I have not RTFA, however, I would like to know, does the person who supposedly planted the p0rn, admit to it, or still deny it...? Unless you have a camera pointed to the computer that has a timestamp matching the time the p0rn was added on the hdd of the pc....you would have a real hard time knowing who did what (maybe unless the perp, had a sub to some website, he accessed with his real username password to download unto the victims computer proving it was him.) It becomes a story of who says what, and who did what, and can you prove it. Even being a cyber CSI, i can tell you sometimes, getting something to stick, becomes impossible, because you have no way of knowing if the person really did it, unless he admits to it.
Again I have not read the full article, but unless I hear he admitted to it, I would have a hard time taking either guys words for it. If you can find some of the p0rn at the perps house, then you are ok, but if both have p0rn at their houses, who is telling the truth?
Or...you can just round them up and place them in a protected area to save the bird population from becoming extinct, like most other animals, and separate them from having predators....that would probably be cheaper and less intrusive to the bird then spraying them all with axe body spray!
Is it possible that this is just to say the cd sales have plummeted so much due to digital format over the internet (whether legal or not) that now the cd sales have gone down so low, that it is below the die hard vinyl fans that are out there and will never relinquish their vinyl playing ways? Not to say the vinyl sales have gone up, but more so the cd sales have gone way down....
I can't remember the last time I actually bought a cd, yet I am current with all releases of all artists out now. Vinyl players like the vinyl sound and feel, and would never be able to download from internet vinyl....sort a not really a big deal when you think of it.
This is the problem with most corporations out there, the biggest culprit being the oil companies, they could reinvest some of those billions they keep taking in each quarter as profit and establish a better more up to date infrastructure for the oil refineries, but guess what, they would rather allow a small hurricane to blow in and then overcharge because the mill in texas was closed down for a few weeks.....so if you do not change with the times, the times will change you. (and make you obsolete)
In this case, blockbuster had their chance eons ago to start changing, i remember when they had the vhs kiosk, and the dvd kiosk, so why not more of those and less employees, that is one way to cut back, and with less employees, you need less heat per square inch, so the heating bill goes down ( same as the electricity as not needing as much lighting) etc...
Ah well, i do like walking into a blockbuster once in awhile more so for nostalgia then anything else (i torrent my stuff) but my gf still likes to rent only because she does not know about netflix yet!
The site is not down, there is just DNS cache poisoning, where it redirects you to some broken site page (maybe with malware in the background???) or so I have heard... This makes sense to me, as it is not possible that only 1000 users have the site down and the rest are all a-ok...
So i guess getting a cpu with 8 cores on it will be superb!...I just hope they make it to be able to be understood by today's motherboards, or are we talking another 6 months before we see any avail. motherboards supporting it
What is the point of these chips if as soon as someone steals your dog, and declare it their own, you are now without means to locate your dog. Seriously, I hope they throw the book at this company.... HARD!!!
As much as it is all that, I still can not get over the lack of plug ins for your headset to watch the on flight movie...or lack of bathrooms, seems to me a bit messy for the people under you when you need to go while traveling long distances.
Thats is probably what I like best about AMD, able to turn one up on Intel everytime, so that intel (with the better product anyways) needs to lower their prices...and therefor will allow me to get their next gen CPU for much cheaper, way to go AMD, keep it up....
On a serious note, has anyone tried the phenom chip, can anyone say they actually like it, I have seen some benchmarks, nothing to get exited over, except the price...
I agree, zonealarm does a nice job of letting you know which process is trying to access the network or internet, and is good to keep you aware of what is going on on your pc, having just the outside server trapping such things, tends to limit the visual of it all, out of sight out of mind, so when would be the next time you would think to look up all those pings that each of your machines were trying on that one server... even if you click allow all the time, at least you are being kept in the loop.
