Apparently you can't be bothered to read the information on the website to understand what you are talking about before you start slamming Microsoft. MSR developed Photosynth, the software that automagically stitches the images together. Microsoft acquired Seadragon, the client/server software for streaming the huge amount of data.
This is hysterical. The confederate cause was driven by the interested of the wealthy, slave-holding southerners. Like all modern wars most of the people doing the fighting were not the super rich, but they were fighting because people with far more wealth and power decided they should. Trying to describe the confederates' war as a valiant attempt by the down-trodden to regain control of their lives is silly. Trying to relate the US Civil War with gun control is illogical, and I'm not sure why anyone would need a gun to retain their civil rights. In this time of mass media peaceful protest is usually much more effective in attaining political change than armed revolt. Think India, the USSR, Argentina, and Chile. Of course some regimes, like Communist China, are so powerful and deeply entrenched that they can completely squash any dissent.
Regarding your last 2 paragraphs, I'm inclined to agree, even before the Patriot Act Americans had lost a wide range of rights and now our national government shares more characteristics with a central american dictatorship than a 1st world democracy.
You don't seem to understand what the uproar is over. The firings may have been unethical, but probably not illegal. The problems the administration has now are due to the effort to cover-up what happened. Like Watergate, Lewinsky, and many other scandals the cover-up is much worse than the original misguided activities.
I call BS. I just did each of these things without seeing a UAC prompt. If you were trying to modify the 'all users' part of the start menu you'll see the prompt but if you're only trying to edit your profile you will not be prompted. This makes sense to me, one unprivileged user shouldn't be able to change things that will affect other users on a shared PC.
Wrong document? So if the December status report co-authored by the complainants and defendants disagrees with your forgone conclusions you dismisss it? Perhaps others would care to read for themselves: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f219800/219800.htm
Long before selling gold in WoW gained publicity and the farmers became controversial I used to team up with a Chinese person at Tyr's Hand several times a week. We made a great team, I'm a pally and he was a rogue. He never ninja'd anything, quite the opposite:He was very generous with me, handing over mana potions that he couldn't use and patiently letting me loot magic items that were upgrades. His English was attrocious, but it appeared that sometimes he would ask a coworker to help him as his responses might take a minute or two. This was 6, 7, and 8 months ago.
I grouped with a lot of other farmers before and since, and only had 1 ninja a crappy BoP green item. I stopped teaming up with farmers just to avoid the criticism of other players. I strongly disagree with your broad generalization, many, if not most farmers understand and play by the accepted rules of loot distribution when grouping.
So you're complaining that you chose to install the patch that required a reboot? Why didn't you wait until after you completed whatever critical work you had to do?
User makes choice. User doesn't like consequence. User blames vendor. Sigh.
Isearch started using kernal-mode drivers (delprot.sys) to hide their wares from adware and spyware removal tools. If their business model were legitimate they wouldn't need to incorporate a rootkit into their crap.
Robert Hensing's blog oversimplifies things a tad, if you read the original articles that he refers to you'll see that they are advocating long passphrases that incorporate symbols, numbers, and capitol letters inserted randomly within the phrase:
Some of you think $750M is all the foundation has done? Take a look at the facts before scoffing at the Gates Foundation. The current endowment is $27B. It has given away about $7.5B since its inception. Those are BILLIONS. How many of you have given away more than a third of your net worth?
Gripe about his business tactics all you want, but how can any rational person with a brain bigger than a pea criticize the Gates for their generousity? They'll have a bigger impact on global health than the UN this century. Probably more than any national government.
Michael Howard published a great little utility a few weeks ago that makes it trivial to run specific applications with lower privileges than the account you have logged on with. Check out DropMyRights.exe here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/securecode/colu mns/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dncode/html/s ecure11152004.asp
As for people complaining that Microsoft is doing nothing about spyware, or that Microsoft is even somehow promoting the creation of malware, have you seen this link? http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/d efault.mspx
Granted, Microsoft needs to do more, a whole lot more, but Spyware is a relatively new phenomenon and as this thread and the links to related articles make clear, no organization has published a fool proof tool for either cleaning up or preventing spyware. And those of us who brag about being on a platform immune to malware, that's a foolhardy claim. Just because your platform hasn't been hit doesn't mean its immune, it simply means that nobody has shown enough interest in developing effective malware for it. Yet.
1-3 books per year for 150 to 300 hours total. I do it to flush out my resume and to force myself to learn things that I probably won't learn as part of my full-time gig. The extra money helps too.
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How do you know this stuff about these classified networks? I happen to know otherwise WRT what network OSes they use on their classified networks.
Apparently you can't be bothered to read the information on the website to understand what you are talking about before you start slamming Microsoft. MSR developed Photosynth, the software that automagically stitches the images together. Microsoft acquired Seadragon, the client/server software for streaming the huge amount of data.
