The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle.'"
With the same logic we can say that "shit" it not a polluant, and therefore we can dump it directly into lakes and rivers.
There, fixed the title for you. This is a security feature.
The funny thing is that this is exactly what Linux users have been asking for. They have been bitching about bad security of Windows, and now that Microsoft takes good and required steps to improve it, they start bitching how the security features lock out Linux. What about thinking before opening your mouth in the future? And why not bitch at Apple for locking down OS X and iPhone's too?
Users want "security features" that protect them from evil, not "security features" that protect evil from them.
Microsoft is scared that the shiny hardware that is required to run Windows will be bought and used to run (faster) with another OS. This has very little to do with protecting Users against anything but a lot to do with limiting user's options.
A guy in Europe was looking to buy a book about Cooking on Amazon. Buying the Paperback version was not an option because he wanted to use his book right now before his Christmas brake was over.
Amazon only sells the Kindle edition with DRM, the man searched long and hard over different bookstores and at last he found a bookstore that sold it without DRM.
Unfortunately this bookstore only sold to the USA. Our man searched again and found a proxy service in the USA to use to buy the book, he created a account, pressed "buy" and entered his credit card number.
Then the website said that his credit card was not from the right county and refused the sale.
So, after many hours of trying to buy a legal copy, our guy ended up buying a, probably illegal copy from eBay for 1/6th of the Amazon prize.
Does he feel bad about it? Yes he does feel for the author, that he probably not get any money for this sale, but the book, as he wanted, simply was not available.
A guy in Europe was looking to buy a book about Cooking on Amazon. Buying the Paperback version was not an option because he wanted to use his book right now before his Christmas brake was over.
Amazon only sells the Kindle edition with DRM, the man searched long and hard over different bookstores and at last he found a bookstore that sold it without DRM.
Unfortunately this bookstore only sold to the USA. Our man searched again and found a proxy service in the USA to use to buy the book, he created a account, pressed "buy" and entered his credit card number.
Then the website said that his credit card was not from the right county and refused the sale.
So, after many hours of trying to buy a legal copy, our guy ended up buying a, probably illegal copy from eBay for 1/6th of the Amazon prize.
Does he feel bad about it? Yes, that the author did probably not get any money for this book, but the book, as he wanted, simply was not available.
How many copies had the publisher anticipated to sell and how many copies actually sold.
I am not a big gamer so I don't know the answers to these questions, but "Most pirated game" seems to indicate that the game was good. Did this game sell any copies?
If these had been Linux servers, Microsoft would now be making bold statements about "Linux Insecurity" and urging Everyone to get a complete Microsoft Solution with patch management.
You have to read this in context. The EU is banning the claim that water helps fight dehydration, on water bottles.
Of course Water does fight dehydration, but so does Coka-Cola, Orange Juice as well as most drinks containing large quantities of Water.
The EU is simply refusing generic statements on products that don't have any distinguishing meaning compared to other products in the same class.
McDonalds might want to put "Two BigMacs will give you 70% of your daily calories need", which may be true, but it is highly misleading.
The whole purpose of this EU law is that consumers can trust the statements made by manufacturers are both true and distinguishing for that product compared to others in the same class.
My wife wants a e-reader and when I saw what the new B&N Nook Reader can do I wanted to buy two. But it appears that B&N doesn't do business in Europe..
So, sorry B&N, you would have gotten 2 new customers if you would just sell your books and stuff to Europe.
[ ] mypsu.xxx
[ ] sexypsu.xxx
[ ] girlsofpsu.xxx
[ ] sexinpsu.xxx
[ ] gaypsu.xxx
[ ] psushowers.xxx ... ... ...
Come on, it is almost 2012, everyone should have understood a long time ago that people don't search for content based on the domain name.
So, buy giving every little kid a chemistry set (and thereby sending them to Harvard) we will think ourselves out of this mess?
No. Realize that very, very few people are ever going to be 'innovators' no matter how much government money we toss at the problem. It's not in their DNA, not in the upbringing, not in their heads. We have to come up with society that lets middle of the road people live a reasonable life, not expect everyone on the block to go off to work in a lab.
Not sure how to do that, but giving more money to the Education Industrial Complex in this country so far has yielded little fruit.
