How? Has "everyone here on Slashdot" laid hands on that server and inspected its configuration themselves? Or is "everyone here on Slashdot" just taking the operator's word about it?
Get the games companies to release Linux version of their big titles
Give them money. The Linux market isn't big enough to justify the development man-hours it would cost.
And that's before you consider the Linux market's tendency to want to write their own GPL version of any application rather than actually pay money for closed source. Can we say "Penguin of Duty?"
I’d also set up Hotmail to import all my Gmail and its associated contacts. Not to mention the Facebook and LinkedIn contacts that Hotmail merges into your online address book.
Meaning that all these online services contained the password information for all the other services. Even if different passwords were used for each, the linkages between them all would allow a chain reaction if just one was compromised.
In fact, in the screenshot, I note he has an email about his Google account password being changed. I don't link my Hotmail and Gmail accounts, so I don't know, but does the Hotmail interface even display stored passwords?
but as that email address was also used as my iTunes login, I wanted to change that password as well.
How much of a problem would that be? Unless, of course, they also had the same password...
So I now had three new passwords – all using slightly different systems – swimming round my slightly inebriated brain, and I can’t even remember the name of my news editor when I’m sober.
That sounds an awful lot like he didn't already have a system for maintaining separate passwords for separate services.
For those of you inquiring about the strength of my Hotmail password – it was a seven-letter string of lowercase letters. Not a dictionary word, but part acronym, part proper noun.
Being coy about what his former password was may indicate that the very same password is still in use elsewhere.
In the end: an unauthorized user accessed his Hotmail account, but I'm not seeing any strong evidence that it was Hotmail itself that got compromised.
You can avoid condoms safely... you just have to avoid having sex with people you can't say are certainly uninfected, abstaining entirely if you must.
And, similarly, you can safely avoid antivirus software provided you abstain from connecting your computer to anything, and pre-screening any and all new software on a system that does have anti-malware tools.
But the people who avoid anti-malware software because of performance issues also tend to be the ones engaging in the riskiest behavior, such as connecting to random LANs for gaming. And so the ones who proudly boast this behavior should be avoided like the plague-carriers they are.
Avoiding anti-malware in order to "enhance performance" is about as rational and well-planned as avoiding condoms for the same reason, and generally produces the same results.
No. "A bomb will explode, at $location and $time." In each instance, a clear and specific threat was made, by someone claiming to be the perpetrator.
All of the users of this particular service.
No. The "service provider." Users of other anonymous mailers are unaffected, and these other anonymous mailers are still available to the affected parties.
A threat is not the exact same thing as actual violence.
By your definition, pointing a gun at someone's face (a/k/a "assault with a deadly weapon") isn't violence unless and until you pull the trigger?
Your libertarian fantasy would have every mob enforcer walk free.
In only one of those scenarios someone actually got punched in the face.
Congratulations, you've just found the difference between assault and battery. But in both scenarios (provided the victim saw it coming), the victim was...
No, if I'm going to copypasta anything, it will be what I just wrote:
Then you need to re-read the legal definition of assault.
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everyone here on slashdot knew
How? Has "everyone here on Slashdot" laid hands on that server and inspected its configuration themselves? Or is "everyone here on Slashdot" just taking the operator's word about it?
Mozilla enforcing a copyright on JavaScript.
If social media websites are making a mint off of harvesting personal information, it's high time their users started seeing some money as well.
It's up to the service providers to police their own services, and I feel no pity for them.
Get the games companies to release Linux version of their big titles
Give them money. The Linux market isn't big enough to justify the development man-hours it would cost.
And that's before you consider the Linux market's tendency to want to write their own GPL version of any application rather than actually pay money for closed source. Can we say "Penguin of Duty?"
My Excel-ent PowerPoint says otherwise.
I may not be a music expert but I know what I like.
I’d also set up Hotmail to import all my Gmail and its associated contacts. Not to mention the Facebook and LinkedIn contacts that Hotmail merges into your online address book.
Meaning that all these online services contained the password information for all the other services. Even if different passwords were used for each, the linkages between them all would allow a chain reaction if just one was compromised.
