Remember Noober from the original Baldurs Gate game who used to follow you around and keep asking questions like "Hey whats that big weapon for?" They should have definitely implemented some better AI there so he could figure out that he is ultra annoying and likely to get bludgeoned to death by you.
Because I want those crushbone orcs to think about how I might feel emotionally before they fire some magic lightning at me or club me. Or they can say "Well he's level 65 and I'm level 10, so maybe I will not chase after him today!"
This just seems to me like a waste of time product. I am sure that there will be mechanisms in place to unblur the image for law enforcement purposes. Gimme a break.
This statement would be much stronger if it included the word "sometimes" within it. Some kids would love to learn History by playing out a civil war campaign or the crusades or whatever in some sort of FPS game, but there are others who are much more inclined to read about it. There are also subjects that I think that books are necessary (say Calculus for example). You could add to the learning process by making a Jeopardy or quiz game to the mix, but a Calculus book will still be a core necessity in the learning process. I would be all for putting in some more itneractive computer based learning in schools, but books will always be there and should always be there as a resource.
(Also don't forget about the smart kids who would try and mod the games so the outcome is changed. I would laugh at the first news report from XYZ High School where some student modified game code so that the South won:P)
Wish they would come out and say that there Vaio series of desktops are crap as well and upgrade my old POS box to a shiny new one! In all fairness though Sony definitely seems to have their share of problems in electronic products, but I think overall they usually have a decent product.
Speaking of stupid things to do how many people know someone that has named a file on a Unix server * and then at some point later in time decided they no longer needed that file and decided to rm *?
Well in all fairness governments world wide need to protect certain information and methods of information gathering. Companies need to do the same otherwise you could not stay competitive in business (both international and domestic). People who don't understand the need for certain things to be patented or kept as trade secrets or protected by governments baffle me? We won't ever live in a perfect, utopian society where everyone will do the good thing with the information available so how can you not protect it if it is valuable enough to do so?
Would have hair as tall as the statue of liberty by then....
The great thing about extendeding life such as this would be that the greatest minds wouldn't fade out of existence and the newer generation of great minds would have the opportunity to better learn from those still living. Of course population would be an issue, but hell we are gonna all be Star Trek like by 2030 anyways so what the hell.
There will always be points where technology slows down because it invariably will have to go through some total redevelopment instead of just building upon current products (like what they will be doing with the space program.)
It is not really an exploit of Outlook per se as much as it is an exploit of IE using Outlook as the delivery mechanism.
US-CERT is aware of exploitation of a cross-domain scripting vulnerability in the Outlook Express MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML Documents (MHTML) protocol handler. The MHTML protocol handler is installed as part of Outlook Express and uses Internet Explorer (IE) to access mhtml: URLs. Microsoft Windows systems install Outlook Express, IE, and the vulnerable MHTML handler by default.
By convincing a victim to view an HTML document (web page, HTML email), an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running IE and possibly read or modify content in another web site.
More information about the vulnerability is available in TA04-099A and VU#323070.
This vulnerability appears to be exploited by the Ibiza trojan, W32/Bugbear.E, and various web sites that host malicious URLs and related malware. Exploits also may be identified as BloodHound.Exploit.6. Attackers may distribute malicious URLs in unsolicited email, instant messages, chat rooms, or web forums. Attackers may also distribute exploits in HTML email messages.
I know there are obviously a good deal of exploits out there that take advantage of IE through outlook by using HTML in an email that makes a call to the IE engine and then exploits IE. Can this still occur even if you are not using Outlook but using IE as your native browser or even if you are not using IE but have IE on your OS because it is native and ingrained within windows. I think even though it may not be used as the default browser, emails that contain HTML that needs to call upon the IE engine will still do it and therefore still run the exploit? I guess the main question is do you have to totally uninstall IE or just not use Microslop to stop this from occurring?
John Glenn commented that there was a 1 in 455 chance that the asteroid could collide with an airplane and therefore we should not populate it to save the species from later earth killing catastrophic events.
They must be using Chinese Google which I dub Choogle and search on keywords like democracy and "freedom of expression" to find these evil web site perpetrators.
