While I understand the wanting to keep something like that quiet, it is public information. I'm not sure it is wrong to have it there even if it is undesirable.
You make a good point. And in this case, I tend to agree with you.
However, in general does anyone else see a difference between information that is merely public (I.e., freely available to interested parties) and that which is actively public-ized (however "inadvertently")?
... I've found regardless of what they have had installed they invariably get infected, may as well go with the AV system that doesn't choke the system to death nor constantly shove itself in your face while you're trying to get work done.
Exactly! This is precisely my thinking. And it's also what I tell my clients. I use MSE on all my (four and counting) systems, and I strip off whatever "choke-ware" my clients are running and install it for them.
Plus, I also strongly recommend Sandboxie, which is free for non-commercial use, and if they agree, I provide a prominent icon which runs the browser inside a sandbox, for those times when curiosity gets the better of them.
My own machines have been kept safe by using this approach more than once from stuff my teenaged kids clicked on, where Sandboxie prevented something bad from actually installing itself (after which I deleted the sandbox contents and it was as if nothing had ever happened). More than worth the annoyance of the occasional 5 second pop up reminder from Sandboxie when it starts, once the initial 30 days has elapsed.
For trusted browsing, I just use the unsandboxed browser.
My own machines have never actually been infected since I started doing this (five or six years now), and only once or twice have I been called out to clean a client's machine set up in this manner. Invariably, the client chose NOT to run the sandboxed browser when they knew they should have.
In any case, it's far easier to recover a system running MSE than one with a "choke-ware" which has detected but is unable to remove some malware.
Also, clients appear to appreciate the complete LACK of scare-ware pop up warnings every year or so, or whenever it's coming up on renewal time.
They don't screen them because they are flying their own planes, not commercial aircraft (which of course is because they are filthy rich, but that's secondary).
On one hand, since I have an Android phone I'm glad the perpetrators were caught, but on the other hand this almost seems like a victim-less crime. Or at least one with Darwinian fairness...
If an Android tablet actually comes out in the US for $100 or less, it won't matter whether the iPad is snappy or sluggish. What will matter is that for the cost of the cheapest iPad, one could buy five (5) of these. Heck, I'd buy one for each of my two teenaged boys (my wife already has an iPad2, a gift from her father) AND one for myself. Plus, two more to keep on the shelf as backup gifts for people.
Had I managed to get any HP Touchpads at $99 before they ran out I would have bought as many as I could get my hands on.
For me at least, at $100 these are practically disposable.
I may be wrong about this, but as I read it, the term "operating systems" (plural) seems to refer to the systems that actually operate the nuclear plant. Your question would make sense to me if the original article had read, "operating system" (singular).
SUA was once called SFU (Services For UNIX), and it replaces the built-in POSIX subsystem which has been an integral part of NT since NT 3.1.
The built-in POSIX subsystem alone was basically useless as shipped, since it came without many command line utilities, but SFU (now SUA) upgraded it to a more or less useful configuration, including a series of commands built to use the API; in some ways it accomplished the same thing as Cygwin, but in a different way.
In my opinion, Cygwin is vastly better since it contains more utilities, is more aggressively maintained and updates are more frequent.
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Am I the only one who clicked through to this while scanning headlines, thinking it referred to living creatures?
You make a good point. And in this case, I tend to agree with you.
However, in general does anyone else see a difference between information that is merely public (I.e., freely available to interested parties) and that which is actively public-ized (however "inadvertently")?
Sorry, but the value 3000K refers to the color temperature of incandescent bulbs, not the actual temperature. See this chart.
Did you REALLY think the filament of an ordinary incandescent tungsten bulb operates at 4940.33 degrees Fahrenheit (2727 degrees C)? Seriously?
... I've found regardless of what they have had installed they invariably get infected, may as well go with the AV system that doesn't choke the system to death nor constantly shove itself in your face while you're trying to get work done.
Exactly! This is precisely my thinking. And it's also what I tell my clients. I use MSE on all my (four and counting) systems, and I strip off whatever "choke-ware" my clients are running and install it for them.
