You'll have to excuse my lack of Windows knowledge. I've been clean since Windows 3.11, running Macs and not touched a drop of Windows since.
If it's true that Windows stores unsecured passwords in a non-protected registry that's pretty poor.
Keychain is good if configured well. I have a secure keychain that locks automatically after 30 minutes (and so required me to enter a password), and a second keychain that is left unlocked (for minor passwords).
Even if you configure your keychain well though, if someone is willing to run an AppleScript that exploits Mail, that user is still most likely to not notice. Even if it is an app that's trying to do something cheeky, most users are likely to just agree.
I think that decent OS design is important but user education is most the most important step.
I think the new feature in 10.3 that warns you the first time you open a new document type is good though.
Being content to leave something as it's pretty much always been is not the best solution in this case.
Most people accept that murder is wrong, genocide is wrong, discrimination against women is wrong, racism and homophobia is wrong. The world changes.
The ten commandments have no place in law and civil order. Laws must be created by living people, not dead religious leaders. I and many other consider the ten commandments and any aspects of religion to be highly offensive. To be fair to all, the government must not endorse or be controlled by religous interests.
It's a natural tendency to concentrate on what's closest to home. When I think of WWII, I tend to think more of the British lives lost and not immediately consider the sheer number of people lost by other nations. I don't think it's out of focus, it's just people focusing on what's closest to home.
I'm not sure where you live but I'm from the UK and the news reporting does bear out what you say. If there is some kind of serious disaster, the news report will say something like 'Massive dissaster in far-away country, 10,000 dead. 4 britons killed.'
You are correct though. It would be good if we looked beyond our own 'neighbourhood' more often.
Yeah, as long as you clean install and de-frag every now and then, it's a perfectly viable machine for general office work and some retro-gaming.
In many cases, when someone complains of their older machine not running, it is generally poor maintenance, expecting more than the machine can do, or my favourite. Physical ram of 64MB with virtual memory set to 760MB.
Yeah, I don't remember ever buying Netscape Navigator or Communicator. If memory serves though, there was a product called Netscape Gold. I think this was the version you had to pay for.
The Economist ran an interesting article related to this. Although it doesn't involve credit card/ATM details, people in the street were willing to reveal their computer passwords for a pen.
This is serious enough though. If I were to tell you my password, you'd certainly be in a good position to steal my identity.
Here's a snippet
Human failings, in other words, can undermine even the cleverest security measures. In one survey, carried out by PentaSafe Security, two-thirds of commuters at London's Victoria Station were happy to reveal their computer password in return for a ballpoint pen. Another survey found that nearly half of British office workers used their own name, the name of a family member or that of a pet as their password.
If a women wears a short skirt, then it's their own fault if they get raped.
If she's walking through a nasty area at night, then certainly it's not sensible but it's still not her fault.
I think a better analogy would be, if a motorist doesn't believe in using seatbelts, it's their fault if they end up taking a journey through the windscreen that would otherwise have been prevented by wearing a seatbelt.
You can create, and to a certain extent, edit playlists on the iPod without needing iTunes. You're correct though that iPod is closely integrated with iTunes.
Although other players may have more features, I don't think it's raw features that are most important to consumers. The simplicity of the iPod has for me been one of it's main selling points.
I have MS Word and Text Edit (the bundled simple word processor/text editor). Most of the time, I just use Text Edit because it's faster and easier to use. I only fire up Word when I need to create a more advanced document.
Having tried to work with a MiniDisc player previously, the iPod is welcome relief.
I suppose if the owner of the computer is warned that they are infected and fail to take action, it would make sense that there is some kind of comeuppance.
I think legislating to force ISPs to terminate accounts used by infected computers should be as far as it goes though.
I had a similar experience on my Commodore 64. My favourite would be when you have one of these BASIC programs with 60 lines of data statements full seemingly random numbers.
Many an evening spent checking numbers. Probably explains my poor eye-sight.
That checksum program sounds like an excellent idea.
Homer trying to casually buy illegal fireworks: Let me have one of those porno magazines... large box of condoms... a bottle of Old Harper... a couple of those panty shields... and some illegal fireworks, and one of those disposable enemas. Eh, make it two. Later... Marge seeing Homer's purchases: I don't know what you've got planned for tonight, Homer, but count me out.
(Sorry, tags messed things up a bit in the original post)
This is a case that started in the United States. Microsoft is an American company.
Har har. Reminds me of the old scene of a tourist shouting at the customers man at the AirPort of some country saying "You can't treat me this way, I'm an *insert nationality* citizen!".
Of course 10 minutes later they'll be spread on a table with a rubber gloved hand up their *insert nationality* arse.
This is a case that started in the United States. Microsoft is an American company.
Har har. Reminds me of the old scene of a tourist shouting at the customers man at the AirPort of some country saying "You can't treat me this way, I'm an citizen!".
Of course 10 minutes later they'll be spread on a table with a rubber gloved hand up their arse.
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You'll have to excuse my lack of Windows knowledge. I've been clean since Windows 3.11, running Macs and not touched a drop of Windows since.
If it's true that Windows stores unsecured passwords in a non-protected registry that's pretty poor.
Keychain is good if configured well. I have a secure keychain that locks automatically after 30 minutes (and so required me to enter a password), and a second keychain that is left unlocked (for minor passwords).
Even if you configure your keychain well though, if someone is willing to run an AppleScript that exploits Mail, that user is still most likely to not notice. Even if it is an app that's trying to do something cheeky, most users are likely to just agree.
I think that decent OS design is important but user education is most the most important step.
I think the new feature in 10.3 that warns you the first time you open a new document type is good though.
