If there is no way for the spyware to patch the kernel I don't need McAfee or Symantec there at all.
Given the track record of Microsoft and Security, I think we can safely assume that there will be bugs, many, many, many bugs in the code, that will allow foreign code to modify the kernel.
When that happens, without the security companies who have the expertise and workforce to analyse and develope procedures to get rid of that threat, it's basicallty "Game Over" for that particular installation of Vista.
Let's get real, there will be bugs, there will be exploits, and even the mightiest marketing division on the planet is no match against the planets army of malware developers.
Good for you. Now you just need to move to a place where people are found innocent of crimes and you'll be all set. I don't know about the rest of the world, but the US justice system does not decide innocence, it decides guilt. Being found "not guilty" just means is that there was insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that someone is guilty.
In most civiliced countries, when you're found "not guilty", that verdict dees not limit your options in the future.
Does this mean that someone has actually bought these things ?
At least something good came out of it since they found a flaw, but as with DVDs I'm going to wait for the system to be broken before I buy a player myself. (And yes, I have bought heaps of the copyright mafia's movies on DVD, however I want to be able to use tools such as AnyDVD to skip annoying ads and trailers on disks when I watch the stuff I have paid good money for)
Actually you can determine if the hard drive was copied. If you look into the hdparm utilities, you can access a drive's runtime, last smartcheck time, and other statistics. This information can be logged by a paranoid host operating system to check for unaccounted time.
The "last smartcheck time" and other time variables on hard drives are just measured in total runtime minutes. Though the OS could warn the user if it was discovered on startup that the hard drive had been running for long since the last shutdown, that could just mean that someone powered on the computer and entered the BIOS setup, since last shutdown.
What someone could have done, and the article doesn't mention is booting the laptop from a CD like Auditor, mount a network volume and then do a copy of the laptop's hard drive with "dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/nfs/GovVolume.img"
As long as you're using protection (gloves), that leaves absolutely no trace whatsoever.
The ingredients in the average $200 French perfume bottle only cost around 2 euros (~3 dollars), and they already are synthesized. The most expensive "ingredient" in the box is the glass bottle itself.
That's also why the "old" genre of parfume masters like Artisan Parfumeur are making a comeback, using only "pure" smells.
Just like Windows95 Put AntiVirus companies out of business because Win95 was the end to Viruses.
Don't people remember anything anymore ? This is called "marketing"
Maybe they already figured out which side their bread was buttered on. After all, they are pretty sharp. They don't have to solve anything. They made the smart move in trying to get cozy with the next economic superpower. Now they can just ignore the complaining until it goes away.
"Don't be Evil" used to be Google's motto.
If they don't solve this by reflecting on "good", such as calling Tibet, "Tibet", then they are at least as evil as the Chinese..
As a privacy safeguard, no single person or agency will be able to access all contents of a file. But organizations can raise "red flags" in the dossier to caution other agencies about problems
Even if that may solve some problems, it creates others realy serious.
What this means is both that some grumpy social worker, on bad day, can flag a kid for life, and there is no way for anyone to put a judgement on the social workers decision.
Also, gifted children often have behavioral problerms which can not be easily diagnosed for what they are.
This is the equivalent of the "you break it, you own it" policy in many stores.
In that case, if the store would advertise, "You don't have to pay damages for things you break", yes, it would be equivalent since "Damages" is not the same as "paying for buying" the thing.
"One pulpwood project in the Brazilian Amazon consists of a Japanese power plant and pulp mill. To set up this single plant operation, 5,600 square miles of Amazon rainforest were burned to the ground and replanted with pulpwood trees. This single manufacturing plant consumes 2,000 tons of surrounding rainforest wood every day to produce 55 megawatts of electricity to run the plant. The plant, which has been in operation since 1978, produces more than 750 tons of pulp for paper every 24 hours, worth approximately $500,000, and has built 2,800 miles of roads through the Amazon rainforest to be used by its 700 vehicles.
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If the present rate continues, it is estimated that the paper industry alone will consume 4 billion tons of wood annually by the year 2020
So, I guess the prior art will be easy to show... right?
Absolutely,
however, if you want the prior art to have any legal meaning, you will have to affort a costly legal process with the evil empire's lawyers.
You see, it doesn't matter so much who is *right* any more. It costs a awful lot of money just to have your case heard.
Not because I think he is such a good president, but because I think Americans need to be punished.
I just told this to a couple of Americans I'm working with and they immediately pointed out that they realy didn't want that to happen. Up until now Americans have been able to correctly state that he wasn't elected President, so if he wins the next election, that will be the end of that excuse.
I don't get all of the zealotry on both sides. They are two fine databases, most stuff is not "enterprise" level requirements, so no suprise that you see MySQL all over the place. That doesn't make PG any "better" or "worse"!
You are so right !
In Economics you learn that "Quality" is defined by the consumer, not the producer or the industry.
For the majority of people needing a database, a simple, small and fast database server is of higher quality than a more feature-rich slower and complex server.
Well, after having being doing what you are doing for the last 10 years, I can only say "Welcome to the real world".
