OK, as if, anyone smell BS here, like I do? Here is a link to a story of how the Air Force wanted to create a wrold botnet to control and send cyber attacks should they need them for global scale cyber warfare. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/15/1654235
My guess is, it was easier to get M$ to bend and rewrite certain things that would allow the Air Force to backdoor into systems, and create a buzz, saying that we now have the best and most secure version of XP EVER!, Because we bought it so much, now it is cheap, and it can be yours for the 4 small payments of.....!!!
If i were to buy into the propaganda, I would say, it would be much cheaper for them to install one PC properly, and close the image a bazillion times as needed and just pay a M$ license fee to do this, why rewrite the app to be more secure, it already is once the updates are all installed anyways...and your disk image would contain also all the rest of the updates for all the other apps your company would use.....
This is all nice and sweet, really, but until we get a proper unbiased source to judge the effects of piracy, and the toll it takes on the music/movie industries, I would not put an ounce of validity in the report.
Show me proper statistics that say x + y =z, then I will say, ok let's review the damage. Then I might feel some remorse when I torrent my favorite show 24, because Keifer just isn't able to pay his mortgage anymore.
For a long time, I spoke of how the decision to sell a movie for 24$ in dvd at blockbuster was an act of criminal nature...who came up with this figure, is it a fair number or just an unchallenged one. So let's really review the process movie and music companies take to sell their service/merchandise.
For once I applaud Walmart, for sticking it to MGM, Paramount, Universal, Virgin, all of those, that say No we want 20$ a cd, even though the artist only gets 1$ from that....yeah that is really fair! So instead when I see Walmart selling for 5$ a cd...then I won't worry about to torrent the new album, because it is actually considerable when you compare to the bandwidth needed to download an album or movie....plus the effort of burning it unto a cd/dvd.
Canad just does not sit back and let themselves get consumerised blindly for the profit of a big corporation, we do actually give a crap and speak out!
Are you telling that if Bob and Jim both are able to make a chip, and that Bob decides to offer a chip made for 10$ to a client for 8$ , thereby costing him 2$, yet netting him a good contract, and a foot in the door to make a good impression so that the next time , he will be able to charge 12$ for a 10$ chip, this is what we call anti - trust?
Am i missing something here, or is the world falling apart?
I believe you can actually configure to not use intellisense and other features in the GUI of VS, this making it even more robust as the better you are and the less help you need the faster your environment becomes...disable intellisense and refactoring from VS, you will see a big jump in performance!
Well, I would like to know, if a black hole comes by, does it actually pull a whole planet into its hole, do we know if this is possible...
I mean at the core a small start implodes and turns into a black hole, but does it have enough strength to suck in another star, or even a whole solar system...and what happens if you put 2 black holes side by side, do they cancel each other out...sort of like putting a bag of holding inside a bag of holding...?
This is pretty much 90% of the problem with cd-rom boot viruses in today's virus market. If you do not auto execute the files when you pop in the cd, then you can scan them with an AV app, and..guess what, I know there is a virus on the cd...before it plays....imagine that!
Well, I would like to know, if a black hole comes by, does it actually pull a whole planet into its hole, do we know if this is possible...I mean at the core a small start implodes and turns into a black hole, but does it have enough strength to suck in another star, or even a whole solar system...and what happens if you put 2 black holes side by side, do they cancel each other out...sort of like putting a bag of holding inside a bag of holding...?
Let's talk assembler for a minute, many of the young whipper snappers, don't know that a GUI like visual studio that creates its own language (CLR) to then be recoded into assembler then into binary, is like all languages, really, at the core.
Yet how many can code in assembler, even I have trouble keeping any resemblance of the code, and need to brush up every now and then, so if 20 years go by, no one will even know what assembler is, which is sad, because we still have to know it essentially, as it is pre-binary, and the only thing to stop us from needing to recognize 0 and 1 patterns to communicate with our computer.
That is exactly why there are less weeds, they end up being eaten by the cooties, and then we kill the cooties with some vidal sassun or selsun blue, all ok in the end really!
I know, some people are just retards when it comes to understanding english speak, seriously, even I could have figured that one out....and I am french canadian.
I always thought it was weird how humans seemed to stay in the area of resource to be mined or cultivated...when they could easily live elsewhere. I am understanding the fact that culture and history plays a part in why they stay where they do, but if you are literally sitting on a coal mine, to get to it properly you would have to move...
