You bring up a good point, if we leave all countries to their own devices, we end up with about 20 ships....all capable of going out there to intercept the asteroid, we could then light it up with gunfire from all ships, or just send the fleet to gently push (all at once) the meteor somewhat off course...I mean it is not that impossible, I have seen the effects of a small satellite propeller engine on a huge *ss satellite, so something like proportional claims that we could do this sounds plausible.
On a seperate note, I have yet another machine that does have the AU disabled , and was still targeted by WGA, however, I have za installed, and was able to put a block on that service and dll from running, I imagine it is only a matter of time before I forget it, and turn off za for xxx reason. But it is cool to know you can block it with za altogether!
My windows machine that just recently triggered the disable until you phone home wga crap, had WoW installed, and WoW forced you to create a new battle.net account to use WoW. I now have a new battle.net.dll on my machine and funny enough, I wonder if this is what forced the install of the wga and triggered the disable windows function.
I would not put it past M$ to find the most popular gamers tools for accessing their games, and then "behind closed doors" pay off the company to push a malware that reenables these if they are disabled. Would not be the first time, and Battle.net.dll needs admin privs....wonder why!
However, we were not talking about you, we were talking about me. You blasted me and said I was not an admin... I defended my ground, and said I would never let my users install theses softwares, and as such any REAL admin would terminal server any of those apps you mention unto a terminal server link where everyone has to log unto, this is the easiest to maintain and less resource hungry for individual policies. The fact you did not mention any of this leads me to believe this is not your set up, and for a company with over 200 employees, using vmware virtualised center, and terminal server, I would say I think my kung fu is more powerful then yours. Haaaa.yyyyyah!
I am calling BS on the reaons behind him not wanting to divulge his findings. He can be asked by the queen and think it odd, and want to refuse her, it still does not take away the findings he so calls his own, have been paid for with gov. money and so belongs to the gov....not him.
-- If I had a unicorn, I wouldn't need any affordable, efficient hydrogen-powered car!
Well, your ignorance is showing here, as I assume, that your assuming my situation would require badly written applications. No, I don't need to install your limewire which needs admin privileges. So no, I do administrate many xp machines, I just dont let users do stupid things on them, like install any program they choose.
Of course,....windows7 (rollseyes), are you getting paid to help promote 7? I will not upgrade to 7, when I do not need to. My needs are very simple, and xp does fine to support those needs, thank you.
If I am admin, I will reset my passwords every30 days, because it is easy to do so, and almost too easy to remember (only dumb people chose easy passwords, like their dogs names) As for installing quickly a rootkit or what not...yeah I suppose it depends on the assault type and timetable, but any password at that point is compromised, whether its yours or mine, so YOU are not further ahead either.
I was specific about my point, purely about the fact they are being sued for having software they made for their cpus, which happens to work for another (by luck) and now they seem responsible for its maintenance.....I was not talking about their other issues.
I agree we ned better info on which distro of xp is compromised vs. which other types, however, you are forgetting the biggest factor in this euqation. Piracy! Windowsxp Pro was the best windows out so far (except server versions)
And of windowsxp pro out there, of which we say 90% of compromised machines is windowsxp, what percentage of those are pirated, not being able to download updates, etc....care to venture a guess?
I would say 90% as well...(my estimate). Not many people like NOT using windows, however fewer still like to pay for it! So disclude all pirated copies as those are not legal copies and can not be counted on for a proper estimate of secure OS (as no updates = insecure) are responsible for compromised machines, and that number drops down really low!!!
Don't get me started on the topic of pirated versions not being real versions....we all know the warez includes all sorts of preinstalled malwae on those iso versions you download from torrents. So to include them in a stats call would be like saying we know all the modified cars out there with the chips allowing the cars to go 300km an hour are possible, so we will include them when getting stats of how many speed related accidents are out there for our model brand car....they would laugh at you, so why do it for softwares.
