There are quite a few countries who's culture is substantially different from the United States in which bribery is considered standard business practice. If you dont bribe an official in one of those countries, you dont get anything done.
It probably would be more profitable working at the local oil change shop or at walmart, but I doubt those places exist (at least in the way you think of them) in nigeria. Also, if you look at the GDP per capita of the United States and Nigeria you'll notice that the small amount of money made phishing is much more valuable in nigeria than it is in the united states.
Even if he really managed to do this (which I doubt, look how long wine has been around and it still doesn't run everything), won't he get sued immediately for something like this?
It's true for me that the quality of downloaded movies is better than the dvd I can rent at blockbuster. I couldn't beleive all the CRAP that goes on DVDs now. It was an inconvenience before that I had to click play a couple of times through menus to watch the movie, but now there are COMMERCIALS!!! WTF!!!
Scroll through a list of movies, double click on a file and have the movie start, vs keeping track of disks (I wont even mention scratched disks), navigating through menu systems, watching 10 minutes of commercials and previews I dont care about. Hmmm. Tough choice.
People have written in Micky Mouse for congress for years, with no success.
I believe internet voting is a great idea. You could print a receipt if a paper trail were that important. Personally, I'm not going to vote because it's too much of a hassle.
I don't worry about people "stealing" my vote online either. Anytime people complain that I don't vote, I make an offer to them. If they give me $5 and get an absentee ballot for me to fill out, and provide money for postage, I'll vote however they want. To this day nobody has even said yes much less gone to the trouble of doing it or given me $5. So my vote is worth less than $5. (I'm actually willing to bargin. So far I can't even get a beer at a bar)
Windows activation is a joke anyway. You can keep using the same cdkey, you just have to call their 800 number. It's been awhile since I've done it, but they ask you a stupid question like "is this copy of windows installed on any other computers". I think once they asked me why I was reinstalling and I stated "reformat because of a virus". Let them argue that. If they complain you've called too much complain that their OS is too virus prone and keeps making you reformat.
I don't know which is easier to do, get the anti-activation crack or call the 800 number.
Doesn't the trend in virus-writing go in the opposite direction? I have the impression viruses used to be really difficult to write, having just a small amount of space to store their code. Now it's a huge binary, or some visual basic script.
The trend in viruses is to exploit the latest weakness. It might be difficult to do (programming assembly sucks), but I think it's theoretically possible
The vast majority of x86 viruses target Windows using very specific windows API functions or by patching Windows components.
That's true of the viruses today. But it might not be far off where a virus attacks a particular chipset. I remember when I first heard of DRM in bios in the future being able to access the internet, I thought of the possibility of a virus attacking the bios. Guess we'll need norton antivirus 2007 for Phoenix.
Well... not really. Rent skyrocketted here. A one bedroom apartment averages about $800 now
I think that NOLA will actually be a much nicer place...crime is WAY down
Sadly, no. Crime is rapidly returning to the city. Give it another month and it will be the same crime rates that we had pre-katrina.
This place pisses me off right now. I have a decent job, but I am struggling to pay rent. The crime is becoming unbelievable again, and half the city still looks like nuclear weapons were tested here. Literally HALF of the citys traffic lights still do not work.
I think the city will come back, but it won't be the paradise people were dreaming about. We will slowly trade the problems we have now with the problems we had before.
Personally, my drink of choice is Crown and diet, but since I worked as a bartender for a wine bar for 2 years, I have a passing knowledge of wine. So here's my take.
The statement "These questions and more have usually been answered by oenologists who can list the subtle nuances of a particular wine and tell you if it's good or not." is misleading. It doesn't matter what "oenologists" say about a wine. If you want to find a "good" wine, try out several different ones and decide which one YOU like. Then find the least expensive wine you can find that suits your taste. My 2 personal favorites are the 1999 Katheryn Kennedy Lateral, and (cant remember the year) J. Bookwalter Merlot. However, right now I'm drinking a 2003 Rosemont Estate Shiraz, because it is quite similar to those 2, but it is $9 at the local grocery.
And lastly, the most important thing. After you learn enough to bullshit your way through a wine conversation (the last 2 sentances made me sound like I know what I'm talking about, huh?), you can talk about it and enjoy it while not appearing to be a drunk. Because wine FUCKS YOU UP:)
If we rebuild, it *will* happen again. And then what? We pay to have it rebuilt again? If the city was next to an active volcano, would you be saying we should rebuild it?
what magical land do you live in that has no natural disasters?
New Orleans is alive with unique culture and vast history. I'm sorry that you've never been there to experience it. Perhaps when it is rebuilt it is done right and will be able to withstand a major hurricane as well as any other city might.
Even if you don't appreciate culture and history, at least you might consider your increased gas prices. Wars have been started for these types of things:)
A friend of mine used to work in the IT department of a major casino. Apparently all casinos have a huge database of everyone that plays, what they play, how often, etc.. This database is highly valuable to other casinos. I've heard that rival casinos will pay 10-20k for it.