I am not knowledged enough about extraction process for lithium, but I imagine, like coal, that some big company comes in buys out all the farms, and starts digging...then if after 10years they bleed the land dry, then you can buy your land back , in the mean time, you enjoy a sort of capital from revenue each month/year/ based on your lands production.
The political situation usually comes from when people do not want to move, and the means to make them realize they have to move for the greater good turns ugly.
This so the case, but so true, and yet can be so way off all at the same time, really it is better to just give full extended documentation telling your hr people to not use the networking sites to contact the employees, but if the HR people happen to glance at the page on their own time at home to review that candidate's social motives, then that might not be traceable per say...
All in all, if on paper they say NO, then tell you yes behind closed doors, ti will all be the same in the end, just no one to point the finger at...!!!
After RTFA. I had to say, the person responsible for the article was an ex military, but contracted to do recon about chinese hackers, but should the US not be doing this, instead of some freelance contractor. Now we know that the gov does not have the most capable people working for them to filter cyber crime, imagine some dude walks in...says hey did you look here? and presto the biggest chinese cyber gang bang around.
Imagine if they actually really wanted to do something about the problem, instead of spending so much time wasted on appearance that they do care. Just do the work, here is a guy who after 5 weeks...gave you 300,000 hackers...imagine if you had your whole task force doing this, they could get even a bigger clue on how big a problem this really is!!!
I agree that the chinese gov. probably tolerates such actions towards other cournties, and that even maybe deals out encouragement to those who can by giving them jobs. But try in americas to do such things, you will get the door knock from men in black. Then if they find that you really ARE patrioitic and not a hax00r that wanted the fame or glory, then maybe they might let you walk away unscathed, but you will be watched from then on.....maybe in the near future they might call for help if there is something in your expertise, but doubtful!
How about following in the military's and FBI's footsteps and not placing those networked systems available to the internet. Seems to me if it does not touch the internet , it must be safe.... another one is have a special made ethernet card that needs special software to operate, and kill all other types of network connections to the computers (in case someone slips in a usb wifi key)
Seriously, we should be sending this right back at them...DDoS them and make them see...we won't go down without a fight.
What if someone is allergic to one of the many vegetables made, and does not know it, they should include epipin in there for the driver, who knows....who knows...
Is there a special low carb sauce that can go with that to make it more appealing?
I remember commenting on Morgan's Law about the curve that technology (chipsets) have, and telling people (non believers) that it was all fine and dandy to keep pushing the envelope with new PCs today, up to a point, that one being the point that the majority of PC users, are now capable of sustaining themselves for more then the next 5 years with that dual core PC, and that to get anymore changing to happen, would be like pulling teeth.
I know if I had all I needed, power , speed, performance, and you come up to me and say, you need this for an extra 2k, to be up to date, and I really don't see the need, I won't buy it, and so will many others to satisfied already with what they got.
Just how fast do you need to burn that dvd, or copy that mp3, or how much room on that usb key do you need (64gb is enough,...trust me!)
Not if they charge per email sent... like.0001 cent...still adds up enough to let someone know they are infected, and with a cap at 100$ month, this will avoid a user falling off his chair, but make it sure evident to do something about it before next month.
As for the culprits, 100$ per month for spamming, might not be much, but then you have a paper trail of which could be used to track activity for perticular botnets.
Please, this is now as useless as doing studies to see how much tv is being watched in each household....in the 70s ok, it was when it was become the staple for home entertainment. Now we all know the TV is as much a part of a household as the toilet. No need to review any more studies about how TV is this or that, we have all accepted it as normal part of our American culture.
Now , we move on to computers, since the 80s it has become more and more popular, to the point now of having multiprocessors at home (mini mainframes if you will). Even if you do no play games, but you download mp3s or listen to music, or download movies or watch them on your computer, or email, or read the news, or read up on specific information for homework related stuff, you will still have a sh*t load of time spent on the computer per week.
It does not need any more studies about what it does, we know what it does, it educates the masses with controlled information. If I were to get you hooked on a game about learning special ops techniques, and warfare, and masked it as a regular game, guess what you could be a NAVY seals (yes they have their own game/war simulator).
So it all depends on how we apply ourselves, and what we teach our kids about the use or pitfalls of computers. DO not blindly give a kid a computer, instead learn with him what is possible for his age, and let him see the possibilities that are there other then playing mario kart!!!
The onus falls on the parents, and also teaching the kid the difference between fun and practical.
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This is so true....so frakkin true, it's not funny...
mod me please
sorry typos.... ...should read
> and close the image
> clone the image
OK, as if, anyone smell BS here, like I do?
