Wrong. A motivated person who knew he could not get caught COULD easily do such a thing. And they SHOULD. Any computer that is accessible via any kind of network is subject to intrusion, compromise, and possible complete destruction. That's simply the facts of life. You accept that possibility by connecting your computer to the outside world. It doesn't matter if it gets mangled by Eastern European hackers, well-meaning but inept vigilantes, or government spooks. Whatever happens to it is YOUR fault, whether someone else broke the law or not.
The only "safe" computer is one that hasn't been turned on yet.
The fact that you are encouraging people to break into and destroy other's data shows that you do not have the maturity to be allowed to do things online on your own.
If you are connected to any kind of network, ALL of your data MUST be backed up OFFLINE. Sensitive data MUST be encrypted. Anything less is irresponsible and naive.
If I get a new computer, I will need to be online in an unprotected status for at least a few minutes while I download the various antivirus, anti-malware and other security programs in order to properly safeguard myself. If something happens to my computer before I even have a chance to protect myself, is it my fault? Or is it the fault of the asshole malware creator who destroys data belonging to others and cause undue hardship to those affected in order to appease some sadistic worldview?
It's your fault. You failed to take adequate precautions when entering in a known hostile environment. If you can't swim and you drown in the ocean, is it the ocean's fault?
If you cannot understand this, or if you still think that it is okay to break into other people's system and wreck things, I have to wonder if perhaps you are one of those that causes so much headache(from trying to get rid of your malware) and heartache(when priceless data such as photographs and video are destroyed) to others online.
I am a systems administrator. My job is made infinitely harder by people like you who are too uneducated to even be on the internet. You NEVER EVER connect ANY computer directly to the internet without first configuring it to be as secure as possible. If the "chicken vs egg" thing is too much for you, take your new computer to a PROFESSIONAL and have it set up with AV, a correctly-configured firewall, and encryption of your personal data before you attempt to connect to the outside world.
If my commercial systems are being attacked by your computer because you allowed it to be compromised and turned into a zombie, then YES, I fully support any means necessary to remove the attacking computer from the internet. If your data is "lost" because a vigilante miscalculates his own skills and ends up trashing your hard drive when trying to kill the botnet at the roots, then it's YOUR fault entirely because you cluelessly allowed a compromised box to remain online and you did not back up your own data.
It also would have opened them up to a potentially huge legal problem. No matter how carefully coded an uninstaller, the likelihood of some number of machines having problems after being infected by a remover, when talking about.25M machines, is high. Such an action also is criminal computer intrusion in its own right.
No person in their right mind would do such a thing.
Wrong. A motivated person who knew he could not get caught COULD easily do such a thing. And they SHOULD. Any computer that is accessible via any kind of network is subject to intrusion, compromise, and possible complete destruction. That's simply the facts of life. You accept that possibility by connecting your computer to the outside world. It doesn't matter if it gets mangled by Eastern European hackers, well-meaning but inept vigilantes, or government spooks. Whatever happens to it is YOUR fault, whether someone else broke the law or not.
The only "safe" computer is one that hasn't been turned on yet.
It also neglected to mention that 56k was strictly theoretical and in the real world, it was normally capped at 53k max to avoid crosstalk.
Did anyone else have one of the "shotgun" modems in the late 90's - a pair of 56k chips on a single card? You could plug it into two separate POTS lines and connect to an ISP that supported aggregation to get a genuine 106 kbsp down and 67 up. I was on Netcom at the time, which supported aggregation. You could actually have call-waiting on one line and when someone called, the card would drop back to one channel and the phone would ring. It was actually pretty slick and I ran it for a year or so until DSL was finally available in my neighborhood at a blistering 256k.
"Similar" doesn't cut it. FC is woefully inadequate. You can't overlap media on the same timeline. Premier is especially annoying as it won't do a damned thing until you define a "project". In Vegas, you just drag clips onto the timeline from any file manager. It creates it's own internal project files which you can name and save or just toss if you want to. (quick & dirty one-off tasks don't need to be saved) FC also has a limited display of spaced thumbnails. Vegas has a continuous row directly reflecting the content at that relative point in the media. Avid appears to just have one thumbnail for the entire clip. I've used a number of editors (both the entry level and the pro versions in most cases) and Vegas has turned out to be the only one I can use comfortably. Without exception, all the others make me want to hunt down the authors and stab them in the hands with an icepick for coding such a miserable, non-intuitive, "welcome to 1995" piece of shit UI.
