Trend Micro reported that Vista zero-days are being sold at underground hacker sites for $50,000.
I'm just wondering who would buy these at such a price. What is the real value of an exploit? The real value is that Trend Micro gets to post a dubious piece of information showing how deadly and valuable these exploits are. Wow, just look at how insecure Vista is that these harmful exploits are worth so much money! You'd better buy our antivirus software NOW to keep yourself protected.
Antivirus companies are certainly not broadcasting this kind of information purely for the public benefit. It's a FUD campaign. Much like certain governments like to say "terrorist, terrorist, terrorist!" these companies shout "virus, virus, virus!".
This person then makes copies of those instructions and stands outside the entrance to the maze and offers those instructions to others, effectively allowing them to not look at the maze's directions or ads. That's a deep link. Pfft... a deep link is more like taking a Sherman tank and mowing down all of the maze walls until you directly reach the destination, laughing maniacally as you crush any innocent bystanders under your blood-encrusted steel tracks.
I just really don't see this as valve being anything but greedy. They don't even run the servers that you play on - people buy servers from third party companies! If I ran my own halflife server, and there wasn't a way to disable the ads, id be hopping mad. What is this if not just a straight cash grab by valve. "Hey, we have some unexploited asses here, lets rape them!" You know, it used to be that clothing manufacturers hid their branding on the inside of garments. But then a few of them figured out that if they made their brand appear desireable enough, people would pay *extra* money to advertise on behalf of the company and walk around as living billboards with BOCA sprawled on their chest and B.U.M. plastered on their ass. So now you have people walking around with Nike this and Prada that and it's getting to be difficult to find good quality unbranded clothing anymore. So give it a few years. Pretty soon everybody will be paying Valve money to run a Nike Counter Strike server, and at CS tournaments Nike will sponsor the gaming gods with their own line of pro gaming slobware. Then all the wannabe gamers will rush out and spend $75 to get the Nike swoosh on their ergonomic high performance pro gamer gel mouse pad system.
(Not to pick too much on Nike... some of their gear is good quality, but they're a classic example of lifestyle branding. If it weren't for the risk of tarnishing their image with the jocks, I think they would have gotten into the gaming scene already.)
The semicolons should be double ampersands, so that execution will stop if a command fails. Who said anything about execution? Sounds like you're into some sick kind of sudo masochism.
What was the ISO-number of that standard again? Oh wait, it doesn't have one. Its ECMA International standard number is ECMA 376. Oh wait, you were trolling.
I can already envision my grandma telling me how many stories she Dugg, and all without even leaving her bridge game! Be careful... pretty soon she'll tell you about this cool link to a funeral home and how she Dugg her own grave.
No. The term you're thinking of is Penile Stimulation Engineer, or something to that effect. Come on, this is Slashdot. The "something to that effect" would be: Penis Engineer: Notable In Stimulation.
It'll be the most interesting mythological mashup of all time, not to mention that it would be SO sacrelicious! And, to be buzzword compliant, call it a Religion 2.0 Mashup.
Plain english is a start but, as I understand it, these are all translations right? They're not rewrites by people with actual literary skill, are they? I suppose in a way it's like making Shakespeare more accessible by having it rewritten in modern language.
How does this not effect our foreign policy and our politics? Hm... Putin is practically a dictator. Russia has been providing weapons to many other countries. We know Russia has weapons of mass destruction. Sounds like it's invading time!
I paid for my license, am not a paranoid weirdo and don't have a problem with my computer looking the way it does instead of some Fisher Price/Playskool, created by a two-year old GUI. I have XP on my laptop. KDE, Gnome, and others have been working hard to replicate your Fischer Price/Playskool created-by-a-two-year-old GUI. So should you find yourself wanting to use Linux, you'll be right at home.
Maybe you shouldn't worry so much about moderation. Just say what you want and don't worry if, within 90 minutes, your precious karma has been affected.
So why doesn't France go after Apple? Can I buy a Mac with no operating system prebundled? Why am I forced to subsidize OS X when I purchase Apple hardware?
You've convinced me... this One Laptop Per Child idea should remove its Linux OS as an installed default and allow the children to choose which operating system they want to use with their laptop.
Old Testament != Christianity. The Bible states that all of the Scriptures are "theopneustos" in the original Greek -- "breathed out by God"
2 Timothy 3:16: "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." (KJV).
As to whether or not dashing of babies against the rocks is simply the rantings of a barbaric superstitious culture or were instructions in righteousness given by God's inspiration... that I'll leave up to you. I prefer to think of the Bible as a smattering of good teachings (as you'll find in all religion) with a heaping ton of bullshit added on top.
Is this a 'mistake' on RIM's side that will be fixed? Or did they do this on purpose for some reason? Do you think anyone here is honestly qualified to answer this question? Or are you just spreading fud?
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I'm just wondering who would buy these at such a price. What is the real value of an exploit? The real value is that Trend Micro gets to post a dubious piece of information showing how deadly and valuable these exploits are. Wow, just look at how insecure Vista is that these harmful exploits are worth so much money! You'd better buy our antivirus software NOW to keep yourself protected.
Antivirus companies are certainly not broadcasting this kind of information purely for the public benefit. It's a FUD campaign. Much like certain governments like to say "terrorist, terrorist, terrorist!" these companies shout "virus, virus, virus!".
When Lucas makes a movie about this, be sure to wear your "Hans shot first" t-shirts.
Know your limits: don't drink and derive.
(Not to pick too much on Nike... some of their gear is good quality, but they're a classic example of lifestyle branding. If it weren't for the risk of tarnishing their image with the jocks, I think they would have gotten into the gaming scene already.)
Are we all destined to become tertiary adjuncts?
"I think this chick bitches too much."
--Macbeth, Act III, Scene II
Maybe you shouldn't worry so much about moderation. Just say what you want and don't worry if, within 90 minutes, your precious karma has been affected.
So why doesn't France go after Apple? Can I buy a Mac with no operating system prebundled? Why am I forced to subsidize OS X when I purchase Apple hardware?
You've convinced me... this One Laptop Per Child idea should remove its Linux OS as an installed default and allow the children to choose which operating system they want to use with their laptop.
2 Timothy 3:16: "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." (KJV).
As to whether or not dashing of babies against the rocks is simply the rantings of a barbaric superstitious culture or were instructions in righteousness given by God's inspiration... that I'll leave up to you. I prefer to think of the Bible as a smattering of good teachings (as you'll find in all religion) with a heaping ton of bullshit added on top.
And if someone's your enemy, make sure to dash their babies against the rocks. Because then you'll be a blessed man.
But seriously, the proper phrase is that you want someone else's information to be free. Information doesn't want anything.