From what others are commenting, the 10% seem to be unintentianally skipped. What is significant is that one of the computers that shouldn't have been vunerable started spewing out virii. This means that it had to have been specifically targeted by the hacker, and could have been the source.
And I'm sure the attacker didn't care that the virus would come back to the system. It wasn't his computer. It belonged to an ISP. If it had been his computer, he would just have needed to keep ISS uninstalled.
This one is actually not a bug, but a feature. If EFS merely relied on the users password, then a brute force attack would eventually rend the contents readable. As it is now, you also need some kind of EFS key which is assigned to the user account. There are ways to export/import the key, but I don't remember how.
I've run into quite a number of BSODs on machines that I have been asked to work on. They tend to be hardware/driver related, but not all the time.
Since we see many systems because they are virus infected, I think it has more to do with some virus's playing God with Windows than Microsoft (Microsoft may be indirectly responsible due to of the security flaw that let the infection in). A good sfc or reinstall (repair or full) is often (but not always) a fix. Microsoft is actually halfway decent at giving explanations of their BSOD's try google:
site:microsoft.com xp "stop code: 0x12345678" (replace the 12345678 with the stop code)
Registry errors can also cause BSOD's.(rare, but happens)
Did 3.11 have BSODs? I thought they were introduced with Win95.
Good point, but I doubt there will ever be a perfect Microsoft Windows. Furthermore, there will always be someone here to tell the naysayers how perfect Windows has become.
(Granted, Microsoft has made great strides in stability since Win9x.)
I refuse to believe that such a malevolent thing as giving a BSOD followed by immediately rebooting to be a feature. Something so maniacal could only be a bug of the worst kind.
Does this setting really affect the BSOD->reboot problem? Does anybody know where in the registry this is hiding? On the computers I work on, I don't really have a good chance to turn that off before the problem occurs (but I have found an off-line registry editor). There is little worse than getting a machine that boots->BSOD->restart->boot->BSOD-restart->boot->BS OD->restart->ad infinitum, all without user intervention!
I'm sorry if you know more than I do, but the article (which I did read) wasn't that specific. It just said that one of the two convictions were overturned. It sounds like the judge thought he knew the "technical evidence" better than the jurors.
And it IS a precedent setting case. It is unlikely that any big precedents were set, just tiny ones. I couldn't tell you which ones unless I actually had some better information on the case (things like: which technical information is/isn't permissible in this type of case, for example). The dismissal may or may not have been a part of a new precedent (it probably wasn't, but I don't know that).
But it DOES matter to the rest of us. (Those who care about anti-spam laws everywhere)
It's called "case law". One judge somewhere makes a ruling and all judges following will treat the ruling as an appendage to the law in question. Judges, in this fashion, do write law!
It doesn't even need to be in the same state to be sited as case law. If it is a case from a different state, they will often take differences into account between the laws. I have heard rumors that laws are sometimes affected internationally by presidents set in other countries.
It may relate to a specific case, but it matters to every such case after. Especially when a new, untried type of law goes to court for the first few times (such as anti-spam).
Being impersonal is close to the heart of the problem. Yes, accountability is too. One of the reasons people get that way is because nobody cared enough to straighten them out before they got that way (we are accountable to care). I would rather be angry at someone, than regret that I hadn't helped when I could have.
Second, the media is partly to blame. First for the lawyers (where did they get the idea, tv maybe); also for the common frame of mind. The odds of being sued in such a fashion are extremely low. How low, I don't know exactly. I would suggest you stop worrying about it. There are some people who won't set foot aboard an aircraft, too.
I'm sorry about your families experience. It might not bring the same suffering, but in some ways it's more tragic than knowing an air crash fatality. A plane crash will tighten standards. This type of "crash" only reciprocates more of the same. Just don't give up hope on humanity. When we do that, then there is no hope for humanity.
You do! I do. We all do. For one, [insert common argument about you needing help in an emergency; etc].
For two, in any situation, we all need to be more friendly and outgoing than we think the other guy will be. Only then can we start to turn society around.
Of course it doesn't translate to words. They're comparing language symbols to music symbols. Several notes in a row somehow relates to several syllables in a row. They're just trying to figure out how.
It does translate to something akin to emotion. I really take my hat off to those individuals trying to understand what makes us interpret noise as music.
