Does the US Army take advantage of traditional misconfiguration and social engineering techniques in order to compromise a network or are the US government developing a home grown list of exploits to gain access to foreign government systems?
Here are two very quick temp' workarounds for the issue.
1) Launch IE from a location other than your desktop (e.g. Start Menu, Quick Launch Tray).
2) Go to Program Files\Internet Explorer, Create Shortcut, and then place that shortcut on your desktop. Make sure the "Start In" setting is set to any location other than your Desktop.
I am a WoW player but I'm also a/. user. I don't come here for WoW information, there are more than enough news sites specifically for that already.
The editors need to stop posting this stuff here. Or at least if they do then they need to include all gaming news (most of which is far more interesting than the release date of the forth season of PvP).
I think that is more likely the case of pushy parents.
Education is turning into almost a two tier system. There are those kids which are pushed by their parents and aim to succeed and then there is everyone else.
The kids who push hard all fight over a small handful of places in top schools fighting off with multiple public and private schools (who often are rubbing the Uni's asses).
It does amuse me that we have these moral panics about exam difficulty without really addressing the key question - Does it teach then what it intends to? And are the subject's goals in line with what is needed?
Looking at grades as an answer to either question seems about as intelligent as asking the cows about the weather.
I'm sorry but what do we really expect to learn from this research?
Maths in the 1950s was designed for engineers and scientists in that generation. They learned what they needed.
Maths today is exactly the same. The fact is you can't use 1950s standards to evaluate today's exams any more than you can use today's standards to evaluate 1950s exams.
The only real question is - Are engineers and scientists finding their maths education weak?
The answer in my view is no in most cases. In a limited number of careers the maths they received isn't nearly advanced enough but that would have been the case in the 1950s too.
As I said they're using the wrong measuring stick to measure the difficulty of exams. Nobody needs to know half of the useless junk that kids learned in the 1950s when frankly it is less time consuming and more accurate to use a calculator.
That's just my opinion. I honestly think a lot of this kind of "research" is a result of much older people looking at today's maths and thinking "Why aren't they learning what I did?" While completely ignoring what they're learning that the 1950s students didn't.
I'd agree we can't hold a language entirely responsible for programming mistakes but a lot of languages make coding easier and more secure by design.
I mean 1,000 lines of C++ and C# compared... I'd expect to see fewer errors in the C# and less severe errors when I find them.
If we are comparing Java and other managed languages then I entirely agree the differences are smaller but any language that allows you to manage your own memory is an old dog and needs to be taken out and shot.
ASM, C, and C++ should be reserved for Operating Systems, Compilers/Assemblers, and high end software where speed is of huge importance (e.g. 3D Games, Database Engines).
Why are we so offended by the concept that someone might be irritated by WiFi signals?
I mean shouldn't we figure out, using a scientific methodology, if they can in fact detect Wifi rather than assuming they can't?
Although we believe it isn't possible to hear this part of the spectrum we also know that birds and other animals can detect it without the use of their hearing and thus it could be part of some humans (or the next step of human evolution).
Just saying, don't be so offended and dismissive. You sound like a bunch of cavemen.
I'd like to coin the term "Ready for my mom's desktop." Meaning after a few hours training she can use the platform without too much hassle.
That's where Linux really drops the ball still and OS X/Windows still dominate.
The UIs are extremely poorly designed on Linux and worse still they're often inconsistent with half a dozen ways to do the same operation.
And don't even get me started on the continued use of the terminal for/any/ normal user operations.
Linux isn't a consumer desktop, in fact it isn't even making very much ground in that area. That being said it is still an awesome server and geek toy.
I think this just proves that higher resolution doesn't result in a higher quality photo.
If you look at the entire photo it doesn't look any better than a regular photo even if it contains much more information.
For years now there has been a push to larger and larger resolution photos with people often mistaking this with "quality."
All a higher resolution really allows you to do is zoom in more after a certain point. Which is awesome from a photo editing point of view, but for most people unimportant.
What you really want to be focusing on is the lens quality, zoom quality (lol Digital Zoom), noise, and other characteristics of the camera (e.g. ISO rating).
So it is great that they spent lot's of time doing this but it isn't all that interesting to average Joes or even serious photographers. We all really want better quality pictures, not bigger ones.
Honestly why must adults who make up most of the population suffer for the minority?
Just add a "Kid Flag" to the browsers. Have the parents set the "Kid Flag" and have sites have to enforce rules around it.
e.g. If there is a kids flag either the service doesn't work or has reduced functionality.
