I remember seeing a copy of DOS for dummies many years ago warning users not to put it in the wrong hole. I thought for sure it was a joke until I found 3 or 4 of them in a machine I was working on. Apparantly it is quite the problem.
I think they're trying to insinuate that he was downloading kiddie porn. Plenty of documented cases of that happening, but no proof in this article.
If I was the shop owner, the first thing I would have done was dug up some dirt on what the guy outside my store is doing. If I can make a big stupid scene about him using my open AP without paying for it, it's one thing. But I'd much rather have the satisfaction of putting the guy behind bars.
My workplace is constantly bombarded by the sound of several Indian guys arguing about mundane stuff such as coding conventions and color schemes. I really don't need my computer thinking that's me talking.
When are we going to see MMOGTA? It would be an awesome idea and would probably generate a lot of extra revenue, given the general addictiveness of other MMOGs.
I spent a lot of time googling for single button USB device to use as a doorbell. It would be a great product. Configure it to play a sound, flash a message on the screen, hide your pr0n. Whatever you need.
Thanks to smart web browsing--and actually keeping windows up to date--I have no spyware problems.
On the rare occasion that I do get something, CTRL-ALT-DEL seems to be the most useful tool for removal.
There have been a few exceptions though:
1) Did fresh install of Windows XP SP1. SP2 is a big download, so I got bored and started looking for porn. Got something so nasty I had to format again.
2) Downloaded what claimed to be a crack for a game onto my work computer. AntiVirus didn't catch it. Took about 2 hours to clean it up using HijackThis and some googling.
In cases of kids spying on parents, etc etc: You probably need admin access to the computer in order to install the stuff. So don't give your kids root.
In an unrelated issue, how is your software going to spy on kids that are skipping Windows and booting up a Knoppix CD instead to get to the internet to surf for 7un3z, w4r3z, and pr0n? You know kids are doing it, and not just the smart ones. Do you warn parents that your software cannot detect all these cases?
Disable boot from CD, password protect the BIOS. Would that do the trick?
I agree, their manual should say that. (I haven't RTFMed, so not sure if it does).
DVDs are dirt cheap. Usually the same cost as a CD. Because it's supplimented by ads. An hour of comercial free TV for the same cost as a 5 minute song on iTunes? What a bargain! But it'll never happen because it's a losing proposition.
TV shows are a vessel for you to look at ads. A lot of those ads are time-specific. If Mondays show advertizes "tomorrow's" big sale, you download it on wednesday, that ad's worthless. So they charge you a buck. Such is life.
Video costs more to produce and the same amount to buy. They're covering that cost somewhere.
I think every freshman computer science major has spent hours waiting for Microsoft to get back to them after submitting an error report on their crashed program. This will probably work the same way.
The problem, security experts say, is many people do not take the time or are unsure how to secure their wireless access from intruders. Dinon knew what to do. "But I never did it because my neighbors are older."
He intentionally left the network open. He was voluntarily sharing it with his neighbors. The article doesn't seem to mention who his ISP is, but most don't allow that. He steals from them, then gets upset when somebody else re-steals from him?
It's always been my impression that geeks are the ones who tend to notice and point out these grammatical errors. I've seen a serious trend of less technical people making mistakes because they're not trained to discern the difference. If they say "should of" out loud, it sounds the same as "should have", so it's all good. WE, however, pay attention to details.
I've come up with a few theories to explain this:
1) Auto Correct: Word automatically changes recieved to received. People get used to typing the keys in that order and don't realize they're apelling it wrong.
2) Telephones: Long ago, written communication was much more crucial. With no telephones, the only way to communicate was to write letters. Once we hit the telephone, most communication was carried out orally for quite some time. People got used to hearing certain phrases through the noise of American accents. "Should have" and "should of" sound the same, so they made those same sounds. Once the internet took off, we were thrust back into a textual medium, and many people chose to assume things. (I could draw an interesting corrolary to the original development of written English.)
Hell, I used to think that "for all intents and purposes" was "for all intensive purposes." Just caught that one about a week ago.
Looking at Florida's conviction rates (because they were the first state Google found stats for), the average sentence for grand theft ($1000 or more) is almost 3 years. Assuming $20 a DVD, stealing 50 DVDs would count as grand theft, right? These guys leak to way more than 50 people, so they're probably actually getting off light with only 3 years.
