I'm surprised Opera isn't more represented, given the number of Russian cyber-crimminals. Opera is quite widely used in Russia. Opera once did a random street sampling in the eastern bloc after Google's video of asking people "What is a browser" in New York Square (to which people replied "Google" or "Yahoo" etc). They found most people knew what it was and majority used Opera: http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2009/06/25/what-is-a-browser-russian-edition
Which goes to show, those technically minded use Opera, which helps support my claims it is the better browser (for IT guys at least)
You can already do this using domain exclusion, possibly also by creating a 'custom search'. Or you may be looking for a site such as: http://www.googeefree.com/
However, keep in mind experts exchange does actually publicly display the results, you just have to scroll down.
This sounds like a security disaster waiting to happen. Basically at boot time it opens a hole in your firewall/NAT directly to your machine - without you even having to log in. If there's a flaw in that service, people behind NAT/firewall/routers are going to be vulnerable rather than 'safe from internet worms by default' like with many other vulnerabilities.
The thieves can check if the cars are unlocked just as easily. Not to mention the notes can easily be left folded on the seat and not visible to passers by.
If Google's OS is to become open source - why the need for binary diffs at all?
Isn't it feasible that the client store all the source and the patch process just involves a diff to the original source code that gets recompiled?
Also, this dissassemble,edit,reassemble scheme isn't new. There are a few viruses out there that perform similar actions in order to create space in the executable for themselves. pretty ingenious actually.
I doubt this is of much concern to them. How many people will be running their new OS and doing updates, vs the bandwidth required for your average google maps session or you-tube video, done by many more people? Even the daily search results and ad serving to the content network would far exceed this.
I'm pretty sure the amount of bandwidth would be trivial in comparison. It's not like Ubuntu or MS require people to re-download the entire OS to perform a patch.
Besides which, with the network of mirrors they already have in place, they are quite capable of serving this at minimal relative cost.
In fact there is a windows register tweak you can do which prevents Windows from creating the 8.3 filename. I don't know why they are creating one with invalid characters. Just don't create it at all.
It's only needed for DOS compatibility, which is pretty hard to come across these days. It's rare enough that the few cases where it's used they could come to some other arrangement (using windows, hack the source, use old drivers etc). If they are creating invalid filenames, then they are breaking that compatibility anyway.
You jest, but there was a genuine way of cracking passwords using a very similar method due to a flaw in Microsoft's SMB protocol. It would only compare the password up to the client supplied length and return success if it matched the partial password. This made it possible to crack the password using a size of 1 with every character, then size 2 etc.. I wrote a tool 'pqwak' that did exactly that and revealed the password in a similar style to the movies
Maybe lots of things. But who is suggesting your position be advertised to anyone?
e.g it could be done geo hashing style. You download a bunch of checkpoints for your local area then play capture the flag with the help of google maps and bots running on your phone. Or you could perhaps drop some "gold" at a position but perhaps it doesn't have to be published immediately, or you may not have to actually go to that location to do it. Then these "treasure" locations could be downloaded by others without publishing your exact location. Or you could just have a 'friends' list and work with that.
It doesn't necessarily have to involve accessing strangers current locations.
Personally, I use this user-style ( http://userstyles.org/styles/486 ) and it makes Slashdot many times better to browse. I always get a shock when I use a different browser just how bad the new layout is.
The error with getline is a bug with the library/compiler etc. This is separate from the IDE. It's not very difficult to modify the compiler/C runtime etc VC uses - its just an editor which calls out to other executables to do compilation.
In any case - I'm sure that problem has been fixed with Visual Studio express - Microsoft actually do IDEs and compilers very well, especially with their last few iterations. 6 is pretty old.
Personally I use vim on unix. But when doing GUI work on windows, Visual Studio is hard to beat.
Those links come up because they contain "Textbook" in the title of the page, which is a word from your query. Google gives these a higher weighting, and rightly so. Try replacing 'textbook' with 'book' in your query and the results look better.
At the end of the day, those links do provide what you searched for, so google has done the right thing with regards to servicing the query.
Mark413: Taking a crap...contimplating lifes simple pleasures lol srsbznss: First I cleaned the toilet, now I'm taking a crap on it. Kind of reversed, but when you got to poop... RRJJ: eeeewwww, i just took a crap that looked like Susan Boyle
Or use the location services of mobile phones (ie google's location service with google maps). Sure, you need to opt-in to allow your location to be public, but that's a restriction put in place by google. If the mobile phone companies all worked together, you could easily have an accurate mapping of everyone with a mobile phone with far more detail than this - if this data were ever needed.
