Why is it so easy to trash the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and so hard to put them back? What a bunch of assholes. They must have had the words "probable cause" surgically removed from their brains.
""What the hell is wrong with a community that instantly rejects any suggestion of racism?"
NOTHING. Nothing is wrong with them, because a) we're all tired of hearing it, b) the situation is changing, gradually, but it is changing, c) the problem is often somewhere else, like equal quality of education, d) many of us "young adults" live in multi-cultural and multi-ethnic societies, and in the tech industry work with people of many races, and it is the older generation who insist on repeatedly highlighting what they see as racism, thus further fueling the segmentation of groups of people based on race and creating barriers.""
Wow, so much wrong, so little time...I'm soooo sorry you're tired of hearing about it. You know why you're hearing about it? Because it is still a problem. The people affected by racism don't have the luxury of going "oh, I'm so sick of this! So I won't pay attention to it any more!" I love your claim that bringing attention to a problem exacerbates it. Good logical geek thinking there!
Yes, it is very slowly changing. Very very slowly. Change comes because people work for it and don't shush because the tender sensibilities of people like you can't handle it. Why did you even read the article, since it's not a subject you want to hear about? Or waste your time commenting? It makes you uncomfortable. But you'd rather blame people than ignore it or say "yeah, it's a problem." Nobody expects YOU to try to change things for the better- the least you can do is shut your ignorant mouth and keep out of the way.
You did not RTFA nor do you have an open mind, because if you had you would have seen there was no rhetoric of any kind. Just thoughtful expressions of personal experiences. And here you are, and a hundred other idiotic slashdotters, claiming those personal experiences are all wrong, and you are right. That's some world-class arrogance, don't you think? Why is it so hard for you accept that people are treated poorly for extremely stupid reasons like skin color? Why does it bother you so much that you tie yourself in knots denying it? It is not a solved problem.
Racism, just like sexism, is so deeply ingrained in most people they're totally blind to it, and even worse, are just like the first commenters to this article- self-centered clueless twits who would rather die than listen to a different point of view, especially from someone pointing out a problem or trying to correct a wrong. (I have to wonder why y'all take it so personally, and always twitch like a gaffed fish when these subjects come up? Guilty conscience?) Nobody is asking for racial quotas, though there is always at least one guaranteed slashtwit to bring it up. Most of us would settle for you fine members of the "there is no problem, just quit whining" club to shut up and keep out of our way, instead of filling the heavens with your complaining over the audacity of anyone who has been mistreated to actually stand up for him or herself, and try to make some changes.
The important points that are actually pertinent to the article have already been addressed by other slashdotters, so I will take on the thankless but heroic job of grammar nitpicker. The drives were infected. They were not pre-infected. (hey, I had nothing else to do for five minutes. and the poor old "pre" prefix is almost as shamefully abused as "loose/lose".) Literally, pre-infected means before infection, or not infected. Trust the words, grasshoppers- they aren't improved by adding useless or incorrect prefixes.
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Why do these abuses continue to multiply like slime molds? Because of passive do-nothings like the Borings. Opt-out is a bankrupt, corrupt policy. It puts the impossible burden of discovery and correction on the person being abused, and if photographing your home and plastering it on the Internet isn't abuse, then we might as well all dance naked in the streets and forfeit all pretense at privacy. 'Do no evil' is a joke- one good thing about Google is it makes Microsoft look less bad.
It is a dick move, and unnecessary. For god's sake he's the effing CEO- he can have his own personal parking place. There are a lot more handicapped people out there who really need those spaces than you think- I'm married to one, and it's a constant source of amazement to me how assholish perfectly healthy people get over a damned parking space. Yeah, they're in a hurry- for wheelchair users having that extra-wide space is the difference between being able to go out at all or just being stuck at home, and people with heart or breathing problems really need that space by the door, because every step they can save counts. It's one thing to be a "hard driving visionary" or some such; being a plain old asshole is nothing to admire.
The old "more market share is why Windows is more attacked" has been so thoroughly debunked you should be ashamed of yourself for parroting it yet again. Please- educate yourself; you reveal that you know little about operating systems when you say that. It's just not true. Well, it's partly true- with the perfect combination of easily exploited and dominant market share, it's a perfect recipe for organized crime and blackhats of all varieties to run rampant. If an open-source Unix-type operating system were dominant, we would not be seeing all the spam, malware, and botnets that feast unhindered on Windows. The Internet would be a lot safer and a lot less polluted.
