Who has the time to visit these sites? Other than busting my ass +10 hours a day running faster than I can in the Domain of the Red Queen, I get to visit/., the Reg, 5 web comic sites and read the feeds off a half dozen or so sites. Staying current with mailing lists eats giant chunks of time and the rest of my pitiful life is taken up by refilling my coffee mug.
You got spyware. I wish I had spyware. I just want the time to be somebody's bitch.../. goatse trolls need not apply.
I was wrong when I saw significant progress for desktop Linux, which was wishful thinking.
Ubuntu
4) Enough about Apple. Google will continue to roll out new products and services as it builds out its infrastructure for a huge push in 2007. They'll need money, of course, so I predict a supplemental stock offering timed with a 20-to-1 stock split. 2006 is a building year for Google.
I don't know on this one. By coincidence I was recently coddling, Yesh my preciousisess, my worn copy of Security Analysis: Principles and Technique by Benjamin Graham, David L. Dodd, Sidney Cottle, Charles Tatham. This is the goto book on investment fundamentals, that guy Warrant Buffy, or something like that, you know the guy who owns the Hathaway shirt company, learned the basics of investment from this book. IMHO there is no way to go about investing without first coming to terms with the knowledge contained in 'Security Analysis: Principles and Technique'. But I'm unsure as to how B. Graham would have parsed Google stocks. In 60's parlance Google would be a go-go stock and might have been shunned by Graham. Also I'm unsure as to Buffet's take on Google. Does the Berkshire Hathaway fund hole any Google stock? Maybe Google will split when the Berkshire Hathaway fund splits.:)
Named after Nikolai I Vavilov, a Russian biologist, botanist and geneticist, the Institute's seed collections were largely built by Vavilov who scoured five continents in the 1920s and 1930s for wild and cultivated corn, potato tubers, grains, beans, fodder, fruits and vegetable seeds.
Hitler's army blockaded Leningrad (now St Petersburg). Under German fire, scientists gathered unripened potato tubers from the Institute's experimental fields outside Leningrad. They burned everything they could find to keep the collection from freezing in the building.
While guarding the collection, some scientists starved to death rather than eat the packets of rice, corn and other seeds in their desks.
Engineers can work technological wonders to mitigate against accidents and protect passengers in accidents, but the fact remains the majority of people freeze in an emergency situation or freak out. Those who can keep their heads in emergency situations expose themselves to the training and experience that will allow them to survive, perhaps in spite of the engineering.
The above gives an introduction to phase change as it is considered in terms of Complexity Theory. Approaching phase change through complexity theory, even for an outsider like myself, gives insight into how far reaching are the results of insight into phase change.
An introductory Economics text will speak to the need for labour to be willing to move to where there is work. Whether as individuals or as groups, those who battle the idea of economic globalization are irrelevant in the face of the movement toward freetrade zones and trade agreements. The current troubles arising from the implementation of globalization is causing friction and will for some time to come.
It's unlikely that isolationist nations can survive because trade secrets and laws protecting IP aren't sufficient to stop the flow of knowledge. The requirement is to stay competitive. Staying competitive requires a series of tradeoffs including bringing in cheaper labour.
Bite the bullet, it's better than the alternative of isolationist states at a constant threat of war.
To the best of my knowledge no one has answered the simple question, 'what is learning?'. Is it just pattern recognition? What are the memory requirements? Is it both a rote act and a creative act? To what extent does peer pressure and the desire to excell play a part? What part does good parenting play? What about diet and overall health?
Guys like Edward De Bono have made a career by claiming to have the inside track on creative learning. I've studied epistemology since my mid teens and in answer to the question 'what is learning?' I've acquired a vast ignorance. Ultimately, for me, learning is a nurtured drive with inherent requirements, that is nourished by the new, by information, difference that makes a difference (Bateson). The high of learning comes when one recognizes that nature has given rise to you, an individual with the potential to encompass the principles of life in the small shell that houses your brain.The truth is most people are driven by the more primitive drives and default to being entertained.
