Everything about these idiots screams "asshole". Look at their web site advertising their product:
Don't know what your kids are doing on the net?
Worried that your partner is cheating on you?
Want to see what your employees are really doing instead of working?
Ever wanted to be a hacker like in the movies?
Great product niche - allowing paranoid idiots to spy on everyone in their life. Then there's a fantastically smug notice at the bottom of the web site that says:
Please note that the "crack" by "team tbe" doesn't work anymore.;)
Like I said - everything these guys do and say has asshole written all over it.
WTF?... Can I buy some pot from these moderators and the parent poster?
I love how on Slashdot a minor misunderstanding warrants the indignation of "WTF?" followed by an accusation of drug use.
I imagine in real life that you're much more pleasant. Perhaps in such a circumstance you would have said something along the lines of, "You may have missed that they will be releasing the source code, they just haven't done it yet."
I read it as "Birth Patent" the first time too. That gives me an idea for Slashdot's next April 1st edition... Headlines and article text that change everytime you click on them/do a mouseover/etc.
The heading Democrats Defeat Online FOS Act and omission of the Why certainly colours this article.
I don't think the article poster or the editor did anything wrong at all. The article they were linking to was headlined Democrats defeat election-law aid for bloggers which is essentially the same thing as the Slashdot article.
like something has been attached which allows oil drilling in Yosemite National Park.
The whole point of submitting it the way it was submitted (suspension calendar) was to prevent exactly what you're talking about. The Republican leadership wanted the bill introduced a certain way and wanted to preclude anyone from adding other things. Don't believe me? Look at Nancy Pelosi's diary where she states:
This is an issue that must be fully discussed in open debate on the House floor through a process that permits amendments to be offered and voted on. The Republican Leadership brought this bill to the floor through the suspension calendar which does not permit such an opportunity.
Clearly, she didn't want this fast-tracked and wanted the ability to add whatever amendments she and her colleagues desired.
That you agreed to something and then they installed their software based on your agreement?
You either work for Sony or you didn't read any of the several articles on this topic. From TFA:
I checked the EULA and saw no mention of the fact that I was agreeing to have software put on my system that I couldn't uninstall.
Further down...
Getting rid of the rootkit proved nigh impossible and caused further problems, according to Russinovich.
This isn't a simple matter of not having read the EULA and having buyer's remorse. This is a matter of a company deliberately misleading you. If still not convinced, read the article a little further:
Russinovich noticed that the rootkit's 'cloaking code hides any file, directory, Registry key or process whose name begins with "$sys$". To verify that I made a copy of Notepad.exe named $sys$notepad.exe and it disappeared from view.'
Hmmm... A program that not only hides itself, a la rootkit but also gives a convenient way for any virus, trojan or malware to hide itself as well!
For some icing on the cake - no uninstall is made available.
I can't imagine storing relational data in anything other than a server-based SQL database at this point. I have a hammer and everything looks like a nail to me.
Since I work all day every day with SQL Server databases, it's more of a nuisance for me with non-commercial projects to go to Access or similar non-server-based offerings.
I bought a Mini-ITX system a couple years ago. I think it had an 800 MHz VIA EPIA processor in it. Its primary function at the time was to play DivX movies which it did not do very well - it seemed the processor was a bit underpowered to do that.
I would like to get another one to replace the system in my MAME cabinet. Before I subject the internet store I bought the last one from to another buy and return, can anyone tell me if an 800 MHz VIA EPIA C3 processor can play common MAME games smoothly? Would you recommend a 1.0 GHz M or MII instead?
I forgot to turn off my CUTEftp client and left it running all night. In the morning some system had loaded some weird software called "active skin," and I had to use SpySubtract to remove 26 Registry entries...how anything manages to worm in through the open port and place items in the Registry is beyond me, but it happens all the time.
Amazing how he jumps to the conclusion that because something told him he had spyware on his system, he assumes it's because he left an FTP client in memory overnight. Interesting theory.
Because FTP clients typically aren't exploitable "through an open port", you dingleberry, let me propose an alternate theory: You're a clueless moron that doesn't understand the most basic of security concepts.
I hate all these new security schemes. ING Direct just changed the way you have to log into their web site and it is a pain. What I really don't get are why there must be infinite levels of security to log into my bank's web site but the most minimal security involved in me walking into the bank.
I recently needed a large 6-figure check for a house closing. I walked into my bank armed only with my savings account number and expired driver's license. Their computers were down so they couldn't validate my balance so they made a call to another branch. Then they gave me the money! This same bank practically requires a DNA sample to log into their web site. It's ludicrous.
