No kidding. Where is their verison of PalmOS based on BeOS? I've been waiting YEARS to get my hands on that. It's still not out there. They grabbed some phenomenal IP and developers, and yet they've never produced anything from it...
Certainly it relies on some assumptions, and there are exceptions. Sometimes MS does release a critical patch between patch Tuesdays if there is there is an exploit in the wild, etc.
Security is always a matter of trade offs, comprehensive security vs functionality, ease-of-use, etc, etc. I'm not saying that it's a total win on either side, merely that after analysis a lot of their major clients determined that a monthly cycle would be the trade-off they wanted, and it's a pretty reasonable one. There are always going to be exploits out that MS doesn't know about, and others that they scramble to beat to the punch after someone announces a hole without giving them ample warning to fix it.
I was mainly responding to the first anonymous troll. I'm not a MS fanboy by any means. I don't feel safe unless an OpenBSD machine is between me and evildoers;) MS does plenty of evil, lazy and/or really stupid things. Patch Tuesday is simply not one of them. They responded to customer requests by giving them what the customers asked for. It's a trade-off, but I think a quite reasonable one, and might be the best one for the situation as it is.
Some security holes are reported to the public by security researchers, etc. But lots of them are security holes MS finds themselves, or are reported to them in private by security researchers (giving them a fair amount of time to fix them before they would be made public).
When MS releases a patch to fix one of those MS-only-new-about holes, hackers do quick diffs, etc between them and the original files to find out what exactly the hole was that MS was patching. They then write an exploit for it and release it on the net (to take over machines for bot-armies, do corporate espionage, etc). This happens within a day or a few days of the patch release. If a company doesn't bother testing and rolling out those patches until a bunch of them accumulate, they are going to leave a nice big window of attack for the bad guys.
Psst, hey anonymous troll. MS used to release patches at random intervals as soon as they were ready as well. They did that for many years. Their huge corporate clients asked them to consolidate the patches to a regular interval so that their tech staff could test and roll them out in synch, saving tons of time testing all their regular and custom built in-house apps with each patch that MS released to make sure nothing broke, then rolling them out to thousands of machines, then testing all their stuff again 3 days later when another patch rolled out, then 5 days later when another patch rolled out, etc, etc.
Patch Tuesday was because of customer requests. This isn't 'competition' against patch tuesday.
It doesn't matter that the object that emitted the photon was moving away at high speed. The light travels at the same speed towards us regardless of the speed of the object it was emitted from. The speed of light, which is a constant. The only thing the object moving fast away from us would affect is the wavelength.
"RFID chips can be read at a short distance and tracked without their owner's knowledge, while the key to unlocking the passport's chip consists of details actually printed on the passport itself."
"It is almost like writing your pin number on the back of your cashpoint card."
"The basic access control mechanism works based on information like the number of the passport, the name of the passport holder, the date of birth and then other data which are simply readable by anyone who looks on the passport," said Professor Kai Rannenberg of Frankfurt University.
Do you want all the info on your passport's personal details page readable by absolutely everyone you walk by?
If someone walks by you while it is in your pocket, they can't read off the pertinent information physically written on it in order to decode the encrypted RFID data. I'm sure given enough CPU time it could eventually be cracked without that data, but there are other much easier ways of doing identity theft.
Is it lousy security? Yes. Is someone likely to be able to steal your identity by waking by you when it is in your pocket? No.
Sorry, Wikipedia is *NOT* a real reference for anything, let alone religion. And if you do cite that silly website as a 'reference', at least learn to fucking do it right so that you and the person later reading it, are actually reading the same fucking material. By the way, even the wanking wiki definition says that about 'many agnostics', not all, and that's based on if they have never heard of gods.
If you have heard of gods but think 'none exist', you are an atheist. If you have heard of them but 'don't know if one/many really exist', then you are an agnostic.
Do you stone people for wearing clothing with more than one type of fabric? That's in the bible too. Or did you just dislike the act of it, and refuse to purchase any blends or wear multiple fabrics at the same time yourself?
er, if you are not a corporate customer, you aren't likely to have a new Microsoft DHCP server giving you your IP address, and caring if you are patched or not.
So you download updates normally. Your ISP's DHCP server, or the one built into that $25 home router you bought, isn't going to care what your windows patch level is.
The lawsuit isn't needed anymore. By posting the story to/. as an anonymous coward, the store owner just blasted the bloggers website off the net. Now google'ers will bypass the downed blog website, and go on to the store.
