First off, my son was planned, thank you. Secondly, If something tragic did happen, then I would have to find a way to manage.
If I may reiterate what the GP said, you should have thought of this/prior/. Not trying to flame, but seriously, if you didn't think of something as basic as "what would we do if one of us died/left/etc" before, then what planning was involved? Between my parents and schooling (US public schooling even), I can't even count the number of times that question has come up! Have you thought of how you'd provide if you got fired? What if you had to move, how would your kid take it? Do you argue in front of your kid? Are you open enough to let them know about marital/life problems as they come around?
With something as life changing as having a kid, especially since it affects other people as well as you, you should be asking each other question after question until you're blue in the face. Then after you pass out, and wake up, ask more questions until you pass out again. If your kid comes to school and shoots my kid because his daddy doesn't love him enough, are you prepared to face the consequences? Obviously not.
Contrary to popular belief, well, actually just yours, MMOGs are typically pretty low on bandwidth use. I haven't played WoW on a dialup connection, but I know Everquest ran perfectly fine over a 28.8, even with 100+ people in the zone...and EQ was coded pretty badly, since it sends updates on everything going on in the zone, not just a limited area. Games don't use up the maximum bandwidth just because they can, unlike BT.
I could be mistaken, but I believe a lot of games did that when games first moved to CD. I still put Quake 1 (PC) in my cd player for some good background music.
Did you honestly never expect a new service pack to come out for XP or something? I'm do believe "end-of-life" is a term that's been out for a while. SP1 was released 4 years ago, and SP2 has been out for two years...if you honestly didn't expect to have to upgrade at some point, maybe you should start thinking down the line a bit farther. Having to recertify a piece of software every 4 years should probably be in your plan somewhere.
On that note, I have to recertify various *nix environments every couple of months. Yeah it can be a pain, but that's business, and it's what the customer needs.
I don't recall every choosing to use Spamhaus's list, but my service provider uses it anyway. Where is my (the end users) choice in all of this? It doesn't appear optional to me, because I'm not the one who set up my email server. Therefore, it was requirement of my account. What's next, Qwest blocking every known telemarketer's phone numbers without telling me?
Lemme just start by saying that I love what Spamhaus does. I don't like spam (of the electronic variety), and I'm glad that I receive very little. Now to get flamed...
However, we, in the US, have this little thing called the first amendment. The right to free speech. What Spamhaus (or rather, the email server admin) does is interfere with end users ability to receive free speech. They are inhibiting other peoples ability to practice free speech. Granted, ICANN shouldn't be able to stop Spamhaus from doing their thing for the rest of the world...they should take some sort of action here in the states.
This, in theory, should be up to the end user to OK. Just like you have to enroll in the "no call list" (ie, sending opt out emails), or getting a telezapper type device (ie, a Spamhaus filter). You should be able to opt-in, (or out) of any spam. Granted this is extremely difficult to control due to the nature of the Internet, it should still be there, based on previous precedents set in the telemarketing world. Your phone company doesn't look at lists of telemarketing companies and block them out for all users, so why should your service provider? How many end users know that they aren't receiving all the email intended for them? People need to be made aware of what is sent to them, and be allowed to have control over that information. People can then make an informed decision to completely opt out of emails through the Spamhaus service (ie, buying a telezapper).
So to answer your question, the court is essentially assuring free speech can take place, which the government promised us over 200 years ago. I would recommend taking a gander at the EFFs page on spam for more infos: http://www.eff.org/spam/
1. Cingular, the largest mobile carrier in the US, operates on GSM.
2. Cingular, the largest mobile carrier in the US, operates primarily on 1900. T-Mobile, the other major GSM carrier, uses only 1900 on their networks in the US. While not having 850 does suck a bit, you're not cutting off the entire market.
Guess you've had a bad experience with Cingular/TMobile, though from what you say it doesn't sound like you've ever had a plan through them. I'll take my Cingular account over my old Sprint account any day of the week.
