Gee, that says a lot about humanities approach to global issues: "It won't affect us, so why not?"
Not only are we ruining our OWN planet, but now we're going to ruin another one?
You're correct in one aspect, that it can only examine a small area at a time. However, with this new vehicle, they aren't limited to one geographical feature set. With the rovers, we are limited to flat terrain that is navigable by wheeled autonomic vehicles. With this, we can fly down to the bottom of a chasm and take readings down there, where there may be a better chance to find some sign of life (ie an area of Mars that is more well preserved than others).
My cousin has made many, many things. She has turned old hard drives into clocks, PCB from old AT motherboards into a giant table, and AT motherboards (this time with all of the components left ON the board) into clocks as well. She has made various other things that I can't think of at the moment.
Her website, including links to some kickass PC mods that she had done, can be found here.
According to the Winamp forums, the default Firefox configuration is just as susceptible to this exploit as IE is. You can change your settings in either browser so that it is not affected by your exploit.
No. I'm a computer nerd, not a geography nerd, thanks. I code, I write html, I game, I make techno music. I don't read about (insert shithole little country here) fighting against (another shithole country) because I don't care. Small countries will continue to fight each other for power forever, there's nothing we can do to stop that short of bombing the fuck out of them all. So why should I keep up on it?
That's why it's called the "enthusiast market". It's for people who only care about top notch performance, not price. Your Geforce FX 5600 is fine for Doom 3, I'm running it on a Geforce 4 Ti-4200. You will NOT, however, be able to turn it all the way up. If you paid any attention at all 4 years ago when they first announced Doom 3, you would've known that you would need a top notch card at the time to play the game turned all the way up.
Quit complaining.
Umm... it's been proven through benchmarks that there is a minimum 70% increase in performance, scaling all the way up to 90%... I'd say "double" is pretty accurate, wouldn't you?
Don't speak unless you know what you're talking about. KTHXDIE.
This was NOT an attack. It was basically high-level packet sniffing. It is NOT possible to cause damage with this type of activity... therefore your argument is null and void.
No thanks, I'll stick with trillian. It works, and it works well. Plus, it's free. Can't beat that. Also, it's not tied in to a centralized server like this POS, so you don't have to worry about your company spying on all of your IM conversations.
Yeah, we really need something else for the workplace that allows them to spy on us.
Just blow the whole patent office up. Problem solved.
Seriously though, it is going to take some drastic measures to get any sort of change to go through. The U.S. Patent Office is full of technophobes and techno-idiots.
Call me flaimbait, I don't care. That judge is beyond ignorant. The fact that this case even made it to court is disheartening. As stated previously, this is akin to demanding to have the same street address that you had at your last residence. I really don't understand the reasoning behind this. I hope this dies a quick death.
For one thing, this news is 2 days old now. Thanks for staying current.:rolleyes:
For another, this is not a design flaw, it was a manufacturing flaw- a thin film substrate wasn't completely removed from the chipset before the chips were sent out to the mobo manufacturers, and they believe that the "recall" will only affect, at most, 1000 motherboards.
Lastly, there are no video cards available on the market that can be used on these motherboards, as they can use ONLY PCI Express video cards, not AGP. Therefore, virtually noone can even use the boards yet. Early adopters? I doubt if there are any yet.
Oh yeah, one last thing- I'd like to know what manufacturer doesn't use chipset based motherboards???? The poster of this article sounds like he was just trying to raise a ruckus, without even being informed about the issue.
I wonder.. would it be more secure to authenticate using a DNS sample, such as a simple finger scraping mechanism that will take a sample from your first layer of skin without actually harming you or causing discomfort? Granted, standard computers would have to be much, much faster ( on the order of 50x faster) to process this data in real time, but is it feasible?
You are wrong, sir. The Google toolbar does NOT install spyware or act as a back door. Even with the reporting features turned on, it still only runs when you have IE open. So if there was spyware on there, you managed to get it on there some other way.
Amen. It's completely revolting and repulsive to think about how these companies are, as you said, built from the ground up to exploit these computer idiots. This is no different than a used care salesman selling a lemon to an old lady. She doesn't know what she's buying into, and the product appears safe enough (to her at least), but when you take it out of the lot, it falls apart 10 miles down the road. It really disgusts me, especially because I work for an ISP manning the tech support phones. I get to see, on a daily basis, how many users are actually afflicted with problems like this. I'd guess that anywhere between 70-80% of non-service related calls (ie not a problem with our equipment) are spyware issues. Customers call in pissed off because they can't connect, and they think it's our problem. This is a burden on companies like us as well as the average consumer.
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Gee, that says a lot about humanities approach to global issues: "It won't affect us, so why not?" Not only are we ruining our OWN planet, but now we're going to ruin another one?
You're correct in one aspect, that it can only examine a small area at a time. However, with this new vehicle, they aren't limited to one geographical feature set. With the rovers, we are limited to flat terrain that is navigable by wheeled autonomic vehicles. With this, we can fly down to the bottom of a chasm and take readings down there, where there may be a better chance to find some sign of life (ie an area of Mars that is more well preserved than others).