Also, i have caught on many occasions, other apps that did not need to "call home" such as microsoft word or powerpoint...when i never even opened those up....so i blocked them, do not need extra traffic, as well, should ever there be a clonex app that is actually a virus that my AV did not catch, i have limited my access to purely those that need it (utorrent, FF, filezilla...etc...)
how about on the side of your car, and then also add some solar paint....the combo of the 2 turns your car into a self generating self contained energy construct, and the fact you do not need a bulky battery you coudl also just do without a bulky heavy one sitting in there, you could end up getting more miles for the gallon (or what is it for electric cars, kilojoules???)
When they cry that there is going to be a shortage of oil , and that this is the reason that gas prices need to be high, and then I see that we capped a fully functional well, which to this day gave us an extra 4.5 million barrels of oil, and that there are many other wells in place (abandoned) that are of the same nature, I wonder why we have to pay such high prices.....is there not a way to rebel, or set up OUR own oil company which could be considered a coop for the people f the US, everyone buys into it, and the profit margin is kept low, just high enough to continue reinvesting for the infrastructure, as we would not need really profits, as making sure the gas prices remained low would be the profit in itself...no?
Why are we allowing this monopoly in the oil sector.
totally agree, something about seeing through the walls, to see something that is "out there" coming at me, would make me cringe more then anything else...of course, also the vertigo you could feel when the plane tilts to one side, and you can REALLY see all the way to the ground.
I heard that when they play possum is when you pick them up by their tail and launch them into the shredding machine nearby, if many of them can be fooled into playing possum, there would be no real work to be done except maybe cleaning up afterwards the big mess left behind, but we can bring in a whole bunch of vultures to nest on the nearby island, and then let them swoop in and eat away the carcasses....
I thought the linux guys were always on top of their game, especially with all the source code documentation and the code repositories... this is one of those things that should never happen....but we are human i guess, i thought only M$ had the corner stone on these sort of mistakes.
How were they able to get passed our supper duper high tech security systems and screening, especially our advanced profiling , we put a lot of energy in coming up with such advanced systems.
On a serious note, I am a bit confused how this could happen, I thought a lot of the nuclear stuff was being outsourced to private companies, and that they had extreme measures of security much more advanced then what the government could come up with.
After watching that movie with Mel Gibson, I tend to think that these companies go further then the government ever could because of the lines the government just cant cross...sometimes almost sad, in some cases the government wont step in when it should... (ie- take away a pedophile and send a clear message of "do this, and you disappear".....) and when we wonder why they are getting involved at all when they should just stay clear of it....like gay marriages, if they want to get married, let them, if someone wants to spend major cash to marry his BMW car...who cares...let the poor sap tie the knot with an inanimate object.
Why are mission control systems, with critical tasks, given access to the internet...how is it even possible that say the powergrid be hooked up to the internet? Seriously, I know BSG is only a movie, but they made it clear what the real security solution was, keep everything under networked, only hooking up what you need to be hooked up, and all else singular systems.
Also, this brings about a good point...instead of always watching and waiting for the next botnet to appear and then let it go so that you can "study" it, sometimes it is always good to just kill it if you can, and I am sure now the agencies in place even the security companies are letting most botnets grow , so that 6 months later they can come in, and take it down and be an even bigger hero... because of the sheer size of the botnet taken down.
I see it this way, like a hockey game, you can have a goalie that stops all the goals and never lets one in....but maybe still lose if both teams are at 1 - 1 and the last goal happens to get by...although he stopped 60 goals from going in, or a goalie that stops none of the goals, but one the last one with both teams tied, stops the puck.... which goalie is better, the one that let the game build up and saved the last puck from going in, but with a bad record, or the goalie that stopped every single on except maybe that last one...
>but what this question is about is hiding encrypted data in unencrypted data so prying eyes can't tell if anything is even there at all There is always a way...even without touching the actual meta tags of a picture, i could turn around and say that each 100 pixel is actually part of my message, the outcome would be a picture with every 100th pixel not looking right, but good enough to pass a quick scan as the color being different is not too bad when we talk just one pixel...and when you combine all those pixels that are not really pixels together to make the overall data, you can actually come out with a few words....god enough for setting up a next meeting point or hide a password to an encrypted message elsewhere that the location is not known (national treasure style).