Remember how Office Space was a comedy? It was pretty obvious that they were playing on that. Especially if you picked up the dvd...the whole virus scan at the begining and all. You should be giggling at how obscene it was! I think in the scene where he's trying to get out of work early, it switches between windows and macos at least 7 or 8 times
I just happen to think Toshiba is experienceing luck of circumstance, it appears you think there is more maneuver involved.
Perhaps, I was just speculating. Business is business, and most businesses do what they can to get ahead.
I see your point, but I disagree, sort of. I just don't think Toshiba is that "unknown" as a brand; I believe they have more brand recognition than you believe. Their market share as posted above (which were just two quickly googled links) seems to show that. They just don't advertise as much as the ones you listed. It'd be like asking for the top 5 US auto brands. A list might include: Saturn, Ford, Chevy, GMC, Pontiac. What about Buick, Cadillac, Chrysler, Hummer, Mercury? Most people would obviously recognize those names, but they just didn't make the top 5.
If you do a quick look around to major retailers, Toshibas are thoroughly carried everywhere. Best Buy has 7 models, second only to Sony with 10. Circuit City has 10 models, second only to HP with 13. CompUSA has 18 models, second to HPs 19. Radio Shack has 6 models, more than any other brand carried. Retailers wouldn't consistently carry that many laptops from Toshiba if people weren't buying them, which means people do know about Toshiba.
First link is 1.5 years old, second is 5 years old. Yeah, they're old, but they both show that Toshiba has an extremely large market share in the US. 5 years ago they had the third largest at 21%. 1.5 years ago, out of the they had 4 (including #1 & #2) of the top 10 selling laptops.
This in no way is to gain recognition because people don't know who toshiba is. They either got called on it privately, they're doing it in good faith, or they want to screw over Sony. Since they're targeting a rival laptop producer, I would say it's to make them look good, with the added benefit of making Sony look bad.
They see the propagation behavior as a traffic anomaly on their control panel.
A few requests out to a website for a picture would hardly be considered an anomaly. I'm pretty sure our corporate proxy sees a few dozen requests to/. every minute. I'm sure CNN is much higher than that.
Depending upon whether or not their is a signature, it will be listed by worm name or as an unknown worm.
If there is no signature, how would it be listed as worm at all? Are you talking signature based on an IPS? Because those things aren't exactly very reliable (read: not at all) on catching unknown attacks. Trust me, I spent about 5 months testing them.
Then, they quarantine the infected hosts using ACLs on the routers that segregate their network chunks, removing the propagation traffic any other traffic from those hosts that differs from "normal" recorded traffic patterns.
How does it know who's infected? After its started its botnet spamings? That trojan has already forwarded it's link on to dozens of other people by then. You're playing cleanup at this point. Being reactive to IT security is the last thing you want to do.
Workers can still get to what they need to to do their job, but can't connect out to random hosts anymore. IT gets an e-mail to clean the infected hosts, with a list of workstations.
At this point they'd have to be completely cut off until their computer is cleaned. How do you know what port to block with the ACL? You may as well just shutdown their interface. That means downtime for at least one person, then if anyone is relying on them for information, they've got downtime. Factor in the IT guy who has to clean it/rebuild the OS...etc etc. How much time does it take a few IT guys to clean a hundred computers again?
The worm signature is added to their filter for incoming traffic so it does not come in again over the pipes. The employees who ran it get yelled at by IT for running random executables from IM which violates their work policy.
Since when is taking a reactive approach to security ever a good thing? Slapping a corporate policy in a users face isn't going to do you jack for security.
And, I can still IM employees at that company to discuss business, which is a normal occurrence, since a lot of business happens over IM these days. IM is just like e-mail. Shutting it off, is not an acceptable answer anymore for most people, especially not in sales.
If IM is just like email, why not just use email? What's wrong with the phone?
