yes, I see the rootkits quite often too now. And a new one I dealt with yesterday had a proxy configured to redirect any attempts to connect to google to a fake google site which would then serve up a bunch of fake links that lead to reinfection.
the post I was replying to was blaming it on out of date, poorly maintained PCs. I'm telling you that a completely up to date and well protected machine can get hit just as easily! And it was a google sponsored advert that infected him!
I deal with this stuff on a daily basis. I had a customer just the other day go home with a clean machine, with the latest version of Avira, AntiMalwarebytes, and SuperAntiSpyware installed and updated. All windows patches and updates installed. He was back two hours later. Surfing the web looking for UFC videos. Google served up a paid ad at the top of his search with his search terms. Of course he clicked it, and a with a bit of Adobe Flash magic, he had the Security Tools infection installed and his Avira broken.
300,000 units is a significant quantity for an initial release. Comparing it to the release of the iPhone or the iPod, the numbers are much larger for the iPad. Now look at the numbers the iPod and iPhone are doing years later, and you can guess that the iPad is going to be a pretty successful platform.
Fact: Canada and Sweden have both refuted the claim that they refused to make their segments publicly available. I don't know about Poland, and haven't been able to confirm or deny this.
No, actually, they weren't, and still aren't. CRU has admitted they "lost" the original data set. And they refused to release data requested under FOI requests, finding numerous ways to skirt or deny the requests. Please don't refer anyone to realclimate as a source of legitimate info, as the emails reveal a close (too close) relationship between the operators of the site and the climate scientists centrally involved in the entire "climategate" affair.
what I find amazing is that anyone can actually believe that one wing, left or right, is telling the truth and the other is lying. Newsflash for you busy gary, POLITICIANS ARE LIARS! Nothing they say can be believed!
Maybe the "professor" should try studying asian school systems, instead of school systems from last century. Why are Korean/Chinese/Japanese kids doing North American grade 5 math in grade 1?
It wasn't a troll, moron, it was a joke in response to an extremely silly conspiracy theory. Here's a newsflash for you: The Democrats are liars. So are the Republicans. My guess is you're extremely offended by the first, but wholeheartedly believe the second....
interesting you would tell ME to stop being stupid, but not the commenter that suggested a conspiracy of "anti-obama spinsters" making thousands of requests in order to run up the numbers so they can fabricate a story. He was serious, I was joking.
Except the only people with enough time on their hands (artists, welfare, ACORN workers, etc) to make tens of thousands of requests tend to be Obama supporters...
hehe, he asks which progressive and left-oriented site would write about it, you answer an honest one, but don't provide any....does that mean there are no honest left-oriented sites?
And the one already in place is also a levy. So technically, I should have said double levy. But the point is that we already have one in place affecting every iPod sold in Canada. Now the NDP wants to implement an additional one
There's already a tax on MP3 players in Canada. This is a new tax they're proposing, meaning we will now be taxed twice on an MP3 player. Why hasn't this been mentioned yet by the stupid news reporters?
In my opinion, as long as the security industry, and end-users as a whole, continue with the thought that end-user basic security ignorance is OK, things will never get better.
Just wait until YOU have kids. You'll go off to work, secure in the fact that you're an enlightened end-user as far as security goes, and when you get home from work, you'll see how much damage kids can cause in the 2 hours between the end of their school day and the end of your work day.
And, when that happens, just let me say in advance: HA HAH!/nelson voice
you don't need to click any more. Most of the malware I'm cleaning up these days is delivered via Flash, and distributed by advertisement servers that have been hacked. All you have to do is visit a site that gets paid to serve random ads, and you can get infected.
The problem with Dvorak is that you'll end up reaching for a "J" more than you would with a QWERTY, and the resultant trips to Betty Ford far outweigh any gains you may have had from using the Dvorak.
how about when the geek is writing software for the closed system and making good money at it? If I had to choose between writing software for two different platforms, whether they are open or closed isn't going to play much of a factor in my decision. What I care about is which platform is going to outsell the other, thereby increasing the potential for profits of my software.