Wired had a great article in the past about how the synthetic diamond industry is breaking through, which means that quality synthetic diamonds may soon be cheap to use for electronics purposes. (Real diamonds are more expensive just they are naturally made, but synthetics can be virtually indistinguishable quality-wise.)
The statements made here by Tenet are just plain dumb. For one we can no longer control the Internet as it is a global entity and the idea of limiting access to only security minded organizations/individuals cuts out probably 80 percent of Internet users. A better approach would simply be to enforce policies at the US level for baseline security for organizations and work internationally in creating a more worldy solution similar to this so at least corporations/organizations will face possible penalties for not participating in good security practices. For the individual home network security then the solution is going to need to be a much greater govt/corporate/open source community working relationship that helps get the person at home not only the education that computers need to be secured, but also the tools (either free or close to it) to easily bring their systems/networks to an appropriate security level. Making statements like this to the press just spins people up and doesn't really address a more realistic solution to the overall problem.
As a good portion of tech-based companies already do they will probably pay them straight overtime (regular pay for every hour over 40 in a standard work-week) and not time and a half. This is a pretty standard practice and not that problematic.
If one of these falls into that miniscule percentage that have exploded in people's ears then there might be the additional side-effect of having a big ass daisy growing out of the side of your head...
I am just plain sick and tired of web sites installing crap programs like xxxtoolbar, gator, cometsystems and etc..... in the background. I 100 percent understand that advertising pays the bills for many websites, but the end user should have the option of saying yes or no to the installation of these programs as a trade off for viewing the site. If I want to view a site or download something from a site bad enough then I will accept its tracking cookies, but that was my choice.
Of course saying that I still hate scumware and block most everything using a combo of both Ad-Aware and Spybot SD. Also 127.0.0.1 can be your friend and an advertisers for:)
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Remember Noober from the original Baldurs Gate game who used to follow you around and keep asking questions like "Hey whats that big weapon for?" They should have definitely implemented some better AI there so he could figure out that he is ultra annoying and likely to get bludgeoned to death by you.
Because I want those crushbone orcs to think about how I might feel emotionally before they fire some magic lightning at me or club me. Or they can say "Well he's level 65 and I'm level 10, so maybe I will not chase after him today!"
This just seems to me like a waste of time product. I am sure that there will be mechanisms in place to unblur the image for law enforcement purposes. Gimme a break.
This statement would be much stronger if it included the word "sometimes" within it. Some kids would love to learn History by playing out a civil war campaign or the crusades or whatever in some sort of FPS game, but there are others who are much more inclined to read about it. There are also subjects that I think that books are necessary (say Calculus for example). You could add to the learning process by making a Jeopardy or quiz game to the mix, but a Calculus book will still be a core necessity in the learning process. I would be all for putting in some more itneractive computer based learning in schools, but books will always be there and should always be there as a resource. (Also don't forget about the smart kids who would try and mod the games so the outcome is changed. I would laugh at the first news report from XYZ High School where some student modified game code so that the South won :P)
Wish they would come out and say that there Vaio series of desktops are crap as well and upgrade my old POS box to a shiny new one! In all fairness though Sony definitely seems to have their share of problems in electronic products, but I think overall they usually have a decent product.
Speaking of stupid things to do how many people know someone that has named a file on a Unix server * and then at some point later in time decided they no longer needed that file and decided to rm *?
Well in all fairness governments world wide need to protect certain information and methods of information gathering. Companies need to do the same otherwise you could not stay competitive in business (both international and domestic). People who don't understand the need for certain things to be patented or kept as trade secrets or protected by governments baffle me? We won't ever live in a perfect, utopian society where everyone will do the good thing with the information available so how can you not protect it if it is valuable enough to do so?
Would have hair as tall as the statue of liberty by then.... The great thing about extendeding life such as this would be that the greatest minds wouldn't fade out of existence and the newer generation of great minds would have the opportunity to better learn from those still living. Of course population would be an issue, but hell we are gonna all be Star Trek like by 2030 anyways so what the hell.
By 2050 we will be able to clone a team of David Beckhams with giant mishapen, club feet and a goalie with 6 arms that will own the robot team!
I just remember when they found the backwards message that said "Netscape Engineers are weenies" in dvwssr.dll and some other dll's hehe.
