End-to-end specifically means that Facebook can't read it, if it is implemented as they say.
Lol, yes, if it's "as they say", and goodness gracious, Facebook would never tell a fib, not with hundreds of millions of dollars of ad revenue at stake!
Found the Norton user. Lol, just kidding. If you had Norton running you'd be unable to browse the web, let alone post on slashdot.
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I'd prefer a separate tool to fully remove, rather than the normal Windows Uninstall being programatically accessible.
That just means the malware would have to find a way to spoof that. It's not a solution, it's a minor impediment as long as the system has write privileges.
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(hey, how about we bring DIP switches back and require them to be flipped to write to BIOS again)
Actually I'd be all in favor of this, and I'm dead serious. For something like BIOS updates and changes, I'd very much like to have a physical switch that can't be manipulated by software no matter what it wants.
Actually, this move makes sense considering Facebook is currently trying to get people to use Messenger to interact with other parts of their life including _banking_:
Lol, if I had a facebook page, the last thing I'd ever do is let it "interact" with my bank account in any way, shape, or form.
You are absolutely right. What you put on Facebook is of no value whatsoever. You have nothing to regret giving it to us. We just like collecting meaningless chatter and none of our client advertisers have the slightest interest in it. - Mark Zuckerberg
I remember that shit being so bad that at one point I had to hunt-down a third party program just to remove it since it was clearly designed as a virus itself...
Yeah, Norton had to write a tool just to remove their own shit.
The "Norton Removal Tool" is still available from the Norton site, which should tell people all they need to know about Norton.
It's time to go back to paying with cash for these kinds of purchases.
Wait, you're paying for trivial garbage with your card? Welcome to the land of increased attack opportunities.
No, I was referring to people in general, not myself specifically.
Personally I almost always pay in cash for minor items or small consumables. For larger items I use a credit card so I can do a chargeback if necessary.
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The bigger the purchase is, the more I want to make it with cash. The more a bank is involved, the dirtier and more at risk I feel.
For larger items where I may end up with service issues or need to return it, I always use a card. It gives you major leverage with the store if something goes wrong.
For example, I bought a $300 digital camera from Best Buy and then flew off for vacation the next day. The camera stopped working after 3 days. The country I'd flown to doesn't have Best Buy stores so there was no way for me to return it until after I got back. When I got back and tried to return it for a new one, Best Buy told me they wouldn't take it back as it was several days past the return period. "Sorry, nothing we can do. Have a nice day."
I told them, "Okay, but I'm going contact my credit card company and tell them to charge it back. Then I'll have the camera AND the your money, and then you'll want to talk with me about an exchange." Best Buy refused to budge.
So I charged it back, and sure as shit the next day Best Buy called me up, and they were so very, very nice about asking me to please come in so they could exchange the non-working camera for a new one, "because we want to make sure you're fully satisfied with your Best Buy experience". Lol, yeah, right.
If I'd paid in cash or by debit card they would have told me to fuck off. I know this because that's exactly what they did until I charged the purchase back. Then, suddenly, they were all about me having a "good experience" buying shit from them.
I did go in, I did get a new camera, and then I told the credit card company that Best Buy had made it right so they could cancel the chargeback.
But like I said, it I'd paid in cash I'd have been screwed. Always use a card for larger purchases- it gives you the ultimate leverage in the transaction.
But this is a problem I believe the markets and courts actually could handle.
Yeah, don't try to prevent a problem or the deaths that might occur from it, just let the survivors sue in court after they've lost their child or spouse!
So we don't need to ever protect consumers from dangerous food either - if it kills you, you simply won't buy it the next time!
Exactly. The magical "invisible hand" of the "free market" at work!
This is the blind spot most libertarians have: they never stop to think that they might be the ones getting fucked, it'll always be the other guy. It'll never be YOUR wife or YOUR child who dies from some untested medication or contaminated food or unsafe electrical appliance.
It'll always be some other guy whose wife or kid dies, and then the Magical Invisible Hand Of The Free Market will punish that company and force them out of business, so they'll be safe, right?
