What's wrong with his story. This is not exactly an uncommon thing.
I personally own an xbox360 and I have around 20-25 games for it of which I would be lucky if I play it 1 hour a month, I also bought a universal xbox remote which I used for about 30 minutes the day I bought it. I have money and I admit more often then not I buy stupid shit I will rarely use, hell I still have splinter cell conviction and now mafia 2 sitting at home unopened.
Well if you had read the article you would have been sure. if you are going to make a comment about something at least spend the 5 seconds it takes to scan the article to see if you are just plain wrong.
You read wrong, very little except low level driver work requires resorting to C++. much of the API has already been rewritten in.NET or where it makes more sense wrapped in.NET shims.
even microsoft doesn't like.net and is moving away from it. why would anyone use something that is about to be deprecated?
I would say your misinformed, but the way you put it makes me think you are just a blatant liar/troll. If anything MS are heavily moving towards.NET with many of their new versions of products now heavily utilising it and integrating it.
That would be nice but is in reality completely impractical. The time and money to do such an audit properly would be more expensive than just rebuilding your entire environment from the ground up. I could effectively hide a rooted box or backdoor on windows or *nix systems I look after that unless you are going to strip the boxes and mount the drives on seperate boxes to check the binaries you are simply not going to find the holes.
The ONLY way to handle a suspected rooting is a rebuild, anything less is always an assumption that your smarter at finding the exploit than they are at hiding it.
last I checked there were more than 1200 afghan families in a similar situation just this year and they weren't even soldiers. So how exactly is it highly insensitive to point out her hypocrisy. If she wants to protest against modern conflict games that's fine, but to protest just against american deaths is purely hypocritical.
Why are MS and Intel even mentioned here? they aren't getting a pass, this isn't even related to them as neither have more than 50% of employees on Visa?
Several influential directors took surprisingly public potshots at the color boom during the recent broadcaster's dinner... Behind the scenes filmmakers have begun to resist production executives eager for color sales. For reasons both aesthetic and practical, some directors often do not want to convert a film to color or go to the trouble and expense of shooting with color cameras, which are still relatively untested on big movies with complex stunts and locations. Tickets for color films carry a $0.05 to $0.10 premium, and industry executives roughly estimate that color pictures average an extra 20 percent at the box office. Filmmakers like Mr. Niblo argue that color technology does little to enhance a cinematic story, while adding a lot of bother.
If when color was introduced it required you to wear uncomfortable glasses that cause eyestrain and headaches then they would have been right, same as if to listen to a movie I had to wear hard uncomfortable headphones then I would prefer the movie was silent with subtitles, Color and sound didn't impose discomfort on the viewers the way 3D does, it also doesn't partically enhance the visuals in the movie
The 3D in Avatar was impressive, but by no means did it hide how poor the movie was. I enjoyed the movie for the technological showcase it was, as a movie though it sucked arse.
nothing compeling? for me if a movie is now in 3D I take it pretty much as a given that it is gonna be crap and they are trying to use 3D to push up boxoffice. I find the whole glasses in the cinema experience to be utterly horrible. Even Avatar without the 3D was pretty much a crap movie with a pathetically weak and predictable story, how well the 3D was done made it bareable, but only just.
Add $300,000 for a couple of staff, another 50-100k for switches, UPS, tape, redundancy, power, comms. It is VERY easy to get up and well beyond the $30/GB/month figure.
Where I currently work SAN space costs $10,000 a TB from the manufacturer, that is before support, before redundancy redundancy or any other cost, that just gives us disks in the SAN, add in the cost of the storage guys and server support. Add in the facilities costs, backup and redundancy and this skyrockets.
while his pricing is little excessive it isn't completely out of the ballpark. place I am currently working at has a COST of nearly $30 a GB and that is before IT staff and facilities cost. His costing of $1 a GB is ridiculous for enterprise class disk/backup and redundancy. hell some of our Tier 1 SAN space still costs us in the order of $10,000 a TB just for the hardware.
Nearly every Apple *fan* that I've met has been a pretentious prick. Now now, I don't mean if you use Apple products you are automatically a prick...but Apple fanboys(girls) are rabid on a level that is just plain scary.
For the record, I personally think Apple makes decent products, they just aren't for me.
To be honest that covers fanbois/zealots in general, including Linux, MS, Sony and Apple ones. A fanboi is little better than a god botherer regardless of creed.
