I agree with everything except the "Frankly...". That's kind of harsh. He's trying to do the right thing, but doesn't know what it is yet, so he's asking his peers (or Slashdot) for the correct answer. He's trying to do the right thing for his career, while at the same time protecting his company.
There are a lot worse types of people you'd want working for you.
I'm tired of people saying that good ideas are an attempt at taking away jobs from ignorant people. This is a blatant troll, but I'm biting anyway. If it's really good enough that it'll revolutionize computing, let it happen, and let the best, not most monopolized, system win.
The gist of it is that IT departments can't afford to give everyone administrator access to their PC. The support calls would double or triple with all the inane random problems people will start having. I'm not making excuses for Microsoft's crappy user security model, but it does a good job of making IT managers happy.
That being said, a good IT department, upon hearing from management that you can't do your work, would make an exception in your case.
isn't important. If they had put a link to a torrent they'd uploaded to The Pirate Bay, same result. In fact, I'd say that's even more forward-thinking than what they did, but either way I get good music for free, so what's the difference?
My friend beat Chrono Cross on ePSXe, and he said it worked fine.
ePSXe is great and the linux version is fine as far as I can tell. But it's true for ePSXe just as it is true for all other systems: for some reason it's still a little weird playing emulators instead of the actual system. The experience just isn't 100% there, even when you have a gamepad and TV-out. I emulate all the time, and I love the ability to play those old games on my computer, but oh how I wish I owned all those original systems.
Running without a firewall is not smart, but not necessarily stupid, either. Once you run all the windows update patches, and disable file sharing on your WAN adapter (or at least use a good password and disable the guest account), what's left for people to hack? The only difference between this situation and one with a firewall, is that your ports will be replying to requests with a connection reset packet instead of staying silent. It shows that your PC is up and running, but nothing else. To be exploited, one must be already running trojans or spyware that allow this sort of behaviour. You don't open *those* attachments, do you? So run your machine without a firewall all you want, just be sure to keep it up-to-date.
Also, ZoneAlarm works as promised, and it's free. This isn't a hearty recommendation, but it's not broken, either. If you don't have a hardware solution (router), use ZA.
I type about 130 wpm. I grew up with computers, & used Typing Tutor on a mac extensively when I was 12-13. I also had a job for 4 years as a transcriber (of audio tapes -- for documentaries), where we'd get paid more if we typed faster.
http://www.fryth.com/gfx/typing.jpg -- if you don't believe me. (I wonder if my server will get completely slashdotted)
As more cities follow suit, and wireless bandwidth and security are improved, we are going to be living in a connected world beyond yours or my dreams. Mark my words.
I say, let them be identified, and let the lawsuits come. The article is wrong in implying that negligence to patch Windows is an innocent mistake. IT pros should either know to run a different OS or patch their Windows -- or they should be fired. Anything else is complete idiocy and they deserve to get the s**t sued out of them.
That being said, if this is found to be a vulnerability that MS never patched or patched improperly, the blame rests solely on them.
I do IT in an art gallery, so this could potentially be really cool. Useful to me would be the ability to store captions (dimensions, title, materials etc.) along with the artwork. I'll definitely be checking it out.
I'm currently trying to un-hijack the browser on my boss's home PC (fully and completely patched), and let me tell you, I've never seen a more rotten situation. Search bars that appear on the desktop after all windows are closed. Pop-up and pop-under ads. A portal page as your search page. Multiple toolbars that don't seem to serve any real purpose. Ad-Aware seems to clean it out, and then they're back again after I close the browser window and re-open it a few times.
Now I read that the 835732 vulnerability is back. If MS can make such user-friendly products, why can't they make them secure? What other software company has a track record this poor?
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We're already analyzing ur speech, disproving ur factz...
I agree with everything except the "Frankly...". That's kind of harsh. He's trying to do the right thing, but doesn't know what it is yet, so he's asking his peers (or Slashdot) for the correct answer. He's trying to do the right thing for his career, while at the same time protecting his company.
There are a lot worse types of people you'd want working for you.
