Most massive attacks happen after the problem has been patched because a patch is a notice to the bad guys something was wrong, and then they can backsolve for what changed, and from that learn what the whole was.
Sure, somebody could attack you with an unrevealed risk but that's a whole lot less likely. And if there is a massive 0-day flaw exploit, you can be sure Microsoft will get on that case quickly.
The banks weren't lending enough after being caught by their own mistakes, and claiming they didn't have the money lend much anymore. So, Congress gave them money and instructions to lend it. The banks didn't. They won't be getting that bailout again. Healthcare is pretty much locking up the Senate right now.
You forgot to run Windows Update. Just being connected to the Internet with a hole patched by Microsoft without the patch is inviting a random bot attack when your IP address just happens to be the lucky number drawn by the bot.
With a ridiculous approach to taxation like that, how would an entire nation manage to pay for important things like invasions of foreign countries and bailing out mismanaged banks?
We already pay for bank mismanagement that way... all banks are required to have FDIC insurance, and all credit unions are required to either get FDIC coverage or an equal state program. Traditionally $100,000 of coverage has become $250,000 for the time being, again at the banks' expense. Some even carry more insurance than required so that they can reassure large depositors.
War taxes? Those are usually left behind long after the war is paid for.
New Hampshire believes in an environment where tolls, gas taxes, and registration fees pay for the roads, property taxes pay for police and fire protection, those who get lost in the woods are billed for their rescue, hunting licenses pay for the regulation of hunters....
Basically, they have no sales or income tax, but you've got to pay for what you use. Want to save money? Stop doing wasteful things!
The rules of the House of Representatives require that if you propose a new government program that costs money, you also have to propose a tax or some way to pay for what you're doing... with the neutral CBO's stat-based "scoring" telling you when you're doing something level.
Most of the major ISPs in the US are providing a free brand-name anti-virus product if users will just download it. Even if you don't get that, it's about $15/year to stay up to date at Best Buy. The problem here isn't that people can't afford anti-virus... it's that they can't be bothered to use it.
Maybe the route some universities have taken of fines and downtime for those caught spreading malware or spam, knowingly or not, is what we need.
With Google seeming to buy up any ad company that's a threat to it... it seems like they'll be most of the online ad market eventually, with Microsoft being in the unusual position of 2nd.
Actually, Lifelock lost the right to place fraud alerts for a fee in a case with Experian. They now contract with major banks to be told when their customers apply for credit, then Lifelock calls the customer to make sure it's a legit request.
Yeah... it seems life was better here when we let those in arguments that will never be settled fight among themselves instead of letting them fight us in their home land.
It seems like every government in the world has something equal to our Social Security Number being used for national identification... and no way to scrub your permanent record of what they want to record about you, or even an easy way toget your record cleaned if somebody should take your identity and uses it. Lifelock is basically selling insurance that if your ID is stolen, they'll do the legwork up to $1 Million in filing paperwork and making calls on your behalf to get things back to normal.
Israel basically doesn't care about what they've done to these people because for them their war against Hamas justifies anything... they've been doing War on Terror since day one of their existence. The least these people should be able to expect is that their government would cancel their stolen passports... but apparently that's too much to ask.
If you take a picture of me, it's not as if I retain any authorship rights to my own face.
You actually do if your face is identifiable enough for people to recognize you. This is why models have to sign release forms when they pose for photographers. The photographer controls the copyright of the photo, but you still own your identity and it can't be used to market something unless you agree too.
It's okay to take a photo of a sculpture but it's not okay to use that photo to market your service, such as the way the USPS was trying to do with this stamp. This is part of the reason they make sure people are dead for a good long time before they honor them with a postage stamp.
You fail to submit such proof to the judge, and even though that should be easy to prove, you lose. This sounds more like this was the point the plaintiff's side ran out of money to fund the case.
Microsoft is under no obligation to give you a license for Windows XP if it doesn't want to. They've removed it from the general marketplace, but have left even Windows 3.1 in the MSDN subscription packages, even if those are a high price to pay for an old operating system, it's still the going rate.
What a waste of resources. This lawsuit had no hope, and the money spent would have been better off asking Congress to lower the copyright expiration standard for software.
Yep... I even use that occasionally on my little site. Come to me with Windows, and you might see an ad for VMWare's server products. Come to me with a Mac and might see an ad for VMWare Fusion. It's all in reading the user agent.
So, first we start out with one TV in the house and mass appeal programs. Then, as we get more and more channels, each user watched a specific channel targeted to their demographics. Then we got more specific programs from podcasts, and recommendation systems told us what we'd like before we knew it existed. The problem was, then the content makers didn't know how to sell such small audiences, so we're going to have to muck up the recommendations systems to suit them... sure, good luck with that.
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Most massive attacks happen after the problem has been patched because a patch is a notice to the bad guys something was wrong, and then they can backsolve for what changed, and from that learn what the whole was.
Sure, somebody could attack you with an unrevealed risk but that's a whole lot less likely. And if there is a massive 0-day flaw exploit, you can be sure Microsoft will get on that case quickly.
