1. spoofing an IP will not get you past MAC address filtering
So you just spoof your MAC address as well. It's not as if this was rocket science (... as anybody would know who ever sat in a boring airport lounge..)
You don't have to spoof your IP address at all. Just spoof the MAC address and let DHCP take care of the IP address.
If you think the versioning system is stupid then why are you putting Firefox on every machine you touch? You want everyone to see how bad it is out of vengeful spite or something?
It seem to me that by putting it on every machine you touch that would get more people using it. I don't get it.
By 'dumping Firefox on every machine I touch' he means dumping it off, i.e. removing it from every machine he touches.
And he is right about the pain of this release schedule. I want a stable web browser to view webpages. I don't want to update it more than about once a year.
What I don't get is that they have to intentionally look at a ton of child porn sites to find out if they are child porn sites and put them on the list. Doesn't that make them criminals?
That would make you or me a criminal but law enforcement are above the law,
Paypal taking 4% is the least of your problems. It's only a matter of time until they take everything. It's their standard business practice and it will get you sooner or later like it got so many other people.
Sure there is a lot of fraud on the internet. That doesn't make it OK for paypal to use any excuse to take other people's money and keep it.
You ( assuming you are considered an adult in your country ) could go into a shop and legally buy enough alcohol to put yourself in a coma. Chances are you have not done this recently. It's the same with weed in the Netherlands, people can buy it legally but on the whole they don't. Mostly tourists and kids smoke weed as it has little novelty value for anyone else.
Until recently checks had transction fees unless one had a rather high (if living check to check) minimum balacne in their account.
Money orders have fees (paypal is really closest to a fast, cheaper money order IMO).
Are you saying where you live account to account bank transfers actually cost more than paypal? That's insane!
Bank to bank transfers are free in all of Europe. Even from one bank to another, even from one country to another, even from one currency to another. OK, the last part is only half true as they will sting you for exchange fees but not transfer fees as such.
If you work for people you trust you have no reason to pay a percentage of your earnings to paypal. You worked for that money, it's crazy to just give it away. If you deal with multiple currencies there are much cheaper ways to convert money.
If you work for people you don't trust paypal will not help you and may take all money in your account at the first sign of trouble. They have done exactly this to very many people.
You haven't been to Europe have you? It's a place where debit and credit cards and not accepted at every corner store for purchasing a mars bar
That and... you know... waiting for your bank to approve a 70 cent purchase is likely to get you beaten up for being an ass.
It varies a lot from country to country but it is common practice to buy that 70 cent mars bar with a debt card in the Netherlands. You don't need to wait more than about a second for the bank to approve the transaction. That and people are not so unhappy about waiting for 10 to 20 seconds extra here, it's all ( annoyingly ) slow paced.
You haven't been to Europe have you? It's a place where debit and credit cards and not accepted at every corner store for purchasing a mars bar. Even here in Australia many stores won't let you use a payment system which requires commission such as a credit card without a minimum purchase, and even for large purchases will charge a surcharge for Amex or DinersClub. I typically carry around $100 in my wallet. My cousin in Europe carries around 600euro and this is considered normal.
In the UK you can use credit or debt cards for just about any purchase, Small stores sometimes get pissy about it though. In the Netherlands it's very common to use debt cards to buy a sandwich or a bottle of cola. It's certainly not common to carry around more than about 100 Euros here, 600 sounds like asking for trouble. I don't know where in Europe your cousin is though, things vary a lot from country to country.
I don't agree with this *at all*. You may have not looked into the dispute thing of paypal. In fact, it's the buyer which is safe in Paypal, and the seller having all the difficulties when a buyer is doing a claim or dispute. In fact, I'd recommend using paypal for anything unsafe if you are a buyer, and I would recommend all possible care for sellers.
You are advising people to get robbed here. They don't protect the seller or buyer, they protect themselves.
They are idiots, run by the same idiot philosophy which drives eBay - almost no customer service.
