Uhh, you can reset your voicemail password and access your account info from the website. That means by gaining access to the website, you gain access to all of that.
The firewall is cumbersome and difficult to deal with; the popup blocker isn't much better.
What the hell are you talking about? The firewall is one of the simplest firewalls in existence, and it's incredibly easy to deal with. It's also incredibly easy to disable if you don't want/need the protection it offers. The popup blocker is the same way.
Would you mind qualifying that incredibly outrageous statement?
It doesn't list VNC as spyware. It detects it, mentions what it's used for, and asks if it should be removed. VNC can easily be used to spy on people without their knowledge or consent. If someone snuck VNC onto your computer, it's great that AntiSpyware lets you know about it. If not, two clicks tells AntiSpyware to ignore VNC forever.
Jesus Christ, you act like it just goes ahead and deletes VNC without even asking. I think it's great that it lists VNC. You are just too self-centered to see the reasoning behind it.
The USB ports are active (but useless) on the latest version of the DirecTV DVR software. The Home Media software is also on there, but hidden. Everything is in place for HMO to be activated on DirecTV DVRs. Rumors are that it won't be too much longer.
How dare you sir! This is Slashdot, the home of M$-bashers worldwide. If anything comes out that portrays Microsoft in a negative light, it is absolutely headline news! It doesn't matter if the number of infections is 0-49, or if the threat barely even exists. It is negative, so it is good!
There are lots of kids running linux boxes which are poorly managed. One of these days a swarm of them will be hacked with much negative publicity. It will be interesting to observe the reaction.
The reaction will be to blame the users for not patching. This is Linux here! It's not like we're talking about M$. M$ is evil, and even when something comes out that takes advantage of a vuln that was patched months ago (I know that the vuln discussed here is not like that, so everybody just sit back down) it's M$'s fault. But when the same thing happens with Linux, it's the user's fault. You see, it all makes perfect sense!
You just proved that MSN is better than Google, while trying to disprove it. If MSN allows me to find something that Google does not, no matter how MSN does it, MSN did a better job.
The goal of a search engine is to help people find things. MSN does a better job at finding things than Google does. Add to that the quicker updates, and you've got yourself a search engine that kicks the crap out of Google.
You bring up a good point. A search for Nigger Mania on both searches yielded the following results:
Google: The site in question was nowhere to be found in the first five pages of results.
MSN Beta: The site in question showed up as the first result.
Google did not find the site, while MSN did. I have seen this happen more than once in recent time. MSN's new search is kicking the crap out of Google.
If you're running that low on hard disk space, then you have bigger problems than the firewall. I'd estimate that the firewall adds maybe 1-2MB worth of stuff to XP. Seriously, find something more important to bitch about.
There is a certain sect of Judaism that doesn't allow it's followers to utter God's name. Something about them not being worthy or some nonsense like that.
You've got your facts completely wrong. The worm doesn't search for "NeverEverNoSanity" to try and find vulnerable hosts. Until it was released, no websites contained that term, so it would have been useless. The worm searched for "powered by phpBB", which indicates a site running phpBB that could be vulnerable. Google still returns results for that search, which shows that they are not doing anything to try and stop the worm.
But, as you said, the reason MSN works and Google doesn't is simple: MSN updates faster than Google does. Period.
Later, when I went to power down that box, it came up with a warning, telling me that it was downloading patches and installing them and DO NOT POWER DOWN or risk damage to the system
You are a god damned lying sack of shit. The rest of your post is total bullshit too, but that one part just stuck out the most. Fucking retard.
A default home LAN has a public and private IP address? No. But ignoring that error, if a user is going to be using IIS, hopefully they're knowledgeable enough to configure it how they want it. If they're not, then they shouldn't be using a webserver, be it IIS, Apache, or anything else.
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Uhh, you can reset your voicemail password and access your account info from the website. That means by gaining access to the website, you gain access to all of that.
You can't go off of the things you experienced in the beta. Lots of things got fixed.
The firewall is cumbersome and difficult to deal with; the popup blocker isn't much better.
What the hell are you talking about? The firewall is one of the simplest firewalls in existence, and it's incredibly easy to deal with. It's also incredibly easy to disable if you don't want/need the protection it offers. The popup blocker is the same way.
