I RTFA, and it seems to me that this guy is getting the blame for more than what he has done. It is unusual for my government to make themselves look this stupid, though they do it everyday. I think they are trying to pin more on this guy. I could be wrong, I don't know all the details. The article did keep mentioning that he did all this from his home computer. Wow, if he scanned tens of thousands of US Military computers from his home network seems to me , he would have been found much sooner than it took them. Of course, he could have bounced, or spoofed but still I thought the US government had tighter security than this. Whether or not he is guitly should not be an issue here. If he was able to do all he has done, for as long as he has done it, I say give him a job securing those networks, seems like they need it.
Or does it seem like too many companies are losing data these days. Now I can understand the thefts, the outright insider selling of data. But come on, how do you lose 3.9 million accounts? This seems strange. This data, if it had to be shipped should have been encrypted as well. According to the Gramm-Leech Bliley act http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/glbact/ there are supposed to be provisions provided and setforth in such an event. Yet, we still read almost daily of some financial institution mishandling our data. My question is, has this been an ongoing thing and we are just now becoming more aware of the problem, or is this type of careless concern what we can expect from our trusted banking institutions.
His apparatus makes use of the air that is dissolved in water like the gills of a fish.
In biology class I was taught fish breathed by filtering the oxygen molecules from the water passing over their gills, absorbing the oxygen into their bloodstream. Someone needs to tell all the biology teachers that isn't how fish breathe. Apparently they breathe by using a small centrifuge which lowers the pressure of the seawater thereby releasing the oxygen into their bloodstream. Let's not forget the internal batteries they use to power these centrifuges as well.
Seriously, this is a fascinating idea. Though as a previous poster said, I am not sure how safe it is to breathe pure O2, usually dive tanks contain compressed air, not compressed O2. Also it has little military applications as it could not be used for deep diving due to limitations of mixing the O2 with nitrogen or even helium for deep dives. This puts using it as an emergency escape method for a sub right out, unless they are above a few hundred feet. Though this really could save a ton of lives used on ships to aid in escaping lower decks, or even fighting to regain flooded compartments, or minor repairs.
Should this technology materialize I see the biggest application in the tourism industry. Think the Great Barrier Reef, or Hawaii, or the Cayman Islands. I think this would most likely replace snorkelling as a recreation at a tourist location.
As music formats, medium, ad nauseum goes the way of the Do-do, I imagine you will have to convert between new formats. Take mp3 for example, how many of us convert from mp3 to ogg? This will not change if you should wish to preserve them. I am quite sure you will no doubt hold on to your r-to-r for acoustics you just can not reproduce. Some will claim you can not tell the difference others will swear it isn't the same. Grab a remastered copy of Billie Holiday and have a listen vs. an LP. Some is enjoy the crackling and popping of an album.
As for your issue about backing them up, by all means do. If you have to convert between the new file formats I think it is a small price to pay in order to preserve your music. As for the electronic back ups, I suggest a raid array to prevent hd loss, this may seem extreme to some people, a raid just to preserve music. Though if this guy has taken this much care to maintain his collection this long I am sure he would go the extra mile. Also with harddrives as inexpensive as they are now, and most newer motherboards supporting some type of raid out of the box, you could bring this to fruit for a few hundred dollars.
Well it would seem the US government is finally turning on it's own. Rather than face the problem they come up with some scatterbrained scheme to further enslave it's citizens.
I am anxious to see what type of impact this has on airtransit.
Anyone have stock in the rail or buses? It may be time to pull your money from the airline industry and invest it in other means of transportation.
I mean, just look at Bittorrent, completely non-innovative if you disregard the fact that it is currently the most efficient way to grab large files for package upgrades. Hmmm, maybe I should take this article to heart and go back to downloading my updates at 100k/sec for my home box. Nah screw that, I'll use the torrents for my updates. It will be a matter of time before the back end for the transfer of this code will work it's way into other means of transferring large files.
[MSFT-Tablet]"Damn, I am crapping out."
[lin-laptop]"I can save the day."
[MSFT-Tablet]"I will never be saved by riff-raff the likes of you. You are open source and therefore evil. I was created using millions of dollars in r&d capitol. You were made from donations, and other open source contributors, and are therefore an inferior product."
[lin-laptop]"Yeah, but I can do something you can't right now."
[MSFT-Tablet]"What's that?"
[lin-laptop]"Run your presentation."
