The service pack should offer a number of enhancements over the current version of the OS, which Microsoft is phasing out after June 30th. It includes all updates issued since Windows XP Service Pack 2 was released in 2004, and some new elements.
I'm glad MS figured out how to secure Windows totally.
I can completely agree with this article. I am currently playing COD4 and I enjoy it. My setup is an AMD 64 Athlon cranking out a whopping 1.8 gigahertz (chip is roughly 4 years old) 3 gigs of ram, dual IDE drives 1 120 gig, 1 80 gig. On board sound and lan, and a GeForce 7600 GS 256 meg AGP. Most maps I get between 40 - 60 frames, which is more than playable.
Average scores 20 kills - 15 deaths, (scores normally higher this is an average)
Point is my brother spent $1800 to build a new system, 3 gig Pentium Dual Core, 2 gigs ram, dual 8800 gts, complete with the blue LED's, Average scores 10 kills 20 deaths per map.
Now while his system has more eye candy ingame vs mine, I still play better on mine. Perhaps it's due to my lack of eye candy. But I haven't found that I played any better on his system.
EA's track record for patches.
MOHAA release Jan 2002 rv. 1.11
Patch released to fix a few bugs.
Expoits found to crash servers. Ranging from model manipulation (default game install no outside software needed) to outside crashes
Fix promised never released. 2005 MOHAA community released server crash fixes for model flaws No fix released for other crashes, also player spoofing vuln discovered allowing 1 player to take up every empty slot on a server DOS'ing it. No patch ever released. As of today almost all MOH series contain the same flaws as the original.
The only time EA cares about the consumer is that initial lure to P.O.S (read Point of Sale) after that caveat emptor
Step 1
Connect game, run some packet sniffer and grab the packets sent to the server, find out what is transferred
Step 2
Edit hosts file
DRMserver.com localhost
Step 3 Enjoy your game never having to phone home.
This is what happened with games like Somavision, and the like.
As opposed to randomly shooting people or running them over in your vehicle, or shooting police.
Come on this is a game, just because I like to play an FPS and blow off steam shooting the shit out of peds (something I can't do rl) doesn't mean reality will slip for me and I'd do it for real. I drink, I drive, I DO NOT drink and drive.
The game is meant to be a game, if you people had your way we would never have had the Postal series either.
The ethics are the guy has passed, all his personal property now belongs to his next of kin. If they have given you their permission then you have the ethical go ahead to proceed. I think you should in all likely hood prepare the family members before hand and inform them that in all likely hood you may find nothing more to give them closure.
As for his gmail, and myspace accounts you would have a better time hacking them than getting permission from either to access the account, this may include the family. You would have the burden of proof to prove that user is deceased, and even then with a million or so users would they really care about that 1 account, since you aren't law enforcement or anything.
It doesn't matter if you make $150,000 a year if you aren't happy you aren't happy. If you are happy washing dishes for $7 an hour if that's really what you want to do with your life, then you do it.
It boils down to just that, it is your life. If you aren't happy at work you won't be happy at home, your home life will suffer your family will suffer. I dare say more than if you earned less per year because you chose to go into a different career field.
I think you'd be better off discussing this with your wife rather than us here at/. but then that's just my opinion.
Syphoning off data, what do they need permission for to read the data, and who is to say they aren't already doing it. I mean if they are grabbing it it's too much of a temptation not to peek.
You can see the apple, you can touch the apple, you can sniff the apple, but you may not eat of the apple.
At this point, it seems like just about everyone's SSN is out there in the public domain in one form or another. What pains me is that SSN is still used like a password for many institutions. Banks will ask for SSN, birthdate, and mother's maiden name. Unfortunately all of those things can be found out with a bit of digging.
Amazing for a card with the words, Not to be used for identification purposes on the back of it huh?
Many websites already present a css sheet based on browser and capabilities, think PALM, or early web enabled phones, pre-java text only. Why not add a check for a user using a blind web device and displaying text only? Little to no cost and everyones happy.
You also have to take into consideration Chinas longtime stance from Chairman Mao about disconnection with anything outside China.