Gregory Bateson suggested we can learn to learn, possibly learn to learn to learn; but, first we must experience what it means to learn. I believe that learning is a unique multifaceted experience that, once experienced, can, depending on the individual, entice the practioner ever onward.
The day my older sister took me by the hand and walked me into the nearest library I was hooked. I knew how to, read, loved to read, but had no idea of the universes of knowledge available. Yet even into grade 1 I stubbornly refused to learn to write. I read, I had lots to read, other people were doing the writing, what need had I to write?
Whatever learning is, whether it be as simple as deriving new patterns, or, as profound as Archimedes' Eureka!, we first must introduce children to the joy of learning. Most of them can take it from there.
I've lived in migraine hell since early adolescence. Because my migraines are relatively frequent and very severe I've had the benefit of a wide range of tests, recommendations and medications.
Stress is the main trigger of my migraines. I've also found dehydration can play a part.
My best remedy is early recognition of the onset of a migraine and quick remedial action.
If sleep isn't possible, then rest is a good second choice.
I'm in front of a monitor easily 10 hrs a day and often more. I wear glasses and find breaks to exercise the eyes are a good idea. I was taught a range of exercises but now I just roll my eyeballs around every which way while changing focus. I take extended breaks in blocks of two weeks when possible.
The only lock I've had on migraine prevention is extreme physical conditioning. I've been through periods of working out ~4 hours a day, extended wilderness hiking and extended cycling trips (3plus thousand Ks). There is no pain medication equal to endorphines and no high better. FWIW.
Good luck with the migraines, at least you acquired a high pain tolerance.;)
Somewhere in the dusty recesses of the library stacks I came across writings that suggested many early northern european peoples practised cannibalism as was evidenced by the skulls of victims being halved to get at the brains. The National Geographic article suggests modern cannibals fed the brains to women and children as less desirable, but, for examples, grizziles feeding on migrating salmon will feed exclusivley on the brains once their initial hunger is sated.
My culinary perversion only extended to a one time feeding on beef tartare. I kinda liked it.
Einstein got a position as a patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland.
My question is, if Einstein or his equivalent had a job today as a patent clerk at the USPTO, would his mind withstand the onslaught of incomprehensible patents and go onto to do great work. Could even an Einstein make the USPTO right?
Not that I, by any stretch of imagination or schooling have the right to comment, but, I will.
No, there aren't many who are at the level of Heifitz.
As an aside, your post and profession provide me with an opportunity to ask if you know whether an anecdote I've heard is apocryphal. I was told Fritz Kreisler loved the night life and hated to practise. On occasion he shared the stage with Sergei Rachmaninov who would request Kreisler put in some audition time only to be brushed off. During a joint performance Kreisler lost his place and while improvising leaned into Rachmaninov and asked: "Sergi, where are we?". Rachmaninov was said to have tersely replied: "Carnegie Hall."
True, or apocryphal? Do you know?
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First, as has been noted, the catchphrases are as ambiently findable, whatever that means.
Second being able to find everything about everything isn't a good thing. Bertrand Russell pointed out that one is better served becoming intimately knowledgeable of a handfull of books on any given subject than to have a passing familiarity with all available material on the subject at hand.To know a subject one has to have a foundation from which to work. The hallmark of a journey workperson is a fundamental understanding of the principles that inform the work.
Ambient Findability seems to me to be yet another guide for the social gadfly, catchphrases abound, and, the ever aspiring social/corporate climber can jump on or off board any bandwagon by instanteously accessing the prevalent catchphrases served up in a pablum formula that allows for quick regurgitation.
The best thing that can be said for such approaches is that they draw off the pop culture adulators and papprazzi, allowing easier navigation for those who know their stuff and where they're going.
What if this stuff falls into the wrong hands? There's only a little flippancy built into the preceeding question. Very few criminals are intelligent or innovative. Most survive by a code of silence and a threat of violence. While still an undergraduate in Toronto I foolishly took a night job as a doorman/bouncer in a downtown club that had as a clientelle "made guys" in the Vagas knockoff bar upstairs and a well known motorcycle gang as patrons of the bar downstairs. At the time I wanted to be a writer and thought I needed street smarts. I got to know whores, pimps, and assorted "organized crime" guys. All but one were pretty much just people with no where else to go and no way to get out of where they were. Only one would have been able to have made good use of large identity theft.