This allows parents to decide on the what age their kids are wise enough to use said services and puts the power entirely with the parents (as it should be).
Stop trying to get everyone else to be a parent. I mean it seems like teachers, police, equipment makers, service providers, etc all have to be some kind of parent for all these silly like kids that these morons keep dropping into the world.
Frankly the DNA pool might be better if some of the less intelligent kids (or kids with less intelligent parents) got taken out.
I think a lot of people are upset with the music/movie/TV industries in general. We want DRM free, fairly priced, content that we can use on any mobile device.
The only thing we seem to get are DRM-ed up pieces of content that only run on Windows, only on certain devices (e.g. iPod), and which cost MORE than buying physical content in the shops.
As a random example I can either pay $10 to buy a DVD with special features in Blockbuster. Or I can pay $14.99 on iTunes. Naturally the iTunes one only works on Windows, has DRM, and no special features at all.
It just feels like a bunch of old men who haven't court up with modern day life freaking out and lashing out at people because of it.
PS - And don't even get my started on the whole "One Licence for the US, one for France, one for Germany etc" thing on online digital download shops.
I'm sorry but their "bypass" was to create a service running in an elevated state and then communicate with said service via exposed APIs.
I fail to see how they drew this conclusion: "[UAC does] not actually providing any true protection from malware authors"
This isn't a hole in the system. If applications couldn't use services running at admin or system then the entire system would be damn near nonfunctional.
I mean how would you even play music without a regular application being able to communicate up safely to the driver?
The article is fine. The person who wrote the summary didn't actually RTFA and is just trolling. They haven't justified anything they've said.
Please excuse my ignorance but I fail to understand how this could be faster.
In a modern day computer the bottleneck is the long term storage (HDD, DVD Rom etc). Memory and CPUs are extremely fast by comparison.
So I don't entirely understand how shifting encryption down the IO bus is really helpful.
Plus by doing so you lose tons of functionality and if the implementation gets "broken" (AES gets cracked) then you are kind of stuck unless Fujitsu are going to release an update back-ported to all of their old drives (and a lot of hardware vendors can't even support stuff from a year ago, let alone several).
Plus aren't laptops designed entirely around keeping the hard drive in almost a zero power state as long as it can?
Since when did memory usage become such a big deal?
I mean Firefox has had some nasty memory leaks for the longest time and absolutely I would love to see those fixed. But it seems like this is more than just that, it seems like some big epeen contest between browsers.
Memory is perhaps the second cheapest commodity on a modern day PC after disk space. If they get too deep into this then it wouldn't surprise me to see them off-set this reduced usage with increased CPU time or disk seek times (which is destructive on a laptop).
Personally I rate browsers based on something like this: Responsiveness > Features == Polish > CPU Usage > Memory Usage > Disk Usage
If the Firefox guys want to be No.1 in Memory Usage then perhaps I'll use a browser like Opera which focuses on Features, or one like IE 7 which is more polished than both Firefox and Opera.
I'm never buying Creative again after how poor their drivers on Vista have been. The Creative 5.1 drivers have a huge memory overflow in them which causes the Windows Audio Service to need to be restarted every few hours or you'll suffer though huge amounts of audio distortion...
So I upgraded to their latest card in the hopes that their latest drivers might fix things. I picked out a X-Fi Audio Extreme, and this is only recently mind you...
And although the memory leak seems to have gone this card has the highly entertaining bug of turning down the master volume by 75% each time any input is received on the microphone, in use or others. A wonderful feature you can't turn off. So if I type too loud on the keyboard my music turns down by 75%...
Long story short... I gently unscrewed my Creative X-Fi and throw it against a wall. Then I plugged in to my Gigabyte motherboard's built in audio, enabled it in the bios, and haven't had any audio issues at all for coming up to two months now.
I'm not using Creative again. I'm done. Seven years a happy customer, now gone.
Patent holders are like the real world equivalent of Internet trolls. As soon as you get any kind of notoriety they randomly appear spouting their trash and trying to get attention.
In this case they're a little less interested in attention and a little more interested in money but the concept is the same. The entire patent system, software or otherwise, is somewhat flawed since it lasts too long and holds back the marketplace which it was original created to help.
They should change the system so you only get five-ish years of protection on research with an automatic extension by a further ten years if you release a product using that patent into the marketplace. This will stop these silly troll companies like IBM hoarding tons of patents with very few actual products.