Times there are changing, they are growing out of the disassociation, open trade, foreign imports, outsourcing labor there. It's a matter of time until this current generation of Chinese take control, and push their country into the 21st century to join the rest of the modern world.
Granted human rights are just that human, they should apply to all peoples, but life isn't that simple. It doesn't always happen like that, freedom isn't free, it comes with a price, sometimes that price is in human life, sometimes the cost is time. Time to grow, and learn, or just plain time for a new generation to take over and say "let's do it our way".
Until such a time, I don't think we as a planet need to hinder their growth, while government actions still should not be condoned, it would be better to show them how life can be when government doesn't control everything you read, watch, do, or say.
Here's to the inevitable day when there is a truely free and unified China.
Securing the hardware and firewalling ins't enough. One thing you can do is to monitor traffic, mostly outbound, then I've heard tell that alot of the newer bots are trying to hide their activity by waiting until the user (in this case you) establishes a connection to the outside world, in this way they are attempting to mask their phone home by riding along with your outbound packets.
Best way, know your OS, know the processes running and what they are for, know how much memory they should be consuming, take note of creation dates, modification date.
Nothing is bullet-proof in OS's, but the best defense is knowing your system and keeping that dog (your computer) on a short leash.
I use Windows, and I use Linux, not about to say one beats out the other, they both have their uses and while Linux is catching up to Windows my experience it's no more or less insecure than Windows. Never had my Linux box pwned never had my Windows box pwned either. Point is, being vigilant is key.
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I'm glad MS figured out how to secure Windows totally.
Into terrorist hands and are being used for nefarious purposes.
I can completely agree with this article. I am currently playing COD4 and I enjoy it.
My setup is an AMD 64 Athlon cranking out a whopping 1.8 gigahertz (chip is roughly 4 years old) 3 gigs of ram, dual IDE drives 1 120 gig, 1 80 gig. On board sound and lan, and a GeForce 7600 GS 256 meg AGP.
Most maps I get between 40 - 60 frames, which is more than playable.
Average scores 20 kills - 15 deaths, (scores normally higher this is an average)
Point is my brother spent $1800 to build a new system, 3 gig Pentium Dual Core, 2 gigs ram, dual 8800 gts, complete with the blue LED's,
Average scores 10 kills 20 deaths per map.
Now while his system has more eye candy ingame vs mine, I still play better on mine. Perhaps it's due to my lack of eye candy. But I haven't found that I played any better on his system.
EA patch so we could play.
EA's track record for patches.
MOHAA release Jan 2002 rv. 1.11
Patch released to fix a few bugs.
Expoits found to crash servers. Ranging from model manipulation (default game install no outside software needed) to outside crashes
Fix promised never released.
2005 MOHAA community released server crash fixes for model flaws
No fix released for other crashes, also player spoofing vuln discovered allowing 1 player to take up every empty slot on a server DOS'ing it. No patch ever released.
As of today almost all MOH series contain the same flaws as the original.
The only time EA cares about the consumer is that initial lure to P.O.S (read Point of Sale) after that caveat emptor
Step 1
Connect game, run some packet sniffer and grab the packets sent to the server, find out what is transferred
Step 2
Edit hosts file
DRMserver.com localhost
Step 3
Enjoy your game never having to phone home.
This is what happened with games like Somavision, and the like.
No doubt this will soon follow. Cup o' tea gov'nor Entry #4.
As opposed to randomly shooting people or running them over in your vehicle, or shooting police.
Come on this is a game, just because I like to play an FPS and blow off steam shooting the shit out of peds (something I can't do rl) doesn't mean reality will slip for me and I'd do it for real. I drink, I drive, I DO NOT drink and drive.
The game is meant to be a game, if you people had your way we would never have had the Postal series either.
what our tax dollars are spent on.
I'm glad I live in a country that doesn't frivilously squander tax dollars.
Oh wait I do.
The ethics are the guy has passed, all his personal property now belongs to his next of kin. If they have given you their permission then you have the ethical go ahead to proceed. I think you should in all likely hood prepare the family members before hand and inform them that in all likely hood you may find nothing more to give them closure.
