A few rebuttles to your comment and others on this thread.
Downloaded plugins and such are not necessary on a website for malware to transfer. All that is necessary is for an advertisement to load which contains the means for a cross site scripting attack. You don't even have to click on anything once you visit the site.
And yes, these attacks happen on totally legitimate sites that are not very discriminating on the ads they run, or whose admins do not properly defend their server against worms/ teh h4x.
XSS attacks are the #1 growing attack technique by far. As long as there is money to be made in infecting computers, techniques will get more advanced as offense is always ahead of defense in terms of Malware/AV software. Simple image and video content is all you need to transfer malware.
I wish it was as easy as saying "Obey these 3 rules and you will not be infected", but that is simply not the case anymore. The people that write this software are honest to God,legitimate, Software Developers. You don't have to like em, but you do have to respect em.
The only way to be 100% certain that you do not end up with malware at the end of the day is not AV software, it's not being cautious, it's not using a mac or linux, it's virtualized environments. And one of these days, even that might not be a panacea.
You just nailed it.
There could be a thousand different reasons why Rom chips would be superior to an optical disk, and in the end it would not matter. Disks are cheap to burn, and you don't have to worry about commodity price fluctuations.
Price to manufacture is the only concern that trumps all others. 60 dollars per new game is high enough, and game companies are not going to decrease their margins on games, nor will distributors or retailers. Any increase in price will be passed to the consumer.
Let's face it: We all hate load times. But we've gotten used to them.
Word up.
I've been filling up and then trimming down my Sansa mp3 player, still haven't maxed out the 8gb with rockin tunes, but sooner or later I will have to pick up a Micro SD chip for it. That said, my first experience with Micro SD was for my DS loader, and I swear, I sat there looking at it for about 20 minutes, in awe. 2 gigs on something a quarter the size of a penny, half as thick? The fact that so many people in this thread are nitpicking is just further proof that the future is now. As far as I am concerned, the USB Flash drive is what the Floppy disk always aspired to be. The unfortunate downside to Micro SD is that it is simply TOO small. Too easy to lose/Break.
First HD? 20 mb, and I don't even want to talk about how much it cost. At the time however, it was glorious.
Yes, because right now, after bailing out the financial system, and the auto industry, some industries, like the multi billion dollar security sector, are feeling left out. Where's our share of the grift?
I like to name my machines after Batman Characters
The file server is Alfred, the most production server is Batman, the backup is Nightwing, and the clients are Robin, Batgirl, Huntress, and various other past Batman sidekicks. As someone said, I think it has more to do with A: whimsy, and B: a passive aggressive means of defying our corporate overlords.
Naming conventions are fun.
These cats were getting paid to say whatever their bosses told them to. I understand that you are primarily condemning Comcast here, but really? Sticking it to a phone monkey? I've been there man, it's a bad enough job as it is.
Fun fact: If you sense that you have gotten a phone monkey who knows what they are talking about, speaking strictly in hypotheticals is an excellent way to get solid information off a solid rep.
Except, in your example, "Hydrology" would be spelled "hiderologee", or hydrologee.
So does that still mean aquatic studies? Or does it mean hiding at one gravity, or hiding while gleefully surprised, or something that makes no damn sense at all, with a connection to water, but no connection to studies?
This is patently absurd.
You need to buy Asus Cases. Definitley not budget, but a quality PSU and rounded edges on the inside. I haven't gotten cut in 4 years, but then, I work on the software side for a living, so most of my upgrading is done to my home comp.
Well, C'mon man, the analogue stick was a pretty significant advance, regardless of who you want to credit with the invention. To a lesser extent, analogue shoulder triggers.
Kentia hall is the ghetto of E3, reserved for peddlers of weird accessories. I would think that red octane/harmonix had gained enough cred to get in a proper hall (despite the fact that the controller for their game is weird, yet awesome). Hell, they were backed by MTV. They couldn't get a booth?
Guitar Hero deserves better.
