You are absolutely right. But since the phone company, cable company, gas company (enron), electric company, university, etc are ripping us off hand over fist, I think THAT excuses diliberate, opportunistic piracy. Phantom $5 phone charges. Gas bills out the roof in the winter. Raised college rates as much as 65% in 4 years. Face it, piracy (as in the high seas) is alive and well and pretty much makes up the culture of business in the USA nowadays. Its the new american way my friend, so dont expect people to give it up without a fight, and dont expect anyone to give a shit about piracy when there are companies taking up to 32 Billion of our money with no recompense whatsoever. You can expect the average Joe to fight to protect it as hard if not harder than big business fights to destroy the environment on our cool world. It seems like its ok for big business to rape us, but OH SO WRONG when we do it back. Guess that is what happens on both side of the fence when 'ethics' is no longer something that is taught.
Please dont moralize about this shit. Software and music piracy is the symptom, not the disease.
wow, thank you for the information. I checked out the ports that are sending stuff on my machine and there are 3 that are highly suspect.
I guess its time to reinstall my OS again.:(
Lets talk about hard facts. Since you have all the answers, I'll ask you the following questions.
1) Why are people in the world trying to kil us? What did we do to make them so angry?
2) Why don't people of the world like Jews and Christians and Muslims?
3) What history do these groups have that could possibly warrant the world to dislike them?
Hard facts please, thank you.
Vox.
You want to get into semantics, you can argue till you are blue in the face, suit yourself. Obviously we were assuming that there are would-be attackers, as it was a security post.
Pass if you wish, just note that even MS themselves say running as root is a very bad plan. You are free to make your own decisions, I was just trying to help you to do it safer.
Internet Explorer is intimately tied to Windows, therefore when it is unpatched, things in the base OS also go unpatched. I am sure you know this. So if IE is unpatched, it will go reported as a problem. Do you know if IE zones settings effect the OS? (Look it up hotshot.)
Sounds like you got it all figured out then, so why bother posting it in the first place? Answering a helpful post with blatant sarcasm only exposes your obvious immaturaty and ignorance. Take care.
From your description I can't tell the difference from Joe Sixpack and our current lawmakers. Congress and the Senate certainly "don't understand technical issues and believe that DVD pirates wrote de-CSS" and passed the DMCA as a result, which we can pretty much all agree is a bad law.
Are you suggesting that Joe Congress shouldn't be allowed to dictate policy? I mean, after all they have demonstrated time and time again they don't understand technology. (Patent law anyone?)
One thing I forgot to mention before. In the case of games and things of that nature, they often depend upon multiple exes to get things done. In this case, Run As may not work perfectly as it most likely run on a shortcut to the main exe. Example: Shortcut to hl.exe In this case you need to make sure that you have the folder set to 'inhertible permissions'. Im pretty sure this is a security risk, but once again its better than running full root.
To learn more about how to set inheritable permissions, click on Start->Help->Index-> and search for this exact phrase (In W2K) "file permissions, inheritance" . Most likely the same for win XP, but I dont run it so Im not 100% sure.
After rereading and pondering your post, I would have to concede that perhaps it is only certain civil rights that are also "unalienable" rights. The issue of slavery being one of them. I am not a law student, so I openly admit I may be mistaken now that I reflect on the difference in inalienable rights and civil rights.
If I signed a contract stating that I am your slave, it would not hold up in court. I don't have a reference, so you can call bullshit, but from what i understand this is true. The reasoning according to my professor was that you cannot sign away a civil right. University of Penn.
In windows terms, its bad because the person can Read, Write, Edit, and Delete any file on your computer. I think this is bad. If you do not log in as Administrator, you can still run things as admin without having to log out and without compromising as much of your machine. To do this, you need to make sure the "Run As Service" is enabled in your Administrative Settings/Services control panel. (While you are at it, disable telnet if you arent using it and also disable Remote Registry Service no matter what.) Once RAS is enabled, you can hold down the shift key and right click on anything in windows (a cmd shortcut even if you like the command line) and click Run As... then run it as Admin. Instead of running your WHOLE machine as admin, it will just run that one program (Maya, Half Life come to mind) as admin, and the things it uses. In my honest (and openly admitted unprofessional) opinion, this is better than running as root the whole time. I am not a security specialist, but I read a lot. I guess its possible if you are already owned to lose control through Run as Service if they already have your password. Im sure there are other problems with the service, but my understanding is that it is much better than rooting all the time, especially if you use a software firewall and have DSL or cable. (Spammers)
Im not trying to dis your windows knowledge, but if you dont know about run as service, chances are you would never know if you got hacked either. If you really want to see how vulnerable you are, even after the windows updates, I suggest you download the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and see just how vulnerable you have been running your machine. I just learned about this program, and it's a real shame they don't advertise it at least. Seems like a real useful one, even if it only has a few tests and probably has a lot of holes it doesn't check. There were at least 4 critical level downloads i needed to fix certain issues that DO NOT show up in windowsupdate for some stupid ass reason. Expect to have to read some technical information about problems and search/find it yourself at microsoft.com for the updates. Something about MDAC, which I'm not too familiar with.