In fact, in the screenshot, I note he has an email about his Google account password being changed. I don't link my Hotmail and Gmail accounts, so I don't know, but does the Hotmail interface even display stored passwords?
but as that email address was also used as my iTunes login, I wanted to change that password as well.
How much of a problem would that be? Unless, of course, they also had the same password...
So I now had three new passwords – all using slightly different systems – swimming round my slightly inebriated brain, and I can’t even remember the name of my news editor when I’m sober.
That sounds an awful lot like he didn't already have a system for maintaining separate passwords for separate services.
For those of you inquiring about the strength of my Hotmail password – it was a seven-letter string of lowercase letters. Not a dictionary word, but part acronym, part proper noun.
Being coy about what his former password was may indicate that the very same password is still in use elsewhere.
In the end: an unauthorized user accessed his Hotmail account, but I'm not seeing any strong evidence that it was Hotmail itself that got compromised.
The correct way to do it would be if the industry paid for this service.
Which "industry?" The industry of the auditor? The industry of the auditee? The industry of the equipment manufacturer?
You're leaving the realm of "standards" and "fees" and entering the realm of "regulations" and "taxes."
4) brute force the password, knowing that only 3 bytes are unique to the device.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
As markets shut their doors to US beef, the disease is far more likely to affect your 401k than your brain.
Since the meter is defined as the distance light travels in 1/299792458 second
You forgot "in a vacuum."
You can avoid condoms safely... you just have to avoid having sex with people you can't say are certainly uninfected, abstaining entirely if you must.
And, similarly, you can safely avoid antivirus software provided you abstain from connecting your computer to anything, and pre-screening any and all new software on a system that does have anti-malware tools.
But the people who avoid anti-malware software because of performance issues also tend to be the ones engaging in the riskiest behavior, such as connecting to random LANs for gaming. And so the ones who proudly boast this behavior should be avoided like the plague-carriers they are.
I like your analogy to condoms. I don't use them because there are better solutions to birth control.
/facepalm
you can avoid it altogether by making better choices when it comes to the software that you run on your computer
"She looks clean."
Where we had dumped cathode ray tubes for flat, liquid crystal displays
Which only work well with one particular resolution and don't handle interlaced legacy content well at all and...
wait, what?
Whatever makes you feel better, just remember to pull out before the scripts load; that always works.
I haven't encountered a single Mac that was infected yet
Did you actually look, or do you simply equate "no complaints from the end-user" with "not infected?"
Avoiding anti-malware in order to "enhance performance" is about as rational and well-planned as avoiding condoms for the same reason, and generally produces the same results.
As always on Slashdot, +5 anecdotes trump data.
"Finding the right tool for the job" doesn't seem to fit into either of your categories.
US-style 'controlling the message'.
Quoth TFS:
the newspaper had already called up a NASA scientist and got all the info they asked for; it took about 15 minutes.
Maybe it's not as "US-style" as you think it is.
It's just a threat. "A bomb might explode."
No. "A bomb will explode, at $location and $time." In each instance, a clear and specific threat was made, by someone claiming to be the perpetrator.
All of the users of this particular service.
No. The "service provider." Users of other anonymous mailers are unaffected, and these other anonymous mailers are still available to the affected parties.
A threat is not the exact same thing as actual violence.
By your definition, pointing a gun at someone's face (a/k/a "assault with a deadly weapon") isn't violence unless and until you pull the trigger?
Your libertarian fantasy would have every mob enforcer walk free.
In only one of those scenarios someone actually got punched in the face.
Congratulations, you've just found the difference between assault and battery. But in both scenarios (provided the victim saw it coming), the victim was...
No, if I'm going to copypasta anything, it will be what I just wrote:
Then you need to re-read the legal definition of assault.
Last I checked, a threat of violence is not actual violence
Then you need to re-read the legal definition of assault.
You're comparing "someone, somewhere, something bad might happen involving an airplane" to "a bomb will explode in ABC building on XYZ date."
You're also comparing "everyone" to "the users of this particular service provider."