The full title being the United States International Trade Commission and in this case functioning as the lobbying arm of the native US solar power industry. What's this self serving political waffle doing on a technology forum.
"The United States International Trade Commission is an.. federal agency of the United States.. The President nominates and the U.S. Senate confirms the six commissioners who make up the USITC"
Yea, it's sad seeing Slashdot reduced to spouting these kind of clueless technically illiterate articles.
Anonymous Coward: "This article is bullshit and is written by a person with zero technical skills. Ransomware is not targeting 2 million users per hour. A spam botnet is sending 2 million emails per hour (which I don't believe either, average is 20K-100K per spam botnet). The emails carry file attachments that deploy ransomware. About 10% of spam emails are opened, and about 1% actually yield infections.... I could go on breaking down every stupidity contained in that article.... but I actually have better things to do. This comment right here is more informative compared with the linked article.... which, btw, is based on reporting from a company that provides backup solutions. If this came from Bitdefender or Kaspersky, this would actually be credible."
First off Bill Gates didn't invent crtl-alt-delete. That honor goes to David Bradley of the original IBM PC design team. The primary use of which is to perform a warm-boot of DOS, as that particular combination is hardwired into the IBM PC BIOS. In Windows NT it caused the NT login screen to be displayed. Given the quality of security in WinNT it was the only way to be sure you weren't running a fake login screen.
“We have this category that Equifax calls unhandled malware, [with] which traditional security approaches haven’t been very helpful. Putting in FireEye has really helped us detect this unhandled malware, then gives us the capability to take action to stay secure.” Tony Spinelli, SVP and CSO of Equifax
"Or does this strike anyone else as looking particularly desperate?"
Yea, you don't do any better on drugs, you just think you do. Besides this whole psychedelic thing was tried in the sixties and nothing of value ever came out of it. Ken Kesey wrote one good book then took to the road with his Merry Pranksters who daily groked on psychedelic soup and then self destructed. See also Timothy Leary, anyone even remember him?
"Censoring posts to -1 is effectively saying you disagree with someone's post, but you are too chickenshit to explain why. Moderation should be eliminated immediately, or at least it should be impossible to mod down posts."
And of course the down votes and the insults so patently demonstrate the mentality of the chickenshits that resort to down-voting.
@Trailer Trash: "The contract entered provided for the smartphones at no cost. It also allowed for the NYPD to replace the smartphones with devices of our choosing two years later, also at no cost."
Do you have a link to the exact contract and do you know who was responsible for developing the original apps that would have to to be totally rewritten for Windows 10?
"You can focus harder on protecting against breaches and defense in depth, but the enlightened approach is to assume breach and build the muscle on detection and remediation"
Translation: we can't even figure out how to protect Windows from security breaches.
@Anonymous Coward: "One thing I'd always been told is that it's not X Windows, and not to call it that. There are plenty of alternatives like X, X11, and the X Window System. All of those are fine, but it is incorrect to call it X Windows. I'd totally understand it as a newbie mistake, but not from a tech news site for nerds."
Except, that's a direct quote from the SLS install file: 'Getting X-windows to run on your PC can sometimes be a bit of a sobering experience'
Some anonymous troll said:.. "I had been using Linux from very early on.. But today, Linux is pretty much dead to me.. The GNOME 3 desktop is, in my opinion, totally unusable. The other desktop environments aren't much better."..
You're talking total rubbish if you don't mind me saying so:
"rm -rf/foo/.*"
"rm: refusing to remove '.' or '..' directory: skipping '/foo/.'"
Unfortunately if you pass.* to 'chmod -R', and run it as root, it will walk up the directory tree and mangle all the system directories. not the behavior I was expecting:)
Systemd dies if there is no cgroup support in the kernel.
Poettering: "To make this work we’d need a patch, as nobody of us tests this"
R!/dir/.* destroys root.
Poettering: "I am not sure I'd consider this much of a problem. Yeah, it's a UNIX pitfall, but "rm -rf/foo/.*" will work the exact same way, no?"
Processes owned by a user with a leading zero in the name are started with root privilege..
Pottering: "I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here"
Systemd kill background processes after user logs out.