So this brings me back to my original reply up top. Any company with an actual IT department...would not allow this to be open. There isn't a 100% way to filter out malicious traffic. Sure, technologies like IPSs are coming along, but they're still a long way off, and rely way too much on signatures. The more possibilities you leave open for attack, the more likely you are going to be attacked. Close everything, then open up as necessary. When you have so many other options for relatively secure communications (phone/email/snailmail), why add the unnecessary risk?
Congrats, you've listed 5 companies who have assessed the risk of their entire network going down, taking the time to clean everyone's computers, make for goddamnedsure that everyone has every update available, etc etc, or they've paid a whole lot to ensure everything is going to be properly blocked (not 100% possible). Then they took a look at that cost and found that it is actually less than what they get back from increased productivity that their employees get by IMing their friends/family from work, instead of simply emailing or using a phone.
My hat is off to them for actually fudging the numbers enough to make it worth it! Steel cajones, that's for sure.
You'd still be vulnerable, but you likely wouldn't spam the linked virus to everyone on your list using gaim/trillian. I would assume that the virus is programmed to expect AIM running, and it probably wouldn't interface with other programs. Then again, IANAP.
Why stop there though? As is happening with smoking, more and more cities/states would just adopt a child free environment. Children would be required to either stay at home, stay outside of publicly accessible buildings (and at least 10 feet from any entrance), and would only be allowed in businesses where at least 50% of revenue is made from toy sales.
That's because Nintendo DS fans tend to be very zealous about their little gizmo. At least that's what I've heard from friends and read on the web. I would wager a guess that the PSP crowd might tend to be less "geeky", and more "joe sixpack". I have no backing for that statement, but that seems to be more of their target audience.
From a pure gaming standpoint, the PSP is a let down. If you're looking for all gaming, yes, it would easy to regret your purchase. However, I still use it every single day. If not to play games, then to stream music, do some emergency web browsing, maybe play a little snes, watch some family guy, etc. Currently I've got it hooked up to my stereo system streaming music via RSS feeds from my PC tucked away in the other room. I think the only feature I don't take advantage of on it is the UMD movie feature. Of course buying into that crap never made sense to me, even before I bought the unit. I still am extremely happy with my purchase, and there's no way I would trade it for a DS.
Agreed. This is similar to how I keep track of my movies. Keep the genre broad at the top (action, comedy, drama, like at a rental store), then get more specific (romantic, crime, thriller, etc).
For games you could use something like simulation (sub-tagged with with flight, people management, sports, city building, etc), roleplaying (mmo, fantasy, sci-fi, slash and hack, etc), sports (football, golf, baseball, etc), mmog (fantasy, scifi, fps, etc), etc. Since certain subtags are genres of themselves however (mmo [rpg|fps|etc]), it could get a little messy.
Each game is different, so trying to create a complete list would be nigh impossible. You would just want the primary tag to be whatever broad category it falls closely enough into. Then get more specific.
However, then you get into certain games that could be put into seperate genres depending on how you played them. Take EA's NHL series. If I remember correctly, in career mode you don't even have to play a single game, just let it simulate the games and take over the management of the team. But you can still play the games themselves if you want. So is this a simulation:sports:hockey, or sports:hockey:simulation? It just comes down a lot to personal interpretation.
A master list would be so long, with so many listed genres, that it would be useless.
It also doesn't (IMO) absolve Microsoft from their wrongdoing. Sure it's a good way to avoid getting bitten, but it doesn't make it alright for MS to either spy on their users or foist beta-quality software on people under the guise of production-ready code...:-/
And on that point I whole heartedly agree with you! I am in no way trying to relieve MS of any wrongdoings. Dogs will always bite, I'm just trying to explain how I get bit less without having to put Spot down. It isn't fail-proof, but it helps from time to time.
My point? That you shouldn't blindly accept everything that's handed to you. You've obviously spent more than a few minutes on the WGA issue, having posted multiple times to this thread. Be proactive, not reactive. If something has a chance to affect you in a negative way, look into it before hand. Don't wait until after it hits you to try and figure out what's wrong, and how to fix it. That's just a general life rule!