The level of suspicious activity today is way above the level where you can handle it by complaining to the source ISP.
Possibly he has a compromised server on his network, but most likely he doesn't care or doesn't have time to deal with complaints. Why should he anyway.. Scanning and probing isn't illegal in 99% of the world.
My advice to you is to secure your network. If you absolutely *have* to allow logins from the outside you should protect the login service by blocking it in the routers *and* use the build-in tcp_wrapers mechanism to control access.
Start by blocking *everything* and then open up only those ports you need, and to those that need it.
I.e. ports 80 and 25 can be publicly accessible but there is no need for anyone on the outside to send you packets on ports 137-139.
Then, run tripwire, take backups and install a IDS. Not because it will tell you of anything in advance, but because they are good for forensics work (After you have been ass-raped by some 16 year old)
Abowe all "be paranoid" and don't simply wait until you become a wictim.
Re:basic... very basic.
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For those that are vorried about the high number of Internet copies being made. Dont worry, you just have to remember what happened when the original Doom was released..
The Internet link between USA and Europe went down *twice* during the night, and no Im not kidding.
Practically everybody had a copy and we fragged for months like there was no tomorrow (or school, but thats another story)..
I don't think the high number of copies being made will make a dent in ID's profits.
Massive Power Supplies: 6800 GTs are happy in shuttles with 250W PSUs
If you take out the CPU and Hard disks, yes.
Actually, a *good* 350W PSU can handle the task.
High-end Cooling: See whats cooling your CPU, then count the transistors on each.
You miss the point, the complaint was that that video card was making to much noise.. You can't explain or justify that by pointing at something else.
Dustbuster Sound: I think you're confusing the 6800 series with a certain FX card. Besides, there is nothing stopping third-party manufacturers changing the fan, and many do.
Now, and why would third party manufacturers change the fan unless there was a problem with it ??
...And in an apparent act of copycat terrorism, the Polish Terrorist Organization has hijacked the Goodyear blimp. They have been bouncing off buildings in downtown Manhatten for the past 2 hours.
Newsflash!
The Belgian Terrorist Organization just attacked the French Eiffel Tower on a ultraglide.
Slashdot Mirror
If there is no way for the spyware to patch the kernel I don't need McAfee or Symantec there at all.
Given the track record of Microsoft and Security, I think we can safely assume that there will be bugs, many, many, many bugs in the code, that will allow foreign code to modify the kernel.
When that happens, without the security companies who have the expertise and workforce to analyse and develope procedures to get rid of that threat, it's basicallty "Game Over" for that particular installation of Vista.
Let's get real, there will be bugs, there will be exploits, and even the mightiest marketing division on the planet is no match against the planets army of malware developers.
This is *not* a "good idea"
Good for you. Now you just need to move to a place where people are found innocent of crimes and you'll be all set. I don't know about the rest of the world, but the US justice system does not decide innocence, it decides guilt. Being found "not guilty" just means is that there was insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that someone is guilty.
In most civiliced countries, when you're found "not guilty", that verdict dees not limit your options in the future.
Does this mean that someone has actually bought these things ?
At least something good came out of it since they found a flaw, but as with DVDs I'm going to wait for the system to be broken before I buy a player myself. (And yes, I have bought heaps of the copyright mafia's movies on DVD, however I want to be able to use tools such as AnyDVD to skip annoying ads and trailers on disks when I watch the stuff I have paid good money for)
The "last smartcheck time" and other time variables on hard drives are just measured in total runtime minutes. Though the OS could warn the user if it was discovered on startup that the hard drive had been running for long since the last shutdown, that could just mean that someone powered on the computer and entered the BIOS setup, since last shutdown.
What someone could have done, and the article doesn't mention is booting the laptop from a CD like Auditor, mount a network volume and then do a copy of the laptop's hard drive with "dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/nfs/GovVolume.img"
As long as you're using protection (gloves), that leaves absolutely no trace whatsoever.
The ingredients in the average $200 French perfume bottle only cost around 2 euros (~3 dollars), and they already are synthesized. The most expensive "ingredient" in the box is the glass bottle itself.
That's also why the "old" genre of parfume masters like Artisan Parfumeur are making a comeback, using only "pure" smells.
Just like Windows95 Put AntiVirus companies out of business because Win95 was the end to Viruses. Don't people remember anything anymore ? This is called "marketing"
Maybe they already figured out which side their bread was buttered on. After all, they are pretty sharp. They don't have to solve anything. They made the smart move in trying to get cozy with the next economic superpower. Now they can just ignore the complaining until it goes away.
"Don't be Evil" used to be Google's motto.
If they don't solve this by reflecting on "good", such as calling Tibet, "Tibet", then they are at least as evil as the Chinese ..
As a privacy safeguard, no single person or agency will be able to access all contents of a file. But organizations can raise "red flags" in the dossier to caution other agencies about problems Even if that may solve some problems, it creates others realy serious. What this means is both that some grumpy social worker, on bad day, can flag a kid for life, and there is no way for anyone to put a judgement on the social workers decision. Also, gifted children often have behavioral problerms which can not be easily diagnosed for what they are.