Of course I'm equating a DivX with a DVD, but for a lot of people they are a suitable replacement.
Every one of these files I've seen just opens a web page, then tries to trick me into installing adware just like any other webpage. I click "no," delete the file, and go on my merry way. It's annoying, but no worse than any other spam.
The article seems a little bit overboard in assuming that somebody might put a keylogger on it and whatever. They could do the same by just putting it on a random website. The user still has to click "Yes, run this program." once the page has loaded. Smart users are safe, and the dumb ones have already shot themselves in the foot.
When I click the link, the page just goes into an infinite loop reloading itself. Just installed a patch from Windows Update too; maybe they fixed it.
But I have noticed the citibank scammers have some little white text box that tries to spoof the address bar. Problem is it gets displayed way out of place.
1) So, you plan on keeping American jobs in America by buying Canadian drugs?
2) Democrats always say that Bush's foreign policy angers the rest of the world. In 2003, the World Trade Organization forced Bush to reluctantly repeal our steel tariffs. Your campaign argues that you will bring these tariffs back. Won't this make the rest of the world angry?
Getting a good Windows distro and learning to use it effectively (even less hard) works wonders for me. The part about stupid people never learning though, right on the money.
the sealed reactors would last 30 years and deliver between 10 and 100 megawatts. The largest version would be about 15 meters high and 3 meters wide, with a weight of about 500 tons
Please. A DeLorean generates 1.21 gigawatts and is nowhere near that size.
Democrats suure do love freedom. That's why they don't want Nader on the ballot. After all, if we don't want to vote for Bush, but also don't want to vote for Kerry, we should be forced to vote for Kerry!
Oh, let's also talk about keeping American jobs in America, then pay foreigners to aide our political sabotage.
Really can't hold the dems responsible for the actions of these terrorists without a little more proof though.
Privacy nuts freak out whenever they hear this, but I think biometrics could be done more safely than anything involving current documents.
When you first sign up for the website, they give you a confirmation number. Take this number down to the post office, bank, somewhere safe. They have a machine that scans your retina/fingerprint/DNA/whatever, and sends an encrypted version of it to the central government database, along with the confirmation code. The government database uses the confirmation code to send a message to the other party telling them that you are who you say you are.
Since this is done in a public location, you cant cut off a persons finger or anything. The only real problem would be if somebody faked the confirmation letter or stole the database. There are very few criminals capable of something that secure from the government.
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There already is an open source version: http://www.truecrypt.org/
I remember seeing a copy of DOS for dummies many years ago warning users not to put it in the wrong hole. I thought for sure it was a joke until I found 3 or 4 of them in a machine I was working on. Apparantly it is quite the problem.
I think they're trying to insinuate that he was downloading kiddie porn. Plenty of documented cases of that happening, but no proof in this article.
If I was the shop owner, the first thing I would have done was dug up some dirt on what the guy outside my store is doing. If I can make a big stupid scene about him using my open AP without paying for it, it's one thing. But I'd much rather have the satisfaction of putting the guy behind bars.
Maybe they have some kind of bad forwarding system set up? At my company you could do the equivalent of: http://www.paypal.com/redirect.php?NEXT_PAGE=%5Bht tp://10.6.6.6/hackers%20fake%20page.html%5D
Our stuff does internal redirection to make things faster, so to the user it'll still look like he's seeing something on paypal.com.
My workplace is constantly bombarded by the sound of several Indian guys arguing about mundane stuff such as coding conventions and color schemes. I really don't need my computer thinking that's me talking.
When are we going to see MMOGTA? It would be an awesome idea and would probably generate a lot of extra revenue, given the general addictiveness of other MMOGs.
If only I weren't so lazy.
On the rare occasion that I do get something, CTRL-ALT-DEL seems to be the most useful tool for removal.
There have been a few exceptions though:
1) Did fresh install of Windows XP SP1. SP2 is a big download, so I got bored and started looking for porn. Got something so nasty I had to format again.
2) Downloaded what claimed to be a crack for a game onto my work computer. AntiVirus didn't catch it. Took about 2 hours to clean it up using HijackThis and some googling.
Why superhuman? ...Because it can understand women too!
