Or do you get the refund and the option to continue to use the OS? Surely Amazon isn't tied all the way back through ASUS to Microsoft's licensing servers.
The point isn't to rob Microsoft. The point is to not pay for something you are not going to use.
1) This vulnerability exists on OSX, Windows, and Linux.
This vulnerability is in flash. This vulnerability isn't indicative of the behavior of all vulnerabilities.
2) The annual pwn2own competition, among others, shows that Linux and Windows are similarly secure and OSX is much less secure. OSX goes down first every year, while Windows and Linux both last until later days of the competition when more direct access to the systems is granted to the contestants.
This test isn't real life.
A Windows machine is more likely to be compromised, but that's because of market share.
This is a myth. Market share doesn't make windows a weak OS, poor coding and testing does. Microsoft make far more money than any other OS vendor, they should have a vastly greater coding and testing budget too. Microsoft don't take security too seriously because they have little commercial pressure to improve things.
I'll bet you the market share of some embedded OS's is way higher than Microsoft's but how many virii attack things like nokia phones? Not many..
If violence, torture, murder and genocide are wrong; then smart machines will not carry them out. So far these things have been the pursuit of humans and not (smart) machines.
Who is to say the machines share your concepts of right and wrong? These things are the product of social conditioning not smartness.
Daleks aren't robots, they're mutants! Please hand in your geek card and go rewatch Dr. Who.
Every life form is a mutated form of the thing it descended from. Daleks are cyborgs. They consist of a genetically engineered organic part with a robotic shell around it.
Its easy when you can 'innovate' a few years later;)
Innovate -verb
1) The act of stealing something, changing its color, and telling the world you invented it. This is optionally followed by suing the original inventor for ripping off your ideas.
But a Microsoft store? Give me a break. MS has always been a geek company, period.
Microsoft used to be a geek company but it's been a marketing company for at least a decade. All the real geek companies are pretty small and don't make much money. Google might be the exception to that.
The geek resents Microsoft - and projects his anger on all the world. It is a peculiarly adolescent response.
That's flawed reasoning. Just because geeks don't like MS isn't proof that other groups feel different.
Most office staff I've met are given windows and don't like 'computers' because they really don't know that windows isn't 'computers'. If you give them linux or OS X instead they will be happier but for the most part they don't get the choice.
Facts no longer seem to matter.
Your arguments are emotive not logical.
The bazaars of the third world are filled with pirated copies of Windows.
They are also filled with Thai karaoke and Holywood flops, it's not proof of anything.
Here at home, sales of the Linux netbook have tanked.
Thats unproven. I brought 2 linux EEE pc's and left the default OS on them. They are great.
Walmart has pulled Linux off the shelves and off-line.
Would you like to buy a new car for $19.95 or download it for free? The free one is more recent. Actions of Walmart are not proof of much in this case.
No one in the states tried longer or harder to make a go of Linux in deep discount retail.
Due to Microsoft not allowing vendors to sell linux and windows without paying many times more for windows licenses. I take your point on linux specific hardware vendors though, they should but don't seem to exist.
For the Back-To-School trade, Walmart.com has 53 Vista desktops eligible for a free upgrade to Win 7 for sale - and God alone knows how many laptops.
Walmart makes money out of selling windows so they will sell it. It's not proof of anything. People are gagging for windows 7 not because it's good, but because they believe it's good. Like every windows release since always the hype says this is the magic release where all the problems get solved so people full of hope will go and buy it. Remember when windows 3.11 was billed as the OS you never needed to reboot? Or when NT 4.0 was billed as the hi-tech replacement for OpenVMS? People are suckers for good marketing.
"while MS users largely resent MS" Where the hell did you get this idea?
For my entire working life techies, office staff, and middle management, have been putting up cartoon strips with pictures of frustrated looking workers gathered around a computer and slogans like 'Why don't we just give Microsoft all the money and call it a day?'
Maybe thats where he gets the idea that MS users resent MS. The sentiment really does exist. Apple users on the other hand will spend the whole day telling you about their pride and joy given half a chance.
Most casual thieves want the hardware to use, resell, or simply because it's pretty. They don't give a toss about your data unless they can get easy cash out of it.
Encrypt the disk to protect your data. It doesn't even have to be very strong encryption but obviously good encryption is better if your CPU can handle it. You can save CPU cycles by only encrypting data that really needs to be kept personal.
Personally I'd be tempted to have some kind of low trick on there just to fuck with their minds. Add a script like echo "GPS location tracking started..." sleep 13 echo "Device location found and reported." read x
There is absolutely no security in this but casual thieves are normally not too smart so might shit their pants.
