bah.. its proof enough. Its not as if the MPAA are downloading the entire file off of each client/IP to check they are sharing that particular file. They are just getting the hashes etc,. The trackers keep track of what the client has up'd and down'd, this will only be recorded if the correct bytes are uploaded to other clients and reported as such.
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Well try typing in just "Britn"... use the down keys to select "Britney Spears Greatest hits" or whatever. See the amonut of typing youve saved? See the number of hits each query does without having to do the query? See the other common queries? See one there you didnt think of using? etc. Thats auto-complete for you... its mostly for saving typing, but in this case can do a lot more.
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They seem to have filtered out personal sites, as my name does not appear (although it is indexed by Google.
Really? My name is indexed fine and appears in teh auto-complete list. Britney Spears' name also. Perhaps youre just not popular enough?
Sheesh.. havent these guys heard of powerpoint? or any other slideshow app?
I cant believe I just read an entire article about a tool which fuckin draws lines.. There were entire paragraphs devoted to the amazing ability to erase (!) lines youve drawn. wtf.
sure, it can draw on any app, and can play animations underneath and can scale etc.. but thats just added fluff to a tool thats been around for many years and really isnt anything special.
It seems its still possible to sort by date. So instead of limiting your search to a date range, just sort by date then clicky-click the "o"s until you find the range you want.
Of course, it makes it difficult to sort by relevance *within* a date range.
Except is there really a need to embed such shopping links hardcoded throughout the program? Sell that crap on the MSN web page or something, spamming their own software detracts from the usability of the program. This isnt a web page we are talking about.
They have basically taken a program and made it into an ad delivery piece of software. They are trying to encourage people to use it to use the MSN network, no one wants to sign up to be spammed.
There are many ad-free alternatives. They could spam IE with heaps of hardcoded shopping links etc, but they let the user remove them. The IM software field is not much different from the browsers in this respect.
New features include: Winks, Set Status Before Login, Drag and Drop Backgrounds and Feedback.
And, as been mentiond, a huge amount of bloat. Plus 'buy emoticons', 'backgrounds', 'winks' etc spam littered throughout the program with direct links to MS sites to buy shitty little pictures which you can get for free. The "for sale" emoticons are more prominently placed and larger and in the way than the emoticons you actually use. The whole thing is just a way to sell that crap. A blantent sell out.
Except do you think one man (ie Bill G) is the only one who decides what goes in or out?
They have huge numbers of developers, testers, researchers etc to decide what should go in and how. The colour of the taskbar in Windows wasnt just randomly picked by Bill "hmm, lets make it blue", they would have had researchers and testers etc to decide what it should be. The same goes with every little detail in Windows. Its not based on what some guy think would be best, but typically by what the research shows would be the best So, there is a committee deciding what should go into Windows, its just that its pretty much Microsoft employees - but at least they seek outside consultation etc.
Finjan are a dodgy company, and always overhype securtiy "vulnerabilities" such as "a user is able to downloan an.exe and run it, thanks to Windows".. etc.
Its funny, not long ago their site was vulnerable to an old cold fusion exploit. I didnt do anything about it, 'cause frankly they are a two bit company and there seemed no point.
Believe me, when the details of this "exploit" are revealed, it will be pretty pathetic.
Unless they are using a hotmail account as a reply to account and want to continually check it to prevent it from overflowing. Yeah it can be done through scripts etc through the web page I guess, but a 'check every 10 min' through outlook/webdav is more 'normal' behaviour and would be considered less suspicious by hotmail, and is easier to do.
They may be lent, but at least you know that person you are talking to in a chat room is either a girl, or at least a friend of a girl. Neither of which could be some slashdot poster guy posing as a chik.
If an adult is going to lend their token to a kid so they can access porn or whatever, that same adult could just give that kid porn. or booze. or whatever. And these tokens should be treated in the same way, as they are solely used for permission to these things that should only be accessed by a person with those attributes.
I think its a fine idea, its not about knowing the identity of the other person, but knowing they have been given permission to either pose as a person of that age and gender, or actually are.
Patchers and crackxors have been using binary diffs for some time, to get rid of copyright protection, which is often just NOPing out a couple bytes. Linux is behind the times...
Air conditioning. -- Fans Polio vaccine. -- Dont have polio Traffic lights. -- round a bouts Frozen food. -- fresh food, canned food Television. -- radio, (internet) Large-scale farming. -- an invention? or just bigger small scale farming? Credit cards. -- cash, eftpos Flouride. -- soap?
