as it involves withdrawals from customer's accounts it moves over into fraud... which they can do something about (via usual legal means).
Not all countries have extradition treaties with your country. It is fraud, but people in other countries don't give a shit if a few random americans get screwed out of a couple thousand dollars. The person who got screwed for being a dumbass won't have any legal recourse.
That's some flawed logic. Odds are the admin already has the means to login via Remote Desktop (or some other means). That's like saying: I'm testing my car's bumper by driving 100mph directly into the wall of my mechanic. If I get through the wall, the mechanic can fix it.
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running a malicious program will only affect that user. The other users and the system itself will still be fine.
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int main() {
while (1) { fork(); }
return 0;
}
affects everyone on pretty much all systems.
FTFA:
It's when software developers naively use technology to try to solve our problems instead of addressing the underlying issues that people are actually facing.
This is nothing more than marketing hype. First step in marketing hype is to identify with your audience so they feel you're one of them.
Why does this matter? It has to do with critical mass and synergy, two vital value creation forces.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly.
They get paid by anti-virus companies too! (its a joke laugh)
This happens more frequently than you think. Consider this: without a constant threat, these companies would have no business.
This user that somehow managed to Run Explorer, clicked Tools ... Folder Options, clicked the View tab and unticked "Hide file extensions of known file types".
Hide file extensions for known types is default behaviour in Windows 2000 and XP (possibly others).
Total Lines of Code (No comments, no blank lines): 283,119,081
Total of All Lines: 420,355,464
Seems to me almost half the code in there was written in Whitespace.
Actually, if you click refresh on a page from a link, it will resend the referrer as well. Most browsers do this. One more thing, you spelled HTTP_REFERRER correctly, which is wrong :) It's spelled HTTP_REFERER, only has one R. Reverse grammar nazi FTW?
All prosperous religions are non-violent by nature. The KKK is a christian organization. The inquisitions were done for religion. The holy wars (crusades) were done in the name religion.
It's not the fault of the religions, it's the fault of the extremists.
Why go to a distant galaxy when we have 200 billion stars in our own ?
Because the best stories happen in a galaxy far, far away.
... or you could quit pampering your child and succumbing to their every wish. Teach your child to read and give them books. I wonder what effect this could have on a child.
That's a great idea, but if you don't link to it in the first place, the search engines won't know it's there (I accept the fact that users might do this for you or you might have done it long ago and can't reverse it). I would also suggest a trick on the spam spiders like this:
1. Set up your robots.txt to disallow random directory.
2. Put an index file in there that will add any ip that visits the page to your firewall blocklist.
What happens is that ALL good spiders obey the robots.txt and the bad ones use that file for harvesting more stuff. So, the bad spider will follow it and your script will block it at the firewall.
A wise man once told me that the right to free speech is not the freedom to say what you want. It is the freedom someone has to say things you don't want to hear.
howlinmonkey's reply is still quite valid.
But does netcraft confirm it?
After reading the article, I was left wondering. Why not use LEDs? They have a much better lumen/heat ratio than regular bulbs, from what I understand.
didn't it become a problem as soon as 802.11g hit the shelves?
B and G work together as it should (mostly). They're both on 2.4 Ghz. 802.11A is on 5.4 Mhz. G is backwards compatible with B, so either B or G will work on B or G. From what I've seen, if you have a heterogeneous B & G network, you will experience B speeds, whereas if you had a homogenous G network, you can expect the full 54. You probably meant 802.11A in your statement.
I'd rather my CPU not lock me into its integrate features when they might become obsolete.
Which is why you have expansion slots like PCI, AGP, and PCI Express (ISA, VLB). Your motherboard probably comes with integrated video, but you probably have upgraded it to an AGP card (or PCI Express). The same is true with the WiFi integration. They're not forcing you to use their WiFi (which has little/no linux drivers). You can always add an expansion card.
No you aren't missing anything, but whoever is paying $265 is certainly missing something.
Well, I wouldn't exactly say I've been *missing* it, Bob.
Your price comparison doesn't note the fact that the C3000 is a clamshell and has a VGA screen. Which of these other PDAs list have that?
Could well be you are right, but, as the saying goes "just because you are paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you." No?
I wasn't paranoid until they started coming after me.
By the way, someone you trust is one of us.
Do you think they can take out the internet permanently with clever VB viruses? Or DOS attacks?
They won't take the internet down permenantly, but they could find new holes (like the recent BGP) to exploit in critical tech hubs. It may be possible to shut down trunks of the net effectivly stopping communications in certain parts. Phone networks and the power grids could also cause lots of problems when shut down. Those are connected as well. If I were N. Korea and I was about to launch a massive attack, I would blind the U.S. first by crippling the phone networks like what happened in 1989(?) allegedly by MoD/LoD.