They've done test flights here on Earth, so I'm assuming it works here.
Actually, yes you can boot from a USB dongle. I do it all the time.
What will worry me is when people start trying to boot from their USB dingies.....
Well, there's plates, and there's also the fact that it was sandwiched between two sheets of glass.
My cousin has made many, many things. She has turned old hard drives into clocks, PCB from old AT motherboards into a giant table, and AT motherboards (this time with all of the components left ON the board) into clocks as well. She has made various other things that I can't think of at the moment.
Her website, including links to some kickass PC mods that she had done, can be found here.
I didn't say it was common. He said they don't exist. I was merely proving him wrong.
According to the Winamp forums, the default Firefox configuration is just as susceptible to this exploit as IE is. You can change your settings in either browser so that it is not affected by your exploit.
Fortunately, I use Mozilla. :)
http://secunia.com/advisories/11622/ Yes it has, wannabe nerd. Don't talk the crap unless you can back it up.
No. I'm a computer nerd, not a geography nerd, thanks. I code, I write html, I game, I make techno music. I don't read about (insert shithole little country here) fighting against (another shithole country) because I don't care. Small countries will continue to fight each other for power forever, there's nothing we can do to stop that short of bombing the fuck out of them all. So why should I keep up on it?
That is one of the planned "security upgrades" in SP2. Messenger will be turned off by default.
That's why it's called the "enthusiast market". It's for people who only care about top notch performance, not price. Your Geforce FX 5600 is fine for Doom 3, I'm running it on a Geforce 4 Ti-4200. You will NOT, however, be able to turn it all the way up. If you paid any attention at all 4 years ago when they first announced Doom 3, you would've known that you would need a top notch card at the time to play the game turned all the way up. Quit complaining.
Umm... it's been proven through benchmarks that there is a minimum 70% increase in performance, scaling all the way up to 90%... I'd say "double" is pretty accurate, wouldn't you?
Don't speak unless you know what you're talking about. KTHXDIE.
This was NOT an attack. It was basically high-level packet sniffing. It is NOT possible to cause damage with this type of activity... therefore your argument is null and void.
No thanks, I'll stick with trillian. It works, and it works well. Plus, it's free. Can't beat that. Also, it's not tied in to a centralized server like this POS, so you don't have to worry about your company spying on all of your IM conversations.
Yeah, we really need something else for the workplace that allows them to spy on us.
Just let it die man. Goatse was old 4 years ago.
Just blow the whole patent office up. Problem solved. Seriously though, it is going to take some drastic measures to get any sort of change to go through. The U.S. Patent Office is full of technophobes and techno-idiots.
Call me flaimbait, I don't care. That judge is beyond ignorant. The fact that this case even made it to court is disheartening. As stated previously, this is akin to demanding to have the same street address that you had at your last residence. I really don't understand the reasoning behind this. I hope this dies a quick death.
Oh, the irony of this post.
I know, but that was the closest suitable expression for my frustration.
For one thing, this news is 2 days old now. Thanks for staying current. :rolleyes:
For another, this is not a design flaw, it was a manufacturing flaw- a thin film substrate wasn't completely removed from the chipset before the chips were sent out to the mobo manufacturers, and they believe that the "recall" will only affect, at most, 1000 motherboards.
Lastly, there are no video cards available on the market that can be used on these motherboards, as they can use ONLY PCI Express video cards, not AGP. Therefore, virtually noone can even use the boards yet. Early adopters? I doubt if there are any yet.
Oh yeah, one last thing- I'd like to know what manufacturer doesn't use chipset based motherboards???? The poster of this article sounds like he was just trying to raise a ruckus, without even being informed about the issue.
Doh... yeah.. umm.. I meant DNA sample. Nobody cares about your domain name servers.
I wonder.. would it be more secure to authenticate using a DNS sample, such as a simple finger scraping mechanism that will take a sample from your first layer of skin without actually harming you or causing discomfort? Granted, standard computers would have to be much, much faster ( on the order of 50x faster) to process this data in real time, but is it feasible?
You are wrong, sir. The Google toolbar does NOT install spyware or act as a back door. Even with the reporting features turned on, it still only runs when you have IE open. So if there was spyware on there, you managed to get it on there some other way.
Amen. It's completely revolting and repulsive to think about how these companies are, as you said, built from the ground up to exploit these computer idiots. This is no different than a used care salesman selling a lemon to an old lady. She doesn't know what she's buying into, and the product appears safe enough (to her at least), but when you take it out of the lot, it falls apart 10 miles down the road. It really disgusts me, especially because I work for an ISP manning the tech support phones. I get to see, on a daily basis, how many users are actually afflicted with problems like this. I'd guess that anywhere between 70-80% of non-service related calls (ie not a problem with our equipment) are spyware issues. Customers call in pissed off because they can't connect, and they think it's our problem. This is a burden on companies like us as well as the average consumer.