It comes down to profits, which is EXACTLY what he was saying! The prisons? They're being privatized, and they don't make money on empty beds. More prisons, more profits, which equals more kickbacks. And how do you think certain three letter agencies pay for their dirty off the books black ops shit? Give ya a hint, they were landing C130s filled with sacks of coke and flown by the military in Mena AR in the 80s. profits from that coke? That don't show up on any congressional reports, they can do with it what they will...bribe, pay for hits, anything you please.
And as far as "making a difference"? Until the masses in the USA are ready to pull our own Egypt (which I give a decade tops) the simple fact is you won't make a difference not in the system, because it takes 50 million just to run for congress so they are bought before a single vote is cast sorry. Hows that hope and change working out? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. ANY lobbyist with the ability to write big fat checks will get more laws in a day than you can in a decade and thanks to SCOTUS they are now people too, so they are just like you only better!
Oh please! You think you're the new hotness because you're a soldier? You're out of date daddy-o! The new hotness is mercs! The mercs get better toys than you do, better money from your own government than you do (are you on food stamps? Most of the soldiers I met get paid so shitty their families are) and they can get away with more shit than you do!
Now do you think when the shit hits the bladed cooling device they are gonna call on you to crush the peasants, you who may actually believe in quaint terms like "honor" and the constitution? Hell no! It'll be some Blackwater style "Security force" which will take all the dirty work, kinda like....well right now.
Riiight, because I can knock on the door of any neighbor and they ALL have...wait a minute, who the fuck owns one of those?
What you seem to be missing on purpose is that nearly everyone has a gas can whereas the odds that the guy down the street has a portable charger that 1.-has enough power to actually give an electric car enough juice to move more than 4 inches, and 2.-just happens to have said magical charger all juiced up and waiting for me is practically non existent. Hell I bet if you figured the odds you would have better odds of winning $500 with scratch off tickets than actually finding that charger in ANY random sample.
So whether you choose to face it or go "la la la" is your business but the simple FACT is the current infrastructure doesn't support EVs and ICs simply don't have that problem. I guarantee in just my apt building if I started knocking on doors I'd find at least 3 that had gas cans in their cars, how many of these electric chargers am I gonna find? None. And THAT was the point OP was trying to drive home that you seem to be missing. So here is your WHOOSH thanks and have a nice day.
Question:Why not just buy two cheap 16:9 widescreens and use a stand to mount them on top of each other? Even cheap graphics cards nowadays support multimonitor, and the price of 2 bog standard 19 inch wides would be cheaper than finding a decent 4:3 monitor now anyways. That wouldn't give you perfectly square but would certainly give you more height.
That said you CAN still get square monitors you know, they just don't come any bigger than 19 inch, at least I couldn't find any. So why not keep the wide and use something like this for when a square view would be best, thus getting the best of both?
Uhhh...actually Foxit had something similar to sandboxing a good 6 months BEFORE Adobe, they just don't call it sandboxing, they call it "safe reading mode" where they strip out any and all executable code so you just get text and pics, which is 90% of what people use PDFs for. For links you simply copy/paste instead of direct click. This is even safer than a sandbox since there isn't any executable code to worry about possibly jumping the box.
Because it is MUCH better for security to not have everyone and their dog running the same PDF viewer? I use the Foxit PDF viewer for Firefox, Which is a small self contained executable, load fast, easy to update. You might use Sumatra, or Adobe, or one of a dozen other viewers which means it is harder to infect everyone with a single PDF whereas this will give them a single target, because if it works on one FF it'll work on all.
But frankly I'd say the FF team lost their way when Chrome came out anyway. Since Chrome they've been ripping more and more of the look, without ripping the functionality like low rights mode.
So I'd say FF 4 will probably be the last one me and my customers mess with. I've been trying Comodo Dragon (based on Chromium without the phone home of Chrome and with some nice security features) and as soon as I get the hang of it I'll be switching my customers over. FF 3.5.x was nice but since 3.6.x I've been seeing memory jump and frankly it just doesn't handle as nice as the Chromium browsers.
Why the FF team thinks aping Chrome will gain them fans I don't know, because if they are just gonna rip off Chrome, why not just use Chrome or Chromium? It isn't like they cost money or something.
Riiiight, because your "choices" of corporate cock sucking sellout A or B REALLY makes a difference. How's that hope and change? See in the USA it is "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" and has been as long as anyone can remember because that's the way the corps like it and they are the ones writing the checks for the ads and TV time.
When it takes something like 50 million just to run for congress? The odds of being able to get anyone that hasn't already sold out is pretty much zipola.
Where have you been? The new hotness is "non lethal weapons" because after all it is hard to beat the shit out of someone later if you kill them up front. Plus it sounds better to the press, you just leave out those pesky blindness and/or electrocution issues.
