>But it would be nice to get more innovation in that department That is M$s problem , they have none left, all their stuff is usually pilfered from other apps, and they add it to theirs (look at the evolution of add ons from visual studio as an example or even IE tabs coming from FF). The fact is too many old school guys not wanting to let the new blood perform, they prefer conforming them, until their is creativity left. Sure security has been a big point as of late and they are trying (not much succeeding), but all in all, the coolness of opening a new windows (7) machine is gone, nothing cool anymore worth a big "ooooouhhhh"
That is the distinction we need people to understand, unfortunately, not many want to spend the time to get to know this, and the fact the phone is still good, they would bring it back and ask for a new one instead.
Yes, having a reason to keep my cell in my hand at all times even when i am walking to produce a charge is a cool reason.... wonder if we could add that to other things too.....
I do agree that this has probably been known for some time and are now bringing out into the open, but I do not think they would come out with something like this where a car would be brought into the garage to change the injection system to get better gas mileage, and then you don't get your better gas mileage. I think it is sad that they are now bringing it out only being forced to by obama, saying we need better gas mileage for the gas we use....but it is still a trick to remain stuck using oil instead of moving to electric.
I have seen some FF download links which download a version of FF which is a rewrite of the IE GUI under a new interface looking like FF, and no one can tell the difference. All new hx0rs use the webhtml components in vs to create a FF like environement using the IE engine, then all is acting the way it should....and no one is the wiser....also letting the hax0r create a keylogging or capturing event to the interface. How do we know the download for FF is the real one, and you are still technically using an IE engine to download it to then install it and start using it, so from the get go, you would have to already have it installed on windows7 machines and then say just use FF instead of IE if it were to be a REAL compromise.
Now that wind power is actually taking off much more then anticipated, it reminds me of the oil and car companies buying up all the patents on steam , water and other type of engines and then shelfing them forever, just to ensure the oil companies profits year after year. Until a major critical event such as the president of the united states stepping in and saying we have to find alternate power sources for our cars and homes, then these new inventions or technologies will never see the light of day.... just the way capitalism works.
You know, i think people get what they deserve, if you go ahead and open your facebook account as paris hilton, and then go ahead and post all the info and stuff personal enough to set you up for stalking or fraud or even privacy invasion. You deserve it, no one explained the internet to you, once it is out there, it does not belong to you per se, only virtually.
So if you know someone could at some point working for facebook only for the sole purpose to find stuff like this, gets caught after selling some illegal pictures to people magazine or something, then repeats with diff. company when he gets canned....sounds to me like paparazzi tactics.
If you are paris hilton, and name your facebook account H_queen_B or something like that, also making sure not to put too much info that could leave the idea it is celebs, I guess it would be less evident, then say the rest of the 10 million facebook users, someone would really have to have nothing to do to go through all the stuff from 10 million users before getting lucky.
Anyways, I am sure that if someone posts also from celeb locations like Palm springs, and has the ip address to match, then again that would be up to them to hide their ip through Tor or something....
You forget a key element that impacts all of this too, money..... when you have money you can go get yourself ISO certified, this means you also had to pass certain standards in programming (like military issue code) which is mission critical resistant. I cant think of anyone I know that has a job doing this (checking code that belongs to another company to see if it will pass the military check standards) but you can bet that this person will be light years ahead of any regular programmer, not only in code but in innovation and unit testing skills.
I would love to spend some quality time beside one of these operators, such as to learn and watch....as sometimes even the best 20 years of experience does not show you what maybe one or 2 people have discovered that brings a 20 hour job down to 2 hours
Having dogs myself, I get sickened when I see an obvious neglect for a dog, let alone abuse, I think this would be a good thing, however, it might get used to get back at someone or play pranks, as long as there is a starting of a case, then someone is assigned to go observe the environment to see if it is a real case of abuse or not. Sometimes people are neglectful and not on purpose, getting a wake up call with someone declaring them anonymously, is all it takes sometimes to make them realize although dogs are not humans, they are animals that deserve to live as much as we do, and that existence should not be to in a cage 8 hours a day, followed by "go sit in your corner" for the rest of it......seriously.
I hope that this can help the organizations like the SPCA get better results, however, let's say this does a better job and we take away abused pets more now then before, the SPCA has a policy of putting to sleep dogs after a period of time, and this is not acceptable, we need to also dedicate some resources towards finding a better solution to helping us find good homes for those animals.
