Security on opensource and non ms oses isnt what makes them great, its the tools for detecting and fixing machines...
hardly a month goes by without my isps DNS server manages to get hacked long enough for it to try to access known vulnerabilities on certain ports (not probing for, trying to connect and upload vulnerabilities, my firewall only logs the connection attempts)
but the problem never lasts for more than a few hours before my isp has managed to get their servers unhacked. windows is still a bear to get unhacked without elaborate third party software. so, really its the turnaround time from detection to cleaning the system that really matters.
reminds me of when i ran a webserver and 50% of my traffic was exploited windows machines trying to exploit my server...
and i have had opensource pcs compromized, usually because i was running optional software that i really didnt need... but ive had far more windows machines that ive had to deal with virus and trojan removal than open source problems...
well, i guess its time to downgrade adobe to version 5. before they had all these automatic updating and rediculous feature bloat features...
i know version 5 came on tons of various cd roms, including ones from motherboards and even anti virus installers... in fact even though i had a newer version i happend to pick version 5 when i reinstalled my parents computer because i was lazy and it came on their anti virus install cd.
If you want to implement a secure browsing and im environment check out your options with the Freely downloadable VMWare player, and then go over to tuxdistro.com to download one of hundreds of freely available vmware appliances. there are administative tools out there (cant think of the name) that will restrict the end user from running applications etc, so they have to use vmware to access the net... then your network apps are running in a very fine sandbox, and you can rest easy knowing that end users can only download to a linux box where they dont' have the root password to etc. (requires some configuration)
now needing to emulate an operating system to get a secure e-mail/browsing environment might be the hard way of doing things, but hey if it works, it works. the best thing is you can reset their 'system' to a known clean environment if they get some form of linux worm infecting their systems. (there is also a light weight browser appliance on the vmware appliance marketplace, so there are many ways to set up a sandbox for a windows environment) if you buy vmware you can even install linux as the primary os and then run windows in a vmware player. (for legal reasons they can't distribute windows appliances)
vmware snapshots are a good way to 'test' av software vs 'real' viruses to get a good idea of how bad viruses can mess up an os and how good various reomaval programs are at cleaning a 'dirty' system. instead of needing to format the system you can just wipe the image and get a new one off a dvd.
comodo AV has whitelisting along with blacklisting... and you don't have to pay annoying subscription fees... of course the whitelist can be circumvented by the enduser with a simple click, per executable.
and yeah the whitelisted apps often fail to keep up with newer updates, causing the end user to have to manually allow applications, and wasting bandwith as the file is uploaded to comodo for anylisys.
their firewall also had a database of recognized applications, but their firewall rules override the whitelisting, if configured properly. eg: properly configured im clients will not connect unless you specifically open the outbound ports for each specific im client, 5050 for yahoo, 5190 for aim, and 1863 for windows live.
"An officer that's shown to abuse people can't keep his job unless an elected official/body allows him/her to"
apparently from your side of the white picket fence it's not plainly obvious that while many regions in the south are upwards of 65% black the majority of police are Caucasian. now you may not realize this but a Convicted felon Is not allowed to vote... and with 1/3rd of black males having a fealony conviction on their records.... well, it's easy to see how the police represent the needs and wants of the WHITE populace, and think nothing of beating/abusing blacks...
blacks tend to be less afluent and tend to become more involved in crime due to a bad econmy in many southern states... and the culture of black rap artists quite often portray cops as being the White man that's holding down the black man... ans then you get whjole communities who would never trust a cop, and help any black they can to evade arrest even a murdurer.
so you see, while you may on your side of the white picket fensce never experience a cop aiming a can of pepper spray in your eyes because he saw you running on the street... many blacks get accused of being a criminal if a cop sees them running... even if they were trying to get medicine to their sickly grandmother... so um yeah...
there will be flagrant abuses of this weapon, but not on your side of the white picket fence and green watered lawns, with paper boys smiling as they deliver your paper... but meanwhile on the other side of the fence, where crackhouses and gang fights are a nightly backdrop to the gunfire and sirens those on the other side of the fence live with cops who treat anyone with the wrong color skin as a criminal there will be abuse.