This is hysterical. The confederate cause was driven by the interested of the wealthy, slave-holding southerners. Like all modern wars most of the people doing the fighting were not the super rich, but they were fighting because people with far more wealth and power decided they should. Trying to describe the confederates' war as a valiant attempt by the down-trodden to regain control of their lives is silly. Trying to relate the US Civil War with gun control is illogical, and I'm not sure why anyone would need a gun to retain their civil rights. In this time of mass media peaceful protest is usually much more effective in attaining political change than armed revolt. Think India, the USSR, Argentina, and Chile. Of course some regimes, like Communist China, are so powerful and deeply entrenched that they can completely squash any dissent. Regarding your last 2 paragraphs, I'm inclined to agree, even before the Patriot Act Americans had lost a wide range of rights and now our national government shares more characteristics with a central american dictatorship than a 1st world democracy.
You don't seem to understand what the uproar is over. The firings may have been unethical, but probably not illegal. The problems the administration has now are due to the effort to cover-up what happened. Like Watergate, Lewinsky, and many other scandals the cover-up is much worse than the original misguided activities.
I call BS. I just did each of these things without seeing a UAC prompt. If you were trying to modify the 'all users' part of the start menu you'll see the prompt but if you're only trying to edit your profile you will not be prompted. This makes sense to me, one unprivileged user shouldn't be able to change things that will affect other users on a shared PC.
Wrong document? So if the December status report co-authored by the complainants and defendants disagrees with your forgone conclusions you dismisss it? Perhaps others would care to read for themselves: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f219800/219800.htm
Before mocking the poster perhaps you could do a little research, the transcript for the January 12 proceedings are online: http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/TP011207.txt
I call bullsh!t. Where's your proof that BSD is part of MSN?
Long before selling gold in WoW gained publicity and the farmers became controversial I used to team up with a Chinese person at Tyr's Hand several times a week. We made a great team, I'm a pally and he was a rogue. He never ninja'd anything, quite the opposite:He was very generous with me, handing over mana potions that he couldn't use and patiently letting me loot magic items that were upgrades. His English was attrocious, but it appeared that sometimes he would ask a coworker to help him as his responses might take a minute or two. This was 6, 7, and 8 months ago. I grouped with a lot of other farmers before and since, and only had 1 ninja a crappy BoP green item. I stopped teaming up with farmers just to avoid the criticism of other players. I strongly disagree with your broad generalization, many, if not most farmers understand and play by the accepted rules of loot distribution when grouping.
So you're complaining that you chose to install the patch that required a reboot? Why didn't you wait until after you completed whatever critical work you had to do? User makes choice. User doesn't like consequence. User blames vendor. Sigh.
Isearch started using kernal-mode drivers (delprot.sys) to hide their wares from adware and spyware removal tools. If their business model were legitimate they wouldn't need to incorporate a rootkit into their crap.
Robert Hensing's blog oversimplifies things a tad, if you read the original articles that he refers to you'll see that they are advocating long passphrases that incorporate symbols, numbers, and capitol letters inserted randomly within the phrase:
Kurt Dillard wrote the following, http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/smallbus iness/prodtech/WindowsXP/select_sec_passwords.mspx
Which built on an article Jesper Johannson originally wrote in 2003, and was updated and republished here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns /secmgmt/sm1004.mspx
Robert Hensing acknowledged both of these sources in his blog
http://gatesfoundation.org/MediaCenter/FactSheet/d efault.htm
Gripe about his business tactics all you want, but how can any rational person with a brain bigger than a pea criticize the Gates for their generousity? They'll have a bigger impact on global health than the UN this century. Probably more than any national government.
Michael Howard published a great little utility a few weeks ago that makes it trivial to run specific applications with lower privileges than the account you have logged on with. Check out DropMyRights.exe here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/securecode/colu mns/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dncode/html/s ecure11152004.asp
As for people complaining that Microsoft is doing nothing about spyware, or that Microsoft is even somehow promoting the creation of malware, have you seen this link? http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/d efault.mspx
Granted, Microsoft needs to do more, a whole lot more, but Spyware is a relatively new phenomenon and as this thread and the links to related articles make clear, no organization has published a fool proof tool for either cleaning up or preventing spyware. And those of us who brag about being on a platform immune to malware, that's a foolhardy claim. Just because your platform hasn't been hit doesn't mean its immune, it simply means that nobody has shown enough interest in developing effective malware for it. Yet.
1-3 books per year for 150 to 300 hours total. I do it to flush out my resume and to force myself to learn things that I probably won't learn as part of my full-time gig. The extra money helps too.
Comments about terms and phrases not working on the preview version work great on the live version.
1st hit for "Linux" is www.linux.org
4th hit for "Linux news" is /.
Perhaps some people around here should figure out how to use the tool before denigrating it?