They have 'no customer service' in the same way that a mugger who beats you into a coma with a baseball bat, then takes everything you own has 'no customer service'. They take other people's money seemingly randomly and it's only legal because people don't read or don't understand the implications of their terms and conditions.
If the laws made more sense what they do would be criminal theft and the management would be held personally responsible.
The broker for those payments isn't PayPal, what a horrible company.
Paypal already keeps money deposited in a paypal accounts randomly, they wipe out bank accounts and credit cards randomly, and they threaten people with debt collectors should they not be able to take an amount that makes them happy. Anyone with a paypal account is a potential victim, there have been very many high profile cases.
Paypal's logical extension is violent crime. Maybe they plan to pay teams of violent muggers to beat down random strangers and take their wallets. By 2015 no one will be carrying a wallet because paypal would have mugged everyone.
Oh noes; I've got a bad thing in my MBR; what shall I do? Tip: boot to command line (F8 at boot time) and a quick FDISK/MBR will take care of it. So much for that indestructible bullshit...
You can't trust fdisk to do the right thing if your machine has already loaded who knows what malware. You need to boot off a clean CD.
The best way to kill a botnet is to kill the botmasters. Follow the money trail to them and get rid of them extrajudically.
You are clearly insane. The best way to fix a problem is to prevent it from happening in the first place by fixing the dodgy software that some people insist on using.
Going on a killing spree is just going to get the wrong people murdered and not even fix the problem in the process.
What Microsoft is saying is that it isn't hard, and that they can do it. They are basically mocking the guys who said it was indestructible, and, to put it kindly, saying that "they suck". This is Microsoft throwing down the gauntlet and saying, "we are better than you." Who knows, maybe they are.
If Microsoft were better than the botnet people the botnets would not exist in the first place.
Reinstalling the infected machine is the only way to get the job done and be 100% sure it has been done. Even if you boot from a clean CD you can't be sure MS's tool with clean everything. Windows doesn't even have a package manager that will let you checksum all files provided by a package so it's all a big mess.
You might get 90% coverage with MSSS on the day it is released but that will go down fast once the bad guys adapt to it.
Reinstall it, put a real firewall in front of it not the MS firewall nonsense, use updated virus scanners, use noscript and flashblock. Never install third party software from anyone you don't totally trust ( which rules out almost everyone. ) It will still be a long way from secure but it's a start. Or even better use a secure OS to start with.
Censorship is evil, but as far as it goes, this is really pretty minor. Same blacklist as already exists for many European countries/ISPs.
This is pretty minor if you trust the people involved to block only child porn. As no-one is checking their work and as they must be under enormous political pressure to block other things I'd not trust them to block only child porn.
For obvious reasons, no-one not directly involved in the list's management will ever be permitted to see it. You'll just have to trust that the secretive agency with the power to block any site on the internet and no public oversight is doing the right thing.
Or just wait until the list is leaked or figured out by scanning the top few thousand websites from various locations around the world and diffing the results.
It's not. It's not meant too either. Blocking child porn is a cover to implement a network wide censorship system. Once the system is in place it will be extended to cover other things. Child porn makes a good excuse for censorship as very few people will defend it and those that do can be easily vilified as inhuman monsters.
The IWF in the UK was setup to block internet access to child porn. Recently they started blocking other things. As the block lists are secret no-one really knows what they are blocking. Given the UK legal systems willingness to suppress all kinds of information it's possible they are blocking all kinds of things.
All this internet censorship nonsense is caused by the governments of the world trying to implement the same controls on the internet that they have always had on dead-tree newspapers.
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1. spoofing an IP will not get you past MAC address filtering
So you just spoof your MAC address as well. It's not as if this was rocket science (... as anybody would know who ever sat in a boring airport lounge..)
You don't have to spoof your IP address at all. Just spoof the MAC address and let DHCP take care of the IP address.
Firefox isn't for enterprise.
No?
So what is?
If you think the versioning system is stupid then why are you putting Firefox on every machine you touch? You want everyone to see how bad it is out of vengeful spite or something?