the best measurment of the drop in the 'internet IQ' is the dollar value of 'cybercrime' as the drop in internet users iq's falls, the dollar value of money stolen from the average internet user rises. a smart preson sees an 'email' from 'paypal' requesting they log in on a url that looks like paypal in the email, but in the url bar at the top shows some hotel in russia and they don't log in. as more and more people who aren't smart enough to recognize simple phishing emails when they get them log in and have their identity and cash stolen the overal cybercrime value increases.
in a less obvious scam someone goes to google looking for cheap software, sees an ad for $40 unlimited software downloads, or a site selling 'download only' software and foolishly gets their credit dard info stolen, by crooks, and pay for pirated software... well i personally am intelligent enough to google the companies name and find them in a database of cybercrooks, but what about the millions who just think the deal is real, and wind up screwed over... well, that's why cybercrime has reached new records...
america has the highest reported rate of computer viruses, simply because finding and using security software that really works is too 'hard' for the average user, they just buy what the guy at the computer warehouse said was good. and some are stupid enough to not even do that. all the 'user friendly' suites have shortcomings that virus programmers and hackers can find workarounds for. because they generallz take a 'less secure' approach to defualt security settings to avoid having tech support overwhelmed with users who can't get their internet game, or websites to load.
and often times those techies at the warehouse stores use 'default' fileshare names, and turn filesharing on, and then hackers can easily find and compromize those systems.
people wind up throwing away the systems that got viruses-trojaned because the cost of a new computer is less than having a computer guy fix it. and usually those systems have to get so bad with malware and viruses that they're unusable, probally they were compromized for years.
hackers get good training on compromizing firewalls, traversing nats, and placing backdoors on vulnerable systems, with all the computers out there... which is why an unprotected windows system takes about 12 minutes to get compromized on the net.
IT infrastructure IS a war expenderature. Giving that infrastructure over to 'untrained' civilians, on the otherhand is the equivalent of opening the autobahn to the general public.
in times of peace, one leaves the lanes open for prosperity for all, in times of war one closes all the onramps, and makes the internet strictly a military tool.
if the internet backbone wasn't designed the way the autobahn was, or someone built their own private highway system around it, there is nothing a 'military' can do except 'target' the internet onramps that are clearly in enemy territory.
still, the thing is... this post is almost meaningless.
as to enforcability, just wait til the death star comes flying along trying to enforce this thing. cause frankly, that's the kind of weapon congress would need to enforce this galactically.
is the bill intended to be good? yeah, but it's no substitute for parents actually taking an active role in their kids life. personally if i were speaking for jesus i think I'd have to say that barbie dolls are as evil as porn. do little girls need a plastic figurehead of 'beauty' and 'fashion' any more than they need access to a triple x porn site? I sick of people calling little pink boxed pieces of plastic and calling that 'good.'
now speaking for myself i'd have to say that plastic dolls are quite an ironic way to 'preserve' and 'expand' an empire of 'pretending to do good things for girls' try asking a little girl if she'd rather have a parent or family member at home, being there for them, or if they'd rather have a piece of plastic. frankly i think that for every barbie doll sold, that question needs to be asked at least once.
ouch, i'm kinda glad budget issues kept me from getting a heat blasting furnace of a system this time around.
yeah, I went with the older socket amd (754), yeah the cpu wasn't that big and powerful.... and the integrated graphics first annoyed me, then i realized they weren't half bad.
i know, full eye candy games take a lot more processing power. but there is a trick if you can stand the bare bones ugly mode in most modern games. just turn off all the eye candy enhancers. yeah, it's true that doesn't sell graphic cards, and games don't look as good without all the eye candy, and some games won't even run on less than a 4 pixel pipeline card. still, i almost never run ac (just a fan, on it's lowest setting) and my pc runs pretty stable.
if humanity is your definition of 'intelligent design' then you've got a way to evolve yet. seriously god should have quit at the garden. animals? what was he thinking.
