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  1. Mr, Kaspersky, F** you on When Malware Authors Combine Efforts · · Score: 1
    "This is why vulnerabilities are so important," said Kaspersky. "We are against anyone who publishes vulnerabilities because it gives hackers a tool."

    That's right keep them secret, keep them safe. So only the crackers and the uber-geeky know. And the little hairy foot developer can carry the exploit to mount doom before the evil minions of 50R0|\|666 get their hands on it.

    How will we know what ports to block, what mutex to push via GPO, and what tools to use to prevent these attacks if we don't know about them beforehand?
  2. Re:If they succed . . . on No Honor Among Malware Purveyors · · Score: 1

    As a judge once told a litigant:

    The text is in fine print because they're trying to do something that you don't want. The smaller the text, and more confusing the language, the more important the content.

  3. Barf Construction on Build a House Out of Recycled Cardboard · · Score: 1

    We build houses every which way
    We can build one for you
    Sometimes we build em in a single day
    Sometimes it takes two ...
    (Chorus)
    We don't use no building codes
    and We don't do nothing wrong
    We just pick up the tools
    and make up the rules as we go along

    For the fastest job yes-siree bob call 1800-heave
    We got a hundred and six shortcut tricks up our sleave
    When you're in a big hurry no time to worry 'bout building codes, yup
    call barf construction, and we'll throw it up.

    We're number one in affordable homes we build more new
    'cause we go fourth class 'n then we pass the savings on to you
    our walls are made of cardboard instead of wood
    goes up faster than than two by fours; looks just as good
    full lyrics here.

  4. So, what about a privately funded organization? on Verizon-Pushed WiFi Bill Becomes Law in PA · · Score: 1

    AFAIK a NPO can *purchase* service from municipalities. If a small group of citizens formed a foundation, and made a deal with the city (for 1$ a month or so) they could bypass this illegal restriction.

  5. I knew I wasn't crazy on Stress Found to Accelerate Chromosome Aging · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I remember seeing Clinton before he was elected, and then pictures of him at the end of his term. He got old FAST.

    1992
    2000

  6. Re:In the immortal words of PT Barnum.... on SCO Sells First Linux Licenses in UK · · Score: 1

    In South Korea history is for old people.

  7. Re:sounds expensive is right... on Fanless Media Center Box · · Score: 1

    Cept... it's got a loud-assed fan.

    God damn noisy Xbox. And don't hack it with anything but the MechAssault hack or you'll be trying to DL a downgraded XBox Live pack forever and ever.

  8. What the hell, sports on Ask Wil Wheaton Anything (Part Deux) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Ok, you often comment on your fave teams on your blog. Albeit not baseball related, anyone with a television knows about the recent violent outbusts by professional players (College Football & NBA basketball.) Have the recent events made you any less of a sports fan?

  9. Smartass on Creating Hydrogen With (Very) Hot Water · · Score: 5, Funny
    If, he thought to himself, such amachine is a virtual impossibility, then it must logically be a finite improbability. So all I have to do in order to make one, is to work out exactly how improbable it is, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea ... and turn it on!
  10. Bonus March on China to Have Over 100 Eyes in the Sky · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Protesters always have it bad even in the US

    Against the advice of his assistant, Major Dwight D. Eisenhower, Macarthur had taken personal command of the operation. President Hoover had ordered Macarthur to clear Pennsylvania Avenue only, but Macarthur immediately began to clear all of downtown Washington, herding the Marchers out and torching their huts and tents. Tear gas was used liberally and many bricks were thrown, but no shots were fired during the entire operation. By 8:00 p.m. the downtown area had been cleared and the bridge across the Anacostia River, leading to the Hooverville where most of the Marchers lived, was blocked by several tanks.
  11. Trademark infringement? on XM Portable Satellite Radio Receiver with Hard Drive · · Score: 4, Interesting

    *cough*RIPOFF*Cough*

    Sure the name of the Neuros MyFi means something else, but sheesh it doesn't take by one google search.

    Hell for 399 bucks you could get a neuros that will (finally) do timed recording with a 40gb hd and all the niceness of having linux in your.... backpack. The thing is freakin huge but XM didn't even bother to be original in the naming of their Ipod wannabe.

  12. It's about time on LP files Suit To Stop State Funding Of 3rd Debate · · Score: 2

    Squash the 2 headed chimera.

  13. How much does it cost... really? on Beginning PHP and MySQL · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is one a day now...

    If anyone knowsThis guy's got buyers lined up.

  14. Re:I'd like to see on MS To Offer Windows Sans WMP, If EU So Orders · · Score: 1

    Now, the problem is NOT the fact that IE is installed by default (please give me a browser, I need something to download Firefox from.) The problem is, even if you try really hard you cannot remove all of IE. It is an "integral" part of many different "features" of windows.

    What that means in reality is if you remove iexplore.exe from your system and even find every reg key that calls iexplore.exe you won't be able to remove IE from the system without headaches.

    Try it out. Once you get passed the trivial "self-healing" that windows uses to replace the iexplore.exe icon (overwrite it with a 0 byte file with no-one having permissions called iexplore.exe)

    STILL, even if you go through all that effort you will still be able to turn an explorer(.exe) window into an iexplore.exe window by typing a URL into the location bar and this works even if Iexplore.exe doesn't physically exist.

