Why would this be a "surprise"? It's in the game. Anyone who's played the original GTA doubtless has fond memories of GOURANGA!, which is to say, running over an entire line of schoolchildren out on a field trip. You get a hefty point bonus for it.
I think you'll find that the Gouranga bonus was for driving over a line of Hare Krishnas.. hence the word "Gouranga", which is a popular Hare Krishna chant
"The new console also takes measures to protect itself from overheating, so RRoDs shouldn't be a problem with this revision."
Except it still has the same faulty X-clamps. Has even worse overheating issues than the original. And has already had green dots of death. (they removed the RRoD in favor of a green dot.)
'It installs itself on routers and modems by guessing default administrative passwords and taking advantage of the fact that many devices are configured to allow remote access."'
Does this botnet attack also work on non Linux based routers and if so the what is the logic behind the subject line ?
No, It requires the router to be running Linux on a MIPS system.
It looks like they were cracking passwords which were 8 or less characters with simple Alphanumerics. In other words, weak passwords.
While the cloud aspect makes it vaguely interesting, is it really news?
that this postal strike actually has some kind of benefit to the general public?
And kudos to MS for allowing this to happen, some good PR they got going there.
O2 are my mobile service provider (owned by BT) and I just navigated to thepiratebay.org with absolutely no issues.
I was using GPRS to do this rather than 3G though, so maybe that it... although that makes almost no sense. Unless we only want to stop children downloading porn at high speed?
Given that they sent 350Million emails that linked to the researcher's websites in a month, and that they estimate they redirected 1.5% of the botnet's total spam.
1 in 12Million over however many billions of emails they send a month == profit
...to own one of these new 360's you'll need to buy a tv license as if you own any equipment capable of receiving TV signals you need to own a license. That's an extra £130/year (unless of course you have a license anyway).
I agree with you on the front of not downloading useless 3rd party applications (User education is paramount to stopping malware) but not installing Windows updates is completely ridiculous. Sure, waiting for bugs to be ironed out is one thing, but leaving your already flaky copy of Windows with unpatched vulns is ridiculous.
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Why would this be a "surprise"? It's in the game. Anyone who's played the original GTA doubtless has fond memories of GOURANGA!, which is to say, running over an entire line of schoolchildren out on a field trip. You get a hefty point bonus for it.
I think you'll find that the Gouranga bonus was for driving over a line of Hare Krishnas.. hence the word "Gouranga", which is a popular Hare Krishna chant
"The new console also takes measures to protect itself from overheating, so RRoDs shouldn't be a problem with this revision." Except it still has the same faulty X-clamps. Has even worse overheating issues than the original. And has already had green dots of death. (they removed the RRoD in favor of a green dot.)
Got any links to back that up?
'It installs itself on routers and modems by guessing default administrative passwords and taking advantage of the fact that many devices are configured to allow remote access."' Does this botnet attack also work on non Linux based routers and if so the what is the logic behind the subject line ?
No, It requires the router to be running Linux on a MIPS system.
It looks like they were cracking passwords which were 8 or less characters with simple Alphanumerics. In other words, weak passwords. While the cloud aspect makes it vaguely interesting, is it really news?
Or is Dvorak's article more of a complaint that MS no longer writes him love letters than anything else?
He barely mentions Win7 at all
that this postal strike actually has some kind of benefit to the general public? And kudos to MS for allowing this to happen, some good PR they got going there.
O2 are not owned by BT in any way shape or form - they bought out what used to be BT Cellnet but O2 is owned by Telefónica
Oh.. that probably explains it.
Less confused now, more Red Faced.
O2 are my mobile service provider (owned by BT) and I just navigated to thepiratebay.org with absolutely no issues.
I was using GPRS to do this rather than 3G though, so maybe that it... although that makes almost no sense.
Unless we only want to stop children downloading porn at high speed?
It's not like they started it or... Oh wait... D'oh
I think the 28M bank accounts is just bullshit. It's gotta be heaps higher.
Surely 100M wouldn't be that big a figure even?
--Q
Perhaps a lot of Germans use the equivalent of UK building societies. They're not counted as Bank accounts but have a lot of the same functionality
Given that they sent 350Million emails that linked to the researcher's websites in a month, and that they estimate they redirected 1.5% of the botnet's total spam. 1 in 12Million over however many billions of emails they send a month == profit
Hardy is affected by this bug, but the modified exploit successfully fixes it.
...to own one of these new 360's you'll need to buy a tv license as if you own any equipment capable of receiving TV signals you need to own a license. That's an extra £130/year (unless of course you have a license anyway).
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I agree with you on the front of not downloading useless 3rd party applications (User education is paramount to stopping malware) but not installing Windows updates is completely ridiculous. Sure, waiting for bugs to be ironed out is one thing, but leaving your already flaky copy of Windows with unpatched vulns is ridiculous.
AFAIK Schengen doesn't cover Greece. So your passport should serve a purpose