Are we not able to bottle this up, and use it as a source of gas, for vehicles, it seems a waste that all this methane is being seeped out, and yet we are not catching it, bottling it up and using it for ourselves...?
Does anyone know that has RealDVD, if this software which has stopped being sold or maintained since 2008/9 still works with todays new dvds (and encryptions). The reason why I ask, is if the way it copies is what is the most dangerous about this software because no matter how you encrypt it the dvd will always be able to be copied, then I gotta get me one of those....
There was a story on Slashdot 10 years ago about a guy that developed a way of putting 50gb of data on one sheet of regular paper based on an algorithm using shapes and colors...I am uncertain about the degradation of the paper over time, but you may today be able to buy into that technology...although I am uncertain as to where or how....
The website is sort of flaky, not even having a real setup yet for this contest, or whatever, and very unclear too about what the rules are (right now, none) as well, what are you supposed to describe, the problem toyota had or the problem that people complain about the pedal getting stuck or what???
Talk about just getting people to go on your website for no reason, other then maybe to download the latest malware....???
>Now give me a 80% vodka with no hangovers and I'm ready to roll. I am with you there, I thought this is what it was about, but there is no bubbles in vodka, although I have noticed when I mix with diet pepsi, the sting of an all nighter is not as present as when i drink vodka and cranberry...
They described in steps, the regular hack that happens in everyday hacking. I don't know what they were trying to single out, but most hacks start off with a vulnerability being exploited and then the hacker tends to put into effect means to be able to reconnect using proper credentials. Anyways, using a hole to then log on and create your own account for later seems pretty simple in terms of common sense, but the rest of the way would be to describe how a hacker goes about deleting tracks left behind in order to avoid flagging that the server was compromised. This would show more the effort you need to put into a good hack session.
Once all the feds are properly sanctioned and set up to run a sort of shared interglobal database where everyone is fingerprinted, dna, and maybe sent their main form of id (passport?) I will let them have my info. Once we move to a global scale system that is properly monitored and controlled (by who, don't know) I will be able to trust my credentials with them, but when you have some stupid desk clerk in some small town sheriff dept. or city precinct, that has his own agenda, or they have some plans in using the info they have for ??? I wonder.
The difference between the 2 will be money, loads of it. The small precinct is needing money, the 500 billion dollar global project wont be. Who would be tempted to sell your info to someone...? Who might mishandle the info in such a way as to screw up or make mistakes. Trust me, the big project with all world leaders having their eyes watching, would have to be pretty rock solid, where as some desk clerk that smudges your info because he dropped some coffee by mistake, well, you figure out the rest, ey!
I know there is an underrated 3rd axis the planet spins on that has been a bit off lately and imo the real culprit for the climate changes. This just reconfirms it for me, that such a quake in such a small area could actually affect the whole globe. Such a delicate axis we have....setting off many nuclear bombs, and having such terrible earthquakes. I have my suspicions about that like some strategically placed nukes way below the earth's core....set to detonate.....I am sure the tsunami a while back that destroyed most of sri lanka was quite possibly due to some nuclear testing done way out in the ocean, by engineers that thought there would be no repercussions.
Alas, I am a very sad and pessimistic type, almost paranoid when it comes to what governments are willing to do to their own people to get what they want, but I also see just how governments interact with each other, or lack of, when they are told by other governments not to proceed. Did we ever find out what was happening with that dude from North Kim Jong-il that wanted to have his own nuclear arsenal....they needed to test as well.....I wonder....
Like they are really going to take them seriously now, I mean, talk about being sore losers. They didn't get their bing fr their buck (pardon the pun), so now they want to shoot google down any which way they can, sad really, can't even come up with something original, let's come out with a search engine, 15 years too late, then when it does not fly, cry to mommy! I hate M$ today, too bad Gates is gone, I wonder is this really would have been his strategy....i think he was always more interested in bringing good innovation to light, not so much cry about it when they couldn't.
If you leave the door open, then you are stupid for letting in the flies, if you leave the screendoor closed but the main door open, you are stupid in thinking it will be enough to stop a robber, and if you only use a metal plated door, you are stupid in thinking it will stop the terminator. CAPTCHAs have never really worked, even to the new image and text combo ones, i saw that came close once, but it was based on a few QA style system, so not 1 or 2 but 3 or 4 questions about the person just like when you call a phone bank service.