The main reason I prefer Vegas is that it evolved from the previous decade's industry-standard audio editor "Sound Forge", which makes it highly intuitive to people from the professional analog audio industry. It gets things done without making you jump thru a bunch of pointless and time-consuming hoops.Most others seem to have evolved their methodology and overall workflow philosophy from the rigid formality of broadcast A/B Roll editing. Vegas has more of a "wild west" feel and gives you the freedom to do things in the way you're most comfortable with. Since Vegas now requires.net v3, I don't see it working on mono any time soon, so I'm hoping that one of the many Linux Video Editing projects eventually clone all the best features of Vegas so I can get the hell off Windows permanently.
I'm hoping it take after Vegas, which leaves all other editors in the dust (even Avid) when it comes to ease of use. I especially like being able to drag the end of one clip over another on the time line for instant crossfades without having to deal with creating a transition. Fade in/out is a simple matter of dragging the upper corner of the clip one way or the other. Timelines are a series of thumbnails that change in real-time when you expand or contract, cut, stretch etc. (stretch/contract is a simple ctrl+drag). I rarely use more than 8 tracks, but the ability to do 16-32 would be nice, if not unlimited like Vegas.
Vegas and Photoshop are the only things keeping my workstations running Windows. (XP - not interested in Vista/7)
Missing a few. The original "big block" was the "W block". It came in 348, 409, and 427 (only 50 built). If you grind down the mains.010", you can actually drop a 409 crank right into a 454 block. (don't know why you'd want to, except maybe to win a bet)
Small blocks also came in 265 ('55), 302 ('67 Z-28), and the slow-as-hell 307
If you just say 'Washington', most people think 'D.C.', and rightly so, since it impacts their lives much more.
The fact that we are the home of Boeing Aircraft, Microsoft, Amazon.com, Starbucks, and about a bajillion microbreweries & wineries means we probably directly affect the average slashdotter's life far more than the self-serving acts of a bunch of glorified used-car hucksters in a northern Virginia ghetto.
You have to be pretty goddamn stupid to fly into a fanatical military state like Israel from a Muslim country with a laptop covered in Arabic stickers. What's the next leg of her journey? From Israel to Iran wearing a star of David and demanding a kosher meal?
Bad anology. Your child wasn't kidnapped. You sold her to a pimp named Scott for a billion dollars so he could handcuff and sodomize her, then pass her around to his friends. Scott had a bad run of financial luck and was worried that his Escalade might get repossessed, so he sold her to a pimp named Larry, who will most likely sodomize and asphyxiate her because she's underdeveloped and inexperienced, which means he can't get any real money turning her out.
In summation, pimpin' ain't easy and you're a shitty parent with a dead kid.
So...your solution to one single compromised address is to completely block 16 million potential paying customers in Australia, China, and various other Asian countries? You're unemployed and living in your mom's basement, aren't you? Shouldn't you be LARPing or something?
Who the hell runs screensavers these days anyway? This isn't 1995. Modern monitors don't need "saving". Log out and/or shut down the display if you're not actively using the account.
I have a TivoHD on FIOS and had a long talk with the CableCard installer when he came by to hook me up. The vast majority of the problems with the cards are caused by installers with inadequate training and by a support system that actually penalizes the installer's local group when they call back to headquarters for help with any kind of problem. Another known issue is that when the cards are "checked out" from the office by the installer, they are activated for a brief period (like 30 days). If they don't get installed and paired with a box within that time period, they expire. Unfortunately, without a lot of experience, the installer has no idea why the card doesn't work because there's no obvious indication without navigating down thru numerous layers of their badly-written windows-based field authorization system. I have it on reasonable authority that these same problems exist at Comcast as well.
In a nutshell, the problems with cable cards are the same problems with pretty much anything from a large corporation these days: shitty software written by incompetent coders, self-serving middle-management assholes, and brain-dead corporate policies devised by millionaire execs who only care about their short-term paychecks. As usual, the ones who get screwed are the poor dumb bastards who work in the trenches and of course, the paying customers.
Oki color LED printers have a wax-based toner that creates a glossy finish even on plain paper. Been using a 3200n to print full color DVD inserts on brochure stock for about 4-5 years. Carts are about $40 each. In contrast my Samsung CLX-3160n (which is mechanically a massive piece of shit) prints completely flat/matte finish and is unacceptable for photos or really any color project other than documents with spot color that you don't really care about.
Why are you having lights on outside all night? To give the local wildlife something to see by? To make it easier for burglars to find their way across your property? You could just switch the lights off during the hours when you're asleep (using a cheap timeswitch) and save a bunch at practically zero cost to yourself.