I spoke too soon, but that's the closest thing to it that i could think of, think 'graphical overlay to a text adventure game.' basically, you could use the engine to build your own game, from scratch, the way the myst developers did, only now instead of making 'myst' you can make your own 'kings quest' with clickable dialogs instead of 'try to figure out the text command the programmer meant for you to type'
think more of a branching storyline game engine, where users can create their own content.
basicially, an attempt to make a text adventure a bit easier to program than basic. which it would seem is a long forgotten skill with kids these days. I guess being japanese, they weren't familiar with what the slashdot community would know this as best. it's a modern equivalency of programming text adventures (like nethack) in an easier format.
the last robotic uprising I saw was pretty impressive:) only robots and aliens survived:) but seeing it unfold on paper as you were eriting out the plotline for a story is a little different that you know seeing it in person.
Still, nanochips inside every living being is far more impressive:) I can't recall a writer who publisized any stories on that, maybe I should:)
calling cellphones 'communicators' is hardly the same thing even if i've heard of 'wearable' cellphones.
and a gun that shoots out two wires and lets you 'stun' people is hardly a 'phaser.' as for the rest i don't even know what you're talking about, but unless someone corrects me i'm going to assume you had too much crack to smoke while slashdot was down:)
was kinda screwed up:) i mean it looked like 7 different editors had gone through it and tried to put in their own views of what the new mac pro should be. and wound up stuck in an infinite loop of just rehashing the same issues.
there are better articles out there on the new mac pro. i just haven't had a chance to read them yet.
i seem to recall that other than a turncoat traitor, the americans did pretty well, other than esentially paying their soldiers in promisary notes that wound up bankrupting their original government.
of course the brittish did burn washington dc to the ground.
ahh i can't remember my american history that well:) the point is, you are somewhat delusional to think america was nearly obliterated.
with today's fiber optic backbones the size difference of 128 bit packets over the legacy 16-bit packets in insignifigant. you do run into some issues with 'going overseas' where the undersea pipes can clog up sometimes, still... largeer packets are more an issue with legacy hardware than anything. modern hardware has the bandwith to handle it:)
8 groups of 128 bit values comes to roughly 3.4028236692093846346337460743177 * 10^38
also, the values are notated in hexidecimal, so they don't need to be processed in 128-bit chunks unless your processor is 128-bit:) you could just break the value up into 32 or 64 bit chunks.
You mean if a former president can be the first lady;)
Nope, not an 'offical' endorsment. afterall, she wouldn't want my 'official' endorsment anyways. depending on how the next few weeks pan out, we might be a little closer to knowing if hillary actually stands a shot at a presidential bid or not though.
anyways, keeping annoying criminals locked up is important:)
rehabilitating criminals is important too:) if we just throw them in there and make them work, or let them teach each other how to do more crimes then there is little real benefit to society, as they leave bitter, and angry, or having been well educated in evil.
considering who i am, and what i've done, there is little doubt in my mind that this long war is about to come to a screeching halt. not a cold war, not a hot war, more like, a period of peace and prosperity that will allow people to have a lot more fun. yeah, i was loosing my touch definitely, i know people were trying to warn me, etc. but hey:) it has definetly got mr. toads wild ride beat:)
One senator saying he's backing this does not a law make:)
the bill still has to go before the congress, and then the senate then to committee then to the president's desk:)
maybe zonk was sleeping on the job because the submitters commentary, the parent comments, etc had nothing to do with the content of any article about this news i could find:)
I know where most of them live, just kidding. the problem isn't that we have spammers the problem is that we have kids pretending to be spammers who just hack into legitimate spam networks to send out scams.