There are many things that are already close to killing this tech without even resorting to online delivery. We are already at the stage where HDD space is cheaper than blu-ray discs. USB sticks are also rapidly increasing in size and decreasing in cost, not to mention flash/SD memory. Personally I think they will need to push the limits well beyond 20 times the capacity otherwise it is gonna be still born long before it is commercially ready.
HD-DVD had a massive lead over blu-ray. It took a good 18 months of sales post HD-DVD death for blu-ray to even catch up to be on equal footing. The market had nothing to do with the decision, if it was left up to the market it was far more likely blu-ray would have died, it was Sony's cheque book that finally won the war, they paid off the other studios and the consumer in general are worse off for it.
Now that "zero day" (well 5 days really) the Googler gave Microsoft was only because Microsoft would not commit to fixing it. That is perfectly consistent with the article, which points out "responsible disclosure" is a 2 way street and only works when the person with the vulnerability acts responsibly as well (which Microsoft didn't in this case).
that is twisting the truth more than a little. MS said they would get back to him with a timeline by the end of the week, he then went and published it anyway. the irresponsible party in that instance was definite Tavis Ormandy.
Tavis gave MS a timeline and they said can't commit right this instant but we will get back to you by friday (pretty resonable considering it was a patch tuesday for them). Tavis then publishes on wednesday like a total douchebag. There is no way you can twist this that makes Tavis look like anything but a douche. The only possible way he could have looked less of a prick is if he waited till saturday and had no further response he could have published it, even then though it goes against what he claims is responsible disclosure.
My whole point was, the fact that it was windows in his story was incidental. The entire story was a saga about incompetent IT admins, yes they probably exist more in the windows world due to the perceived ease of use, but I see almost as many badly run *nix environments, hell I am working in a badly run *nix environment at the moment that would be just as susceptible to such a disaster.
really you are asking the wrong questions. They failed to correctly patch windows, they would just as likely fail to correctly patch linux or any other OS too. The question isn't "why were you using windows", vulnerabilities exist in all OS's. The question is "Why the fuck were they not patching known vulnerable systems that are mission critical?" Patch for sasser worm was available well before the worm, secondly "why the fuck if they had a reason to not patch vulnerabilities were they leaving their mission critical devices exposed?".
What you describe is a massive failure on the part of the IT staff.
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What's wrong with his story. This is not exactly an uncommon thing.
I personally own an xbox360 and I have around 20-25 games for it of which I would be lucky if I play it 1 hour a month, I also bought a universal xbox remote which I used for about 30 minutes the day I bought it. I have money and I admit more often then not I buy stupid shit I will rarely use, hell I still have splinter cell conviction and now mafia 2 sitting at home unopened.
Well if you had read the article you would have been sure. if you are going to make a comment about something at least spend the 5 seconds it takes to scan the article to see if you are just plain wrong.
You read wrong, very little except low level driver work requires resorting to C++. much of the API has already been rewritten in .NET or where it makes more sense wrapped in .NET shims.
even microsoft doesn't like .net and is moving away from it. why would anyone use something that is about to be deprecated?
I would say your misinformed, but the way you put it makes me think you are just a blatant liar/troll. If anything MS are heavily moving towards .NET with many of their new versions of products now heavily utilising it and integrating it.
That would be nice but is in reality completely impractical. The time and money to do such an audit properly would be more expensive than just rebuilding your entire environment from the ground up. I could effectively hide a rooted box or backdoor on windows or *nix systems I look after that unless you are going to strip the boxes and mount the drives on seperate boxes to check the binaries you are simply not going to find the holes.
The ONLY way to handle a suspected rooting is a rebuild, anything less is always an assumption that your smarter at finding the exploit than they are at hiding it.
last I checked there were more than 1200 afghan families in a similar situation just this year and they weren't even soldiers. So how exactly is it highly insensitive to point out her hypocrisy. If she wants to protest against modern conflict games that's fine, but to protest just against american deaths is purely hypocritical.
Why are MS and Intel even mentioned here? they aren't getting a pass, this isn't even related to them as neither have more than 50% of employees on Visa?
proxies, NAT, aggregators, if anything it is more likely they underestimated it.
Just imagine if way back when, people were saying
If when color was introduced it required you to wear uncomfortable glasses that cause eyestrain and headaches then they would have been right, same as if to listen to a movie I had to wear hard uncomfortable headphones then I would prefer the movie was silent with subtitles, Color and sound didn't impose discomfort on the viewers the way 3D does, it also doesn't partically enhance the visuals in the movie
The 3D in Avatar was impressive, but by no means did it hide how poor the movie was. I enjoyed the movie for the technological showcase it was, as a movie though it sucked arse.
nothing compeling? for me if a movie is now in 3D I take it pretty much as a given that it is gonna be crap and they are trying to use 3D to push up boxoffice. I find the whole glasses in the cinema experience to be utterly horrible. Even Avatar without the 3D was pretty much a crap movie with a pathetically weak and predictable story, how well the 3D was done made it bareable, but only just.
