Rember, Sony purchased the rootkit from first4internet. They wrote the software that is abusing the GPL.
Most folks don't review the sourcecode of software they purchase to determine if its license-tree is clean.
Sony definitely made a truly dumb move by utilizing this DRM software (and several other dumb moves subsequently), but lets not let First4Internet off the hook either.
Heh... how could I call you prudish knowing your mind is fully in the gutter.
Considering the souce of the image... I'm more inclined to say it is a woman in a lab-coat holding a test tube. But I guess it's open to interpretation.:-D
I used to love the "TrackPoint" style pointing device. My first laptop was a ThinkPad, and I fell in love with that pointer. I then got a Toshiba because it was cheaper and also had a "TrackPoint" style pointer.
The only problem I have with them is that the precision is a bit lacking, and if you do a lot of mousing, your mousing finger tends to get sore after a while.
You missed the point. Your 'torrent client isn't the one installing the adware.
Adware companies are hosting up files that they've corrupted by adding in thier own files.
So when you think you're downloading a linux.iso, or something else... you MAY be getting more than you bargained for if one of the sources of the.torrent is hosting one of these corrupted pieces.
Then, when the download is complete and is reassembled... the spyware gets installed on your machine.
The scary bad thing here, that the article doesn't mention, is if the SpyWare community can pull this off, it should be just as easy for a Virus writer to do it.
Probably easy enough to verify your download if you can check an MD5 hash against it. But the article wasn't clear when the install happens. Is it automatic, or is user input required.
Primarily based upon your statement that your machine inexplicably resets itself, I would venture that your issues are more likely with hardware than software. Overheating processors, and bad motherboards can cause random reboots, I've never had XP just reboot itself because it felt like it.
I have a machine that has been running XP since it was released, and has had every patch applied along the way. I constantly install/uninstall software and hardware and it has been stable as a rock. I rarely reboot the machine and I use it on a regular basis.
This works... until one of your contacts gets infected by one of these Outlook worms.
All the carfully crafted honeypots and "throw away" email addresses are all then for nought.
I speak from experience. I used to use all of the tricks you mentioned for a long time... and for a long time it worked.
Then SOMEBODY (I'll probably never know who) on who had my 'real' email address on thier contact list opened an email with a worm and the floodgates opened. I know it happened, because suddenly I got hit with several copies of the virus daily, which I proptly and appropriately deleted... And also dozen's of bounce-backs from when the virus sent out emails to dead accounts using my email address as the spoof. (Yes... I know it wasn't MY computer that was infected. I know how to protect myself, and also did a full system scan to be 100% sure)
Oh yeah... there was also that idiot (who I would like to beat senseless) who provided my real email address to one of those sites that promises you free movie tickets if you provide them with 5 of your friend's email addresses.
All the careful email hiding in the world can't make up for one or two stupid people who have your REAL email address.
I can personally vouch for the efficacy of the SpamBayes Outlook plugin.
I only probaby get 20-30 Spams a day that get through my hosting provider's front-line spam filter. But those that get through are 99.9% of the time effectively handled by Spambayes.
I've been using it for over a year, and have never gotten a false positive, and only occasionally have good emails flagged as "junk suspects".
Spam mails never get through to my inbox.
Granted, this guy's situation is a lot different than mine... I'm sure Spambays would just sit and cry if it got assaulted with a million emails to sort a day.
If you are a domain name owner running your own servers, and paying for bandwidth... Spam is just evil if you can't try to reject most of it during the SMTP hand-shake phase...
...not to mention... steering by wire. Isn't that trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist?
An argument can be made that throttle-by-wire conveys some advantage because you are allowing the engine to produce maximum efficiency or power based upon pedal position. Most cars these days have 'hybrid' brake by wire since ABS is pretty much ubiquitous, however I don't think I'd ever want to lose that mechanical connection to my brakes if the computer system ever failed.
But until the AI is good enough to handle any and all conditions, what possible benefit could be gained with a steering by wire system? Now... if the system was smart enough to steer someone out of a skid, or steer (safely) around a crash without causing another one. But even then, I'd always want that mechanical link between my hands an the wheels.
It is a fact that the ISS's orbit does continually degrade. This is why it keeps a store of fuel... and sometimes the shuttle itself is (was) used to push it into a higher orbit.
I'd recon that the mass of the ISS far outweighs the mass of any garbage ejected. Therefore for the force applied to the ejected garbage would impart far greater a velocity change on the garbage than it would on the ISS. True... using some kind of spring contraption to 'de orbit' thier garbage would impart some velocity into the ISS. However, the net effect would be to counteract to some degree the fact that the orbit is already constantly degrading. But even that... i'd imagine the amount would be negligable.