Being a larger guy myself I'd put it down to a number of factors including: - Eating too fast - Forgeting to enjoy food (fat people enjoy their food less than thin people while eating it) - Very concentrated sugar / fat foods (e.g. Soft Drinks, Burgers) - Society encourages us to stay home (Safer, Entertainment, and for Computer Geeks even work-useful activities like coding) - Very little "good" help available (Doctors throwing pills, diets selling useless books, but nobody wants to give good advice except perhaps Paul Mckenna and a couple of others)
I wouldn't pin it down to Games or any other single form of entertainment. Well except perhaps World of Warcraft but that is a different kind of crack within its self.;-)
Well to an extent I did. I've been out in the middle of nowhere to the extent that you couldn't get a cell phone signal if your life depended on it (and sometimes it does!) and there is an odd sense of quiet.
I know it sounds nuts but on a windy night even with the trees moving it still seems more quiet but in an almost impossible to define way. Like there is something that you can't put your finger on NOT there.
I always thought it might be either radio singles or high pitch EM radiation from all the fun toys I have around it (yes, including a Wireless Router). So I'm not complaining, and I can sleep fine, but at the same time this study doesn't shock me at all.
Honestly if they're only making just below $4 I can't blame them for requiring bundles. In the article it says they're losing money if a customer uses a credit card but even if they don't you have to wonder how they can keep the doors open.
I kind of feel a little bit bad for small games stores right now even if I'm just a consumer with no real vested interest in making the prices higher.
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Does the US Army take advantage of traditional misconfiguration and social engineering techniques in order to compromise a network or are the US government developing a home grown list of exploits to gain access to foreign government systems?
Here are two very quick temp' workarounds for the issue.
1) Launch IE from a location other than your desktop (e.g. Start Menu, Quick Launch Tray).
2) Go to Program Files\Internet Explorer, Create Shortcut, and then place that shortcut on your desktop. Make sure the "Start In" setting is set to any location other than your Desktop.
I am a WoW player but I'm also a /. user. I don't come here for WoW information, there are more than enough news sites specifically for that already.
The editors need to stop posting this stuff here. Or at least if they do then they need to include all gaming news (most of which is far more interesting than the release date of the forth season of PvP).
I think that is more likely the case of pushy parents.
Education is turning into almost a two tier system. There are those kids which are pushed by their parents and aim to succeed and then there is everyone else.
The kids who push hard all fight over a small handful of places in top schools fighting off with multiple public and private schools (who often are rubbing the Uni's asses).
It does amuse me that we have these moral panics about exam difficulty without really addressing the key question - Does it teach then what it intends to? And are the subject's goals in line with what is needed?
Looking at grades as an answer to either question seems about as intelligent as asking the cows about the weather.
I'm sorry but what do we really expect to learn from this research?
Maths in the 1950s was designed for engineers and scientists in that generation. They learned what they needed.
Maths today is exactly the same. The fact is you can't use 1950s standards to evaluate today's exams any more than you can use today's standards to evaluate 1950s exams.
The only real question is - Are engineers and scientists finding their maths education weak?
The answer in my view is no in most cases. In a limited number of careers the maths they received isn't nearly advanced enough but that would have been the case in the 1950s too.
As I said they're using the wrong measuring stick to measure the difficulty of exams. Nobody needs to know half of the useless junk that kids learned in the 1950s when frankly it is less time consuming and more accurate to use a calculator.
That's just my opinion. I honestly think a lot of this kind of "research" is a result of much older people looking at today's maths and thinking "Why aren't they learning what I did?" While completely ignoring what they're learning that the 1950s students didn't.
I'd agree we can't hold a language entirely responsible for programming mistakes but a lot of languages make coding easier and more secure by design.
I mean 1,000 lines of C++ and C# compared... I'd expect to see fewer errors in the C# and less severe errors when I find them.
If we are comparing Java and other managed languages then I entirely agree the differences are smaller but any language that allows you to manage your own memory is an old dog and needs to be taken out and shot.
ASM, C, and C++ should be reserved for Operating Systems, Compilers/Assemblers, and high end software where speed is of huge importance (e.g. 3D Games, Database Engines).
Either evolve or die.
Java hasn't changed all that much in the last few years and younger languages are pushing programming further.
Although oddly enough the languages for which I speak are things like C# and not "I wish it would die but it likely won't" languages like Python.
Why are we so offended by the concept that someone might be irritated by WiFi signals?
