Depending on tells is what people who watched Quantum of Solace too many times do. Good poker players base their play on a) a solid game themselves and b) determining their opponents' play style. Does the guy usually check a raise? Does he bet the flop or pocket pairs or a pocket ace more than he should?
Most professional poker players these days play online most of the time, where tells are almost nonexistent.
If the key required to install ANY operating system is in the manual, you'll be given the manual. Or print it on the motherboard itself as someone else suggested.
The BIOS key comes printed in the manual. As a user, if you install the OS, you have to type that number in. Users who cannot enter numbers from a manual when prompted don't generally install OSes.
"This totally destroys the usefulness of having a separate root user altogether."
Which is why the root account is disabled or disused on many UNIX systems that have sudo. The point of sudo is that a user who would normally have root access can do things as root on an individual command basis. It's much safer that way because if you have an oopsie moment it's only a system wide catastrophe if you happen to be sudoing at the time. Running as root everything is dangerous. Also sudo is logged so if something does go wrong, you can trace it back to a particular user. If something goes wrong when you're running as root, all you know is that someone with root access did it.
Yes. There are an awful lot of Windows XP machines still out there though.
"On both Windows and Mac you can do a lot from a user account"
True, but some idiot getting their user account infected by a trojan because they ran a program off the Internet isn't really the fault of the OS, whether it's Windows, OS X, Linux or something else.
"If the trojan wants admin rights it will have to do a sudo on either platform"
Previous trojans on the Mac haven't been able to get access to the system without asking permission. If this one really does do that, then there's a genuine security problem. Have previous trojans on Windows asked for sudo access, or have they exploited security holes to get it without permission?
Google's free connection seems to be plenty fast for people who can't afford $75/month. $75/month isn't that much, when you consider that it includes TV, which hopefully would let the midrange cancel their cable subscriptions.
Fast Internet isn't helping the world. But if Google can do this on a bigger scale than Kansas City they might trigger a little telecoms reform.
The whole thing seems a little suspicious as yet. They "found" this trojan on a website security professionals use to share suspicious files, but haven't seen it in the wild? Intego's own article (http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/new-apple-mac-trojan-called-osxcrisis-discovered-by-intego-virus-team/) says they "have not yet seen if or how this threat is installed on a user’s system." Really? So how do they know it doesn't ask for a password? How do they know it's even real?
They go on to say lots of other things that don't really seem to be supported by other admissions in their article. Of course they end with a pitch to buy their software.
They emphasize that point because previous trojans on OS X have required a password to install. It's very rare to run a Mac under an account with superuser rights (it's disabled by default), so installing anything system related requires a sudo. I'm under the impression that trojans generally do not ask for passwords on Windows.
Are they? I bet many or most of those things cause more fatalities every year than small magnets do. Swallowed small lithium batteries have caused an average 1.7 deaths per year over the last six years! Buckyballs? Zero.
The also bought on that uranium page are interesting: canned unicorn meat, Tuscan whole milk (1 gallon), "The 2009-2014 Outlook for Wood Toilet Seats in Greater China", and a UFO-02 Detector.
Apparently US border guards can get kind of nasty about bringing banned toys across the border. We think it's pretty hilarious. But I've got to go play with my lawn darts now.
Bucky balls aren't marketed at young children. The package clearly states that.
Swallowing a couple of magnets is very unlikely to kill you. It can lead to some unpleasant surgery or, if the parents are really oblivious, some necrotic intestine.
We also sell things like raw hamburger which, if baby even touches somewhere where it's been and hasn't been cleaned up, can (and has) killed kids.
It's possible, but not very likely. The big problem is that they magnets won't pass on their own, and if you don't notice your toddler isn't very happy and take him to the doctor he can eventually get a couple of chunks of necrotic intestine from the pressure. All of which can, of course, potentially happen with any non-digestible thing you swallow.
Maybe you're looking in the wrong places. I rarely have a problem finding what I'm looking for, and I have a friend who's into classic foreign film. You can't just go the the pirate bay and type it in though.
I don't think that's what the OP meant by sports degree. A Phys Ed degree (sometimes called recreational studies, etc.) is about getting other people do do something active.
A "sports degree" as I understood the OP would be the degree you get after playing on a college team for some number of years, and not doing anything else.
"At least with DVDs they weren't existing at the whim of the studios."
What? If a studio says "thou shalt not make a DVD out of our movie Planet of the Apes" then DVDs of Planet of the Apes don't get made. Also, if a studio says "thou shalt pay us $100 per DVD you make of our movie Planet of the Apes" then you pay them $100 per DVD you make of Planet of the Apes.
I have a lot of books, movies, etc. that I have a purchased copy of and also downloaded a torrent. With books especially - whether it's a Kindle book or a hardcover, a torrented pdf or epub is much more useful.
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Depending on tells is what people who watched Quantum of Solace too many times do. Good poker players base their play on a) a solid game themselves and b) determining their opponents' play style. Does the guy usually check a raise? Does he bet the flop or pocket pairs or a pocket ace more than he should?