The fact is that Windows' sieve-like architecture welcomes malware into the guts of the operating system, while hindering users at every turn, and tight integration with applications and server stacks guarantees that the most peripheral exploits will find a red carpet into the core of the operating system. This is not true of Unix-type operating systems, which are inherently far more secure. Windows' dominant market share ensures that the damage- billions of dollars wasted on extra bandwidth, "security" applications, abuse desks, fraud and identity theft, and so forth- is pandemic. Windows is impossible to secure. It will take a ground-up rewrite to fix it.
There are fundamental differences in culture- in the Unix world, or at least in the open source part of it (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris), vulnerabilities are not denied or hidden, but are out in the open and dealt with. It's been proven over and over that openness = stronger security. Two good examples are OpenSSH and OpenSSL. Both are open source, both are used universally in all kinds of applications, such as secure remote sessions and Web applications. Their code is wide open and they are thoroughly documented. Anyone can study their inner workings. Are they successfully exploited? No.
I did read the actual report, all 56 pages of it. As usual, Windows' total lack of security guarantees that any random blackhat with a minimum of skill can exploit it. Go ahead and mod me Troll again, you lameass Microsoft-fanboi moderators, but it won't change what the report says- Windows is the problem.
And why shouldn't I believe it? It is true that Microsoft and other big interests have a lot invested in DRM. Now that Mark Russinovich works for Microsoft, you're welcome to try to persuade me that he will be allowed to continue to speak freely.
Sysinternals has been around for years- Microsoft could have expressed their admiration ages ago. No, I think they bought Sysinternals in the hopes of squashing an independent voice with the skills to expose sneaky DRM crap. Microsoft has made huge investments in DRM technologies and big plans to make a lot of money from them.
Strayed from the path? More like fell off completely. He couldn't resist tarting up a story that does not need tarting up. He totally wasted Cate Blanchett, Arwen's floating dreamy head was totally pointless, the stupidass dwarf toss, Aragorn's idiotic unintelligible manly whisper, making Gollum talk like Donald Duck, Pipping finds the Palantir in a freaking stream?? WTF was that? Certainly much less exciting than steaking it from Gandalf as he slept... and on and on...
Might as well ruin all of Tolkein's books with omissions, ridiculous embellishments, and seriously stupid stuff- nothing like having the complete set.
Dear Mr. Jackson, here's a free hint: trust the story. You are no Tolkein- every time you deviated from Tolkein's books for LOTR you added stupidity and detracted from the story. Don't write- just film the book. Thank you.
Just what we need, yet more sound and fury, absent any real information. Just two guys who never run out of words, and yet who never really say anything. Waste of time- go watch Springer; it's the same thing, plus chairs will be thrown.
Here we go with the moron moderating again. Typical microsoftian attitude- when the truth hurts, try to suppress it. This is not a troll, but completely accurate statement.
What financial disclosure statement? You could provide a link. I doubt that personnel and infrastructure come close to making a dent in $74 million, so you're still not answering the question of what the remaining tens of millions are going to be used for. Are volunteer devs going to get paid? Are you going to fund other OSS projects? How do you decide which volunteers get money?
I doubt that the foundation is going to sit on all those funds.
They're still dodging the question of how to spend all those millions. Sure, the devs and people who support Firefox are all happy. But that happiness will evaporate if they don't think the money is being handled fairly. So as both a non-profit and a FOSS project, which are both accountable in different ways, what is going to happen to all that nice fluffy cash?
Crap article, crap summary- it's par for mainstream news to ignore which operating systems and applications are vulnerable, and how- I suppose expecting any better in a/. summary is becoming equally futile.
Well, yes and no. Yes, 'nothing is foolproof, because fools are ingenious', and social engineering is still the most effective way to breach security. But no Unix-type operating is even close to being as porous as Windows. Windows is designed to welcome and execute untrusted code, and it finds a clear path directly into the guts of the operating system. Windows users find all kinds of barriers to actually doing anything useful, but hostile executables can dive right into the Registry, replace.dlls, and do whatever they want. The smartest Windows user in the world is still at risk through no fault of their own.
Unixes and Mac OS X require the user to jump through a few hoops to run any executable code; they can't just go "Cool! Free pr0n!" and activate it with a click, and even when they do something stupid there are a lot of built-in barriers to being totally pwned.
But now I'm remembering the Skype worm, which used the lamest social engineering in the solar system, and it still worked....this is a sample of the "clever chat" that got people to visit the infect web sites http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/im-worm_w32_skipi_a.shtml
# look what crazy photo Tiffany sent to me,looks cool # matai:D # now u populr # oh sry not for u # oops sorry please don't look there:S # pala biski # patinka? # really funny # this (happy) sexy one # u happy ? # what ur friend name wich is in photo ? # where I put ur photo:D # you checked ? # your photos looks realy nice
This article is newsworthy? It's shit. It doesn't name which applications and operating systems are vulnerable- are all web browsers going to infect system files from visiting infected Web sites? Do these worms and Trojan horses run on all operating systems? Macs? Unixes? BSDs? Linuxes? It's just a scary, ignorant infomercial for the anti-malware industry. The solution is to remove all Windows computers from the Internet. Problem 99% solved.
