The thing that bothers me most about the TSA responding to issues is the privacy of the people going through screening. I feel like the entire process should be treated as confidential, the number of people in the party, wether or not they had a stroller, what set off what alarm, how old the child was, etc. I don't feel like the TSA should be sharing that information publicly.
Rather than using a map, just have the user upload a picture.
You're killing two birds with one stone. First, the user is being shown something to confirm that this is indeed the site they think it is (think: sitekey or the like). Second, they can pick some incredibly detailed point without all the hassle of licensing someone else's data.
All that, and this is still a pretty stupid idea. You have all the same problems with password: users don't want a long one, users want to pick the same one for multiple sites, users tell the wrong people who their passwords are (though, now with more difficult language). All that, plus it's now multiple clicks, pans and zooms to enter your "password", and if the satellite data updates you're screwed.
I've run a few projects through crowdspring. I try to be really responsive with submissions, I've seen designs go from "meh" to "completely fantastic" with only a few revisions.
Looking at my history, the people who I seem to pick seem to win a decent percentage of the time.
For larger projects, or projects where the stakes are simply larger, I'd want to build a relationship with a designer, or design house, rather than go through something like this.
If they're willing to admit that a bug existed that resulted in a payout being offered when it shouldn't, it seems equally probable that a bug exists where a payout should have been offered, but wasn't. As usual, the casino Wins!
At least if they were forced to pay out on all presented wins, things would hopefully work out (assuming all bugs are equally probable). As it stands, they're just making a killing.
The person currently able to login to the Amazon account claims to have purchased lost the device.
Amazon doesn't know if he's sold it, given it away Amazon doesn't know if someone else logged into his account (ex-partner/significant other?) Amazon doesn't know if the device was repossessed by a credit card company.
Amazon doesn't have anywhere near enough information to start bricking, or reporting on the location of devices.
The odds of me reading page 2 of any article not paginated sensibly (reading a single page should take several minutes) are probably around 10%. Page 5? never.
I'll just be uninformed until information is published with a sensible pagination system. I'm okay with that.
I love playing games with friends in person, have a few people over and play.
Online, this has less draw for me. In a FPS I get my ass kicked. In WoW I gave up, I was spending more time LFG than actually going through dungeons. When my ideal gaming session is less than an hour, upper levels just got impossible if I didn't want to grind slowly through random encounters and skip quests.
Diablo 3 seems to have a heavy focus on the multi-player, Starcraft 2 campaigns look great, but all eyes (and in fact the release date) seem to be set on how Battle.net is doing.
Is single player dead? or at least dead at blizzard.
Adobe did a demo of their next Dreamweaver release last fall at their Adobe Max conference. Similar feature there, except a bit better. Using a render farm your page is rendered in pretty much every browser, on each OS (rather than just what you have installed), including the "Onion Skin" feature shown in Expression Web. They even used the same name for the feature.
>That's already over the line. The second you put yourself (or worse, annoint ANYONE to) the position of deciding what thoughts are proper and which improper you are a threat to liberty.
The purpose of the law has never been to govern thought.. but expression. You're welcome to sit in the privacy of your home, or your local cafe and think about how much you hate group X or how you'd like it if other people hate group Y.
It may not be feasible for home environments, but for workplaces. What about booting off either dedicated ROM boot keys, or USB memory keys with a some sort of physical read only/read&write switch. Put the key into your machine to boot (for bonus points, the key tells the machine who you are and begins to load your roaming profile), when it comes time for a new image the IT guys either give you a brand new ROM key, or update your USB key by toggling the switch.
My worry with keeping things inside the machine (the article indicates that AMD and Intel have ideas) is that it's just going to be a perpetual arms race. Since we can't rely on the user to know when it is and is not apropriate to allow your OS to modify your boot sector, evenually virus/malware authors will just trick people into accepting the updates.
I think you get all the bonus points for trying out the search engine before giving it the gold star:)
Yeah, a VM probably would have been a good way to go, but honestly I really thought the A/V programs would catch it once it started trying to do naughty things.
Next time (and i've got a lot of non-pc-savy friends so there will be a next time) I'm going to: Save the file to disk Upload it to Virus Total (http://www.virustotal.com/flash/index_en.html) and see if it has any clue If not, move the file over to an expendable (or at least non mission critical) machine (laptop, old pos, etc) and run it with a recent back up of the registry & a few other critical files so at the very least I can run a diff. Run the virus with my a/v packages running, and hope for the best:)
My list of symptoms was an example, I could have been more exhaustive. Additionally it appeared it was a quite new variant since two different a/v programs failed to detect it. So I would have been confident restricting search results to viruses/variants introduced within the past month.
