Iran isn't an Arab or Arab-controlled State. They're Aryans or Persians, not Arabs. Calling a Persian an Arab is liable to get you a good long rant -- or punched, depending on the circumstance.
The "why" needs to give them a good reason. My guess is this:
1. Google's main revenue generator -- ads -- are very effective. I know a lot of people who hate Internet ads but don't mind Google's because they aren't in-your-face offensive. Considering their revenue, there are a LOT of people like that.
2. The better your experience on the Internet, the more money Google makes.
3. Google, therefore, rolls out products designed to improve your experience on the Internet.
4. Profit! (Goto 2)
This is the same logic I use to believe that Chrome isn't a threat to Mozilla Firefox. All Google cares about is better, faster, stronger Internet experience. They have the tools, they can rebuild it. Chrome isn't a competitor to Firefox.
As for corporate sites...I haven't seen much of an issue, honestly. The last few big corps I've worked with that still use IE6 also have Firefox installed. Yes, their desktop machines come with 2 browsers and IE6 is used almost explicitly with a couple of legacy apps that rely on ActiveX.
This is called "tamper resistance" and is a common technique used in physical security. People who use this stuff professionally know this is how it works and factor it accordingly. No one with any competence in the field assumes the perfect security of a system. ALL systems are vulnerable depending on the time, money and effort expended to compromise them. Tamper resistance has the sole purpose of driving those factors up.
Most of the people who have information valuable enough to warrant this type of time-effort-money expenditure aren't relying solely on TPM for their security. Things like multi-factor authentication and independent encryption come into play as well.
I had a similar opinion, but ended up upgrading to KDE 4.x from 3.x when it hit 4.3. While things are different, I find it very useful. The only thing I miss at this point is Quanta has no love -- or replacement.
Wait until there is a live distro using 4.4 and give it a try. Remember, different is different, not necessarily worse or better.
No. This isn't a software hack. It requires physical modification of the chip itself, every time. The chips are sealed in epoxy, so you'd have to get thru that with acid EVERY TIME. You aren't going to automate it with improved knowledge. RTFA.
You had me going until that part. Something like this would be more apt:
He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the gnu/rabbit bone in his beard. He spread his arms out wide. "I will go mad!" he announced.
0-day means there is no patch available, as opposed to vulns that come out after patches are issued and you could possibly upgrade your system to being secure.
Anything that is patched, but you haven't bothered to update your system and are thus vulnerable to, isn't a 0-day.
Mmmmm...a specific exception, and the intent would STILL be of the artist who did the creation.
If *I* (or anyone) creates a piece of art whose purpose is to be destroyed -- Indian sand painting? -- that is one thing. If some jerk comes along and beats my statue to dust, claiming it was to make people think or the act was his commentary, that isn't art or acceptable.
I remember being in a train in melbourne, riding past a few walls full of legal graffiti (union lane?) and wondering what the line between art and vandalism really was.
You can stop wondering. The line is drawn with the permission of the property owner. Vandalism is a crime unrelated to the artistic merit of the work, it has to do with property ownership rights.
From an artistic point of view, it is drawn when the intent is to deface or damage instead of create.
Backwards compatibility FTW! The one thing that if Microsoft broke, they'd have a serious OS horserace on their hands. Then anyone would be free to simply choose OS X, Linux or anything else just on merits and not "it runs all my old software".
I purchased a pre-paid cellphone for cash about 6 years ago. It is AT&T wireless and I purchased it in Idaho. When I first used it the system demand I give it a name and address for activation. I just made something up for both. Since then, I've carelessly used the phone and refilled it via debit, credit and cash -- so my name would be attached to it in a thorough search.
HOWEVER, I went in to an AT&T Wireless store last week to refill the phone and the clerk pulled up the record. It still had the made up name and address in the system. He asked who that was, when my credit card didn't match the name. All I said was "Oh, THAT guy! Ha ha ha ha". He looked at me funny, ran my card and went to service the next customer.
He didn't have access to detailed billing records, and the name associated with the account was the B.S. I made up 6 years ago. I though it was funny. I don't know what the initial registration requirements are now.