Anyways, the best way to really get security is with the secureid system, i have used and see its enormous advantage, the ID switches every so often, so even if you know the main password, you need the id to add the last part to concatenate to the rest. However, how many people log unto a website are able to have a system like that that can be verified other then companies giving their employees these. In this situation, I would say, make ticket sales phone based only. If this is something that is time sensitive and that in order to avoid one guy getting all the tickets based on a software that runs, then make it phone based only.
If you have a website ECommerce site, and it is used to sell products, the person logging to buy up all your products only makes you more money, but tickets is not in the same league as let's say buying a laptop or iphone off the internet. People are not too lazy that calling by phone will get them a secured ticket, but then again it would fall on ticketmaster to handle to cost of the phone lines... which is something they want to avoid, unless they invest almost the same amount in R&D for a better system then what they got...either way, I guess I wont be going to see Metallica anytime soon.
>The only central authority is the IANA [iana.org] Don't tell this to Hungry Hobo, he might have to get involved and set you straight...lol Sometimes I see and hear things that make me realize there are so many varying opinions, and that no matter what yours is, someone is always willing to tell you yours is the wrong one. I knew there was 1 form of governing body that made sure the internet was not broken, but I kept forgetting which one it was, thank you for this, I am now armed for my next battle....lol
In the messagebox, you are able to associate an icon picture to the message, and also in.net that has been drastically been advanced. I agree that a puppy picture for some users would signal a more recognizable error message, however, going through the whole catalogue of the animal kingdom, I do not find enough species to cover all possible errors I could propagate in a software app.
Great, now hackers will only have to bypass a few firewalls and hack a few servers instead on 1100. Letting politics dictate security has always been a surefire way of decimating an empire, I am going to go get some popcorn and come back to watch...wait for me?
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>But it would be nice to get more innovation in that department
That is M$s problem , they have none left, all their stuff is usually pilfered from other apps, and they add it to theirs (look at the evolution of add ons from visual studio as an example or even IE tabs coming from FF). The fact is too many old school guys not wanting to let the new blood perform, they prefer conforming them, until their is creativity left.
Sure security has been a big point as of late and they are trying (not much succeeding), but all in all, the coolness
of opening a new windows (7) machine is gone, nothing cool anymore worth a big "ooooouhhhh"
That is the distinction we need people to understand, unfortunately, not many want to spend the time to get to know this, and the fact the phone is still good, they would bring it back and ask for a new one instead.
Yes, having a reason to keep my cell in my hand at all times even when i am walking to produce a charge is a cool reason....
wonder if we could add that to other things too.....
I do agree that this has probably been known for some time and are now bringing out into the open, but I do not think they would come out with something like this where a car would be brought into the garage to change the injection system to get better gas mileage, and then you don't get your better gas mileage. I think it is sad that they are now bringing it out only being forced to by obama, saying we need better gas mileage for the gas we use....but it is still a trick to remain stuck using oil instead of moving to electric.
I have seen some FF download links which download a version of FF which is a rewrite of the IE GUI under a new interface looking like FF, and no one can tell the difference. All new hx0rs use the webhtml components in vs to create a FF like environement using the IE engine, then all is acting the way it should....and no one is the wiser....also letting the hax0r create a keylogging or capturing event to the interface. How do we know the download for FF is the real one, and you are still technically using an IE engine to download it to then install it and start using it, so from the get go, you would have to already have it installed on windows7 machines and then say just use FF instead of IE if it were to be a REAL compromise.
Now that wind power is actually taking off much more then anticipated, it reminds me of the oil and car companies buying up all the patents on steam , water and other type of engines and then shelfing them forever, just to ensure the oil companies profits year after year. Until a major critical event such as the president of the united states stepping in and saying we have to find alternate power sources for our cars and homes, then these new inventions or technologies will never see the light of day .... just the way capitalism works.
I could also imagine a beowulf cluster of these
I thought horse manure to grow crops was disgusting, imagine last nights calamari and red wine!
