We're out 'ere lookin for signs of the elusive XP2 that's been said to be lurkin' in the wild...
Crikey, I've just spotted a wild paypah-clip in it's natural 'abitat! Look at those big ole eyes an'.. oh!.. there he goes trying to ask me if he can 'elp me!! You see, this creature is what's known as a parasite, 'ee leeches off o' your Windows Management Instrumentation databases. It's 'ard to satisfy one o' these buggers, they'll never leave ya alone until they've done your work for ya.
While I do realize this was meant to be a joke, it's funny how people generalize the Republican party to be a bunch of rich people while ignoring the financial status of the Democrats. People act like John Kerry is some poster boy for the poor American while Bush sits in his palace rolling in money. The fact of the matter is that John Kerry is a billionaire who dwarfs Bush's net woth many many times over. Have you seen where the guy lives? His many houses/mansions? Where he goes for vacations? John Kerry and the Democrats are no poor man's hero, I can guarantee you that. Even Cheney has nothing on this guy.
I paid for a car in cash once and you seriously just have to be ready to walk out on those assclowns and go to the next dealer in the area. I went to a couple of Honda dealers when I bought my car, knowing that I would pay cash but keeping it a secret since they are more willing to bargain if they think they can make interest off of you. First thing out of their mouths is always "What kind of payments are you looking at?". Anyhow, by persistence that I would not go above what I believed I could spend and what was reasonable for the car I ended up taking $2100 off the sticker price (a two-year old used Civic, mind you). Everytime I gave them my final offer they came back with some number in the middle. Eventually I just got up and started walking out, told them I was going to the other Honda dealer down the highway, and after he "talked with his manager" the car was mine for the price I budgeted.
One of my friends worked for them, and they get just about everything in the store for what it costs Best Buy to purchase it, plus a 5% markup. Those monster cables and things you pay $30-$60 for? Yeah those are like $5 to employees. I had this friend buy me a $500 digital camera a while back, and it ended up costing me around $425. They wanted something like $125 I think for the service plan, but he could get it for $15 as an employee so I hooked it up. The warranty is transferable so he transferred it to me. I already used it once to get a completely new camera because the USB port wasn't working right. It would have been a big hassle to ship it to the manufacturer for their warranty.
There is a reason I shop sales only, these people mark stuff up like crazy. Even when they have "big sales" they are still making their money just fine. The warranty plans are useful, but usually not worth the price unless you do like me and use an insider.;)
The point is that PRACTICALLY, Microsoft is the most insecure operating system because you cannot hook a default install up to the internet without getting 20 worms by the time you patch it up.
In THEORY, you are correct that it is all about exploits and there are possibly exploitable holes just as much in Linux or Mac. Difference? In the real world, they are exploited much less on the latter two. Also, critical issues are fixed MUCH faster in the latter two leading to a less vulnerable system.
MOREOVER, these assclowns count a vulnerability in every piece of free software as a Linux vulnerability and only count core vulnerabilities in Microsoft. Similarly for Mac probably.
So yes, exploits are what matters, but in the REAL WORLD there are more exploits for Windows and more boxes constantly being exploited, so your point is moot.
Of course you'll notice the common Win32. in front of all of them.
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Don't see any reason why a device would need to be created specifically for 802.11i.
Ah, that would be because corporations are greedy. Sure they could give you a firmware upgrade, but they could also peddle a completely new product that costs you money.
Just did a search for fortune in my Gentoo portage. Came back with this, made me laugh:
* games-misc/fortune-mod-dubya
Latest version available: 20040527
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 24 kB
Homepage: http://dubya.seiler.us/
Description: Quotes from George W. Bush
License: as-is
We'll be seeing virus updates that clean and fix the problem before there is even a patch out. What's that? You forgot to renew your yearly subscription? Better pony up or you'll be vulnerable for a long time.
It's just a little scary that a company that is responsible for almost all viruses and worms is now going to benefit financially from such failure to secure their product. They're marketing their shortcomings to you as a new product! What will they think of next?
If you settle, you are agreeing that the other side's case had merit such that you're willing to pay to make it go away.
Or that it would be less expensive to pay off the plaintiff than pay lawyers to go to trial. A settlement is not an admission of guilt, just a legal shortcut that could end up saving money.
How is picking 120,000 people as potential terrorists based on some arbitrary algorithm "doing its job well"? Do you really think there are 120,000 terrorists in America? Do you really think that the government will do better to harass 120,000 people, most of whom are not terrorists, than to, say, infiltrate terrorist groups and find out who really, actually, is a terrorist?
From the article: "Seisint and the law enforcement officials who oversee Matrix insist that the terrorism scoring system ultimately was kept out of the project, largely because of privacy concerns."
"I'll put my 26 years of law enforcement experience on the line. It is not in there," said Mark Zadra, chief investigator for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement."
Whether or not you believe it is another thing. Anyways, some other interesting things:
"He said Matrix, which has 4 billion records, merely speeds access to material that police have always been able to get from disparate sources, and does not automatically or proactively finger suspects.