    It's worse than a virus at least viruses have removal utilities.

    I want options, not components that cannot be removed.

  15. Re:Treat naive users like threats on Curing a Corporate Virus Infection · · Score: 1

    ugh Faronics main page

    That's what I get for not hitting preview.

  16. Treat naive users like threats on Curing a Corporate Virus Infection · · Score: 3, Informative

    You needn't treat them like a threat to their face, that is just rude. Most people are "too busy" or don't care enough to learn about computer security. So nod and just listen to *their* problems and lock down their system against the big threat.

    We had to deal with this more often than not ... so we set out to prevent user folly. In so doing we created the IT tech's dream.

    First off you start at the network layer, and make sure via firewalls that people can't get anywhere or use any application that will cause you grief.(p2p/streaming etc.) Then you transparently proxy all your traffic so that the guy who checks out classic-cars.com all day for backgrounds can do his thing and not screw everyone else.

    Then you take every user system and you lock them down. You start out by moving all their dynamic data (that you wanna keep) to a file server. Mapping the winblows appdata/my documents gives you a wannabe roaming profile without all the garbage.

    After you make all that effort you either impliment a mandatory PXE re-imaging overnight (too much of a headache for us) or you use something like Deep Freeze and lock down the system entirely. Due to Deep Freeze even the most zealous surfer can only horribly damage their system once a day.

    Now you have an ideal environment. All changes on a system that need a reboot *must* involve a contact to the IT department, and those you think are savvy enough not to need a frozen system can do 90% of their own support.

    Ok sure so your level of responsibility goes up. The pristine environment means you have plenty of opportunity to script away your work. Not to mention silly things like virus outbreaks are really limited because a frozen system need only reboot to remove the virus.

    Think *pro-active.*

  17. Not for bleeding edge on FTP Client For Firefox · · Score: 1
    fireFTP 0.82 could not be installed because it is not compatible with this version of Firefox.
    (fireFTP 0.82 will only work with Firefox versions from 0.9.3 to 0.10+)
  18. How about webdav? on FTP Client For Firefox · · Score: 1

    Webfolders are garbage and don't cache anything so surfing webdav in winblows is horrible.

    And no I won't use cadaver it requires cygwin.

    Yes I use linux, but my workplace does not.

  19. Wrong headline on Chimp Can Hack Diebold Electronic Voting System · · Score: 5, Funny

    But I guess Chimp hacks Access Database isn't really news.

  20. Location of the Buran's on Soviet Space Shuttle Found In Bahrain? · · Score: 2, Informative

    One is on display as a park for children.

    One is under a pile of rubble

    One has been sold to the Germans.

    And one is still missing.

  21. Re:Simple question on Ask Green Party Presidential Candidate David Cobb · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think the primary issue that the greens have with Nuclear Power generation is the fission byproducts and their disposal.

    To a certain extent I must agree. But I believe that if we allow for the disposal of nuclear waste by firing it into a decaying orbit around the sun I'd say Nuke plants would be a good idea.

    Otherwise we're gonna fill up all the springfield gorges in the world and our mutated ancestors will have to deal with three eyed fish.

    Deregulating nukes and forcing a free market might create an environment for cheap commercial Guass style launch systems. That is if the same people calling for getting rid of nuclear reactors would let reactive materials into space without a huge fuss. (See Ion drives)

    Now, with this in mind. As the Green Party Presidential candidate, would you support the disposal of fission byproducts by shooting them into the sun? And if this is made a reality, would the Party's stance significantly change towards nuclear power generation?

  22. Re:just like them on Microsoft To Provide IE Patches for Windows XP Only · · Score: 2, Informative

    Web consoles for the Cisco 3500's, the 3com corebuilders... oh you know... obscure shit like that.

  23. Re:Sounds like the moral of the story is.... on Mambo Users Threatened · · Score: 1

    Or, the moral is, rewrite redistribute and give the ass suing you the bird.

  24. Spyware tech. on McAfee lists Adware in Top 10 Viruses · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is faster than Spyware removal tech.

    An instance on a system I was removing spyware from was so infested that no matter what I did I could not remove it. Adaware/Spybot could not remove it. The user in question happened to frequent weatherbug et. al so had the latest and greatest spyware. Now in my situation our upline is blocking spyware sites as they find them.

    What ended up happening is, our busy spyware installer guy put found a site that wasn't blocked and installed the latest and greatest. Soon thereafter his browser stopped taking him anywhere. Our upline was blocking all requests his browser made because they were all being superceded by the spyware address.

    I download all of the newest updates, nada. I speculate that it may be a newer spyware/adware infecting his system and offer him a reimaging of his station, or waiting a day to see if there is a fix. One day goes by, no fix. I spare his system out and give him a replacement while I image his old one. Well the system sits for a while, and eventually I get back to it (4 days after the initial problem.) I figure, hell I'll run Adaware again. Update...scan... remove... reboot... scan...remove... and finally the spyware is removed.

    The moral of this story is use Firefox.

  25. Re:Top 10 Reasons on Mock World Vote · · Score: 1

    I wish english still was able to diferrentiate between you and ye. It's a whole lot more difficult on the forum to say YOU and get across the meaning as being ya'll rather than ye.