Now... why don't they have a garbage ejector? Probably because such a device would be heavy, bulky and probably never work right anyway. It'd be a real pain in the butt to have to calculate orbital vectors every time you wanted to take out the trash. Also, I'd imagine that much of the 'junk' that needs to be taken out they don't WANT to burn up. It is probably expensive broken equipment that could be reconditioned and put back in service.
Apparently you missed Freshman Physics. You can't just 'drop' things out of orbit.
You'd have to apply force 180 degrees to the direction of travel so that the bundle of garbage would lose orbital velocity and be pulled in by Earth's gravity. Otherwise anything 'dropped' by the ISS will just follow along happily in the existing orbit until the orbit slowly degrades.
On a side note... the ISS is always on a degrading orbit as well. That's why they occasionally have to boost it into a higher orbit. If left unattended, the ISS would do a skylab impression.
All you need is a NAT... probably should have one anyway, since they are a very effective means of being the first line of defense for the worm du jour anyway.
-G
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Anybody who watches the Discovery Channel has seen the reruns of the piece they did on this technology a zillion times already.
Its not like there isn't the room in the Camaro engine bay to fit that type of setup.
Didja happen to notice that this is a rear-engine configuration? They aren't using the Camaro engine bay for anything but suitcases.:)
Heh... ever try to put anything in the trunk of a camaro? Good job getting the engine in there.
Simple low-cost low-tech solution...
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...and you can probably pick it up at virtually any local hardware store, or even an auto supply store.
It is called black tape. Very unobtrusive, electrically inert, and completely opaque. It does leave a little gummy mark when it eventually falls off, but that's ok. Just cover it with more black tape.:)
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Rember, Sony purchased the rootkit from first4internet. They wrote the software that is abusing the GPL.
Most folks don't review the sourcecode of software they purchase to determine if its license-tree is clean.
Sony definitely made a truly dumb move by utilizing this DRM software (and several other dumb moves subsequently), but lets not let First4Internet off the hook either.
Heh ... how could I call you prudish knowing your mind is fully in the gutter.
... I'm more inclined to say it is a woman in a lab-coat holding a test tube. But I guess it's open to interpretation. :-D
Considering the souce of the image
I used to love the "TrackPoint" style pointing device. My first laptop was a ThinkPad, and I fell in love with that pointer. I then got a Toshiba because it was cheaper and also had a "TrackPoint" style pointer. The only problem I have with them is that the precision is a bit lacking, and if you do a lot of mousing, your mousing finger tends to get sore after a while.
Quite aware of that ... and they did a fine job of it too.
;)
My point is that your post is a couple weeks late, since CSS is no longer a technology that is too advanced for Cmdr Taco to implement on Slashdot.
This page has SIX linked style sheets for various aspects of the page, as well as for print and handheld media.
Looks to me like Slasdot's gone to CSS school.
It's a great idea ... but utterly fake.
... not keyboard manufacturers.
These guys are digital artists
It's a really neat idea, and one that may even some day be created. I'd imagine that it would be prohibitively expensive to do today though.
You missed the point. Your 'torrent client isn't the one installing the adware.
Adware companies are hosting up files that they've corrupted by adding in thier own files.
So when you think you're downloading a linux .iso, or something else ... you MAY be getting more than you bargained for if one of the sources of the .torrent is hosting one of these corrupted pieces.
Then, when the download is complete and is reassembled ... the spyware gets installed on your machine.
The scary bad thing here, that the article doesn't mention, is if the SpyWare community can pull this off, it should be just as easy for a Virus writer to do it.
Probably easy enough to verify your download if you can check an MD5 hash against it. But the article wasn't clear when the install happens. Is it automatic, or is user input required.
Primarily based upon your statement that your machine inexplicably resets itself, I would venture that your issues are more likely with hardware than software. Overheating processors, and bad motherboards can cause random reboots, I've never had XP just reboot itself because it felt like it.
I have a machine that has been running XP since it was released, and has had every patch applied along the way. I constantly install/uninstall software and hardware and it has been stable as a rock. I rarely reboot the machine and I use it on a regular basis.
This works ... until one of your contacts gets infected by one of these Outlook worms.
All the carfully crafted honeypots and "throw away" email addresses are all then for nought.
I speak from experience. I used to use all of the tricks you mentioned for a long time ... and for a long time it worked.