Do you think that those hackers can social engineer their way into getting US government/corporate passwords/manuals?
Maybe not social engineer, but people crack into sensitive government databases numerous times a day although they won't admit it.
There is no such thing as perfect security. All you can do to protect yourself is not make yourself low hanging fruit.
Being "smart" (i.e. being able to solve puzzles and grok math equations) is only a single, quite narrow aspect of "intelligence".
Intelligence measures two abilities: learning and reasoning. Being smart is the application of intelligence.
We all know the guy who's ultra-bright at science or math, but bloody useless in the "real world" or (gasp) interpersonal relationships.
People's motivations differ. That person who is ultra-bright may not see applying that logic as something to persue. The benefit of diversity is this: there will always be someone who can take that logic and apply it to something to make it useful to other people who don't care how it works.
What most people see as the goal of life is getting laid and having children (most of the time subconsciously) thus propogating the species. The basic law of nature (and man) is to survive by any means necessary. Most people make their attempt at immortality via offspring, some through presence (actors), others through published works/name recognition. There are also a number of people who create a fictitious being and place where they will live out eternity in bliss (religion).
Since it is illegal to test people's intelligence in the U.S. for a job, google is going to where the smart people are. I see nothing wrong with that. Reading a person on paper (that they wrote) is not a very accurate means for judging a person's intellect or skills. Testing their abilities just to get to the application is a smart thing to do.
None of this is about elitism. Some people do feel superior to others and are truly elitists, but it is generally the other people who feel inferior and have to tear the "elite" down by any means available.
None of this is an attack on you, so don't take it that way.
And let's be serious, how many employees really have access to valuable and confidential information?!
More than you would think apparently. Sysadmins, DBAs, developers... depending on your business model of course. At the very least, your organization would have sysadmins who would have full access to all the systems. Not one guy, but a group of sysadmins.
Even if MS gets all those hardware manufacturers on board with DRM, TCPA, etc, I am not concerned. There will always be that one company who makes a system which doesn't comply with MicroSofts TCPA. That one vender will be made into a very profitable company overnight.
Microsoft can flex its muscles all it wants. They've tried it for years. Like MSN blocking all but IE (failed), Sender-ID (failed), IIS not working with anything but IE (failed). MS Office is their only real stronghold, but that happened over 10 years ago (noting that wordpad was formerly known as MS Word 3?). I still run a windows 98 game for gaming. Mainly because it isn't as bloated. Windows 95/98 still run win32 binaries just like XP. There have been a few nice updates with 2000 (better SMB auth), but nothing worth upgrading for. What sheeple don't realize is that Microsoft can't break the binary compatibility of thier last OS version without cutting off tons of people. In order for TCPA and this USB lockout to work, there would have to be a MAJOR shift in PC hardware and most vendors won't cut off their customers.
Microsoft is just not big enough. By that I mean, there will always people out there who do not conform and succumb to marketing hype.
CapitalOne recently changed their homepage and I was actually too nervous to log in for a few days.
. SamSpade.org is another good one that has been around a while. Checking the what other nameservers resolve to compared against yours is a good way of verifying the machine you are connecting to is the actual machine the site is on.
If you're too nervous to login, do some verification. I've got some frontends on one of my server that does dns, reverse dns, whois, netblock info, etc that let's me know that if I'm getting the right domain name resolutions on my local machines. There are many services like this, but this one is mine (http://www.scriptsharks.com/tools/host-info.php)
If the root nameservers are compromised, it's another story.
If the box the actual site is on is compromised, it's another story.
If your ISP is compromised, it's another story.
Basically, all you can do is unplug your ethernet or take some chances. Welcome to the internet. Have a nice day. (this is in no way an attack on the parent)
Lots of viruses and worms modify the hosts file on Windows (yes there actually is one just like on Unix). They usually point domains/subdomains like symantec.com liveupdate.symantec.com, norton.com, etc to non routeable addresses or somewhere they control. The point of doing that is so when people click "update virus definitions" or whatever, they don't actually get the updates and continue to be suceptible to viruses/worms. You don't hear much about it because you probably don't read into too much detail about the virueses.
...as soon as it involves withdrawals from customer's accounts it moves over into fraud ... which they can do something about (via usual legal means).
Not all countries have extradition treaties with your country. It is fraud, but people in other countries don't give a shit if a few random americans get screwed out of a couple thousand dollars. The person who got screwed for being a dumbass won't have any legal recourse.
That's some flawed logic. Odds are the admin already has the means to login via Remote Desktop (or some other means). That's like saying: I'm testing my car's bumper by driving 100mph directly into the wall of my mechanic. If I get through the wall, the mechanic can fix it.