It's that way in the US as well. I can still remember an episode of the old "Andy Griffith Show". Opie found a bunch of money. His dad the Sherrif made him turn it in to the police station. After waiting for a certain period of time with no one trying to claim it (or report it stolen, etc), it became Opie's.
And the number was just revised. The story has been trickling out from the government. More and more 'newly discovered records' on the laptop. It's not the standard/. dupe dupe dupe of the exact same story. It's a bunch of new updates to an old story that the goverment is slowly admitting to. This one is actually the fed's fault, not the lousy/. editors.
I understand that you went in blind, but I think the grandparent's point was, Valve absolutely hasn't been trying to hide this. If you'd looked around, you would have easily found that they only planned this to be a few hours play, nothing nearly as long as HL2. I'd much rather it was a longer game as well, but I've known for months that it wouldn't be. They weren't trying to pull a switcheroo on anyone.
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Three. Your forgetting the crash site in PA as well.
If QNX were opensource, you would see it on a ton of webservers real quick. It's brilliant code. They had a full operating system, GUI, modem drivers, and web browser, that all fit nicely on a floppy. You can't do that without very well written code.
RAID is not a backup. Say it with me. RAID is not a backup.
Not only won't RAID save you from a "rm -rf/", it won't save you if your power supply dies in an ugly way and takes all your attached components with it, your power line gets hit by lightening, and fries everything attached to that outlet, your house/biz gets burgled and they take the computer, you accidently delete a critical file you really need or realize you need it later, etc, etc, etc.
RAID is not a backup.
A backup is an offline copy that you can store at an off-site location just in case one of many many 'bad things' happen.
RAID is simply a way of increasing your uptime in case a single component fails. It's not a backup.
The group producing these is producing them for charity. Not so you can get a cheap PC. It's not a corporation with servicing you as a customer in mind. It's a charity trying to provide things for less fortunate people who need them.
Why don't you try going down to your local soup kitchen and tell them you want to buy a meal, but they better only charge you want it costs to make the food, because you don't want to have to donate to the other folks standing in line. See what kind of reception you get.
True, but then they work as any user. I've seen plenty of apps (Palm), that won't run right unless they've been installed by whatever user that is going to use them, and that user had to be an admin at the time of install.
No. Very few of Microsoft's apps won't run correctly as a regular user (there are a few exceptions). There are however a ton of 3rd party apps that won't run/install as a regular user. Microsoft has no control over those, and so delaying Vista over that would be stupid.
Windows itself handles rights failures so poorly (erroring out or worse, instead of just providing a prompt for the user to enter admin credentials)
You know, I'm not entirely sure that that's not a good thing. Every Mac user I know pretty much mechanically types in their admin username and password anytime a box pops up requiring it, with no thought going into if whatever they are doing should really require root/administrative rights. Once OSX market share gets large enough to make it a more viable target for writing of spyware, and the larger population of target machines alloows for better propogation, I expect we are going to see a really nasty infection rate on OSX machines.
Frankly, getting errors leads to people beating on the software developers to write their app properly so it considers security. Automagically getting a popup box for credentials leads to bad training for end users (whenever the box pops up, give away your ID/password). Not good.
Its possible to buy 10k sata or 15k scsi disks now which can feed more to the cpu.
They had 15k scsi disks back when he bought his rig as well. I've got some next to my desk here which have been running for more than 3 years. Nothing new here. Just a bit cheaper.
So? It's true.. everyone likes to think they aren't suckers for the latest piece of kit, but aren't we all?
As someone who's never been willing to shell out stupid money for the latest-greatest electronics, and always waits until it is at least 'older/mainstream' and had come *way* down in price... No.
This is MUCH MUCH different than a rape case. The plantiff in this case, is essentially, the entire general public of the U.S. Almost all of use could be/are affected by this. Being part of the plantiff's side, we should all have access to the information in the trial.