I'm tired of people saying that good ideas are an attempt at taking away jobs from ignorant people. This is a blatant troll, but I'm biting anyway. If it's really good enough that it'll revolutionize computing, let it happen, and let the best, not most monopolized, system win.
The gist of it is that IT departments can't afford to give everyone administrator access to their PC. The support calls would double or triple with all the inane random problems people will start having. I'm not making excuses for Microsoft's crappy user security model, but it does a good job of making IT managers happy.
That being said, a good IT department, upon hearing from management that you can't do your work, would make an exception in your case.
isn't important. If they had put a link to a torrent they'd uploaded to The Pirate Bay, same result. In fact, I'd say that's even more forward-thinking than what they did, but either way I get good music for free, so what's the difference?
It's a frickin' online survey! Standard disclaimer applies.
Geist's article delivers such truth and honesty, you'd think that the MAFIAA either didn't read his report, or don't speak English.
It doesn't matter what other people think.
I came up with it on acid years ago.
My friend beat Chrono Cross on ePSXe, and he said it worked fine.
ePSXe is great and the linux version is fine as far as I can tell. But it's true for ePSXe just as it is true for all other systems: for some reason it's still a little weird playing emulators instead of the actual system. The experience just isn't 100% there, even when you have a gamepad and TV-out. I emulate all the time, and I love the ability to play those old games on my computer, but oh how I wish I owned all those original systems.
Duh.
It's been said that in life, three things are sure: death, spam and taxes.
n/t
I don't work for them. But I've had this lock for a long time and it's great. Their website claims it's immune to the pen trick.
And don't forget you can make a private hub (of which there are doubtlessly hundreds) that doesn't hit the neo-modus tracker.
Running without a firewall is not smart, but not necessarily stupid, either. Once you run all the windows update patches, and disable file sharing on your WAN adapter (or at least use a good password and disable the guest account), what's left for people to hack? The only difference between this situation and one with a firewall, is that your ports will be replying to requests with a connection reset packet instead of staying silent. It shows that your PC is up and running, but nothing else. To be exploited, one must be already running trojans or spyware that allow this sort of behaviour. You don't open *those* attachments, do you? So run your machine without a firewall all you want, just be sure to keep it up-to-date.
Also, ZoneAlarm works as promised, and it's free. This isn't a hearty recommendation, but it's not broken, either. If you don't have a hardware solution (router), use ZA.
I type about 130 wpm. I grew up with computers, & used Typing Tutor on a mac extensively when I was 12-13. I also had a job for 4 years as a transcriber (of audio tapes -- for documentaries), where we'd get paid more if we typed faster.
http://www.fryth.com/gfx/typing.jpg -- if you don't believe me. (I wonder if my server will get completely slashdotted)
As more cities follow suit, and wireless bandwidth and security are improved, we are going to be living in a connected world beyond yours or my dreams. Mark my words.
I say, let them be identified, and let the lawsuits come. The article is wrong in implying that negligence to patch Windows is an innocent mistake. IT pros should either know to run a different OS or patch their Windows -- or they should be fired. Anything else is complete idiocy and they deserve to get the s**t sued out of them.
That being said, if this is found to be a vulnerability that MS never patched or patched improperly, the blame rests solely on them.
5 MBps, here, downtown Toronto, $45.00/mo =)
I do IT in an art gallery, so this could potentially be really cool. Useful to me would be the ability to store captions (dimensions, title, materials etc.) along with the artwork. I'll definitely be checking it out.
Nah, .xpi wasn't associated with firefox for some reason, but it did work. Thanks.
So the bug affects Windows 2000? How come the fix on the site is only for XP? I can't seem to run the .xpi file on this 2000 machine.
I have some Celine Dion concert OGM's if you are interested...
I'm currently trying to un-hijack the browser on my boss's home PC (fully and completely patched), and let me tell you, I've never seen a more rotten situation. Search bars that appear on the desktop after all windows are closed. Pop-up and pop-under ads. A portal page as your search page. Multiple toolbars that don't seem to serve any real purpose. Ad-Aware seems to clean it out, and then they're back again after I close the browser window and re-open it a few times.
Now I read that the 835732 vulnerability is back. If MS can make such user-friendly products, why can't they make them secure? What other software company has a track record this poor?