If M$ was intelligent, they would include free updates EVEN for pirated copies of their softwares, why?...because popularity wins everytime (just watch american idol to see what I mean). If you are allowing these copies to continue, then people will want even more windows based softwares and be pushing their windows ideas to all their non computer firends, starting them down a M$ path they will never be able to leave....(sort of like a woman going black and never coming back!) I tend to think it would be a great move to improve overall security online, as well as push your market share back up for being 1) friendly to users who like your product but normally would not spend that much to use it, and 2) moving ads into the updates as they are rolling, to cover the loss of those revenues you cherish. The ad space would cost equal to how much you needed to make , also could move to push your newer windows 7 still, showing then newer os functions etc....they are just too dumb for their own good.
>When I used to run XP, I ran as Admin. I shouldn't have, but that is just the way that system was designed, unless you really really fight against it
Really, I tend to do it myself, but nothing stops me from configuring a complete non admin user on my machine and using that one when surfing the web or doing things like listening to music. To install softwares, you log in as admin, install and delog, to use the app you log as user without admin permission.
I think your ignorance is clouding your judgement.
ps- I would also force a redo password selection every 30 days for admin account as it is very important that it stays in rotation, in case someone has been able to figure it out.
Why would any part of this climate information lead someone to go to the FBI? It is climate info, and when you compare it to bankfraud or idtheft, it pails in comparison to what evil you can do with this info. Seriously, I smell BS here, as for Jones, I think he is a quack that needs to stop whining and share what he has, like a little spoiled brat in the sandbox, I think he is just afraid someone will debunk him (which happened in the past already) and prove him inadequate to hold on to that data.
You sir are a good breath of fresh common sense air. I have to agree totally with you on this one, as I see this as the only way to proceed with the data, make it public, let other experts take a look and from about 100 different experts we can concur an outcome.
>One interesting charge that has already arisen: that Intel systematically changed its widely used compiler to stunt the performance of competing processors. I have to say, if I build a compiler, for myself and someone else uses it for themselves. I do not have to worry about them, seeing as I built it for me. If they offer it for free, then they have no responsibility to keep it friendly to anyone but themselves.
Seriously, in this case I hope Intel wins, because they have the right to do what they did....although price fixing is another issue altogether.
This is where you are wrong, I am sure someone had cloned a drive as backups and was forgotten about, even though someone can quick format a drive, it still has the info on it. I think the previous admin was not as good as the new admin (working for Obama) seeing as Obama is the first president to really kick up a notch when it comes to online presence, even setting up a website for people to blog and share their views and ideas with his close assistants.
Remember the blackberry issue, I think he is surrounded with much more powerful computer kung fu artists then the previous president was (we shall not mention his name...as well I am sure the previous president is shaking in his boots right now!)
I have to agree, anyone living in California usually gets so used to anything below 4.0, it does not even register any news. If any damages occur, it is the person's fault for not properly preparing for the event, as it is now a common daily event over there. The fact that they are saying 9millino in damages, I would say either a lot was downplayed by their gov. and hidden and need some payback for doing this, or he is getting scammed by politicians hoping to pocket a lot of the money.
That's why I use a new hotmail address usually made with the sites name and my own to keep logs of everything that comes from there, so if anything is compromised, then I know usually where it comes from. Also I have no worries someone gets my address as it is irrelevant seeing as it is not my real one.
Just like in the US, they wanted to make an example out of her, to show who was in control, try also taking them to court over it, good luck! They have no real rights over there, I wonder if they would have done the same for a man???
That's one hell of a zit, if you ask me! Sort of makes me wonder if that supposed asteroid killed of the dinosaurs, maybe it was this perfect volcano???
Hold on, now, at some point, Adobe WAS a good product, until everybody found out ( did the hackers know way before??) that some javascript was not safe. Hell 3/4 of sites using js in their pages is unsafe, but don't do anything about it.
The reason why they need any js in there is beyond me, as I have never used any pdfs with js embedded.... but I am sure there is a reason, they should just take it out completely out of all their versions, and add an add-on utility that adds it back in, that way only the truly knowledged who need it will get it, then they are "use at your own risk crowd".
Why worry so much, your stocks wont go down if you take out js as a whole and fix 95% of Adobe vulnerabilities because of it. Stocks would go up, no???