Poettering: "In my view it was actually quite strange of UNIX that it by default let arbitrary user code stay around unrestricted after logout."
'I have an issue with journal corruptions and need to know what is the accepted way to deal with them.'
Poettering: "Yupp, journal corruptions result in rotation, and when reading we try to make the best of it. they are nothing we really need to fix hence."
'Poettering locked and limited conversation to collaborators on 17 Apr'
Is that dancing monkey boy, if so then all I can say is fuck off and die, sweaty.
ref: "After all this time, there should have been enough eyeballs scouring the open source code for vulnerabilities that it should be impregnable. I cannot understand how something like this could happen with open source being constantly audited by all its users for bugs before they compile and install."
"As much as it is fashionable to bash MS at this anti MS website"
For a long time, this place has been know as the Microsoft slashdot. Do you have anything to say regarding Microsoft's claims regarding the better security in Edge as compared to other browsers?
"Internet Explorer 10 introduced Enhanced Protected Mode (EPM), based on the Windows 8 app container technology.. Microsoft Edge takes the sandbox even farther, running its content processes in app containers not just by default, but all of the time." ref
"I will ask if you think Chrome is any better? It is kind of unfair as of course Google won't disclose it's own bugs.
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The full title being the United States International Trade Commission and in this case functioning as the lobbying arm of the native US solar power industry. What's this self serving political waffle doing on a technology forum.
.. federal agency of the United States .. The President nominates and the U.S. Senate confirms the six commissioners who make up the USITC"
"The United States International Trade Commission is an
Yea, it's sad seeing Slashdot reduced to spouting these kind of clueless technically illiterate articles.
... I could go on breaking down every stupidity contained in that article.... but I actually have better things to do. This comment right here is more informative compared with the linked article.... which, btw, is based on reporting from a company that provides backup solutions. If this came from Bitdefender or Kaspersky, this would actually be credible."
Anonymous Coward: "This article is bullshit and is written by a person with zero technical skills. Ransomware is not targeting 2 million users per hour. A spam botnet is sending 2 million emails per hour (which I don't believe either, average is 20K-100K per spam botnet). The emails carry file attachments that deploy ransomware. About 10% of spam emails are opened, and about 1% actually yield infections.
Any idea as to the Operating System that is required in order for this customer attacking ransomware virus script to execute.
First off Bill Gates didn't invent crtl-alt-delete. That honor goes to David Bradley of the original IBM PC design team. The primary use of which is to perform a warm-boot of DOS, as that particular combination is hardwired into the IBM PC BIOS. In Windows NT it caused the NT login screen to be displayed. Given the quality of security in WinNT it was the only way to be sure you weren't running a fake login screen.
It's sad seeing a once respectable technology site reduced to being the Faux News of the technology media.
“We have this category that Equifax calls unhandled malware, [with] which traditional security approaches haven’t been very helpful. Putting in FireEye has really helped us detect this unhandled malware, then gives us the capability to take action to stay secure.” Tony Spinelli, SVP and CSO of Equifax
"Or does this strike anyone else as looking particularly desperate?"
Yea, you don't do any better on drugs, you just think you do. Besides this whole psychedelic thing was tried in the sixties and nothing of value ever came out of it. Ken Kesey wrote one good book then took to the road with his Merry Pranksters who daily groked on psychedelic soup and then self destructed. See also Timothy Leary, anyone even remember him?
"Censoring posts to -1 is effectively saying you disagree with someone's post, but you are too chickenshit to explain why. Moderation should be eliminated immediately, or at least it should be impossible to mod down posts."
And of course the down votes and the insults so patently demonstrate the mentality of the chickenshits that resort to down-voting.
The CIA, Amazon, Bezos and the Washington Post:
"Udev had mount event support but it was so buggy and wrong that they decided to remove it completely!"
/etc/udev/rules.d/61-sr0-change.rules
Udev can detect mount events such as the DVD being ejected by the eject button on the front of the unit. From an old bug report in launchpad.net.
KERNEL=="sr0", ACTION=="change", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/sr0_change.sh"
Do you mean that under the guise of educating children, Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft are brainwashing the future consumers of their product.