You see that way you can say "and then they were brought down with a taser/phazelight" and leave off the "and it killed him" and it sounds like you were just trying to stop them! Whereas "and then we whomped the shit out of them with a rubber hose" just doesn't give it the whole "Star Trek" vibe. I'm sure the main street media will be making star wars/ star trek comparisons so the public thinks you are using a phaser on stun not a torture device which looks MUCH better in the papers.
It is all about spin now my boy, didn't you get the memo?
Hey how is those latest graphics cards working? or those thousands of devices sold in the B&M stores? oh right, they don't. Look I have NO problem with Linux in the server role in fact I use it that way all the time. The reason it works as a server is because millions of dollars and man hours have been spent making it rock solid and making sure it just works. Also OEMs have likewise spent millions (which they wouldn't have had to if Linus wasn't a douche and would allow a hardware ABI which everyone else has had FOR OVER A DECADE) to make sure drivers are solid and stable.
What I DO have a problem with is dipshits like you that think you can take a server OS and stuff it onto a desktop and then think because YOU were able to surf the mounds of Man pages, the piles of Howtos and readmes and other bullshit, that suddenly that makes it ready for the masses. Well to quote Mel Brooks bullshit bullshit AND bullshit. There is a damned good reason why XP stomped Linux on netbooks, even though netbooks were designed around the strengths of Linux and that is because your entire driver model is shit. I repeat your driver model? Poo, crap, shite, runny nasty festering turd o' fail.
There is also a good reason why Linux TMs exist, read them if you dare, because unlike normal people who find they have a problem who...oh whats the word?...oh yeah FIX IT...FOSSies (or as they call them on Linux TM Freetards) will make up the same stock excuses such as "worksforme" or "Linux supportsmorehardware" and trot this bullshit out so many times I can cover a good 90% of any conversation with a FOSSie with nothing but TMs.
So if you don't want to stay in dead last forever, ask yourself THIS question"What are the others doing right that I'm doing wrong?" because when you can't even update Dell Ubuntu machines using the standard repos because it breaks half the hardware you should know your shit is shit and needs serious work. but go ahead, lay some TMs on me. It'll be like buzzword bingo, I'll match a TM to every thing you counter. Because that is what your arguments will be, hot air and bullshit.
Oh I agree completely but what still amazes me is how so many think if you can stop the supply you can stop the behavior and as I have seen with my own eyes with junkies shooting cold pills and ditch water trying to get high they will always do drugs and if they can't find or make any they will do the most foul things to their bodies all in an effort to get high.
It reminds me of an old story I read about the USSR in Afghanistan. Apparently the rebels were getting Soviet guns by trading dope for weapons, so the KGB put strict controls on those leaving the bases and basically locked everything down. problem solved, right? Well what happened is soon after vehicles and planes started crashing because the brakes would fail, even brand new vehicles would have the brakes just go out. When they investigated it turned out the junkies were drinking brake fluid sifted through white bread to get high.
Having spent some time on the road playing seedy clubs and living on the wrong side of the tracks I've seen it first hand. I've seen guys smoke weeds they found in the woods, drink teas made out of any mushroom they can find, shoot cold pills mixed with ditch water, anything and everything to get high when they couldn't find or afford the real stuff. I even knew a junkie that held up a 7/11 not for the money, but to get put back in prison because he couldn't get enough smack on the outside and would rather give up his freedom than his habit.
So I'd say after nearly a century of misery its time to stop. Legalize, decriminalize, control and tax. The country is already broke and has more people in prison than China, the bullshit really needs to end. Because as it is a single drug bust pretty much ends any chance of a job or a future, so you are creating an ever growing underclass that has nothing better to do than crime, and no future to quit for.
Afraid to make an account? they are free you know. And thanks because I so rarely get to use this in a sentence...WHOOSH! And frankly i couldn't care less about your piddly little 1% OS okay? Go hang with the Amiga and OS/2 users, I hear they can almost party as well as Linux users!
And since you missed the point so completely, maybe you were trying to fix your wireless problems or get your OS to actually work, who knows, but the point which WHOOSHED by so easily over your head was the vast majority of attacks are social engineering based which NO, I repeat NO operating system can protect against since you are pitted against the user and if the user is actively helping the malware, which is how a social engineering attack works, then you WILL lose, full stop.
Unless you are telling me you support the Apple walled garden where no code is allowed without corporate approval? While that kinda spits in the face of your Linux freedoms having a locked down system where the users has no control WILL kill social engineering dead. Personally I don't care for that approach myself, but if cell phones become the new PCs we could see that happen.
of course if that happens we won't have to worry about Linux no more since it'll be dead as 8 tracks, but hey, take the good with the bad I always say. And before you scream Android where is the code for 3.0? oh right you can't have it, as Google is flipping you the bird. That is TiVoization for you. tried to warn ya, nobody listened. oh well so much for those pesky four freedoms eh?