A Zelda, Mario, Metroid, etc incarnation will always sell like hotcakes, so why not just offer them at a discount price to begin with.
Because if they were to do this, they wouldn't be Maximizing profit. You sell Zelda at the 50 dollar price point initially to customers like myself, who will whip out a check the second it comes out, and you keep it there, so that little billy has time to save up to buy the game at full retail price.
The only reason you drop prices is because after a year and a half, there is plenty of new hotness out there, and chances are, you will get lost in the full retail price shuffle. So you slap a distinctive yellow stripe on top of the box, slash the price to 20 bucks, and sell to everyone that "heard it was good from somewhere" but weren't willing to fork over $54.11 just to see if he would enjoy running around as an elf with a boomerang. You don't get as much profit, but you're making more money then you would selling 0 copies at $50.00.
What's your point? The story is about the lockheed skunkworks, and the parent to which you replied posted a link to an Excellent book, which I cannot reccomend highly enough, which has to do with the Lockheed martin Skunkworks. Should he have posted a link to every book ever written about Aviation, regadless of it's connection to the topic at hand?
I agree, your description of his motive is correct, but it doesn't make his observation any less true.
And your defense of Wikipedia defeats it's entire purpose. I don't go to an encyclopedia to engage in a rigorous study of a particular subject. That is something the encyclopedias author supposedly did beforehand. I go to an encyclopedia to gain quick facts.
All this said, I'm a big fan of special randompage.
I think the most well spoken criticism of Wikipedia was voiced by Jerry (tycho) Holkins over at Penny-arcade. He likened Wikipedia to a "quantum dictionary", where it can be both correct, and incorrect, depending on when you access it.
Sensitive topics, like say, the formation of the state of Isreal, or Communism will obviously attract revisionists of all kinds. On/., abuse with moderation isn't terribly damaging, as people are stating opinions. When you are purporting to supply facts however, I can't see such a system wouldn't inevitably break down.
I cannot disagree more with your point. I demand a physical copy of my media, be they CDs, DVDs, or Games. I want to be able to uninstall it, put it away, and still be able to re-install it 2 years after the company that made it has gone bankrupt.
Ask yourself, if Valve/vivendi were to go out of business tomorrow, would you be able to play half life 2?
Which is exactly the reason why the UN is the best choice, from a democratic point of view. It keeps single-people-in-power (heads of states) from doing much harm to the whole world by requiring them to more-or-less agree. Just the way a parliamentary democracy works.
Except in your mind, at the end of the day, no changes to administration are made if parties still disagree. This is not always how it works in reality.
For example, lets take a Highway bill, limiting the speed to 55 MPH. One political party likes it, the other party doesn't. But the bill still passes, and we're stuck with 55 MPH speed limits, and a highway bill that cost a suspiciously large amount of cash. Why?
Because key members opposing the bill got various consessions and pork thrown their way by the Party in favor of it. I highly reccomend you wait until the US does something untenable before fragmenting authority over the internet.
So just because that wasn't his main point, it makes it okay to lie and spread false information?
Sorry, I can't cite a link because I'm at work, and like hell I will visit either freerepublic or Democratic underground while my stats are logged. But to suggest that it is false to say that inflammatory, and indeed violent screeds do not take place on either one of those sites is foolish. Be it right or left, percieved anonymity brings out the brashness in people.
If the parent didn't want to bring partisan politics into this, maybe he shouldn't have mentioned it in the first place.
He's obviously citing something partisan, but I'm not his mammy, It's not my job to defend him, only the main point. In the US, we do not have speech codes of the like that exist in europe. Basically, in order to subject yourself to speech codes, you have to opt in, IE: Enroll in Cal Berkely.
Or perhaps he meant to argue that lying, exaggerating, and taking out of context writings from left-wingers is the only way to demonstrate free speech?