I don't know any admin who would use these for a corporate network. ISOs are typically a thing you use when you only have one or a handful of individual machines to update. WSUS makes things easy to customize for what computer receives what individual patches without messing with DIY patch ISOs. WSUS Server chaining, replicas, or offline updates allows you to copy settings to other WSUS servers without worrying about 'backup ISOs' of what you have selected. It does it all for you.
Yes, which is why I said I don't buy an estranged husband claims about a man drugging his ex-wife until I see some corroborating evidence. I didn't say Hans murdered her. I was merely saying that his pointing to another guy wasn't very convincing without more evidence besides his word alone.
I'm sure the cops might screw up. But if this guy had drugged her several times, was into 'death yoga', yadda, yadda, yadda, don't you think she'd tell a close friend or family member about this before she told her estranged husband? If a woman I knew disappeared and I knew that about the boyfriend, I'd be all over the cops to check it out, and make sure reporters EVERYWHERE heard about it so that they'd add on the pressure to quadruple check the boyfriends alibi. Why haven't we heard about any of her family or friends telling this in the news? Instead it's only come from Hans, her estranged husband, and suspect in the case...
I certainly haven't seen all the evidence, but from what I've heard so far, it just doesn't look good for Hans.
Won't all that happen the same way if you let your computer sleep or hibernate?
For hibernate, yes. Because the computer is OFF. It just has a file set to load the memory back into the same state as it was when it was hibernated (shut down). Sleep will be slightly less strain on the hardware, because some of the power (to memory, etc) is still being supplied in sleep mode.
The hard drive, in either case, still has to restart and spin up. It takes a lot more power to start up than to maintain a steady state of spin. There is a bit of a power surge when this happens, which can be a strain on the components. Additionally, there can be problems with mechanical startup of the hard drive. As anyone who has had to maintain hundreds of machines and they will tell of of hard drive failures where the problem is getting the drive to start spinning. (Some folks hit them with a screwdriver handle, others put them in freezers to 'unstick' them etc) Once the 'stuck' drive starts to spinning, it will often keep spinning, but then had problems again on the next cold start.
Good modern power supplies and motherboards will often power up your machine in segments (hard drives, one power supply wire at a time, then fans, then motherboard, etc) in order to prevent sending one huge surge of power at all the components at the same time, which can often fry components if there is a spike. The cheaper or older your power supply, the less likely it is to have that feature. It's also why modern motherboards often tout features like "8-Phase Power Design", etc. Power fluctuations can fry components and make the computer do 'bad things'. The surge during startup is the most common times for these things to happen.
Where did it say I trust the cops entirely? I am sure the cops would look at the love interest. Whether they would be correct is a different matter, but I'm sure they looked at it.
Nowhere in the linked article is there any evidence that any of those claims *made by Hans* are true. I think it is extremely likely that if a woman was dating someone like that, she would confide in a friend or relative of the situation before she told her estranged husband. The police could find that out with very little legwork. Since there were no corroborating statements by anyone else in the linked article, I can't put any much faith in any of that being true from this distance. Can you?
Can you put a price on memories (digital pictures, saved e-mail, et cetera)? As more and more of our lives are stored on our computers, the cost associated with hardware failure increases. For some of us, the paltry amount of money it takes to keep a box powered 24/7 is worth the security of not being totally boned when a drive dies.
Umm, there are these things called backups. You should look into them sometime.
You should never be boned out of more than a day or so worth of work when a drive dies.
I really don't know if it's that great of an idea to turn of a computer over lunch. One of the hardest things on a computer (hard drive, motherboard, power supply, you name it) is starting up. That's when most hardware failures occur. Shutting the computer down for an hour at a time and rebooting is going to shorten lifetimes of your hardware. I think when that hard drive fries it might well take more energy to construct a new hard drive and restore backups, etc, than you probably would have saved during those 30-60 minutes x however many days.
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Not only that, their blender doesn't even have a pull starter
No kidding. Where is their verison of PalmOS based on BeOS? I've been waiting YEARS to get my hands on that. It's still not out there. They grabbed some phenomenal IP and developers, and yet they've never produced anything from it...
Certainly it relies on some assumptions, and there are exceptions. Sometimes MS does release a critical patch between patch Tuesdays if there is there is an exploit in the wild, etc.
;) MS does plenty of evil, lazy and/or really stupid things. Patch Tuesday is simply not one of them. They responded to customer requests by giving them what the customers asked for. It's a trade-off, but I think a quite reasonable one, and might be the best one for the situation as it is.