A couple people have been kind enough to post links to some of the major a/v vendor's pages. They're there, and they work, but they don't seem to give the results i'm looking for. Try using those search engines entering some of the information given in the original post. I would consider getting: Chode-d, Chode-e or Landis-B the 'right' answer. Can you get that answer out of it?
I think tabular data rather than wrapping google or standard full text searches would be great, but there doesn't seem to be such a beast out there.
Cleaning went something like this Safe Mode -> Find random directory in system32, write it down -> safemode w/ command prompt, erase file -> regular boot -> regedit to clean out all the crap it left in the registry -> re-install comprimised a/v software.
The virus/worm spread via MSN Messenger, I knew what the link was when I got a strange message from a friend (the worm spreading) but I needed to know what virus it was in order to help the friend remove it. So I downloaded the file to disk, and told my AV programs to take a look. When they couldn't figgure it out from the file I presumed it might be either compressed or obfuscated in such a way that the AV programs wouldn't be able to tell what it was untill it ran. So I disconnected myself from the network physically and ran the file, expecting the AV programs to catch it at that point. They didn't and so my search began.
I knew what it was, and still ran it. I really feel I have to take full responsibility.
That license is also a lot easier to read than most of the other licenses kicking around these days. For full bonus points, it's not in a tiny little box that requires hours of scrolling to complete.
Placing a license inside a shrink wrapped box is silly, but the alternatives don't seem to be beating down my door at the moment. It can't be outside the box, if it falls off the box can't be sold. If they don't seal the box, CDs will walk away...
The reply by Chris Shiflett you point to is in response to a much earlier comment by Stefan Esser. It is not a reply to the comments Stefan made with regards to his book.
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I don't feel like other people taking pictures of me in an airport waves the TSA's obligation to respect my privacy.
The thing that bothers me most about the TSA responding to issues is the privacy of the people going through screening. I feel like the entire process should be treated as confidential, the number of people in the party, wether or not they had a stroller, what set off what alarm, how old the child was, etc. I don't feel like the TSA should be sharing that information publicly.
Rather than using a map, just have the user upload a picture.
You're killing two birds with one stone. First, the user is being shown something to confirm that this is indeed the site they think it is (think: sitekey or the like). Second, they can pick some incredibly detailed point without all the hassle of licensing someone else's data.
All that, and this is still a pretty stupid idea. You have all the same problems with password: users don't want a long one, users want to pick the same one for multiple sites, users tell the wrong people who their passwords are (though, now with more difficult language). All that, plus it's now multiple clicks, pans and zooms to enter your "password", and if the satellite data updates you're screwed.
I've run a few projects through crowdspring. I try to be really responsive with submissions, I've seen designs go from "meh" to "completely fantastic" with only a few revisions.
Looking at my history, the people who I seem to pick seem to win a decent percentage of the time.
For larger projects, or projects where the stakes are simply larger, I'd want to build a relationship with a designer, or design house, rather than go through something like this.
It seems like every time I don't win I should turn the machine in to see if it was a glitch.
I don't understand how this works legally.
If they're willing to admit that a bug existed that resulted in a payout being offered when it shouldn't, it seems equally probable that a bug exists where a payout should have been offered, but wasn't. As usual, the casino Wins!
At least if they were forced to pay out on all presented wins, things would hopefully work out (assuming all bugs are equally probable). As it stands, they're just making a killing.
The person currently able to login to the Amazon account claims to have purchased lost the device.
Amazon doesn't know if he's sold it, given it away
Amazon doesn't know if someone else logged into his account (ex-partner/significant other?)
Amazon doesn't know if the device was repossessed by a credit card company.
Amazon doesn't have anywhere near enough information to start bricking, or reporting on the location of devices.
The odds of me reading page 2 of any article not paginated sensibly (reading a single page should take several minutes) are probably around 10%. Page 5? never.
I'll just be uninformed until information is published with a sensible pagination system. I'm okay with that.
I love playing games with friends in person, have a few people over and play.
Online, this has less draw for me. In a FPS I get my ass kicked. In WoW I gave up, I was spending more time LFG than actually going through dungeons. When my ideal gaming session is less than an hour, upper levels just got impossible if I didn't want to grind slowly through random encounters and skip quests.
Diablo 3 seems to have a heavy focus on the multi-player, Starcraft 2 campaigns look great, but all eyes (and in fact the release date) seem to be set on how Battle.net is doing.
