Indeed. Given what Microsoft has done to undermine other operating systems and their vendors, it is amusing to see the same thing done to them and them crying foul.
I'll admit it's very amusing but I'm morally torn on this one. Is it right to do wickedness to wicked people just because they would do the same to you?
They say turnabout is fair play but they also say be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
The normal way that all weapons of war are retired when the war ends.
Anyone accepting these implants, enhancements, or whatever should understand that it's a one way thing. They are giving up their life to become a weapon of war.
Paid M$ shill ? A $hill of a corporation driven only by greed, willing to crush business partners any time, willing to use anything which is not 100% illegal ?
Yeah, Google must be worse than that !!
Check my post history, I'm no fan of Microsoft.
I can hate MS and hate Google too. For good measure I dislike Apple as well.
This one appears to be due to nvidia's binary drivers. Every platform is equally vulnerable to evil kernel level code.
Besides exploits for Windows are so frequent that they are not news. Unless they hit hundreds of thousands of exploits overnight it's just business as usual.
Ever since the Negroes and liberals took over this site and America, it has gone to shit. Why do the socialists hate this country?
-- Ethanol-fueled
Abducting people from the streets of Europe in violation of the laws of the countries they were abducted from, using tourture on these people, and refusing these people a fair trial did a great amount of harm to the image of your country.
But if you mean by 'gone to shit' that the money has run out, well that's what you get if you are constantly at war. Wars cost a lot of money.
Google does not support IE 8 which is the defecto standard
Even the backward company I work for dropped IE8 some time ago. It's not standard because there is no standard.
Granted Firefox is a PITA with its frequent new major versions and Chrome feels like a browser for people who are too dumb to be allowed to configure anything.
Betteridge's law of headlines actually does work! No, I don't! Thanks, Betteridge.
I thought that only applied to newspaper headlines.
Google's recruitment people are all over the internet trolling everywhere and they have been for years. If they have not recruited me after 50+ attempts I would be grateful if they would please stop.
They gave up on not being evil some time ago. Google's constant trolling of linked-in with the assumption that anyone with a few years of unix knowledge would kill their own children just to work for them is sickening. The way they abuse customers with their adwords pricing setup is sickening. The information they are collecting for the truly wicked people of this world is more than sickening.
It's time slashdot got past the drolling over google stage.
To me SMART does not lie, but reports too much. It reports every replaced sector which is totally unimportant, especially when you buy a new hard drive, you will find faulty sectors in 50% of cases (quite normal). The hard drive with few faulty sectors on day one will function for decades correctly.
If your new drive has reallocated sectors it's broken and will likely fail soon. It's unlike to survive decades if it's in actual use.
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Indeed. Given what Microsoft has done to undermine other operating systems and their vendors, it is amusing to see the same thing done to them and them crying foul.
I'll admit it's very amusing but I'm morally torn on this one. Is it right to do wickedness to wicked people just because they would do the same to you?
They say turnabout is fair play but they also say be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
The normal way that all weapons of war are retired when the war ends.
Sold to a third world dictator?
Sounds bad.
I meant death. But that would indeed be worse.
We are not responsible for other country's disproportionate responses to our defensive capabilities.
Offensive capabilities.. Other countries are not going to be offended by you defending yourself, they will be offended by you attacking others.
But seriously. How would you retire from that?
The normal way that all weapons of war are retired when the war ends.
Anyone accepting these implants, enhancements, or whatever should understand that it's a one way thing. They are giving up their life to become a weapon of war.
>Linux is for people who hate Microsoft
People like you are what's wrong with open source.
Well if you like security holes, malware, downtime, and getting your data leaked you will no doubt love Microsoft.
ZFS is very, very nice if you have lots of disks. PF and carp are nice but you will get later versions and better security on OpenBSD.
The documentation does seem more consistent than any I've seen with any linux distribution.
Linux is for people who hate Microsoft
BSD is for people who love Unix
I hate Microsoft and love Unix. I use both.
But if linux had stable ZFS I'd likely not run FreeBSD.
I work at a multinational corporation with 30,000 employees worldwide.
Accessing netbsd.org from our corporate network gives permission denied
The explaination for the site access ban is netbsd=hobby site by the ranking of the net filtering service my company uses
Your net filtering service is broken. I suggest you complain to them.
Do you really need a net filtering service anyway?
MS's security record isn't all that great either
And the understatement of the year award goes to Anonymous Coward.
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what does the monthly cost of internet access have to do with it?
LOL. What?
The only way to make Microsoft software trustworthy is to cut power to the computer.
Paid M$ shill ? A $hill of a corporation driven only by greed, willing to crush business partners any time, willing to use anything which is not 100% illegal ?
Yeah, Google must be worse than that !!
Check my post history, I'm no fan of Microsoft.
I can hate MS and hate Google too. For good measure I dislike Apple as well.
BRO, dont ever, ever, ever get a job in infosec.
With the rash of companies losing all their data in recent years I think he already has.
are you aware of any OS that does not suffer by privilege escalation exploits ? if so, be a dear and share it with the rest of us.
What a dumb reply.
There are hundreds of these a year on windows. Windows has so many security problems because it's based on a broken design.
Another exploit for this POS OS.
This one appears to be due to nvidia's binary drivers. Every platform is equally vulnerable to evil kernel level code.
Besides exploits for Windows are so frequent that they are not news. Unless they hit hundreds of thousands of exploits overnight it's just business as usual.
Ever since the Negroes and liberals took over this site and America, it has gone to shit. Why do the socialists hate this country?
-- Ethanol-fueled
Abducting people from the streets of Europe in violation of the laws of the countries they were abducted from, using tourture on these people, and refusing these people a fair trial did a great amount of harm to the image of your country.
But if you mean by 'gone to shit' that the money has run out, well that's what you get if you are constantly at war. Wars cost a lot of money.
I'm pretty sure that's system privileges, not root privileges.
Exactly. Nvidia's binary blob drivers are a disaster waiting to happen on every platform.
I buy ATI whenever I get the chance.
..rat poison ?
That's a window manager not a web browser.
http://freecode.com/projects/ratpoison
Although using rat poison and MS Office both make me want to vomit.
Google does not support IE 8 which is the defecto standard
Even the backward company I work for dropped IE8 some time ago. It's not standard because there is no standard.
Granted Firefox is a PITA with its frequent new major versions and Chrome feels like a browser for people who are too dumb to be allowed to configure anything.
Betteridge's law of headlines actually does work! No, I don't! Thanks, Betteridge.
I thought that only applied to newspaper headlines.
Google's recruitment people are all over the internet trolling everywhere and they have been for years. If they have not recruited me after 50+ attempts I would be grateful if they would please stop.
No.
They gave up on not being evil some time ago. Google's constant trolling of linked-in with the assumption that anyone with a few years of unix knowledge would kill their own children just to work for them is sickening. The way they abuse customers with their adwords pricing setup is sickening. The information they are collecting for the truly wicked people of this world is more than sickening.
It's time slashdot got past the drolling over google stage.
Wow, really?
Did you confront the vendor? If so what did they say?
You really should name this vendor so we can all avoid them.
While I don't know what dban is
I've never used it. I normally use shred which appears to do the same.
http://www.dban.org/
To me SMART does not lie, but reports too much. It reports every replaced sector which is totally unimportant, especially when you buy a new hard drive, you will find faulty sectors in 50% of cases (quite normal). The hard drive with few faulty sectors on day one will function for decades correctly.
If your new drive has reallocated sectors it's broken and will likely fail soon. It's unlike to survive decades if it's in actual use.