Security is always a matter of trade offs, comprehensive security vs functionality, ease-of-use, etc, etc. I'm not saying that it's a total win on either side, merely that after analysis a lot of their major clients determined that a monthly cycle would be the trade-off they wanted, and it's a pretty reasonable one. There are always going to be exploits out that MS doesn't know about, and others that they scramble to beat to the punch after someone announces a hole without giving them ample warning to fix it.
I was mainly responding to the first anonymous troll. I'm not a MS fanboy by any means. I don't feel safe unless an OpenBSD machine is between me and evildoers
Some security holes are reported to the public by security researchers, etc. But lots of them are security holes MS finds themselves, or are reported to them in private by security researchers (giving them a fair amount of time to fix them before they would be made public).
When MS releases a patch to fix one of those MS-only-new-about holes, hackers do quick diffs, etc between them and the original files to find out what exactly the hole was that MS was patching. They then write an exploit for it and release it on the net (to take over machines for bot-armies, do corporate espionage, etc). This happens within a day or a few days of the patch release. If a company doesn't bother testing and rolling out those patches until a bunch of them accumulate, they are going to leave a nice big window of attack for the bad guys.
Psst, hey anonymous troll. MS used to release patches at random intervals as soon as they were ready as well. They did that for many years. Their huge corporate clients asked them to consolidate the patches to a regular interval so that their tech staff could test and roll them out in synch, saving tons of time testing all their regular and custom built in-house apps with each patch that MS released to make sure nothing broke, then rolling them out to thousands of machines, then testing all their stuff again 3 days later when another patch rolled out, then 5 days later when another patch rolled out, etc, etc.
Patch Tuesday was because of customer requests. This isn't 'competition' against patch tuesday.
It doesn't matter that the object that emitted the photon was moving away at high speed. The light travels at the same speed towards us regardless of the speed of the object it was emitted from. The speed of light, which is a constant. The only thing the object moving fast away from us would affect is the wavelength.
UYFB and RTFA.
"RFID chips can be read at a short distance and tracked without their owner's knowledge, while the key to unlocking the passport's chip consists of details actually printed on the passport itself."
"It is almost like writing your pin number on the back of your cashpoint card."
"The basic access control mechanism works based on information like the number of the passport, the name of the passport holder, the date of birth and then other data which are simply readable by anyone who looks on the passport," said Professor Kai Rannenberg of Frankfurt University.
Do you want all the info on your passport's personal details page readable by absolutely everyone you walk by?
If someone walks by you while it is in your pocket, they can't read off the pertinent information physically written on it in order to decode the encrypted RFID data. I'm sure given enough CPU time it could eventually be cracked without that data, but there are other much easier ways of doing identity theft.
Is it lousy security? Yes. Is someone likely to be able to steal your identity by waking by you when it is in your pocket? No.
Idiot Savants (Rainman) are extremely good at some things.
Being great at those things doesn't mean their minds adapt to other real world problems...
Sorry, Wikipedia is *NOT* a real reference for anything, let alone religion. And if you do cite that silly website as a 'reference', at least learn to fucking do it right so that you and the person later reading it, are actually reading the same fucking material. By the way, even the wanking wiki definition says that about 'many agnostics', not all, and that's based on if they have never heard of gods.
If you have heard of gods but think 'none exist', you are an atheist. If you have heard of them but 'don't know if one/many really exist', then you are an agnostic.
Oh, PS: I'm agnostic.
Not all of us atheists are hateful adolescent anti-Christian reactionaries.
If you are agnostic, you aren't an atheist. They are two different things. Don't try to speak for either. Especially if you don't know the difference.
Do you stone people for wearing clothing with more than one type of fabric? That's in the bible too. Or did you just dislike the act of it, and refuse to purchase any blends or wear multiple fabrics at the same time yourself?
No, making Jessica Alba invisible is just soooooo wrong.
er, if you are not a corporate customer, you aren't likely to have a new Microsoft DHCP server giving you your IP address, and caring if you are patched or not.
So you download updates normally. Your ISP's DHCP server, or the one built into that $25 home router you bought, isn't going to care what your windows patch level is.
The lawsuit isn't needed anymore. By posting the story to /. as an anonymous coward, the store owner just blasted the bloggers website off the net. Now google'ers will bypass the downed blog website, and go on to the store.
Brilliant!