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Why is it so easy to trash the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and so hard to put them back? What a bunch of assholes. They must have had the words "probable cause" surgically removed from their brains.
NOTHING. Nothing is wrong with them, because a) we're all tired of hearing it, b) the situation is changing, gradually, but it is changing, c) the problem is often somewhere else, like equal quality of education, d) many of us "young adults" live in multi-cultural and multi-ethnic societies, and in the tech industry work with people of many races, and it is the older generation who insist on repeatedly highlighting what they see as racism, thus further fueling the segmentation of groups of people based on race and creating barriers.""
Wow, so much wrong, so little time...I'm soooo sorry you're tired of hearing about it. You know why you're hearing about it? Because it is still a problem. The people affected by racism don't have the luxury of going "oh, I'm so sick of this! So I won't pay attention to it any more!" I love your claim that bringing attention to a problem exacerbates it. Good logical geek thinking there!
Yes, it is very slowly changing. Very very slowly. Change comes because people work for it and don't shush because the tender sensibilities of people like you can't handle it. Why did you even read the article, since it's not a subject you want to hear about? Or waste your time commenting? It makes you uncomfortable. But you'd rather blame people than ignore it or say "yeah, it's a problem." Nobody expects YOU to try to change things for the better- the least you can do is shut your ignorant mouth and keep out of the way.
You did not RTFA nor do you have an open mind, because if you had you would have seen there was no rhetoric of any kind. Just thoughtful expressions of personal experiences. And here you are, and a hundred other idiotic slashdotters, claiming those personal experiences are all wrong, and you are right. That's some world-class arrogance, don't you think? Why is it so hard for you accept that people are treated poorly for extremely stupid reasons like skin color? Why does it bother you so much that you tie yourself in knots denying it? It is not a solved problem.
Racism, just like sexism, is so deeply ingrained in most people they're totally blind to it, and even worse, are just like the first commenters to this article- self-centered clueless twits who would rather die than listen to a different point of view, especially from someone pointing out a problem or trying to correct a wrong. (I have to wonder why y'all take it so personally, and always twitch like a gaffed fish when these subjects come up? Guilty conscience?) Nobody is asking for racial quotas, though there is always at least one guaranteed slashtwit to bring it up. Most of us would settle for you fine members of the "there is no problem, just quit whining" club to shut up and keep out of our way, instead of filling the heavens with your complaining over the audacity of anyone who has been mistreated to actually stand up for him or herself, and try to make some changes.
Ha, you're a notorious non-tipper anyway!
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Doggone it, and I did read the article. Better read it again!
Why do these abuses continue to multiply like slime molds? Because of passive do-nothings like the Borings. Opt-out is a bankrupt, corrupt policy. It puts the impossible burden of discovery and correction on the person being abused, and if photographing your home and plastering it on the Internet isn't abuse, then we might as well all dance naked in the streets and forfeit all pretense at privacy. 'Do no evil' is a joke- one good thing about Google is it makes Microsoft look less bad.
It is a dick move, and unnecessary. For god's sake he's the effing CEO- he can have his own personal parking place. There are a lot more handicapped people out there who really need those spaces than you think- I'm married to one, and it's a constant source of amazement to me how assholish perfectly healthy people get over a damned parking space. Yeah, they're in a hurry- for wheelchair users having that extra-wide space is the difference between being able to go out at all or just being stuck at home, and people with heart or breathing problems really need that space by the door, because every step they can save counts. It's one thing to be a "hard driving visionary" or some such; being a plain old asshole is nothing to admire.
My apologies- I have this twitch whenever I hear "it's because of market share!" Sorry!
The fact is that Windows' sieve-like architecture welcomes malware into the guts of the operating system, while hindering users at every turn, and tight integration with applications and server stacks guarantees that the most peripheral exploits will find a red carpet into the core of the operating system. This is not true of Unix-type operating systems, which are inherently far more secure. Windows' dominant market share ensures that the damage- billions of dollars wasted on extra bandwidth, "security" applications, abuse desks, fraud and identity theft, and so forth- is pandemic. Windows is impossible to secure. It will take a ground-up rewrite to fix it.
There are fundamental differences in culture- in the Unix world, or at least in the open source part of it (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris), vulnerabilities are not denied or hidden, but are out in the open and dealt with. It's been proven over and over that openness = stronger security. Two good examples are OpenSSH and OpenSSL. Both are open source, both are used universally in all kinds of applications, such as secure remote sessions and Web applications. Their code is wide open and they are thoroughly documented. Anyone can study their inner workings. Are they successfully exploited? No.
