Most of the free apps I use contain adds. I have devices running stock carrier versions and various ROMs including cyanogenmod. One of the absolute worst is the weather channel app.
Oftentimes there are deceiving ads for pure shitware in that app. Ads that look like legitimate errors with messages such as "Critical Android Error" "Click to repair". This is a mainstream app, by a supposedly reputable company, and it is feeding me malware ads. Why there is not some sort of vetting service for ads across all devices I do not know. So many companies seem too willing to accept a few pennies for fucking their customers. I do not mind some unobtrusive and real ads, but feed me malware whose sole purpose is to fuck naive users over and I will hate you for life.
I deal daily with people who simply do not know how they got 5 toolbars and 3 browser hijackers installed on their devices. Each one slowly reducing their security, injecting ads into search results, until finally they click on something really bad like a cryptolocker or FBI virus installer.
I do not know if the real shame is that there are companies that willingly feed this market, and accept its money, or that our government would rather spend billions tracking phone calls then preventing its citizens from getting assraped by con artists.
File system and location matter not. If it is seen as a drive letter or sub folder in windows on the infected machine, and it has write/modify access, you are done.
Unfortunately, an external drive backup using your scheme is of little to no use against this threat. It will encrypt all attached drives, network, USB or otherwise, so long as the user has permissions. It will start with commonly needed file extensions first.
Unless your backup is not visible to the virus, you are toast. This is a situation where unattached, or off-site backups and cloud solutions win. A simple user with an always attached USB drive will still be toast.
No one can -fix- cryptolocker. It is pay and hope the key is delivered and works of have a recent backup. Otherwise you and all your attached storage are fucked.
Bitcoin comes with an implicit political agenda attached
Whose?
Libertarians love it because it pushes the same buttons as their gold fetish and it doesn't look like a "Fiat currency".
One, any currency is a fiat currency. People have to agree to use it, be it beads, dollars, bitcoins or polished turds. Just because you have a problem with libertarian views (I do on some), does not mean an insulting argument is valid or appropriate
Mining BtC has a carbon footprint from hell as they get more computationally expensive to generate, electricity consumption soars;
Printing and minintg currency has a big carbon/environmental footprint as well.
Bitcoin mining software is now being distributed as malware because using someone else's computer to mine BitCoins is easier than buying a farm of your own mining hardware;
It is always easier to steal someones wallet than work for it. There will always be those that try to do just that. Your point?
Bitcoin's utter lack of regulation permits really hideous markets to emerge, in commodities like assassination and drugs and child pornography;
This one really gets my goat. These markets (whether hideous or not), exist already, regardless of the currency. It doesn't matter if you by crack with blowjobs or acid with BTC, the market is there.
and finally Bitcoin is inherently damaging to the fabric of civil society because it is pretty much designed for tax evasion. "BitCoin looks like it was designed as a weapon intended to damage central banking and money issuing banks, with a Libertarian political agenda in mind—to damage states ability to collect tax and monitor their citizens financial transactions," concludes Stross.
The blockchain is public. Once a wallet is tied to an individual, all its transactions are public, be they income that is untaxed or 'hideous market' purchases. Even years down the road, if a wallet I used to buy ecstasy in 2012 is tied to me in 2042, that purchase is now and forever tied to me (as well as all other transactions done with that wallet).
NASA's biggest challenge is putting -people- in space. The reasons for the difficulty of the challenge have changed from technical to fiscal and political, but it still remains the biggest challenge.
While I agree in theory to refusing, in my state (and others, perhaps all), you have to sign consent to give police samples for the purpose of alcohol/drug testing prior to getting you license. Refusing such a search is grounds for revocation of your license and worse. It does not matter if it is a traffic stop or some sort of checkpoint (papers please), probable cause and 4th amendment rights are gone because you agreed when you signed your drivers licence.
Did you buy or pirate that Sherlock. If the DRM were intact you couldn't even use the title, therefore we are issuing a cease and desist letter as well as requesting that formal charges be filed.
Like email, browsing, and perhaps some photos and videos, get a tablet. I hate to add to the PC market shrinking (it is my main bread and butter), but a tab is typically simpler, and more than enough for many use cases. Additionally, you can root and do a nandroid backup on initial setup as a quick imaging routine in case of problems. Disclaimer, I wrote this on the commode with a nexus 7.
Another Valve employee doing lots of the SteamOS system-level work is John Vert, who up until last year was a Microsoft employee since 1991. There's also other former Microsoft employees on Valve's Linux team, like Mike Sartain."
I am no expert on CDMA/GSM protocols, but it would seem to me that they spoof an existing nearby tower, then rebroadcast to it. Modifying your PRL or watching for bogus tower IDs would probably help little.
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Open source XP and let the community patch it. And I am only half joking!
Since all my panels are 1080 or less, I will pass. I assume few people even have panels capable of 4k.
Perhaps not mobile, but namecheap accepts BTC.
WTF, are you reading this in Google+?