It seem to me that by putting it on every machine you touch that would get more people using it. I don't get it.
By 'dumping Firefox on every machine I touch' he means dumping it off, i.e. removing it from every machine he touches.
And he is right about the pain of this release schedule. I want a stable web browser to view webpages. I don't want to update it more than about once a year.
What I don't get is that they have to intentionally look at a ton of child porn sites to find out if they are child porn sites and put them on the list. Doesn't that make them criminals?
That would make you or me a criminal but law enforcement are above the law,
Paypal taking 4% is the least of your problems. It's only a matter of time until they take everything. It's their standard business practice and it will get you sooner or later like it got so many other people.
Sure there is a lot of fraud on the internet. That doesn't make it OK for paypal to use any excuse to take other people's money and keep it.
It's likely all the weed and gabber.
I suspect you are joking but I'll reply anyway.
You ( assuming you are considered an adult in your country ) could go into a shop and legally buy enough alcohol to put yourself in a coma. Chances are you have not done this recently. It's the same with weed in the Netherlands, people can buy it legally but on the whole they don't. Mostly tourists and kids smoke weed as it has little novelty value for anyone else.
Until recently checks had transction fees unless one had a rather high (if living check to check) minimum balacne in their account.
Money orders have fees (paypal is really closest to a fast, cheaper money order IMO).
Are you saying where you live account to account bank transfers actually cost more than paypal? That's insane!
Bank to bank transfers are free in all of Europe. Even from one bank to another, even from one country to another, even from one currency to another. OK, the last part is only half true as they will sting you for exchange fees but not transfer fees as such.
If you work for people you trust you have no reason to pay a percentage of your earnings to paypal. You worked for that money, it's crazy to just give it away. If you deal with multiple currencies there are much cheaper ways to convert money.
If you work for people you don't trust paypal will not help you and may take all money in your account at the first sign of trouble. They have done exactly this to very many people.
That and ... you know ... waiting for your bank to approve a 70 cent purchase is likely to get you beaten up for being an ass.
It varies a lot from country to country but it is common practice to buy that 70 cent mars bar with a debt card in the Netherlands. You don't need to wait more than about a second for the bank to approve the transaction. That and people are not so unhappy about waiting for 10 to 20 seconds extra here, it's all ( annoyingly ) slow paced.
You haven't been to Europe have you? It's a place where debit and credit cards and not accepted at every corner store for purchasing a mars bar. Even here in Australia many stores won't let you use a payment system which requires commission such as a credit card without a minimum purchase, and even for large purchases will charge a surcharge for Amex or DinersClub. I typically carry around $100 in my wallet. My cousin in Europe carries around 600euro and this is considered normal.
In the UK you can use credit or debt cards for just about any purchase, Small stores sometimes get pissy about it though. In the Netherlands it's very common to use debt cards to buy a sandwich or a bottle of cola. It's certainly not common to carry around more than about 100 Euros here, 600 sounds like asking for trouble. I don't know where in Europe your cousin is though, things vary a lot from country to country.
I don't agree with this *at all*. You may have not looked into the dispute thing of paypal. In fact, it's the buyer which is safe in Paypal, and the seller having all the difficulties when a buyer is doing a claim or dispute. In fact, I'd recommend using paypal for anything unsafe if you are a buyer, and I would recommend all possible care for sellers.
You are advising people to get robbed here. They don't protect the seller or buyer, they protect themselves.
my experiences with pay pal have been excellent - especially being refunded $2500 for a camera that never appeared. ymmv
You were lucky, that's all.
They seem to act reasonably to a few % of people to help disguise the fact they act unreasonably to a much higher %.
Sounds a lot like cash or checks to me.
Except you don't have to pay a third party a percentage to use cash or checks.
Paypal has been getting away with what should be classed as criminal theft for a very long time now.
They are idiots, run by the same idiot philosophy which drives eBay - almost no customer service.