The default is standards mode - but you get to choose at install time.
You can choose to create a website that requires your visitors to select 'compliant mode' when visiting your site and inconvenience them.. or you can add a header to your html which says 'standards mode' and IE8 will render it in standards mode, or add a header that states 'compliant mode' and IE8 will use compliant mode.
It is in the hands of website creators to state which mode they want their site rendered - so it gives both website creators and IE7/IE8 users a chance to transition over without breaking anything.
I was hoping they would fix the issue where WMP11 Media Sharing stops working after installing IE8 on Vista before rolling it out like this.
I've reported it myself, and so have many others. I guess they will wait until the masses have it via automatic updates and they get a significant number of complaints the next day before they do anything about it.
No, they didn't have his IP address.. thats the whole point of the trojan, to get his true IP address. They might have had the IP address of the exit node for the TOR relay he was using... but that's of no use.
What damage are you referring to? Wiping out the system files? Who cares about such files? Those files can be replaced by re-installing from your CD.
What you do care about is your local 'home' files, these are what contain your valuable data, potentially not backed up and may contain identity/credit card details. And these aren't protected by your admin password.
You may also care about your bandwidth/net access.. (i.e sending spam or DDOS data as part of a botnet) - this also isn't restricted by your admin password (do you type your admin password everytime you send an email or access the web?).
You might also care about your online banking password typed into a browser.. again, not protected by your admin password.
So what "real damage" are you referring to? The most damage can be caused without needing the admin password at all. Sure, by not allowing admin privs when installing a trojan you can just delete the affected user to effectively rid the virus. But the same can be done by wiping the user & reinstalling the OS from a CD if admin privs were used. The problem is people don't realise they are infected.
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I'm surprised Opera isn't more represented, given the number of Russian cyber-crimminals. Opera is quite widely used in Russia. Opera once did a random street sampling in the eastern bloc after Google's video of asking people "What is a browser" in New York Square (to which people replied "Google" or "Yahoo" etc). They found most people knew what it was and majority used Opera:
http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2009/06/25/what-is-a-browser-russian-edition
Which goes to show, those technically minded use Opera, which helps support my claims it is the better browser (for IT guys at least)
You can already do this using domain exclusion, possibly also by creating a 'custom search'. Or you may be looking for a site such as:
http://www.googeefree.com/
However, keep in mind experts exchange does actually publicly display the results, you just have to scroll down.
Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock.
This sounds like a security disaster waiting to happen. Basically at boot time it opens a hole in your firewall/NAT directly to your machine - without you even having to log in. If there's a flaw in that service, people behind NAT/firewall/routers are going to be vulnerable rather than 'safe from internet worms by default' like with many other vulnerabilities.
The thieves can check if the cars are unlocked just as easily. Not to mention the notes can easily be left folded on the seat and not visible to passers by.
If Google's OS is to become open source - why the need for binary diffs at all?
Isn't it feasible that the client store all the source and the patch process just involves a diff to the original source code that gets recompiled?
Also, this dissassemble,edit,reassemble scheme isn't new. There are a few viruses out there that perform similar actions in order to create space in the executable for themselves. pretty ingenious actually.
I doubt this is of much concern to them. How many people will be running their new OS and doing updates, vs the bandwidth required for your average google maps session or you-tube video, done by many more people? Even the daily search results and ad serving to the content network would far exceed this.
I'm pretty sure the amount of bandwidth would be trivial in comparison. It's not like Ubuntu or MS require people to re-download the entire OS to perform a patch.
Besides which, with the network of mirrors they already have in place, they are quite capable of serving this at minimal relative cost.
Just ask Elizabeth Fritzl. At least she had TV though, and kids. Getting raped by your father was probably a downside though.
In fact there is a windows register tweak you can do which prevents Windows from creating the 8.3 filename. I don't know why they are creating one with invalid characters. Just don't create it at all.
It's only needed for DOS compatibility, which is pretty hard to come across these days. It's rare enough that the few cases where it's used they could come to some other arrangement (using windows, hack the source, use old drivers etc). If they are creating invalid filenames, then they are breaking that compatibility anyway.
why did you mention the U key twice? and yes, I get your joke.