Well, basically what im saying is that stuff is hardly life changing, and barely affects me. Only TV comes close, and to be honest id trade TV for the Internet anyday - the only difference is the faster streaming of content. And I certainly use it a lot more than TV.
although granted using PKI isnt really necessary to protect the key. They could just hand you a serial number, and when you quote this they lookup and give you the respective key/cd-key thats used to decrypt your copy. It would still involve having a uniquely encrypted version though.
While this thought was the first thing to come to mind for me, and probably lots of other people, I dont think its such a huge deal. It requires you to download a copy of the game, and illegally unlock it. Its not really any different to getting a cracked copy from p2p.
And id imagine everyone gets a uniquely encrypted version with a different public key, and they give you that public key. You quote the public key to valve/steam whatever, and they give you the private key.
So it actually prevents piracy a little bit, as people would download this encrypted version - realise they cant crack it without paying - then choose to just pay for the key rather than download a cracked copy and waste bandwidth and time.
Uhm... yeah. Easy to fake by a program already running as admin on your box. Why would such a program even bother?
The point of the security center is so you dont get that malicious code running on your system in the first place. If it does, your systrem is already compromised, and nothing can be trusted anyway.
No OS can protect against malicious code running as root/admin.
Nope, this is just typical scaremongering. All these people saying 'Oh yeah, but everyone installs stuff as Admin'.. or 'But everyone just clicks yes on ActiveX prompts' etc dont get the point.
If you are able to trick a person into running stuff as admin on their system, thats a social engineering attack, not a weakness in the OS.
But more importantly, if you can do that, why would you waste time editing the config to report the system as secure? So you can make the system less secure and therefore attack it???? uhm... arent you already running code as admin on their box in the first place?
why do you need to make changes to WMI? If you want to do that (god knows why?), you could completely uninstall the security center and install your own trojan version. You are running as admin anyway. Typical anti-ms bashing bs. imho.
No you cant actually, or at least not tcp packets. Of course you could install a packet driver and bypass tcpip.sys altogether, but that usually involves admin access, restarting etc.
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bah.. its proof enough. Its not as if the MPAA are downloading the entire file off of each client/IP to check they are sharing that particular file. They are just getting the hashes etc,. The trackers keep track of what the client has up'd and down'd, this will only be recorded if the correct bytes are uploaded to other clients and reported as such.
Well try typing in just "Britn"... use the down keys to select "Britney Spears Greatest hits" or whatever. See the amonut of typing youve saved? See the number of hits each query does without having to do the query? See the other common queries? See one there you didnt think of using? etc. Thats auto-complete for you... its mostly for saving typing, but in this case can do a lot more.
They seem to have filtered out personal sites, as my name does not appear (although it is indexed by Google.
Really? My name is indexed fine and appears in teh auto-complete list. Britney Spears' name also. Perhaps youre just not popular enough?
Sheesh.. havent these guys heard of powerpoint? or any other slideshow app?
I cant believe I just read an entire article about a tool which fuckin draws lines.. There were entire paragraphs devoted to the amazing ability to erase (!) lines youve drawn. wtf.
sure, it can draw on any app, and can play animations underneath and can scale etc.. but thats just added fluff to a tool thats been around for many years and really isnt anything special.
It seems its still possible to sort by date. So instead of limiting your search to a date range, just sort by date then clicky-click the "o"s until you find the range you want.
Of course, it makes it difficult to sort by relevance *within* a date range.
Except is there really a need to embed such shopping links hardcoded throughout the program? Sell that crap on the MSN web page or something, spamming their own software detracts from the usability of the program. This isnt a web page we are talking about. They have basically taken a program and made it into an ad delivery piece of software. They are trying to encourage people to use it to use the MSN network, no one wants to sign up to be spammed. There are many ad-free alternatives. They could spam IE with heaps of hardcoded shopping links etc, but they let the user remove them. The IM software field is not much different from the browsers in this respect.
They have "hello"
New features include: Winks, Set Status Before Login, Drag and Drop Backgrounds and Feedback.
And, as been mentiond, a huge amount of bloat. Plus 'buy emoticons', 'backgrounds', 'winks' etc spam littered throughout the program with direct links to MS sites to buy shitty little pictures which you can get for free. The "for sale" emoticons are more prominently placed and larger and in the way than the emoticons you actually use. The whole thing is just a way to sell that crap. A blantent sell out.
Ring Ring...
You: "Hello?"
Madonna: "What the fuck do you think youre doing?"
Except do you think one man (ie Bill G) is the only one who decides what goes in or out?