With enough drive someone can very well hide digital data indefinitely without worry.... try doing that with money though, good luck...a mattress can be searched, a bank be robbed or forced to give up the safety deposit box access , a hole can be dug up or even built on....there just is no real safe place for money!
I understand for some, this might be cool, however, a 25gb blue ray that has all that info, might be harder to copy, and keep (unless to another blu ray and they are expensive)....seriously, i could not imagine being able to copy this movie and then leave it on my hdd, taking up 25gb per movie...i do that with regular movies, and even then i convert them to avi at some point....this would just be a waste, I hope they always keep the regular dvds as well...
>The President of Microsoft Latin America Definitely without a programmer background to make such a claim, based on absolute ignorance, and nothing more then a bad loser if you ask me!
>You should never give the user the invalid decrypted data or any information about it Exactly, you would just send out a properly formatted error message stating a code (implicit to your company) and the rest very simple...contact your admin etc...as most programmers use codes, but do not need to offer a whole stack trace anymore.
I wonder if this was M$ who thought up another way to exclude all non legit copies to NOT get the much needed fix. Sure just pay money to get a legit copy, or move to linux to avoid paying for an OS...I am sure there are many out there who would appreciate M$ offering free updates EVEN FOR NON LEGIT copies, as this would definitely make me rethink my M$ is evil methodology, however, it would also lend a much needed hand at securing more of the internet that is still vulnerable and responsible for most spam today.
Stealing is stealing, whether company time spent on the crapper totaling half your day, or sitting at your desk twitting or on facebook, it is still a loss to your company that a) you are responsible for and b) can cost many man hours when you consider how many people have accounts.
The average person spends 50 minutes of WORK time surfing the net (all time high) when they should be working, this is I am sure because of elevated networking and social sites available, multiply this by how many employees, this calculates to almost 100 hours a day spent doing nothing in a company of 100 employees...that's a lot of money to waste on something that is not even productive...or generating revenue for your company
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I have not RTFA, however, I would like to know, does the person who supposedly planted the p0rn, admit to it, or still deny it...? Unless you have a camera pointed to the computer that has a timestamp matching the time the p0rn was added on the hdd of the pc....you would have a real hard time knowing who did what (maybe unless the perp, had a sub to some website, he accessed with his real username password to download unto the victims computer proving it was him.) It becomes a story of who says what, and who did what, and can you prove it. Even being a cyber CSI, i can tell you sometimes, getting something to stick, becomes impossible, because you have no way of knowing if the person really did it, unless he admits to it.
Again I have not read the full article, but unless I hear he admitted to it, I would have a hard time taking either guys words for it. If you can find some of the p0rn at the perps house, then you are ok, but if both have p0rn at their houses, who is telling the truth?
Being a programmer ....all I can say to this is, Ouch!...gotta hate when this sh*t happens!
Or...you can just round them up and place them in a protected area to save the bird population from becoming extinct, like most other animals, and separate them from having predators....that would probably be cheaper and less intrusive to the bird then spraying them all with axe body spray!
Is it possible that this is just to say the cd sales have plummeted so much due to digital format over the internet (whether legal or not) that now the cd sales have gone down so low, that it is below the die hard vinyl fans that are out there and will never relinquish their vinyl playing ways? Not to say the vinyl sales have gone up, but more so the cd sales have gone way down....
I can't remember the last time I actually bought a cd, yet I am current with all releases of all artists out now.
Vinyl players like the vinyl sound and feel, and would never be able to download from internet vinyl....sort a not really
a big deal when you think of it.
This is the problem with most corporations out there, the biggest culprit being the oil companies, they could reinvest some of those billions they keep taking in each quarter as profit and establish a better more up to date infrastructure for the oil refineries, but guess what, they would rather allow a small hurricane to blow in and then overcharge because the mill in texas was closed down for a few weeks.....so if you do not change with the times, the times will change you. (and make you obsolete)
In this case, blockbuster had their chance eons ago to start changing, i remember when they had the vhs kiosk, and the dvd kiosk, so why not more of those and less employees, that is one way to cut back, and with less employees, you need less heat per square inch, so the heating bill goes down ( same as the electricity as not needing as much lighting) etc...