You jest, but there was a genuine way of cracking passwords using a very similar method due to a flaw in Microsoft's SMB protocol. It would only compare the password up to the client supplied length and return success if it matched the partial password. This made it possible to crack the password using a size of 1 with every character, then size 2 etc.. I wrote a tool 'pqwak' that did exactly that and revealed the password in a similar style to the movies
The latest Opera 10 beta snapshot from the Opera desktop blog includes Unite.
Maybe lots of things. But who is suggesting your position be advertised to anyone?
e.g it could be done geo hashing style. You download a bunch of checkpoints for your local area then play capture the flag with the help of google maps and bots running on your phone. Or you could perhaps drop some "gold" at a position but perhaps it doesn't have to be published immediately, or you may not have to actually go to that location to do it. Then these "treasure" locations could be downloaded by others without publishing your exact location. Or you could just have a 'friends' list and work with that.
It doesn't necessarily have to involve accessing strangers current locations.
640 light years should be far enough for everybody.
Personally, I use this user-style ( http://userstyles.org/styles/486 ) and it makes Slashdot many times better to browse. I always get a shock when I use a different browser just how bad the new layout is.
The error with getline is a bug with the library/compiler etc. This is separate from the IDE. It's not very difficult to modify the compiler/C runtime etc VC uses - its just an editor which calls out to other executables to do compilation.
In any case - I'm sure that problem has been fixed with Visual Studio express - Microsoft actually do IDEs and compilers very well, especially with their last few iterations. 6 is pretty old.
Personally I use vim on unix. But when doing GUI work on windows, Visual Studio is hard to beat.
You can get data plans free of ridiculous limits on your laptop? You can use WiFi and get the same kind of access and limits as a laptop.
That doesn't work too well with multiple users. Using a temp directory per user gives you better privacy.
Those links come up because they contain "Textbook" in the title of the page, which is a word from your query. Google gives these a higher weighting, and rightly so. Try replacing 'textbook' with 'book' in your query and the results look better.
At the end of the day, those links do provide what you searched for, so google has done the right thing with regards to servicing the query.
Check for yourself:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=taking+a+crap
Mark413: Taking a crap...contimplating lifes simple pleasures lol
srsbznss: First I cleaned the toilet, now I'm taking a crap on it. Kind of reversed, but when you got to poop...
RRJJ: eeeewwww, i just took a crap that looked like Susan Boyle
Or use the location services of mobile phones (ie google's location service with google maps). Sure, you need to opt-in to allow your location to be public, but that's a restriction put in place by google. If the mobile phone companies all worked together, you could easily have an accurate mapping of everyone with a mobile phone with far more detail than this - if this data were ever needed.
The default is standards mode - but you get to choose at install time.
You can choose to create a website that requires your visitors to select 'compliant mode' when visiting your site and inconvenience them.. or you can add a header to your html which says 'standards mode' and IE8 will render it in standards mode, or add a header that states 'compliant mode' and IE8 will use compliant mode.
It is in the hands of website creators to state which mode they want their site rendered - so it gives both website creators and IE7/IE8 users a chance to transition over without breaking anything.
I was hoping they would fix the issue where WMP11 Media Sharing stops working after installing IE8 on Vista before rolling it out like this.
I've reported it myself, and so have many others. I guess they will wait until the masses have it via automatic updates and they get a significant number of complaints the next day before they do anything about it.
No, they didn't have his IP address.. thats the whole point of the trojan, to get his true IP address. They might have had the IP address of the exit node for the TOR relay he was using... but that's of no use.
What damage are you referring to? Wiping out the system files? Who cares about such files? Those files can be replaced by re-installing from your CD.
What you do care about is your local 'home' files, these are what contain your valuable data, potentially not backed up and may contain identity/credit card details. And these aren't protected by your admin password.
You may also care about your bandwidth/net access.. (i.e sending spam or DDOS data as part of a botnet) - this also isn't restricted by your admin password (do you type your admin password everytime you send an email or access the web?).
You might also care about your online banking password typed into a browser.. again, not protected by your admin password.
So what "real damage" are you referring to? The most damage can be caused without needing the admin password at all. Sure, by not allowing admin privs when installing a trojan you can just delete the affected user to effectively rid the virus. But the same can be done by wiping the user & reinstalling the OS from a CD if admin privs were used. The problem is people don't realise they are infected.