Judging by your/. post history, I could probably safely assume you visit here pretty often. Judging by your participation in this thread, I would assume that you read, with interest, articles involving windows updates. So you're off to a good start! Now, when MS messes up bad, and people find out about it, articles have a great tendency to end up posted on/..
Let's combine those two concepts together, and we'll find my approach to applying patches! I don't decompile every single Windows Update. I know that MS really messes things up with their patches. It's in their history. You even seem to mention that:
"...given Windows' execrable security record..."
So when patch day hits, I/.. Actually I/. anyway, so it's not really taking any more of my time. You probably fall into this category as well. Some anticpated patches might be posted, and if there's any concern about that patch, I don't download it. Or, after a day or two after a big push, if I don't see any negative posts about it, I update.
That's all it takes to apply a proactive approach. Versus your method, it takes me maybe an extra minute or two to manually run windows update, and I can be relatively confident about what I'm applying. So instead of spending a few minutes on/. complaining about one of the updates as you have done, I have spent a few minutes reading peoples complaints and decided not to update yet. Proactive versus reactive.
That's funny, Microsoft hasn't pushed anything I didn't want to my machine. Then again, I've got auto update disabled. I take it you clicked the "Yes I accept any software you want to send me" button? While MS probably shouldn't have added this "feature" to their code in the first place, you told MS that it was ok to install on your machine. They didn't force you into anything, you gave them the key to your house and said "make yourself at home".
Indeed! Writing all 0s to the drive would reduce the drive's lifespan by 0.0002%, or even up to 0.001%! It's not like these things are made to be written to hundreds of thousands of times or anything.
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Obviously, you aren't married. Second hand diamond exposure is a serious threat!
First off, my son was planned, thank you. Secondly, If something tragic did happen, then I would have to find a way to manage.
/prior/. Not trying to flame, but seriously, if you didn't think of something as basic as "what would we do if one of us died/left/etc" before, then what planning was involved? Between my parents and schooling (US public schooling even), I can't even count the number of times that question has come up! Have you thought of how you'd provide if you got fired? What if you had to move, how would your kid take it? Do you argue in front of your kid? Are you open enough to let them know about marital/life problems as they come around?
If I may reiterate what the GP said, you should have thought of this
With something as life changing as having a kid, especially since it affects other people as well as you, you should be asking each other question after question until you're blue in the face. Then after you pass out, and wake up, ask more questions until you pass out again. If your kid comes to school and shoots my kid because his daddy doesn't love him enough, are you prepared to face the consequences? Obviously not.
Contrary to popular belief, well, actually just yours, MMOGs are typically pretty low on bandwidth use. I haven't played WoW on a dialup connection, but I know Everquest ran perfectly fine over a 28.8, even with 100+ people in the zone...and EQ was coded pretty badly, since it sends updates on everything going on in the zone, not just a limited area. Games don't use up the maximum bandwidth just because they can, unlike BT.
I could be mistaken, but I believe a lot of games did that when games first moved to CD. I still put Quake 1 (PC) in my cd player for some good background music.
Did you honestly never expect a new service pack to come out for XP or something? I'm do believe "end-of-life" is a term that's been out for a while. SP1 was released 4 years ago, and SP2 has been out for two years...if you honestly didn't expect to have to upgrade at some point, maybe you should start thinking down the line a bit farther. Having to recertify a piece of software every 4 years should probably be in your plan somewhere.
On that note, I have to recertify various *nix environments every couple of months. Yeah it can be a pain, but that's business, and it's what the customer needs.
I don't recall every choosing to use Spamhaus's list, but my service provider uses it anyway. Where is my (the end users) choice in all of this? It doesn't appear optional to me, because I'm not the one who set up my email server. Therefore, it was requirement of my account. What's next, Qwest blocking every known telemarketer's phone numbers without telling me?
/devilsadvocate
Lemme just start by saying that I love what Spamhaus does. I don't like spam (of the electronic variety), and I'm glad that I receive very little. Now to get flamed...
