Where are my mod points when I need them. The entitlement part is so true, and even more where you are an expat in certain parts of the world, you start understanding the concept o entitlement so much better.
The most unusual place I worked was in the coffee shops/pubs of a very dead, but lovely and touristic city, near their spa, summer time. I was working for a local cable ISP as a consultant, and often took my netbook, an internet usb card, and went to work outside to get some fresh hair. Ordered a coffee and a pint, and stayed there for a while. Luck me it was summer time, would have hated to be there in winter.
I was considering not answer, but then some idiot moded down my answers because he does not agree with it. What is propagandistic? For starters, it is a company in interesting in spreading FUD for their own benefit - take it with a pinch of salt on both hands if you may. Than it is the political fearing-mongering of the partner that is always licking the arse of USA. We are already very fed up with that shit - oh my chinese and middle-easterners are so bad, bad guys, they manufactured Windows and Cisco routers, and they have backdoors on it, and sold printers with damaged firmware to Iraq, and wrote stuxnet, and are always invading countries...oh wait... That is utter bullshit. Most cyber attacks come either from USA or Chinese domestic machines that have not properly secured their machines. Add to that a mentality of the Chinese if it works, dont fix it, and you have a lot of old XP machines laying around without any kind of maintenance and full of virus. Oddly enough, the UK also has the same mentality, however they are much smaller in numbers. Id worry more about Russian bots or Nigeria 419 scammers...
Yeah, totally relevant, almost like making a hard porn flick where the stars are using lightsabers and communicators and calling it sci-fi. It is a pity people are more educated nowadays, I guess saying chinese and middle-east people eat children does not fly anymore.
How that plays with off-shored companies? Here small, family owned, incorporated companies play that game all the time, specially in the construction and textiles sector, and often both the IRS and their suppliers do not see a dime.
For sure, and when you have very well known companies that are more than happy to "negotiate" with trolls for them to make more difficult to small players doing their business, you really dont have any ideia how much "the other party" can afford.
Had one at 15, summer time. By Xmas left BASIC and started coding in assembly. Knew it from the inside out, hardware and software. Wrote the first Windows emulator for it as my thesis.
No, they have not to be over the Internet. We have a private cloud here. Expensive as hell, hardware and licenses, however pretty reliable, we control it, the data in there is controlled by us, darn fast, and saves us lot of headaches.
As of yet again, MS is using their stronghold and products they buy, that used to work in every platform to leverage Windows. The features will come first to Skype in Windows. And lets say skype has had some real bugs in installing under linux 64 bits for quite a while.
Running Mavericks, and as far as I know I can still install the extensions I want in Safari. Oddly enough, I have still to see a conduit malware for Safari, whilst in the past I could swear I got it in Chrome in OS/X.
It is not that easy. For this variant to work, either an ISP operator has to be running an old/vulnerable DNS service, or the attacker has to poison the local network/DNS. The easiest way of all, is being in the same network as the victim, and even so, some newer infra-structure allows you to block intra-client talk, with pretty much invalidates this kind of protocol attacks. Nevertheless, this scheme works IF the victims have their host files in their Windows machines modified by some malware so much more easily. To finish this, I believe much more that accounts of stupid users that use the same combo email/password at all sites were compromised, then the use of more sophisticated attacks.
Dont give them ideias. This actually remembers me of a british series, where the poor live in a cubicle where you have to pay to disable ads, or if you are broke have to actually seen them all time, where you cant turn TV off, and the wealthy live in regular houses by our standards.
It is certainly not only an American problem. Often in Europe and parts of Africa the best Internet quality is cable, and either you have a professional tier and pay through your nose, or you got a residential package of TV+NET.
When your biggest provider, Comcast is owned by Microsoft, and all the Internet providers where born as TV content providers, and are in bed with the media cartel, and both are scared shitless people is giving up TV and turning to Internet, there is no incentive to make Internet cheaper, or debundle it from TV.
It is rather obvious Cisco and Microsoft have backdoors. This seems like a political show because coming to the media saying "We dont have any backdoors" would not be politically correct. Any foreign government that uses this equipment is just dumb at best.
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Where are my mod points when I need them. The entitlement part is so true, and even more where you are an expat in certain parts of the world, you start understanding the concept o entitlement so much better.