In an unrelated issue, how is your software going to spy on kids that are skipping Windows and booting up a Knoppix CD instead to get to the internet to surf for 7un3z, w4r3z, and pr0n? You know kids are doing it, and not just the smart ones. Do you warn parents that your software cannot detect all these cases?
Disable boot from CD, password protect the BIOS. Would that do the trick?
I agree, their manual should say that. (I haven't RTFMed, so not sure if it does).
DVDs are dirt cheap. Usually the same cost as a CD. Because it's supplimented by ads. An hour of comercial free TV for the same cost as a 5 minute song on iTunes? What a bargain! But it'll never happen because it's a losing proposition. TV shows are a vessel for you to look at ads. A lot of those ads are time-specific. If Mondays show advertizes "tomorrow's" big sale, you download it on wednesday, that ad's worthless. So they charge you a buck. Such is life. Video costs more to produce and the same amount to buy. They're covering that cost somewhere.
I think every freshman computer science major has spent hours waiting for Microsoft to get back to them after submitting an error report on their crashed program. This will probably work the same way.
The problem, security experts say, is many people do not take the time or are unsure how to secure their wireless access from intruders. Dinon knew what to do. "But I never did it because my neighbors are older."
He intentionally left the network open. He was voluntarily sharing it with his neighbors. The article doesn't seem to mention who his ISP is, but most don't allow that. He steals from them, then gets upset when somebody else re-steals from him?
I've come up with a few theories to explain this:
1) Auto Correct: Word automatically changes recieved to received. People get used to typing the keys in that order and don't realize they're apelling it wrong.
2) Telephones: Long ago, written communication was much more crucial. With no telephones, the only way to communicate was to write letters. Once we hit the telephone, most communication was carried out orally for quite some time. People got used to hearing certain phrases through the noise of American accents. "Should have" and "should of" sound the same, so they made those same sounds. Once the internet took off, we were thrust back into a textual medium, and many people chose to assume things. (I could draw an interesting corrolary to the original development of written English.)
Hell, I used to think that "for all intents and purposes" was "for all intensive purposes." Just caught that one about a week ago.
Looking at Florida's conviction rates (because they were the first state Google found stats for), the average sentence for grand theft ($1000 or more) is almost 3 years. Assuming $20 a DVD, stealing 50 DVDs would count as grand theft, right? These guys leak to way more than 50 people, so they're probably actually getting off light with only 3 years.
Of course I'm equating a DivX with a DVD, but for a lot of people they are a suitable replacement.
The article seems a little bit overboard in assuming that somebody might put a keylogger on it and whatever. They could do the same by just putting it on a random website. The user still has to click "Yes, run this program." once the page has loaded. Smart users are safe, and the dumb ones have already shot themselves in the foot.
But I have noticed the citibank scammers have some little white text box that tries to spoof the address bar. Problem is it gets displayed way out of place.
1) So, you plan on keeping American jobs in America by buying Canadian drugs? 2) Democrats always say that Bush's foreign policy angers the rest of the world. In 2003, the World Trade Organization forced Bush to reluctantly repeal our steel tariffs. Your campaign argues that you will bring these tariffs back. Won't this make the rest of the world angry?
Getting a good Windows distro and learning to use it effectively (even less hard) works wonders for me. The part about stupid people never learning though, right on the money.
Please. A DeLorean generates 1.21 gigawatts and is nowhere near that size.
Democrats suure do love freedom. That's why they don't want Nader on the ballot. After all, if we don't want to vote for Bush, but also don't want to vote for Kerry, we should be forced to vote for Kerry!
Oh, let's also talk about keeping American jobs in America, then pay foreigners to aide our political sabotage.
Really can't hold the dems responsible for the actions of these terrorists without a little more proof though.
Call me (no pun intended) when it has a 40GB hard drive.
The voices in your head can share an account, can't they?
When you first sign up for the website, they give you a confirmation number. Take this number down to the post office, bank, somewhere safe. They have a machine that scans your retina/fingerprint/DNA/whatever, and sends an encrypted version of it to the central government database, along with the confirmation code. The government database uses the confirmation code to send a message to the other party telling them that you are who you say you are.
Since this is done in a public location, you cant cut off a persons finger or anything. The only real problem would be if somebody faked the confirmation letter or stole the database. There are very few criminals capable of something that secure from the government.
Either way, the Klingons destroyed every shred of continuity. Either that or there's a hell of a story behind it!