It's not a netbook, which was originally designed with a custom Linux install in mind and ended up having Windows slapped on it. The advantages a netbook has over an introductory notebook are offset by the disadvantages I noted above. This is where the iPad comes in, trying to offer the advantages of the netbook, without those disadvantages. Whether they succeed or not has yet to be determined, and until then I'll stick with my thinkpad T43 and iPhone, thank you very much.
You are of course ignoring the fact that the "wide majority of people" have no experience typing on a touchscreen using their hands rather than their thumbs. It will be interesting how many of them change their tune after that.
And you, of course, are ignoring the fact that the "wide majority of people" can't type properly on a netbook keyboard. Only those that are "hunt and peck" typers or have small hands aren't bothered by the diminutive keyboards. You also ignore the fact that "any program from any source" means very little when the majority of those programs were designed to run on larger screens, and just don't work nearly as nicely on a netbook.
This is as close as we will ever get to Apple admitting their cult of personality is the primary (but not only) driver of their sales, not their products.
you totally don't get it. What they're saying, is that the netbook is very frustrating to use for many tasks. Those same tasks on the iPad will be much easier to do. For example, typing using a netbooks' keyboard sucks, the keyboard is just slightly too small for actual 10 finger typing. Also, the screen is too small. Windows is meant for larger screens, and the experience on a netbook is less than pleasing. Apple is saying that they have not only addressed what they consider to be the shortcomings of the netbook, they feel they have improved on them so much, the iPad will seem like magic compared to doing the same things on a netbook.
keyboard too small for real typing
not much cheaper than an introductory laptop
lousy processing and ram compared to same introductory laptop
made of same low quality parts as same introductory laptop
windows sucks on small screens
That's nothing. At my job, the passwords are randomly generated, so nobody has any passwords OR smart cards/pins to steal. We have to use a password removal tool to reset the password to "12345" just so we can log on in the morning!
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yes, I see the rootkits quite often too now. And a new one I dealt with yesterday had a proxy configured to redirect any attempts to connect to google to a fake google site which would then serve up a bunch of fake links that lead to reinfection.
the post I was replying to was blaming it on out of date, poorly maintained PCs. I'm telling you that a completely up to date and well protected machine can get hit just as easily! And it was a google sponsored advert that infected him!
I deal with this stuff on a daily basis. I had a customer just the other day go home with a clean machine, with the latest version of Avira, AntiMalwarebytes, and SuperAntiSpyware installed and updated. All windows patches and updates installed. He was back two hours later. Surfing the web looking for UFC videos. Google served up a paid ad at the top of his search with his search terms. Of course he clicked it, and a with a bit of Adobe Flash magic, he had the Security Tools infection installed and his Avira broken.
300,000 units is a significant quantity for an initial release. Comparing it to the release of the iPhone or the iPod, the numbers are much larger for the iPad. Now look at the numbers the iPod and iPhone are doing years later, and you can guess that the iPad is going to be a pretty successful platform.
Fact: Canada and Sweden have both refuted the claim that they refused to make their segments publicly available. I don't know about Poland, and haven't been able to confirm or deny this.
No, actually, they weren't, and still aren't. CRU has admitted they "lost" the original data set. And they refused to release data requested under FOI requests, finding numerous ways to skirt or deny the requests. Please don't refer anyone to realclimate as a source of legitimate info, as the emails reveal a close (too close) relationship between the operators of the site and the climate scientists centrally involved in the entire "climategate" affair.
what I find amazing is that anyone can actually believe that one wing, left or right, is telling the truth and the other is lying. Newsflash for you busy gary, POLITICIANS ARE LIARS! Nothing they say can be believed!
Maybe the "professor" should try studying asian school systems, instead of school systems from last century. Why are Korean/Chinese/Japanese kids doing North American grade 5 math in grade 1?
