The irony level in this situation is simply astounding. Secondary attack can cause execution of said downloaded binaries? What about all that malicious content that Internet Exploiter happily executes for the user with nary a warning or confirmation?
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Who do i trust, an independent researcher or an M$ lackey?
I've known this for quite some time. Back when i regularly played Quake 3 i used to do benchmarks on linux and windows boxen. The benchmarks involved nothing more than a timedemo with the same settings. The linux version always came out faster by 5-10 FPS.
Seriously i hope this plan backfires in some massively horrible way, like if somebody uploaded a copyrighted tune as a ringtone and teh MAFIAA pounces on M$'s ass. Oh my bad. I forgot they were in bed with each other. Oh well.
I think the reason why we don't hear about viruses for the XBox is that it's a pretty locked-down system; functionality is limited to little more than inserting the game media and then installing and running it. I'm probably wrong, but people don't use their XBoxes to browse web sites, download and read email, run p2p applications, etc., all of which pose security risks. I would also assume that network connectivity is only restricted to the Xbox live service, but i realize that it probably isn't hard to write exploits for that service.
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Or Ricky Martin. *shudder*
Are you kidding me
Senseless haikus are the shit
I say burma shave
F-U-D that spells "microsoft study"! my laws!
Check out the GPGPU (General Purpose GPU) project:
http://www.gpgpu.org/
The irony level in this situation is simply astounding. Secondary attack can cause execution of said downloaded binaries? What about all that malicious content that Internet Exploiter happily executes for the user with nary a warning or confirmation?
Silly questions? You must be new here.
Has anybody gotten osx86 running on older hardware, like, say a Pentium 3-class machine?
somebody tag this haha!
GRANDSPA'S GUITARS!!
5) "???"
Who cares about bosons? I want bosoms!!!
i can haz cat scan?
What's so hard about typing "poorest neighborhood" instead? That phrase seriously threw me when i read it.
I sense a comparison between Apple tribe members and Nazis coming soon.
"Alright... we're going to cut a portion of the OOOH SHINY!"
*flatline*
Isn't Aqua just a UI theme?
Visual Studio?
*runs*
About the author, Ed Bott:
Ed Bott is a freelance technical journalist and book author. All work that Ed does is on a contractual basis.
Since 1994, Ed has written more than 25 books about Microsoft Windows and Office. Along with various co-authors, Ed is completely responsible for the content of the books he writes. As a key part of his contractual relationship with publishers, he gives them permission to print and distribute the content he writes and to pay him a royalty based on the actual sales of those books. Ed's books are currently distributed by Que Publishing (a division of Pearson Education) and by Microsoft Press.
Ed's personal website at edbott.com includes advertising. All display advertising is managed by Federated Media. Ed reserves the right to reject ads for any reason. In addition, Ed allows advertisers to purchase links in a sidebar through Text-Link-Ads. Advertisers receive no special treatment at his personal website, at ZDNet, or in books. Ed makes a small amount of money selling books (his own, primarily) through an affiliate account at Amazon.com.
On occasion, Ed accepts consulting assignments. In recent years, he has worked as an expert witness in cases where his experience and knowledge of Microsoft and Microsoft Windows have been useful. In each such case, his compensation is on an hourly basis, and he is hired as a witness, not an advocate.
Who do i trust, an independent researcher or an M$ lackey?
I've known this for quite some time. Back when i regularly played Quake 3 i used to do benchmarks on linux and windows boxen. The benchmarks involved nothing more than a timedemo with the same settings. The linux version always came out faster by 5-10 FPS.
I regret that i am of insufficient level to Wish you back to life.
they left out Super BOB! :-(
For the benefit of those who did not get the parent's post:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/10/2011257
And the answer is none. None more ironic.
Seriously i hope this plan backfires in some massively horrible way, like if somebody uploaded a copyrighted tune as a ringtone and teh MAFIAA pounces on M$'s ass. Oh my bad. I forgot they were in bed with each other. Oh well.
Slackware doesn't do that, that makes me right all along. ;-)
I think the reason why we don't hear about viruses for the XBox is that it's a pretty locked-down system; functionality is limited to little more than inserting the game media and then installing and running it. I'm probably wrong, but people don't use their XBoxes to browse web sites, download and read email, run p2p applications, etc., all of which pose security risks. I would also assume that network connectivity is only restricted to the Xbox live service, but i realize that it probably isn't hard to write exploits for that service.