However, we, in the US, have this little thing called the first amendment. The right to free speech. What Spamhaus (or rather, the email server admin) does is interfere with end users ability to receive free speech. They are inhibiting other peoples ability to practice free speech. Granted, ICANN shouldn't be able to stop Spamhaus from doing their thing for the rest of the world...they should take some sort of action here in the states.
This, in theory, should be up to the end user to OK. Just like you have to enroll in the "no call list" (ie, sending opt out emails), or getting a telezapper type device (ie, a Spamhaus filter). You should be able to opt-in, (or out) of any spam. Granted this is extremely difficult to control due to the nature of the Internet, it should still be there, based on previous precedents set in the telemarketing world. Your phone company doesn't look at lists of telemarketing companies and block them out for all users, so why should your service provider? How many end users know that they aren't receiving all the email intended for them? People need to be made aware of what is sent to them, and be allowed to have control over that information. People can then make an informed decision to completely opt out of emails through the Spamhaus service (ie, buying a telezapper).
So to answer your question, the court is essentially assuring free speech can take place, which the government promised us over 200 years ago. I would recommend taking a gander at the EFFs page on spam for more infos: http://www.eff.org/spam/
I seem to recall doing that exact same experiment in 4th grade, except in class we used a common bean plant. Amazingly, I received similar results.
1. Cingular, the largest mobile carrier in the US, operates on GSM.
2. Cingular, the largest mobile carrier in the US, operates primarily on 1900. T-Mobile, the other major GSM carrier, uses only 1900 on their networks in the US. While not having 850 does suck a bit, you're not cutting off the entire market.
Guess you've had a bad experience with Cingular/TMobile, though from what you say it doesn't sound like you've ever had a plan through them. I'll take my Cingular account over my old Sprint account any day of the week.
Remember how Office Space was a comedy? It was pretty obvious that they were playing on that. Especially if you picked up the dvd...the whole virus scan at the begining and all. You should be giggling at how obscene it was! I think in the scene where he's trying to get out of work early, it switches between windows and macos at least 7 or 8 times
I just happen to think Toshiba is experienceing luck of circumstance, it appears you think there is more maneuver involved.
Perhaps, I was just speculating. Business is business, and most businesses do what they can to get ahead.
I see your point, but I disagree, sort of. I just don't think Toshiba is that "unknown" as a brand; I believe they have more brand recognition than you believe. Their market share as posted above (which were just two quickly googled links) seems to show that. They just don't advertise as much as the ones you listed. It'd be like asking for the top 5 US auto brands. A list might include: Saturn, Ford, Chevy, GMC, Pontiac. What about Buick, Cadillac, Chrysler, Hummer, Mercury? Most people would obviously recognize those names, but they just didn't make the top 5.
If you do a quick look around to major retailers, Toshibas are thoroughly carried everywhere. Best Buy has 7 models, second only to Sony with 10. Circuit City has 10 models, second only to HP with 13. CompUSA has 18 models, second to HPs 19. Radio Shack has 6 models, more than any other brand carried. Retailers wouldn't consistently carry that many laptops from Toshiba if people weren't buying them, which means people do know about Toshiba.
Point 1, point 2.
First link is 1.5 years old, second is 5 years old. Yeah, they're old, but they both show that Toshiba has an extremely large market share in the US. 5 years ago they had the third largest at 21%. 1.5 years ago, out of the they had 4 (including #1 & #2) of the top 10 selling laptops.
This in no way is to gain recognition because people don't know who toshiba is. They either got called on it privately, they're doing it in good faith, or they want to screw over Sony. Since they're targeting a rival laptop producer, I would say it's to make them look good, with the added benefit of making Sony look bad.
They see the propagation behavior as a traffic anomaly on their control panel. /. every minute. I'm sure CNN is much higher than that.
