So would it make the virus writer any less guilty if he wrote the virus using Windows?
Oh wait, this isn't about the virus or the virus writer. This is an excuse to say, "We don't like your operating system, therefore, everyone that uses it is probably a criminal."
No data is secure - Gigaquads stolen in 'impossible' hack
Valve discovered this morning that a massive quantity of computer data had been stolen from one of their Central Mainframes.
It is believed around 80 Gigaquads of confidential entertainment data was stolen by this hacker, and was probably copied to a temporary fileserver somewhere on the web.
Valve has said that they are considering all options to catch this hacker, and the corporation that paid him.
You know, there are two sides to this coin.
There's the side from the 'squatter where they see the land, they grab it, and they hold on to it. They do this from their own pocket, hoping to make some money selling the land to whoever wants it at a later date.
There's the side from the person that desires such land, sometimes for reasons of their trademark, or their name. This is where the 'squatter tries to get them to pay large amounts of money for the domain.
Now, the 'squatter probably should get SOME money back from their initiative (cost, maybe?) but not be allowed to extort millions from whoever wants the website.
Although I admit that the land analogy is flawed..I would have more respect for the 'squatter if they actually were trying to get a fair deal out of it, instead of, "Give us $1,000,000,000, or we'll pwn u, n00b!"
Granted I don't agree with all of Mythic's practices on DAoC, I think they're giving Microsoft a taste of their own medicine here. Maybe when I play DAoC tonight, I'll have extra fun knowing that I'm helping to fund a legal campaign against Microsoft.
See, I didn't particularly care about safety when I made it. I had a makeshift conical shield in front of the magnetron which made it really look dangerous.
Anyone who'd step in front of something like that probably deserves some serious tissue heating or DNA errors.
In high school, I took a magnetron and a bunch of other crap (ahh, memories) and made a microwave gun. I demonstrated its effectiveness vs computers by proving that it could take a perfectly working, normal PC and make it display flashing ASCII characters on the screen.
Turning the computer off and then on again would display a different arrangement of flashing ASCII characters.
I can see where the desire for more than one firewall is going to go up. Here's an example.
At the boarder, you might have a hardware firewall set up, before data can even get to the machines.
Then you might have a per-cluster firewall, so each department or cluster of computers can set their own policies for what gets in and what doesn't.
Then there would be the firewall on each machine, which could be set according to the uses of the machine.
So there would be three layers of shielding before you even get to the security features of the OS itself.
Or you could just go VPN like someone suggested.
Another good idea would be to have some kind of username/password setup so that some people could bypass the first firewall, and the issue of 'trust' wouldn't be as big as allowing someone to zip through all the firewalls.
Make basic cable come with a username/password and leave support at that. No tech support, no customer service, just a low speed (100k down, 30k up or something) thing for users of whatever cable service. If you want tech/CS/more speed, you'll pay the premium!
There are an almost infinite amount of universes out there, each slightly different than our own. (Quantum Leap!) We can kind of 'choose' what universe we're in by changing things here.
But maybe the universes aren't as separated as we think. It might be something as simple as frequencies. Maybe Universe A takes up True frequencies 1Hz-1GHz or something while Universe B takes up 2GHz-3GHz..I dunno.
Maybe if they zoom the camera all the way in they'll be able to see a cyber demon lord or at least one of those buildings we got to walk through on doom.
Actually, a cat and a rabbit have been mixed before. All you get is a rabbit with autoimmune problems, severe hip displasia, and other random problems. Its not the cabbit everyone imagines it'd be.
Actually, I get advertisements for the latter pill in my email.
But, provided they actually worked, I'd take an equal number of both pills. Since I see 'way smarter' as being >10 IQ points, leaving me with a net gain of IQ and a penis the same size as it was before.
I have no medical insurance right now. I'm fucked if something happens to me, probably for 10+ years while I get the money to pay them.
I mean, you have no idea. I had a kidney stone a while back. They took an X-ray and gave me some saline IV stuff to help me pass it. It hurt, but I got over it.
Total price? About $2,000. I had insurance then, so it wasn't so bad. But what if I didn't? $2,000 for one X-ray and one bag of IV? I was there, at most, 2 hours. Lets pay the three people that helped me $60 an hour for my time. That's $180. Lets pay $100 for the X-ray, and $100 for the IV, that's $380.
$2,000 - $380 = $1,620. That's $1,620 in profit. Imagine all those good drivers paying $2,000 a year for something they'll never use. But they're forced to pay it.
A corporation out to make money..imagine that.
The problem is that they're way too greedy. You pay for a decent used car every year in car insurance costs.
Then, when you need them the most, they won't pay out. The worst part is that it's illegal to go without liability insurance!
Some TV show or something did a poll catering to women. They asked them, "If there were a pill that made your ass bigger, but made you way smarter, would you take it?"
90% of the women said they wouldn't take it. Of course, that might not apply here, as us men have no shame.