They have huge numbers of developers, testers, researchers etc to decide what should go in and how. The colour of the taskbar in Windows wasnt just randomly picked by Bill "hmm, lets make it blue", they would have had researchers and testers etc to decide what it should be. The same goes with every little detail in Windows. Its not based on what some guy think would be best, but typically by what the research shows would be the best So, there is a committee deciding what should go into Windows, its just that its pretty much Microsoft employees - but at least they seek outside consultation etc.
Finjan are a dodgy company, and always overhype securtiy "vulnerabilities" such as "a user is able to downloan an .exe and run it, thanks to Windows".. etc.
Its funny, not long ago their site was vulnerable to an old cold fusion exploit. I didnt do anything about it, 'cause frankly they are a two bit company and there seemed no point.
Believe me, when the details of this "exploit" are revealed, it will be pretty pathetic.
The IE one is designed to go in the explorer bar search pane of IE, thus it is narrow, small and lightweight.
wormpaper.exe
Unless they are using a hotmail account as a reply to account and want to continually check it to prevent it from overflowing. Yeah it can be done through scripts etc through the web page I guess, but a 'check every 10 min' through outlook/webdav is more 'normal' behaviour and would be considered less suspicious by hotmail, and is easier to do.
They may be lent, but at least you know that person you are talking to in a chat room is either a girl, or at least a friend of a girl. Neither of which could be some slashdot poster guy posing as a chik.
If an adult is going to lend their token to a kid so they can access porn or whatever, that same adult could just give that kid porn. or booze. or whatever. And these tokens should be treated in the same way, as they are solely used for permission to these things that should only be accessed by a person with those attributes.
I think its a fine idea, its not about knowing the identity of the other person, but knowing they have been given permission to either pose as a person of that age and gender, or actually are.
A typo is a mistyped character here or there. This is a mistake, not a typo, theres a bit of a difference.
So its not called a "typo" at all, but I suppose you'll claim that was a typo as well.
Why not just have a game of simpsons hit and run? Gives you a pretty detailed 3d look of springfield. And its from the makers, so more reliable.
Patchers and crackxors have been using binary diffs for some time, to get rid of copyright protection, which is often just NOPing out a couple bytes. Linux is behind the times...
Air conditioning. -- Fans
Polio vaccine. -- Dont have polio
Traffic lights. -- round a bouts
Frozen food. -- fresh food, canned food
Television. -- radio, (internet)
Large-scale farming. -- an invention? or just bigger small scale farming?
Credit cards. -- cash, eftpos
Flouride. -- soap?
Well, basically what im saying is that stuff is hardly life changing, and barely affects me. Only TV comes close, and to be honest id trade TV for the Internet anyday - the only difference is the faster streaming of content. And I certainly use it a lot more than TV.
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although granted using PKI isnt really necessary to protect the key. They could just hand you a serial number, and when you quote this they lookup and give you the respective key/cd-key thats used to decrypt your copy. It would still involve having a uniquely encrypted version though.
Why is that? https uses uniquely encrypted channels on each connection. Theres overhead sure, but I wouldnt call it 'insane'.
While this thought was the first thing to come to mind for me, and probably lots of other people, I dont think its such a huge deal. It requires you to download a copy of the game, and illegally unlock it. Its not really any different to getting a cracked copy from p2p.
And id imagine everyone gets a uniquely encrypted version with a different public key, and they give you that public key. You quote the public key to valve/steam whatever, and they give you the private key.
So it actually prevents piracy a little bit, as people would download this encrypted version - realise they cant crack it without paying - then choose to just pay for the key rather than download a cracked copy and waste bandwidth and time.
Uhm... yeah. Easy to fake by a program already running as admin on your box. Why would such a program even bother?
The point of the security center is so you dont get that malicious code running on your system in the first place. If it does, your systrem is already compromised, and nothing can be trusted anyway.
No OS can protect against malicious code running as root/admin.
Nope, this is just typical scaremongering. All these people saying 'Oh yeah, but everyone installs stuff as Admin'.. or 'But everyone just clicks yes on ActiveX prompts' etc dont get the point.
If you are able to trick a person into running stuff as admin on their system, thats a social engineering attack, not a weakness in the OS.
But more importantly, if you can do that, why would you waste time editing the config to report the system as secure? So you can make the system less secure and therefore attack it???? uhm... arent you already running code as admin on their box in the first place?
why do you need to make changes to WMI? If you want to do that (god knows why?), you could completely uninstall the security center and install your own trojan version. You are running as admin anyway. Typical anti-ms bashing bs. imho.
No you cant actually, or at least not tcp packets. Of course you could install a packet driver and bypass tcpip.sys altogether, but that usually involves admin access, restarting etc.