The most unusual place I worked was in the coffee shops/pubs of a very dead, but lovely and touristic city, near their spa, summer time. I was working for a local cable ISP as a consultant, and often took my netbook, an internet usb card, and went to work outside to get some fresh hair. Ordered a coffee and a pint, and stayed there for a while. Luck me it was summer time, would have hated to be there in winter.
the bad guys are from middle east, they are making viruses....
I was considering not answer, but then some idiot moded down my answers because he does not agree with it. What is propagandistic? For starters, it is a company in interesting in spreading FUD for their own benefit - take it with a pinch of salt on both hands if you may. Than it is the political fearing-mongering of the partner that is always licking the arse of USA. We are already very fed up with that shit - oh my chinese and middle-easterners are so bad, bad guys, they manufactured Windows and Cisco routers, and they have backdoors on it, and sold printers with damaged firmware to Iraq, and wrote stuxnet, and are always invading countries...oh wait... That is utter bullshit. Most cyber attacks come either from USA or Chinese domestic machines that have not properly secured their machines. Add to that a mentality of the Chinese if it works, dont fix it, and you have a lot of old XP machines laying around without any kind of maintenance and full of virus. Oddly enough, the UK also has the same mentality, however they are much smaller in numbers. Id worry more about Russian bots or Nigeria 419 scammers...
Yeah, totally relevant, almost like making a hard porn flick where the stars are using lightsabers and communicators and calling it sci-fi. It is a pity people are more educated nowadays, I guess saying chinese and middle-east people eat children does not fly anymore.
slashadvertisment and now political propaganda...give us a break.
How that plays with off-shored companies? Here small, family owned, incorporated companies play that game all the time, specially in the construction and textiles sector, and often both the IRS and their suppliers do not see a dime.
For sure, and when you have very well known companies that are more than happy to "negotiate" with trolls for them to make more difficult to small players doing their business, you really dont have any ideia how much "the other party" can afford.
Dang, you posted it first. Rather obvious, isnt it?
Had one at 15, summer time. By Xmas left BASIC and started coding in assembly. Knew it from the inside out, hardware and software. Wrote the first Windows emulator for it as my thesis.
Tell that to our customers ;)
No, they have not to be over the Internet. We have a private cloud here. Expensive as hell, hardware and licenses, however pretty reliable, we control it, the data in there is controlled by us, darn fast, and saves us lot of headaches.
As of yet again, MS is using their stronghold and products they buy, that used to work in every platform to leverage Windows. The features will come first to Skype in Windows. And lets say skype has had some real bugs in installing under linux 64 bits for quite a while.
Running Mavericks, and as far as I know I can still install the extensions I want in Safari. Oddly enough, I have still to see a conduit malware for Safari, whilst in the past I could swear I got it in Chrome in OS/X.
It is not that easy. For this variant to work, either an ISP operator has to be running an old/vulnerable DNS service, or the attacker has to poison the local network/DNS. The easiest way of all, is being in the same network as the victim, and even so, some newer infra-structure allows you to block intra-client talk, with pretty much invalidates this kind of protocol attacks. Nevertheless, this scheme works IF the victims have their host files in their Windows machines modified by some malware so much more easily. To finish this, I believe much more that accounts of stupid users that use the same combo email/password at all sites were compromised, then the use of more sophisticated attacks.
Dont give them ideias. This actually remembers me of a british series, where the poor live in a cubicle where you have to pay to disable ads, or if you are broke have to actually seen them all time, where you cant turn TV off, and the wealthy live in regular houses by our standards.
What about giving up porn sites and start using adblocker?
Time to ask for a free blanket...
It is certainly not only an American problem. Often in Europe and parts of Africa the best Internet quality is cable, and either you have a professional tier and pay through your nose, or you got a residential package of TV+NET.
When your biggest provider, Comcast is owned by Microsoft, and all the Internet providers where born as TV content providers, and are in bed with the media cartel, and both are scared shitless people is giving up TV and turning to Internet, there is no incentive to make Internet cheaper, or debundle it from TV.
It is stupid to use software developed by the enemy. Very unwise.
So please, write Windows computers and not just computers. Thank you.
It is rather obvious Cisco and Microsoft have backdoors. This seems like a political show because coming to the media saying "We dont have any backdoors" would not be politically correct. Any foreign government that uses this equipment is just dumb at best.
Quite interesting your insight and finding. One more argument for me to complete my migration to 64-bits. Many thanks!
This whole affair reeks. Besides a big break on the fiscal taxes, does this affair has any practical effects?