And car crashes wouldn't happen if we didn't have cars.
As has been pointed out in numerous other posts, this type of 'attack' is not limited to USB - you could do it with CDs, floppy disks, whatever. Are you going to disable CD and floppy drives?
As with car crashes, the best approach is user education.
So you're saying anything not 'average' is an outlier? If you think of your standard bell curve distribution, I'd say power users are just that bit on the right hand side.. Not exactly outliers, just higher than average..
In case you have no clue what "Sarbanes-Oxley" is..
Thank you! Would it have killed someone (submitter/editor) to add a paragraph, much like your first paragraph, to the end of the summary? It's not like the summary is overly long as it is.
Or even the first sentence from Wikipedia: "The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 [..] is a United States federal law also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002"
I'm not new here, so I'm not going to ask that the editors, I don't know, EDIT stuff.. But seriously. Non-US, non-lawyer users shouldn't have to go to Wikipedia just to find out what the hell the SUMMARY is about.
They don't have any experience in the specific field (database driven websites)
Really? These days? I thought everyone had 'been there'.. I'm pretty sure the guy behind the counter at my local Subway used to run a.com in the mid-90s..:p
Internet Explorer is a complete misnomer.. Let me know when it can do email, nntp, ssh, sftp/scp
Not really. You can 'explore' the web (which *is* the internet to most people), but I'm not sure how you 'explore' the internet via email or ssh..
Remember Netscape Navigator? Or even KDE's 'Konqueror' - Conqueror,Navigator,Explorer.. all have connotations of exploring, finding out stuff, that kind of thing. Which is pretty much what most people use the web for, I think.
For complete misnomer, you can't get worse than Access. I've had people ask me if they need MS Access to get on the internet (seriously). Back in the windows 3.1 days most people I knew thought it was a 'modem program'.
As for the others (Excel,Visio,Acrobat..), just remember 'Google' didn't mean 'search the web' before google.com became popular. 'Google' wasn't even a proper word!
It probably got modded up because the moderators read the article, read his post and had some experience with windows administration (hey, this is/. - no one would complain about windows if they hadn't used it at some point!)
Everything he said makes sense from the POV of removing the rootkit as described in the original article. Nothing will harm your computer - you uninstall the device driver and then add it again.
Although I do applaud your wariness - if everyone was as cautious about applying 'fixes' they read on the internet, Tech Support people would have a lot less to do!
"the guy violated the DMCA by circumventing the copyright protection technology"
When did he do that? All he did was discover the dodgy software, and remove it. At what point did he enable his computer to make (non-DRMed) copies of the CD?
In fact after removing their software he won't be able to play the CD again, without (re)installing the rootkit/player.
eah, I know you can have an external key or card containing another chip, but that kinda defeats your point, doesn't it?
But if your friend also had a chip in their arm, you could just tell the car/house that your friend is ok to use it (and even specify the length of time they are 'ok' for, something you can't do with regular keys). No surgery required.
The day when RFID scanners/duplicators are easily available probably isn't too far off, either
Obvious solution: make RFID scanners/duplicators illegal! That should work;)
He's not complaining about who the movie is targeted at. He's saying that maybe movies should be released at the same time worldwide, rather than in the states first and then overseas months later.
Staggering release dates like this is just stupid (especially as we're moving towards more digital movies..), along with the retarded DVD 'region' idea it's just helping piracy.
I'm working on an upgrade to a database app for one of our clients (in Access, btw). Mostly adding features, and fixing a couple of bugs. The original was bizarrely ugly. I changed the forms to use standard windows colours and controls. Took about a tenth of the time it took to make the functionality changes. Demoed the app to the client. The main user of the app *loved* it. She spent about 5 minutes marvelling over the scrollbars. Didn't even notice the new 'features'.
We still use Office 97 at my work. Last time I looked at upgrading (in the hope it would fix enough bugs to be worthwile), I found it would cost us something like NZ$1000 per person to get Office 2000 (or XP or whatever it was). So we have one machine with Office 2k on it, which we use to convert any newer format files we receive from clients etc. The rest of the company do fine with almost ten year old word, excel, powerpoint and access. To me that really sums up the number of 'features' that have been added in the last 8 years.
I'd like to know how many blind people actually use ATMs, without problem.
Not sure what the ATMs are like in your part of the world, but most of the ones I've used aren't predictable enough for me to imagine using it without sight. For instance, the conversation usually goes like this: ATM: what would you like to do? Me: get cash ATM: what account? Me: cheque ATM: how much? Me: heaps ATM: would you like a receipt? Me: yes
which is easy enough to do without reading the screen, but sometimes as soon as you put the card in it'll say "Sorry, I can't print receipts at the moment. Press OK to continue" or something.
Is there some kind of standard for the blind use of ATMs? Is there a sequence of button presses that says "hey, I'm blind" so the machine follows a set path, without relying on visual cues?
It's one of those things that's always fascinated me. Like how come my work has a wheelchair-accessible toilet, in an office that's only accessible via stairs?
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And car crashes wouldn't happen if we didn't have cars.
As has been pointed out in numerous other posts, this type of 'attack' is not limited to USB - you could do it with CDs, floppy disks, whatever. Are you going to disable CD and floppy drives?
As with car crashes, the best approach is user education.
So you're saying anything not 'average' is an outlier?
If you think of your standard bell curve distribution, I'd say power users are just that bit on the right hand side.. Not exactly outliers, just higher than average..
In case you have no clue what "Sarbanes-Oxley" is..