A few requests out to a website for a picture would hardly be considered an anomaly. I'm pretty sure our corporate proxy sees a few dozen requests to
Depending upon whether or not their is a signature, it will be listed by worm name or as an unknown worm.
If there is no signature, how would it be listed as worm at all? Are you talking signature based on an IPS? Because those things aren't exactly very reliable (read: not at all) on catching unknown attacks. Trust me, I spent about 5 months testing them.
Then, they quarantine the infected hosts using ACLs on the routers that segregate their network chunks, removing the propagation traffic any other traffic from those hosts that differs from "normal" recorded traffic patterns.
How does it know who's infected? After its started its botnet spamings? That trojan has already forwarded it's link on to dozens of other people by then. You're playing cleanup at this point. Being reactive to IT security is the last thing you want to do.
Workers can still get to what they need to to do their job, but can't connect out to random hosts anymore. IT gets an e-mail to clean the infected hosts, with a list of workstations.
At this point they'd have to be completely cut off until their computer is cleaned. How do you know what port to block with the ACL? You may as well just shutdown their interface. That means downtime for at least one person, then if anyone is relying on them for information, they've got downtime. Factor in the IT guy who has to clean it/rebuild the OS...etc etc. How much time does it take a few IT guys to clean a hundred computers again?
The worm signature is added to their filter for incoming traffic so it does not come in again over the pipes. The employees who ran it get yelled at by IT for running random executables from IM which violates their work policy.
Since when is taking a reactive approach to security ever a good thing? Slapping a corporate policy in a users face isn't going to do you jack for security.
And, I can still IM employees at that company to discuss business, which is a normal occurrence, since a lot of business happens over IM these days. IM is just like e-mail. Shutting it off, is not an acceptable answer anymore for most people, especially not in sales.
If IM is just like email, why not just use email? What's wrong with the phone?
So this brings me back to my original reply up top. Any company with an actual IT department...would not allow this to be open. There isn't a 100% way to filter out malicious traffic. Sure, technologies like IPSs are coming along, but they're still a long way off, and rely way too much on signatures. The more possibilities you leave open for attack, the more likely you are going to be attacked. Close everything, then open up as necessary. When you have so many other options for relatively secure communications (phone/email/snailmail), why add the unnecessary risk?
Congrats, you've listed 5 companies who have assessed the risk of their entire network going down, taking the time to clean everyone's computers, make for goddamnedsure that everyone has every update available, etc etc, or they've paid a whole lot to ensure everything is going to be properly blocked (not 100% possible). Then they took a look at that cost and found that it is actually less than what they get back from increased productivity that their employees get by IMing their friends/family from work, instead of simply emailing or using a phone.
My hat is off to them for actually fudging the numbers enough to make it worth it! Steel cajones, that's for sure.
You'd still be vulnerable, but you likely wouldn't spam the linked virus to everyone on your list using gaim/trillian. I would assume that the virus is programmed to expect AIM running, and it probably wouldn't interface with other programs. Then again, IANAP.
Any company with an actual IT department. RTFA for an extremely good reason.
Why stop there though? As is happening with smoking, more and more cities/states would just adopt a child free environment. Children would be required to either stay at home, stay outside of publicly accessible buildings (and at least 10 feet from any entrance), and would only be allowed in businesses where at least 50% of revenue is made from toy sales.
Ahhh, sweet sweet utopia.
I'm not even a lawyer, and I can probably answer your questions!
1. If you're uploading pirated music/movies, stop.
2. If you're uploading pirated music/movies, and you don't want to risk getting caught, stop.
That's because Nintendo DS fans tend to be very zealous about their little gizmo. At least that's what I've heard from friends and read on the web. I would wager a guess that the PSP crowd might tend to be less "geeky", and more "joe sixpack". I have no backing for that statement, but that seems to be more of their target audience.