I have to agree, for awhile back when PC games were the craze, (Halo, Unreal, Age of Empire)...there was many games out for the playstation, however I felt the lines were getting thinner and thinner. Before that we had nintendo 64, which was already on its way, way out! Tehy came out with a console that could also play dvds and mp3, and hook up to your pc to see image files on your network, this saved or extended console's lives longer, and now the wii, with its fitness games will be the next life extender in a dying breed.
The console is just another computer, right, the games are too limiting when they are made for a console, where as when you have a pc, you could have it anyway you want, and then you can install your game....so if you can afford to have a octocore computer, more power to you...you don't need to get stuck with jimmy's p3 which still plays unreal tournament perfectly, but would never be able to handle the needs of a game like call of duty 5.
So yes, you need a console for most cool games as many do not want to try and pc their games, but think about this, when you put it on the shelf, and dust it off in about 10years for your kid, most everyday computers will be able to still run those games, where as most people will not still have an ol xbox sitting around, as the next craze of consoles kicks in.
I know it sounds like a lot, but remember that 10 years or so ago when titanic came out, it grossed over 1billion dollars with all its sales and marketing. Back then this number would mean a lot, however I find now, this number is not conclusive to be compared to that of many years ago, of course it breaks records, we pay 15$ to go see a movie, where as back then it was 10$ or even 8$, so like saying 10 years ago I paid 50 cents a loaf of bread, and now I pay 1.50$, and the bread market is breaking record sales numbers, is silly.
However, I do agree that it goes to show, the whole thing with the movie companies saying hey are losing all this money because of downloads is pure BS, I never would have paid money to go see The Hangover, but I would watch it if I downloaded it for free. Does that mean they lost a sale, absolutely not! As well, there are movies that you just have to go see on the big screen (Transformers) that are meant for such a giant screen to get a full effect....I would pay even if I downloaded it for free.
It's all relative, what isn't is them making you feel bad for downloading something you never would have paid to go see in the first place.
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You bring up a good point, if we leave all countries to their own devices, we end up with about 20 ships....all capable of going out there to intercept the asteroid, we could then light it up with gunfire from all ships, or just send the fleet to gently push (all at once) the meteor somewhat off course...I mean it is not that impossible, I have seen the effects of a small satellite propeller engine on a huge *ss satellite, so something like proportional claims that we could do this sounds plausible.
On a seperate note, I have yet another machine that does have the
AU disabled , and was still targeted by WGA, however, I have za installed,
and was able to put a block on that service and dll from running, I imagine
it is only a matter of time before I forget it, and turn off za for xxx reason.
But it is cool to know you can block it with za altogether!
My windows machine that just recently triggered the disable until you phone home wga
crap, had WoW installed, and WoW forced you to create a new battle.net account to use WoW.
I now have a new battle.net.dll on my machine and funny enough, I wonder if this is what forced
the install of the wga and triggered the disable windows function.
I would not put it past M$ to find the most popular gamers tools for accessing their games, and then "behind closed doors" pay off the company to push a malware that reenables these if they are disabled. Would not be the first time, and Battle.net.dll needs admin privs....wonder why!
However, we were not talking about you, we were talking about me.
You blasted me and said I was not an admin... I defended my ground, and said I would
never let my users install theses softwares, and as such any REAL admin
would terminal server any of those apps you mention unto a terminal server link
where everyone has to log unto, this is the easiest to maintain and less
resource hungry for individual policies. The fact you did not mention any of this
leads me to believe this is not your set up, and for a company with
over 200 employees, using vmware virtualised center, and terminal server, I would say
I think my kung fu is more powerful then yours. Haaaa.yyyyyah!
I am calling BS on the reaons behind him not wanting
to divulge his findings. He can be asked by the queen and think it odd,
and want to refuse her, it still does not take away the findings he so calls his own,
have been paid for with gov. money and so belongs to the gov....not him.
--
If I had a unicorn, I wouldn't need any affordable, efficient hydrogen-powered car!
Well, your ignorance is showing here, as I assume, that your assuming my situation would require badly written applications. No, I don't need to install your limewire which needs admin privileges.
So no, I do administrate many xp machines, I just dont let users do stupid things on them, like install any program they choose.
Of course, ....windows7 (rollseyes), are you getting paid to help promote 7?
I will not upgrade to 7, when I do not need to.