Identity theft is a growth industry. The demands by government for ever increasing rights to track its citizens coupled to the fetish corporations have for tracking their customers are just now providing the means for massive, efficient criminal use of stolen identities.
There are now criminal organizations that are eagerly recruiting IT people and when the mix is right my guess is we'll see some staggering criminal activity.
Luria, A. R., the great Russian psychologist, wrote of memory and information overload in his widely known book The Mind of a Mnemonist.
The vast number of factors necessary to fathomable answers to the questions..."Are we being overloaded by knowledge? Is the number of sources growing faster than we can keep up with them?", are such that they point out the flaws inherent in the questions asked.
MARIE can interpret a range of facial expressions and gestures, and respond in ways that suggest compassion. Although her language skills are not ideal, she can recognise speech and respond clearly. Above all, she is inexpensive. Unfortunately for MARIE, however, she has one glaring trait that makes it hard for Japanese patients to accept her: she is a flesh-and-blood human being from the Philippines. If only she were a robot instead.
Your post is reasonable but it carries a message that has poped up on/. before. There seems to be a liberal guilt twist in perspective that suggests the Japanese in particular are insensitive to domestic help, especially help from the Philippines. I'm not Japanese but I've had considerable exposure to domestic help and my experience doesn't support an open, friendly relationship with domestic help just because they're working, and, possibly living in your home.
Hiring people to clean, maintain the yard, care for older family members is very difficult. Having people in your home shouldn't imply a need to make nice and stop off for a chat whenever you run into one another. I'm a night person and a morning grouch. I even avoid family members in the mornning. I want to get to the kitchen, fill a coffee mug, grab a banana or something and head back to my room to stare out the window until the coffee kicks in and I can check messages. Running into someone cleaning or whatever is a pain, if I can dismiss a goodmorning from my mom with a grunt why do I have to be polite and engaging to someone earning a buck. Yet the/. groupthink seems to suggest the Japanese are somehow insensitive because they don't smother domestic help with hugs and kisses.
Plus people hired as domestic help aren't often all that nice, I mean, they're as nice as anyone dealing with the person signing their cheque but that doesn't mean their nice people. At the age of 5 I had a nanny tell me my parents were going to sell me because I was a horrible child. My crime? I ate the last orange at the cottage and the fat bitch wanted it for herself. Fortunately my older sister heard, told my parents, and the nanny was gone in a flash.In another instance, just out of school, I had a Pilippino (sp?) shove a full binder of pictures in my face. Each picture was of a young, single Philipino girl who wanted to come to Canada as a "domestic". When I pointed out how twisted I thought it was for her to be propositioning me in the name of her friends she said they were her friends and she had to help them.
My point? Don't get all bent out of shape about how inhumane help is treated and how those who do have to deal with domestic help might often rather deal with a machine.
Dealing with domestic help is difficult and each person has to adjust to having nonfamily members in their home in their own way. If you're too nice you'll find yourself being asked to recommend unknown people to others. Then there's my ex wife who, when we hired our first cleaning lady, told me as I was heading out the door to "tidy up". Why? The cleaning lady's coming. The response, "well I don't want her to think we live like pigs".?????
While some species show an ability to use makeshift "tools", we as a species are tool makers. We fashion artifacts equisitely suited to a purpose. Those who now speak of adapting well and quickly to new technology as addiction would likely speak of earlier Europeans as "addicted" to firearms.
An addiction is a reliance that is detrimental to an individual's homeostatic health.
The crap journalism that flashes hot terms to flaunt specious thinking to sell advertising space may be a better description of addiction than the wide, successful adoption of new technology by a large segment of the population.
I stopped using Symantec Products when I moved on from Windows 98 as a multimedia/game/web OS. Symatec products burrowed too deep into the OS, were impossible to elegantly uninstall, and, the Norton Tool set really wasn't as necessary as it once was.