I don't know any admin who would use these for a corporate network. ISOs are typically a thing you use when you only have one or a handful of individual machines to update. WSUS makes things easy to customize for what computer receives what individual patches without messing with DIY patch ISOs. WSUS Server chaining, replicas, or offline updates allows you to copy settings to other WSUS servers without worrying about 'backup ISOs' of what you have selected. It does it all for you.
Er, they have Windows XP SP2 available. That came out well after 2002 IIRC.
I didn't look around more for other newer patches, but they might be doing that as well.
Yes, which is why I said I don't buy an estranged husband claims about a man drugging his ex-wife until I see some corroborating evidence. I didn't say Hans murdered her. I was merely saying that his pointing to another guy wasn't very convincing without more evidence besides his word alone.
I'm sure the cops might screw up. But if this guy had drugged her several times, was into 'death yoga', yadda, yadda, yadda, don't you think she'd tell a close friend or family member about this before she told her estranged husband? If a woman I knew disappeared and I knew that about the boyfriend, I'd be all over the cops to check it out, and make sure reporters EVERYWHERE heard about it so that they'd add on the pressure to quadruple check the boyfriends alibi. Why haven't we heard about any of her family or friends telling this in the news? Instead it's only come from Hans, her estranged husband, and suspect in the case...
I certainly haven't seen all the evidence, but from what I've heard so far, it just doesn't look good for Hans.
Won't all that happen the same way if you let your computer sleep or hibernate?
For hibernate, yes. Because the computer is OFF. It just has a file set to load the memory back into the same state as it was when it was hibernated (shut down). Sleep will be slightly less strain on the hardware, because some of the power (to memory, etc) is still being supplied in sleep mode.
The hard drive, in either case, still has to restart and spin up. It takes a lot more power to start up than to maintain a steady state of spin. There is a bit of a power surge when this happens, which can be a strain on the components. Additionally, there can be problems with mechanical startup of the hard drive. As anyone who has had to maintain hundreds of machines and they will tell of of hard drive failures where the problem is getting the drive to start spinning. (Some folks hit them with a screwdriver handle, others put them in freezers to 'unstick' them etc) Once the 'stuck' drive starts to spinning, it will often keep spinning, but then had problems again on the next cold start.
Good modern power supplies and motherboards will often power up your machine in segments (hard drives, one power supply wire at a time, then fans, then motherboard, etc) in order to prevent sending one huge surge of power at all the components at the same time, which can often fry components if there is a spike. The cheaper or older your power supply, the less likely it is to have that feature. It's also why modern motherboards often tout features like "8-Phase Power Design", etc. Power fluctuations can fry components and make the computer do 'bad things'. The surge during startup is the most common times for these things to happen.
Where did it say I trust the cops entirely? I am sure the cops would look at the love interest. Whether they would be correct is a different matter, but I'm sure they looked at it.
Nowhere in the linked article is there any evidence that any of those claims *made by Hans* are true. I think it is extremely likely that if a woman was dating someone like that, she would confide in a friend or relative of the situation before she told her estranged husband. The police could find that out with very little legwork. Since there were no corroborating statements by anyone else in the linked article, I can't put any much faith in any of that being true from this distance. Can you?
Can you put a price on memories (digital pictures, saved e-mail, et cetera)? As more and more of our lives are stored on our computers, the cost associated with hardware failure increases. For some of us, the paltry amount of money it takes to keep a box powered 24/7 is worth the security of not being totally boned when a drive dies.
Umm, there are these things called backups. You should look into them sometime.
You should never be boned out of more than a day or so worth of work when a drive dies.
You need a better water heater than you have. Get one with good insulation. That cuts way way down on the heat transfer.
er, ALL of the points seem to be hearsay from the article. All were claims by Hans, and nothing was reported to substantiate those claims.
I'm sure the police would have looked at her current love interest, and apparently they didn't find cause to suspect him as much as Reiser.
I really don't know if it's that great of an idea to turn of a computer over lunch. One of the hardest things on a computer (hard drive, motherboard, power supply, you name it) is starting up. That's when most hardware failures occur. Shutting the computer down for an hour at a time and rebooting is going to shorten lifetimes of your hardware. I think when that hard drive fries it might well take more energy to construct a new hard drive and restore backups, etc, than you probably would have saved during those 30-60 minutes x however many days.
The AJ saying things like waterbording aren't torture is kinda like saying 'these are not the droids you are looking for'. Umm, yeah, they are.