From a pure gaming standpoint, the PSP is a let down. If you're looking for all gaming, yes, it would easy to regret your purchase. However, I still use it every single day. If not to play games, then to stream music, do some emergency web browsing, maybe play a little snes, watch some family guy, etc. Currently I've got it hooked up to my stereo system streaming music via RSS feeds from my PC tucked away in the other room. I think the only feature I don't take advantage of on it is the UMD movie feature. Of course buying into that crap never made sense to me, even before I bought the unit. I still am extremely happy with my purchase, and there's no way I would trade it for a DS.
Agreed. This is similar to how I keep track of my movies. Keep the genre broad at the top (action, comedy, drama, like at a rental store), then get more specific (romantic, crime, thriller, etc).
For games you could use something like simulation (sub-tagged with with flight, people management, sports, city building, etc), roleplaying (mmo, fantasy, sci-fi, slash and hack, etc), sports (football, golf, baseball, etc), mmog (fantasy, scifi, fps, etc), etc. Since certain subtags are genres of themselves however (mmo [rpg|fps|etc]), it could get a little messy.
Each game is different, so trying to create a complete list would be nigh impossible. You would just want the primary tag to be whatever broad category it falls closely enough into. Then get more specific.
However, then you get into certain games that could be put into seperate genres depending on how you played them. Take EA's NHL series. If I remember correctly, in career mode you don't even have to play a single game, just let it simulate the games and take over the management of the team. But you can still play the games themselves if you want. So is this a simulation:sports:hockey, or sports:hockey:simulation? It just comes down a lot to personal interpretation.
A master list would be so long, with so many listed genres, that it would be useless.
It also doesn't (IMO) absolve Microsoft from their wrongdoing. Sure it's a good way to avoid getting bitten, but it doesn't make it alright for MS to either spy on their users or foist beta-quality software on people under the guise of production-ready code... :-/
And on that point I whole heartedly agree with you! I am in no way trying to relieve MS of any wrongdoings. Dogs will always bite, I'm just trying to explain how I get bit less without having to put Spot down. It isn't fail-proof, but it helps from time to time.
My point? That you shouldn't blindly accept everything that's handed to you. You've obviously spent more than a few minutes on the WGA issue, having posted multiple times to this thread. Be proactive, not reactive. If something has a chance to affect you in a negative way, look into it before hand. Don't wait until after it hits you to try and figure out what's wrong, and how to fix it. That's just a general life rule!
/. post history, I could probably safely assume you visit here pretty often. Judging by your participation in this thread, I would assume that you read, with interest, articles involving windows updates. So you're off to a good start! Now, when MS messes up bad, and people find out about it, articles have a great tendency to end up posted on /..
/.. Actually I /. anyway, so it's not really taking any more of my time. You probably fall into this category as well. Some anticpated patches might be posted, and if there's any concern about that patch, I don't download it. Or, after a day or two after a big push, if I don't see any negative posts about it, I update.
/. complaining about one of the updates as you have done, I have spent a few minutes reading peoples complaints and decided not to update yet. Proactive versus reactive.
Judging by your
Let's combine those two concepts together, and we'll find my approach to applying patches! I don't decompile every single Windows Update. I know that MS really messes things up with their patches. It's in their history. You even seem to mention that:
"...given Windows' execrable security record..."
So when patch day hits, I
That's all it takes to apply a proactive approach. Versus your method, it takes me maybe an extra minute or two to manually run windows update, and I can be relatively confident about what I'm applying. So instead of spending a few minutes on
That's funny, Microsoft hasn't pushed anything I didn't want to my machine. Then again, I've got auto update disabled. I take it you clicked the "Yes I accept any software you want to send me" button? While MS probably shouldn't have added this "feature" to their code in the first place, you told MS that it was ok to install on your machine. They didn't force you into anything, you gave them the key to your house and said "make yourself at home".
Indeed! Writing all 0s to the drive would reduce the drive's lifespan by 0.0002%, or even up to 0.001%! It's not like these things are made to be written to hundreds of thousands of times or anything.
Bit != Byte
That drive is actually slower than the 64GB drive linked above. Or was that "better" sarcasm?