They make a major claim about the affect of climate change on the Amazon. The problem is the original study was done by an advocacy group (WWF), wasn't peer reviewed, and wasn't even on the subject of global warming! It was a study on wildfires.
I was assuming that you can't leave the U.S.:-) I believe I'd prefer certain places in Central America during late February as opposed to arctic Canada. But, hey, that's just me.
After several months of unemployment, I landed a job a couple weeks ago otherwise this would be a cakewalk.
1. Pay cash for EVERYTHING. 2. If you must use a PC, use a foreign proxy. (To check in by the rules, etc.) 3. If you must use a phone, keep the battery removed unless required by the rules to check in. 4. Don't frequent places you normally do. (If you play tennis a lot, take up bowling, etc.) 5. Head back-country for some extended camping. Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Minnesota or the Dakotas come to mind.
Working as an IT Director for a broker/dealer firm a couple years ago, this was policy.
ALL telephone calls into and out of the office were recorded and archived for 10 years. All e-mail was archived for 7. IM was forbidden. ANY web presence, from web site to Facebook must be approved in advance from the compliance department (lawyers). There are web hosting companies that specialize in this, with SEC/FINRA pre-approved content and approval accounts for compliance.
We had finally moved to the state that any new independent financial adviser that joined MUST use a web site with our approved hosting service and may NOT use their own.
Violation were punishable by company imposed fines and the possibility of losing your license, and they were STRICT.
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Iran isn't an Arab or Arab-controlled State. They're Aryans or Persians, not Arabs. Calling a Persian an Arab is liable to get you a good long rant -- or punched, depending on the circumstance.
If you think this sort of thing is unique to internet laws, you must be new to the law.
Because it is damn expensive, that is "why not".
The "why" needs to give them a good reason. My guess is this:
1. Google's main revenue generator -- ads -- are very effective. I know a lot of people who hate Internet ads but don't mind Google's because they aren't in-your-face offensive. Considering their revenue, there are a LOT of people like that.
2. The better your experience on the Internet, the more money Google makes.
3. Google, therefore, rolls out products designed to improve your experience on the Internet.
4. Profit! (Goto 2)
This is the same logic I use to believe that Chrome isn't a threat to Mozilla Firefox. All Google cares about is better, faster, stronger Internet experience. They have the tools, they can rebuild it. Chrome isn't a competitor to Firefox.
Don't explicitly break IE6/7, just don't kill yourself to making your site 100% compatible.
Use IE6NoMore
As for corporate sites...I haven't seen much of an issue, honestly. The last few big corps I've worked with that still use IE6 also have Firefox installed. Yes, their desktop machines come with 2 browsers and IE6 is used almost explicitly with a couple of legacy apps that rely on ActiveX.
This is called "tamper resistance" and is a common technique used in physical security. People who use this stuff professionally know this is how it works and factor it accordingly. No one with any competence in the field assumes the perfect security of a system. ALL systems are vulnerable depending on the time, money and effort expended to compromise them. Tamper resistance has the sole purpose of driving those factors up.
See: Tamper Resistance
Most of the people who have information valuable enough to warrant this type of time-effort-money expenditure aren't relying solely on TPM for their security. Things like multi-factor authentication and independent encryption come into play as well.
I had a similar opinion, but ended up upgrading to KDE 4.x from 3.x when it hit 4.3. While things are different, I find it very useful. The only thing I miss at this point is Quanta has no love -- or replacement.
Wait until there is a live distro using 4.4 and give it a try. Remember, different is different, not necessarily worse or better.
No. This isn't a software hack. It requires physical modification of the chip itself, every time. The chips are sealed in epoxy, so you'd have to get thru that with acid EVERY TIME. You aren't going to automate it with improved knowledge. RTFA.
Microsoft makes a search product? Really?
Now excuse me, I have to comb my beard.
You had me going until that part. Something like this would be more apt:
He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the gnu/rabbit bone in his beard. He spread his arms out wide. "I will go mad!" he
announced.
What is this "new" of which you speak?
0-day means there is no patch available, as opposed to vulns that come out after patches are issued and you could possibly upgrade your system to being secure.
Anything that is patched, but you haven't bothered to update your system and are thus vulnerable to, isn't a 0-day.