You know, i think people get what they deserve, if you go ahead and open your facebook account as paris hilton, and then go ahead and post all the info and stuff personal enough to set you up for stalking or fraud or even privacy invasion. You deserve it, no one explained the internet to you, once it is out there, it does not belong to you per se, only virtually.
So if you know someone could at some point working for facebook only for the sole purpose to find stuff like this, gets caught after selling some illegal pictures to people magazine or something, then repeats with diff. company when he gets canned....sounds to me like paparazzi tactics.
If you are paris hilton, and name your facebook account H_queen_B or something like that, also making sure not to put too much info that could leave the idea it is celebs, I guess it would be less evident, then say the rest of the 10 million facebook users, someone would really have to have nothing to do to go through all the stuff from 10 million users before
getting lucky.
Anyways, I am sure that if someone posts also from celeb locations like Palm springs, and has the ip address to match, then again that would be up to them to hide their ip through Tor or something....
You forget a key element that impacts all of this too, money..... when you have money you can go get yourself ISO certified, this means you also had to pass certain standards in programming (like military issue code) which is mission critical resistant. I cant think of anyone I know that has a job doing this (checking code that belongs to another company to see if it will pass the military check standards)
but you can bet that this person will be light years ahead of any regular programmer,
not only in code but in innovation and unit testing skills.
I would love to spend some quality time beside one of these operators, such as to learn and watch ....as sometimes even the best 20 years of experience does not show you what maybe one or 2 people have discovered that brings a 20 hour job down to 2 hours
Having dogs myself, I get sickened when I see an obvious neglect for a dog, let alone abuse, I think this would be a good thing, however, it might get used to get back at someone or play pranks, as long as there is a starting of a case, then someone is assigned to go
observe the environment to see if it is a real case of abuse or not. Sometimes people are neglectful and not on purpose, getting a wake up call with someone declaring them anonymously, is all it takes sometimes to make them realize although dogs are not humans, they are animals that deserve to live as much as we do, and that existence should not be to in a cage 8 hours a day, followed by "go sit in your corner" for the rest of it......seriously.
I hope that this can help the organizations like the SPCA get better results, however, let's say this does a better job and we take away abused pets more now then before, the SPCA has a policy of putting to sleep dogs after a period of time, and this is not acceptable, we need to also dedicate some resources towards finding a better solution to helping us find good homes for those animals.
Cool...now that all the hackers know where to live if they need to operate a botnet,
I welcome our new botnet overlords....
Are we not able to bottle this up, and use it as a source of gas, for vehicles, it seems a waste that all this methane is being
seeped out, and yet we are not catching it, bottling it up and using it for ourselves...?
Does anyone know that has RealDVD, if this software which has stopped being sold or maintained since 2008/9 still works
with todays new dvds (and encryptions). The reason why I ask, is if the way it copies is what is the most dangerous about this software
because no matter how you encrypt it the dvd will always be able to be copied, then I gotta get me one of those....
There was a story on Slashdot 10 years ago about a guy that developed a way of putting 50gb of data on one sheet of regular paper based on an algorithm using shapes and colors...I am uncertain about the degradation of the paper over time, but you may today be able to buy into that technology...although I am uncertain as to where or how....
The website is sort of flaky, not even having a real setup yet for this contest, or whatever, and very unclear too about what the rules are (right now, none) as well, what are you supposed to describe, the problem toyota had or the problem that people complain about the pedal getting stuck or what???
Talk about just getting people to go on your website for no reason, other then maybe to download the latest malware....???
>Now give me a 80% vodka with no hangovers and I'm ready to roll.
I am with you there, I thought this is what it was about, but there is no bubbles in vodka, although I have noticed when I mix with diet pepsi, the sting of an all nighter is not as present as when i drink vodka and cranberry...
They described in steps, the regular hack that happens in everyday hacking.
I don't know what they were trying to single out, but most hacks start off with a vulnerability being exploited and then the
hacker tends to put into effect means to be able to reconnect using proper credentials.
Anyways, using a hole to then log on and create your own account for later seems pretty simple in terms of
common sense, but the rest of the way would be to describe how a hacker goes about deleting tracks left behind in order to avoid flagging that the server was compromised. This would show more the effort you need to put into a good hack session.