Disclaimer: I am not a MS shill, I just like to play games. (And this is not a sig, this is reference to MS and this security post.)
While I am not qualified to talk about whether one operating system sucks over another in any department, I can say that at my last corporation the software engineers were almost always bitching about Solaris. If it wasn't the log files, it was teh install files, or getting the installs at all, or getting Solaris to even recognize we bought support, etc. The solaris machine was always in that sorta mystical land of 'way over my head' and therefore respected and feared at the same time. (I'm an artist/front end guy.) One old head would order it as a toy, it would get deployed, and in the end we would have to move it all to W2K at Sprint. (Massive simultaneous user base for this product.) The director of the soft. engineers used to say it's his most expensive paperweight. A tired old joke but funny all the same as it ended up being mostly true. I always marvelled at how small they were. I never understood why they couldn't get it running correctly, I know nothing of Solaris. One thing I know for sure is that is was the cause of more frustration than just about anything else i heard about in that department. I honestly don't think we ever got it to serve anything and I think it became a Java testing machine. And a spendy one at that since we almost always ended up switching to Sprint and ditching it altogether.
It should be in no way possible that your digital camera gets better resolution than film. If it blows it out of the water, it must be on a time and film development cost basis or a quickness to shoot and portability basis. Incorrectly set aperture settings, light meters and whatnot maybe screwing your regular photos up, provided you are using a low to mid range Single Lens Reflex camera. Inproperly exposed film is usually what leads people to believe they have a crappy camera, when in fact usually it is a light meter degradation error, and less often user error. Many times, the light meter inside the camera is old and or runs on sepatate batteries that are hard to find anymore. This can also lead to poorly exposed photos if you are unaware of it. Often when i get an old camera, I take pictures of the same thing and slowly let more light in, writing down the settings Im using. This way I can tell just how many stops off my lightmeter is in regard to my aperture. I was able to get a Pentax Honeywell from someone at a garage sale who swore it took awful pictures, for about $25. It easily a $400 camera and my pictures on it come out better than with any of my 3 digital cameras. On a portability and 'use now' scale, digital is the wway to go. Reporters use it religiously as they can see the images while they are still in the field. Ive not heard of too many fine artists using only digital, but I do see a lot of it lately.
While I agree that digital blows the film cameras out of the water in quickness to use, I doubt they will surpass film in image quality any time soon.
Steroids are lumped into the category of "drugs' and are cetainly illegal in the US. Especially in the world of pro sports. Its considered blashphemy. (but they all do it.)
Ultimately sports are about testing the limits of mankind, but steriod make the limits different, which is why they are forbidden in the US and in the olympics.
Our government is protecting these people, furthering the belief that the law does not apply to rich people. If I was caugh with steriods I would be in jail with due haste.
Im im saying is that these things are already happening. To sit back and say "I sure aint gonna pay it!" is ridiculous as you already are paying for it.
While i totally feel you on the limits of the drinking age, my point (however badly made)was that we are already paying for the addicts as it is.
I think its terribly funny when people do the whole reblican-democrat fighting. Im surprised you havent noticed that they are towing the same line anymore. Take a look at Clintons history, hes the best republican democrat that ever took office. Face it folks, the only reason two parties still exist is so you feel you have some control, but you dont.
Um, we are already paying for healthcare, welfare, and the other costs for drug addicts. You think that the hospital turns them away when they come in all overdosed? Hell no. And then guess who pays for it, YOU DO! Ever wondered why health care costs are skyrocketing? Here's a hint: no one can afford it, so the people who can have to take up the slack.
Most of the drunks I know are useless turds. Same would be true if they were crackheads, but they aren't. What is the difference between prohibition and meth? Prohibition started the most infamous gangsters to date in this country, doing exactly waht they drug dealers are doing now. It was FAR more impactful than what we are dealing with. The country rioted. People wanted to get high, and there were even drinking parties in the white house during prohibition. Even our government were crackheads/criminals. The law was not respected, even by our government officials. Looks like things haven't changed much.
Like hell we do. Only if you are a prole. Our so called government is striking the names of the steroid ridden baseball players from the books as we speak. I guess the war on drugs is only against us nobodies. These ball players (except for maybe Barry Bonds) are currently being protected by the same government that started the 'war on drugs'. Why is it ok to protect the ball players, but nail the rest of the nobodies?
There is no more order, let alone decent law. You can bet that if these spammers are making money, the government will protect them, even if it means your little 6 year old daughter gets an email with a woman sucking off a goat. What happened to Rush Limbaugh? Bill Clinton lied under oath, what happened as a result of that? That's right, not a damn thing. But if I lie under oath, they'll put me away. Democracy my a-hole!
We only send them to jail when we find them if they are a minority or poor.
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Please dont moralize about this shit. Software and music piracy is the symptom, not the disease.
Please sub the word USA for clinton. I dont know how i slipped that in there.
Give me some good reason, not some bullshit. Our sanctions did more to ruin Iraq as a country than Saddam did. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Mark Maughan is worthless as a post.
take care, vox
Lets talk about hard facts. Since you have all the answers, I'll ask you the following questions. 1) Why are people in the world trying to kil us? What did we do to make them so angry? 2) Why don't people of the world like Jews and Christians and Muslims? 3) What history do these groups have that could possibly warrant the world to dislike them? Hard facts please, thank you. Vox.