The banks weren't lending enough after being caught by their own mistakes, and claiming they didn't have the money lend much anymore. So, Congress gave them money and instructions to lend it. The banks didn't. They won't be getting that bailout again. Healthcare is pretty much locking up the Senate right now.
You forgot to run Windows Update. Just being connected to the Internet with a hole patched by Microsoft without the patch is inviting a random bot attack when your IP address just happens to be the lucky number drawn by the bot.
With a ridiculous approach to taxation like that, how would an entire nation manage to pay for important things like invasions of foreign countries and bailing out mismanaged banks?
We already pay for bank mismanagement that way... all banks are required to have FDIC insurance, and all credit unions are required to either get FDIC coverage or an equal state program. Traditionally $100,000 of coverage has become $250,000 for the time being, again at the banks' expense. Some even carry more insurance than required so that they can reassure large depositors.
War taxes? Those are usually left behind long after the war is paid for.
A fully-patched Windows installation is mostly unhackable... it's the nuts who won't let Windows Update run that are the problem.
New Hampshire believes in an environment where tolls, gas taxes, and registration fees pay for the roads, property taxes pay for police and fire protection, those who get lost in the woods are billed for their rescue, hunting licenses pay for the regulation of hunters....
Basically, they have no sales or income tax, but you've got to pay for what you use. Want to save money? Stop doing wasteful things!
The rules of the House of Representatives require that if you propose a new government program that costs money, you also have to propose a tax or some way to pay for what you're doing... with the neutral CBO's stat-based "scoring" telling you when you're doing something level.
Most of the major ISPs in the US are providing a free brand-name anti-virus product if users will just download it. Even if you don't get that, it's about $15/year to stay up to date at Best Buy. The problem here isn't that people can't afford anti-virus... it's that they can't be bothered to use it.
Maybe the route some universities have taken of fines and downtime for those caught spreading malware or spam, knowingly or not, is what we need.
Apple hasn't banned location ads, they've just required that in order to access the location, you must have a feature that uses it other than the ads.
With Google seeming to buy up any ad company that's a threat to it... it seems like they'll be most of the online ad market eventually, with Microsoft being in the unusual position of 2nd.
That was the initial, now discredited assumption. Sorry, my Slashdot posts can only be as accurate as the media is on the day I write them.
Actually, Lifelock lost the right to place fraud alerts for a fee in a case with Experian. They now contract with major banks to be told when their customers apply for credit, then Lifelock calls the customer to make sure it's a legit request.
But they're your government. They can send you a new one rather quickly.
That's not exactly the best idea, because you have to associate question+account=codeword... and that's a lot harder than remembering the true answer.
Seems like copying the Americans' homework assignments aren't doing them much good anymore.
That's "stolen" in the RIAA definition... illegal copying must be stopped!
Yeah... it seems life was better here when we let those in arguments that will never be settled fight among themselves instead of letting them fight us in their home land.
It seems like every government in the world has something equal to our Social Security Number being used for national identification... and no way to scrub your permanent record of what they want to record about you, or even an easy way toget your record cleaned if somebody should take your identity and uses it. Lifelock is basically selling insurance that if your ID is stolen, they'll do the legwork up to $1 Million in filing paperwork and making calls on your behalf to get things back to normal.
Israel basically doesn't care about what they've done to these people because for them their war against Hamas justifies anything... they've been doing War on Terror since day one of their existence. The least these people should be able to expect is that their government would cancel their stolen passports... but apparently that's too much to ask.
If you take a picture of me, it's not as if I retain any authorship rights to my own face.
You actually do if your face is identifiable enough for people to recognize you. This is why models have to sign release forms when they pose for photographers. The photographer controls the copyright of the photo, but you still own your identity and it can't be used to market something unless you agree too.
It's okay to take a photo of a sculpture but it's not okay to use that photo to market your service, such as the way the USPS was trying to do with this stamp. This is part of the reason they make sure people are dead for a good long time before they honor them with a postage stamp.
You fail to submit such proof to the judge, and even though that should be easy to prove, you lose. This sounds more like this was the point the plaintiff's side ran out of money to fund the case.
I gotta love the mod war that has broken out over this post... It's taken more than 15 mod points to put it right back where it started at 2.
Microsoft is under no obligation to give you a license for Windows XP if it doesn't want to. They've removed it from the general marketplace, but have left even Windows 3.1 in the MSDN subscription packages, even if those are a high price to pay for an old operating system, it's still the going rate.
What a waste of resources. This lawsuit had no hope, and the money spent would have been better off asking Congress to lower the copyright expiration standard for software.
Yep... I even use that occasionally on my little site. Come to me with Windows, and you might see an ad for VMWare's server products. Come to me with a Mac and might see an ad for VMWare Fusion. It's all in reading the user agent.
So, first we start out with one TV in the house and mass appeal programs. Then, as we get more and more channels, each user watched a specific channel targeted to their demographics. Then we got more specific programs from podcasts, and recommendation systems told us what we'd like before we knew it existed. The problem was, then the content makers didn't know how to sell such small audiences, so we're going to have to muck up the recommendations systems to suit them... sure, good luck with that.