I'll bite. He was responding directly to the posted article stating that the old chestnut "And this just brings us right back to the oldest antivirus solution in the book: if you don't know the sender, DON'T OPEN THE FILE."
By proposing that as the 'antivirus solution' to the article, he certainly did imply that opening email from senders you know is OK. Especially since if anyone would bother to RTFA, the email is specifically written to look like an internal email.
You are responsible them safely. An automobile can crash into pedestrians and kill them, smash into other vehicles with the same result, etc. We don't spend a ton of money and time making cars totally totally safe. We expect poeple to use them responsibly. Take a class, learn how to drive etc.
Millions of people hunt or do target shooting with guns, responsibly. Others are idiots, don't watch where they are pointing them, and shoot others in their hunting party...
We are taught as children not to run with scissors. Why? Because sometimes very useful tools can be dangerous when used the wrong way.
You are at fault if you have a tool that is known to be dangerous in some ways, and don't use it responsibly.
Even if you use solid software that doesn't have exploits, and the user runs as a limited user instead of root/administrator, I've seen people follow instructions to elivate themselves to run a program with just some simple social engineering wording in the email. Better software isn't the full fix for this problem. Education and responsibility is still needed.
WRONG! Modern viruses, for YEARS now, have set their 'sent from' address as a random address they found in either the internet cache, or ADDRESS BOOK of the infected machine. Often many people in a random address book already know each other. That means the virus has a very good chance to be sent 'from' someone you know (in the address line), although that person didn't send it.
Don't trust an attachment just because it appears to come from someone you trust. If you aren't expecting that exact attachment, or there isn't very very clear working in the email that would make it relevant to something you know about rather than some generic topic, don't open it. Take two seconds and email the person back and ask what it is.
Trusting an attachment just because it appears to come from someone you know is STUPID.
and will turn Americans into pacifists as everyone who likes war gets the chance to die young in one...
I don't think most of the kids dying over there 'like' war. It's the idiot president and his vice president, neither of which ever fought in a war, which are eager to send in others to fight.
Yeah? And I'd like to know why this country spends HUNDREDS of billions of dollars on unnecessary wars. One gains knowledge for all mankind, the other pisses off the rest of the world and generates more enemies for us to have to fight down the road. I'd say the billions for space study is much more worthwile than many of the other things we do.
Probably because they are only going to try to sell a very few AMD servers, and all for PR. I'd lay money that it's from a backroom deal with Intel.
Last year Dell started selling AMD CPUs. Boxed CPUs. Dell didn't make *ANY* computers those CPU's would fit in, but they offered the CPUs for sale. Why? It's incredably stupid to sell one upgrade component, that will only fit in your competitors machines, but not in your own, isn't it? So why? The only reason I can think of, is so that when Intel goes into court, and AMD tells the judge that Intel is using monopoly leverage on Dell so that Dell only uses Intel CPUs, Intel can say, 'well, Dell actually sells AMD CPU's as well'.
I can't imagine any other reason for doing that. But a judge will probably see through that quickly, so now we get a new announcement from Dell that they will build *some* AMD based servers. How many? Not many. Only at least 4-way servers. Why only 4-way servers when we the customers have been clamering for AMD for years? Because they can say they use AMD as well, without really touching Intel's market share. This one is all to make Intel look like less of a monopoly to the courts folks. Don't get your hopes up for AMD based Dell medium/small servers or desktops. It ain't gonna happen.
There's only a proprietary OS that is always better than theirs, if there is a company pumping money into improvements to the code. If the the improvements are worth the cost, folks will buy them. That's fine with me. For myself, FreeBSD/OpenBSD are fine to use themselves. I don't have a problem if some folks want to pay more for extra features. Why does it bother you so much?
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It's that way in the US as well. I can still remember an episode of the old "Andy Griffith Show". Opie found a bunch of money. His dad the Sherrif made him turn it in to the police station. After waiting for a certain period of time with no one trying to claim it (or report it stolen, etc), it became Opie's.
