The first PC I built was an AMD 2500+ Barton with nForce 2 with XP.
I eventually sold the parts to upgrade but now I'm currently using a PC i put together with similar parts but hte same chipset and CPU. This time though I dual boot from Win98 and WinXP.
I play old school PC games:
Gothic Thief (1, 2, Gold and plethora of fan missions) Ultima Underworld Anachronox etc.
I still have as much fun replaying those old games as I do playing the new ones, sometimes moreso.
I used to have a ton of demo CDs from CGW and PlayStation Demo CDs....
I read an article to truly protect you from self incrimination, because regardless of who you are, you will be "forced" to give up your pass phrase or "willingly" decrypt the HDD. With this set up, you can 'willingly' give up your passphrase but for the 'dummy' partition and they won't be able to tell that there is a hidden partition because the space available will only show that of the dummy encrypted partition, not the whole HDD. Unless, of course, they take out the HDD and see the capacity, but you can go further and print out a fake a HDD label with a size similar to that of the dummy encrypted partition... This article is a great how-to on truly protecting yourself.
YOu can't compare crime with weather. If a doppler radar shows a heavy rain storm heading to your town it will happen. If a computer predicts a a chance of burglary in an area of town, the cops will be concentrate in that area, and so the potential for crime moves to another area of town.
Why try and compete with piracy? How can the film industry compete with something that's free? Charge less? How much less can you get? Readily available?
Why work harder when you can easily sue many people and file them under "john/jane doe" lawsuits like here in the US and extort them out of thousands of dollars?
If legal zoom offers legal advice and WebMD offers medical advice.... then people should sue that site also since you can diagnose yourself without a license....
Is there a lobbying group representing the VG Industry?? I know there's IGDA, but they are more concerned on the inner workings of the industry, not the relations of the gaming industry and the rest of the world (ie. government).
If I were a big-name video game publisher I would want less regulation/restrictions on games so that I can make as much money as possible. Laws can change at any moment and without a dedicated lobbying group with good pockets, they can easily change against the industry and we'd end up like Germany, where everything god-damn-thing is censored.
I sincerely hope all the big-name publishers out there pool their money and create or bolster their current special interest group (aka lobbyist) to keep their profitability high.
Companies like facebook, google, etc. don't mine the data. They produce the data. There are a few big corporations none of us have heard of that do nothing but mine personal data. They are linked to our credit bureaus, some of which are subsidiaries. These companies sell to marketing firms, which in turn try and sell you stuff.
It's a big industry and it's not going away. Someone has to sell you something you might buy.
I ran into this rootkit before. It was a machine that wasn't heavily infected but NOD32 & MSE kept detecting this rootkit. Malwarebytes/combofix only detected the trojans the rootkit downloads, so it wasn't effective. After backing up the data I did a simply reinstall of the OS (where I did not do a low-level format) and shortly after installing the NIC drivers, a pop-up ad came up, so I reinstalled the AV software and it detected it again. I realized that this was low-level rootkit (MBR) and proceeded to re-do my reinstallation, but this time do a low-level format. I booted up KillDisk and ran it for a few minutes as it initially destroys the MBR. Then I reinstalled the OS and the PC was clean well into the future.
The clients I deal with, a simple format/reinstall is out of the question as these are business machines and although sometimes they get infected when they go 'surf' the internet, a lot of times it's through targeted attacks. I was the go-to guy when it came to infections as I was able to locate and delete a lot of these trojans/rootkits when AV software couldn't locate it. Fortunately, AV software has come a long way, especially free ones.
Watchout Symantec, you're next on the FBI's list!!! Always bugging people that you need to be renewed, bugging people that their license will expire in 60 months and that it needs to be renewed immediately to stop that from happening. Letting most viruses go through undetected and infect the PC. Taking over the PC and making it difficult to get rid of by always encountering some sort of 'error' while uninstalling or leaving shit behind that allows it to reinstall itself (Norton 2004 heydays).
Also, you can buy your CDs off ebay or craigslist for cheap. I bought a lot of the music I downloaded 'illegally' off ebay and craigslist used since used music stores are hard to come by these days.
Bought all of my depeche mode CDs (except for the last two recent releases) for less than $30. I'm talking about all of the regular releases. Cheaper than buying them off of itunes.
I also deleted a lot of the music I downloaded, too, simply because I really don't have time to listen to all of them and the time I do have I listen to my favorites.
A lot of games show women as scantly clad objects with big breasts and bubbly butts, but I'd be disturbed to play a game where the male character has a crotch bulge the size of a basketball and a bazillioon abs.
Of course there are tons of games that don't objectify women. Heavy Rain, the female characters look down to earth.
It is good practice to use multiple passwords for different services.
I do it and I have A LOT of passwords to memorize. Luckily, I wrote them down on a piece of paper and have that kept in a safe place as I do tend to forget those that I hardly visit from time to time.