IBM has received 29,021 patents--more than any other company or individual in the world.
In a related note, The SCO Group, Inc. (SCOX) has announced that they are suing IBM for 29,021 counts of using their intellectual property within IBM inventions.
they should already have internet connection, in which case there should be no reason for making this on a CD unless I am missing something.
The idea behind this is to encourage more people to use Firefox. Giving a CD with everything needed is preferable to sending a link to certain friends/family because a CD sitting on your desk is a constant reminder to install Firefox. Also, some people don't think software is real unless they're given real media to install it with. Why does AOL go to all the expense to send out their CDs? Because it's more effective to get people to install it than many other techniques (giving out a phone number or link for instance).
The internet is now a key part of the infrastructure of many countries and no matter if you like it or not, nations don't like it when a critical part of their infrastructure is controlled by a foreign government.
Does this apply to everything? Should foreign governments also have a controlling interest in the U.S. GPS system because it's a key part of their infrastructure?
You were our friends when the Nazis were breathing down your neck. You were our friends when the Soviets were breathing down yours neck. Now that everything's fine (largely thanks to the U.S.), you don't need us anymore and suddenly we're the one you fear.
Corporations provide more money in a more directed manner than individual donors. Money pays for shiny ads to say good things about you and/or bad things about your political adversaries. Shiny ads convince people to vote for you.
Corporations = Money = Ads = Getting (re)elected
Any surprise they cater to corporations and not invididuals?
extraordinarily bright future in which technological progress has leapt
This really sounds like one of those "In the year 2000, people will be..." If this type of thing were remotely true, I'd be driving a hover car to work right now. And yes, I know they exist but I don't know a single person that has even the remotest possibility of owning one.
I guess you have to come up with this kind of thing to sell books or articles. I would imagine nobody would be buying a book envisioning the year 2025 as pretty much the same as today with more hard disk space and faster CPUs.
In ten years a few engineers will be designing new classes of electronics based on quantum principles... It will all be magic by then.
I hope you're right. My fear though is that the current generation will be so busy IMing each other and playing video games that they will never learn how to create IM clients or make video games, let alone completely new technologies.
I would like to know who pays for these investigations. There are all kinds of crimes that go uninvestigated but somehow they have time and resources to use James Bond tactics to track down someone that released a movie on the Internet.
We live in an age where almost everyone has gotten rid of their 35mm camera and replaced it with a digital camera. Most such people have no idea how to use them. I have a dozen or so family members with 256 meg flash RAM in their digital camera, and it's a good thing because they have no idea how to copy the pictures to their computer. And what if they did manage that? The next inevitable hard drive crash would make them lose all of them anway.
I automatically copy my digital pictures and mini-dv files from my workstation to a server on a nightly basis. Then manually once a week I copy it to a removable hard drive inside a USB controller. Then every few months I make DVD+R backups. I'm still not satisfied - I'm looking into Streamload.com as a cheap Internet backup.
When I first replied to jellomizer with what I thought was a reasonably tactful correction of his use of the word "hydrogenous", his signature said something to the effect of "Waiting until I get a root post with +10 Yea!" (paraphrasing).
Well, after I posted my response to him (read it for yourself here, he changed his sig to:
--
Insult me if you feel you must, Ill just mod down your other messages.
Out of curiosity, I checked my user page. Several of my comments in the last couple days have been modded down. Of course, nobody would have any reason to mod them down - they're long since off the first page.
Karma is so ridiculously easy to come by that I wouldn't imagine anyone would care enough to do such a thing. I think this qualifies as the most assinine use of mod points in quite some time. Congratulations, asshat!
This is why having a Hydrogenous network and/or having a society where no one platform dominates.
I'm guessing hydrogenous is not the word you were looking for. Assuming of course that you weren't proposing that we base our networks on hydrogen.
I'm going to instead assume you meant heterogeneous which is something often proposed on Slashdot and grants the proposer instant karma as people rush to mod them up.
The only problem is having a hetereogeneous environment increases your support costs whether you have a security incursion or not. How many people are security experts in Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris, FreeBSD and CPM? Not many. Which means that for every environment your IT staff supports, you need additional admins.
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Everything about these idiots screams "asshole". Look at their web site advertising their product:
;)
Don't know what your kids are doing on the net?
Worried that your partner is cheating on you?
Want to see what your employees are really doing instead of working?
Ever wanted to be a hacker like in the movies?
Great product niche - allowing paranoid idiots to spy on everyone in their life. Then there's a fantastically smug notice at the bottom of the web site that says:
Please note that the "crack" by "team tbe" doesn't work anymore.
