Why does Windows have to reboot after almost every update? You should never have to restart unless it's a kernel update. It doesn't even know which updates cause reboots, with just a generic after this update you may have to restart. At the very least they can get rid of that annoying nag popup if you don't reboot.
The most common proposal is a tether, usually in the form of a cable or ribbon, that spans from the surface to a point beyond geosynchronous orbit. As the planet rotates, the inertia at the end of the tether counteracts gravity and keeps the tether taut. Vehicles can then climb the tether and escape the planet's gravity without the use of rockets. Such a structure could eventually permit delivery of great quantities of cargo and people to orbit, and at costs only a fraction of those associated with current means.
The original infection occurs when the user visits a malicious website that exploits a previous vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer. This vulnerability allows applications to run without user intervention. The malicious website uses the Windows help subsystem and a CHM file to download and run a Trojan Horse (download-aag). The downloader then connects, via HTTP, to another malicious website. This website hosts the application that encodes files on the user's local hard disk and on any mapped drives on the machine. The malicious code also drops a message onto the system with instructions on how to buy the tool needed to decode the files. This message includes the email address of a third party to contact for instructions, and the user is directed to deposit money into an online E-Gold account.
RTFA:
"This is equivalent to someone coming into your home, putting your valuables in a safe and not telling you the combination," said Oliver Friedrichs, a security manager for Symantec Corporation
according to this eweek story, sun believes it SCO can screw off:
In the early 1990's, Schwartz said, Sun chief executive Scott McNealy agreed to spend several million dollars to take a broad license with AT&T, essentially granting Sun legal rights equivalent to ownership of Unix code.
"As a result of that decision in 1993, we can do whatever we want (to the code)," Schwartz said. "We can drive forward and indemnify our customers too," a basic responsibility of any intellectual property provider, he said.
Q: Does BugScan decompile programs?
A: No. BugScan does analysis of assembly code and does not need to decompile the program.
Q: Does BugScan "reverse engineer" programs?
A: No. Reverse engineering is a process where a program or device is taken apart to understand how it works, generally for the purpose of reimplementing, complementing, or modifying a behavior of the system. BugScan doesn't try to understand how the program works, what algorithms it employs, or anything else. BugScan analyzes usage of known APIs and the dataflow to and from those APIs.
In South Africa, exactly the same problem. Unitil recently there was a state owned monopoly, Telkom, which has just been privatised. They finally started offering ADSL last year with a download cap of about 3GB. After that there is no choice, you're get throttled down to 1k/s. On top of that all non-standard ports for internation traffic are capped. This costs about $80 US a month, and you have to have a Telkom normal landline for another about $10. Telkom itself imposes the cap so there's no point in changing ISPs, not that any ISP other than Telkom offers ADSL. The goverment is trying to license a second national operator for fixed lines at the moment, so maybe that'll help. Wireless is illegal for anybody but the 3 cell phone providers, so you can't even use that.
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"We wanted to be as open as possible about this," he said. "In the United States, customers have been contacted directly via e-mail, and we've notified the reseller channel."
Please note out program doesn't work. Please don't be pissed at us....
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Why does Windows have to reboot after almost every update? You should never have to restart unless it's a kernel update. It doesn't even know which updates cause reboots, with just a generic after this update you may have to restart. At the very least they can get rid of that annoying nag popup if you don't reboot.
The most common proposal is a tether, usually in the form of a cable or ribbon, that spans from the surface to a point beyond geosynchronous orbit. As the planet rotates, the inertia at the end of the tether counteracts gravity and keeps the tether taut. Vehicles can then climb the tether and escape the planet's gravity without the use of rockets. Such a structure could eventually permit delivery of great quantities of cargo and people to orbit, and at costs only a fraction of those associated with current means.
Refer to this insightful animation of london underground
Micrsoft patents XML.
Profit!!
RTFA:
"This is equivalent to someone coming into your home, putting your valuables in a safe and not telling you the combination," said Oliver Friedrichs, a security manager for Symantec Corporation
Perhaps this is why I keep getting odd sites trying to set cookies on my computer?
Windows is worth $20, and linux is worth $612M.
Apple Fans Needn't Fret. That means they should not worry [about the lyra being a better product]
if you don't believe imdb, then at rotten tomatoes we have, this, this , this and this
or if you use windows rebooting your pc everytime you change your network settings.
according to this eweek story, sun believes it SCO can screw off:
In the early 1990's, Schwartz said, Sun chief executive Scott McNealy agreed to spend several million dollars to take a broad license with AT&T, essentially granting Sun legal rights equivalent to ownership of Unix code.
"As a result of that decision in 1993, we can do whatever we want (to the code)," Schwartz said. "We can drive forward and indemnify our customers too," a basic responsibility of any intellectual property provider, he said.
Because this is /. and nobody RTFA
Q: Does BugScan decompile programs?
A: No. BugScan does analysis of assembly code and does not need to decompile the program.
Q: Does BugScan "reverse engineer" programs?
A: No. Reverse engineering is a process where a program or device is taken apart to understand how it works, generally for the purpose of reimplementing, complementing, or modifying a behavior of the system. BugScan doesn't try to understand how the program works, what algorithms it employs, or anything else. BugScan analyzes usage of known APIs and the dataflow to and from those APIs.
just some statistics for those who care (from the cia world fact book).
India
Population - 1,045,845,226
Population below poverty line - 25%
Unemployment - 8.8%
Military Expenditure - $12,079.7 million ( 2.5% of gdp)
US
Population - 280,562,489
Population below poverty line - 13%
Unemployment - 5%
Military Expenditure - $276.7 billion ( 3.2% of gdp)
actually you just need to remove one line:
:)
this->BSOD();
Just like in TV, where giant letters and synthesised voices show how important a computer is. :)
In South Africa, exactly the same problem. Unitil recently there was a state owned monopoly, Telkom, which has just been privatised. They finally started offering ADSL last year with a download cap of about 3GB. After that there is no choice, you're get throttled down to 1k/s. On top of that all non-standard ports for internation traffic are capped. This costs about $80 US a month, and you have to have a Telkom normal landline for another about $10. Telkom itself imposes the cap so there's no point in changing ISPs, not that any ISP other than Telkom offers ADSL. The goverment is trying to license a second national operator for fixed lines at the moment, so maybe that'll help. Wireless is illegal for anybody but the 3 cell phone providers, so you can't even use that.
if you get infected by this virus i think the appropriate patch would rather be format c:
"We wanted to be as open as possible about this," he said. "In the United States, customers have been contacted directly via e-mail, and we've notified the reseller channel."
Please note out program doesn't work. Please don't be pissed at us....
hehehe