Plus, I also strongly recommend Sandboxie, which is free for non-commercial use, and if they agree, I provide a prominent icon which runs the browser inside a sandbox, for those times when curiosity gets the better of them.
My own machines have been kept safe by using this approach more than once from stuff my teenaged kids clicked on, where Sandboxie prevented something bad from actually installing itself (after which I deleted the sandbox contents and it was as if nothing had ever happened). More than worth the annoyance of the occasional 5 second pop up reminder from Sandboxie when it starts, once the initial 30 days has elapsed.
For trusted browsing, I just use the unsandboxed browser.
My own machines have never actually been infected since I started doing this (five or six years now), and only once or twice have I been called out to clean a client's machine set up in this manner. Invariably, the client chose NOT to run the sandboxed browser when they knew they should have.
In any case, it's far easier to recover a system running MSE than one with a "choke-ware" which has detected but is unable to remove some malware.
Also, clients appear to appreciate the complete LACK of scare-ware pop up warnings every year or so, or whenever it's coming up on renewal time.
No, they don't need to learn other languages. THEY JUST NEED TO SPEAK ENGLISH LOUDER and sl-ow-er!!!
Here, fixed that for you
Yes, but only to the extent it costs them money.
Whoops, now it's on Slashdot. Rest assured they've gotten wind of it. Let's see if you're right.
That's like saying you don't use condoms because you know how^H^H^Hwhen to pull out.
There, fixed that for you
They don't screen them because they are flying their own planes, not commercial aircraft (which of course is because they are filthy rich, but that's secondary).
On one hand, since I have an Android phone I'm glad the perpetrators were caught, but on the other hand this almost seems like a victim-less crime. Or at least one with Darwinian fairness...
Gee, and I thought I was being clever omitting 8 and 9
Do you really think that there aren't people who are comforted by this show of security theater?
TSA = Theater of Securité Absurditus
Stuxnet - the gift that keeps on giving.
The answers to those questions would give YOU enough information to answer his?
This can only end badly, indeed!
Has no one read Michael Crichton's Prey?
What about the Sandman in Spiderman 3?
Might this be just a publicity stunt to promote, for example, a new "Rise of The Blob" movie?
If so, it's just another lame attempt to cash in on prior art, rather than coming up with something original.
Man Claiming He Invented the Internet Sues
Al Gore is gonna be sooo mad...
Why, exactly? cf., Internet of Lies
Yes, but will it be enough, and soon enough to protect the water supply?
I thought this was going to be another article about investment bankers and the financial meltdown.
Just saying. John Corzine has been in the news recently.
If an Android tablet actually comes out in the US for $100 or less, it won't matter whether the iPad is snappy or sluggish. What will matter is that for the cost of the cheapest iPad, one could buy five (5) of these. Heck, I'd buy one for each of my two teenaged boys (my wife already has an iPad2, a gift from her father) AND one for myself. Plus, two more to keep on the shelf as backup gifts for people.
Had I managed to get any HP Touchpads at $99 before they ran out I would have bought as many as I could get my hands on.
For me at least, at $100 these are practically disposable.
Pretty sure this isn't news.
I hear they get all kinds of free food.
Indeed, those Out-Of-Office emails go out pretty much immediately.
I may be wrong about this, but as I read it, the term "operating systems" (plural) seems to refer to the systems that actually operate the nuclear plant. Your question would make sense to me if the original article had read, "operating system" (singular).
Having said all that, I would guess Windows.
SUA was once called SFU (Services For UNIX), and it replaces the built-in POSIX subsystem which has been an integral part of NT since NT 3.1.
The built-in POSIX subsystem alone was basically useless as shipped, since it came without many command line utilities, but SFU (now SUA) upgraded it to a more or less useful configuration, including a series of commands built to use the API; in some ways it accomplished the same thing as Cygwin, but in a different way.
In my opinion, Cygwin is vastly better since it contains more utilities, is more aggressively maintained and updates are more frequent.