This article is a good start for understanding the fundamental architectural differences: http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
I did read the actual report, all 56 pages of it. As usual, Windows' total lack of security guarantees that any random blackhat with a minimum of skill can exploit it. Go ahead and mod me Troll again, you lameass Microsoft-fanboi moderators, but it won't change what the report says- Windows is the problem.
And why shouldn't I believe it? It is true that Microsoft and other big interests have a lot invested in DRM. Now that Mark Russinovich works for Microsoft, you're welcome to try to persuade me that he will be allowed to continue to speak freely.
Sysinternals has been around for years- Microsoft could have expressed their admiration ages ago. No, I think they bought Sysinternals in the hopes of squashing an independent voice with the skills to expose sneaky DRM crap. Microsoft has made huge investments in DRM technologies and big plans to make a lot of money from them.
Microsoft scooped up his company not long after he exposed the Sony rootkit. Funny coincidence.
Don't worry, ICANN will fix everything and make it right!
I slay me.
Strayed from the path? More like fell off completely. He couldn't resist tarting up a story that does not need tarting up. He totally wasted Cate Blanchett, Arwen's floating dreamy head was totally pointless, the stupidass dwarf toss, Aragorn's idiotic unintelligible manly whisper, making Gollum talk like Donald Duck, Pipping finds the Palantir in a freaking stream?? WTF was that? Certainly much less exciting than steaking it from Gandalf as he slept... and on and on...
Dear Mr. Jackson, here's a free hint: trust the story. You are no Tolkein- every time you deviated from Tolkein's books for LOTR you added stupidity and detracted from the story. Don't write- just film the book. Thank you.
Just what we need, yet more sound and fury, absent any real information. Just two guys who never run out of words, and yet who never really say anything. Waste of time- go watch Springer; it's the same thing, plus chairs will be thrown.
Little Stevie and Bill, moderating truthful statements about your company as Trolls will not make them untrue.
Here we go with the moron moderating again. Typical microsoftian attitude- when the truth hurts, try to suppress it. This is not a troll, but completely accurate statement.
What financial disclosure statement? You could provide a link. I doubt that personnel and infrastructure come close to making a dent in $74 million, so you're still not answering the question of what the remaining tens of millions are going to be used for. Are volunteer devs going to get paid? Are you going to fund other OSS projects? How do you decide which volunteers get money?
I doubt that the foundation is going to sit on all those funds.
They're still dodging the question of how to spend all those millions. Sure, the devs and people who support Firefox are all happy. But that happiness will evaporate if they don't think the money is being handled fairly. So as both a non-profit and a FOSS project, which are both accountable in different ways, what is going to happen to all that nice fluffy cash?
Crap article, crap summary- it's par for mainstream news to ignore which operating systems and applications are vulnerable, and how- I suppose expecting any better in a /. summary is becoming equally futile.
Well, yes and no. Yes, 'nothing is foolproof, because fools are ingenious', and social engineering is still the most effective way to breach security. But no Unix-type operating is even close to being as porous as Windows. Windows is designed to welcome and execute untrusted code, and it finds a clear path directly into the guts of the operating system. Windows users find all kinds of barriers to actually doing anything useful, but hostile executables can dive right into the Registry, replace .dlls, and do whatever they want. The smartest Windows user in the world is still at risk through no fault of their own.
:D :S :D
Unixes and Mac OS X require the user to jump through a few hoops to run any executable code; they can't just go "Cool! Free pr0n!" and activate it with a click, and even when they do something stupid there are a lot of built-in barriers to being totally pwned.
But now I'm remembering the Skype worm, which used the lamest social engineering in the solar system, and it still worked....this is a sample of the "clever chat" that got people to visit the infect web sites
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/im-worm_w32_skipi_a.shtml
# look what crazy photo Tiffany sent to me,looks cool
# matai
# now u populr
# oh sry not for u
# oops sorry please don't look there
# pala biski
# patinka?
# really funny
# this (happy) sexy one
# u happy ?
# what ur friend name wich is in photo ?
# where I put ur photo
# you checked ?
# your photos looks realy nice
I give up. Humanity is doomed.
This article is newsworthy? It's shit. It doesn't name which applications and operating systems are vulnerable- are all web browsers going to infect system files from visiting infected Web sites? Do these worms and Trojan horses run on all operating systems? Macs? Unixes? BSDs? Linuxes? It's just a scary, ignorant infomercial for the anti-malware industry. The solution is to remove all Windows computers from the Internet. Problem 99% solved.