I've had good luck with Comodo so far. Their "internet security" suite is a lot like AVG+Kerio firewall a few years back. Application behavior blocking is good to have, half of SELinux-style protection (and easier to configure) is better than none at all.
I think you're (somewhat) wrong. Initially it won't mean much, but just like pre-packaged malware suites for credit card fraud (ZeuS being the biggest example) point-and-drool interfaces for car theft will be made eventually.
The only way to check for viruses is via a secure boot medium (eg a 'rescue' CD or DVD with AV tools on it.) Many, if not most, modern viruses have rootkit-like features, and so can't be detected from within an infected OS. Virus scanners are still useful for scanning downloaded files before they are first opened, and for finding incompetently created viruses.
Actually, the IRA look rather more pacifistic. They very often gave civilians time to evacuate before blowing up infrastructure. Not always, but that they did so at all makes them more pacifistic than the Middle Eastern groups.
While use has been shown to keep the brain healthy in several studies I don't like comparing it to a muscle, and especially not "like any other muscle." The brain is not a muscle.
Actually, there is a flaw in the reporting of the study: Cognitive decline begins at 45 at the latest. It may begin earlier, but younger groups were not tested. This is an important distinction.
I've written to "my" representatives. Every time I get "thank you for your concerns but... form letter bullshit explaining why my concerns won't have any impact..."
"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'"
--Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Quite true. I actually do have several different password "levels" that I use. Websites I don't care about at all that require a 1-off registration for something get my standard totally insecure password. Websites I visit occasionally and don't care if someone pretends to be me get the next level up. Websites I visit often or care about someone pretending to be me have their own passwords, stored in KeePass, with the URL. Obviously this prevents using them from a public terminal, but that's fine because using such sites from a public terminal would be dumb. Games have my gaming password, since I have to type that in each time. E-mail has its own password, and since I use Gmail I've turned on the text-message 2-factor authentication. Banking, and other things of that importance have passwords in KeePass only, 40+ random characters long. I don't bother memorizing them, of course.
So I really have 5 passwords I use, one of which is a keepass master password.
1CorrectHorseBatteryStaple+SITEURL
For the more paranoid, md5sum(1CorrectHorseBatteryStaple+SITEURL) and copy+paste.
Sadly, many services don't allow long passwords, where long is more than 12 characters. These services are run by idiots and can be assumed to store the password in plaintext.
The problem with changing passwords is they become harder to remember. This leads to people writing them down, thereby decreasing security.
Diceware passwords can be VERY secure and easy to remember. Anything beyond 6 words is overkill for pretty much any service on the internet, since very few datacenters have security so good that it would be more expensive to break in than to bruteforce the password.
That's mostly true. There is a boundary condition where occasional errors will occur, causing "sparklies" as one channel or another gets messed up. Most of the time you'll just see your picture drop out if the signal is bad.
There is no such thing as a 100% digital signal. There are no 0s and 1s. There are rising and falling edges of a square wave (or high and low voltages). Impedance mismatches caused by varying twist rates can degrade signal. That, and there's always attenuation of a square wave, to transmit a perfect square wave would take infinite bandwidth.
That said, for a 3 foot cable you can have quite a lot of variance and still get a recognizable signal. I could understand $1000 for some sort of active-powered 100 meter cable with built-in repeaters, but not for a 3-foot one.
To be fair it IS high frequency square wave. To properly transmit the "ones and zeros" (rising and falling edge) you would need a cable with infinite bandwidth. Any real world cable will attenuate the signal somewhat. Since it's shielded twisted pair it's a bit harder to keep the impedance constant than with coax. So cable quality can matter, though it normally won't. And when it does you'll see sparklies (mis-decoded pixels) or no image at all, not a decrease in sharpness.
All that doesn't mean you need an expensive cable. Especially for short runs (under 15 feet) pretty much any cable will work fine. And even for longer runs there are cheap manufacturers that make good cable, like bluejeanscable. Their 3-foot cable is $15. Spending more than that would be silly. Spending over a thousand dollars is a way to say "I'M RICH".
Because they claim the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists already gives them the power to indefinitely detain anyone already. NOT because they are opposed to that power.
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There is never an excuse for Comic Sans.
The Irish invented whiskey, not whisky. Whisky is scottish. The smoky flavor added by drying the malt on a peat fire is delicious.
They invented Whisky! Sure, that prevented much further advancement, but what other advancement is truly needed?
I've had good luck with Comodo so far. Their "internet security" suite is a lot like AVG+Kerio firewall a few years back. Application behavior blocking is good to have, half of SELinux-style protection (and easier to configure) is better than none at all.