China, India and the oil-rich Arab countries are spending on schools and education like there is no tomorrow.
I don't know what America's place in the world will be in the future, but I do know that it won't be what it used to be.
I don't know about social networks, but here's why it would really suck for forums. Say you're a prolific poster on a programming forum. You answer, or participate in, a dozen threads a day. Your words are widely quoted throughout threads. These threads are of general benefit to the programming world at large. This forum is indexed by Google, and comes up near the top of the search results for some very common programming terms.
Somebody on the forum thinks you are cool, and uses a quote of something witty you said as their signature line.
Now, one day you wake up with a burr up your ass. You request that the forum destroy all your information. In order to do this, all your posts must be purged. All posts which quote your posts must be purged. All those valuable threads, which went far beyond just you, and developed into valuable information sources for thousands of people, must be purged. All the posts that guy made who had your quote in his signature line must be purged. It's not just YOUR words that have to go, hundreds of other people's posts are affected as well. The usefulness of the forum is at an all time low. People start wondering why the entire forum got deleted. People stop coming to the site. Google ceases indexing it. The forum is dead.
Your post gave me a good laugh.. You obviously aren't from Europe or you have no clue about the laws that already protect your privacy. (But you are good at making funny horror stories)
Here in Europe you can already ask any company for a copy of all data they may have on you and force them to correct it if you find any errors. What companies can do with your data is also severely restricted.
Just so you have some idea about how strict the law for European companies already is, the French CNIL considers a "IP address" to be "personal information".
This "new upcoming EU law" is merely applying current law to companies like Facebook that don't respect even the minimum rules of handling personal data.
Don't worry, the world won't come to an end when the new law comes into effect, we are all civil and reasonable over here.
That would also make it awkward for search engines
I think it is high time that companies realize that if you find some data on the internet it doesn't mean that it is yours to keep forever and do with as you please.
That when users press 'delete' on a post they made of facebook, then Facebook will actually have to delete the post instead of only hiding it like it does today.
If Facebook wants to play in Europe then either they start to follow privacy rules or they step aside and give someone else a chance that does.
I bet you anything that if facebook is faced with the choise of not doing business or folloing privacy rules, they will choose to stay in business.
A Kaspersky Malware Lab expert blogged about this Here on the 2nd November and even gave the suspected DLL file win32k.sys:
Symantec and Microsoft still haven’t made the actual dropper file available to other antivirus companies yet, nor have they provided information about which Windows component contains the vulnerability that results in privilege escalation. However, indirect evidence suggests that the vulnerability is in win32k.sys.
We discovered a similar vulnerability (see MS10-073) a year ago when analyzing the Stuxnet worm. Another interesting problem in win32k.sys (MS11-077) was fixed by Microsoft on 11 October this year – a code execution vulnerability than can be exploited through font files.
I'm a little confused. Why would you need a Word document to exploit a remote vulnerability?
From the FA:
"The installer, discovered by researchers at the Hungarian lab that first found Duqu, is a Word document that, once opened, exploits the kernel flaw and then installs the Duqu code on the machine. "
The answer, my dear Watson, is that it is much easier to get people to click on a.doc email attachment, than it is to get them to click on a.exe
I'ts not a false accusation. The standards for malicious prosecution are actually quite high, and would require evidence of either severe incompetence or willful and reckless disregard for the truth.
However, since the botnet was controlled through their hosting services, it'll be a case of an acceptable interpretation of the information they had, and not punished.
If microsoft woudl just have looked at the "information they had" they would have figured out in 10 minutes that
A) the IP addresses of the bothet controllers did not belong to the company dotFree Group SRO and
B) The subdomain cz.cc used by the botnet controllers, is a free DNS service that anyone can use.
If you turned the table and accused Microsoft of something similar based on the same "evidence", you can be sure that Microsoft would sue you out of existence.
Slashdot Mirror
How will they validate that the employee that was turned in really vandalized the data? Witch hunt?
You would be amazed what can be done with computer forensics today. Or more likely, you would be scared.
The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle.'"
With the same logic we can say that "shit" it not a polluant, and therefore we can dump it directly into lakes and rivers.