Like I said - everything these guys do and say has asshole written all over it.
I remember seeing such notices on BBSs circa 1986.
WTF?...
Can I buy some pot from these moderators and the parent poster?
I love how on Slashdot a minor misunderstanding warrants the indignation of "WTF?" followed by an accusation of drug use.
I imagine in real life that you're much more pleasant. Perhaps in such a circumstance you would have said something along the lines of, "You may have missed that they will be releasing the source code, they just haven't done it yet."
I read it as "Birth Patent" the first time too. That gives me an idea for Slashdot's next April 1st edition... Headlines and article text that change everytime you click on them/do a mouseover/etc.
The heading Democrats Defeat Online FOS Act and omission of the Why certainly colours this article.
I don't think the article poster or the editor did anything wrong at all. The article they were linking to was headlined Democrats defeat election-law aid for bloggers which is essentially the same thing as the Slashdot article.
like something has been attached which allows oil drilling in Yosemite National Park.
The whole point of submitting it the way it was submitted (suspension calendar) was to prevent exactly what you're talking about. The Republican leadership wanted the bill introduced a certain way and wanted to preclude anyone from adding other things. Don't believe me? Look at Nancy Pelosi's diary where she states:
This is an issue that must be fully discussed in open debate on the House floor through a process that permits amendments to be offered and voted on. The Republican Leadership brought this bill to the floor through the suspension calendar which does not permit such an opportunity.
Clearly, she didn't want this fast-tracked and wanted the ability to add whatever amendments she and her colleagues desired.
That you agreed to something and then they installed their software based on your agreement?
You either work for Sony or you didn't read any of the several articles on this topic. From TFA:
I checked the EULA and saw no mention of the fact that I was agreeing to have software put on my system that I couldn't uninstall.
Further down...
Getting rid of the rootkit proved nigh impossible and caused further problems, according to Russinovich.
This isn't a simple matter of not having read the EULA and having buyer's remorse. This is a matter of a company deliberately misleading you. If still not convinced, read the article a little further:
Russinovich noticed that the rootkit's 'cloaking code hides any file, directory, Registry key or process whose name begins with "$sys$". To verify that I made a copy of Notepad.exe named $sys$notepad.exe and it disappeared from view.'
Hmmm... A program that not only hides itself, a la rootkit but also gives a convenient way for any virus, trojan or malware to hide itself as well!
For some icing on the cake - no uninstall is made available.
Will the free version of Oracle be subject ot the same weak Oracle password encryption scheme that the commercial version is?
I've duplicated a number of techniques in the SANS article to make me leery of password security on my Oracle machines.
I can't imagine storing relational data in anything other than a server-based SQL database at this point. I have a hammer and everything looks like a nail to me.
Since I work all day every day with SQL Server databases, it's more of a nuisance for me with non-commercial projects to go to Access or similar non-server-based offerings.
I bought a Mini-ITX system a couple years ago. I think it had an 800 MHz VIA EPIA processor in it. Its primary function at the time was to play DivX movies which it did not do very well - it seemed the processor was a bit underpowered to do that.
I would like to get another one to replace the system in my MAME cabinet. Before I subject the internet store I bought the last one from to another buy and return, can anyone tell me if an 800 MHz VIA EPIA C3 processor can play common MAME games smoothly? Would you recommend a 1.0 GHz M or MII instead?
I forgot to turn off my CUTEftp client and left it running all night. In the morning some system had loaded some weird software called "active skin," and I had to use SpySubtract to remove 26 Registry entries...how anything manages to worm in through the open port and place items in the Registry is beyond me, but it happens all the time.
Amazing how he jumps to the conclusion that because something told him he had spyware on his system, he assumes it's because he left an FTP client in memory overnight. Interesting theory.
Because FTP clients typically aren't exploitable "through an open port", you dingleberry, let me propose an alternate theory: You're a clueless moron that doesn't understand the most basic of security concepts.
I hate all these new security schemes. ING Direct just changed the way you have to log into their web site and it is a pain. What I really don't get are why there must be infinite levels of security to log into my bank's web site but the most minimal security involved in me walking into the bank.
I recently needed a large 6-figure check for a house closing. I walked into my bank armed only with my savings account number and expired driver's license. Their computers were down so they couldn't validate my balance so they made a call to another branch. Then they gave me the money! This same bank practically requires a DNA sample to log into their web site. It's ludicrous.
IBM has received 29,021 patents--more than any other company or individual in the world.