Now I know writing passwords in a text document and saving it on your PC is stupid, but writing it down on a peice of paper isn't. It's about how it's written, if you write passwords and leave it in your jewelry box or personal safe or with your files, then the burglar steals that stuff and your PC, then they have easy access to all your accounts. But it you put it inside places like as a bookmark for a novel or tape it under your desk, then that's stuff a burglar wouldn't really take if they were in a hurry.
So it is ok to write them down, but put that in a place a would-be burglar wouldn't look... unless the FBI raid your house, they look everywhere for stuff.
Pandora eats through my data like it's nothing and my PC at work doesn't have an audio hardware (old). If they do not grandfather me in when I renew my contract, then I will just switch back to my old-trusty motorola phone and use an MP3 player to listen to music.
It happens a lot in the US. People who've been in jail for a long time get used to it. Three meals a day, a bed. It is a lot like living in a good homeless shelter with a shower and clean clothes, there's just the occasional riot and shanking and raping, but that's everywhere in the US, too.
People get so used to it, that when they are put back on the street they have no where to go, no posessions, no nothing. Sure they have programs to let ex-cons re-enter the society, but even they are limited in space and limited funding and don't pick up people who did hard time. Living outside of prison usually ends up being worse than being inside, so they often do crimes to get back in.
But that's the owners problem if they use a simple password. I would like the program have security features built into it, such as the one I suggested. It's not to prevent hacking as that is impossible, but make it harder and moreso if the user uses a stronger password in the first place.
Being that it's open source, someone has to code it, and maybe that one person might be able to sell that 'secured' version. Better than what is out there now.
I don't think encryption alone will help. It only protects you when your PC is not on or when bitcoin is not running. Once bitcoin is running, the trojan only needs to find the memory space the program is using to steal your wallet.dat info.
Why not make bitcoin do what most banking websites do and create secure sessions when accessing your account, or in this case your wallet.dat file?
I haven't dabbled a lot in bitcoin, so far, but afte installing it, everything is there, in the open. It doesn't ask me to create an account persay, it generates one, but it doesn't ask me to create a password or anything.
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The first PC I built was an AMD 2500+ Barton with nForce 2 with XP.
I eventually sold the parts to upgrade but now I'm currently using a PC i put together with similar parts but hte same chipset and CPU. This time though I dual boot from Win98 and WinXP.
I play old school PC games:
Gothic
Thief (1, 2, Gold and plethora of fan missions)
Ultima Underworld
Anachronox
etc.
I still have as much fun replaying those old games as I do playing the new ones, sometimes moreso.
I used to have a ton of demo CDs from CGW and PlayStation Demo CDs....
Finally, a GPU to do some bit coin mining when on the go!
The heat will melt the plastic in the laptop lol
How is the price for DVD only subscription higher if it stays the same?
Bad summary.
OH well, this doesn't affect me because I use torrents for my shows.
That's no moon....
I read an article to truly protect you from self incrimination, because regardless of who you are, you will be "forced" to give up your pass phrase or "willingly" decrypt the HDD. With this set up, you can 'willingly' give up your passphrase but for the 'dummy' partition and they won't be able to tell that there is a hidden partition because the space available will only show that of the dummy encrypted partition, not the whole HDD. Unless, of course, they take out the HDD and see the capacity, but you can go further and print out a fake a HDD label with a size similar to that of the dummy encrypted partition... This article is a great how-to on truly protecting yourself.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/create-hidden-partition-truecrypt-7/
Seriously, why do people do that? Talk to the person using your phone rather than texting.
I have hands free bluetooth built into my car with voice command. It's soo much easier than using a headset.
Although I'm all for natural selection....
YOu can't compare crime with weather. If a doppler radar shows a heavy rain storm heading to your town it will happen. If a computer predicts a a chance of burglary in an area of town, the cops will be concentrate in that area, and so the potential for crime moves to another area of town.
Why try and compete with piracy? How can the film industry compete with something that's free? Charge less? How much less can you get? Readily available?
Why work harder when you can easily sue many people and file them under "john/jane doe" lawsuits like here in the US and extort them out of thousands of dollars?
If legal zoom offers legal advice and WebMD offers medical advice.... then people should sue that site also since you can diagnose yourself without a license....
Will this allow them to censor trolls??? This will get rid of 99% of the content on the Internet and 4chan won't show on their search results....
Is there a lobbying group representing the VG Industry?? I know there's IGDA, but they are more concerned on the inner workings of the industry, not the relations of the gaming industry and the rest of the world (ie. government).
If I were a big-name video game publisher I would want less regulation/restrictions on games so that I can make as much money as possible. Laws can change at any moment and without a dedicated lobbying group with good pockets, they can easily change against the industry and we'd end up like Germany, where everything god-damn-thing is censored.
I sincerely hope all the big-name publishers out there pool their money and create or bolster their current special interest group (aka lobbyist) to keep their profitability high.
Companies like facebook, google, etc. don't mine the data. They produce the data. There are a few big corporations none of us have heard of that do nothing but mine personal data. They are linked to our credit bureaus, some of which are subsidiaries. These companies sell to marketing firms, which in turn try and sell you stuff.