I figured Peter had unfolded his arms, dressed in a dinner jacket, and, gone out to celebrate having become one of the nouveau riche.
My biggest beef is not with the AV makers, but, rather, with the retail sales people who sell AV software and tell unknowledgeable buyers that their system is now protected against all malware, because, superduper AV ware scans everything before you use it and ensures no malware can execute.
I try to explain to people that AV is alot like a flu shot. It's good enough to give you some protection from the bugs we know are out there but is ineffective against the new, bad stuff coming down the pike.
Part of the deal that had my parents paying for my education was an undergraduate, course load heavy in Economics, Commmerce and Business Law. Having the tools to gain some perspective in how large organizations run, it's instructive to look into the internals of a giant, once prestigious organization like Los Alamos and try to trace the systemic flaws that led to it's current plight.
I play the attentive, successful son encased in emotional armour. My mother wields guilt like a rapier cutting through any protective armour I've constructed over the years and bleeds me emotionally dry to the point of a death by a thousand cuts. My older sister plays the perfect daughter while casting down upon me a litany of aspersions recounting my every wrong doing. My father plays God, distant but willing on a moment notice to bring down justice in the voice of command.
As always my saving strategy is to drink heavily, hopefully inconspicously, while waiting for the Good Mother, the Saintly Daughter and the Rigtheous Father to fall asleep and allow me to spark up a phat doobie on the deck and watch the ocean rock the Christmas lights strung on the masts of the sail boats.
...the day that IE7 comes out with it's phishing filter.
The Applied Cryto Group has had two anti phising extensions out for some time. One is for IE and Firefox, the other is for IE only.
From the site: "SpoofGuard is a browser plug in that is compatible with Microsoft Internet Explore. SpoofGuard places a traffic light in your browser toolbar that turns from green to yellow to red as you navigate to a spoof site. If you try to enter sensitive information into a form from a spoof site, SpoofGuard will save your data and warn you. SpoofGuard warnings occur when alarm indicators reach a level that depends on parameters that are set by the user"
I only use IE to download MS patches and updates so I've not installed SpoofGuard. I've used the Firefox extension for sometime now.
From the site: "PwdHash is an browser extension that transparently converts a user's password into a domain-specific password. The user can activate this hashing by choosing passwords that start with a special prefix (@@) or by pressing a special password key (F2). PwdHash automatically replaces the contents of these password fields with a one-way hash of the pair (password, domain-name). As a result, the site only sees a domain-specific hash of the password, as opposed to the password itself. A break-in at a low security site exposes password hashes rather than an actual password. We emphasize that the hash function we use is public and can be computed on any machine which enables users to login to their web accounts from any machine in the world. Hashing is done using a Pseudo Random Function (PRF)."
"Phishing protection. A major benefit of PwdHash is that it provides a defense against password phishing scams. In a phishing scam, users are directed to a spoof web site where they are asked to enter their username and password. SpoofGuard is a browser extension that alerts the user when a phishing page is encountered. PwdHash complements SpoofGuard in defending users from phishng scams: using PwdHash the phisher only sees a hash of the password specific to the domain hosting the spoof page. This hash is useless at the site that the phisher intended to spoof."
Personally I find prudence and a healthy dose of incredulity to be the best antiphising measures.
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You got spyware. I wish I had spyware. I just want the time to be somebody's bitch... /. goatse trolls need not apply.
Ubuntu
4) Enough about Apple. Google will continue to roll out new products and services as it builds out its infrastructure for a huge push in 2007. They'll need money, of course, so I predict a supplemental stock offering timed with a 20-to-1 stock split. 2006 is a building year for Google.