It wasn't a troll, moron, it was a joke in response to an extremely silly conspiracy theory. Here's a newsflash for you: The Democrats are liars. So are the Republicans. My guess is you're extremely offended by the first, but wholeheartedly believe the second....
interesting you would tell ME to stop being stupid, but not the commenter that suggested a conspiracy of "anti-obama spinsters" making thousands of requests in order to run up the numbers so they can fabricate a story. He was serious, I was joking.
Except the only people with enough time on their hands (artists, welfare, ACORN workers, etc) to make tens of thousands of requests tend to be Obama supporters...
hehe, he asks which progressive and left-oriented site would write about it, you answer an honest one, but don't provide any....does that mean there are no honest left-oriented sites?
And the one already in place is also a levy. So technically, I should have said double levy. But the point is that we already have one in place affecting every iPod sold in Canada. Now the NDP wants to implement an additional one
There's already a tax on MP3 players in Canada. This is a new tax they're proposing, meaning we will now be taxed twice on an MP3 player. Why hasn't this been mentioned yet by the stupid news reporters?
In my opinion, as long as the security industry, and end-users as a whole, continue with the thought that end-user basic security ignorance is OK, things will never get better. /nelson voice
Just wait until YOU have kids. You'll go off to work, secure in the fact that you're an enlightened end-user as far as security goes, and when you get home from work, you'll see how much damage kids can cause in the 2 hours between the end of their school day and the end of your work day.
And, when that happens, just let me say in advance: HA HAH!
you don't need to click any more. Most of the malware I'm cleaning up these days is delivered via Flash, and distributed by advertisement servers that have been hacked. All you have to do is visit a site that gets paid to serve random ads, and you can get infected.
I'm pretty sure he measured his typing speed by limiting the words he typed during the test to "a, I, as, is, me, la, we".
The problem with Dvorak is that you'll end up reaching for a "J" more than you would with a QWERTY, and the resultant trips to Betty Ford far outweigh any gains you may have had from using the Dvorak.
how about when the geek is writing software for the closed system and making good money at it? If I had to choose between writing software for two different platforms, whether they are open or closed isn't going to play much of a factor in my decision. What I care about is which platform is going to outsell the other, thereby increasing the potential for profits of my software.
no, I was merely listing what I see as the failings of the netbook, and why I wouldn't waste my money on one.
It's not a netbook, which was originally designed with a custom Linux install in mind and ended up having Windows slapped on it. The advantages a netbook has over an introductory notebook are offset by the disadvantages I noted above. This is where the iPad comes in, trying to offer the advantages of the netbook, without those disadvantages. Whether they succeed or not has yet to be determined, and until then I'll stick with my thinkpad T43 and iPhone, thank you very much.
You are of course ignoring the fact that the "wide majority of people" have no experience typing on a touchscreen using their hands rather than their thumbs. It will be interesting how many of them change their tune after that.
And you, of course, are ignoring the fact that the "wide majority of people" can't type properly on a netbook keyboard. Only those that are "hunt and peck" typers or have small hands aren't bothered by the diminutive keyboards. You also ignore the fact that "any program from any source" means very little when the majority of those programs were designed to run on larger screens, and just don't work nearly as nicely on a netbook.
This is as close as we will ever get to Apple admitting their cult of personality is the primary (but not only) driver of their sales, not their products.
you totally don't get it. What they're saying, is that the netbook is very frustrating to use for many tasks. Those same tasks on the iPad will be much easier to do. For example, typing using a netbooks' keyboard sucks, the keyboard is just slightly too small for actual 10 finger typing. Also, the screen is too small. Windows is meant for larger screens, and the experience on a netbook is less than pleasing. Apple is saying that they have not only addressed what they consider to be the shortcomings of the netbook, they feel they have improved on them so much, the iPad will seem like magic compared to doing the same things on a netbook.
what I don't like about a netbook:
keyboard too small for real typing
not much cheaper than an introductory laptop
lousy processing and ram compared to same introductory laptop
made of same low quality parts as same introductory laptop
windows sucks on small screens
That's nothing. At my job, the passwords are randomly generated, so nobody has any passwords OR smart cards/pins to steal. We have to use a password removal tool to reset the password to "12345" just so we can log on in the morning!