It's a big industry and it's not going away. Someone has to sell you something you might buy.
I ran into this rootkit before. It was a machine that wasn't heavily infected but NOD32 & MSE kept detecting this rootkit. Malwarebytes/combofix only detected the trojans the rootkit downloads, so it wasn't effective. After backing up the data I did a simply reinstall of the OS (where I did not do a low-level format) and shortly after installing the NIC drivers, a pop-up ad came up, so I reinstalled the AV software and it detected it again. I realized that this was low-level rootkit (MBR) and proceeded to re-do my reinstallation, but this time do a low-level format. I booted up KillDisk and ran it for a few minutes as it initially destroys the MBR. Then I reinstalled the OS and the PC was clean well into the future.
The clients I deal with, a simple format/reinstall is out of the question as these are business machines and although sometimes they get infected when they go 'surf' the internet, a lot of times it's through targeted attacks. I was the go-to guy when it came to infections as I was able to locate and delete a lot of these trojans/rootkits when AV software couldn't locate it. Fortunately, AV software has come a long way, especially free ones.
You will never get to see what it's like to see a bald-headed Heavy in TF2...
Watchout Symantec, you're next on the FBI's list!!! Always bugging people that you need to be renewed, bugging people that their license will expire in 60 months and that it needs to be renewed immediately to stop that from happening. Letting most viruses go through undetected and infect the PC. Taking over the PC and making it difficult to get rid of by always encountering some sort of 'error' while uninstalling or leaving shit behind that allows it to reinstall itself (Norton 2004 heydays).
McAfee, you're next, too!!!
Also, you can buy your CDs off ebay or craigslist for cheap. I bought a lot of the music I downloaded 'illegally' off ebay and craigslist used since used music stores are hard to come by these days.
Bought all of my depeche mode CDs (except for the last two recent releases) for less than $30. I'm talking about all of the regular releases. Cheaper than buying them off of itunes.
I also deleted a lot of the music I downloaded, too, simply because I really don't have time to listen to all of them and the time I do have I listen to my favorites.
A lot of games show women as scantly clad objects with big breasts and bubbly butts, but I'd be disturbed to play a game where the male character has a crotch bulge the size of a basketball and a bazillioon abs.
Of course there are tons of games that don't objectify women. Heavy Rain, the female characters look down to earth.
It's really all subjective.
It is good practice to use multiple passwords for different services.
I do it and I have A LOT of passwords to memorize. Luckily, I wrote them down on a piece of paper and have that kept in a safe place as I do tend to forget those that I hardly visit from time to time.
Now I know writing passwords in a text document and saving it on your PC is stupid, but writing it down on a peice of paper isn't. It's about how it's written, if you write passwords and leave it in your jewelry box or personal safe or with your files, then the burglar steals that stuff and your PC, then they have easy access to all your accounts. But it you put it inside places like as a bookmark for a novel or tape it under your desk, then that's stuff a burglar wouldn't really take if they were in a hurry.
So it is ok to write them down, but put that in a place a would-be burglar wouldn't look... unless the FBI raid your house, they look everywhere for stuff.
I don't know, the cloud looks like a safe to me..... or a pad lock.
Oh, and that cloud looks like a shark.... and that one next to it looks like a worm....
Pandora eats through my data like it's nothing and my PC at work doesn't have an audio hardware (old). If they do not grandfather me in when I renew my contract, then I will just switch back to my old-trusty motorola phone and use an MP3 player to listen to music.
It happens a lot in the US. People who've been in jail for a long time get used to it. Three meals a day, a bed. It is a lot like living in a good homeless shelter with a shower and clean clothes, there's just the occasional riot and shanking and raping, but that's everywhere in the US, too.
People get so used to it, that when they are put back on the street they have no where to go, no posessions, no nothing. Sure they have programs to let ex-cons re-enter the society, but even they are limited in space and limited funding and don't pick up people who did hard time. Living outside of prison usually ends up being worse than being inside, so they often do crimes to get back in.
Lawyer: "Implying my client is guilty."
But that's the owners problem if they use a simple password. I would like the program have security features built into it, such as the one I suggested. It's not to prevent hacking as that is impossible, but make it harder and moreso if the user uses a stronger password in the first place.
Being that it's open source, someone has to code it, and maybe that one person might be able to sell that 'secured' version. Better than what is out there now.
I don't think encryption alone will help. It only protects you when your PC is not on or when bitcoin is not running. Once bitcoin is running, the trojan only needs to find the memory space the program is using to steal your wallet.dat info.
Why not make bitcoin do what most banking websites do and create secure sessions when accessing your account, or in this case your wallet.dat file?
I haven't dabbled a lot in bitcoin, so far, but afte installing it, everything is there, in the open. It doesn't ask me to create an account persay, it generates one, but it doesn't ask me to create a password or anything.
So w hat obama was really saying is that "we need more engineers.... to lay off..."
lol