Oftentimes there are deceiving ads for pure shitware in that app. Ads that look like legitimate errors with messages such as "Critical Android Error" "Click to repair". This is a mainstream app, by a supposedly reputable company, and it is feeding me malware ads. Why there is not some sort of vetting service for ads across all devices I do not know. So many companies seem too willing to accept a few pennies for fucking their customers. I do not mind some unobtrusive and real ads, but feed me malware whose sole purpose is to fuck naive users over and I will hate you for life.
I deal daily with people who simply do not know how they got 5 toolbars and 3 browser hijackers installed on their devices. Each one slowly reducing their security, injecting ads into search results, until finally they click on something really bad like a cryptolocker or FBI virus installer.
I do not know if the real shame is that there are companies that willingly feed this market, and accept its money, or that our government would rather spend billions tracking phone calls then preventing its citizens from getting assraped by con artists.
I can be Troy if you want. Especially if it means we'll hook up! :P
File system and location matter not. If it is seen as a drive letter or sub folder in windows on the infected machine, and it has write/modify access, you are done.
...for burritos every night. Doesn't mean anyone gets them for me.
Oh my, are we upset that we missed the 'nerdcoin' boat?
Unless your backup is not visible to the virus, you are toast. This is a situation where unattached, or off-site backups and cloud solutions win. A simple user with an always attached USB drive will still be toast.
No one can -fix- cryptolocker. It is pay and hope the key is delivered and works of have a recent backup. Otherwise you and all your attached storage are fucked.
Here is the correct link: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cryptolocker-criminals-earn-30-million-100-days-1429607
Bitcoin comes with an implicit political agenda attached
Whose?
Libertarians love it because it pushes the same buttons as their gold fetish and it doesn't look like a "Fiat currency".
One, any currency is a fiat currency. People have to agree to use it, be it beads, dollars, bitcoins or polished turds. Just because you have a problem with libertarian views (I do on some), does not mean an insulting argument is valid or appropriate
Mining BtC has a carbon footprint from hell as they get more computationally expensive to generate, electricity consumption soars;
Printing and minintg currency has a big carbon/environmental footprint as well.
Bitcoin mining software is now being distributed as malware because using someone else's computer to mine BitCoins is easier than buying a farm of your own mining hardware;
It is always easier to steal someones wallet than work for it. There will always be those that try to do just that. Your point?
Bitcoin's utter lack of regulation permits really hideous markets to emerge, in commodities like assassination and drugs and child pornography;
This one really gets my goat. These markets (whether hideous or not), exist already, regardless of the currency. It doesn't matter if you by crack with blowjobs or acid with BTC, the market is there.
and finally Bitcoin is inherently damaging to the fabric of civil society because it is pretty much designed for tax evasion. "BitCoin looks like it was designed as a weapon intended to damage central banking and money issuing banks, with a Libertarian political agenda in mind—to damage states ability to collect tax and monitor their citizens financial transactions," concludes Stross.
The blockchain is public. Once a wallet is tied to an individual, all its transactions are public, be they income that is untaxed or 'hideous market' purchases. Even years down the road, if a wallet I used to buy ecstasy in 2012 is tied to me in 2042, that purchase is now and forever tied to me (as well as all other transactions done with that wallet).
I was doing electronic research and purchased a bistable multivibrator from Adam and Eve once. It was not what I expected.
NASA's biggest challenge is putting -people- in space. The reasons for the difficulty of the challenge have changed from technical to fiscal and political, but it still remains the biggest challenge.
While I agree in theory to refusing, in my state (and others, perhaps all), you have to sign consent to give police samples for the purpose of alcohol/drug testing prior to getting you license. Refusing such a search is grounds for revocation of your license and worse. It does not matter if it is a traffic stop or some sort of checkpoint (papers please), probable cause and 4th amendment rights are gone because you agreed when you signed your drivers licence.
How dare you doubt the sacrosanct religiosity of my assertion? If I -believe- it is better and bigger, it it! This is murica!
Did you buy or pirate that Sherlock. If the DRM were intact you couldn't even use the title, therefore we are issuing a cease and desist letter as well as requesting that formal charges be filed.
Letter, ftw you bloody heretic. There is more room for my sacred scribbling.
Which provides the largest and least lubricated sphincter dilating phallus? FTFY
I read
but she struggles with change
as I do not have the time to deal with the questions and problems related to changing her computing environment,
Not to be mean, but it is often true, and is in the case of family I help out. That is why I answered the way I did.
Like email, browsing, and perhaps some photos and videos, get a tablet. I hate to add to the PC market shrinking (it is my main bread and butter), but a tab is typically simpler, and more than enough for many use cases.
Additionally, you can root and do a nandroid backup on initial setup as a quick imaging routine in case of problems.
Disclaimer, I wrote this on the commode with a nexus 7.
...declare me to not be noble. Denethor be damned.
Oh, wait, argon, not Aragorn.
Another Valve employee doing lots of the SteamOS system-level work is John Vert, who up until last year was a Microsoft employee since 1991. There's also other former Microsoft employees on Valve's Linux team, like Mike Sartain."
Rats fleeing a sinking ship?
I am no expert on CDMA/GSM protocols, but it would seem to me that they spoof an existing nearby tower, then rebroadcast to it. Modifying your PRL or watching for bogus tower IDs would probably help little.