But it won't be your wife or your kid, no way. And if it IS your kid or your wife, well shucks, you can just take them to court for damages, right? Because that's the magical Libertarian answer to any problem that occurs: don't try to prevent a problem from occurring through regulation or legislation, just sue someone after something bad happens!
"The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, has ordered the Federal Security Service (FSB) to produce "encryption keys" to decrypt all data on the internet, and the FSB has two weeks to do it"
Lol, and I also want a magic box that produces an endless supply of tasty, tasty unicorn-scented donuts, the kind with sprinkles on top. And it has to run forever without any electricity or ingredients, too. And I want a big red yacht that can fly to orbit, has artificial gravity, and a tennis court the size of the Atlantic Ocean.
"I could care less" means exactly the same as "I couldn't care less"
Errr, no it doesn't. Idiomatic or not, they have different meanings.
I know the unwashed masses are too busy taking selfies to care, but when someone uses "I could care less" when they really mean "I couldn't care less", it immediately marks them as ignorant, sloppy, hard of thinking, or just plain stupid.
Nobody's using your credit card to open a new line of credit or steal your identity. Then need a fair bit more data than what's encoded on the card's magstripe for that.
No, but they can leverage that data to get more information, and then the fun begins. I've seen it happen to people I know.
So what? It doesn't cost you anything other than a 5 minute call to report an unauthorized charge and get it credited then 24-48 hrs to receive a new card. People like you just need to stop making such a big deal about it.
Then send me your credit card info and PIN. Let me charge some stuff and, like you said, all you need to do is make a 5 minute call to report the unauthorized charge.
This problem has a few pieces. First cops have the us versus them mentality. Everyone other than a cop is just a person who hasn't committed a crime yet.
Sadly, this is all too true. They've also gotten kitted up in the last few years so they all look like extras from Robocop.
The average cop cop carries a gun (often 2 guns), a Taser, military-grade pepper spray, a baton, and a knife. He or she wears a bullet-resistant vest, steel-toed shoes or boots, and has handcuffs and a radio with which to call for help.
And yet despite being armed to the teeth, he or she is terrified, simply terrified of a person in a t-shirt and shorts with a camera, or some dude who might be selling CD or single cigarettes.
American police are not taught to de-escalate situations, they're taught that they must allow NO resistance or uncooperativeness. Telling them "no" to almost anything they want will set them off on a rampage.
How many users is it, and what is the source of your data?
I confess, I didn't commission an independent study to count them all one-by-one, but a google search for "memory leak in firefox" brings back 1.8 million results. Lets say that 99% of them are bullshit or irrelevant. That's still 180,000 users who are apparently complaining about or discussing memory leaks. And we all know that for every person who complains, there are probably 10 who either don't what's wrong or who just muddle through. Either way, there are a lot of people who've been complaining about memory leaks in Firefox for years. If you're not one of them, congratulations. But that doesn't mean there isn't a problem.
So what? It doesn't cost you anything other than a 5 minute call to report an unauthorized charge and get it credited then 24-48 hrs to receive a new card. People like you just need to stop making such a big deal about it.
Unless they use it to open up new lines of credit or steal your identity, in which case it can get pretty messy. But that's a complex concept that numptys like you can't fathom. Now go finish your Lunchable and piss off.
In general Firefox memory usage and leakiness is pretty good. Just like any other piece of consumer software, it gets into a broken state for some small number of users.
It's more than just a "small number" of users.
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But I'm sure your witless slur made you feel good.
No, what would make me feel good is if they fixed the fucking memory leaks, you assclown.
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Completely agree! But they're trying to push it for some odd reason...
Ye$, and I can't po$$ibly imagine what that rea$on could be.
That's cute that some people believe that a service that makes money from harvesting your information keeps your data private. That's very cute.
It's adorably naive. It makes me want to print out cryptizard's post and put it in a pink frame with lots of little hearts and kittens and stuff.
End-to-end specifically means that Facebook can't read it, if it is implemented as they say.
Lol, yes, if it's "as they say", and goodness gracious, Facebook would never tell a fib, not with hundreds of millions of dollars of ad revenue at stake!
Why is that a bad thing?
Found the Norton user. Lol, just kidding. If you had Norton running you'd be unable to browse the web, let alone post on slashdot.