There, fixed the title for you. This is a security feature. The funny thing is that this is exactly what Linux users have been asking for. They have been bitching about bad security of Windows, and now that Microsoft takes good and required steps to improve it, they start bitching how the security features lock out Linux. What about thinking before opening your mouth in the future? And why not bitch at Apple for locking down OS X and iPhone's too?
Users want "security features" that protect them from evil, not "security features" that protect evil from them.
Microsoft is scared that the shiny hardware that is required to run Windows will be bought and used to run (faster) with another OS. This has very little to do with protecting Users against anything but a lot to do with limiting user's options.
"[Microsoft] is the fox that takes you across the river and then eats you."
- Pete Peterson, former WordPerfect executive
Amazon only sells the Kindle edition with DRM, the man searched long and hard over different bookstores and at last he found a bookstore that sold it without DRM. Unfortunately this bookstore only sold to the USA. Our man searched again and found a proxy service in the USA to use to buy the book, he created a account, pressed "buy" and entered his credit card number.
Then the website said that his credit card was not from the right county and refused the sale.
So, after many hours of trying to buy a legal copy, our guy ended up buying a, probably illegal copy from eBay for 1/6th of the Amazon prize.
Does he feel bad about it? Yes he does feel for the author, that he probably not get any money for this sale, but the book, as he wanted, simply was not available.
Amazon only sells the Kindle edition with DRM, the man searched long and hard over different bookstores and at last he found a bookstore that sold it without DRM.
Unfortunately this bookstore only sold to the USA. Our man searched again and found a proxy service in the USA to use to buy the book, he created a account, pressed "buy" and entered his credit card number.
Then the website said that his credit card was not from the right county and refused the sale.
So, after many hours of trying to buy a legal copy, our guy ended up buying a, probably illegal copy from eBay for 1/6th of the Amazon prize.
Does he feel bad about it? Yes, that the author did probably not get any money for this book, but the book, as he wanted, simply was not available.
I am not a big gamer so I don't know the answers to these questions, but "Most pirated game" seems to indicate that the game was good. Did this game sell any copies?
Does anyone have a QR code to a Rick Roll?
Here you go, sir!/A?
iaForensics suggest that the data stored in plain text might be sufficient to allow social engineering to obtain a credit card number.
This is very, very vague.. Something as simple as a email address could be used for this purpose.
Oh, and they will be controlled by your iPhone
If these had been Linux servers, Microsoft would now be making bold statements about "Linux Insecurity" and urging Everyone to get a complete Microsoft Solution with patch management.
Of course Water does fight dehydration, but so does Coka-Cola, Orange Juice as well as most drinks containing large quantities of Water.
The EU is simply refusing generic statements on products that don't have any distinguishing meaning compared to other products in the same class.
McDonalds might want to put "Two BigMacs will give you 70% of your daily calories need", which may be true, but it is highly misleading.
The whole purpose of this EU law is that consumers can trust the statements made by manufacturers are both true and distinguishing for that product compared to others in the same class.
So, sorry B&N, you would have gotten 2 new customers if you would just sell your books and stuff to Europe.
Why don't you consider one of the following:
[ ] mypsu.xxx
...
...
...
[ ] sexypsu.xxx
[ ] girlsofpsu.xxx
[ ] sexinpsu.xxx
[ ] gaypsu.xxx
[ ] psushowers.xxx
Come on, it is almost 2012, everyone should have understood a long time ago that people don't search for content based on the domain name.
So, buy giving every little kid a chemistry set (and thereby sending them to Harvard) we will think ourselves out of this mess?
No. Realize that very, very few people are ever going to be 'innovators' no matter how much government money we toss at the problem. It's not in their DNA, not in the upbringing, not in their heads. We have to come up with society that lets middle of the road people live a reasonable life, not expect everyone on the block to go off to work in a lab.
Not sure how to do that, but giving more money to the Education Industrial Complex in this country so far has yielded little fruit.
China, India and the oil-rich Arab countries are spending on schools and education like there is no tomorrow.
I don't know what America's place in the world will be in the future, but I do know that it won't be what it used to be.
With Unity, the ever evolving Ubutu just turned into a Frog,, but no matter how much I kiss it, it doesn't turn into a Princess..
