... And I want at least one of them to give a good reason why parsing fonts in kernel mode is a good idea. Speed is not a good reason. Not even on 10 year old equipment it's not.
>Workplaces do not want employees to backup confidential email.
The only way to stop this is to treat employees better.
Because technology is defeated the instant that someone does a screen-grab by the fabulously new widget in Vista and 7, or brings a camera to work, or runs a printer and scans the printout or whatever.
It is an arms race that has already been lost.
You want your employees to be loyal? Stop being a douche.
This is late, and I don't expect you to read it because anon cowards never do, but I am going to state for the record that calling it spying is a load of hypocrisy when people like Samuel Slater (one of many) are called heroes here in the US.
For many years, Ed was on the side of SCO. His typical characterizing the FOSS crowd as dirty unkempt, unwashed hippies over the same years, and his continual use of the word "freetard" was, and is, reprehensible. And yes, there is a lot of it, which is why I don't want to go diving in the filth.
Not reasonable in the least.
If you read the post I put up here that had the quote from Florian, Florian lists almost all the "paided" shills for Microsoft and calls them "smart" thus aligning himself against FOSS and with Microsoft. Ed Bott is one of them. He left out Paul Murphy, AKA Rudy de Haas.
And that's not ad-hominem.
There is a lot of animosity from people like me that people like them earned.
If you've ever read more than one Ed Bott article, you'd know. People accuse the FOSS crowd of being stubborn. You have to be stubborn to refute the repeated lies that Ed and so-called journalists and "analysts" like him will spew. It gets old quick.
getting paid to do what you like in a field that you like doesn't make you a shill.
I agree. Mary Jo Foley isn't a shill. She still seems to have her dignity and integrity about her, more or less. She may be a fangirl, but I don't think she's a shill.
In an ideal world, all journalists have integrity and dignity.
Ed Bott has none. That's the issue. For those of us who didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday, it's blatantly apparent.
There is at least one person who thinks highly of Ed Bott, however.
The net effect of that big brainwashing effort is that some of the more credulous and less informed people now distrust a very smart analyst like Rob Enderle, very smart journalists like Maureen O'Gara and Dan Lyons, or a very smart author like Ed Bott, only because they comment on certain issues with greater sanity than Groklaw.
Ed Bott is nothing more than a Microsoft mouthpiece. Not going to RTFA and almost didn't RTFS because of his name. His hobbies are trolling and shilling for Microsoft.
The only difference between him and Robert Enderle is that Robert is a more honest whore.
Joe Employee does not maintain his workstation and is not responsible for it. Blaming Joe Employee for opening an attachment with a zero-day exploit from "The COO" is being an asshole.
It's not ad-hominem if the person really is an asshole.
Someone should mod you into oblivion for posting a PCWorld ad for Symantec, because that's all that article is. It even tells people to not only just install anti-malware, but to install Norton, and does not mention any other security companies at all.
>Once again, don't open email attachments from unknown senders.
>unknown senders
If I was spear phishing, it wouldn't be from an "unknown sender" - it would be "from" "someone within the company" and it would look official and it would be mandatory to read.
For example, a "message from the COO" and the From: being from the COO's address. This is typically public knowledge or it can be gotten with social engineering. Once that's done, all bets are off because lower level employees/on pain of being fired/ are not going to ignore the email, and thus open the Word attachment.
The "From:" header can be anything, Anon, and it can be trivially set.
Go ahead, blame the victim. It doesn't make you any less of a douche.
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... And I want at least one of them to give a good reason why parsing fonts in kernel mode is a good idea. Speed is not a good reason. Not even on 10 year old equipment it's not.
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So edgy. You are what, 15?
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Here's a free clue:
When you treat your customers well, or when you treat others well in general, they will treat you the same.
When you are Verizon, out to screw the customer for every dime, your customers don't give a shit about you.
Have a nice day.
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I have a friend who does this.
When he gets tired of his phone, he starts slamming it against the shop floor (concrete) until it breaks.
He feels entitled to one because he pays the insurance and it means an updated phone.
Customers fight back against being nickel-and-dimed.
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The "write once run everywhere" model of Java was just a poor imitation of Forth's anyway.
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>Workplaces do not want employees to backup confidential email.
The only way to stop this is to treat employees better.
Because technology is defeated the instant that someone does a screen-grab by the fabulously new widget in Vista and 7, or brings a camera to work, or runs a printer and scans the printout or whatever.
It is an arms race that has already been lost.
You want your employees to be loyal? Stop being a douche.
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It still doesn't make the Canadian's surprise that there is a maple sugar industry south of the Canadian border any less offensive.