You know what I've noticed? It's the wild west all over again anymore...
What graphics card was it? How do i stop things from listening?
Internet Explorer is intimately tied to Windows, therefore when it is unpatched, things in the base OS also go unpatched. I am sure you know this. So if IE is unpatched, it will go reported as a problem. Do you know if IE zones settings effect the OS? (Look it up hotshot.)
Sounds like you got it all figured out then, so why bother posting it in the first place? Answering a helpful post with blatant sarcasm only exposes your obvious immaturaty and ignorance. Take care.
Are you suggesting that Joe Congress shouldn't be allowed to dictate policy? I mean, after all they have demonstrated time and time again they don't understand technology. (Patent law anyone?)
I thought the same thing daily for, oh, about 2 years.
To learn more about how to set inheritable permissions, click on Start->Help->Index-> and search for this exact phrase (In W2K) "file permissions, inheritance" . Most likely the same for win XP, but I dont run it so Im not 100% sure.
After rereading and pondering your post, I would have to concede that perhaps it is only certain civil rights that are also "unalienable" rights. The issue of slavery being one of them. I am not a law student, so I openly admit I may be mistaken now that I reflect on the difference in inalienable rights and civil rights.
If I signed a contract stating that I am your slave, it would not hold up in court. I don't have a reference, so you can call bullshit, but from what i understand this is true. The reasoning according to my professor was that you cannot sign away a civil right. University of Penn.
Im not trying to dis your windows knowledge, but if you dont know about run as service, chances are you would never know if you got hacked either. If you really want to see how vulnerable you are, even after the windows updates, I suggest you download the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and see just how vulnerable you have been running your machine. I just learned about this program, and it's a real shame they don't advertise it at least. Seems like a real useful one, even if it only has a few tests and probably has a lot of holes it doesn't check. There were at least 4 critical level downloads i needed to fix certain issues that DO NOT show up in windowsupdate for some stupid ass reason. Expect to have to read some technical information about problems and search/find it yourself at microsoft.com for the updates. Something about MDAC, which I'm not too familiar with.
Disclaimer: I am not a MS shill, I just like to play games. (And this is not a sig, this is reference to MS and this security post.)
While I am not qualified to talk about whether one operating system sucks over another in any department, I can say that at my last corporation the software engineers were almost always bitching about Solaris. If it wasn't the log files, it was teh install files, or getting the installs at all, or getting Solaris to even recognize we bought support, etc. The solaris machine was always in that sorta mystical land of 'way over my head' and therefore respected and feared at the same time. (I'm an artist/front end guy.) One old head would order it as a toy, it would get deployed, and in the end we would have to move it all to W2K at Sprint. (Massive simultaneous user base for this product.) The director of the soft. engineers used to say it's his most expensive paperweight. A tired old joke but funny all the same as it ended up being mostly true. I always marvelled at how small they were. I never understood why they couldn't get it running correctly, I know nothing of Solaris. One thing I know for sure is that is was the cause of more frustration than just about anything else i heard about in that department. I honestly don't think we ever got it to serve anything and I think it became a Java testing machine. And a spendy one at that since we almost always ended up switching to Sprint and ditching it altogether.
While I agree that digital blows the film cameras out of the water in quickness to use, I doubt they will surpass film in image quality any time soon.
You cannot sign away a civil right. Point blank. Doesn't matter what you signed.
Ultimately sports are about testing the limits of mankind, but steriod make the limits different, which is why they are forbidden in the US and in the olympics.
Our government is protecting these people, furthering the belief that the law does not apply to rich people. If I was caugh with steriods I would be in jail with due haste.
While i totally feel you on the limits of the drinking age, my point (however badly made)was that we are already paying for the addicts as it is.
I think its terribly funny when people do the whole reblican-democrat fighting. Im surprised you havent noticed that they are towing the same line anymore. Take a look at Clintons history, hes the best republican democrat that ever took office. Face it folks, the only reason two parties still exist is so you feel you have some control, but you dont.
Most of the drunks I know are useless turds. Same would be true if they were crackheads, but they aren't. What is the difference between prohibition and meth? Prohibition started the most infamous gangsters to date in this country, doing exactly waht they drug dealers are doing now. It was FAR more impactful than what we are dealing with. The country rioted. People wanted to get high, and there were even drinking parties in the white house during prohibition. Even our government were crackheads/criminals. The law was not respected, even by our government officials. Looks like things haven't changed much.
There is no more order, let alone decent law. You can bet that if these spammers are making money, the government will protect them, even if it means your little 6 year old daughter gets an email with a woman sucking off a goat. What happened to Rush Limbaugh? Bill Clinton lied under oath, what happened as a result of that? That's right, not a damn thing. But if I lie under oath, they'll put me away. Democracy my a-hole!
We only send them to jail when we find them if they are a minority or poor.
I would like to vote my conscience, so I'm voting for less evil. Who is that again?
Insert a blank unformatted disk and log in as admin?