And the number was just revised. The story has been trickling out from the government. More and more 'newly discovered records' on the laptop. It's not the standard /. dupe dupe dupe of the exact same story. It's a bunch of new updates to an old story that the goverment is slowly admitting to. This one is actually the fed's fault, not the lousy /. editors.
MS has Shadowcopy now, which is a really really basic version of it.
I understand that you went in blind, but I think the grandparent's point was, Valve absolutely hasn't been trying to hide this. If you'd looked around, you would have easily found that they only planned this to be a few hours play, nothing nearly as long as HL2. I'd much rather it was a longer game as well, but I've known for months that it wouldn't be. They weren't trying to pull a switcheroo on anyone.
Three. Your forgetting the crash site in PA as well.
If the Mafia got to his office chair, the could just as easily have gotten to his can of coffee and put some slow poison in it, etc, etc.
Idiots kill themselves and others playing with poison, chemicals, electricity, etc, all the time.
There's nothing really new or different about this.
Uranium is not a weapon of mass distruction unless you build a nuclear bomb from it.
If QNX were opensource, you would see it on a ton of webservers real quick. It's brilliant code. They had a full operating system, GUI, modem drivers, and web browser, that all fit nicely on a floppy. You can't do that without very well written code.
RAID is not a backup. Say it with me. RAID is not a backup.
/", it won't save you if your power supply dies in an ugly way and takes all your attached components with it, your power line gets hit by lightening, and fries everything attached to that outlet, your house/biz gets burgled and they take the computer, you accidently delete a critical file you really need or realize you need it later, etc, etc, etc.
Not only won't RAID save you from a "rm -rf
RAID is not a backup.
A backup is an offline copy that you can store at an off-site location just in case one of many many 'bad things' happen.
RAID is simply a way of increasing your uptime in case a single component fails. It's not a backup.
The AC's comment isn't intersting. It's wrong. SSH is on be default.
The group producing these is producing them for charity. Not so you can get a cheap PC. It's not a corporation with servicing you as a customer in mind. It's a charity trying to provide things for less fortunate people who need them.
Why don't you try going down to your local soup kitchen and tell them you want to buy a meal, but they better only charge you want it costs to make the food, because you don't want to have to donate to the other folks standing in line. See what kind of reception you get.
True, but then they work as any user. I've seen plenty of apps (Palm), that won't run right unless they've been installed by whatever user that is going to use them, and that user had to be an admin at the time of install.
No. Very few of Microsoft's apps won't run correctly as a regular user (there are a few exceptions). There are however a ton of 3rd party apps that won't run/install as a regular user. Microsoft has no control over those, and so delaying Vista over that would be stupid.
You know, I'm not entirely sure that that's not a good thing. Every Mac user I know pretty much mechanically types in their admin username and password anytime a box pops up requiring it, with no thought going into if whatever they are doing should really require root/administrative rights. Once OSX market share gets large enough to make it a more viable target for writing of spyware, and the larger population of target machines alloows for better propogation, I expect we are going to see a really nasty infection rate on OSX machines.
Frankly, getting errors leads to people beating on the software developers to write their app properly so it considers security. Automagically getting a popup box for credentials leads to bad training for end users (whenever the box pops up, give away your ID/password). Not good.
The vast majority of American parent's can't nearly afford a Hummer H1 for themselves, let alone buy one for their kid.
They had 15k scsi disks back when he bought his rig as well. I've got some next to my desk here which have been running for more than 3 years. Nothing new here. Just a bit cheaper.
As someone who's never been willing to shell out stupid money for the latest-greatest electronics, and always waits until it is at least 'older/mainstream' and had come *way* down in price... No.
This is MUCH MUCH different than a rape case. The plantiff in this case, is essentially, the entire general public of the U.S. Almost all of use could be/are affected by this. Being part of the plantiff's side, we should all have access to the information in the trial.
I'll bite. He was responding directly to the posted article stating that the old chestnut "And this just brings us right back to the oldest antivirus solution in the book: if you don't know the sender, DON'T OPEN THE FILE."