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Security on opensource and non ms oses isnt what makes them great, its the tools for detecting and fixing machines...
hardly a month goes by without my isps DNS server manages to get hacked long enough for it to try to access known vulnerabilities on certain ports (not probing for, trying to connect and upload vulnerabilities, my firewall only logs the connection attempts)
but the problem never lasts for more than a few hours before my isp has managed to get their servers unhacked. windows is still a bear to get unhacked without elaborate third party software. so, really its the turnaround time from detection to cleaning the system that really matters.
reminds me of when i ran a webserver and 50% of my traffic was exploited windows machines trying to exploit my server...
and i have had opensource pcs compromized, usually because i was running optional software that i really didnt need... but ive had far more windows machines that ive had to deal with virus and trojan removal than open source problems...
well, i guess its time to downgrade adobe to version 5. before they had all these automatic updating and rediculous feature bloat features...
i know version 5 came on tons of various cd roms, including ones from motherboards and even anti virus installers... in fact even though i had a newer version i happend to pick version 5 when i reinstalled my parents computer because i was lazy and it came on their anti virus install cd.
If you want to implement a secure browsing and im environment check out your options with the Freely downloadable VMWare player, and then go over to tuxdistro.com to download one of hundreds of freely available vmware appliances. there are administative tools out there (cant think of the name) that will restrict the end user from running applications etc, so they have to use vmware to access the net... then your network apps are running in a very fine sandbox, and you can rest easy knowing that end users can only download to a linux box where they dont' have the root password to etc. (requires some configuration)
now needing to emulate an operating system to get a secure e-mail/browsing environment might be the hard way of doing things, but hey if it works, it works. the best thing is you can reset their 'system' to a known clean environment if they get some form of linux worm infecting their systems. (there is also a light weight browser appliance on the vmware appliance marketplace, so there are many ways to set up a sandbox for a windows environment) if you buy vmware you can even install linux as the primary os and then run windows in a vmware player. (for legal reasons they can't distribute windows appliances)
vmware snapshots are a good way to 'test' av software vs 'real' viruses to get a good idea of how bad viruses can mess up an os and how good various reomaval programs are at cleaning a 'dirty' system. instead of needing to format the system you can just wipe the image and get a new one off a dvd.
comodo AV has whitelisting along with blacklisting... and you don't have to pay annoying subscription fees... of course the whitelist can be circumvented by the enduser with a simple click, per executable.
and yeah the whitelisted apps often fail to keep up with newer updates, causing the end user to have to manually allow applications, and wasting bandwith as the file is uploaded to comodo for anylisys.
their firewall also had a database of recognized applications, but their firewall rules override the whitelisting, if configured properly. eg: properly configured im clients will not connect unless you specifically open the outbound ports for each specific im client, 5050 for yahoo, 5190 for aim, and 1863 for windows live.
"An officer that's shown to abuse people can't keep his job unless an elected official/body allows him/her to"
apparently from your side of the white picket fence it's not plainly obvious that while many regions in the south are upwards of 65% black the majority of police are Caucasian.
now you may not realize this but a Convicted felon Is not allowed to vote... and with 1/3rd of black males having a fealony conviction on their records.... well, it's easy to see how the police represent the needs and wants of the WHITE populace, and think nothing of beating/abusing blacks...
blacks tend to be less afluent and tend to become more involved in crime due to a bad econmy in many southern states... and the culture of black rap artists quite often portray cops as being the White man that's holding down the black man... ans then you get whjole communities who would never trust a cop, and help any black they can to evade arrest even a murdurer.
so you see, while you may on your side of the white picket fensce never experience a cop aiming a can of pepper spray in your eyes because he saw you running on the street... many blacks get accused of being a criminal if a cop sees them running... even if they were trying to get medicine to their sickly grandmother... so um yeah...
there will be flagrant abuses of this weapon, but not on your side of the white picket fence and green watered lawns, with paper boys smiling as they deliver your paper... but meanwhile on the other side of the fence, where crackhouses and gang fights are a nightly backdrop to the gunfire and sirens those on the other side of the fence live with cops who treat anyone with the wrong color skin as a criminal there will be abuse.
the best measurment of the drop in the 'internet IQ' is the dollar value of 'cybercrime' as the drop in internet users iq's falls, the dollar value of money stolen from the average internet user rises. a smart preson sees an 'email' from 'paypal' requesting they log in on a url that looks like paypal in the email, but in the url bar at the top shows some hotel in russia and they don't log in. as more and more people who aren't smart enough to recognize simple phishing emails when they get them log in and have their identity and cash stolen the overal cybercrime value increases.