Ok this is yet another example of wasted tax dollars deliberating something that is obviously never going to be enforced.
"Wahoo, the Senate made it illegal for Spyware companies to install it on my system, wait a tick. If I install a trojan on someones system why is that a stiffer penalty than spyware? Both are installed without the users consent to track movements, wreak havok, both could be used for malicious purposes."
I can see this already, spyware will still be produced en masse, the people who deploy it will simply move somewhere not governed by US law. New law circumvented, tax money wasted, spyware still rampant.
This was covered on/. before. The review I read of it the last time stated that "it does relieve carpal tunnel, but increases stress on the shoulder and elbow from the need to move the entire arm as opposed to a slight wrist movement" I also think that the design is lacking, while the mouse "looks great" and would be a novel addition to any desk, it just isn't practical for any serious gaming.
I'd be interested in seeing what actual gaming owners of this device have to say about it.
I think the "media industry" would see major gains if they would cut some of the costs they incur into current media.
By using existing P2P technologies and allowing a person who paid X dollars for media content, they could essentially cut out a step in the supply chain by removing marketing, or perhaps shipping and distribution channels.
There would be a rise in the number of units sold due to the lower cost to produce and distribute, consumers are happy because they pay less for the content.
Lower prices and piracy is less likely to be as rampant as it is. Why pay $20 for a cd it cost $.69 to manufacture? Other than it's the right thing to do. This would offer the consumer incentive to spend rather than use illegal means to aquire media.
The media moguls could then funnel all the money spent to persecute pirateers into other avenues to better product quality or even lower production or distribution costs even further by financing new technologies of dispersing content.
I think the current thinking is to treat the cause and not the symptom.
I stopped using IE unless I absolutely have to, I modified my hosts.deny to incorporate most redirects to known spyware sites. I have disabled all Javascript execution no matter the browser. I also have had to write programs that removed these nasties. I have had a few that refused to die, while trying to ressurect a WinXP box for a freind. Since XP doesn't allow for true SafeMode Command Prompt Only booting ( I say that cause it loads thet malware anyways ) I had to write a program that simply deleted them and their respective registry entries before they were loaded into Windows.
Surprisingly enough adding a Reg entry into the Run folder of the registry is all that was needed to have it run before they did ( which I found a problem ) I had to first export the Key and add my entry first as apparently Windows executes registry entries in order of installation. This cured my problem from even the most hardened malware.
Unfortunately there is no one cureall app out there yet, best to go with an army, X may not catch Y etc etc, but using X, Y, and Z apps together you are assured to catch and stop much more than using any single one as a stand alone.
I imagine this is not without precedent. Who pays to maintain the/. servers? What if one day they suddenly were faced with an inability to make such payments? How many here would be willing to donate money to take up the slack? With a user base as large as/. each person donating a dollar would go a long way to maintaining it. On the other hand if someone got the hairbrained idea to just start charging to turn a buck because of declining subscription sales, in which case they could subsidize their loss, then one would have to ask oneself if that is the type of periodical that you would like to read.
I am under the assumption that they choose political correctness over any type of an education. You can debate all you want over whether or not God created whatever you say it created. It seems in the interest of furthering knowledge of our children a parent would put their views/beliefs aside to let their child get the best education possible.
I believe what I can see touch taste and feel, but I also know I can't feel an atom, yet I know one exists. I am not one to say some type of God doesn't exist. I don't see a harm in teaching evolution and creation to children and letting them make an educated desicion for themselves based on the facts they are given as to what is true and what is to be taken on blind faith. I for one know humankind evolved, crawled forth from the seas etc etc. This is my choice to believe based on the facts I was presented. One can not just be told something is true with no evidence presented to them, this is taking someones word for it as bieng such or going on faith.
As a parent I would have no problem with my daughter bieng taught something like this in school. Having all the facts she could better decide what is best for her to believe. While she is my daughter, she does not have my beliefs/religion it is up to her to find her own way. It is my job to present her the facts and to educate her to make the best possible desicion for her.