Democrats are authoritarian centrist. Republicans are authoritarian right.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/vitamin-d-and-ms/AN01894 There are a large number of clouds in Seattle. Sunlight is a primary source of vitamin D.
MS was recently linked to vitamin D deficiency.
I think you're (somewhat) wrong. Initially it won't mean much, but just like pre-packaged malware suites for credit card fraud (ZeuS being the biggest example) point-and-drool interfaces for car theft will be made eventually.
The only way to check for viruses is via a secure boot medium (eg a 'rescue' CD or DVD with AV tools on it.) Many, if not most, modern viruses have rootkit-like features, and so can't be detected from within an infected OS. Virus scanners are still useful for scanning downloaded files before they are first opened, and for finding incompetently created viruses.
Actually, the IRA look rather more pacifistic. They very often gave civilians time to evacuate before blowing up infrastructure. Not always, but that they did so at all makes them more pacifistic than the Middle Eastern groups.
While use has been shown to keep the brain healthy in several studies I don't like comparing it to a muscle, and especially not "like any other muscle." The brain is not a muscle.
Actually, there is a flaw in the reporting of the study: Cognitive decline begins at 45 at the latest. It may begin earlier, but younger groups were not tested. This is an important distinction.
I've written to "my" representatives. Every time I get "thank you for your concerns but... form letter bullshit explaining why my concerns won't have any impact..."
I will not vote for a Democrat in November. I will not vote for a Republican in November. The answer to both questions SHOULD be NO.
"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'" --Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Thanks, I was wrong. MY camera has an active auto-focus, I didn't realize they weren't that common any more.
And the auto-focus systems of most cameras use IR LEDs.
Quite true. I actually do have several different password "levels" that I use. Websites I don't care about at all that require a 1-off registration for something get my standard totally insecure password. Websites I visit occasionally and don't care if someone pretends to be me get the next level up. Websites I visit often or care about someone pretending to be me have their own passwords, stored in KeePass, with the URL. Obviously this prevents using them from a public terminal, but that's fine because using such sites from a public terminal would be dumb. Games have my gaming password, since I have to type that in each time. E-mail has its own password, and since I use Gmail I've turned on the text-message 2-factor authentication. Banking, and other things of that importance have passwords in KeePass only, 40+ random characters long. I don't bother memorizing them, of course.
So I really have 5 passwords I use, one of which is a keepass master password.
1CorrectHorseBatteryStaple+SITEURL
For the more paranoid, md5sum(1CorrectHorseBatteryStaple+SITEURL) and copy+paste.
Sadly, many services don't allow long passwords, where long is more than 12 characters. These services are run by idiots and can be assumed to store the password in plaintext.
The problem with changing passwords is they become harder to remember. This leads to people writing them down, thereby decreasing security. Diceware passwords can be VERY secure and easy to remember. Anything beyond 6 words is overkill for pretty much any service on the internet, since very few datacenters have security so good that it would be more expensive to break in than to bruteforce the password.
It's Windows Phone, and Blackwater is Academi.
That's mostly true. There is a boundary condition where occasional errors will occur, causing "sparklies" as one channel or another gets messed up. Most of the time you'll just see your picture drop out if the signal is bad.
There is no such thing as a 100% digital signal. There are no 0s and 1s. There are rising and falling edges of a square wave (or high and low voltages). Impedance mismatches caused by varying twist rates can degrade signal. That, and there's always attenuation of a square wave, to transmit a perfect square wave would take infinite bandwidth. That said, for a 3 foot cable you can have quite a lot of variance and still get a recognizable signal. I could understand $1000 for some sort of active-powered 100 meter cable with built-in repeaters, but not for a 3-foot one.
To be fair it IS high frequency square wave. To properly transmit the "ones and zeros" (rising and falling edge) you would need a cable with infinite bandwidth. Any real world cable will attenuate the signal somewhat. Since it's shielded twisted pair it's a bit harder to keep the impedance constant than with coax. So cable quality can matter, though it normally won't. And when it does you'll see sparklies (mis-decoded pixels) or no image at all, not a decrease in sharpness. All that doesn't mean you need an expensive cable. Especially for short runs (under 15 feet) pretty much any cable will work fine. And even for longer runs there are cheap manufacturers that make good cable, like bluejeanscable. Their 3-foot cable is $15. Spending more than that would be silly. Spending over a thousand dollars is a way to say "I'M RICH".
Because they claim the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists already gives them the power to indefinitely detain anyone already. NOT because they are opposed to that power.