Add $300,000 for a couple of staff, another 50-100k for switches, UPS, tape, redundancy, power, comms. It is VERY easy to get up and well beyond the $30/GB/month figure.
Where I currently work SAN space costs $10,000 a TB from the manufacturer, that is before support, before redundancy redundancy or any other cost, that just gives us disks in the SAN, add in the cost of the storage guys and server support. Add in the facilities costs, backup and redundancy and this skyrockets.
while his pricing is little excessive it isn't completely out of the ballpark. place I am currently working at has a COST of nearly $30 a GB and that is before IT staff and facilities cost. His costing of $1 a GB is ridiculous for enterprise class disk/backup and redundancy. hell some of our Tier 1 SAN space still costs us in the order of $10,000 a TB just for the hardware.
no it doesn't. The rebate is for Zero emission vehicles only now, hence hybrids are excluded.
I had a bank error in my favour, nearly 9 grand. I left it there and eventually they realised there mistake but they let me keep the interest.
Nearly every Apple *fan* that I've met has been a pretentious prick. Now now, I don't mean if you use Apple products you are automatically a prick...but Apple fanboys(girls) are rabid on a level that is just plain scary.
For the record, I personally think Apple makes decent products, they just aren't for me.
To be honest that covers fanbois/zealots in general, including Linux, MS, Sony and Apple ones. A fanboi is little better than a god botherer regardless of creed.
Is this site about news for nerds, or gratuitously bashing companies and/or their customers for no discernible logical reason?
new around here? this site hasn't been about news for nerds for many many years now.
There are many things that are already close to killing this tech without even resorting to online delivery. We are already at the stage where HDD space is cheaper than blu-ray discs. USB sticks are also rapidly increasing in size and decreasing in cost, not to mention flash/SD memory. Personally I think they will need to push the limits well beyond 20 times the capacity otherwise it is gonna be still born long before it is commercially ready.
The only reason HD-DVD didn't take off was Not enough repeated letters in the name to be catchy. This time they'll try HHDVVDDBVD.
The reason HD-DVD didn't take off was because they didn't allow porn.
ya got that backwards. HD-DVD did allow porn, initially Blu-ray did not.
HD-DVD had a massive lead over blu-ray. It took a good 18 months of sales post HD-DVD death for blu-ray to even catch up to be on equal footing. The market had nothing to do with the decision, if it was left up to the market it was far more likely blu-ray would have died, it was Sony's cheque book that finally won the war, they paid off the other studios and the consumer in general are worse off for it.
Quite the reverse, both googles and Microsoft's policy announcements basically condemn the prick act performed by Ormandy.
Now that "zero day" (well 5 days really) the Googler gave Microsoft was only because Microsoft would not commit to fixing it. That is perfectly consistent with the article, which points out "responsible disclosure" is a 2 way street and only works when the person with the vulnerability acts responsibly as well (which Microsoft didn't in this case).
that is twisting the truth more than a little. MS said they would get back to him with a timeline by the end of the week, he then went and published it anyway. the irresponsible party in that instance was definite Tavis Ormandy.
Tavis gave MS a timeline and they said can't commit right this instant but we will get back to you by friday (pretty resonable considering it was a patch tuesday for them). Tavis then publishes on wednesday like a total douchebag. There is no way you can twist this that makes Tavis look like anything but a douche. The only possible way he could have looked less of a prick is if he waited till saturday and had no further response he could have published it, even then though it goes against what he claims is responsible disclosure.
My whole point was, the fact that it was windows in his story was incidental. The entire story was a saga about incompetent IT admins, yes they probably exist more in the windows world due to the perceived ease of use, but I see almost as many badly run *nix environments, hell I am working in a badly run *nix environment at the moment that would be just as susceptible to such a disaster.
really you are asking the wrong questions. They failed to correctly patch windows, they would just as likely fail to correctly patch linux or any other OS too. The question isn't "why were you using windows", vulnerabilities exist in all OS's. The question is "Why the fuck were they not patching known vulnerable systems that are mission critical?" Patch for sasser worm was available well before the worm, secondly "why the fuck if they had a reason to not patch vulnerabilities were they leaving their mission critical devices exposed?".
What you describe is a massive failure on the part of the IT staff.