I consider Biblical quotes offensive.
In a free society though, it's your right to issue freaky quotes from the Bible. I won't ask you to refrain from doing so.
Being content to leave something as it's pretty much always been is not the best solution in this case.
Most people accept that murder is wrong, genocide is wrong, discrimination against women is wrong, racism and homophobia is wrong. The world changes.
The ten commandments have no place in law and civil order. Laws must be created by living people, not dead religious leaders. I and many other consider the ten commandments and any aspects of religion to be highly offensive. To be fair to all, the government must not endorse or be controlled by religous interests.
This is interesting. Personally I'll admit that I know nothing about this. I certainly know about the British Empire and our unsavoury expeditions.
Although I could make an effort to learn more, this is a good example of how my culture simply encourages me to learn about what is closest to home.
PS. Welcome back to good karma city.
So, basically they are the Church of Scientology.
Wonder if Tom Cruise would endorse IE.
Ah, the voice of reason finally got here.
It's a natural tendency to concentrate on what's closest to home. When I think of WWII, I tend to think more of the British lives lost and not immediately consider the sheer number of people lost by other nations. I don't think it's out of focus, it's just people focusing on what's closest to home.
I'm not sure where you live but I'm from the UK and the news reporting does bear out what you say. If there is some kind of serious disaster, the news report will say something like 'Massive dissaster in far-away country, 10,000 dead. 4 britons killed.'
You are correct though. It would be good if we looked beyond our own 'neighbourhood' more often.
He didn't deny that terrible things happened to the Chinese but this is nit-picking.
By the same token, what about the British POWs? Can they be included in the list of the abused along with Americans and Chinese?
Don't try to try to turn this in to a league table of suffering.
Agreed. This dad-rock is one of the reasons why I didn't bother watching much more than the occasional episode. It's too damn cheesy.
Hmm, not sure how this is trolling.
Yeah, as long as you clean install and de-frag every now and then, it's a perfectly viable machine for general office work and some retro-gaming.
In many cases, when someone complains of their older machine not running, it is generally poor maintenance, expecting more than the machine can do, or my favourite. Physical ram of 64MB with virtual memory set to 760MB.
Yeah, I don't remember ever buying Netscape Navigator or Communicator. If memory serves though, there was a product called Netscape Gold. I think this was the version you had to pay for.
This is serious enough though. If I were to tell you my password, you'd certainly be in a good position to steal my identity.
Here's a snippet
That post is probably the most interesting thing you'll do in your life and you're not even getting credit for it AC.
Sorry, post got cut off..
I think users do have a responsibility for securing their systems and there should be a mechanism for removing irresponsible users from the net.
I wouldn't suggest legal charges or anything that extreme, just enforcement of ISP terms of usage.
If she's walking through a nasty area at night, then certainly it's not sensible but it's still not her fault.
I think a better analogy would be, if a motorist doesn't believe in using seatbelts, it's their fault if they end up taking a journey through the windscreen that would otherwise have been prevented by wearing a seatbelt.
You can create, and to a certain extent, edit playlists on the iPod without needing iTunes. You're correct though that iPod is closely integrated with iTunes.
Although other players may have more features, I don't think it's raw features that are most important to consumers. The simplicity of the iPod has for me been one of it's main selling points.
I have MS Word and Text Edit (the bundled simple word processor/text editor). Most of the time, I just use Text Edit because it's faster and easier to use. I only fire up Word when I need to create a more advanced document.
Having tried to work with a MiniDisc player previously, the iPod is welcome relief.
I suppose if the owner of the computer is warned that they are infected and fail to take action, it would make sense that there is some kind of comeuppance.
I think legislating to force ISPs to terminate accounts used by infected computers should be as far as it goes though.
I love that analogy!
I'm sure I've used an OS/2 powered ATM at least once over the years so you'd better make that 48 users.
Oh man that brings back memories.
I had a similar experience on my Commodore 64. My favourite would be when you have one of these BASIC programs with 60 lines of data statements full seemingly random numbers.
Many an evening spent checking numbers. Probably explains my poor eye-sight.
That checksum program sounds like an excellent idea.
Reminds me of this scene from the Simpsons.
Homer trying to casually buy illegal fireworks: Let me have one of those porno magazines... large box of condoms... a bottle of Old Harper... a couple of those panty shields... and some illegal fireworks, and one of those disposable enemas. Eh, make it two.
Later...
Marge seeing Homer's purchases: I don't know what you've got planned for tonight, Homer, but count me out.
(Sorry, tags messed things up a bit in the original post)
This is a case that started in the United States. Microsoft is an American company.
Har har. Reminds me of the old scene of a tourist shouting at the customers man at the AirPort of some country saying "You can't treat me this way, I'm an *insert nationality* citizen!".
Of course 10 minutes later they'll be spread on a table with a rubber gloved hand up their *insert nationality* arse.
This is a case that started in the United States. Microsoft is an American company.
Har har. Reminds me of the old scene of a tourist shouting at the customers man at the AirPort of some country saying "You can't treat me this way, I'm an citizen!".
Of course 10 minutes later they'll be spread on a table with a rubber gloved hand up their arse.
This all sounds very anecdotal.
Should the EU sue BMW and others as well?
No because you can buy a luxury car from another company that offers you a better deal.
You can only buy Windows from one source.
Considering the current size of the EU market and how much it is likely to grow with EU expansion, it would be a last ditch act of lunacy.
Shareholders would be likely to stage the business equivalent of an armed coup if an company said 'Hey, let's dump 30% of our annual revenue'.
It'd make for great TV though!
(BTW. the figure above is complete arbitrary).