Bill Shrewsbury, a Seisint executive and former federal drug agent, said the terrorism scoring algorithm that produced the list of 120,000 names was "put on the shelf" after it was demonstrated immediately following Sept. 11, 2001."
"Of the people with the 80 highest scores, five were among the Sept. 11 hijackers, Seisint's presentation said. Forty-five were identified as being or possibly being under existing investigations, while 30 others "were unknown to FBI."
"Investigations were triggered and arrests were made by INS and other agencies," the presentation added. Two bullet points stated: "Several arrests within one week" and "Scores of other arrests." It does not provide details of when and where the investigations and arrests took place.
Phil Ramer, who heads Florida state police's intelligence division, said his agency found the list a useful starting point for some investigations, though he said he could not recall how many. He stressed that the list was not used as the sole evidence to make arrests.
"What we did with the list is we went back and found out how they got on the list," Ramer said."
So if that's not clear to you yet, they aren't using the algorithm to randomly harass and shadow 120,000 random people. They use it as a starting point to look at the most suspicious people and investigate them. The ones that they had enough info on, they arrested. I consider that a good thing. If you are honestly worried that this list will produce your name and the FBI will come after you, then I'm glad because they're doing their job to get you off the street. Otherwise, get real.
I'm sure all the tin-foil hats will come out of the woodworks about this. Seriously though, do you not expect the agency reponsible for anti-terrorism efforts to actually do its job well? If this could have stopped those planes from killing thousands of civilians, people would be screaming in outrage about how we didn't use it when we should have. The problem is this country (this world, really) is that everybody wants to be reactive and not proactive. This is especially true in the computer security field, as we all know.
Everyone bitches and moans about systems like this that can prevent terrorist attacks, but then they make a huge stink about some memo from Richard Clarke that had next to nothing useful in it. Go figure.
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If only they would spend less time playing games maybe they could create fast networks for scientific research or something...
Oh wait nevermind that's what TFA is about.
We're out 'ere lookin for signs of the elusive XP2 that's been said to be lurkin' in the wild...
Crikey, I've just spotted a wild paypah-clip in it's natural 'abitat! Look at those big ole eyes an'.. oh!.. there he goes trying to ask me if he can 'elp me!! You see, this creature is what's known as a parasite, 'ee leeches off o' your Windows Management Instrumentation databases. It's 'ard to satisfy one o' these buggers, they'll never leave ya alone until they've done your work for ya.
</steve irwin>
While I do realize this was meant to be a joke, it's funny how people generalize the Republican party to be a bunch of rich people while ignoring the financial status of the Democrats. People act like John Kerry is some poster boy for the poor American while Bush sits in his palace rolling in money. The fact of the matter is that John Kerry is a billionaire who dwarfs Bush's net woth many many times over. Have you seen where the guy lives? His many houses/mansions? Where he goes for vacations? John Kerry and the Democrats are no poor man's hero, I can guarantee you that. Even Cheney has nothing on this guy.
..and together we can emerge some love.
j/k if my wife reads this she'll kill me... please don't tell her... really!
24 hours to install on a shiny new Pentium 4 is NOT progress.
;)
Neither is running 386 binaries on a Pentium 4.
I, for one, certainly do NOT welcome our Earthling satellite overlords.
-Marvin
I paid for a car in cash once and you seriously just have to be ready to walk out on those assclowns and go to the next dealer in the area. I went to a couple of Honda dealers when I bought my car, knowing that I would pay cash but keeping it a secret since they are more willing to bargain if they think they can make interest off of you. First thing out of their mouths is always "What kind of payments are you looking at?". Anyhow, by persistence that I would not go above what I believed I could spend and what was reasonable for the car I ended up taking $2100 off the sticker price (a two-year old used Civic, mind you). Everytime I gave them my final offer they came back with some number in the middle. Eventually I just got up and started walking out, told them I was going to the other Honda dealer down the highway, and after he "talked with his manager" the car was mine for the price I budgeted.
One of my friends worked for them, and they get just about everything in the store for what it costs Best Buy to purchase it, plus a 5% markup. Those monster cables and things you pay $30-$60 for? Yeah those are like $5 to employees. I had this friend buy me a $500 digital camera a while back, and it ended up costing me around $425. They wanted something like $125 I think for the service plan, but he could get it for $15 as an employee so I hooked it up. The warranty is transferable so he transferred it to me. I already used it once to get a completely new camera because the USB port wasn't working right. It would have been a big hassle to ship it to the manufacturer for their warranty.
;)
There is a reason I shop sales only, these people mark stuff up like crazy. Even when they have "big sales" they are still making their money just fine. The warranty plans are useful, but usually not worth the price unless you do like me and use an insider.
The point is that PRACTICALLY, Microsoft is the most insecure operating system because you cannot hook a default install up to the internet without getting 20 worms by the time you patch it up.
In THEORY, you are correct that it is all about exploits and there are possibly exploitable holes just as much in Linux or Mac. Difference? In the real world, they are exploited much less on the latter two. Also, critical issues are fixed MUCH faster in the latter two leading to a less vulnerable system.