I read the article, am I the only one to notice he seems to be referring to "console gaming"? I don't think that the gaming industry itself is anywhere near in peril as he would lead us to believe. Rather I think the console industry is in need of a revamp. Though as technology progresses so do the consoles, they always have since before the first Atari 2600 console. Who here had to have a Nintendo? Then a Super NES, then N-64? What was the difference then? Better gameplay, better graphics, faster gameplay? What seperates then from now other than the progression of the technology and the willingness of the consumer to part with their money? I own several consoles, I rarely play them. I have no need, all my console games are available on PC so I play them on my desktop. I stopped buying consoles after PS2 came out. I see no point anymore. After a year or so even the titles solely released for a certain platform almost always go cross platform. Lisencing rights have to end sometime and producers will always try to squeeze every dime from a release. I simply wait till it's out on PC.
www.majorgeeks.com download BHO Demon and see just how many Browser Helper Objects you are running and don't know about. The last line I have had to clean from office computers were recieved between a US Government "New Laws" website and msn.com I'll let you figure out which installed the malware that attached itself to User32dll.exe and booted at runtime without the users permission.
We could scream and fight all day about which is the better browser, I can say from experience of usign both and not a few months. I used IE several years way back when there were no pop up ads. Before everyone sent you an email telling you how to enlarge your penis.
In those days IE more than served it's purpose, yet when I learned of Mozilla the world changed for me. Gone were the days of Third party popup blockers, no more Adaware or Spybot S&D, I no longer needed them.
Out of curiosity how many Third party apps do you need to run in order to use IE, if you even need them?
Though I am unsure whether Mozillas lack of ActiveX support is a good thing or a bad! There are still times I need IE, but they are rare.
If you think only WareZ sites host these insidious programs, then throw off any firewall or third party app you run, and visit any random website.
iffy a program as IE then how come in 5 years of using Mozilla based browsers ( on Windows ) have I not been befuddled with the plethora of malware ( autodownloaders, backdoor spyware, ad nauseum ) products that freinds using IE recieve? He can say "it's the userbase" till he turns blue in the face, I wanna know why when I go to a site using IE I immediately get inudated with BHO's yet in a Mozilla based browser they get shrugged off? Yet it is just as unsafe as IE states the author?
In my opinion of using the software as long as I have, I would never use IE again unless forced to. And that small amount of time I do use IE, I spend twice as much afterwards cleaning out the damn mess made by malware.
I think because of it's Open Source nature when Moz or some derivative gains market share and becomes the primary target of ad companies, it still won't make that much of an impact on the browser as a whole.
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bieng the inventor of said firewall they have most asuredly paid your bills for sometime.
Say that it doesn't make it that far. I would be willing to bet that the powers that be who want this passed, try and "pork barrel" it next session.
I say it should be a Storm Trooper.
I RTFA, and it seems to me that this guy is getting the blame for more than what he has done.
It is unusual for my government to make themselves look this stupid, though they do it everyday. I think they are trying to pin more on this guy. I could be wrong, I don't know all the details. The article did keep mentioning that he did all this from his home computer. Wow, if he scanned tens of thousands of US Military computers from his home network seems to me , he would have been found much sooner than it took them. Of course, he could have bounced, or spoofed but still I thought the US government had tighter security than this. Whether or not he is guitly should not be an issue here. If he was able to do all he has done, for as long as he has done it, I say give him a job securing those networks, seems like they need it.
Or does it seem like too many companies are losing data these days.
Now I can understand the thefts, the outright insider selling of data.
But come on, how do you lose 3.9 million accounts? This seems strange. This data, if it had to be shipped should have been encrypted as well. According to the Gramm-Leech Bliley act http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/glbact/ there are supposed to be provisions provided and setforth in such an event. Yet, we still read almost daily of some financial institution mishandling our data.
My question is, has this been an ongoing thing and we are just now becoming more aware of the problem, or is this type of careless concern what we can expect from our trusted banking institutions.
In biology class I was taught fish breathed by filtering the oxygen molecules from the water passing over their gills, absorbing the oxygen into their bloodstream.
Someone needs to tell all the biology teachers that isn't how fish breathe. Apparently they breathe by using a small centrifuge which lowers the pressure of the seawater thereby releasing the oxygen into their bloodstream. Let's not forget the internal batteries they use to power these centrifuges as well.
Seriously, this is a fascinating idea. Though as a previous poster said, I am not sure how safe it is to breathe pure O2, usually dive tanks contain compressed air, not compressed O2. Also it has little military applications as it could not be used for deep diving due to limitations of mixing the O2 with nitrogen or even helium for deep dives. This puts using it as an emergency escape method for a sub right out, unless they are above a few hundred feet. Though this really could save a ton of lives used on ships to aid in escaping lower decks, or even fighting to regain flooded compartments, or minor repairs.