--Abraham Lincoln
What is so *hostile* for social networks?
I don't know about social networks, but here's why it would really suck for forums. Say you're a prolific poster on a programming forum. You answer, or participate in, a dozen threads a day. Your words are widely quoted throughout threads. These threads are of general benefit to the programming world at large. This forum is indexed by Google, and comes up near the top of the search results for some very common programming terms.
Somebody on the forum thinks you are cool, and uses a quote of something witty you said as their signature line.
Now, one day you wake up with a burr up your ass. You request that the forum destroy all your information. In order to do this, all your posts must be purged. All posts which quote your posts must be purged. All those valuable threads, which went far beyond just you, and developed into valuable information sources for thousands of people, must be purged. All the posts that guy made who had your quote in his signature line must be purged. It's not just YOUR words that have to go, hundreds of other people's posts are affected as well. The usefulness of the forum is at an all time low. People start wondering why the entire forum got deleted. People stop coming to the site. Google ceases indexing it. The forum is dead.
Your post gave me a good laugh.. You obviously aren't from Europe or you have no clue about the laws that already protect your privacy. (But you are good at making funny horror stories)
Here in Europe you can already ask any company for a copy of all data they may have on you and force them to correct it if you find any errors. What companies can do with your data is also severely restricted.
Just so you have some idea about how strict the law for European companies already is, the French CNIL considers a "IP address" to be "personal information".
This "new upcoming EU law" is merely applying current law to companies like Facebook that don't respect even the minimum rules of handling personal data.
Don't worry, the world won't come to an end when the new law comes into effect, we are all civil and reasonable over here.
That would also make it awkward for search engines
I think it is high time that companies realize that if you find some data on the internet it doesn't mean that it is yours to keep forever and do with as you please.
That practice has to stop.
Who wrote this summary anyway?
What is so *hostile* for social networks?
That when users press 'delete' on a post they made of facebook, then Facebook will actually have to delete the post instead of only hiding it like it does today.
If Facebook wants to play in Europe then either they start to follow privacy rules or they step aside and give someone else a chance that does.
I bet you anything that if facebook is faced with the choise of not doing business or folloing privacy rules, they will choose to stay in business.
Symantec and Microsoft still haven’t made the actual dropper file available to other antivirus companies yet, nor have they provided information about which Windows component contains the vulnerability that results in privilege escalation. However, indirect evidence suggests that the vulnerability is in win32k.sys.
We discovered a similar vulnerability (see MS10-073) a year ago when analyzing the Stuxnet worm. Another interesting problem in win32k.sys (MS11-077) was fixed by Microsoft on 11 October this year – a code execution vulnerability than can be exploited through font files.
With Apple's reality distortion field totally disabled, this can no longer be turned into a feature for the end user.
Nonsense, there was even a article about this earlier on /.
This simply means that Apple is two years *ahead* of the competition.. in terms of electronic consumption.
I'm a little confused. Why would you need a Word document to exploit a remote vulnerability?
From the FA:
"The installer, discovered by researchers at the Hungarian lab that first found Duqu, is a Word document that, once opened, exploits the kernel flaw and then installs the Duqu code on the machine. "
The answer, my dear Watson, is that it is much easier to get people to click on a .doc email attachment, than it is to get them to click on a .exe
I'ts not a false accusation. The standards for malicious prosecution are actually quite high, and would require evidence of either severe incompetence or willful and reckless disregard for the truth.
However, since the botnet was controlled through their hosting services, it'll be a case of an acceptable interpretation of the information they had, and not punished.
If microsoft woudl just have looked at the "information they had" they would have figured out in 10 minutes that
A) the IP addresses of the bothet controllers did not belong to the company dotFree Group SRO and
B) The subdomain cz.cc used by the botnet controllers, is a free DNS service that anyone can use.
If you turned the table and accused Microsoft of something similar based on the same "evidence", you can be sure that Microsoft would sue you out of existence.
Because it's not "on a phone"
Slide to unlock - common item. Slide to unlock "on a phone" - Innovation!
Inventing a new "tool", like a telephone, computer, or a car is innovation.
Solving old problems with new tools is not innovation, it is simply common sense.