And all other software made by vendors that have sued MS.... It also comes with a custom icon that portrays Bill Gates as Baby Jesus.
Well that would be according to people like Gov. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois at least. (Who secretly probably plays way too much Leisure Suit Larry)
I played so much Everquest that I started to think things like "What if I harm touched this chick taking too much time in line at the grocery store"
There will always be points where technology slows down because it invariably will have to go through some total redevelopment instead of just building upon current products (like what they will be doing with the space program.)
It is not really an exploit of Outlook per se as much as it is an exploit of IE using Outlook as the delivery mechanism. US-CERT is aware of exploitation of a cross-domain scripting vulnerability in the Outlook Express MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML Documents (MHTML) protocol handler. The MHTML protocol handler is installed as part of Outlook Express and uses Internet Explorer (IE) to access mhtml: URLs. Microsoft Windows systems install Outlook Express, IE, and the vulnerable MHTML handler by default. By convincing a victim to view an HTML document (web page, HTML email), an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running IE and possibly read or modify content in another web site. More information about the vulnerability is available in TA04-099A and VU#323070. This vulnerability appears to be exploited by the Ibiza trojan, W32/Bugbear.E, and various web sites that host malicious URLs and related malware. Exploits also may be identified as BloodHound.Exploit.6. Attackers may distribute malicious URLs in unsolicited email, instant messages, chat rooms, or web forums. Attackers may also distribute exploits in HTML email messages.
I know there are obviously a good deal of exploits out there that take advantage of IE through outlook by using HTML in an email that makes a call to the IE engine and then exploits IE. Can this still occur even if you are not using Outlook but using IE as your native browser or even if you are not using IE but have IE on your OS because it is native and ingrained within windows. I think even though it may not be used as the default browser, emails that contain HTML that needs to call upon the IE engine will still do it and therefore still run the exploit? I guess the main question is do you have to totally uninstall IE or just not use Microslop to stop this from occurring?
John Glenn commented that there was a 1 in 455 chance that the asteroid could collide with an airplane and therefore we should not populate it to save the species from later earth killing catastrophic events.
They must be using Chinese Google which I dub Choogle and search on keywords like democracy and "freedom of expression" to find these evil web site perpetrators.
They can hire back some of the folks they laid off to develop this and then they can lay them off again right before executive bonus time next year.
Wired had a great article in the past about how the synthetic diamond industry is breaking through, which means that quality synthetic diamonds may soon be cheap to use for electronics purposes. (Real diamonds are more expensive just they are naturally made, but synthetics can be virtually indistinguishable quality-wise.)
The statements made here by Tenet are just plain dumb. For one we can no longer control the Internet as it is a global entity and the idea of limiting access to only security minded organizations/individuals cuts out probably 80 percent of Internet users. A better approach would simply be to enforce policies at the US level for baseline security for organizations and work internationally in creating a more worldy solution similar to this so at least corporations/organizations will face possible penalties for not participating in good security practices. For the individual home network security then the solution is going to need to be a much greater govt/corporate/open source community working relationship that helps get the person at home not only the education that computers need to be secured, but also the tools (either free or close to it) to easily bring their systems/networks to an appropriate security level. Making statements like this to the press just spins people up and doesn't really address a more realistic solution to the overall problem.
As a good portion of tech-based companies already do they will probably pay them straight overtime (regular pay for every hour over 40 in a standard work-week) and not time and a half. This is a pretty standard practice and not that problematic.
If one of these falls into that miniscule percentage that have exploded in people's ears then there might be the additional side-effect of having a big ass daisy growing out of the side of your head...
I am just plain sick and tired of web sites installing crap programs like xxxtoolbar, gator, cometsystems and etc..... in the background. I 100 percent understand that advertising pays the bills for many websites, but the end user should have the option of saying yes or no to the installation of these programs as a trade off for viewing the site. If I want to view a site or download something from a site bad enough then I will accept its tracking cookies, but that was my choice. Of course saying that I still hate scumware and block most everything using a combo of both Ad-Aware and Spybot SD. Also 127.0.0.1 can be your friend and an advertisers for :)
How well do they interoperate with most software and are they as easy to upgrade?