By proposing that as the 'antivirus solution' to the article, he certainly did imply that opening email from senders you know is OK. Especially since if anyone would bother to RTFA, the email is specifically written to look like an internal email.
You are responsible them safely. An automobile can crash into pedestrians and kill them, smash into other vehicles with the same result, etc. We don't spend a ton of money and time making cars totally totally safe. We expect poeple to use them responsibly. Take a class, learn how to drive etc.
Millions of people hunt or do target shooting with guns, responsibly. Others are idiots, don't watch where they are pointing them, and shoot others in their hunting party...
We are taught as children not to run with scissors. Why? Because sometimes very useful tools can be dangerous when used the wrong way.
You are at fault if you have a tool that is known to be dangerous in some ways, and don't use it responsibly.
Even if you use solid software that doesn't have exploits, and the user runs as a limited user instead of root/administrator, I've seen people follow instructions to elivate themselves to run a program with just some simple social engineering wording in the email. Better software isn't the full fix for this problem. Education and responsibility is still needed.
Why? Just be specific when you send an attachment.
"Dear wannabgeek, here's the spreadsheet on the WannaMaker account that we talked about at our tuesday meeting."
There ya go. No need to recontact someone because it's a very specific message that no generic trojan will have.
But if you get a message like:
"Dear Wannabgeek, can you check out this spreadsheet and tell me what you think?"
Then it's time to hit the reply and ask what it is, because a trojan could very well use a message like that to spread.
WRONG! Modern viruses, for YEARS now, have set their 'sent from' address as a random address they found in either the internet cache, or ADDRESS BOOK of the infected machine. Often many people in a random address book already know each other. That means the virus has a very good chance to be sent 'from' someone you know (in the address line), although that person didn't send it.
Don't trust an attachment just because it appears to come from someone you trust. If you aren't expecting that exact attachment, or there isn't very very clear working in the email that would make it relevant to something you know about rather than some generic topic, don't open it. Take two seconds and email the person back and ask what it is.
Trusting an attachment just because it appears to come from someone you know is STUPID.
I don't think most of the kids dying over there 'like' war. It's the idiot president and his vice president, neither of which ever fought in a war, which are eager to send in others to fight.
Yeah? And I'd like to know why this country spends HUNDREDS of billions of dollars on unnecessary wars. One gains knowledge for all mankind, the other pisses off the rest of the world and generates more enemies for us to have to fight down the road. I'd say the billions for space study is much more worthwile than many of the other things we do.
Probably because they are only going to try to sell a very few AMD servers, and all for PR. I'd lay money that it's from a backroom deal with Intel.
Last year Dell started selling AMD CPUs. Boxed CPUs. Dell didn't make *ANY* computers those CPU's would fit in, but they offered the CPUs for sale. Why? It's incredably stupid to sell one upgrade component, that will only fit in your competitors machines, but not in your own, isn't it? So why? The only reason I can think of, is so that when Intel goes into court, and AMD tells the judge that Intel is using monopoly leverage on Dell so that Dell only uses Intel CPUs, Intel can say, 'well, Dell actually sells AMD CPU's as well'.
I can't imagine any other reason for doing that. But a judge will probably see through that quickly, so now we get a new announcement from Dell that they will build *some* AMD based servers. How many? Not many. Only at least 4-way servers. Why only 4-way servers when we the customers have been clamering for AMD for years? Because they can say they use AMD as well, without really touching Intel's market share. This one is all to make Intel look like less of a monopoly to the courts folks. Don't get your hopes up for AMD based Dell medium/small servers or desktops. It ain't gonna happen.
There's only a proprietary OS that is always better than theirs, if there is a company pumping money into improvements to the code. If the the improvements are worth the cost, folks will buy them. That's fine with me. For myself, FreeBSD/OpenBSD are fine to use themselves. I don't have a problem if some folks want to pay more for extra features. Why does it bother you so much?