Thank you! Would it have killed someone (submitter/editor) to add a paragraph, much like your first paragraph, to the end of the summary? It's not like the summary is overly long as it is.
Or even the first sentence from Wikipedia: "The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 [..] is a United States federal law also known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002"
I'm not new here, so I'm not going to ask that the editors, I don't know, EDIT stuff.. But seriously. Non-US, non-lawyer users shouldn't have to go to Wikipedia just to find out what the hell the SUMMARY is about.
My email is backed up daily, is searchable, and provides a nice indexed (by date/sender/subject) record of my work.
Exactly - I encourage users to keep important emails on the server (ie, not archived locally) for precisely this reason.
They don't have any experience in the specific field (database driven websites)
.com in the mid-90s.. :p
Really? These days? I thought everyone had 'been there'.. I'm pretty sure the guy behind the counter at my local Subway used to run a
Internet Explorer is a complete misnomer.. Let me know when it can do email, nntp, ssh, sftp/scp
Not really. You can 'explore' the web (which *is* the internet to most people), but I'm not sure how you 'explore' the internet via email or ssh..
Remember Netscape Navigator? Or even KDE's 'Konqueror' - Conqueror,Navigator,Explorer.. all have connotations of exploring, finding out stuff, that kind of thing. Which is pretty much what most people use the web for, I think.
For complete misnomer, you can't get worse than Access. I've had people ask me if they need MS Access to get on the internet (seriously). Back in the windows 3.1 days most people I knew thought it was a 'modem program'.
As for the others (Excel,Visio,Acrobat..), just remember 'Google' didn't mean 'search the web' before google.com became popular. 'Google' wasn't even a proper word!
The more you press the button, the faster it comes
Reminds me of this girl I knew..
I think Gus sums up the game situation here:
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=360205536
Surely you meant
In Soviet Russia DNA assemble you
yes.
I also had problems with 1.5 and adblock, but turning off Adblock's 'Obj-Tabs' feature seemed to fix it.
It probably got modded up because the moderators read the article, read his post and had some experience with windows administration (hey, this is /. - no one would complain about windows if they hadn't used it at some point!)
Everything he said makes sense from the POV of removing the rootkit as described in the original article. Nothing will harm your computer - you uninstall the device driver and then add it again.
Although I do applaud your wariness - if everyone was as cautious about applying 'fixes' they read on the internet, Tech Support people would have a lot less to do!
This guy's got a list here, or you can try this google search.
"the guy violated the DMCA by circumventing the copyright protection technology"
When did he do that? All he did was discover the dodgy software, and remove it. At what point did he enable his computer to make (non-DRMed) copies of the CD?
In fact after removing their software he won't be able to play the CD again, without (re)installing the rootkit/player.
Run the same experiment in space, the cat doesn't fall :)
eah, I know you can have an external key or card containing another chip, but that kinda defeats your point, doesn't it?
;)
But if your friend also had a chip in their arm, you could just tell the car/house that your friend is ok to use it (and even specify the length of time they are 'ok' for, something you can't do with regular keys). No surgery required.
The day when RFID scanners/duplicators are easily available probably isn't too far off, either
Obvious solution: make RFID scanners/duplicators illegal! That should work
He's not complaining about who the movie is targeted at. He's saying that maybe movies should be released at the same time worldwide, rather than in the states first and then overseas months later.
Staggering release dates like this is just stupid (especially as we're moving towards more digital movies..), along with the retarded DVD 'region' idea it's just helping piracy.
I can think of several people who are adequately summed up in a four letter word..
I'm surprised this one passed thru Slashdot's editorial staff.
You must be new here.
I'm working on an upgrade to a database app for one of our clients (in Access, btw). Mostly adding features, and fixing a couple of bugs.
The original was bizarrely ugly. I changed the forms to use standard windows colours and controls. Took about a tenth of the time it took to make the functionality changes.
Demoed the app to the client. The main user of the app *loved* it. She spent about 5 minutes marvelling over the scrollbars. Didn't even notice the new 'features'.
We still use Office 97 at my work. Last time I looked at upgrading (in the hope it would fix enough bugs to be worthwile), I found it would cost us something like NZ$1000 per person to get Office 2000 (or XP or whatever it was).
So we have one machine with Office 2k on it, which we use to convert any newer format files we receive from clients etc. The rest of the company do fine with almost ten year old word, excel, powerpoint and access.
To me that really sums up the number of 'features' that have been added in the last 8 years.
As soon as Duke Nukem Forever for Linux is released! :p
I'd like to know how many blind people actually use ATMs, without problem.
Not sure what the ATMs are like in your part of the world, but most of the ones I've used aren't predictable enough for me to imagine using it without sight.
For instance, the conversation usually goes like this:
ATM: what would you like to do?
Me: get cash
ATM: what account?
Me: cheque
ATM: how much?
Me: heaps
ATM: would you like a receipt?
Me: yes
which is easy enough to do without reading the screen, but sometimes as soon as you put the card in it'll say "Sorry, I can't print receipts at the moment. Press OK to continue" or something.
Is there some kind of standard for the blind use of ATMs? Is there a sequence of button presses that says "hey, I'm blind" so the machine follows a set path, without relying on visual cues?
It's one of those things that's always fascinated me. Like how come my work has a wheelchair-accessible toilet, in an office that's only accessible via stairs?
Easily solved - make the antenna rotate! That way it could beam a directed signal to everyone!
:p
That should work, right?
I use this for my Power-over-Ethernet needs :)
I'm not sure what standards it supports, but it's cheap to manufacture!