I don't know on this one. By coincidence I was recently coddling, Yesh my preciousisess, my worn copy of Security Analysis: Principles and Technique by Benjamin Graham, David L. Dodd, Sidney Cottle, Charles Tatham. This is the goto book on investment fundamentals, that guy Warrant Buffy, or something like that, you know the guy who owns the Hathaway shirt company, learned the basics of investment from this book. IMHO there is no way to go about investing without first coming to terms with the knowledge contained in 'Security Analysis: Principles and Technique'. But I'm unsure as to how B. Graham would have parsed Google stocks. In 60's parlance Google would be a go-go stock and might have been shunned by Graham. Also I'm unsure as to Buffet's take on Google. Does the Berkshire Hathaway fund hole any Google stock? Maybe Google will split when the Berkshire Hathaway fund splits. :)
Named after Nikolai I Vavilov, a Russian biologist, botanist and geneticist, the Institute's seed collections were largely built by Vavilov who scoured five continents in the 1920s and 1930s for wild and cultivated corn, potato tubers, grains, beans, fodder, fruits and vegetable seeds.
Hitler's army blockaded Leningrad (now St Petersburg). Under German fire, scientists gathered unripened potato tubers from the Institute's experimental fields outside Leningrad. They burned everything they could find to keep the collection from freezing in the building.
While guarding the collection, some scientists starved to death rather than eat the packets of rice, corn and other seeds in their desks.
Preparation
Prevents
Poor
Performance.
Engineers can work technological wonders to mitigate against accidents and protect passengers in accidents, but the fact remains the majority of people freeze in an emergency situation or freak out. Those who can keep their heads in emergency situations expose themselves to the training and experience that will allow them to survive, perhaps in spite of the engineering.
What's being tapped here are reckless investors. Personally I'm sticking with cold fusion.
The above gives an introduction to phase change as it is considered in terms of Complexity Theory. Approaching phase change through complexity theory, even for an outsider like myself, gives insight into how far reaching are the results of insight into phase change.
It's unlikely that isolationist nations can survive because trade secrets and laws protecting IP aren't sufficient to stop the flow of knowledge. The requirement is to stay competitive. Staying competitive requires a series of tradeoffs including bringing in cheaper labour.
Bite the bullet, it's better than the alternative of isolationist states at a constant threat of war.
Guys like Edward De Bono have made a career by claiming to have the inside track on creative learning. I've studied epistemology since my mid teens and in answer to the question 'what is learning?' I've acquired a vast ignorance. Ultimately, for me, learning is a nurtured drive with inherent requirements, that is nourished by the new, by information, difference that makes a difference (Bateson). The high of learning comes when one recognizes that nature has given rise to you, an individual with the potential to encompass the principles of life in the small shell that houses your brain.The truth is most people are driven by the more primitive drives and default to being entertained.
Gregory Bateson suggested we can learn to learn, possibly learn to learn to learn; but, first we must experience what it means to learn. I believe that learning is a unique multifaceted experience that, once experienced, can, depending on the individual, entice the practioner ever onward.
The day my older sister took me by the hand and walked me into the nearest library I was hooked. I knew how to, read, loved to read, but had no idea of the universes of knowledge available. Yet even into grade 1 I stubbornly refused to learn to write. I read, I had lots to read, other people were doing the writing, what need had I to write?
Whatever learning is, whether it be as simple as deriving new patterns, or, as profound as Archimedes' Eureka!, we first must introduce children to the joy of learning. Most of them can take it from there.
just my loose change.
Stress is the main trigger of my migraines. I've also found dehydration can play a part.
My best remedy is early recognition of the onset of a migraine and quick remedial action.
If sleep isn't possible, then rest is a good second choice.
I'm in front of a monitor easily 10 hrs a day and often more. I wear glasses and find breaks to exercise the eyes are a good idea. I was taught a range of exercises but now I just roll my eyeballs around every which way while changing focus. I take extended breaks in blocks of two weeks when possible.
The only lock I've had on migraine prevention is extreme physical conditioning. I've been through periods of working out ~4 hours a day, extended wilderness hiking and extended cycling trips (3plus thousand Ks). There is no pain medication equal to endorphines and no high better. FWIW.
Good luck with the migraines, at least you acquired a high pain tolerance. ;)
Somewhere in the dusty recesses of the library stacks I came across writings that suggested many early northern european peoples practised cannibalism as was evidenced by the skulls of victims being halved to get at the brains. The National Geographic article suggests modern cannibals fed the brains to women and children as less desirable, but, for examples, grizziles feeding on migrating salmon will feed exclusivley on the brains once their initial hunger is sated.