Not everyone sleeps at night, dumbass. Also, most people aren't anal-retentive cheapskates who get their panties in a wad over a tenth of a cent worth of electricity.
So you are proposing a return to primarily local, "tribal" government, run by unrestrained petty tyrants waving the banner of "states' rights"? Visit Somalia or a country that ends with *stan and see how well that works in the 21st century. BTW, I wouldn't recommend the trip if you are female, gay, or non-muslim.
I have never used any of that newfangled remote desktop stuff that MS shoved in everyone's faces. Netmeeting was no longer linked anywhere in a stock XP install, but the executable was still there:
C:\Program Files\NetMeeting\conf.exe
That's what I've been using for a decade or more and all my machines are still 2k or XP. Is that no longer present in Vista or 7? You do have to set up port forwarding for 3 different ports in your LAN router though, so that's a little extra effort. What I REALLY miss is the behavior of Netmeeting in the early versions of 2k. You could set up port forwarding for one single machine, then log into that machine and start another session within the original to connect to a different machine inside the LAN. It was like daisychaining SSH sessions, but with pretty pictures. Apparently someone decided it was a bad idea because one of the service packs broke it and you could no longer start Netmeeting from within a Netmeeting session.
Exactly. I have Blackjack on my G1, but that's about it for games. They don't really interest me. I use web-based apps that I developed myself for running my business, traffic cams ssh, a live webcam app for keeping an eye on the security cams at my various residences and datacenters, weather, google maps & gps, and tons of texts & emails. All of that is free. I have no paid apps and wouldn't even consider paying for anything I've seen so far on any platform.
I like Beck but he does act goofy sometimes. That guy needs to stop eating M&Ms and other sugar-based foods.
Yeah, Jeff Beck did act goofy in the old days, breaking guitars and such. That's why they kicked him out of the Yardbirds in 1967. Hell of a guitar player though.
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Wrong. A motivated person who knew he could not get caught COULD easily do such a thing. And they SHOULD. Any computer that is accessible via any kind of network is subject to intrusion, compromise, and possible complete destruction. That's simply the facts of life. You accept that possibility by connecting your computer to the outside world. It doesn't matter if it gets mangled by Eastern European hackers, well-meaning but inept vigilantes, or government spooks. Whatever happens to it is YOUR fault, whether someone else broke the law or not.
The only "safe" computer is one that hasn't been turned on yet.
The fact that you are encouraging people to break into and destroy other's data shows that you do not have the maturity to be allowed to do things online on your own.
If you are connected to any kind of network, ALL of your data MUST be backed up OFFLINE. Sensitive data MUST be encrypted. Anything less is irresponsible and naive.
If I get a new computer, I will need to be online in an unprotected status for at least a few minutes while I download the various antivirus, anti-malware and other security programs in order to properly safeguard myself. If something happens to my computer before I even have a chance to protect myself, is it my fault? Or is it the fault of the asshole malware creator who destroys data belonging to others and cause undue hardship to those affected in order to appease some sadistic worldview?
It's your fault. You failed to take adequate precautions when entering in a known hostile environment. If you can't swim and you drown in the ocean, is it the ocean's fault?
If you cannot understand this, or if you still think that it is okay to break into other people's system and wreck things, I have to wonder if perhaps you are one of those that causes so much headache(from trying to get rid of your malware) and heartache(when priceless data such as photographs and video are destroyed) to others online.
I am a systems administrator. My job is made infinitely harder by people like you who are too uneducated to even be on the internet. You NEVER EVER connect ANY computer directly to the internet without first configuring it to be as secure as possible. If the "chicken vs egg" thing is too much for you, take your new computer to a PROFESSIONAL and have it set up with AV, a correctly-configured firewall, and encryption of your personal data before you attempt to connect to the outside world.
If my commercial systems are being attacked by your computer because you allowed it to be compromised and turned into a zombie, then YES, I fully support any means necessary to remove the attacking computer from the internet. If your data is "lost" because a vigilante miscalculates his own skills and ends up trashing your hard drive when trying to kill the botnet at the roots, then it's YOUR fault entirely because you cluelessly allowed a compromised box to remain online and you did not back up your own data.
It also would have opened them up to a potentially huge legal problem. No matter how carefully coded an uninstaller, the likelihood of some number of machines having problems after being infected by a remover, when talking about .25M machines, is high. Such an action also is criminal computer intrusion in its own right.
No person in their right mind would do such a thing.