The system does the same thing with or without HDDs. Using IDE drives, by the way. ATX power supply. I've disconnected everything but the processor fan, RAM, processor, and video card. Doesn't even beep unless I 'rock'.
I'm running a Duron 850 with 256MB of 133MHz SDRAM. GeForce2 GTS video card, SB Live, an ethernet card, and a generic 56k modem. Also, two HDDs, a CD-ROM drive, and a floppy drive.
When my computer is off, the PSU switch in the back is also off. I turn on the PSU switch, and then press the case button. Drives spin up, fans come on, but no screen. No USB. No beeps.
However, if I 'rock' the PSU switch, causing the system to 'brownout', the system will boot just fine, but I have to 'rock' the switch just right, or else its back to step one. Been doing this for about a year now, almost two.
ISPs aren't at fault because they provide the connection. Upstream and downstream. They do not guarentee that its contents will be safe. That's what firewalls are for.
Microsft or some OS company might/should be partially liable (maybe aiding/abetting?) if there's a well-known software hole that allowed the attackers to gain access to a computer even while the user is taking precautions to prevent that kind of thing.
Especially since the user was hassled this much. People are probably going to say it was his fault for installing the trojans, but going to jail for a kiddie-pr0n charge isn't quite the acceptable punishment for computer illiteracy.. Maybe having his HDD formated, but not prison time.
Interesting. I'm using an ECS K7VZA based board, with an 8.4GB and 40GB drives, both Western Digital. Using the newest BIOS revision, and it did the same using the oldest BIOS revision as well.
I've tried unplugging practically everything from the board, and it still does it. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as to how I can not spend a dime and fix this problem.
In order to turn my computer on, I must first flip the power-supply switch (I always keep it off just for safety or something). Then I push the front power button. Computer comes on. Drives boot, fans come on, etc, but no screen. No POST, no beeps. I then have to 'rock' the power switch in the back where the computer browns out and only then if I do it correctly will the machine boot. Been doing this for a year and a half now, everything's ok.
Might be more stable and safer with a functional powersupply, though.
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Us guys will be in seriously deep shit with our signifigant others if someone gives that to his signifigant other.
So would it make the virus writer any less guilty if he wrote the virus using Windows?
Oh wait, this isn't about the virus or the virus writer. This is an excuse to say, "We don't like your operating system, therefore, everyone that uses it is probably a criminal."
No data is secure - Gigaquads stolen in 'impossible' hack
Valve discovered this morning that a massive quantity of computer data had been stolen from one of their Central Mainframes.
It is believed around 80 Gigaquads of confidential entertainment data was stolen by this hacker, and was probably copied to a temporary fileserver somewhere on the web.
Valve has said that they are considering all options to catch this hacker, and the corporation that paid him.
You know, there are two sides to this coin. There's the side from the 'squatter where they see the land, they grab it, and they hold on to it. They do this from their own pocket, hoping to make some money selling the land to whoever wants it at a later date. There's the side from the person that desires such land, sometimes for reasons of their trademark, or their name. This is where the 'squatter tries to get them to pay large amounts of money for the domain. Now, the 'squatter probably should get SOME money back from their initiative (cost, maybe?) but not be allowed to extort millions from whoever wants the website. Although I admit that the land analogy is flawed..I would have more respect for the 'squatter if they actually were trying to get a fair deal out of it, instead of, "Give us $1,000,000,000, or we'll pwn u, n00b!"
Not to everyone. To some people, government officials are always hanging around just around the block.
Most technology can be used to violate your privacy.
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OnStar is a good system, and can even save your life in the event of an accident.
Or, the government can use it to track you down and assassinate you because of your contributions to
Which one of these two situations are you more likely to be in?
Granted I don't agree with all of Mythic's practices on DAoC, I think they're giving Microsoft a taste of their own medicine here. Maybe when I play DAoC tonight, I'll have extra fun knowing that I'm helping to fund a legal campaign against Microsoft.
See, I didn't particularly care about safety when I made it. I had a makeshift conical shield in front of the magnetron which made it really look dangerous. Anyone who'd step in front of something like that probably deserves some serious tissue heating or DNA errors.
In high school, I took a magnetron and a bunch of other crap (ahh, memories) and made a microwave gun. I demonstrated its effectiveness vs computers by proving that it could take a perfectly working, normal PC and make it display flashing ASCII characters on the screen. Turning the computer off and then on again would display a different arrangement of flashing ASCII characters.
I can see where the desire for more than one firewall is going to go up. Here's an example. At the boarder, you might have a hardware firewall set up, before data can even get to the machines. Then you might have a per-cluster firewall, so each department or cluster of computers can set their own policies for what gets in and what doesn't. Then there would be the firewall on each machine, which could be set according to the uses of the machine. So there would be three layers of shielding before you even get to the security features of the OS itself. Or you could just go VPN like someone suggested. Another good idea would be to have some kind of username/password setup so that some people could bypass the first firewall, and the issue of 'trust' wouldn't be as big as allowing someone to zip through all the firewalls.