I mean shouldn't we figure out, using a scientific methodology, if they can in fact detect Wifi rather than assuming they can't?
Although we believe it isn't possible to hear this part of the spectrum we also know that birds and other animals can detect it without the use of their hearing and thus it could be part of some humans (or the next step of human evolution).
Just saying, don't be so offended and dismissive. You sound like a bunch of cavemen.
Both pieces of software are released under the same open source license, namely BSD.
On top of that, given the history of security problems in this line of software I would wait a while before deploying Unbound on anything serious.
Especially given the fact it sells its self as being more complex and big than its predecessor.
I'd like to coin the term "Ready for my mom's desktop." Meaning after a few hours training she can use the platform without too much hassle.
/any/ normal user operations.
That's where Linux really drops the ball still and OS X/Windows still dominate.
The UIs are extremely poorly designed on Linux and worse still they're often inconsistent with half a dozen ways to do the same operation.
And don't even get me started on the continued use of the terminal for
Linux isn't a consumer desktop, in fact it isn't even making very much ground in that area. That being said it is still an awesome server and geek toy.
I think this just proves that higher resolution doesn't result in a higher quality photo.
If you look at the entire photo it doesn't look any better than a regular photo even if it contains much more information.
For years now there has been a push to larger and larger resolution photos with people often mistaking this with "quality."
All a higher resolution really allows you to do is zoom in more after a certain point. Which is awesome from a photo editing point of view, but for most people unimportant.
What you really want to be focusing on is the lens quality, zoom quality (lol Digital Zoom), noise, and other characteristics of the camera (e.g. ISO rating).
So it is great that they spent lot's of time doing this but it isn't all that interesting to average Joes or even serious photographers. We all really want better quality pictures, not bigger ones.
IE or any other modern browser on the market.
You would also have every web developer in the marketplace whining about how IE ignores standards if they pulled the plug on scripting.
Sorry but Zoning in IE is fine. IE 7 is actually a pretty good modern browser and, sure, it isn't perfect but frankly what is?
Honestly why must adults who make up most of the population suffer for the minority?
Just add a "Kid Flag" to the browsers. Have the parents set the "Kid Flag" and have sites have to enforce rules around it.
e.g.
If there is a kids flag either the service doesn't work or has reduced functionality.
This allows parents to decide on the what age their kids are wise enough to use said services and puts the power entirely with the parents (as it should be).
Stop trying to get everyone else to be a parent. I mean it seems like teachers, police, equipment makers, service providers, etc all have to be some kind of parent for all these silly like kids that these morons keep dropping into the world.
Frankly the DNA pool might be better if some of the less intelligent kids (or kids with less intelligent parents) got taken out.
I think a lot of people are upset with the music/movie/TV industries in general. We want DRM free, fairly priced, content that we can use on any mobile device.
The only thing we seem to get are DRM-ed up pieces of content that only run on Windows, only on certain devices (e.g. iPod), and which cost MORE than buying physical content in the shops.
As a random example I can either pay $10 to buy a DVD with special features in Blockbuster. Or I can pay $14.99 on iTunes. Naturally the iTunes one only works on Windows, has DRM, and no special features at all.
It just feels like a bunch of old men who haven't court up with modern day life freaking out and lashing out at people because of it.
PS - And don't even get my started on the whole "One Licence for the US, one for France, one for Germany etc" thing on online digital download shops.
... Satin himself...
I'm sorry but their "bypass" was to create a service running in an elevated state and then communicate with said service via exposed APIs.
I fail to see how they drew this conclusion:
"[UAC does] not actually providing any true protection from malware authors"
This isn't a hole in the system. If applications couldn't use services running at admin or system then the entire system would be damn near nonfunctional.
I mean how would you even play music without a regular application being able to communicate up safely to the driver?
The article is fine. The person who wrote the summary didn't actually RTFA and is just trolling. They haven't justified anything they've said.
I think the reason Pinball is dying out is purely the cost of playing it.
I mean you pay 50p for three balls. Or 20p for three lives in most other arcade games.
So you're paying a 150% markup for seeing balls bounce around which is cute but it also seems to last a lot less time than normal video games too.
So higher cost, plus shorter games just means that people won't use the pinball tables anymore.
They'll either spend less for cheap video games or spend a little more for a much more interactive game like table football, dancing, or shooting.
Pinball killed its self... They set the price too high and over-valued their product.
Please excuse my ignorance but I fail to understand how this could be faster.