in a less obvious scam someone goes to google looking for cheap software, sees an ad for $40 unlimited software downloads, or a site selling 'download only' software and foolishly gets their credit dard info stolen, by crooks, and pay for pirated software... well i personally am intelligent enough to google the companies name and find them in a database of cybercrooks, but what about the millions who just think the deal is real, and wind up screwed over... well, that's why cybercrime has reached new records...
america has the highest reported rate of computer viruses, simply because finding and using security software that really works is too 'hard' for the average user, they just buy what the guy at the computer warehouse said was good. and some are stupid enough to not even do that. all the 'user friendly' suites have shortcomings that virus programmers and hackers can find workarounds for. because they generallz take a 'less secure' approach to defualt security settings to avoid having tech support overwhelmed with users who can't get their internet game, or websites to load.
and often times those techies at the warehouse stores use 'default' fileshare names, and turn filesharing on, and then hackers can easily find and compromize those systems.
people wind up throwing away the systems that got viruses-trojaned because the cost of a new computer is less than having a computer guy fix it. and usually those systems have to get so bad with malware and viruses that they're unusable, probally they were compromized for years.
hackers get good training on compromizing firewalls, traversing nats, and placing backdoors on vulnerable systems, with all the computers out there... which is why an unprotected windows system takes about 12 minutes to get compromized on the net.
google and ubuntu are in bed with voodoo magic doesn't mean that they're more adapatable than the Legendary noob.
Pwned. in your world with a pc, a dream, and a cellphone. damnit i need a seri0ous quarentine and av checkup.
ok, well maybe not the devil, but someone reinstated my legendary noob status.
then they had me look at a old 1 and a $5 and a $20. sorry.
IT infrastructure IS a war expenderature. Giving that infrastructure over to 'untrained' civilians, on the otherhand is the equivalent of opening the autobahn to the general public.
in times of peace, one leaves the lanes open for prosperity for all, in times of war one closes all the onramps, and makes the internet strictly a military tool.
if the internet backbone wasn't designed the way the autobahn was, or someone built their own private highway system around it, there is nothing a 'military' can do except 'target' the internet onramps that are clearly in enemy territory.
still, the thing is... this post is almost meaningless.
well, as you can tell, that was nowhere near the kind of post i thought it should be.
but IMO this whole fucking system is in severe need of an overhaul.
anyways. good luck.
my opinion, meta tags are kinda bogus anyways.
as to enforcability, just wait til the death star comes flying along trying to enforce this thing. cause frankly, that's the kind of weapon congress would need to enforce this galactically.
is the bill intended to be good? yeah, but it's no substitute for parents actually taking an active role in their kids life. personally if i were speaking for jesus i think I'd have to say that barbie dolls are as evil as porn. do little girls need a plastic figurehead of 'beauty' and 'fashion' any more than they need access to a triple x porn site? I sick of people calling little pink boxed pieces of plastic and calling that 'good.'
now speaking for myself i'd have to say that plastic dolls are quite an ironic way to 'preserve' and 'expand' an empire of 'pretending to do good things for girls' try asking a little girl if she'd rather have a parent or family member at home, being there for them, or if they'd rather have a piece of plastic. frankly i think that for every barbie doll sold, that question needs to be asked at least once.
ouch, i'm kinda glad budget issues kept me from getting a heat blasting furnace of a system this time around.
yeah, I went with the older socket amd (754), yeah the cpu wasn't that big and powerful.... and the integrated graphics first annoyed me, then i realized they weren't half bad.
i know, full eye candy games take a lot more processing power. but there is a trick if you can stand the bare bones ugly mode in most modern games. just turn off all the eye candy enhancers. yeah, it's true that doesn't sell graphic cards, and games don't look as good without all the eye candy, and some games won't even run on less than a 4 pixel pipeline card. still, i almost never run ac (just a fan, on it's lowest setting) and my pc runs pretty stable.
if humanity is your definition of 'intelligent design' then you've got a way to evolve yet. seriously god should have quit at the garden. animals? what was he thinking.