And btw, just like in Canada, you /pay/ for the real stuff from NY, VT, NH, and ME.
We had sugar maples growing in our yard in RI. Never tapped them, though.
Seriously, the Canadians here, including you, need to shut the fuck up.
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... we get invaded by the Strogg?
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Uh...
Virtual machines started on Big Iron. You know, the places where "real operating systems" started.
VMs have nothing to do with the failings of operating systems and security is a /side effect/.
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Old news for nerds.
The butthurt from the Windroid Shills is amazing to watch here.
Being called out on Microsoft's shenanigans is a bitch, ain't it?
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Hey APK, there is a reason why everyone hates you.
Take a wild guess as to what it is.
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This is late, and I don't expect you to read it because anon cowards never do, but I am going to state for the record that calling it spying is a load of hypocrisy when people like Samuel Slater (one of many) are called heroes here in the US.
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I can summarize the point you're trying to describe in one sentence taken from 4chan /g/.
"Stop liking what I don't like."
Sadly, this applies a lot to society in general.
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For many years, Ed was on the side of SCO. His typical characterizing the FOSS crowd as dirty unkempt, unwashed hippies over the same years, and his continual use of the word "freetard" was, and is, reprehensible. And yes, there is a lot of it, which is why I don't want to go diving in the filth.
Not reasonable in the least.
If you read the post I put up here that had the quote from Florian, Florian lists almost all the "paided" shills for Microsoft and calls them "smart" thus aligning himself against FOSS and with Microsoft. Ed Bott is one of them. He left out Paul Murphy, AKA Rudy de Haas.
And that's not ad-hominem.
There is a lot of animosity from people like me that people like them earned.
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Oh here we go.
>pretend to sound reasonable
>pretend to ignore all the other stuff that Ed Bott has said
>ask me to go dig up his articles
No, you can go read his articles over on ZDNet. They are indexed and you can judge for yourself.
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not sure what the /. issue with the guy is
If you've ever read more than one Ed Bott article, you'd know. People accuse the FOSS crowd of being stubborn. You have to be stubborn to refute the repeated lies that Ed and so-called journalists and "analysts" like him will spew. It gets old quick.
getting paid to do what you like in a field that you like doesn't make you a shill.
I agree. Mary Jo Foley isn't a shill. She still seems to have her dignity and integrity about her, more or less. She may be a fangirl, but I don't think she's a shill.
In an ideal world, all journalists have integrity and dignity.
Ed Bott has none. That's the issue. For those of us who didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday, it's blatantly apparent.
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There is at least one person who thinks highly of Ed Bott, however.
- Florian Mueller
*spit*
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Ed Bott is nothing more than a Microsoft mouthpiece. Not going to RTFA and almost didn't RTFS because of his name. His hobbies are trolling and shilling for Microsoft.
The only difference between him and Robert Enderle is that Robert is a more honest whore.
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You expect Joe Employee to be an expert in IT.
Right off the bat "Should be smart enough to configure Word to not execute attachments"
No, this is the IT department's responsibility.
I'm not going to read any more because your argument is full not doing your job if you are an actual IT support person.
Have a great day.
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Joe Employee does not maintain his workstation and is not responsible for it. Blaming Joe Employee for opening an attachment with a zero-day exploit from "The COO" is being an asshole.
It's not ad-hominem if the person really is an asshole.
You're an asshole. Deal with it.
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You know, I'm a linux fanatic and a security freak, but you, sir, are an asshole.
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>The desktop should not be a widget, gadget, or any other form of "app" because it's the desktop
Former OS/2 user here.
The Desktop should be an object just like any other object in the environment.
I take umbrage with your insistence that the root window is somehow special.
Also, your rant is otherwise so full of holes I will stop there since I would wind up writing a dissertation.
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Someone should mod you into oblivion for posting a PCWorld ad for Symantec, because that's all that article is. It even tells people to not only just install anti-malware, but to install Norton, and does not mention any other security companies at all.
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>Once again, don't open email attachments from unknown senders.
>unknown senders
If I was spear phishing, it wouldn't be from an "unknown sender" - it would be "from" "someone within the company" and it would look official and it would be mandatory to read.
For example, a "message from the COO" and the From: being from the COO's address. This is typically public knowledge or it can be gotten with social engineering. Once that's done, all bets are off because lower level employees /on pain of being fired/ are not going to ignore the email, and thus open the Word attachment.
The "From:" header can be anything, Anon, and it can be trivially set.
Go ahead, blame the victim. It doesn't make you any less of a douche.
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