I think your comment was completely uncalled for. Please don't use the word respect that way. It's so hypocritical. Besides, you don't need to respect (or even understand) another genre in order to understand music. Music speaks for itself. If someone doesn't like what one genre is saying, it does NOT mean they have no understanding of music.
Please reread your sig. You may find it helpful.
(note: I wrote three times this much, and only posted what I wrote after calming down.)
I'd be more worried for SCO (as if any of us could). Think about it. Now the judiciary has a finacial reason for the case to go IBM. Rule against SCO? yeah right! no judge is going to make a ruling against his own department.
I'm truly disappointed that this didn't come up higher in the discussion.
On the other hand (to counter point another poster), I wouldn't worry so much about what Seti puts in there. I'd be worried about a "man in the middle" - silent "upgrade". I hope these upgrades occur ONLY over encrypted connections. Not to mention authentication.
Home users have enough vulnerabilities to worry about without some blended attack virus (or worse) that can use the Seti backdoor.
Over population of China huh. Yeah, they may think their over populated. But if you think that's a problem, just look at a globe. Find India, just to the left a bit. China and India have nearly the same population.
Not to detract from your point. Just keeping the details in perspective.
We probably will eventually switch over, but this won't happen until after our capability to design or manufacture anything domestically has totally atrophied, and we rely on 100% metric imported goods.
You have got to be kidding. Study the quantity that we already import. How much of it is labeled in metric? Just about none. It all gets manufactured for import, with US units. Why? Because most of us prefer it that way, and retailers know it. So no, that wont speed adoption up any. If we import !00% it will be 100% labeled in inches, feet, and quarts.
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From what others are commenting, the 10% seem to be unintentianally skipped. What is significant is that one of the computers that shouldn't have been vunerable started spewing out virii. This means that it had to have been specifically targeted by the hacker, and could have been the source.
And I'm sure the attacker didn't care that the virus would come back to the system. It wasn't his computer. It belonged to an ISP. If it had been his computer, he would just have needed to keep ISS uninstalled.
This one is actually not a bug, but a feature. If EFS merely relied on the users password, then a brute force attack would eventually rend the contents readable. As it is now, you also need some kind of EFS key which is assigned to the user account. There are ways to export/import the key, but I don't remember how.
I've run into quite a number of BSODs on machines that I have been asked to work on. They tend to be hardware/driver related, but not all the time.
Since we see many systems because they are virus infected, I think it has more to do with some virus's playing God with Windows than Microsoft (Microsoft may be indirectly responsible due to of the security flaw that let the infection in). A good sfc or reinstall (repair or full) is often (but not always) a fix. Microsoft is actually halfway decent at giving explanations of their BSOD's try google:
site:microsoft.com xp "stop code: 0x12345678"
(replace the 12345678 with the stop code)
Registry errors can also cause BSOD's.(rare, but happens)
Did 3.11 have BSODs? I thought they were introduced with Win95.
Good point, but I doubt there will ever be a perfect Microsoft Windows. Furthermore, there will always be someone here to tell the naysayers how perfect Windows has become.
(Granted, Microsoft has made great strides in stability since Win9x.)
I refuse to believe that such a malevolent thing as giving a BSOD followed by immediately rebooting to be a feature. Something so maniacal could only be a bug of the worst kind.
S OD->restart->ad infinitum, all without user intervention!
Does this setting really affect the BSOD->reboot problem? Does anybody know where in the registry this is hiding? On the computers I work on, I don't really have a good chance to turn that off before the problem occurs (but I have found an off-line registry editor). There is little worse than getting a machine that boots->BSOD->restart->boot->BSOD-restart->boot->B
Not on the Zarus, but on iPAQ's!
http://handhelds.org/projects/skiffcluster.html
While they won't ship with it, some cheep idiot is bound to buy a used model and use an old copy of ME instead of paying for Longhorn.
"Oh, I didn't know that it would cause me to crash!"
Stay off the roads!
Oh, and good double pun to the GP.
Woah. I've seen the logo before, but have never stopped to look at it.
One would hope that it was merely overlooked for years. Otherwise, it could have been a call to arms...
Where have you been? Write only memory has been here for a while.
/dev/null...
It can be accessed on most non-MS machines at
*looks quickly for the pun patrol*
Hmmm.. Why not shred it anyway? I don't see any reason why something couldn't be shredded and then recycled.