As for his gmail, and myspace accounts you would have a better time hacking them than getting permission from either to access the account, this may include the family. You would have the burden of proof to prove that user is deceased, and even then with a million or so users would they really care about that 1 account, since you aren't law enforcement or anything.
My condolences on your loss.
It doesn't matter if you make $150,000 a year if you aren't happy you aren't happy.
/. but then that's just my opinion.
If you are happy washing dishes for $7 an hour if that's really what you want to do with your life, then you do it.
It boils down to just that, it is your life. If you aren't happy at work you won't be happy at home, your home life will suffer your family will suffer. I dare say more than if you earned less per year because you chose to go into a different career field.
I think you'd be better off discussing this with your wife rather than us here at
Why will someone figure this out?
I imagine it's a matter of time before Microsoft's tool itself is posted to a torrent site.
I agree, for older style console-like fun back in the days of 16 bit heaven, MAME is where it's at. Controllers optional.
w00t Contra!
Syphoning off data, what do they need permission for to read the data, and who is to say they aren't already doing it. I mean if they are grabbing it it's too much of a temptation not to peek.
You can see the apple, you can touch the apple, you can sniff the apple, but you may not eat of the apple.
Amazing for a card with the words, Not to be used for identification purposes on the back of it huh?
Mere days after having stumbled upon http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/users/swanson/WACI-VI/docs/08_slides.pdf There is a whitepaper out there by King and company describing indepth the breaks in our retail chain. ICS shipped from overseas etc, and how they are used in high level places where security is tight but these items could use little modification to provide a virtual back door that would almost never be found. Here is the abstract document. http://www.usenix.org/event/leet08/tech/full_papers/king/king.pdf
My guess would have been ESPN 1337
TANG
Yeah it's very old news even before it made /.
Check it out. http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11512
Posted 30.3.08 was done at CanSecWest
Many websites already present a css sheet based on browser and capabilities, think PALM, or early web enabled phones, pre-java text only. Why not add a check for a user using a blind web device and displaying text only? Little to no cost and everyones happy.
Um a NULL pointer via flash.
http://www.matasano.com/log/1032/this-new-vulnerability-dowds-inhuman-flash-exploit/
You also have to take into consideration Chinas longtime stance from Chairman Mao about disconnection with anything outside China.
Times there are changing, they are growing out of the disassociation, open trade, foreign imports, outsourcing labor there. It's a matter of time until this current generation of Chinese take control, and push their country into the 21st century to join the rest of the modern world.
Granted human rights are just that human, they should apply to all peoples, but life isn't that simple. It doesn't always happen like that, freedom isn't free, it comes with a price, sometimes that price is in human life, sometimes the cost is time. Time to grow, and learn, or just plain time for a new generation to take over and say "let's do it our way".
Until such a time, I don't think we as a planet need to hinder their growth, while government actions still should not be condoned, it would be better to show them how life can be when government doesn't control everything you read, watch, do, or say.
Here's to the inevitable day when there is a truely free and unified China.
Or just labeled white or caucasian.
What fantasy land do you live in? http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/attack_sigs/s22902.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11511 Concerning the Flash Vuln
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11512 How fully patched Vista box owned due to the flash vuln, with little to no user interaction.
When an attack exploits a weakness in something running on the system then in essence CutePuppies.exe may not run without interaction, but CutePuppies.sfw will.
Securing the hardware and firewalling ins't enough. One thing you can do is to monitor traffic, mostly outbound, then I've heard tell that alot of the newer bots are trying to hide their activity by waiting until the user (in this case you) establishes a connection to the outside world, in this way they are attempting to mask their phone home by riding along with your outbound packets.
Best way, know your OS, know the processes running and what they are for, know how much memory they should be consuming, take note of creation dates, modification date.
Nothing is bullet-proof in OS's, but the best defense is knowing your system and keeping that dog (your computer) on a short leash.
I use Windows, and I use Linux, not about to say one beats out the other, they both have their uses and while Linux is catching up to Windows my experience it's no more or less insecure than Windows. Never had my Linux box pwned never had my Windows box pwned either.
Point is, being vigilant is key.