the key to that article was the word "mastering". Anyone can learn assembly but it takes years of practice to master. Just because I can code in asm doesn't make me good at it. An investment that could be better spent elsewhere on other programming languages
and why shouldn't they patent it? They didn't spend all that money to give it out for free. I know what you're thinking, it is cool and it is free, just like mp3 and files etc
Rebellion? wtf. It's sad that every stupid thing youths do is blamed on rebellion. The only reason worm writers and script kiddies exist is because there are millions of computers hooked to the net with no protection at all just begging to be hacked.
or more to the point, if you leave your door open the thieves will come. We never learn from history. whatever we do it seems security is always an after thought. 9/11, worms, identity theft etc etc.
avoiding significant development costs..
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CAM recordings are horrible. I vowed never to watch one of those again after I saw return of the king as a cam recording. You just waste watching a good movie from such a crappy source. Better to wait for the dvd and enjoy it fully. Imho they really have nothing to worry about. the quality is crap.
I disagree. To effectively overtake a product with a commanding lead in the market you practically have to make a clone of it and sell it cheaper. Anything different is too different for many people and they won't switch.
Many times people just want something better not different. I want a better government not a different one and so on and so forth.
in addition to the above, does free code used in many businesses even bother to get patched. I bet half the time once it has been installed and working everyone forgets about i
the question here is whether these people are really "customers" or gator or not. Many of these people have no idea gator is installed or how gator is working. They assume that the website is the one creating the popups. Gator deceives these users into thinking the popups are by the site they visit which can create a considerable backlash or even devalue the attractiveness of the website. If gator labelled its popups or clearly indicated why the popups were coming up and who there were from it wouldn't be a problem.
Gator is decieving users and making LL Bean take the wrath of complaints from the popups
I'm really sick of spyware. everytime I clear the crap from my bros computer it magically appears after a couple of weeks (I wonder what porn site he visits, he always plays dumb). I'm even sicker of IE, it's nice to see some companies actually caring about this stuff. microsoft just doesn't give a shit anymore
I run a website with asp.net and I've had opera people complaining they get errors when they visit the page. For a while I had no idea what they were talking about, it looked just great on my end with opera but it turns out, if opera 6 doesn't identify itself as IE or Netscape, asp.net thinks it is a mobile device. with no mobile components installed it ended up with an error.
I shake my head when people surf the net without routers. It's like using a sitting on the lid of a public toilet without any paper between you and the seat. get a damn router
it has nothing to do with the source. Most of these are design "flaws", flaws in quotation because the makers of winzip were probably aware of this but made the decision to implement it that way for ease of use or compatability reasons. The actual AES encryption was done probably.
most of the flaws mentioned in the article will require the attacker to go to great lengths to break the encyption. Others include the often quoted but rarely practical middle man attacks. In otherwords it is not flawed to the point where your teenage kid can hack your zip files, but the NSA could do crack it if they really wanted to
huh? are you saying the words should have been blackened out at all? security through obscurity would be not declassifing the document in the first place!
I think the price of software makes little difference to many large companies, the ones that pay the big bucks anyways. For tax purposes we know companies are taxed on their gross income and not profits. As a company, when you buy software you can write 100% of it off and reduce your gross income. You also accumulate assets that can be sold or that increase the value of your company on paper. You never get any of those with free software, you pay more taxes and your capital never seems to increase. It's probably not relevant in the long run but that's my theory on why companies that can afford it buy software. They can just write it off. For smaller companies making money is more important than reducing taxes
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maybe you shouldn't be interviewing your future boss?
the key to that article was the word "mastering". Anyone can learn assembly but it takes years of practice to master. Just because I can code in asm doesn't make me good at it. An investment that could be better spent elsewhere on other programming languages
and why shouldn't they patent it? They didn't spend all that money to give it out for free. I know what you're thinking, it is cool and it is free, just like mp3 and files etc
Yet another story telling us what we all know and do, that we like porn. Must be a slow day
don't use IE, don't use outlook, don't run as root. Simple advice that will keep you relatively safe no matter the os. A router or nat helps too
Rebellion? wtf. It's sad that every stupid thing youths do is blamed on rebellion. The only reason worm writers and script kiddies exist is because there are millions of computers hooked to the net with no protection at all just begging to be hacked.
or more to the point, if you leave your door open the thieves will come. We never learn from history. whatever we do it seems security is always an after thought. 9/11, worms, identity theft etc etc.
at the expense of?
CAM recordings are horrible. I vowed never to watch one of those again after I saw return of the king as a cam recording. You just waste watching a good movie from such a crappy source. Better to wait for the dvd and enjoy it fully. Imho they really have nothing to worry about. the quality is crap.
I disagree. To effectively overtake a product with a commanding lead in the market you practically have to make a clone of it and sell it cheaper. Anything different is too different for many people and they won't switch.
Many times people just want something better not different. I want a better government not a different one and so on and so forth.
nobody is going to fork out 150$ by looking at that website
does this mean that ibm considers microsoft to be winning the battle for web based software?
in addition to the above, does free code used in many businesses even bother to get patched. I bet half the time once it has been installed and working everyone forgets about i
how is some piece of software going to improve your life if you're poor. It can improve your life if you're rich though
the question here is whether these people are really "customers" or gator or not. Many of these people have no idea gator is installed or how gator is working. They assume that the website is the one creating the popups. Gator deceives these users into thinking the popups are by the site they visit which can create a considerable backlash or even devalue the attractiveness of the website. If gator labelled its popups or clearly indicated why the popups were coming up and who there were from it wouldn't be a problem.
Gator is decieving users and making LL Bean take the wrath of complaints from the popups
I'm really sick of spyware. everytime I clear the crap from my bros computer it magically appears after a couple of weeks (I wonder what porn site he visits, he always plays dumb). I'm even sicker of IE, it's nice to see some companies actually caring about this stuff. microsoft just doesn't give a shit anymore
don't listen to closed music, there is no drm with open music
The only thing he is doing is helping to spread the worms and viruses. not to mention wasting his isps bandwidth for not good reason
I run a website with asp.net and I've had opera people complaining they get errors when they visit the page. For a while I had no idea what they were talking about, it looked just great on my end with opera but it turns out, if opera 6 doesn't identify itself as IE or Netscape, asp.net thinks it is a mobile device. with no mobile components installed it ended up with an error.
are we supposed to be commenting on the vague review?
I shake my head when people surf the net without routers. It's like using a sitting on the lid of a public toilet without any paper between you and the seat. get a damn router
as a business to get free software. not so nice for software developers
it has nothing to do with the source. Most of these are design "flaws", flaws in quotation because the makers of winzip were probably aware of this but made the decision to implement it that way for ease of use or compatability reasons. The actual AES encryption was done probably.
most of the flaws mentioned in the article will require the attacker to go to great lengths to break the encyption. Others include the often quoted but rarely practical middle man attacks. In otherwords it is not flawed to the point where your teenage kid can hack your zip files, but the NSA could do crack it if they really wanted to
huh? are you saying the words should have been blackened out at all? security through obscurity would be not declassifing the document in the first place!
I think the price of software makes little difference to many large companies, the ones that pay the big bucks anyways. For tax purposes we know companies are taxed on their gross income and not profits. As a company, when you buy software you can write 100% of it off and reduce your gross income. You also accumulate assets that can be sold or that increase the value of your company on paper. You never get any of those with free software, you pay more taxes and your capital never seems to increase. It's probably not relevant in the long run but that's my theory on why companies that can afford it buy software. They can just write it off. For smaller companies making money is more important than reducing taxes