(Not discrediting your point. You were just pointing out an observation.)
But what is case law if not a precedent (or group of many precedents)?
The parrent to this post is a reply to an AC.
For some reason, it also shows up as a reply to my first post.
It sound stupid arguing with my self...
I'm sorry if you know more than I do, but the article (which I did read) wasn't that specific. It just said that one of the two convictions were overturned. It sounds like the judge thought he knew the "technical evidence" better than the jurors.
And it IS a precedent setting case. It is unlikely that any big precedents were set, just tiny ones. I couldn't tell you which ones unless I actually had some better information on the case (things like: which technical information is/isn't permissible in this type of case, for example). The dismissal may or may not have been a part of a new precedent (it probably wasn't, but I don't know that).
But it DOES matter to the rest of us. (Those who care about anti-spam laws everywhere)
It's called "case law". One judge somewhere makes a ruling and all judges following will treat the ruling as an appendage to the law in question. Judges, in this fashion, do write law!
It doesn't even need to be in the same state to be sited as case law. If it is a case from a different state, they will often take differences into account between the laws. I have heard rumors that laws are sometimes affected internationally by presidents set in other countries.
It may relate to a specific case, but it matters to every such case after. Especially when a new, untried type of law goes to court for the first few times (such as anti-spam).
So, uh, who's going to watch the page to keep the trolls from changing it?
(I'm not calling the poster a troll, just pointing out that the conversation is putting the wiki at risk of slash-trolling...;) )
"I was finally able to disable a few annoying system tray icons(totally forgetting how to do it in Win2k)."
The easiest way I know is to steal a copy of msconfig from a Windows XP machine. Just find the file (in system32 I believe) and stick it on a floppy.
The manual way involves checking several places in the registry with regedit.
Being impersonal is close to the heart of the problem. Yes, accountability is too. One of the reasons people get that way is because nobody cared enough to straighten them out before they got that way (we are accountable to care). I would rather be angry at someone, than regret that I hadn't helped when I could have.
Second, the media is partly to blame. First for the lawyers (where did they get the idea, tv maybe); also for the common frame of mind. The odds of being sued in such a fashion are extremely low. How low, I don't know exactly. I would suggest you stop worrying about it. There are some people who won't set foot aboard an aircraft, too.
I'm sorry about your families experience. It might not bring the same suffering, but in some ways it's more tragic than knowing an air crash fatality. A plane crash will tighten standards. This type of "crash" only reciprocates more of the same. Just don't give up hope on humanity. When we do that, then there is no hope for humanity.
You do! I do. We all do. For one, [insert common argument about you needing help in an emergency; etc].
For two, in any situation, we all need to be more friendly and outgoing than we think the other guy will be. Only then can we start to turn society around.
Of course it doesn't translate to words. They're comparing language symbols to music symbols. Several notes in a row somehow relates to several syllables in a row. They're just trying to figure out how.
It does translate to something akin to emotion. I really take my hat off to those individuals trying to understand what makes us interpret noise as music.
I think your comment was completely uncalled for. Please don't use the word respect that way. It's so hypocritical. Besides, you don't need to respect (or even understand) another genre in order to understand music. Music speaks for itself. If someone doesn't like what one genre is saying, it does NOT mean they have no understanding of music.
Please reread your sig. You may find it helpful.
(note: I wrote three times this much, and only posted what I wrote after calming down.)
I'd be more worried for SCO (as if any of us could). Think about it. Now the judiciary has a finacial reason for the case to go IBM. Rule against SCO? yeah right! no judge is going to make a ruling against his own department.
I'm truly disappointed that this didn't come up higher in the discussion.
On the other hand (to counter point another poster), I wouldn't worry so much about what Seti puts in there. I'd be worried about a "man in the middle" - silent "upgrade". I hope these upgrades occur ONLY over encrypted connections. Not to mention authentication.
Home users have enough vulnerabilities to worry about without some blended attack virus (or worse) that can use the Seti backdoor.
Scary stuff.
Over population of China huh. Yeah, they may think their over populated. But if you think that's a problem, just look at a globe. Find India, just to the left a bit. China and India have nearly the same population.
Not to detract from your point. Just keeping the details in perspective.
Yeah I did a double take too.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers transmogrifiers and little red space ships.
The good old days. *sigh*