Wrong. A motivated person who knew he could not get caught COULD easily do such a thing. And they SHOULD. Any computer that is accessible via any kind of network is subject to intrusion, compromise, and possible complete destruction. That's simply the facts of life. You accept that possibility by connecting your computer to the outside world. It doesn't matter if it gets mangled by Eastern European hackers, well-meaning but inept vigilantes, or government spooks. Whatever happens to it is YOUR fault, whether someone else broke the law or not.
The only "safe" computer is one that hasn't been turned on yet.
It also neglected to mention that 56k was strictly theoretical and in the real world, it was normally capped at 53k max to avoid crosstalk.
Did anyone else have one of the "shotgun" modems in the late 90's - a pair of 56k chips on a single card? You could plug it into two separate POTS lines and connect to an ISP that supported aggregation to get a genuine 106 kbsp down and 67 up. I was on Netcom at the time, which supported aggregation. You could actually have call-waiting on one line and when someone called, the card would drop back to one channel and the phone would ring. It was actually pretty slick and I ran it for a year or so until DSL was finally available in my neighborhood at a blistering 256k.
"Similar" doesn't cut it. FC is woefully inadequate. You can't overlap media on the same timeline. Premier is especially annoying as it won't do a damned thing until you define a "project". In Vegas, you just drag clips onto the timeline from any file manager. It creates it's own internal project files which you can name and save or just toss if you want to. (quick & dirty one-off tasks don't need to be saved) FC also has a limited display of spaced thumbnails. Vegas has a continuous row directly reflecting the content at that relative point in the media. Avid appears to just have one thumbnail for the entire clip. I've used a number of editors (both the entry level and the pro versions in most cases) and Vegas has turned out to be the only one I can use comfortably. Without exception, all the others make me want to hunt down the authors and stab them in the hands with an icepick for coding such a miserable, non-intuitive, "welcome to 1995" piece of shit UI.
The main reason I prefer Vegas is that it evolved from the previous decade's industry-standard audio editor "Sound Forge", which makes it highly intuitive to people from the professional analog audio industry. It gets things done without making you jump thru a bunch of pointless and time-consuming hoops.Most others seem to have evolved their methodology and overall workflow philosophy from the rigid formality of broadcast A/B Roll editing. Vegas has more of a "wild west" feel and gives you the freedom to do things in the way you're most comfortable with. Since Vegas now requires .net v3, I don't see it working on mono any time soon, so I'm hoping that one of the many Linux Video Editing projects eventually clone all the best features of Vegas so I can get the hell off Windows permanently.
I'm hoping it take after Vegas, which leaves all other editors in the dust (even Avid) when it comes to ease of use. I especially like being able to drag the end of one clip over another on the time line for instant crossfades without having to deal with creating a transition. Fade in/out is a simple matter of dragging the upper corner of the clip one way or the other. Timelines are a series of thumbnails that change in real-time when you expand or contract, cut, stretch etc. (stretch/contract is a simple ctrl+drag). I rarely use more than 8 tracks, but the ability to do 16-32 would be nice, if not unlimited like Vegas.
Vegas and Photoshop are the only things keeping my workstations running Windows. (XP - not interested in Vista/7)
Missing a few. The original "big block" was the "W block". It came in 348, 409, and 427 (only 50 built). If you grind down the mains .010", you can actually drop a 409 crank right into a 454 block. (don't know why you'd want to, except maybe to win a bet)
Small blocks also came in 265 ('55), 302 ('67 Z-28), and the slow-as-hell 307
If you just say 'Washington', most people think 'D.C.', and rightly so, since it impacts their lives much more.
The fact that we are the home of Boeing Aircraft, Microsoft, Amazon.com, Starbucks, and about a bajillion microbreweries & wineries means we probably directly affect the average slashdotter's life far more than the self-serving acts of a bunch of glorified used-car hucksters in a northern Virginia ghetto.
Our music is a hell of a lot better too.
A compass.
You have to be pretty goddamn stupid to fly into a fanatical military state like Israel from a Muslim country with a laptop covered in Arabic stickers. What's the next leg of her journey? From Israel to Iran wearing a star of David and demanding a kosher meal?
Bad anology. Your child wasn't kidnapped. You sold her to a pimp named Scott for a billion dollars so he could handcuff and sodomize her, then pass her around to his friends. Scott had a bad run of financial luck and was worried that his Escalade might get repossessed, so he sold her to a pimp named Larry, who will most likely sodomize and asphyxiate her because she's underdeveloped and inexperienced, which means he can't get any real money turning her out.