Here is a link to a story of how the Air Force wanted to create a wrold botnet to control and send cyber attacks should they need them for global scale cyber warfare.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/15/1654235
My guess is, it was easier to get M$ to bend and rewrite certain things that would allow the Air Force to backdoor into systems, and create a buzz, saying that we now have the best and most secure version of XP EVER!, Because we bought it so much, now it is cheap, and it can be yours for the
4 small payments of.....!!!
If i were to buy into the propaganda, I would say, it would be much cheaper for them to install one PC properly, and close the image a bazillion times as needed and just pay a M$ license fee to do this, why rewrite the app to be more secure, it already is once the updates are all installed anyways...and your disk image would contain also all the rest of the updates for all the other apps your company would use.....
I smell BS, lots of it!
This is all nice and sweet, really, but until we get a proper unbiased source to judge the effects of piracy, and the toll it takes on the music/movie industries, I would not put an ounce of validity in the report.
Show me proper statistics that say x + y =z, then I will say, ok let's review the damage.
Then I might feel some remorse when I torrent my favorite show 24, because Keifer just isn't able to pay his mortgage anymore.
For a long time, I spoke of how the decision to sell a movie for 24$ in dvd at blockbuster was
an act of criminal nature...who came up with this figure, is it a fair number or just an unchallenged one. So let's really review the process movie and music companies take to sell their service/merchandise.
For once I applaud Walmart, for sticking it to MGM, Paramount, Universal, Virgin, all of those, that say No we want 20$ a cd, even though the artist only gets 1$ from that....yeah that is really fair! So instead when I see Walmart selling for 5$ a cd...then I won't worry about to
torrent the new album, because it is actually considerable when you compare to the bandwidth needed to download an album or movie....plus the effort of burning it unto a cd/dvd.
Canad just does not sit back and let themselves get consumerised blindly for the profit of a big corporation, we do actually give a crap and speak out!
LMAO!
Are you telling that if Bob and Jim both are able to make a chip, and that Bob decides to offer
a chip made for 10$ to a client for 8$ , thereby costing him 2$, yet netting him a good contract, and a foot in the door to make a good impression so that the next time , he will be able to charge 12$ for a 10$ chip, this is what we call anti - trust?
Am i missing something here, or is the world falling apart?
I believe you can actually configure to not use intellisense and other features in the GUI of VS, this making it even more robust as the better you are and the less help you need the faster your environment becomes...disable intellisense and refactoring from VS, you will see a big jump in performance!
Well, I would like to know, if a black hole comes by, does it actually pull a whole planet into its hole, do we know if this is possible...
I mean at the core a small start implodes and turns into a black hole, but does it have enough strength to suck in another star, or even a whole solar system...and what happens if you put 2 black holes side by side, do they cancel each other out...sort of like putting a bag of holding inside a bag of holding...?
This is pretty much 90% of the problem with cd-rom boot viruses in today's virus market. ..guess what, I know there is a virus on the cd ...before it plays....imagine that!
If you do not auto execute the files when you pop in the cd, then you can scan them with an AV app, and
Well, I would like to know, if a black hole comes by, does it actually pull a whole planet into its hole, do we know if this is possible...I mean at the core a small start implodes and turns into a black hole, but does it have enough strength to suck in another star, or even a whole solar system...and what happens if you put 2 black holes side by side, do they cancel each other out...sort of like putting a bag of holding inside a bag of holding...?
Let's talk assembler for a minute, many of the young whipper snappers, don't know that a GUI like visual studio that creates its own language (CLR) to then be recoded into assembler then into binary, is like all languages, really, at the core.
Yet how many can code in assembler, even I have trouble keeping any resemblance of the code, and
need to brush up every now and then, so if 20 years go by, no one will even know what assembler is, which is sad, because we still have to know it essentially, as it is pre-binary, and the only thing
to stop us from needing to recognize 0 and 1 patterns to communicate with our computer.
That is exactly why there are less weeds, they end up being eaten by the cooties, and then we kill the cooties with some vidal sassun or selsun blue, all ok in the end really!
I know, some people are just retards when it comes to understanding english speak,
seriously, even I could have figured that one out....and I am french canadian.
I always thought it was weird how humans seemed to stay in the area of resource to be mined or cultivated...when they could easily live elsewhere. I am understanding the fact that culture and history plays a part in why they stay where they do, but if you are literally sitting on a coal mine, to get to it properly you would have to move...