Indeed you are correct, it is false to state that OpenBSD has never had critical bugs. However the 2 bugs mentioned on their website is an amazing statistic compared to the best serious software vendors like sun, HP, redhat, IBM, etc. have managed.
This six month release cycle is artificial: what are the "milestones" in those 25 6-months releases?
Things are constantly changing. The point is to get the changes tested and out to the users in a smooth controlled way. This is something most software vendors are really bad at and something that the OpenBSD project is really good at.
If you want to know exactly what changes between released read the huge change logs on openbsd.org. Hardware support alone causes a large number of changes each six months and there are always plenty of other improvements too.
I use a mix of unison, NFS, autofs, and failover scripts. It works fairly well but there really should be something better. I've considered clustered filesystems but they seem overkill for what I need.
There is no way in hell I'm trusting this stuff to a third party.
She's discovered what I started suspecting some years ago: that most doctors aren't really very good...
I'm sure you are right for general practitioners. With the best will in the world they just can't be competent at everything. They are the first line support of the medical profession.
Some specialists are pretty good within their area.
I'm no doctor but that reads like a list of Crohn's symptoms to me. Maybe what she really needs is a better GP.
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Seriously? Swapping because of much larger files?
Even 50MB of pure source is inconceivable to me (someone might provide a good counterexample), and that's a tiny amount of the memory of any modern system.
I wasn't suggesting that source code comes in files 10k lines long. linzeal was suggesting it as a reason for IDE's being better than vi or emacs. I was ( trying to ) point out it was a silly argument for exactly the reasons you have said.
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How would a video file deliver a virus payload?
The normal buffer overflow way. I don't know about video but this has been done in images on windows.
Wipe out the disk completely, and reinstall Windows.
Wipe out the disk completely, and install Linux.
Or you can forever live in doubt. It's your choice.
If your computer is running Linux, Unix, OS/X it's not part of a botnet.
If your computer is not on any network it's not part of a botnet.
If your computer is running windows you take your chances.
Let them fix their economy first; military whatevers are not the solution to that.
Indeed, But wars are an effective distraction from economic problems.
Or do you get the refund and the option to continue to use the OS? Surely Amazon isn't tied all the way back through ASUS to Microsoft's licensing servers.
The point isn't to rob Microsoft. The point is to not pay for something you are not going to use.
1) This vulnerability exists on OSX, Windows, and Linux.
This vulnerability is in flash. This vulnerability isn't indicative of the behavior of all vulnerabilities.
2) The annual pwn2own competition, among others, shows that Linux and Windows are similarly secure and OSX is much less secure. OSX goes down first every year, while Windows and Linux both last until later days of the competition when more direct access to the systems is granted to the contestants.
This test isn't real life.
A Windows machine is more likely to be compromised, but that's because of market share.
This is a myth. Market share doesn't make windows a weak OS, poor coding and testing does. Microsoft make far more money than any other OS vendor, they should have a vastly greater coding and testing budget too. Microsoft don't take security too seriously because they have little commercial pressure to improve things.
I'll bet you the market share of some embedded OS's is way higher than Microsoft's but how many virii attack things like nokia phones? Not many..
I stopped reading there. Obviously a slow news day.
8% of windows PCs are not vulnerable. That's newsworthy.
Flash is a ongoing security nightmare. Users demand the functionality but don't understand or care about the security cost.
Flash is one abomination that should be put out of its misery ASAP.
If violence, torture, murder and genocide are wrong; then smart machines will not carry them out. So far these things have been the pursuit of humans and not (smart) machines.
Who is to say the machines share your concepts of right and wrong? These things are the product of social conditioning not smartness.
Daleks aren't robots, they're mutants! Please hand in your geek card and go rewatch Dr. Who.
Every life form is a mutated form of the thing it descended from. Daleks are cyborgs. They consist of a genetically engineered organic part with a robotic shell around it.
Its easy when you can 'innovate' a few years later ;)
Innovate -verb
1) The act of stealing something, changing its color, and telling the world you invented it. This is optionally followed by suing the original inventor for ripping off your ideas.
But a Microsoft store? Give me a break. MS has always been a geek company, period.
Microsoft used to be a geek company but it's been a marketing company for at least a decade. All the real geek companies are pretty small and don't make much money. Google might be the exception to that.
The geek resents Microsoft - and projects his anger on all the world. It is a peculiarly adolescent response.
That's flawed reasoning. Just because geeks don't like MS isn't proof that other groups feel different.
Most office staff I've met are given windows and don't like 'computers' because they really don't know that windows isn't 'computers'. If you give them linux or OS X instead they will be happier but for the most part they don't get the choice.
Facts no longer seem to matter.
Your arguments are emotive not logical.
The bazaars of the third world are filled with pirated copies of Windows.
They are also filled with Thai karaoke and Holywood flops, it's not proof of anything.