Would you mind qualifying that incredibly outrageous statement?
It doesn't list VNC as spyware. It detects it, mentions what it's used for, and asks if it should be removed. VNC can easily be used to spy on people without their knowledge or consent. If someone snuck VNC onto your computer, it's great that AntiSpyware lets you know about it. If not, two clicks tells AntiSpyware to ignore VNC forever.
Jesus Christ, you act like it just goes ahead and deletes VNC without even asking. I think it's great that it lists VNC. You are just too self-centered to see the reasoning behind it.
One of those 12 security patches was for... wait for it... this problem! You can stop your clock now.
Look again. He did bold the 's' in places. Now who's the one lacking intellectual fortitude...
Here's just one example, a search for time clock: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=time+clock
Google puts sponsored links above (yes, on top of, not only to the right) some of their search results too. It's certainly not exclusive to MSN.
And look what happens when you spell circumspect elephantiasis correctly:
MSN: 747 results
Google: 146 results
MSN wins again. Not surprising.
ClearChannel used to own part of XM, but they don't anymore.
Actually, ClearChannel sold off their entire share of XM a while ago.
The USB ports are active (but useless) on the latest version of the DirecTV DVR software. The Home Media software is also on there, but hidden. Everything is in place for HMO to be activated on DirecTV DVRs. Rumors are that it won't be too much longer.
How dare you sir! This is Slashdot, the home of M$-bashers worldwide. If anything comes out that portrays Microsoft in a negative light, it is absolutely headline news! It doesn't matter if the number of infections is 0-49, or if the threat barely even exists. It is negative, so it is good!
There are lots of kids running linux boxes which are poorly managed. One of these days a swarm of them will be hacked with much negative publicity. It will be interesting to observe the reaction.
The reaction will be to blame the users for not patching. This is Linux here! It's not like we're talking about M$. M$ is evil, and even when something comes out that takes advantage of a vuln that was patched months ago (I know that the vuln discussed here is not like that, so everybody just sit back down) it's M$'s fault. But when the same thing happens with Linux, it's the user's fault. You see, it all makes perfect sense!
IE isn't taking up any resources unless it's running. Stop spreading FUD.
You just proved that MSN is better than Google, while trying to disprove it. If MSN allows me to find something that Google does not, no matter how MSN does it, MSN did a better job.
The goal of a search engine is to help people find things. MSN does a better job at finding things than Google does. Add to that the quicker updates, and you've got yourself a search engine that kicks the crap out of Google.
You bring up a good point. A search for Nigger Mania on both searches yielded the following results:
Google: The site in question was nowhere to be found in the first five pages of results.
MSN Beta: The site in question showed up as the first result.
Google did not find the site, while MSN did. I have seen this happen more than once in recent time. MSN's new search is kicking the crap out of Google.
If you're running that low on hard disk space, then you have bigger problems than the firewall. I'd estimate that the firewall adds maybe 1-2MB worth of stuff to XP. Seriously, find something more important to bitch about.
The Windows Firewall has been included with XP since SP1. If you don't want it, just turn it off.
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There is a certain sect of Judaism that doesn't allow it's followers to utter God's name. Something about them not being worthy or some nonsense like that.
You've got your facts completely wrong. The worm doesn't search for "NeverEverNoSanity" to try and find vulnerable hosts. Until it was released, no websites contained that term, so it would have been useless. The worm searched for "powered by phpBB", which indicates a site running phpBB that could be vulnerable. Google still returns results for that search, which shows that they are not doing anything to try and stop the worm.
But, as you said, the reason MSN works and Google doesn't is simple: MSN updates faster than Google does. Period.
That's an outright lie. I can't believe a mod was dumb enough to mod that BS up.
Later, when I went to power down that box, it came up with a warning, telling me that it was downloading patches and installing them and DO NOT POWER DOWN or risk damage to the system
You are a god damned lying sack of shit. The rest of your post is total bullshit too, but that one part just stuck out the most. Fucking retard.
A default home LAN has a public and private IP address? No. But ignoring that error, if a user is going to be using IIS, hopefully they're knowledgeable enough to configure it how they want it. If they're not, then they shouldn't be using a webserver, be it IIS, Apache, or anything else.