So someone with access to it is about to sell it. Naturally all the email filters are in place and she was smart enough not to try that. So she figured she would just print it out and walk out with it. She got caught, however, when she called the IT department because the print server crashed. Apparently, sending a 10,000 page document to a print server doesn't quite work as well as one might hope.
Actually, according to the article, he shot the cop with the cops own gun. Making guns illegal would have done nothing, unless it would be illegal for the police to have guns as well.
Courts have protected software vendors from most consumer lawsuits, and some have held that the companies are all but immunized by warnings buried in lengthy user agreements, those boxes with massive amounts of text with the "I agree" button at the bottom.
This comment surprised me. I thought that EULAs had never been challenged in court. If "companies are all but immunized" by EULAs, maybe it's a good time to rethink the legal binding a EULA has.
I think the best solution is to lump "virus" and "spyware" into one category; both from a legal and software (i.e. virus scanner) standpoint. Granted, there are some problems even with this solution. But if I had the perfect solution to this problem, I would be richer than Bill Gates.
1) Put a password on your bios. Someone will have to do some fancy soldering to replace it if they want to boot your machine without your password.
Unless you did some REALLY fancy soldering to set that password, simply removing the battery from the motherboard for about 10 minutes resets a bios password.
2) Store all sensitive data on an encrypted medium. Just hope no one puts a key logger on your keyboard.
That all depends on the strength of the encryption you use and the strength of the computers trying to break it. (to give you credit, this is probably the best idea you propose, if it is properly implemented.)
While being quite secure is as simple as installing *nix,.....
This is the one that really bothers me. You have to actually CONFIGURE your *nix to be secure! It doesn't just magically happen. And after you have it configured, you have to stay up to date with the programs you run in order to avoid the latest exploits.
It's important to understand that you can't just do some work on a computer and then sit back and say, "there, now it's secure forever". It's also important to understand that given the proper amount of time, nothing you do will secure your computer if someone has physical access to your machine.
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There are quite a few countries who's culture is substantially different from the United States in which bribery is considered standard business practice. If you dont bribe an official in one of those countries, you dont get anything done.
It probably would be more profitable working at the local oil change shop or at walmart, but I doubt those places exist (at least in the way you think of them) in nigeria. Also, if you look at the GDP per capita of the United States and Nigeria you'll notice that the small amount of money made phishing is much more valuable in nigeria than it is in the united states.
I can already erase memories. It's called whiskey.
Even if he really managed to do this (which I doubt, look how long wine has been around and it still doesn't run everything), won't he get sued immediately for something like this?
It's true for me that the quality of downloaded movies is better than the dvd I can rent at blockbuster. I couldn't beleive all the CRAP that goes on DVDs now. It was an inconvenience before that I had to click play a couple of times through menus to watch the movie, but now there are COMMERCIALS!!! WTF!!! Scroll through a list of movies, double click on a file and have the movie start, vs keeping track of disks (I wont even mention scratched disks), navigating through menu systems, watching 10 minutes of commercials and previews I dont care about. Hmmm. Tough choice.
Moreover, computers that use the Trusted Computing Module to protect the boot process will be immune to this type of rootkit compromise, he wrote.
So basically, this is a well disquised reason to implement the lastest windows DRM
People have written in Micky Mouse for congress for years, with no success. I believe internet voting is a great idea. You could print a receipt if a paper trail were that important. Personally, I'm not going to vote because it's too much of a hassle. I don't worry about people "stealing" my vote online either. Anytime people complain that I don't vote, I make an offer to them. If they give me $5 and get an absentee ballot for me to fill out, and provide money for postage, I'll vote however they want. To this day nobody has even said yes much less gone to the trouble of doing it or given me $5. So my vote is worth less than $5. (I'm actually willing to bargin. So far I can't even get a beer at a bar)
Windows activation is a joke anyway. You can keep using the same cdkey, you just have to call their 800 number. It's been awhile since I've done it, but they ask you a stupid question like "is this copy of windows installed on any other computers". I think once they asked me why I was reinstalling and I stated "reformat because of a virus". Let them argue that. If they complain you've called too much complain that their OS is too virus prone and keeps making you reformat. I don't know which is easier to do, get the anti-activation crack or call the 800 number.
we drink neither and break our social and behavioral substance dependencies.
There's something to be said about "breaking substance dependencies" being modded funny
Then again, those of us that live in glass houses....
Doesn't the trend in virus-writing go in the opposite direction? I have the impression viruses used to be really difficult to write, having just a small amount of space to store their code. Now it's a huge binary, or some visual basic script.
The trend in viruses is to exploit the latest weakness. It might be difficult to do (programming assembly sucks), but I think it's theoretically possible
The vast majority of x86 viruses target Windows using very specific windows API functions or by patching Windows components.
That's true of the viruses today. But it might not be far off where a virus attacks a particular chipset. I remember when I first heard of DRM in bios in the future being able to access the internet, I thought of the possibility of a virus attacking the bios. Guess we'll need norton antivirus 2007 for Phoenix.