Mmmmm...a specific exception, and the intent would STILL be of the artist who did the creation.
If *I* (or anyone) creates a piece of art whose purpose is to be destroyed -- Indian sand painting? -- that is one thing. If some jerk comes along and beats my statue to dust, claiming it was to make people think or the act was his commentary, that isn't art or acceptable.
I remember being in a train in melbourne, riding past a few walls full of legal graffiti (union lane?) and wondering what the line between art and vandalism really was.
You can stop wondering. The line is drawn with the permission of the property owner. Vandalism is a crime unrelated to the artistic merit of the work, it has to do with property ownership rights.
From an artistic point of view, it is drawn when the intent is to deface or damage instead of create.
If you want an example, just look at ActiveX and IE6. I expect Flash to take the same route. A long, lingering, painful death.
Backwards compatibility FTW! The one thing that if Microsoft broke, they'd have a serious OS horserace on their hands. Then anyone would be free to simply choose OS X, Linux or anything else just on merits and not "it runs all my old software".
Anecdote:
I purchased a pre-paid cellphone for cash about 6 years ago. It is AT&T wireless and I purchased it in Idaho. When I first used it the system demand I give it a name and address for activation. I just made something up for both. Since then, I've carelessly used the phone and refilled it via debit, credit and cash -- so my name would be attached to it in a thorough search.
HOWEVER, I went in to an AT&T Wireless store last week to refill the phone and the clerk pulled up the record. It still had the made up name and address in the system. He asked who that was, when my credit card didn't match the name. All I said was "Oh, THAT guy! Ha ha ha ha". He looked at me funny, ran my card and went to service the next customer.
He didn't have access to detailed billing records, and the name associated with the account was the B.S. I made up 6 years ago. I though it was funny. I don't know what the initial registration requirements are now.
Try again. That wasn't the only error.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100023598/after-climategate-pachaurigate-and-glaciergate-amazongate/
They make a major claim about the affect of climate change on the Amazon. The problem is the original study was done by an advocacy group (WWF), wasn't peer reviewed, and wasn't even on the subject of global warming! It was a study on wildfires.
And keep going in that vein...
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/24/the-scandal-deepens-ipcc-ar4-riddled-with-non-peer-reviewed-wwf-papers/
These reports are NOT peer reviewed science and DO NOT belong in the IPCC report, which claims to be properly peer reviewed.
The IPCC fucked up big.
You don't think the "Droid Nexus One" was a simple naming mistake, do you? How long will it take them to get to a model 6?
Can you say "I want more life, fucker"? I knew you could!
I was assuming that you can't leave the U.S. :-) I believe I'd prefer certain places in Central America during late February as opposed to arctic Canada. But, hey, that's just me.
Feel free to buy the book at your local bookstore for cash.
Oh, hell... http://www.canaryislandspress.com/media/HTBI2000.pdf
If you like it, buy the newer edition.
http://www.howtobeinvisible.com/
After several months of unemployment, I landed a job a couple weeks ago otherwise this would be a cakewalk.
1. Pay cash for EVERYTHING.
2. If you must use a PC, use a foreign proxy. (To check in by the rules, etc.)
3. If you must use a phone, keep the battery removed unless required by the rules to check in.
4. Don't frequent places you normally do. (If you play tennis a lot, take up bowling, etc.)
5. Head back-country for some extended camping. Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Minnesota or the Dakotas come to mind.
http://www.usajobs.gov/
Man, I can see the advertising opportunities at all those "quickie wedding chapels" in Las Vegas.
Gattaca
Working as an IT Director for a broker/dealer firm a couple years ago, this was policy.
ALL telephone calls into and out of the office were recorded and archived for 10 years. All e-mail was archived for 7. IM was forbidden. ANY web presence, from web site to Facebook must be approved in advance from the compliance department (lawyers). There are web hosting companies that specialize in this, with SEC/FINRA pre-approved content and approval accounts for compliance.
We had finally moved to the state that any new independent financial adviser that joined MUST use a web site with our approved hosting service and may NOT use their own.
Violation were punishable by company imposed fines and the possibility of losing your license, and they were STRICT.
Make sure to check your references.