Should this technology materialize I see the biggest application in the tourism industry. Think the Great Barrier Reef, or Hawaii, or the Cayman Islands. I think this would most likely replace snorkelling as a recreation at a tourist location.
I agree, from the summary write up this app appears to be written for one purpose.
As music formats, medium, ad nauseum goes the way of the Do-do, I imagine you will have to convert between new formats. Take mp3 for example, how many of us convert from mp3 to ogg? This will not change if you should wish to preserve them. I am quite sure you will no doubt hold on to your r-to-r for acoustics you just can not reproduce. Some will claim you can not tell the difference others will swear it isn't the same. Grab a remastered copy of Billie Holiday and have a listen vs. an LP. Some is enjoy the crackling and popping of an album.
As for your issue about backing them up, by all means do. If you have to convert between the new file formats I think it is a small price to pay in order to preserve your music. As for the electronic back ups, I suggest a raid array to prevent hd loss, this may seem extreme to some people, a raid just to preserve music. Though if this guy has taken this much care to maintain his collection this long I am sure he would go the extra mile. Also with harddrives as inexpensive as they are now, and most newer motherboards supporting some type of raid out of the box, you could bring this to fruit for a few hundred dollars.
Well it would seem the US government is finally turning on it's own. Rather than face the problem they come up with some scatterbrained scheme to further enslave it's citizens.
I am anxious to see what type of impact this has on airtransit.
Anyone have stock in the rail or buses? It may be time to pull your money from the airline industry and invest it in other means of transportation.
I mean, just look at Bittorrent, completely non-innovative if you disregard the fact that it is currently the most efficient way to grab large files for package upgrades. Hmmm, maybe I should take this article to heart and go back to downloading my updates at 100k/sec for my home box. Nah screw that, I'll use the torrents for my updates. It will be a matter of time before the back end for the transfer of this code will work it's way into other means of transferring large files.
[MSFT-Tablet]"Damn, I am crapping out."
[lin-laptop]"I can save the day."
[MSFT-Tablet]"I will never be saved by riff-raff the likes of you. You are open source and therefore evil. I was created using millions of dollars in r&d capitol. You were made from donations, and other open source contributors, and are therefore an inferior product."
[lin-laptop]"Yeah, but I can do something you can't right now."
[MSFT-Tablet]"What's that?"
[lin-laptop]"Run your presentation."
Ok this is yet another example of wasted tax dollars deliberating something that is obviously never going to be enforced.
"Wahoo, the Senate made it illegal for Spyware companies to install it on my system, wait a tick. If I install a trojan on someones system why is that a stiffer penalty than spyware? Both are installed without the users consent to track movements, wreak havok, both could be used for malicious purposes."
I can see this already, spyware will still be produced en masse, the people who deploy it will simply move somewhere not governed by US law. New law circumvented, tax money wasted, spyware still rampant.
comes the bullshit meter.
This was covered on /. before. The review I read of it the last time stated that "it does relieve carpal tunnel, but increases stress on the shoulder and elbow from the need to move the entire arm as opposed to a slight wrist movement" I also think that the design is lacking, while the mouse "looks great" and would be a novel addition to any desk, it just isn't practical for any serious gaming.
I'd be interested in seeing what actual gaming owners of this device have to say about it.
Somebody call the Asguard we have Replicators!
I think the "media industry" would see major gains if they would cut some of the costs they incur into current media.
By using existing P2P technologies and allowing a person who paid X dollars for media content, they could essentially cut out a step in the supply chain by removing marketing, or perhaps shipping and distribution channels.
There would be a rise in the number of units sold due to the lower cost to produce and distribute, consumers are happy because they pay less for the content.
Lower prices and piracy is less likely to be as rampant as it is. Why pay $20 for a cd it cost $.69 to manufacture? Other than it's the right thing to do.
This would offer the consumer incentive to spend rather than use illegal means to aquire media.
The media moguls could then funnel all the money spent to persecute pirateers into other avenues to better product quality or even lower production or distribution costs even further by financing new technologies of dispersing content.
I think the current thinking is to treat the cause and not the symptom.
I stopped using IE unless I absolutely have to, I modified my hosts.deny to incorporate most redirects to known spyware sites. I have disabled all Javascript execution no matter the browser. I also have had to write programs that removed these nasties. I have had a few that refused to die, while trying to ressurect a WinXP box for a freind. Since XP doesn't allow for true SafeMode Command Prompt Only booting ( I say that cause it loads thet malware anyways ) I had to write a program that simply deleted them and their respective registry entries before they were loaded into Windows.