My needs are very simple, and xp does fine to support those needs, thank you.
No, only windows genuine advantage recognized copies can,
and this triggers shutdown of your machine is pirated.
Trust me, I speak from experience.
If I am admin, I will reset my passwords every30 days, because it is easy to do so,
and almost too easy to remember (only dumb people chose easy passwords, like their dogs names)
As for installing quickly a rootkit or what not...yeah I suppose it depends on the assault type
and timetable, but any password at that point is compromised, whether its yours or mine,
so YOU are not further ahead either.
I was specific about my point, purely about the fact they are being sued for having software they made for their cpus, which happens to work for another (by luck) and now they seem responsible
for its maintenance.....I was not talking about their other issues.
Bad man, very,very,very bad man.
/clapping profusely
I applaud your common sense and wish to make you president of this country.
>Incoming unencrypted communication, Cancel or Allow?
>Allow (sigh)
I agree we ned better info on which distro of xp is compromised vs. which other types, however, you are forgetting the biggest factor in this euqation. Piracy!
Windowsxp Pro was the best windows out so far (except server versions)
And of windowsxp pro out there, of which we say 90% of compromised machines is windowsxp, what percentage of those are pirated, not being able to download updates,
etc....care to venture a guess?
I would say 90% as well...(my estimate). Not many people like NOT using windows, however fewer still like to pay for it! So disclude all pirated copies as those are not legal copies and can not be counted on for a proper estimate of secure OS (as no updates = insecure) are responsible for compromised machines, and that number drops down really low!!!
Don't get me started on the topic of pirated versions not being real versions....we all know the warez includes all sorts of preinstalled malwae on those iso versions you download from torrents. So to include them in a stats call would be like saying we know all the modified cars out there with the chips allowing the cars to go 300km an hour are possible, so we will include them when getting stats of how many speed related accidents are out there for our model brand car....they would laugh at you, so why do it for softwares.
If M$ was intelligent, they would include free updates EVEN for pirated copies of their softwares, why?...because popularity wins everytime (just watch american idol to see what I mean). If you are allowing these copies to continue, then people will want even more windows based softwares and be pushing their windows ideas to all their non computer firends, starting them down a M$ path they will never be able to leave....(sort of like a woman going black and never coming back!) I tend to think it would be a great move to improve overall security online, as well as push your market share back up for being 1) friendly to users who like your product but normally would not spend that much to use it, and 2) moving ads into the updates as they are rolling, to cover the loss of those revenues you cherish. The ad space would cost equal to how much you needed to make , also could move to push your newer windows 7 still, showing then newer os functions etc....they are just too dumb for their own good.
>When I used to run XP, I ran as Admin. I shouldn't have, but that is just the way that system was designed, unless you really really fight against it
Really, I tend to do it myself, but nothing stops me from configuring a complete non admin user on my machine and using that one when surfing the web or doing things like listening to music.
To install softwares, you log in as admin, install and delog, to use the app you log as user without admin permission.
I think your ignorance is clouding your judgement.
ps- I would also force a redo password selection every 30 days for admin account as it is very important that it stays in rotation, in case someone has been able to figure it out.
Why would any part of this climate information lead someone to go to the FBI?
It is climate info, and when you compare it to bankfraud or idtheft, it pails in comparison to what evil you can do with this info. Seriously, I smell BS here, as for Jones, I think he is a quack that needs to stop whining and share what he has, like a little spoiled brat in the sandbox, I think he is just afraid someone will debunk him (which happened in the past already) and prove him inadequate to hold on to that data.
You sir are a good breath of fresh common sense air.
I have to agree totally with you on this one, as I see this as the only way to proceed with the data, make it public, let other experts take a look and from about 100 different experts we can concur an outcome.
>One interesting charge that has already arisen: that Intel systematically changed its widely used compiler to stunt the performance of competing processors. I have to say, if I build a compiler, for myself and someone else uses it for themselves. I do not have to worry about them, seeing as I built it for me. If they offer it for free, then they have no responsibility to keep it friendly to anyone but themselves.
Seriously, in this case I hope Intel wins, because they have the right to do what they did....although price fixing is another issue altogether.