I spoke too soon, but that's the closest thing to it that i could think of, think 'graphical overlay to a text adventure game.' basically, you could use the engine to build your own game, from scratch, the way the myst developers did, only now instead of making 'myst' you can make your own 'kings quest' with clickable dialogs instead of 'try to figure out the text command the programmer meant for you to type'
think more of a branching storyline game engine, where users can create their own content.
basicially, an attempt to make a text adventure a bit easier to program than basic. which it would seem is a long forgotten skill with kids these days. I guess being japanese, they weren't familiar with what the slashdot community would know this as best. it's a modern equivalency of programming text adventures (like nethack) in an easier format.
ok lets see so you think we need a layer of virualization in the os to secure one app?
hypothetically lets say i've used a pc with far more layers than that.
what do you do when you have a user who manages to get his access layer embedded with software from just about everyone?
the last robotic uprising I saw was pretty impressive :) only robots and aliens survived :) but seeing it unfold on paper as you were eriting out the plotline for a story is a little different that you know seeing it in person.
:) I can't recall a writer who publisized any stories on that, maybe I should :)
Still, nanochips inside every living being is far more impressive
you're a little over enthusiastic there :)
:)
calling cellphones 'communicators' is hardly the same thing even if i've heard of 'wearable' cellphones.
and a gun that shoots out two wires and lets you 'stun' people is hardly a 'phaser.' as for the rest i don't even know what you're talking about, but unless someone corrects me i'm going to assume you had too much crack to smoke while slashdot was down
was kinda screwed up :) i mean it looked like 7 different editors had gone through it and tried to put in their own views of what the new mac pro should be. and wound up stuck in an infinite loop of just rehashing the same issues.
there are better articles out there on the new mac pro. i just haven't had a chance to read them yet.
i seem to recall that other than a turncoat traitor, the americans did pretty well, other than esentially paying their soldiers in promisary notes that wound up bankrupting their original government.
:) the point is, you are somewhat delusional to think america was nearly obliterated.
of course the brittish did burn washington dc to the ground.
ahh i can't remember my american history that well
actually, i'd like to correct you on that.
:)
with today's fiber optic backbones the size difference of 128 bit packets over the legacy 16-bit packets in insignifigant. you do run into some issues with 'going overseas' where the undersea pipes can clog up sometimes, still... largeer packets are more an issue with legacy hardware than anything. modern hardware has the bandwith to handle it
8 groups of 128 bit values comes to roughly 3.4028236692093846346337460743177 * 10^38
:) you could just break the value up into 32 or 64 bit chunks.
also, the values are notated in hexidecimal, so they don't need to be processed in 128-bit chunks unless your processor is 128-bit
You mean if a former president can be the first lady ;)
:)
:) if we just throw them in there and make them work, or let them teach each other how to do more crimes then there is little real benefit to society, as they leave bitter, and angry, or having been well educated in evil.
:) it has definetly got mr. toads wild ride beat :)
Nope, not an 'offical' endorsment. afterall, she wouldn't want my 'official' endorsment anyways. depending on how the next few weeks pan out, we might be a little closer to knowing if hillary actually stands a shot at a presidential bid or not though.
anyways, keeping annoying criminals locked up is important
rehabilitating criminals is important too
considering who i am, and what i've done, there is little doubt in my mind that this long war is about to come to a screeching halt. not a cold war, not a hot war, more like, a period of peace and prosperity that will allow people to have a lot more fun. yeah, i was loosing my touch definitely, i know people were trying to warn me, etc. but hey
One senator saying he's backing this does not a law make :)
:)
:)
the bill still has to go before the congress, and then the senate then to committee then to the president's desk
maybe zonk was sleeping on the job because the submitters commentary, the parent comments, etc had nothing to do with the content of any article about this news i could find
I know where most of them live, just kidding. the problem isn't that we have spammers the problem is that we have kids pretending to be spammers who just hack into legitimate spam networks to send out scams.