Here at home, sales of the Linux netbook have tanked.
Thats unproven. I brought 2 linux EEE pc's and left the default OS on them. They are great.
Walmart has pulled Linux off the shelves and off-line.
Would you like to buy a new car for $19.95 or download it for free? The free one is more recent. Actions of Walmart are not proof of much in this case.
No one in the states tried longer or harder to make a go of Linux in deep discount retail.
Due to Microsoft not allowing vendors to sell linux and windows without paying many times more for windows licenses. I take your point on linux specific hardware vendors though, they should but don't seem to exist.
For the Back-To-School trade, Walmart.com has 53 Vista desktops eligible for a free upgrade to Win 7 for sale - and God alone knows how many laptops.
Walmart makes money out of selling windows so they will sell it. It's not proof of anything. People are gagging for windows 7 not because it's good, but because they believe it's good. Like every windows release since always the hype says this is the magic release where all the problems get solved so people full of hope will go and buy it. Remember when windows 3.11 was billed as the OS you never needed to reboot? Or when NT 4.0 was billed as the hi-tech replacement for OpenVMS? People are suckers for good marketing.
"while MS users largely resent MS" Where the hell did you get this idea?
For my entire working life techies, office staff, and middle management, have been putting up cartoon strips with pictures of frustrated looking workers gathered around a computer and slogans like 'Why don't we just give Microsoft all the money and call it a day?'
Maybe thats where he gets the idea that MS users resent MS. The sentiment really does exist. Apple users on the other hand will spend the whole day telling you about their pride and joy given half a chance.
Most casual thieves want the hardware to use, resell, or simply because it's pretty. They don't give a toss about your data unless they can get easy cash out of it.
Encrypt the disk to protect your data. It doesn't even have to be very strong encryption but obviously good encryption is better if your CPU can handle it. You can save CPU cycles by only encrypting data that really needs to be kept personal.
Personally I'd be tempted to have some kind of low trick on there just to fuck with their minds. Add a script like
echo "GPS location tracking started..."
sleep 13
echo "Device location found and reported."
read x
There is absolutely no security in this but casual thieves are normally not too smart so might shit their pants.
The history chain has extending time gaps between copies eg 0.9,1,3,7,15,30,90 days.
That's exactly the kind of thing that BackupPC does, plus it does file pooling and compression.
I used to write all kinds of funky stuff to do backups but now I just use BackupPC and it all works better.
While OpenBSD does have an outstanding security record, with good design & separation of privileges, they aren't perfect.
As they say on their website, "Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!"
Indeed you are correct, it is false to state that OpenBSD has never had critical bugs. However the 2 bugs mentioned on their website is an amazing statistic compared to the best serious software vendors like sun, HP, redhat, IBM, etc. have managed.
This six month release cycle is artificial: what are the "milestones" in those 25 6-months releases?
Things are constantly changing. The point is to get the changes tested and out to the users in a smooth controlled way. This is something most software vendors are really bad at and something that the OpenBSD project is really good at.
If you want to know exactly what changes between released read the huge change logs on openbsd.org. Hardware support alone causes a large number of changes each six months and there are always plenty of other improvements too.
without the option to tell it not to
What? You can't see the big 'No' button next to the big 'Yes' button?
No.. The vast majority of windows users don't read dialog boxes, they just click whatever to make them go away.
Windows is meant to be software for people who don't want to understand, which is why so many people use it.
I use a mix of unison, NFS, autofs, and failover scripts. It works fairly well but there really should be something better. I've considered clustered filesystems but they seem overkill for what I need.
There is no way in hell I'm trusting this stuff to a third party.
> The plates create as much as 30 kWh of energy as cars drive over them
That should read 'The plates steal up to 30kWh of energy that their own customers have paid for'.
Whats the next business plan? Tapping into the huge reserves of free hubcaps?
Microsoft is doing THE ONLY THING it's good at - Marketing.
She's discovered what I started suspecting some years ago: that most doctors aren't really very good...
I'm sure you are right for general practitioners. With the best will in the world they just can't be competent at everything. They are the first line support of the medical profession.
Some specialists are pretty good within their area.
chronic stomach pain
chronic diarrhea
chronic vomiting
chronic fever
I'm no doctor but that reads like a list of Crohn's symptoms to me. Maybe what she really needs is a better GP.
Seriously? Swapping because of much larger files?
Even 50MB of pure source is inconceivable to me (someone might provide a good counterexample), and that's a tiny amount of the memory of any modern system.
I wasn't suggesting that source code comes in files 10k lines long. linzeal was suggesting it as a reason for IDE's being better than vi or emacs. I was ( trying to ) point out it was a silly argument for exactly the reasons you have said.