Then SOMEBODY (I'll probably never know who) on who had my 'real' email address on thier contact list opened an email with a worm and the floodgates opened. I know it happened, because suddenly I got hit with several copies of the virus daily, which I proptly and appropriately deleted ... And also dozen's of bounce-backs from when the virus sent out emails to dead accounts using my email address as the spoof. (Yes ... I know it wasn't MY computer that was infected. I know how to protect myself, and also did a full system scan to be 100% sure)
Oh yeah ... there was also that idiot (who I would like to beat senseless) who provided my real email address to one of those sites that promises you free movie tickets if you provide them with 5 of your friend's email addresses.
All the careful email hiding in the world can't make up for one or two stupid people who have your REAL email address.
I can personally vouch for the efficacy of the SpamBayes Outlook plugin. I only probaby get 20-30 Spams a day that get through my hosting provider's front-line spam filter. But those that get through are 99.9% of the time effectively handled by Spambayes. I've been using it for over a year, and have never gotten a false positive, and only occasionally have good emails flagged as "junk suspects". Spam mails never get through to my inbox. Granted, this guy's situation is a lot different than mine ... I'm sure Spambays would just sit and cry if it got assaulted with a million emails to sort a day.
If you are a domain name owner running your own servers, and paying for bandwidth ... Spam is just evil if you can't try to reject most of it during the SMTP hand-shake phase...
Au contraire ... Google is returning a 502 on the provided link.
Slashdot killed Google.
Too bad too ... I wanted to read about this stuff...
Compiler error... Try again ;)
while(1)
{
cout << "This is an infinite sig.";
}
Guess you want to get a fighter jet to ferry your cell phone around?
Latest versions of Outlook don't download images anymore either. ...by default.
Agreed. I have been using GKG
Not a single complaint on my end, and they rolled out domain locking (automagically) over a month ago.
How is CTRL-ALT-PRT SC different from just pressing PrintScreen?
This key sequence only screen-caps the active window.
...not to mention ... steering by wire. Isn't that trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist?
... if the system was smart enough to steer someone out of a skid, or steer (safely) around a crash without causing another one. But even then, I'd always want that mechanical link between my hands an the wheels.
An argument can be made that throttle-by-wire conveys some advantage because you are allowing the engine to produce maximum efficiency or power based upon pedal position. Most cars these days have 'hybrid' brake by wire since ABS is pretty much ubiquitous, however I don't think I'd ever want to lose that mechanical connection to my brakes if the computer system ever failed.
But until the AI is good enough to handle any and all conditions, what possible benefit could be gained with a steering by wire system? Now
This is nothing new. Red Hook made Double Black Stout using Starbucks coffee years ago.
Where do you think the replicators got all that mass to create Stubing's Tea, Earl Gray, hot?
It is a fact that the ISS's orbit does continually degrade. This is why it keeps a store of fuel ... and sometimes the shuttle itself is (was) used to push it into a higher orbit.
I'd recon that the mass of the ISS far outweighs the mass of any garbage ejected. Therefore for the force applied to the ejected garbage would impart far greater a velocity change on the garbage than it would on the ISS. True ... using some kind of spring contraption to 'de orbit' thier garbage would impart some velocity into the ISS. However, the net effect would be to counteract to some degree the fact that the orbit is already constantly degrading. But even that ... i'd imagine the amount would be negligable.
Now ... why don't they have a garbage ejector? Probably because such a device would be heavy, bulky and probably never work right anyway. It'd be a real pain in the butt to have to calculate orbital vectors every time you wanted to take out the trash. Also, I'd imagine that much of the 'junk' that needs to be taken out they don't WANT to burn up. It is probably expensive broken equipment that could be reconditioned and put back in service.
Apparently you missed Freshman Physics. You can't just 'drop' things out of orbit.
You'd have to apply force 180 degrees to the direction of travel so that the bundle of garbage would lose orbital velocity and be pulled in by Earth's gravity. Otherwise anything 'dropped' by the ISS will just follow along happily in the existing orbit until the orbit slowly degrades.
On a side note ... the ISS is always on a degrading orbit as well. That's why they occasionally have to boost it into a higher orbit. If left unattended, the ISS would do a skylab impression.
All you need is a NAT ... probably should have one anyway, since they are a very effective means of being the first line of defense for the worm du jour anyway.
-G
Anybody who watches the Discovery Channel has seen the reruns of the piece they did on this technology a zillion times already.
-G
Didja happen to notice that this is a rear-engine configuration? They aren't using the Camaro engine bay for anything but suitcases. :)
Heh ... ever try to put anything in the trunk of a camaro? Good job getting the engine in there.
...and you can probably pick it up at virtually any local hardware store, or even an auto supply store.
:)
It is called black tape. Very unobtrusive, electrically inert, and completely opaque. It does leave a little gummy mark when it eventually falls off, but that's ok. Just cover it with more black tape.