My culinary perversion only extended to a one time feeding on beef tartare. I kinda liked it.
Rule 2: Replace bad product with good product.
The underlying rule would seem to be, keep them coming back for more.
Mr. McGuire: "I want to say one word to you. Just one word."
Benjamin: "Yes, sir."
Mr. McGuire: "Are you listening?"
Benjamin: "Yes, I am."
Mr. McGuire: "Plastics."
My question is, if Einstein or his equivalent had a job today as a patent clerk at the USPTO, would his mind withstand the onslaught of incomprehensible patents and go onto to do great work. Could even an Einstein make the USPTO right?
Not that I, by any stretch of imagination or schooling have the right to comment, but, I will.
No, there aren't many who are at the level of Heifitz.
As an aside, your post and profession provide me with an opportunity to ask if you know whether an anecdote I've heard is apocryphal. I was told Fritz Kreisler loved the night life and hated to practise. On occasion he shared the stage with Sergei Rachmaninov who would request Kreisler put in some audition time only to be brushed off. During a joint performance Kreisler lost his place and while improvising leaned into Rachmaninov and asked: "Sergi, where are we?". Rachmaninov was said to have tersely replied: "Carnegie Hall ."
True, or apocryphal? Do you know?
Second being able to find everything about everything isn't a good thing. Bertrand Russell pointed out that one is better served becoming intimately knowledgeable of a handfull of books on any given subject than to have a passing familiarity with all available material on the subject at hand.To know a subject one has to have a foundation from which to work. The hallmark of a journey workperson is a fundamental understanding of the principles that inform the work.
Ambient Findability seems to me to be yet another guide for the social gadfly, catchphrases abound, and, the ever aspiring social/corporate climber can jump on or off board any bandwagon by instanteously accessing the prevalent catchphrases served up in a pablum formula that allows for quick regurgitation.
The best thing that can be said for such approaches is that they draw off the pop culture adulators and papprazzi, allowing easier navigation for those who know their stuff and where they're going.
Identity theft is a growth industry. The demands by government for ever increasing rights to track its citizens coupled to the fetish corporations have for tracking their customers are just now providing the means for massive, efficient criminal use of stolen identities.
There are now criminal organizations that are eagerly recruiting IT people and when the mix is right my guess is we'll see some staggering criminal activity.
The vast number of factors necessary to fathomable answers to the questions..."Are we being overloaded by knowledge? Is the number of sources growing faster than we can keep up with them?", are such that they point out the flaws inherent in the questions asked.
Your post is reasonable but it carries a message that has poped up on /. before. There seems to be a liberal guilt twist in perspective that suggests the Japanese in particular are insensitive to domestic help, especially help from the Philippines. I'm not Japanese but I've had considerable exposure to domestic help and my experience doesn't support an open, friendly relationship with domestic help just because they're working, and, possibly living in your home.
Hiring people to clean, maintain the yard, care for older family members is very difficult. Having people in your home shouldn't imply a need to make nice and stop off for a chat whenever you run into one another. I'm a night person and a morning grouch. I even avoid family members in the mornning. I want to get to the kitchen, fill a coffee mug, grab a banana or something and head back to my room to stare out the window until the coffee kicks in and I can check messages. Running into someone cleaning or whatever is a pain, if I can dismiss a goodmorning from my mom with a grunt why do I have to be polite and engaging to someone earning a buck. Yet the /. groupthink seems to suggest the Japanese are somehow insensitive because they don't smother domestic help with hugs and kisses.
Plus people hired as domestic help aren't often all that nice, I mean, they're as nice as anyone dealing with the person signing their cheque but that doesn't mean their nice people. At the age of 5 I had a nanny tell me my parents were going to sell me because I was a horrible child. My crime? I ate the last orange at the cottage and the fat bitch wanted it for herself. Fortunately my older sister heard, told my parents, and the nanny was gone in a flash.In another instance, just out of school, I had a Pilippino (sp?) shove a full binder of pictures in my face. Each picture was of a young, single Philipino girl who wanted to come to Canada as a "domestic". When I pointed out how twisted I thought it was for her to be propositioning me in the name of her friends she said they were her friends and she had to help them.