This is the equivalent of the "you break it, you own it" policy in many stores.
In that case, if the store would advertise, "You don't have to pay damages for things you break", yes, it would be equivalent since "Damages" is not the same as "paying for buying" the thing.
And in both cases it's "misleading" at it's best.
yep the trees used for paper production are farmed. So if you print less the land will be used for something else and there will be less trees.
Not exactly true, according to these Rainforest Facts
"One pulpwood project in the Brazilian Amazon consists of a Japanese power plant and pulp mill. To set up this single plant operation, 5,600 square miles of Amazon rainforest were burned to the ground and replanted with pulpwood trees. This single manufacturing plant consumes 2,000 tons of surrounding rainforest wood every day to produce 55 megawatts of electricity to run the plant. The plant, which has been in operation since 1978, produces more than 750 tons of pulp for paper every 24 hours, worth approximately $500,000, and has built 2,800 miles of roads through the Amazon rainforest to be used by its 700 vehicles.
This is just homophobia driven to the extreme...
It is your reaction that is a extreme reaction to a post that said "little gay" and was nothing extreme about.
Why don't you try to ansver that post on the subject instead of attacking the author ?
Actually, this is so in line with their business policy that I'm not sure anyone within the company will find it suspicious for a long long time.
http://www.suprnova.org/
Scroll down to "TV Shows" .. And this is just for today ..
Why should someone who commits crimes against someone in another country not be held liable for those crimes simply because of geographic boundaires?
Amen !!
And that said, let's send Salman Sushdie to Iran to be judged for the crimes they claim he comitted.
And when that's done, you are next !!
For those who belive this software actually can do this well in real-life environment, I have this bridge that might interest you ...
There were 3 comments when I first tried to load the article, but alas ... The server was /. --ed already ..
So, I guess the prior art will be easy to show... right?
Absolutely,
however, if you want the prior art to have any legal meaning, you will have to affort a costly legal process with the evil empire's lawyers.
You see, it doesn't matter so much who is *right* any more. It costs a awful lot of money just to have your case heard.
Yes, I hope you Americans depose your dictator
on the contrary, I hope he gets re-elected ..
Not because I think he is such a good president, but because I think Americans need to be punished.
I just told this to a couple of Americans I'm working with and they immediately pointed out that they realy didn't want that to happen. Up until now Americans have been able to correctly state that he wasn't elected President, so if he wins the next election, that will be the end of that excuse.
But I still think Americans need to be punished ..
I don't get all of the zealotry on both sides. They are two fine databases, most stuff is not "enterprise" level requirements, so no suprise that you see MySQL all over the place. That doesn't make PG any "better" or "worse"!
You are so right !
In Economics you learn that "Quality" is defined by the consumer, not the producer or the industry.
For the majority of people needing a database, a simple, small and fast database server is of higher quality than a more feature-rich slower and complex server.
Well, after having being doing what you are doing for the last 10 years, I can only say "Welcome to the real world". The level of suspicious activity today is way above the level where you can handle it by complaining to the source ISP. Possibly he has a compromised server on his network, but most likely he doesn't care or doesn't have time to deal with complaints. Why should he anyway.. Scanning and probing isn't illegal in 99% of the world. My advice to you is to secure your network. If you absolutely *have* to allow logins from the outside you should protect the login service by blocking it in the routers *and* use the build-in tcp_wrapers mechanism to control access. Start by blocking *everything* and then open up only those ports you need, and to those that need it. I.e. ports 80 and 25 can be publicly accessible but there is no need for anyone on the outside to send you packets on ports 137-139. Then, run tripwire, take backups and install a IDS. Not because it will tell you of anything in advance, but because they are good for forensics work (After you have been ass-raped by some 16 year old) Abowe all "be paranoid" and don't simply wait until you become a wictim.
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Shouldnt there be a "me too" button also ?
For those that are vorried about the high number of Internet copies being made. Dont worry, you just have to remember what happened when the original Doom was released..
The Internet link between USA and Europe went down *twice* during the night, and no Im not kidding.
Practically everybody had a copy and we fragged for months like there was no tomorrow (or school, but thats another story)..
I don't think the high number of copies being made will make a dent in ID's profits.
Massive Power Supplies: 6800 GTs are happy in shuttles with 250W PSUs
If you take out the CPU and Hard disks, yes.
Actually, a *good* 350W PSU can handle the task.
High-end Cooling: See whats cooling your CPU, then count the transistors on each.
You miss the point, the complaint was that that video card was making to much noise
Dustbuster Sound: I think you're confusing the 6800 series with a certain FX card. Besides, there is nothing stopping third-party manufacturers changing the fan, and many do.
Now, and why would third party manufacturers change the fan unless there was a problem with it ??
Newsflash!
The Belgian Terrorist Organization just attacked the French Eiffel Tower on a ultraglide.
One person is reported to be seriously injured.
On the flip side, you could also be blamed for not keeping your computer patched, so it's your own fault for not securing your bank info.
Does that apply in general or only to computers ?
I'm wondering if wou will be so understanding when I have stolen your belongings and done doen nazty stuff to your persona ?