Ah well, i do like walking into a blockbuster once in awhile more so for nostalgia then anything else (i torrent my stuff) but my gf still likes to rent only because she does not know about netflix yet!
The site is not down, there is just DNS cache poisoning,
where it redirects you to some broken site page (maybe with malware in the background???) or so I have heard...
This makes sense to me, as it is not possible that only 1000 users have the site down and the rest are all a-ok...
So i guess getting a cpu with 8 cores on it will be superb!...I just hope they make it to be able to be understood by today's motherboards, or are we talking another 6 months before we see any avail. motherboards supporting it
What is the point of these chips if as soon as someone steals your dog, and declare it their own, you are now without means to locate your dog.
Seriously, I hope they throw the book at this company.... HARD!!!
As much as it is all that, I still can not get over the lack of plug ins for your headset to watch the on flight movie...or lack of bathrooms, seems to me a bit messy for the people under you when you need to go while traveling long distances.
Don't get too close to the local fauna, "feed me Simor, feed me!"
Thats is probably what I like best about AMD, able to turn one up on Intel everytime, so that intel (with the better product anyways) needs to lower their prices...and therefor will allow me to get their next gen CPU for much cheaper, way to go AMD, keep it up....
On a serious note, has anyone tried the phenom chip, can anyone say they actually like it, I have seen some benchmarks, nothing to get exited over, except the price...
I agree, zonealarm does a nice job of letting you know which process is trying to access the network or internet, and is good to keep you aware of what is going on on your pc, having just the outside server trapping such things, tends to limit the visual of it all, out of sight out of mind, so when would be the next time you would think to look up all those pings that each of your machines were trying on that one server... even if you click allow all the time, at least you are being kept in the loop.
Also, i have caught on many occasions, other apps that did not need to "call home" such as microsoft word or powerpoint...when i never even opened those up....so i blocked them, do not need extra traffic, as well, should ever there be a clonex app that is actually a virus that my AV did not catch, i have limited my access to purely those that need it (utorrent, FF, filezilla...etc...)
how about on the side of your car, and then also add some solar paint ....the combo of the 2 turns your car into a self generating self contained energy construct, and the fact you do not need a bulky battery you coudl also just do without a bulky heavy one sitting
in there, you could end up getting more miles for the gallon (or what is it for electric cars, kilojoules???)
When they cry that there is going to be a shortage of oil , and that this is the reason that gas prices need to be high, and then I see that we capped a fully functional well, which to this day gave us an extra 4.5 million barrels of oil, and that there are many other wells in place (abandoned) that are of the same nature, I wonder why we have to pay such high prices.....is there not a way to rebel, or set up OUR own oil company which could be considered a coop for the people f the US, everyone buys into it, and the profit margin is kept low, just high enough to continue reinvesting for the infrastructure, as we would not need really profits, as making sure the gas prices remained low would be the profit in itself...no?
Why are we allowing this monopoly in the oil sector.
totally agree, something about seeing through the walls, to see something that is "out there" coming at me, would make me cringe more then anything else...of course, also the vertigo you could feel when the plane tilts to one side, and you can REALLY see all the way to the ground.
I heard that when they play possum is when you pick them up by their tail and launch them into the shredding machine nearby,
if many of them can be fooled into playing possum, there would be no real work to be done except maybe
cleaning up afterwards the big mess left behind, but we can bring in a whole bunch of vultures to nest on the nearby island,
and then let them swoop in and eat away the carcasses....
I thought the linux guys were always on top of their game, especially with all the source code documentation and the code repositories...
this is one of those things that should never happen....but we are human i guess, i thought only M$ had the corner stone on these sort of mistakes.
How were they able to get passed our supper duper high tech security systems and screening, especially our
advanced profiling , we put a lot of energy in coming up with such advanced systems.
On a serious note, I am a bit confused how this could happen, I thought a lot of the nuclear stuff was being outsourced to private companies, and that they had extreme measures of security much more advanced then what the government could come up with.