Most professional poker players these days play online most of the time, where tells are almost nonexistent.
If the key required to install ANY operating system is in the manual, you'll be given the manual. Or print it on the motherboard itself as someone else suggested.
Ah, so it's just another non-story with a Timothy headline.
The BIOS key comes printed in the manual. As a user, if you install the OS, you have to type that number in. Users who cannot enter numbers from a manual when prompted don't generally install OSes.
"This totally destroys the usefulness of having a separate root user altogether."
Which is why the root account is disabled or disused on many UNIX systems that have sudo. The point of sudo is that a user who would normally have root access can do things as root on an individual command basis. It's much safer that way because if you have an oopsie moment it's only a system wide catastrophe if you happen to be sudoing at the time. Running as root everything is dangerous. Also sudo is logged so if something does go wrong, you can trace it back to a particular user. If something goes wrong when you're running as root, all you know is that someone with root access did it.
"Since Vista Windows has largely been the same"
Yes. There are an awful lot of Windows XP machines still out there though.
"On both Windows and Mac you can do a lot from a user account"
True, but some idiot getting their user account infected by a trojan because they ran a program off the Internet isn't really the fault of the OS, whether it's Windows, OS X, Linux or something else.
"If the trojan wants admin rights it will have to do a sudo on either platform"
Previous trojans on the Mac haven't been able to get access to the system without asking permission. If this one really does do that, then there's a genuine security problem. Have previous trojans on Windows asked for sudo access, or have they exploited security holes to get it without permission?
Google's free connection seems to be plenty fast for people who can't afford $75/month. $75/month isn't that much, when you consider that it includes TV, which hopefully would let the midrange cancel their cable subscriptions.
Fast Internet isn't helping the world. But if Google can do this on a bigger scale than Kansas City they might trigger a little telecoms reform.
This is an antivirus company we're talking about.
The whole thing seems a little suspicious as yet. They "found" this trojan on a website security professionals use to share suspicious files, but haven't seen it in the wild? Intego's own article (http://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/new-apple-mac-trojan-called-osxcrisis-discovered-by-intego-virus-team/) says they "have not yet seen if or how this threat is installed on a user’s system." Really? So how do they know it doesn't ask for a password? How do they know it's even real?
They go on to say lots of other things that don't really seem to be supported by other admissions in their article. Of course they end with a pitch to buy their software.
They emphasize that point because previous trojans on OS X have required a password to install. It's very rare to run a Mac under an account with superuser rights (it's disabled by default), so installing anything system related requires a sudo. I'm under the impression that trojans generally do not ask for passwords on Windows.
Are they? I bet many or most of those things cause more fatalities every year than small magnets do. Swallowed small lithium batteries have caused an average 1.7 deaths per year over the last six years! Buckyballs? Zero.
Will Amazon Canada ship to the US? Amazon US will almost never send anything north.
Uh huh. So tell us how the ball shattered.
The also bought on that uranium page are interesting: canned unicorn meat, Tuscan whole milk (1 gallon), "The 2009-2014 Outlook for Wood Toilet Seats in Greater China", and a UFO-02 Detector.
Don't give them to children. The package specifically says not to.
They are very similar to quarter inch slingshot ammo.
But now only the state and criminals will have buckyballs.
Of course not.
Apparently US border guards can get kind of nasty about bringing banned toys across the border. We think it's pretty hilarious. But I've got to go play with my lawn darts now.
Bucky balls aren't marketed at young children. The package clearly states that.
Swallowing a couple of magnets is very unlikely to kill you. It can lead to some unpleasant surgery or, if the parents are really oblivious, some necrotic intestine.
We also sell things like raw hamburger which, if baby even touches somewhere where it's been and hasn't been cleaned up, can (and has) killed kids.
It's possible, but not very likely. The big problem is that they magnets won't pass on their own, and if you don't notice your toddler isn't very happy and take him to the doctor he can eventually get a couple of chunks of necrotic intestine from the pressure. All of which can, of course, potentially happen with any non-digestible thing you swallow.
How much of that is movies, and how much of it is older movies?
Maybe you're looking in the wrong places. I rarely have a problem finding what I'm looking for, and I have a friend who's into classic foreign film. You can't just go the the pirate bay and type it in though.
I don't think that's what the OP meant by sports degree. A Phys Ed degree (sometimes called recreational studies, etc.) is about getting other people do do something active.
A "sports degree" as I understood the OP would be the degree you get after playing on a college team for some number of years, and not doing anything else.
"At least with DVDs they weren't existing at the whim of the studios."
What? If a studio says "thou shalt not make a DVD out of our movie Planet of the Apes" then DVDs of Planet of the Apes don't get made. Also, if a studio says "thou shalt pay us $100 per DVD you make of our movie Planet of the Apes" then you pay them $100 per DVD you make of Planet of the Apes.
Maybe most people don't have eight to 12+ hours a week to watch movies?
I have a lot of books, movies, etc. that I have a purchased copy of and also downloaded a torrent. With books especially - whether it's a Kindle book or a hardcover, a torrented pdf or epub is much more useful.