He's going with what he knows here. I'm not about to suggest that right wingers, enviros, or libertarians are immune to hyperbole. But a book was written in the run up to the election in 2004, where the subject was on assasinating a modern president. Pretty hard to take that out of context. Not only was it not shut down, it was lauded by the national press as an example of outside of the box thinking. CURSE OUR TOTALITARIAN STATE!!
I love people that say this to try and "win" arguments. Perhaps you should ease up and have a drink yourself, as you seem about as upset as anyone else here.
I'm not trying to win anything. I really do want you to lighten up. I really do want you to savor some mean barbeque while drinking a glass of lemonade. I really do want you to smile some times.
You sir, miss the entire point of the post, and that is why you fail it.
The parent post was not saying one group is better then any other. He was using Kos and Democrat underground as an example of the fact we do not have the kind of speech codes that exist in europe. You want to include Freerepublic in that list? Fine, be my guest. You only bolster his point.
I am sick and damn tired of kneejerk rebuttles from partisans, when they aren't even being attacked. (And yes, I am a partisan too.) Ease up people. Drink a glass of lemonade. Smile sometime.
You can easily give this a reality-check: How many EU countries have tried to use trade embargoes, tariffs or full-scale military invasion to change the US's position on economic or political issues? And how many times has the US done the same?
Yes...when has france ever used an economic tactic against the US. Stopping the merger with Honeywell and GE? Surely not...In fact, that is their chief weapon against Boeing!
And heaven forbid you should want to play multiplayer games with one. 800 dollar outlay for four headsets? I doubt nintendo is looking at VR headsets, given their priority on multiplayer.
That, sir, is factually inacurate. You may blame the deaths on a heart attack, or embolisms, but the bottom line is, the stress on the nervous system was brought on by the drug.
Please don't act like chemicals of any kind, in the wrong dosage, are all to the good. When improperly applied, they are capable of horrendous damage.
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A few rebuttles to your comment and others on this thread. Downloaded plugins and such are not necessary on a website for malware to transfer. All that is necessary is for an advertisement to load which contains the means for a cross site scripting attack. You don't even have to click on anything once you visit the site.
And yes, these attacks happen on totally legitimate sites that are not very discriminating on the ads they run, or whose admins do not properly defend their server against worms/ teh h4x.
XSS attacks are the #1 growing attack technique by far. As long as there is money to be made in infecting computers, techniques will get more advanced as offense is always ahead of defense in terms of Malware/AV software. Simple image and video content is all you need to transfer malware.
I wish it was as easy as saying "Obey these 3 rules and you will not be infected", but that is simply not the case anymore. The people that write this software are honest to God,legitimate, Software Developers. You don't have to like em, but you do have to respect em.
The only way to be 100% certain that you do not end up with malware at the end of the day is not AV software, it's not being cautious, it's not using a mac or linux, it's virtualized environments. And one of these days, even that might not be a panacea.
You just nailed it.
There could be a thousand different reasons why Rom chips would be superior to an optical disk, and in the end it would not matter. Disks are cheap to burn, and you don't have to worry about commodity price fluctuations. Price to manufacture is the only concern that trumps all others. 60 dollars per new game is high enough, and game companies are not going to decrease their margins on games, nor will distributors or retailers. Any increase in price will be passed to the consumer. Let's face it: We all hate load times. But we've gotten used to them.
Word up. I've been filling up and then trimming down my Sansa mp3 player, still haven't maxed out the 8gb with rockin tunes, but sooner or later I will have to pick up a Micro SD chip for it. That said, my first experience with Micro SD was for my DS loader, and I swear, I sat there looking at it for about 20 minutes, in awe. 2 gigs on something a quarter the size of a penny, half as thick? The fact that so many people in this thread are nitpicking is just further proof that the future is now. As far as I am concerned, the USB Flash drive is what the Floppy disk always aspired to be. The unfortunate downside to Micro SD is that it is simply TOO small. Too easy to lose/Break. First HD? 20 mb, and I don't even want to talk about how much it cost. At the time however, it was glorious.