Is single player dead? or at least dead at blizzard.
Can someone mod those lawyers up? +1 insightful.
Adobe did a demo of their next Dreamweaver release last fall at their Adobe Max conference. Similar feature there, except a bit better. Using a render farm your page is rendered in pretty much every browser, on each OS (rather than just what you have installed), including the "Onion Skin" feature shown in Expression Web. They even used the same name for the feature.
>That's already over the line. The second you put yourself (or worse, annoint ANYONE to) the position of deciding what thoughts are proper and which improper you are a threat to liberty.
The purpose of the law has never been to govern thought.. but expression. You're welcome to sit in the privacy of your home, or your local cafe and think about how much you hate group X or how you'd like it if other people hate group Y.
At issue is encouraging others to do so.
In Soviet Russia, Satelite tracks you!
Bastards, I wrote one of those books! Quick buy your copy today, it's practicaly a collectable now.
here's a mirror, good luck fair server
http://www.preinheimer.com/dump/Es3b-en.pdf
It may not be feasible for home environments, but for workplaces. What about booting off either dedicated ROM boot keys, or USB memory keys with a some sort of physical read only/read&write switch. Put the key into your machine to boot (for bonus points, the key tells the machine who you are and begins to load your roaming profile), when it comes time for a new image the IT guys either give you a brand new ROM key, or update your USB key by toggling the switch.
My worry with keeping things inside the machine (the article indicates that AMD and Intel have ideas) is that it's just going to be a perpetual arms race. Since we can't rely on the user to know when it is and is not apropriate to allow your OS to modify your boot sector, evenually virus/malware authors will just trick people into accepting the updates.
I think you get all the bonus points for trying out the search engine before giving it the gold star :)
:)
Yeah, a VM probably would have been a good way to go, but honestly I really thought the A/V programs would catch it once it started trying to do naughty things.
Next time (and i've got a lot of non-pc-savy friends so there will be a next time) I'm going to:
Save the file to disk
Upload it to Virus Total (http://www.virustotal.com/flash/index_en.html) and see if it has any clue
If not, move the file over to an expendable (or at least non mission critical) machine (laptop, old pos, etc) and run it with a recent back up of the registry & a few other critical files so at the very least I can run a diff.
Run the virus with my a/v packages running, and hope for the best
My list of symptoms was an example, I could have been more exhaustive. Additionally it appeared it was a quite new variant since two different a/v programs failed to detect it. So I would have been confident restricting search results to viruses/variants introduced within the past month.
Thanks, VirusTotal would have been very useful for my pre-infection investigations.
thank you very much
A couple people have been kind enough to post links to some of the major a/v vendor's pages. They're there, and they work, but they don't seem to give the results i'm looking for. Try using those search engines entering some of the information given in the original post. I would consider getting: Chode-d, Chode-e or Landis-B the 'right' answer. Can you get that answer out of it?
I think tabular data rather than wrapping google or standard full text searches would be great, but there doesn't seem to be such a beast out there.
Cleaning went something like this Safe Mode -> Find random directory in system32, write it down -> safemode w/ command prompt, erase file -> regular boot -> regedit to clean out all the crap it left in the registry -> re-install comprimised a/v software.
I would have paid probably up to $5 for a dedicated cleaner, assuming I could use it to help other friends who were infected.
Had one of the Anti Virus programs I tried actually cleaned the machine it would have been serious karma, and a likely purchase.
The virus/worm spread via MSN Messenger, I knew what the link was when I got a strange message from a friend (the worm spreading) but I needed to know what virus it was in order to help the friend remove it. So I downloaded the file to disk, and told my AV programs to take a look. When they couldn't figgure it out from the file I presumed it might be either compressed or obfuscated in such a way that the AV programs wouldn't be able to tell what it was untill it ran. So I disconnected myself from the network physically and ran the file, expecting the AV programs to catch it at that point. They didn't and so my search began.
I knew what it was, and still ran it. I really feel I have to take full responsibility.
That license is also a lot easier to read than most of the other licenses kicking around these days. For full bonus points, it's not in a tiny little box that requires hours of scrolling to complete.
Placing a license inside a shrink wrapped box is silly, but the alternatives don't seem to be beating down my door at the moment. It can't be outside the box, if it falls off the box can't be sold. If they don't seal the box, CDs will walk away...
You're mixing up replies.
The reply by Chris Shiflett you point to is in response to a much earlier comment by Stefan Esser. It is not a reply to the comments Stefan made with regards to his book.