I am not knowledged enough about extraction process for lithium, but I imagine, like coal, that some big company comes in buys out all the farms, and starts digging...then if after 10years they bleed the land dry, then you can buy your land back , in the mean time, you enjoy a sort of
capital from revenue each month/year/ based on your lands production.
The political situation usually comes from when people do not want to move, and the means to make them realize they have to move for the greater good turns ugly.
This so the case, but so true, and yet can be so way off all at the same time, really it is better to just give full extended documentation telling your hr people to not use the networking sites to contact the employees, but if the HR people happen to glance at the page on their own time at home
to review that candidate's social motives, then that might not be traceable per say...
All in all, if on paper they say NO, then tell you yes behind closed doors, ti will all be the same in the end, just no one to point the finger at...!!!
If I only had points to give you for being so informative...
After RTFA. I had to say, the person responsible for the article was an ex military, but contracted to do recon about chinese hackers, but should the US not be doing this, instead of some freelance contractor. Now we know that the gov does not have the most capable people working for them to filter cyber crime, imagine some dude walks in ...says hey did you look here? and presto the biggest chinese
cyber gang bang around.
Imagine if they actually really wanted to do something about the problem, instead of spending so much time wasted on appearance that they do care. Just do the work, here is a guy who after 5 weeks ...gave you 300,000 hackers ...imagine if you had your whole task force doing this, they could get even a bigger clue on how big a problem this really is!!!
I agree that the chinese gov. probably tolerates such actions towards other cournties, and that even maybe deals out encouragement to those who can by giving them jobs. But try in americas to do such things, you will get the door knock from men in black. Then if they find that you really ARE patrioitic and not a hax00r that wanted the fame or glory, then maybe they might let you walk away unscathed, but you will be watched from then on.....maybe in the near future they might call for help if there is something in your expertise, but doubtful!
How about following in the military's and FBI's footsteps and not placing those networked systems available to the internet. Seems to me if it does not touch the internet , it must be safe....
another one is have a special made ethernet card that needs special software to operate, and kill
all other types of network connections to the computers (in case someone slips in a usb wifi key)
Seriously, we should be sending this right back at them...DDoS them and make them see ...we won't go down without a fight.
What if someone is allergic to one of the many vegetables made, and does not know it, they should include epipin in there for the driver, who knows....who knows...
Is there a special low carb sauce that can go with that to make it more appealing?
Great now the secret is out, watch all the new attacks be against foxit...lol
Can they atleast prove this and move to motion for a mistrial?
I remember commenting on Morgan's Law about the curve that technology (chipsets) have, and
telling people (non believers) that it was all fine and dandy to keep pushing the envelope
with new PCs today, up to a point, that one being the point that the majority of PC users,
are now capable of sustaining themselves for more then the next 5 years with that dual core PC,
and that to get anymore changing to happen, would be like pulling teeth.
I know if I had all I needed, power , speed, performance, and you come up to me and say, you need this for an extra 2k, to be up to date, and I really don't see the need, I won't buy it, and so will many others to satisfied already with what they got.
Just how fast do you need to burn that dvd, or copy that mp3, or how much room on that usb key do you need (64gb is enough ,...trust me!)
Not if they charge per email sent... like .0001 cent...still adds up enough to let someone know they are infected, and with a cap at 100$ month, this will avoid a user falling off his chair, but make it sure evident to do something about it before next month.
As for the culprits, 100$ per month for spamming, might not be much, but then you have a paper trail of which could be used to track activity for perticular botnets.
Please, this is now as useless as doing studies to see how much tv is being watched in each household....in the 70s ok, it was when it was become the staple for home entertainment.
Now we all know the TV is as much a part of a household as the toilet. No need to review any more
studies about how TV is this or that, we have all accepted it as normal part of our American culture.
Now , we move on to computers, since the 80s it has become more and more popular, to the point now of having multiprocessors at home (mini mainframes if you will). Even if you do no play games, but you download mp3s or listen to music, or download movies or watch them on your computer, or email, or read the news, or read up on specific information for homework related stuff, you will still have a sh*t load of time spent on the computer per week.
It does not need any more studies about what it does, we know what it does, it educates the masses with controlled information. If I were to get you hooked on a game about learning special ops techniques, and warfare, and masked it as a regular game, guess what you could be a NAVY seals (yes they have their own game/war simulator).
So it all depends on how we apply ourselves, and what we teach our kids about the use or pitfalls of computers. DO not blindly give a kid a computer, instead learn with him what is possible for his age, and let him see the possibilities that are there other then playing mario kart!!!
The onus falls on the parents, and also teaching the kid the difference between fun and practical.