They have 'no customer service' in the same way that a mugger who beats you into a coma with a baseball bat, then takes everything you own has 'no customer service'. They take other people's money seemingly randomly and it's only legal because people don't read or don't understand the implications of their terms and conditions.
If the laws made more sense what they do would be criminal theft and the management would be held personally responsible.
The broker for those payments isn't PayPal, what a horrible company.
Paypal already keeps money deposited in a paypal accounts randomly, they wipe out bank accounts and credit cards randomly, and they threaten people with debt collectors should they not be able to take an amount that makes them happy. Anyone with a paypal account is a potential victim, there have been very many high profile cases.
Paypal's logical extension is violent crime. Maybe they plan to pay teams of violent muggers to beat down random strangers and take their wallets. By 2015 no one will be carrying a wallet because paypal would have mugged everyone.
Oh noes; I've got a bad thing in my MBR; what shall I do? Tip: boot to command line (F8 at boot time) and a quick FDISK /MBR will take care of it. So much for that indestructible bullshit...
You can't trust fdisk to do the right thing if your machine has already loaded who knows what malware. You need to boot off a clean CD.
The best way to kill a botnet is to kill the botmasters. Follow the money trail to them and get rid of them extrajudically.
You are clearly insane. The best way to fix a problem is to prevent it from happening in the first place by fixing the dodgy software that some people insist on using.
Going on a killing spree is just going to get the wrong people murdered and not even fix the problem in the process.
What Microsoft is saying is that it isn't hard, and that they can do it. They are basically mocking the guys who said it was indestructible, and, to put it kindly, saying that "they suck". This is Microsoft throwing down the gauntlet and saying, "we are better than you." Who knows, maybe they are.
If Microsoft were better than the botnet people the botnets would not exist in the first place.
And that's a losing strategy for the 'good guys'.
Microsoft? Lawyers? Botnet herders? Windows users who don't care about the imact of their lack of security?
There are no good guys in this story.
If you have a PXE environment you can reinstall fast.
Why would you want 80% coverage when you could have 100%?
Reinstalling the infected machine is the only way to get the job done and be 100% sure it has been done. Even if you boot from a clean CD you can't be sure MS's tool with clean everything. Windows doesn't even have a package manager that will let you checksum all files provided by a package so it's all a big mess.
You might get 90% coverage with MSSS on the day it is released but that will go down fast once the bad guys adapt to it.
Reinstall it, put a real firewall in front of it not the MS firewall nonsense, use updated virus scanners, use noscript and flashblock. Never install third party software from anyone you don't totally trust ( which rules out almost everyone. ) It will still be a long way from secure but it's a start. Or even better use a secure OS to start with.
Microsoft just put a challenge up to every botnet maker on the planet.
Thanks Balmer.
A challenge they have already resoundingly lost.
They should just be honest about it and give users a choose to botnets to subscribe to like they were forced to do with web browsers.
Censorship is evil, but as far as it goes, this is really pretty minor. Same blacklist as already exists for many European countries/ISPs.
This is pretty minor if you trust the people involved to block only child porn. As no-one is checking their work and as they must be under enormous political pressure to block other things I'd not trust them to block only child porn.
For obvious reasons, no-one not directly involved in the list's management will ever be permitted to see it. You'll just have to trust that the secretive agency with the power to block any site on the internet and no public oversight is doing the right thing.
Or just wait until the list is leaked or figured out by scanning the top few thousand websites from various locations around the world and diffing the results.
How's this stopping child porn.
It's not. It's not meant too either. Blocking child porn is a cover to implement a network wide censorship system. Once the system is in place it will be extended to cover other things. Child porn makes a good excuse for censorship as very few people will defend it and those that do can be easily vilified as inhuman monsters.
The IWF in the UK was setup to block internet access to child porn. Recently they started blocking other things. As the block lists are secret no-one really knows what they are blocking. Given the UK legal systems willingness to suppress all kinds of information it's possible they are blocking all kinds of things.
All this internet censorship nonsense is caused by the governments of the world trying to implement the same controls on the internet that they have always had on dead-tree newspapers.