In a modern day computer the bottleneck is the long term storage (HDD, DVD Rom etc). Memory and CPUs are extremely fast by comparison.
So I don't entirely understand how shifting encryption down the IO bus is really helpful.
Plus by doing so you lose tons of functionality and if the implementation gets "broken" (AES gets cracked) then you are kind of stuck unless Fujitsu are going to release an update back-ported to all of their old drives (and a lot of hardware vendors can't even support stuff from a year ago, let alone several).
Plus aren't laptops designed entirely around keeping the hard drive in almost a zero power state as long as it can?
Since when did memory usage become such a big deal?
I mean Firefox has had some nasty memory leaks for the longest time and absolutely I would love to see those fixed. But it seems like this is more than just that, it seems like some big epeen contest between browsers.
Memory is perhaps the second cheapest commodity on a modern day PC after disk space. If they get too deep into this then it wouldn't surprise me to see them off-set this reduced usage with increased CPU time or disk seek times (which is destructive on a laptop).
Personally I rate browsers based on something like this:
Responsiveness > Features == Polish > CPU Usage > Memory Usage > Disk Usage
If the Firefox guys want to be No.1 in Memory Usage then perhaps I'll use a browser like Opera which focuses on Features, or one like IE 7 which is more polished than both Firefox and Opera.
I wonder if this is like that police sting in which they told criminals they had won a boat / car and got them to basically walk into jail...
:P
I for one won't be surprised if Apple loses an expensive piece of equipment while he is there and it mysteriously turns up in his jacket pocket.
I'm never buying Creative again after how poor their drivers on Vista have been. The Creative 5.1 drivers have a huge memory overflow in them which causes the Windows Audio Service to need to be restarted every few hours or you'll suffer though huge amounts of audio distortion...
So I upgraded to their latest card in the hopes that their latest drivers might fix things. I picked out a X-Fi Audio Extreme, and this is only recently mind you...
And although the memory leak seems to have gone this card has the highly entertaining bug of turning down the master volume by 75% each time any input is received on the microphone, in use or others. A wonderful feature you can't turn off. So if I type too loud on the keyboard my music turns down by 75%...
Long story short... I gently unscrewed my Creative X-Fi and throw it against a wall. Then I plugged in to my Gigabyte motherboard's built in audio, enabled it in the bios, and haven't had any audio issues at all for coming up to two months now.
I'm not using Creative again. I'm done. Seven years a happy customer, now gone.
Patent holders are like the real world equivalent of Internet trolls. As soon as you get any kind of notoriety they randomly appear spouting their trash and trying to get attention.
In this case they're a little less interested in attention and a little more interested in money but the concept is the same. The entire patent system, software or otherwise, is somewhat flawed since it lasts too long and holds back the marketplace which it was original created to help.
They should change the system so you only get five-ish years of protection on research with an automatic extension by a further ten years if you release a product using that patent into the marketplace. This will stop these silly troll companies like IBM hoarding tons of patents with very few actual products.
Being a larger guy myself I'd put it down to a number of factors including:
;-)
- Eating too fast
- Forgeting to enjoy food (fat people enjoy their food less than thin people while eating it)
- Very concentrated sugar / fat foods (e.g. Soft Drinks, Burgers)
- Society encourages us to stay home (Safer, Entertainment, and for Computer Geeks even work-useful activities like coding)
- Very little "good" help available (Doctors throwing pills, diets selling useless books, but nobody wants to give good advice except perhaps Paul Mckenna and a couple of others)
I wouldn't pin it down to Games or any other single form of entertainment. Well except perhaps World of Warcraft but that is a different kind of crack within its self.
Well to an extent I did. I've been out in the middle of nowhere to the extent that you couldn't get a cell phone signal if your life depended on it (and sometimes it does!) and there is an odd sense of quiet.
I know it sounds nuts but on a windy night even with the trees moving it still seems more quiet but in an almost impossible to define way. Like there is something that you can't put your finger on NOT there.
I always thought it might be either radio singles or high pitch EM radiation from all the fun toys I have around it (yes, including a Wireless Router). So I'm not complaining, and I can sleep fine, but at the same time this study doesn't shock me at all.
Honestly if they're only making just below $4 I can't blame them for requiring bundles. In the article it says they're losing money if a customer uses a credit card but even if they don't you have to wonder how they can keep the doors open.
I kind of feel a little bit bad for small games stores right now even if I'm just a consumer with no real vested interest in making the prices higher.