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I'd prefer a separate tool to fully remove, rather than the normal Windows Uninstall being programatically accessible.
That just means the malware would have to find a way to spoof that. It's not a solution, it's a minor impediment as long as the system has write privileges.
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(hey, how about we bring DIP switches back and require them to be flipped to write to BIOS again)
Actually I'd be all in favor of this, and I'm dead serious. For something like BIOS updates and changes, I'd very much like to have a physical switch that can't be manipulated by software no matter what it wants.
Actually, this move makes sense considering Facebook is currently trying to get people to use Messenger to interact with other parts of their life including _banking_:
Lol, if I had a facebook page, the last thing I'd ever do is let it "interact" with my bank account in any way, shape, or form.
You are absolutely right. What you put on Facebook is of no value whatsoever. You have nothing to regret giving it to us. We just like collecting meaningless chatter and none of our client advertisers have the slightest interest in it.
- Mark Zuckerberg
I rest my case.
I remember that shit being so bad that at one point I had to hunt-down a third party program just to remove it since it was clearly designed as a virus itself...
Yeah, Norton had to write a tool just to remove their own shit.
The "Norton Removal Tool" is still available from the Norton site, which should tell people all they need to know about Norton.
This would imply that there is information of value being exchanged on Facebook; a proposition I find difficult to believe.
That's funny, Todd Davis, but your logic escapes me.
Todd Davis?? The football player?
Did I miss a reference, or...?
It's time to go back to paying with cash for these kinds of purchases.
Wait, you're paying for trivial garbage with your card? Welcome to the land of increased attack opportunities.
No, I was referring to people in general, not myself specifically.
Personally I almost always pay in cash for minor items or small consumables. For larger items I use a credit card so I can do a chargeback if necessary.
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The bigger the purchase is, the more I want to make it with cash. The more a bank is involved, the dirtier and more at risk I feel.
For larger items where I may end up with service issues or need to return it, I always use a card. It gives you major leverage with the store if something goes wrong.
For example, I bought a $300 digital camera from Best Buy and then flew off for vacation the next day. The camera stopped working after 3 days. The country I'd flown to doesn't have Best Buy stores so there was no way for me to return it until after I got back. When I got back and tried to return it for a new one, Best Buy told me they wouldn't take it back as it was several days past the return period. "Sorry, nothing we can do. Have a nice day."
I told them, "Okay, but I'm going contact my credit card company and tell them to charge it back. Then I'll have the camera AND the your money, and then you'll want to talk with me about an exchange." Best Buy refused to budge.
So I charged it back, and sure as shit the next day Best Buy called me up, and they were so very, very nice about asking me to please come in so they could exchange the non-working camera for a new one, "because we want to make sure you're fully satisfied with your Best Buy experience". Lol, yeah, right.
If I'd paid in cash or by debit card they would have told me to fuck off. I know this because that's exactly what they did until I charged the purchase back. Then, suddenly, they were all about me having a "good experience" buying shit from them.
I did go in, I did get a new camera, and then I told the credit card company that Best Buy had made it right so they could cancel the chargeback.
But like I said, it I'd paid in cash I'd have been screwed. Always use a card for larger purchases- it gives you the ultimate leverage in the transaction.
"Antivirus Software Is iIncreasingly Useless' and May Make Your Computer Less Safe"
Ignoring the typo, all I can say is, "No shit, Sherlock."
And it's been this way for at least 5 years, not including the abortion known as "Norton", which was worse than the viruses it claimed to prevent.
Their motto should have been, "Got a nice, new PC that runs really fast? No problem, Norton Antivirus can fix that!"
But this is a problem I believe the markets and courts actually could handle.
Yeah, don't try to prevent a problem or the deaths that might occur from it, just let the survivors sue in court after they've lost their child or spouse!
So we don't need to ever protect consumers from dangerous food either - if it kills you, you simply won't buy it the next time!
Exactly. The magical "invisible hand" of the "free market" at work!
This is the blind spot most libertarians have: they never stop to think that they might be the ones getting fucked, it'll always be the other guy. It'll never be YOUR wife or YOUR child who dies from some untested medication or contaminated food or unsafe electrical appliance.
