Removing other malicious software doesn't make the machine at all secure. It just eventually frees up computing resources to the malicious software controller has a more efficient botnet.
Pretty much evil.
First it's malicious software that allows a remote user to command your machine.
Second it install anti-virus software that chews up computing resources with out doing anything useful.
LULZ oh, indeed. The main reason your anti-virus software is pointless. If a piece of malicious software is well known enough for your anti-virus company to know about it, then a patch for the issue will be out very soon. Anti-virus software will only protect you from script kiddies and not someone that actually would have a good reason to steal your data. i.e your competition.
I'm sure the customers don't evening know that their data is stored on magnetic disks.
It doesn't matter how the data is stored,it only matters how the device communicate with other devices.
Device with this technology will probably just use the standard USB mass storage device driver.
The skills required to perform well in Tests are completely different to the skills required in Assignments. While writing essays in English, I found Assignments easy and did quite well because I had time to fully weight the issues involved. In my exams I was given 10 minutes to weight the issues involved in a essay topic with the rest of the exam time required for writing and structuring the essay.This ment that I got 80% on my assignments and pnly 40% on my exams.
According to your logic, It would be obivous that I was a cheater, instead of someone that thinks before they act.
Microsoft was threating to not ship Vista to europe if the EU didn't change policies to allow microsoft to continue to abuse their monopoly without issue.
Why should the EU care about not Vista not being shipped to them? Apparent, because they will miss out on the possible 50,000 jobs it would create. So the EU better hop to it and bend over for microsoft.
Yes, it does.
If the developer wanted the source code to be able to be used in commerical non-free applications then he would have released it under the BSD licence.
You seem confused and seem to be having trouble reading.
In no way does that sentance convey that Microsoft has a version of OpenOffice.org
But it does state that microsoft has an open source office suite. Which I've never seen.
Although most linux distro don't make changes to the kernel or xorg, testing for each distro is done by the package maintainers working on the specific distros.
The hardware manufacturers are already spending the time to write linux drivers, if they actually released the source for the drivers and had them put in to the kernel tree, then they would be updated for any changes to kernel APIs by the kernel developers. Bugs would be fixed quicker and all with less developer resources coming from the hardware manufacturer.
I'm guessing you've got a graphics card created by a hardware company that only release their drivers in a non-distributable binary blob. You should take up the issue with the hardware company.
Yeah, I've used NoScript. The problem is that so many sites pointlessly rely on javascript. large numbers of them are un-navigatable without javascript enabled.
If I blocked javascript on all sites that I visited that I didn't completely trust then I wouldn't be able to use a large number of sites. It's a problem of idiot web developers who don't know what they are doing, but think it will be COOL! eg. non web application sites using 'AJAX' because it's the new cool thing.
There is a subset of the standard that is supported completely by all browsers in major use. A good developer would use only those standard that are currently supported. HTML4 is pretty much fully supported and most of CSS1 and some of CSS2 is also supported.
Knowing which APIs are available on each platform is the major part of creating cross platform code.
What is the issue? If sites are not using W3C standards for development then they should know that they can't expect compatibility with browser updates. Blame the web developers. An update to Internet Explorer is critical for security reasons and shouldn't be delayed because some developers are idiots. The same issue occured with XP SP2. Idiot developers using non-standard APIs had issues in their software.
The thing about most Office suites, openoffice included, is that they are overly complex for what they are used for. The more complex the software is, the higher chance that there will be bugs.
Anyone in the industry also knows that a lot of issues with windows and malware are symtopms of the large user base and the general lack of technical skill among that user base.
I guarantee that if MacOSX gains a large chunk of the operating system market share it too will have it's share of malware. The problem isn't with the operating system, it's with the users. One can only do so much to protect users without getting in their way.
Just because MacOSX requires a user to enter their password before installing software doesn't mean that Joe Bloggs won't install malware in an attempt to see naked pictures of paris hilton.
Education of the user is the only way to solve security issues. Everything else is just duct tape. How many users do you know that: * Don't know that other people can read their email if they don't use encryption * Write their password down and stick it under their keyboard * Don't know how to identify if a website/email is from a company that it claims to be from * Still open random attachments to emails(Most of the recent viruses have been attachments to emails) etc.
ummm...so windows file and printer sharing is illegal?
sucks to be any small business without a central file server.
Is FTP P2P? If I put an FTP server on my PC and you put an FTP server on your PC, isn't that P2P?
sucks when idiots are making laws.
- Jesse McNelis
Damn, When I read that heading I thought maybe yahoo was going to open up their messager protocal. This doesn't even deserve to involve the word 'open'. But it can use the word 'API'
Slashdot Mirror
Removing other malicious software doesn't make the machine at all secure. It just eventually frees up computing resources to the malicious software controller has a more efficient botnet.
Pretty much evil. First it's malicious software that allows a remote user to command your machine. Second it install anti-virus software that chews up computing resources with out doing anything useful.
why would you convert your file system? There is no reason to unless you are actually having issues with it.