Once all the feds are properly sanctioned and set up to run a sort of shared interglobal database where everyone is fingerprinted, dna, and maybe sent their main form of id (passport?) I will let them have my info. Once we move to a global scale system that is properly monitored and controlled (by who, don't know) I will be able to trust my credentials with them, but when you have some stupid desk clerk in some small town sheriff dept. or city precinct, that has his own agenda, or they have some plans in using the info they have for ??? I wonder.
The difference between the 2 will be money, loads of it. The small precinct is needing money, the 500 billion dollar global project wont be. Who would be tempted to sell your info to someone...?
Who might mishandle the info in such a way as to screw up or make mistakes.
Trust me, the big project with all world leaders having their eyes watching, would have to be pretty rock solid, where as some
desk clerk that smudges your info because he dropped some coffee by mistake, well, you figure out the rest, ey!
I know there is an underrated 3rd axis the planet spins on that has been a bit off lately and imo the real culprit for the climate changes. ....setting off many nuclear bombs, and having such terrible earthquakes. I have my suspicions about that .....I am sure the tsunami a while back that destroyed most of sri lanka was quite possibly due to some nuclear testing done way out in the ocean, by engineers that thought there would be no repercussions.
This just reconfirms it for me, that such a quake in such a small area could actually affect the whole globe.
Such a delicate axis we have
like some strategically placed nukes way below the earth's core....set to detonate
Alas, I am a very sad and pessimistic type, almost paranoid when it comes to what governments are willing to do to their own people
to get what they want, but I also see just how governments interact with each other, or lack of, when they are told by other governments not to proceed. Did we ever find out what was happening with that dude from North Kim Jong-il that wanted to have his own nuclear arsenal....they needed to test as well.....I wonder....
Like they are really going to take them seriously now, I mean, talk about being sore losers. They didn't get their bing fr their buck (pardon the pun), so now they want to shoot google down any which way they can, sad really, can't even come up with something original, let's come out with a search engine, 15 years too late, then when it does not fly, cry to mommy!
I hate M$ today, too bad Gates is gone, I wonder is this really would have been his strategy....i think he was always more interested
in bringing good innovation to light, not so much cry about it when they couldn't.
If you leave the door open, then you are stupid for letting in the flies, if you leave the screendoor closed but the main door open, you are stupid in thinking it will be enough to stop a robber, and if you only use a metal plated door, you are stupid in thinking it will stop the terminator. CAPTCHAs have never really worked, even to the new image and text combo ones, i saw that came close once, but it was based on a few QA style system, so not 1 or 2 but 3 or 4 questions about the person just like when you call a phone bank service.
Anyways, the best way to really get security is with the secureid system, i have used and see its enormous advantage, the ID switches every so often, so even if you know the main password, you need the id to add the last part to concatenate to the rest. However, how many people log unto a website are able to have a system like that that can be verified other then companies giving their employees these. In this situation, I would say, make ticket sales phone based only. If this is something that is time sensitive and that in order to avoid one guy getting all the tickets based on a software that runs, then make it phone based only.
If you have a website ECommerce site, and it is used to sell products, the person logging to buy up all your products only makes you more money, but tickets is not in the same league as let's say buying a laptop or iphone off the internet. People are not too lazy that calling by phone will get them a secured ticket, but then again it would fall on ticketmaster to handle to cost of the phone lines...
which is something they want to avoid, unless they invest almost the same amount in R&D for a better system then what they got...either way, I guess I wont be going to see Metallica anytime soon.
>The only central authority is the IANA [iana.org]
Don't tell this to Hungry Hobo, he might have to get involved and set you straight...lol
Sometimes I see and hear things that make me realize there are so many varying opinions, and that no matter what yours is, someone is always willing to tell you yours is the wrong one.
I knew there was 1 form of governing body that made sure the internet was not broken, but I kept forgetting which one it was, thank you for this, I am now armed for my next battle....lol
Hungry Hobo here I come...
In the messagebox, you are able to associate an icon picture to the message, and also in .net that has been drastically been advanced.
I agree that a puppy picture for some users would signal a more recognizable error message, however, going through the whole catalogue of the animal kingdom, I do not find enough species to cover all possible errors I could propagate in a software app.
Great, now hackers will only have to bypass a few firewalls and hack a few servers instead on 1100.
Letting politics dictate security has always been a surefire way of decimating an empire,
I am going to go get some popcorn and come back to watch...wait for me?