It'll always be some other guy whose wife or kid dies, and then the Magical Invisible Hand Of The Free Market will punish that company and force them out of business, so they'll be safe, right?
But it won't be your wife or your kid, no way. And if it IS your kid or your wife, well shucks, you can just take them to court for damages, right? Because that's the magical Libertarian answer to any problem that occurs: don't try to prevent a problem from occurring through regulation or legislation, just sue someone after something bad happens!
Can she own a beagle or a terrier?
"The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, has ordered the Federal Security Service (FSB) to produce "encryption keys" to decrypt all data on the internet, and the FSB has two weeks to do it"
Lol, and I also want a magic box that produces an endless supply of tasty, tasty unicorn-scented donuts, the kind with sprinkles on top. And it has to run forever without any electricity or ingredients, too. And I want a big red yacht that can fly to orbit, has artificial gravity, and a tennis court the size of the Atlantic Ocean.
"I could care less" means exactly the same as "I couldn't care less"
Errr, no it doesn't. Idiomatic or not, they have different meanings.
I know the unwashed masses are too busy taking selfies to care, but when someone uses "I could care less" when they really mean "I couldn't care less", it immediately marks them as ignorant, sloppy, hard of thinking, or just plain stupid.
I don't get it; is that some kind of yo-dawg joke or something?
Think, my friend...how do most women get their minks, and realize that's how minks get minks.
No way, I simply cannot believe that a giant, faceless, mega-rich company like Facebook would play fast and loose with the books.
Next you'll tell me that Anna Nicole didn't marry for love!
They'll fire you "without notice" so (assuming you have a valid reason) why not quit without notice?
Nobody's using your credit card to open a new line of credit or steal your identity. Then need a fair bit more data than what's encoded on the card's magstripe for that.
No, but they can leverage that data to get more information, and then the fun begins. I've seen it happen to people I know.
So what? It doesn't cost you anything other than a 5 minute call to report an unauthorized charge and get it credited then 24-48 hrs to receive a new card. People like you just need to stop making such a big deal about it.
Then send me your credit card info and PIN. Let me charge some stuff and, like you said, all you need to do is make a 5 minute call to report the unauthorized charge.
This problem has a few pieces. First cops have the us versus them mentality. Everyone other than a cop is just a person who hasn't committed a crime yet.
Sadly, this is all too true. They've also gotten kitted up in the last few years so they all look like extras from Robocop.
The average cop cop carries a gun (often 2 guns), a Taser, military-grade pepper spray, a baton, and a knife. He or she wears a bullet-resistant vest, steel-toed shoes or boots, and has handcuffs and a radio with which to call for help.
And yet despite being armed to the teeth, he or she is terrified, simply terrified of a person in a t-shirt and shorts with a camera, or some dude who might be selling CD or single cigarettes.
American police are not taught to de-escalate situations, they're taught that they must allow NO resistance or uncooperativeness. Telling them "no" to almost anything they want will set them off on a rampage.
How many users is it, and what is the source of your data?
I confess, I didn't commission an independent study to count them all one-by-one, but a google search for "memory leak in firefox" brings back 1.8 million results. Lets say that 99% of them are bullshit or irrelevant. That's still 180,000 users who are apparently complaining about or discussing memory leaks. And we all know that for every person who complains, there are probably 10 who either don't what's wrong or who just muddle through. Either way, there are a lot of people who've been complaining about memory leaks in Firefox for years. If you're not one of them, congratulations. But that doesn't mean there isn't a problem.
So what? It doesn't cost you anything other than a 5 minute call to report an unauthorized charge and get it credited then 24-48 hrs to receive a new card. People like you just need to stop making such a big deal about it.
Unless they use it to open up new lines of credit or steal your identity, in which case it can get pretty messy. But that's a complex concept that numptys like you can't fathom. Now go finish your Lunchable and piss off.
In general Firefox memory usage and leakiness is pretty good. Just like any other piece of consumer software, it gets into a broken state for some small number of users.
It's more than just a "small number" of users.
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But I'm sure your witless slur made you feel good.
No, what would make me feel good is if they fixed the fucking memory leaks, you assclown.