LULZ
oh, indeed. The main reason your anti-virus software is pointless.
If a piece of malicious software is well known enough for your anti-virus company to know about it, then a patch for the issue will be out very soon. Anti-virus software will only protect you from script kiddies and not someone that actually would have a good reason to steal your data. i.e your competition.
I'm sure the customers don't evening know that their data is stored on magnetic disks. It doesn't matter how the data is stored,it only matters how the device communicate with other devices. Device with this technology will probably just use the standard USB mass storage device driver.
Not at all. Most users don't know the difference and Apple makes very stylish hardware.
MacOS lacks market share for the same reason GNU\Linux lacks market share. Microsoft has it's users locked up nice and tight.
The skills required to perform well in Tests are completely different to the skills required in Assignments.
While writing essays in English, I found Assignments easy and did quite well because I had time to fully weight the issues involved. In my exams I was given 10 minutes to weight the issues involved in a essay topic with the rest of the exam time required for writing and structuring the essay.This ment that I got 80% on my assignments and pnly 40% on my exams.
According to your logic, It would be obivous that I was a cheater, instead of someone that thinks before they act.
- Jesse McNelis
Microsoft was threating to not ship Vista to europe if the EU didn't change policies to allow microsoft to continue to abuse their monopoly without issue.
Why should the EU care about not Vista not being shipped to them?
Apparent, because they will miss out on the possible 50,000 jobs it would create.
So the EU better hop to it and bend over for microsoft.
- Jesse McNelis
Yes, it does. If the developer wanted the source code to be able to be used in commerical non-free applications then he would have released it under the BSD licence.
That's the point of scientist. Engineer come up wit the solutions. Scientists come up with the basis for those solutions.
You seem confused and seem to be having trouble reading. In no way does that sentance convey that Microsoft has a version of OpenOffice.org But it does state that microsoft has an open source office suite. Which I've never seen.
That doesn't make it innovation.
'AJAX' is networking support built in to javascript. Nothing new about it. Most scripting languages have had networking support for quite a while.
Although most linux distro don't make changes to the kernel or xorg, testing for each distro is done by the package maintainers working on the specific distros.
The hardware manufacturers are already spending the time to write linux drivers, if they actually released the source for the drivers and had them put in to the kernel tree, then they would be updated for any changes to kernel APIs by the kernel developers. Bugs would be fixed quicker and all with less developer resources coming from the hardware manufacturer.
I'm guessing you've got a graphics card created by a hardware company that only release their drivers in a non-distributable binary blob.
You should take up the issue with the hardware company.
Yeah, I've used NoScript.
The problem is that so many sites pointlessly rely on javascript.
large numbers of them are un-navigatable without javascript enabled.
If I blocked javascript on all sites that I visited that I didn't completely trust then I wouldn't be able to use a large number of sites. It's a problem of idiot web developers who don't know what they are doing, but think it will be COOL!
eg. non web application sites using 'AJAX' because it's the new cool thing.
There is a subset of the standard that is supported completely by all browsers in major use.
A good developer would use only those standard that are currently supported.
HTML4 is pretty much fully supported and most of CSS1 and some of CSS2 is also supported.
Knowing which APIs are available on each platform is the major part of creating cross platform code.
- Jesse
What is the issue?
If sites are not using W3C standards for development then they should know that they can't expect compatibility with browser updates.
Blame the web developers.
An update to Internet Explorer is critical for security reasons and shouldn't be delayed because some developers are idiots.
The same issue occured with XP SP2. Idiot developers using non-standard APIs had issues in their software.
http://www.musicpd.org/ is wonderful.
The thing about most Office suites, openoffice included, is that they are overly complex for what they are used for. The more complex the software is, the higher chance that there will be bugs.
because mostly everyone of slashdot is an idiot.
Anyone in the industry also knows that a lot of issues with windows and malware are symtopms of the large user base and the general lack of technical skill among that user base.
I guarantee that if MacOSX gains a large chunk of the operating system market share it too will have it's share of malware. The problem isn't with the operating system, it's with the users. One can only do so much to protect users without getting in their way.
Just because MacOSX requires a user to enter their password before installing software doesn't mean that Joe Bloggs won't install malware in an attempt to see naked pictures of paris hilton.
Education of the user is the only way to solve security issues. Everything else is just duct tape.
How many users do you know that:
* Don't know that other people can read their email if they don't use encryption
* Write their password down and stick it under their keyboard
* Don't know how to identify if a website/email is from a company that it claims to be from
* Still open random attachments to emails(Most of the recent viruses have been attachments to emails)
etc.
- Jesse McNelis
ummm...so windows file and printer sharing is illegal? sucks to be any small business without a central file server. Is FTP P2P? If I put an FTP server on my PC and you put an FTP server on your PC, isn't that P2P? sucks when idiots are making laws. - Jesse McNelis
Damn, When I read that heading I thought maybe yahoo was going to open up their messager protocal.
This doesn't even deserve to involve the word 'open'. But it can use the word 'API'