In a related note, The SCO Group, Inc. (SCOX) has announced that they are suing IBM for 29,021 counts of using their intellectual property within IBM inventions.
they should already have internet connection, in which case there should be no reason for making this on a CD unless I am missing something.
The idea behind this is to encourage more people to use Firefox. Giving a CD with everything needed is preferable to sending a link to certain friends/family because a CD sitting on your desk is a constant reminder to install Firefox. Also, some people don't think software is real unless they're given real media to install it with. Why does AOL go to all the expense to send out their CDs? Because it's more effective to get people to install it than many other techniques (giving out a phone number or link for instance).
The internet is now a key part of the infrastructure of many countries and no matter if you like it or not, nations don't like it when a critical part of their infrastructure is controlled by a foreign government.
Does this apply to everything? Should foreign governments also have a controlling interest in the U.S. GPS system because it's a key part of their infrastructure?
You were our friends when the Nazis were breathing down your neck. You were our friends when the Soviets were breathing down yours neck. Now that everything's fine (largely thanks to the U.S.), you don't need us anymore and suddenly we're the one you fear.
Corporations provide more money in a more directed manner than individual donors. Money pays for shiny ads to say good things about you and/or bad things about your political adversaries. Shiny ads convince people to vote for you.
Corporations = Money = Ads = Getting (re)elected
Any surprise they cater to corporations and not invididuals?
extraordinarily bright future in which technological progress has leapt
This really sounds like one of those "In the year 2000, people will be..." If this type of thing were remotely true, I'd be driving a hover car to work right now. And yes, I know they exist but I don't know a single person that has even the remotest possibility of owning one.
I guess you have to come up with this kind of thing to sell books or articles. I would imagine nobody would be buying a book envisioning the year 2025 as pretty much the same as today with more hard disk space and faster CPUs.
I checked the list several times but I couldn't find "Slashdot using CSS" anywhere!
My dad's had an ant named after him for years and he didn't have to come up with a fancy search engine to do it. He's only a carpenter.
In ten years a few engineers will be designing new classes of electronics based on quantum principles... It will all be magic by then.
I hope you're right. My fear though is that the current generation will be so busy IMing each other and playing video games that they will never learn how to create IM clients or make video games, let alone completely new technologies.
Whoever modded this guy Flamebait is a moron. While I disagree with what he says (almost completely) I fail to see any flamebait in it.
Thank god for meta-moderation.
I am shocked (shocked) that people don't get sarcasm.
I too am shocked. Subtle sarcastic humor always goes over so well on Slashdot.
I would like to know who pays for these investigations. There are all kinds of crimes that go uninvestigated but somehow they have time and resources to use James Bond tactics to track down someone that released a movie on the Internet.
We live in an age where almost everyone has gotten rid of their 35mm camera and replaced it with a digital camera. Most such people have no idea how to use them. I have a dozen or so family members with 256 meg flash RAM in their digital camera, and it's a good thing because they have no idea how to copy the pictures to their computer. And what if they did manage that? The next inevitable hard drive crash would make them lose all of them anway.
I automatically copy my digital pictures and mini-dv files from my workstation to a server on a nightly basis. Then manually once a week I copy it to a removable hard drive inside a USB controller. Then every few months I make DVD+R backups. I'm still not satisfied - I'm looking into Streamload.com as a cheap Internet backup.
When I first replied to jellomizer with what I thought was a reasonably tactful correction of his use of the word "hydrogenous", his signature said something to the effect of "Waiting until I get a root post with +10 Yea!" (paraphrasing).
Well, after I posted my response to him (read it for yourself here, he changed his sig to:
--
Insult me if you feel you must, Ill just mod down your other messages.
Out of curiosity, I checked my user page. Several of my comments in the last couple days have been modded down. Of course, nobody would have any reason to mod them down - they're long since off the first page.
Karma is so ridiculously easy to come by that I wouldn't imagine anyone would care enough to do such a thing. I think this qualifies as the most assinine use of mod points in quite some time. Congratulations, asshat!
This is why having a Hydrogenous network and/or having a society where no one platform dominates.
I'm guessing hydrogenous is not the word you were looking for. Assuming of course that you weren't proposing that we base our networks on hydrogen.
I'm going to instead assume you meant heterogeneous which is something often proposed on Slashdot and grants the proposer instant karma as people rush to mod them up.
The only problem is having a hetereogeneous environment increases your support costs whether you have a security incursion or not. How many people are security experts in Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris, FreeBSD and CPM? Not many. Which means that for every environment your IT staff supports, you need additional admins.