If you can work...you can live in New Orleans
Well... not really. Rent skyrocketted here. A one bedroom apartment averages about $800 now
I think that NOLA will actually be a much nicer place...crime is WAY down
Sadly, no. Crime is rapidly returning to the city. Give it another month and it will be the same crime rates that we had pre-katrina.
This place pisses me off right now. I have a decent job, but I am struggling to pay rent. The crime is becoming unbelievable again, and half the city still looks like nuclear weapons were tested here. Literally HALF of the citys traffic lights still do not work.
I think the city will come back, but it won't be the paradise people were dreaming about. We will slowly trade the problems we have now with the problems we had before.
An australian bartender I know always says, "cheer up, mate. It's just gonna get worse". Words of wisdom.
Personally, my drink of choice is Crown and diet, but since I worked as a bartender for a wine bar for 2 years, I have a passing knowledge of wine. So here's my take. The statement "These questions and more have usually been answered by oenologists who can list the subtle nuances of a particular wine and tell you if it's good or not." is misleading. It doesn't matter what "oenologists" say about a wine. If you want to find a "good" wine, try out several different ones and decide which one YOU like. Then find the least expensive wine you can find that suits your taste. My 2 personal favorites are the 1999 Katheryn Kennedy Lateral, and (cant remember the year) J. Bookwalter Merlot. However, right now I'm drinking a 2003 Rosemont Estate Shiraz, because it is quite similar to those 2, but it is $9 at the local grocery. And lastly, the most important thing. After you learn enough to bullshit your way through a wine conversation (the last 2 sentances made me sound like I know what I'm talking about, huh?), you can talk about it and enjoy it while not appearing to be a drunk. Because wine FUCKS YOU UP :)
If we rebuild, it *will* happen again. And then what? We pay to have it rebuilt again? If the city was next to an active volcano, would you be saying we should rebuild it?
:)
what magical land do you live in that has no natural disasters?
New Orleans is alive with unique culture and vast history. I'm sorry that you've never been there to experience it. Perhaps when it is rebuilt it is done right and will be able to withstand a major hurricane as well as any other city might.
Even if you don't appreciate culture and history, at least you might consider your increased gas prices. Wars have been started for these types of things
A friend of mine used to work in the IT department of a major casino. Apparently all casinos have a huge database of everyone that plays, what they play, how often, etc.. This database is highly valuable to other casinos. I've heard that rival casinos will pay 10-20k for it.
So someone with access to it is about to sell it. Naturally all the email filters are in place and she was smart enough not to try that. So she figured she would just print it out and walk out with it. She got caught, however, when she called the IT department because the print server crashed. Apparently, sending a 10,000 page document to a print server doesn't quite work as well as one might hope.
Only on slashdot can the first post be modded redundant
I delete most of what I get
You must work for microsoft
Actually, according to the article, he shot the cop with the cops own gun. Making guns illegal would have done nothing, unless it would be illegal for the police to have guns as well.
Courts have protected software vendors from most consumer lawsuits, and some have held that the companies are all but immunized by warnings buried in lengthy user agreements, those boxes with massive amounts of text with the "I agree" button at the bottom.
This comment surprised me. I thought that EULAs had never been challenged in court. If "companies are all but immunized" by EULAs, maybe it's a good time to rethink the legal binding a EULA has.
I think the best solution is to lump "virus" and "spyware" into one category; both from a legal and software (i.e. virus scanner) standpoint. Granted, there are some problems even with this solution. But if I had the perfect solution to this problem, I would be richer than Bill Gates.
calculated it affected Earth's rotation, decreased the length of day
Does this mean that NASA confirms that superman can indeed turn back time?
And how do we know that isn't the rover's transmission fluid that leaked out??
Because Ford motor company didn't make it.
and for all other registration required stuff....
bugmenot
Even has extensions for firefox and ie. I'm sure most of you already know about it, but in case you didn't, here it is.
Quick question: How do I moderate a story -1 flamebait?
1) Put a password on your bios. Someone will have to do some fancy soldering to replace it if they want to boot your machine without your password.
.....
Unless you did some REALLY fancy soldering to set that password, simply removing the battery from the motherboard for about 10 minutes resets a bios password.
2) Store all sensitive data on an encrypted medium. Just hope no one puts a key logger on your keyboard.
That all depends on the strength of the encryption you use and the strength of the computers trying to break it. (to give you credit, this is probably the best idea you propose, if it is properly implemented.)
While being quite secure is as simple as installing *nix,
This is the one that really bothers me. You have to actually CONFIGURE your *nix to be secure! It doesn't just magically happen. And after you have it configured, you have to stay up to date with the programs you run in order to avoid the latest exploits.
It's important to understand that you can't just do some work on a computer and then sit back and say, "there, now it's secure forever". It's also important to understand that given the proper amount of time, nothing you do will secure your computer if someone has physical access to your machine.