This is where you are wrong, I am sure someone had cloned a drive as backups and was forgotten about, even though someone can quick format a drive, it still has the info on it. I think the previous admin was not as good as the new admin (working for Obama) seeing as Obama is the first president to really kick up a notch when it comes to online presence, even setting up a website for people to blog and share their views and ideas with his close assistants.
Remember the blackberry issue, I think he is surrounded with much more powerful computer kung fu artists then the previous president was (we shall not mention his name...as well I am sure the previous president is shaking in his boots right now!)
I want to see blood!!!
I have to agree, anyone living in California usually gets so used to anything below 4.0, it does not even register any news.
If any damages occur, it is the person's fault for not properly preparing for the event, as it is now a common daily event over there. The fact that they are saying 9millino in damages, I would say either a lot was downplayed by their gov. and hidden and need some payback for doing this, or he is getting scammed by politicians hoping to pocket a lot of the money.
That's why I use a new hotmail address usually made with the sites name and my own to keep logs of everything that comes from there, so if anything is compromised, then I know usually where it comes from. Also I have no worries someone gets my address as it is irrelevant seeing as it is not my real one.
Just like in the US, they wanted to make an example out of her, to show who was in control, try also taking them to court over it,
good luck! They have no real rights over there, I wonder if they would have done the same for a man???
That's one hell of a zit, if you ask me! Sort of makes me wonder if that supposed asteroid killed of the dinosaurs, maybe it was this perfect volcano???
Hold on, now, at some point, Adobe WAS a good product, until everybody found out ( did the hackers know way before??) that some javascript was not safe. Hell 3/4 of sites using js in their pages is unsafe, but don't do anything about it.
The reason why they need any js in there is beyond me, as I have never used any pdfs with js embedded....
but I am sure there is a reason, they should just take it out completely out of all their versions, and add an add-on utility that adds it back in, that way only the truly knowledged who need it will get it, then they are "use at your own risk crowd".
Why worry so much, your stocks wont go down if you take out js as a whole and fix 95% of Adobe vulnerabilities because of it. Stocks would go up, no???
I can't wait for our first contact, it may be bad, or good, but we sure will prove that there is life out there besides our own.
I have to agree, for awhile back when PC games were the craze, (Halo, Unreal, Age of Empire)...there was many games out for the playstation, however I felt the lines were getting thinner and thinner. Before that we had nintendo 64, which was already on its way, way out! Tehy came out with a console that could also play dvds and mp3, and hook up to your pc to see image files on your network, this saved or extended console's lives longer, and now the wii, with its fitness games will be the next life extender in a dying breed.
The console is just another computer, right, the games are too limiting when they are made for a console, where as when you have a pc, you could have it anyway you want, and then you can install your game....so if you can afford to have a octocore computer, more power to you...you don't need to get stuck with jimmy's p3 which still plays unreal tournament perfectly, but would never be able to handle the needs of a game like call of duty 5.
So yes, you need a console for most cool games as many do not want to try and pc their games, but think about this, when you put it on the shelf, and dust it off in about 10years for your kid, most everyday computers will be able to still run those games, where as most people will not still have an ol xbox sitting around, as the next craze of consoles kicks in.
Who is going to police the Israeli gov....the US?...doubt it.
I know it sounds like a lot, but remember that 10 years or so ago when titanic came out, it grossed over 1billion dollars with all its
sales and marketing. Back then this number would mean a lot, however I find now, this number is not conclusive to be compared to that of many years ago, of course it breaks records, we pay 15$ to go see a movie, where as back then it was 10$ or even 8$, so like saying 10 years ago I paid 50 cents a loaf of bread, and now I pay 1.50$, and the bread market is breaking record sales numbers,
is silly.
However, I do agree that it goes to show, the whole thing with the movie companies saying hey are losing all this money because of downloads is pure BS, I never would have paid money to go see The Hangover, but I would watch it if I downloaded it for free.
Does that mean they lost a sale, absolutely not! As well, there are movies that you just have to go see on the big screen (Transformers) that are meant for such a giant screen to get a full effect....I would pay even if I downloaded it for free.
It's all relative, what isn't is them making you feel bad for downloading something you never would have paid to go see in the first place.