My point? Don't get all bent out of shape about how inhumane help is treated and how those who do have to deal with domestic help might often rather deal with a machine.
Dealing with domestic help is difficult and each person has to adjust to having nonfamily members in their home in their own way. If you're too nice you'll find yourself being asked to recommend unknown people to others. Then there's my ex wife who, when we hired our first cleaning lady, told me as I was heading out the door to "tidy up". Why? The cleaning lady's coming. The response, "well I don't want her to think we live like pigs".?????
Maybe because they are too busy dealing with Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and all those other giant radioactive monstrosities.
An addiction is a reliance that is detrimental to an individual's homeostatic health.
The crap journalism that flashes hot terms to flaunt specious thinking to sell advertising space may be a better description of addiction than the wide, successful adoption of new technology by a large segment of the population.
Jump-Starting a Cellular World: Investigating the Origin of Life, from Soup to Networks gives a quick overview and update on the most recent research.
I figured Peter had unfolded his arms, dressed in a dinner jacket, and, gone out to celebrate having become one of the nouveau riche.
My biggest beef is not with the AV makers, but, rather, with the retail sales people who sell AV software and tell unknowledgeable buyers that their system is now protected against all malware, because, superduper AV ware scans everything before you use it and ensures no malware can execute.
I try to explain to people that AV is alot like a flu shot. It's good enough to give you some protection from the bugs we know are out there but is ineffective against the new, bad stuff coming down the pike.
Part of the deal that had my parents paying for my education was an undergraduate, course load heavy in Economics, Commmerce and Business Law. Having the tools to gain some perspective in how large organizations run, it's instructive to look into the internals of a giant, once prestigious organization like Los Alamos and try to trace the systemic flaws that led to it's current plight.
As always my saving strategy is to drink heavily, hopefully inconspicously, while waiting for the Good Mother, the Saintly Daughter and the Rigtheous Father to fall asleep and allow me to spark up a phat doobie on the deck and watch the ocean rock the Christmas lights strung on the masts of the sail boats.
The Applied Cryto Group has had two anti phising extensions out for some time. One is for IE and Firefox, the other is for IE only.
From the site: " SpoofGuard is a browser plug in that is compatible with Microsoft Internet Explore. SpoofGuard places a traffic light in your browser toolbar that turns from green to yellow to red as you navigate to a spoof site. If you try to enter sensitive information into a form from a spoof site, SpoofGuard will save your data and warn you. SpoofGuard warnings occur when alarm indicators reach a level that depends on parameters that are set by the user"
I only use IE to download MS patches and updates so I've not installed SpoofGuard. I've used the Firefox extension for sometime now.
From the site: "PwdHash is an browser extension that transparently converts a user's password into a domain-specific password. The user can activate this hashing by choosing passwords that start with a special prefix (@@) or by pressing a special password key (F2). PwdHash automatically replaces the contents of these password fields with a one-way hash of the pair (password, domain-name). As a result, the site only sees a domain-specific hash of the password, as opposed to the password itself. A break-in at a low security site exposes password hashes rather than an actual password. We emphasize that the hash function we use is public and can be computed on any machine which enables users to login to their web accounts from any machine in the world. Hashing is done using a Pseudo Random Function (PRF)."
"Phishing protection. A major benefit of PwdHash is that it provides a defense against password phishing scams. In a phishing scam, users are directed to a spoof web site where they are asked to enter their username and password. SpoofGuard is a browser extension that alerts the user when a phishing page is encountered. PwdHash complements SpoofGuard in defending users from phishng scams: using PwdHash the phisher only sees a hash of the password specific to the domain hosting the spoof page. This hash is useless at the site that the phisher intended to spoof."
Personally I find prudence and a healthy dose of incredulity to be the best antiphising measures.