Yes, because right now, after bailing out the financial system, and the auto industry, some industries, like the multi billion dollar security sector, are feeling left out. Where's our share of the grift?
I like to name my machines after Batman Characters The file server is Alfred, the most production server is Batman, the backup is Nightwing, and the clients are Robin, Batgirl, Huntress, and various other past Batman sidekicks. As someone said, I think it has more to do with A: whimsy, and B: a passive aggressive means of defying our corporate overlords. Naming conventions are fun.
These cats were getting paid to say whatever their bosses told them to. I understand that you are primarily condemning Comcast here, but really? Sticking it to a phone monkey? I've been there man, it's a bad enough job as it is. Fun fact: If you sense that you have gotten a phone monkey who knows what they are talking about, speaking strictly in hypotheticals is an excellent way to get solid information off a solid rep.
Except, in your example, "Hydrology" would be spelled "hiderologee", or hydrologee. So does that still mean aquatic studies? Or does it mean hiding at one gravity, or hiding while gleefully surprised, or something that makes no damn sense at all, with a connection to water, but no connection to studies? This is patently absurd.
You need to buy Asus Cases. Definitley not budget, but a quality PSU and rounded edges on the inside. I haven't gotten cut in 4 years, but then, I work on the software side for a living, so most of my upgrading is done to my home comp.
Well, C'mon man, the analogue stick was a pretty significant advance, regardless of who you want to credit with the invention. To a lesser extent, analogue shoulder triggers.
Kentia hall is the ghetto of E3, reserved for peddlers of weird accessories. I would think that red octane/harmonix had gained enough cred to get in a proper hall (despite the fact that the controller for their game is weird, yet awesome). Hell, they were backed by MTV. They couldn't get a booth? Guitar Hero deserves better.
A Zelda, Mario, Metroid, etc incarnation will always sell like hotcakes, so why not just offer them at a discount price to begin with.
Because if they were to do this, they wouldn't be Maximizing profit. You sell Zelda at the 50 dollar price point initially to customers like myself, who will whip out a check the second it comes out, and you keep it there, so that little billy has time to save up to buy the game at full retail price.
The only reason you drop prices is because after a year and a half, there is plenty of new hotness out there, and chances are, you will get lost in the full retail price shuffle. So you slap a distinctive yellow stripe on top of the box, slash the price to 20 bucks, and sell to everyone that "heard it was good from somewhere" but weren't willing to fork over $54.11 just to see if he would enjoy running around as an elf with a boomerang. You don't get as much profit, but you're making more money then you would selling 0 copies at $50.00.
If I had mod points sir, that would be an insightful.
What's your point? The story is about the lockheed skunkworks, and the parent to which you replied posted a link to an Excellent book, which I cannot reccomend highly enough, which has to do with the Lockheed martin Skunkworks. Should he have posted a link to every book ever written about Aviation, regadless of it's connection to the topic at hand?
Ease up pal.
That's a very interesting way to look at it.
I agree, your description of his motive is correct, but it doesn't make his observation any less true.
And your defense of Wikipedia defeats it's entire purpose. I don't go to an encyclopedia to engage in a rigorous study of a particular subject. That is something the encyclopedias author supposedly did beforehand. I go to an encyclopedia to gain quick facts.
All this said, I'm a big fan of special randompage.
I think the most well spoken criticism of Wikipedia was voiced by Jerry (tycho) Holkins over at Penny-arcade. He likened Wikipedia to a "quantum dictionary", where it can be both correct, and incorrect, depending on when you access it. Sensitive topics, like say, the formation of the state of Isreal, or Communism will obviously attract revisionists of all kinds. On /., abuse with moderation isn't terribly damaging, as people are stating opinions. When you are purporting to supply facts however, I can't see such a system wouldn't inevitably break down.
I cannot disagree more with your point. I demand a physical copy of my media, be they CDs, DVDs, or Games. I want to be able to uninstall it, put it away, and still be able to re-install it 2 years after the company that made it has gone bankrupt.