"AT&T Uverse modems were found to have several serious vulnerabilities, including a superuser account with hardcoded username/password"
Look it, most/all consumer grade equipment has built-in back-doors, by the various security services, get used to it.
@Trailer Trash: "The contract entered provided for the smartphones at no cost. It also allowed for the NYPD to replace the smartphones with devices of our choosing two years later, also at no cost."
Do you have a link to the exact contract and do you know who was responsible for developing the original apps that would have to to be totally rewritten for Windows 10?
"You can focus harder on protecting against breaches and defense in depth, but the enlightened approach is to assume breach and build the muscle on detection and remediation"
Translation: we can't even figure out how to protect Windows from security breaches.
@Anonymous Coward: "One thing I'd always been told is that it's not X Windows, and not to call it that. There are plenty of alternatives like X, X11, and the X Window System. All of those are fine, but it is incorrect to call it X Windows. I'd totally understand it as a newbie mistake, but not from a tech news site for nerds."
Except, that's a direct quote from the SLS install file: 'Getting X-windows to run on your PC can sometimes be a bit of a sobering experience'
@Anonymous Coward: "You're delusional .. Nearly all usages of Linux today are in name only."
:)
It's understandable why you would want to remain anonymous
Some anonymous troll said: .. "I had been using Linux from very early on .. But today, Linux is pretty much dead to me .. The GNOME 3 desktop is, in my opinion, totally unusable. The other desktop environments aren't much better." ..
You're talking total rubbish if you don't mind me saying so:
Raspberry PI Desktop
Linux Mint 18.1 "Cinnamon" overview
KDE Plasma 5.X Review 2015
Ubuntu Gnome 17.04 Review
I call BS on this, GPS spoofing doesn't prevent the radar from working or from someone looking out the window.
"It also lacks an init system, a mail server, a DNS resolver, a process monitor, an ssh client and an init system."
.. really funny :)
Haa haaaa
"Should Average Consumers Install More Than One Antivirus Program On Their System?"
No, they should move to a Linux Distro and quite frankly I'm amazed you have to ask such a question on slashdot.
"rm -rf /foo/.*"
.* to 'chmod -R', and run it as root, it will walk up the directory tree and mangle all the system directories. not the behavior I was expecting :)
"rm: refusing to remove '.' or '..' directory: skipping '/foo/.'"
Unfortunately if you pass
Systemd dies if there is no cgroup support in the kernel.
/dir/.* destroys root.
/foo/.*" will work the exact same way, no?"
Poettering: "To make this work we’d need a patch, as nobody of us tests this"
R!
Poettering: "I am not sure I'd consider this much of a problem. Yeah, it's a UNIX pitfall, but "rm -rf
Processes owned by a user with a leading zero in the name are started with root privilege..
Pottering: "I don't think there's anything to fix in systemd here"
Systemd kill background processes after user logs out.
Poettering: "In my view it was actually quite strange of UNIX that it by default let arbitrary user code stay around unrestricted after logout."
'I have an issue with journal corruptions and need to know what is the accepted way to deal with them.'
Poettering: "Yupp, journal corruptions result in rotation, and when reading we try to make the best of it. they are nothing we really need to fix hence."
'Poettering locked and limited conversation to collaborators on 17 Apr'
Is that dancing monkey boy, if so then all I can say is fuck off and die, sweaty.
ref: "After all this time, there should have been enough eyeballs scouring the open source code for vulnerabilities that it should be impregnable. I cannot understand how something like this could happen with open source being constantly audited by all its users for bugs before they compile and install."
"As much as it is fashionable to bash MS at this anti MS website"
.. Microsoft Edge takes the sandbox even farther, running its content processes in app containers not just by default, but all of the time." ref
For a long time, this place has been know as the Microsoft slashdot. Do you have anything to say regarding Microsoft's claims regarding the better security in Edge as compared to other browsers?
"Internet Explorer 10 introduced Enhanced Protected Mode (EPM), based on the Windows 8 app container technology
"I will ask if you think Chrome is any better? It is kind of unfair as of course Google won't disclose it's own bugs.
Chromium issue tracker - Monorail
Microsoft Edge running under windows is the most secure browser on the planet, Microsoft says so.