Surprisingly enough adding a Reg entry into the Run folder of the registry is all that was needed to have it run before they did ( which I found a problem ) I had to first export the Key and add my entry first as apparently Windows executes registry entries in order of installation. This cured my problem from even the most hardened malware.
Unfortunately there is no one cureall app out there yet, best to go with an army, X may not catch Y etc etc, but using X, Y, and Z apps together you are assured to catch and stop much more than using any single one as a stand alone.
Offtopic but
I am wondering who typed this up, I mean how many words can you type together without noticing any typos?
I imagine this is not without precedent. Who pays to maintain the /. servers? What if one day they suddenly were faced with an inability to make such payments? How many here would be willing to donate money to take up the slack? With a user base as large as /. each person donating a dollar would go a long way to maintaining it. On the other hand if someone got the hairbrained idea to just start charging to turn a buck because of declining subscription sales, in which case they could subsidize their loss, then one would have to ask oneself if that is the type of periodical that you would like to read.
I am under the assumption that they choose political correctness over any type of an education. You can debate all you want over whether or not God created whatever you say it created. It seems in the interest of furthering knowledge of our children a parent would put their views/beliefs aside to let their child get the best education possible.
I believe what I can see touch taste and feel, but I also know I can't feel an atom, yet I know one exists. I am not one to say some type of God doesn't exist. I don't see a harm in teaching evolution and creation to children and letting them make an educated desicion for themselves based on the facts they are given as to what is true and what is to be taken on blind faith.
I for one know humankind evolved, crawled forth from the seas etc etc. This is my choice to believe based on the facts I was presented. One can not just be told something is true with no evidence presented to them, this is taking someones word for it as bieng such or going on faith.
As a parent I would have no problem with my daughter bieng taught something like this in school. Having all the facts she could better decide what is best for her to believe. While she is my daughter, she does not have my beliefs/religion it is up to her to find her own way. It is my job to present her the facts and to educate her to make the best possible desicion for her.
I read the article, am I the only one to notice he seems to be referring to "console gaming"? I don't think that the gaming industry itself is anywhere near in peril as he would lead us to believe. Rather I think the console industry is in need of a revamp. Though as technology progresses so do the consoles, they always have since before the first Atari 2600 console. Who here had to have a Nintendo? Then a Super NES, then N-64? What was the difference then? Better gameplay, better graphics, faster gameplay?
What seperates then from now other than the progression of the technology and the willingness of the consumer to part with their money? I own several consoles, I rarely play them. I have no need, all my console games are available on PC so I play them on my desktop. I stopped buying consoles after PS2 came out. I see no point anymore. After a year or so even the titles solely released for a certain platform almost always go cross platform. Lisencing rights have to end sometime and producers will always try to squeeze every dime from a release. I simply wait till it's out on PC.
Or does anyone else picture Orc's weilding whips screaming "CODE! CODE!" while cracking those whips.
"Oh your project is going to run over schedule? Walk the plank!"
Point taken, most of our office malware is from the likes of Webshots.
www.majorgeeks.com download BHO Demon and see just how many Browser Helper Objects you are running and don't know about. The last line I have had to clean from office computers were recieved between a US Government "New Laws" website and msn.com I'll let you figure out which installed the malware that attached itself to User32dll.exe and booted at runtime without the users permission.
We could scream and fight all day about which is the better browser, I can say from experience of usign both and not a few months. I used IE several years way back when there were no pop up ads. Before everyone sent you an email telling you how to enlarge your penis.
In those days IE more than served it's purpose, yet when I learned of Mozilla the world changed for me. Gone were the days of Third party popup blockers, no more Adaware or Spybot S&D, I no longer needed them.
Out of curiosity how many Third party apps do you need to run in order to use IE, if you even need them?
Though I am unsure whether Mozillas lack of ActiveX support is a good thing or a bad! There are still times I need IE, but they are rare.
If you think only WareZ sites host these insidious programs, then throw off any firewall or third party app you run, and visit any random website.
In my opinion of using the software as long as I have, I would never use IE again unless forced to. And that small amount of time I do use IE, I spend twice as much afterwards cleaning out the damn mess made by malware.
I think because of it's Open Source nature when Moz or some derivative gains market share and becomes the primary target of ad companies, it still won't make that much of an impact on the browser as a whole.