That's a pretty good idea.
Make basic cable come with a username/password and leave support at that. No tech support, no customer service, just a low speed (100k down, 30k up or something) thing for users of whatever cable service. If you want tech/CS/more speed, you'll pay the premium!
There are an almost infinite amount of universes out there, each slightly different than our own. (Quantum Leap!) We can kind of 'choose' what universe we're in by changing things here. But maybe the universes aren't as separated as we think. It might be something as simple as frequencies. Maybe Universe A takes up True frequencies 1Hz-1GHz or something while Universe B takes up 2GHz-3GHz..I dunno.
How about we get to Phobos and Deimos instead?
Maybe if they zoom the camera all the way in they'll be able to see a cyber demon lord or at least one of those buildings we got to walk through on doom.
Actually, a cat and a rabbit have been mixed before. All you get is a rabbit with autoimmune problems, severe hip displasia, and other random problems. Its not the cabbit everyone imagines it'd be.
Actually, I get advertisements for the latter pill in my email.
But, provided they actually worked, I'd take an equal number of both pills. Since I see 'way smarter' as being >10 IQ points, leaving me with a net gain of IQ and a penis the same size as it was before.
I have no medical insurance right now. I'm fucked if something happens to me, probably for 10+ years while I get the money to pay them. I mean, you have no idea. I had a kidney stone a while back. They took an X-ray and gave me some saline IV stuff to help me pass it. It hurt, but I got over it. Total price? About $2,000. I had insurance then, so it wasn't so bad. But what if I didn't? $2,000 for one X-ray and one bag of IV? I was there, at most, 2 hours. Lets pay the three people that helped me $60 an hour for my time. That's $180. Lets pay $100 for the X-ray, and $100 for the IV, that's $380. $2,000 - $380 = $1,620. That's $1,620 in profit. Imagine all those good drivers paying $2,000 a year for something they'll never use. But they're forced to pay it.
A corporation out to make money..imagine that. The problem is that they're way too greedy. You pay for a decent used car every year in car insurance costs. Then, when you need them the most, they won't pay out. The worst part is that it's illegal to go without liability insurance!
Hey, I'd much rather date a supergenius with a ghetto booty than an averagely intelligent woman with a tiny booty.
Some TV show or something did a poll catering to women. They asked them, "If there were a pill that made your ass bigger, but made you way smarter, would you take it?" 90% of the women said they wouldn't take it. Of course, that might not apply here, as us men have no shame.
The system does the same thing with or without HDDs. Using IDE drives, by the way. ATX power supply. I've disconnected everything but the processor fan, RAM, processor, and video card. Doesn't even beep unless I 'rock'.
I'm running a Duron 850 with 256MB of 133MHz SDRAM. GeForce2 GTS video card, SB Live, an ethernet card, and a generic 56k modem. Also, two HDDs, a CD-ROM drive, and a floppy drive.
When my computer is off, the PSU switch in the back is also off. I turn on the PSU switch, and then press the case button. Drives spin up, fans come on, but no screen. No USB. No beeps.
However, if I 'rock' the PSU switch, causing the system to 'brownout', the system will boot just fine, but I have to 'rock' the switch just right, or else its back to step one. Been doing this for about a year now, almost two.
Anyone have any idea what's wrong with 'er?
ISPs aren't at fault because they provide the connection. Upstream and downstream. They do not guarentee that its contents will be safe. That's what firewalls are for. Microsft or some OS company might/should be partially liable (maybe aiding/abetting?) if there's a well-known software hole that allowed the attackers to gain access to a computer even while the user is taking precautions to prevent that kind of thing. Especially since the user was hassled this much. People are probably going to say it was his fault for installing the trojans, but going to jail for a kiddie-pr0n charge isn't quite the acceptable punishment for computer illiteracy.. Maybe having his HDD formated, but not prison time.
"It wasn't my fault, Officer. Honest, the video said it was Terminator 3 when I downloaded it!"
"The evil hacker even took the time to arrange and sort those pictures by series!"
Interesting. I'm using an ECS K7VZA based board, with an 8.4GB and 40GB drives, both Western Digital. Using the newest BIOS revision, and it did the same using the oldest BIOS revision as well. I've tried unplugging practically everything from the board, and it still does it. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as to how I can not spend a dime and fix this problem.
Someday, my powersupply will burn down my house.
In order to turn my computer on, I must first flip the power-supply switch (I always keep it off just for safety or something). Then I push the front power button. Computer comes on. Drives boot, fans come on, etc, but no screen. No POST, no beeps. I then have to 'rock' the power switch in the back where the computer browns out and only then if I do it correctly will the machine boot. Been doing this for a year and a half now, everything's ok.
Might be more stable and safer with a functional powersupply, though.