After watching that movie with Mel Gibson, I tend to think that these companies go further then the government ever could because of the lines the government just cant cross...sometimes almost sad, in some cases the government wont step in when it should...
(ie- take away a pedophile and send a clear message of "do this, and you disappear".....) and when we wonder why they are getting involved at all when they should just stay clear of it....like gay marriages, if they want to get married, let them, if someone wants to spend major cash to marry his BMW car...who cares...let the poor sap tie the knot with an inanimate object.
Why are mission control systems, with critical tasks, given access to the internet...how is it even possible that say the powergrid be hooked up to the internet? Seriously, I know BSG is only a movie, but they made it clear what the real security solution was, keep everything under networked, only hooking up what you need to be hooked up, and all else singular systems.
Also, this brings about a good point...instead of always watching and waiting for the next botnet to appear and then let it go so that you can "study" it, sometimes it is always good to just kill it if you can, and I am sure now the agencies in place even the security companies are letting most botnets grow , so that 6 months later they can come in, and take it down and be an even bigger hero...
because of the sheer size of the botnet taken down.
I see it this way, like a hockey game, you can have a goalie that stops all the goals and never lets one in....but maybe still lose if both teams are at 1 - 1 and the last goal happens to get by...although he stopped 60 goals from going in, or a goalie that stops none of the goals, but one the last one with both teams tied, stops the puck.... which goalie is better, the one that let the game build up and saved the last puck from going in, but with a bad record, or the goalie that stopped every single on except maybe that last one...
>but what this question is about is hiding encrypted data in unencrypted data so prying eyes can't tell if anything is even there at all ....god enough for setting up a next meeting point or hide a password to an encrypted message elsewhere that the location is not known (national treasure style).
There is always a way...even without touching the actual meta tags of a picture, i could turn around and say that each 100 pixel is actually part of my message, the outcome would be a picture with every 100th pixel not looking right, but good enough to pass a quick scan as the color being different is not too bad when we talk just one pixel...and when you combine all those pixels that are not really pixels together to make the overall data, you can actually come out with a few words
With enough drive someone can very well hide digital data indefinitely without worry....
try doing that with money though, good luck...a mattress can be searched, a bank be robbed or forced to give up the safety deposit box access , a hole can be dug up or even built on....there just is no real safe place for money!
I understand for some, this might be cool, however, a 25gb blue ray that has all that info, might be harder to copy, and keep (unless to another blu ray and they are expensive)....seriously, i could not imagine being able to copy this movie and then leave it on my hdd, taking up 25gb per movie...i do that with regular movies, and even then i convert them to avi at some point....this would just be a waste,
I hope they always keep the regular dvds as well...
>The President of Microsoft Latin America
Definitely without a programmer background to make such a claim,
based on absolute ignorance, and nothing more then a bad loser if you ask me!
>You should never give the user the invalid decrypted data or any information about it ...contact your admin etc...as most programmers use codes, but do not need to offer a whole stack trace anymore.
Exactly, you would just send out a properly formatted error message stating a code (implicit to your company) and the rest very simple
I wonder if this was M$ who thought up another way to exclude all non legit copies to NOT get the much needed fix.
Sure just pay money to get a legit copy, or move to linux to avoid paying for an OS...I am sure there are many out there who would appreciate M$ offering free updates EVEN FOR NON LEGIT copies, as this would definitely make me rethink my M$ is evil methodology, however, it would also lend a much needed hand at securing more of the internet that is still vulnerable and responsible for most spam today.
>Dangerous in what form?
Stealing is stealing, whether company time spent on the crapper totaling half your day, or sitting at your desk twitting or on facebook, it is still a loss to your company that a) you are responsible for and b) can cost many man hours when you consider how many people have accounts.
The average person spends 50 minutes of WORK time surfing the net (all time high) when they should be working, this is I am sure because of elevated networking and social sites available, multiply this by how many employees, this calculates to almost 100 hours a day spent doing nothing in a company of 100 employees...that's a lot of money to waste on something that is not even productive...or generating revenue for your company