In summation, pimpin' ain't easy and you're a shitty parent with a dead kid.
They're modules though, the ones that your not using are just taking up space on the hard drive.
You mean my TWO TRILLION BYTE hard drive? How about coming up with an issue that actually matters?
So...your solution to one single compromised address is to completely block 16 million potential paying customers in Australia, China, and various other Asian countries? You're unemployed and living in your mom's basement, aren't you? Shouldn't you be LARPing or something?
Who the hell runs screensavers these days anyway? This isn't 1995. Modern monitors don't need "saving". Log out and/or shut down the display if you're not actively using the account.
Wrong. They may have multiple user ACCOUNTS but most of them are only going to have one actual meat sack (i.e. USER) at the keyboard.
I have a TivoHD on FIOS and had a long talk with the CableCard installer when he came by to hook me up. The vast majority of the problems with the cards are caused by installers with inadequate training and by a support system that actually penalizes the installer's local group when they call back to headquarters for help with any kind of problem. Another known issue is that when the cards are "checked out" from the office by the installer, they are activated for a brief period (like 30 days). If they don't get installed and paired with a box within that time period, they expire. Unfortunately, without a lot of experience, the installer has no idea why the card doesn't work because there's no obvious indication without navigating down thru numerous layers of their badly-written windows-based field authorization system. I have it on reasonable authority that these same problems exist at Comcast as well.
In a nutshell, the problems with cable cards are the same problems with pretty much anything from a large corporation these days: shitty software written by incompetent coders, self-serving middle-management assholes, and brain-dead corporate policies devised by millionaire execs who only care about their short-term paychecks. As usual, the ones who get screwed are the poor dumb bastards who work in the trenches and of course, the paying customers.
Because they operate using government licenses for PUBLIC airwaves and easements to run backhaul cables over PUBLIC right-of-way.
That was less about fraud and more about stupidity & incompetence. There's a reason that Florida has it's own Fark tag
Oki color LED printers have a wax-based toner that creates a glossy finish even on plain paper. Been using a 3200n to print full color DVD inserts on brochure stock for about 4-5 years. Carts are about $40 each. In contrast my Samsung CLX-3160n (which is mechanically a massive piece of shit) prints completely flat/matte finish and is unacceptable for photos or really any color project other than documents with spot color that you don't really care about.
Why are you having lights on outside all night? To give the local wildlife something to see by? To make it easier for burglars to find their way across your property? You could just switch the lights off during the hours when you're asleep (using a cheap timeswitch) and save a bunch at practically zero cost to yourself.
Not everyone sleeps at night, dumbass. Also, most people aren't anal-retentive cheapskates who get their panties in a wad over a tenth of a cent worth of electricity.
So you are proposing a return to primarily local, "tribal" government, run by unrestrained petty tyrants waving the banner of "states' rights"? Visit Somalia or a country that ends with *stan and see how well that works in the 21st century. BTW, I wouldn't recommend the trip if you are female, gay, or non-muslim.
I have never used any of that newfangled remote desktop stuff that MS shoved in everyone's faces. Netmeeting was no longer linked anywhere in a stock XP install, but the executable was still there:
C:\Program Files\NetMeeting\conf.exe
That's what I've been using for a decade or more and all my machines are still 2k or XP. Is that no longer present in Vista or 7? You do have to set up port forwarding for 3 different ports in your LAN router though, so that's a little extra effort. What I REALLY miss is the behavior of Netmeeting in the early versions of 2k. You could set up port forwarding for one single machine, then log into that machine and start another session within the original to connect to a different machine inside the LAN. It was like daisychaining SSH sessions, but with pretty pictures. Apparently someone decided it was a bad idea because one of the service packs broke it and you could no longer start Netmeeting from within a Netmeeting session.
Exactly. I have Blackjack on my G1, but that's about it for games. They don't really interest me. I use web-based apps that I developed myself for running my business, traffic cams ssh, a live webcam app for keeping an eye on the security cams at my various residences and datacenters, weather, google maps & gps, and tons of texts & emails. All of that is free. I have no paid apps and wouldn't even consider paying for anything I've seen so far on any platform.
I like Beck but he does act goofy sometimes. That guy needs to stop eating M&Ms and other sugar-based foods.
Yeah, Jeff Beck did act goofy in the old days, breaking guitars and such. That's why they kicked him out of the Yardbirds in 1967. Hell of a guitar player though.
All religions are criminal then.
I have no problem with that observation.
Speaking of arrogance, how did that whole "master race" thing turn out for you?