Ask yourself, if Valve/vivendi were to go out of business tomorrow, would you be able to play half life 2?
Which is exactly the reason why the UN is the best choice, from a democratic point of view. It keeps single-people-in-power (heads of states) from doing much harm to the whole world by requiring them to more-or-less agree. Just the way a parliamentary democracy works.
Except in your mind, at the end of the day, no changes to administration are made if parties still disagree. This is not always how it works in reality.
For example, lets take a Highway bill, limiting the speed to 55 MPH. One political party likes it, the other party doesn't. But the bill still passes, and we're stuck with 55 MPH speed limits, and a highway bill that cost a suspiciously large amount of cash. Why?
Because key members opposing the bill got various consessions and pork thrown their way by the Party in favor of it. I highly reccomend you wait until the US does something untenable before fragmenting authority over the internet.
So just because that wasn't his main point, it makes it okay to lie and spread false information?
Sorry, I can't cite a link because I'm at work, and like hell I will visit either freerepublic or Democratic underground while my stats are logged. But to suggest that it is false to say that inflammatory, and indeed violent screeds do not take place on either one of those sites is foolish. Be it right or left, percieved anonymity brings out the brashness in people.
If the parent didn't want to bring partisan politics into this, maybe he shouldn't have mentioned it in the first place.
He's obviously citing something partisan, but I'm not his mammy, It's not my job to defend him, only the main point. In the US, we do not have speech codes of the like that exist in europe. Basically, in order to subject yourself to speech codes, you have to opt in, IE: Enroll in Cal Berkely.
Or perhaps he meant to argue that lying, exaggerating, and taking out of context writings from left-wingers is the only way to demonstrate free speech?
He's going with what he knows here. I'm not about to suggest that right wingers, enviros, or libertarians are immune to hyperbole. But a book was written in the run up to the election in 2004, where the subject was on assasinating a modern president. Pretty hard to take that out of context. Not only was it not shut down, it was lauded by the national press as an example of outside of the box thinking. CURSE OUR TOTALITARIAN STATE!!
I love people that say this to try and "win" arguments. Perhaps you should ease up and have a drink yourself, as you seem about as upset as anyone else here.
I'm not trying to win anything. I really do want you to lighten up. I really do want you to savor some mean barbeque while drinking a glass of lemonade. I really do want you to smile some times.
But undoubtedly, I've taken you out of context.
You sir, miss the entire point of the post, and that is why you fail it.
The parent post was not saying one group is better then any other. He was using Kos and Democrat underground as an example of the fact we do not have the kind of speech codes that exist in europe. You want to include Freerepublic in that list? Fine, be my guest. You only bolster his point.
I am sick and damn tired of kneejerk rebuttles from partisans, when they aren't even being attacked. (And yes, I am a partisan too.) Ease up people. Drink a glass of lemonade. Smile sometime.
You can easily give this a reality-check: How many EU countries have tried to use trade embargoes, tariffs or full-scale military invasion to change the US's position on economic or political issues? And how many times has the US done the same?
Yes...when has france ever used an economic tactic against the US. Stopping the merger with Honeywell and GE? Surely not...In fact, that is their chief weapon against Boeing!
And yet this is your sixteenth post of the day, and you've posted 24 times in the last 5.
I wonder how much you USED to hit up slashdot.
Ingrate.
And heaven forbid you should want to play multiplayer games with one. 800 dollar outlay for four headsets? I doubt nintendo is looking at VR headsets, given their priority on multiplayer.
That, sir, is factually inacurate. You may blame the deaths on a heart attack, or embolisms, but the bottom line is, the stress on the nervous system was brought on by the drug.
Please don't act like chemicals of any kind, in the wrong dosage, are all to the good. When improperly applied, they are capable of horrendous damage.
Lysergic acid derived from rye bread has been known to cause fatalities. Mainly due to people saying "How hard can it be?"
Lysergic acid, in improper doses can have severe after effects, most prominently death. Personally, I like my perception of reality just fine.