MOREOVER, these assclowns count a vulnerability in every piece of free software as a Linux vulnerability and only count core vulnerabilities in Microsoft. Similarly for Mac probably. So yes, exploits are what matters, but in the REAL WORLD there are more exploits for Windows and more boxes constantly being exploited, so your point is moot.
These are the statistics that really matter:
Secunia Virus Statistics
Of course you'll notice the common Win32. in front of all of them.
Don't see any reason why a device would need to be created specifically for 802.11i.
Ah, that would be because corporations are greedy. Sure they could give you a firmware upgrade, but they could also peddle a completely new product that costs you money.
BSD is the guy everyone ignored. He died yesterday.
./, I like BSD too!)
(hey it's
Is there less spam in Seattle??
:)
2. One that plans or devises: a country considered to be the chief architect of war in the Middle East
I knew it! GW Bush is The Architect.
Oh wait, I forgot how articulate the Architect is supposed to be. Hrmm.
Just did a search for fortune in my Gentoo portage. Came back with this, made me laugh:
* games-misc/fortune-mod-dubya
Latest version available: 20040527
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 24 kB
Homepage: http://dubya.seiler.us/
Description: Quotes from George W. Bush
License: as-is
If you have the framebuffer enabled, try links -g -driver fb. Pretty nice for a console app! Remember to start gpm first.
.. we have states bigger than your entire country. So the distance problem comes up a lot.
We'll be seeing virus updates that clean and fix the problem before there is even a patch out. What's that? You forgot to renew your yearly subscription? Better pony up or you'll be vulnerable for a long time.
It's just a little scary that a company that is responsible for almost all viruses and worms is now going to benefit financially from such failure to secure their product. They're marketing their shortcomings to you as a new product! What will they think of next?
If you settle, you are agreeing that the other side's case had merit such that you're willing to pay to make it go away.
Or that it would be less expensive to pay off the plaintiff than pay lawyers to go to trial. A settlement is not an admission of guilt, just a legal shortcut that could end up saving money.
9) ???
10) PROFIT!!
Old MacDonald wrote an office suite, EI EI Oh!
;)
And with that suite he takes on Bill, EI EI Whoa!
With a click click here, and a load load there, here a click, there a load, everywhere a click load.
Old MacDonald wrote it in Java, EI EI Slow!
It's quite an embarassment, especially as they're a northern state.
:)
How is picking 120,000 people as potential terrorists based on some arbitrary algorithm "doing its job well"? Do you really think there are 120,000 terrorists in America? Do you really think that the government will do better to harass 120,000 people, most of whom are not terrorists, than to, say, infiltrate terrorist groups and find out who really, actually, is a terrorist?
From the article:
"Seisint and the law enforcement officials who oversee Matrix insist that the terrorism scoring system ultimately was kept out of the project, largely because of privacy concerns."
"I'll put my 26 years of law enforcement experience on the line. It is not in there," said Mark Zadra, chief investigator for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement."
Whether or not you believe it is another thing. Anyways, some other interesting things:
"He said Matrix, which has 4 billion records, merely speeds access to material that police have always been able to get from disparate sources, and does not automatically or proactively finger suspects. Bill Shrewsbury, a Seisint executive and former federal drug agent, said the terrorism scoring algorithm that produced the list of 120,000 names was "put on the shelf" after it was demonstrated immediately following Sept. 11, 2001."
"Of the people with the 80 highest scores, five were among the Sept. 11 hijackers, Seisint's presentation said. Forty-five were identified as being or possibly being under existing investigations, while 30 others "were unknown to FBI."
"Investigations were triggered and arrests were made by INS and other agencies," the presentation added. Two bullet points stated: "Several arrests within one week" and "Scores of other arrests." It does not provide details of when and where the investigations and arrests took place. Phil Ramer, who heads Florida state police's intelligence division, said his agency found the list a useful starting point for some investigations, though he said he could not recall how many. He stressed that the list was not used as the sole evidence to make arrests. "What we did with the list is we went back and found out how they got on the list," Ramer said."
So if that's not clear to you yet, they aren't using the algorithm to randomly harass and shadow 120,000 random people. They use it as a starting point to look at the most suspicious people and investigate them. The ones that they had enough info on, they arrested. I consider that a good thing. If you are honestly worried that this list will produce your name and the FBI will come after you, then I'm glad because they're doing their job to get you off the street. Otherwise, get real.
I'm sure all the tin-foil hats will come out of the woodworks about this. Seriously though, do you not expect the agency reponsible for anti-terrorism efforts to actually do its job well? If this could have stopped those planes from killing thousands of civilians, people would be screaming in outrage about how we didn't use it when we should have. The problem is this country (this world, really) is that everybody wants to be reactive and not proactive. This is especially true in the computer security field, as we all know.
Everyone bitches and moans about systems like this that can prevent terrorist attacks, but then they make a huge stink about some memo from Richard Clarke that had next to nothing useful in it. Go figure.
schmoozing with the teacher to get higher grades
This works better for the Slashdot crowd. They are much better at romancing computers than people to get what they want.