Which just goes to show why we need some basic regulations when it comes to data security. I mean how many times have we seen epic levels of stupid when it comes to user data, like the guy that left the tapes unencrypted in the back of his car?
We really need some regulations in this area with regard to security practices. At the very least a minimum level of encryption and having important data separate from each other with different keys. The amount of data corps have on us is just getting staggering so demanding at least a minimum level of care shouldn't be too much to ask.
And the sad part is now not only is the money being generated by outlaws and various three letter agencies to fund their little dirty wars, but keeping it illegal is doing MUCH more harm than good.
Type "shooting bath salts" into Google for a taste of the reality. There have been a number of deaths and real horror stories around here as of late which can be traced to the new "artificial coke/crank" which the junkies get a hold of and shoot when their local supplier is out of the real stuff, or wants more money than the junkie can afford. if you think real coke/crank is bad it has NOTHING on this stuff. The mental institutions are filled to over capacity, cops don't know what to do with them as they are too insane to be put in general pop, it is bad all the way around.
The local cops I know say they are seeing the same thing to a lesser extent with the artificial pot, where people that have smoked the real stuff and are afraid of a piss test do this artificial crap and have a horrible reaction. Many of the older local cops have taken early retirement just to get away from the mess and frankly wish they would just legalize already. One said he went from dealing with simple drunks, break ins, and domestic disputes to dealing with totally crazy people four times a week or more. If said the stress of constantly dealing with someone out of their mind was just more than he could take.
So we need to just start with pot and slowly work our way up until ALL are legal, and use the money generated from taxing it to go to treatment centers free for all that need it, along with mental health facilities for all those that need them free. Because I've seen first hand with my ex brother in law that a junkie WILL find something to use, no matter what laws you pass. Hell that man would grind up over the counter drugs and mix with ditch water and shoot it just trying to get high when nothing else was readily available.
And guess who got to pay for all the hospitalization he required from all the dirty needles and bad reactions and such? that's right YOU the tax payer got to pay for that. Make it legal, tax it, and call it a day. We tried prohibition and it just didn't work, we've blown trillions and cost millions of lives ruined or rotting in prison over the current drug war, still didn't work, it is damned past time to try a new approach. Start with pot since nearly everyone is behind that, and then work your way up. Otherwise you are just pouring money into the banks of criminals while littering your streets with the broken and insane.
Actually I'd say the problem isn't Windows, it is PEBKAC which NO OS will solve or they would have done so by now. I just got finished cleaning one of these scareware infections where the user uninstalled their working AV to install the malware. Now why would they do that you say? Simple, they saw the number of "infections" reported on the fake scareware page and decided their good AV must not be working (since it wasn't reporting the non existent viruses) and therefor " must have gone bad" like cheese in the fridge and tossed it to install the malware.
Now show me ANY OS that would protect the system from that level of stupid, I dare you. You can't because idiot proofing will always be defeated by the bigger idiot. For Linux here is a nice trick, how to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps that uses nothing but bog standard social engineering. hell it doesn't even need root to be able to do all the things your average malware writer wants to accomplish. And we know this works because they used similar methods in the KDELook attack, where thousands of KDE users were infected by fake screensavers that were actually malware. Sound familiar?
So it is real simple folks, if the user has install rights then they have the ability to screw themselves, full stop. You can try education, making them jump through hoops like UAC or root prompts, it doesn't matter. it is the classic dancing bunnies problem where if the user WANTS the malware (and that is what it all boils down to, the malware uses fear or social engineering to convince the user they want to install the malware, a classic con game) then by God they're gonna get that malware whether you like it or not!
So in the end you do what you can, make sure they have a backup solution, and be ready to clean up the messes when they happen. it reminds me of how an old Linux admin of mine ended up being threatened with firing and had to show up before the head of the regional office because the PHB over him was demanding he allow the PHB's emails from Melissa without interference. In the end there is only so much you can do, you just can't knock the stupid out of some folks.
Awww isn't that cute, Petey's little sock puppets MEK_LoveBug and the kings jokwers got mod points and you used them all up to mod me down...that's soooo cute! You realize I have more karma that God almighty, yes? or that it will never get rid of my sig which mocks your impotence every single day in every single way, yes? How it must hurt to know that every single day thousands will see that sig and find how how truly pathetic you are Petey, I find that....delightful. Now enjoy some nice copypasta, sprinkled with the broken glass that is your failure...enjoy!...
I would be happy to give you the figures, feel free to check. Comodo AV = 98% hit rate and ZERO infections, Malwarebytes? 97% and ZERO infections. Type both into Youtube and feel free to watch Petey. I have also shown repeatedly, again feel free to choose ANY figures from ANY reputable site you like, you are talking on average 180,000 PER DAY of infected websites PLUS 1.8 million current PLUS 15,000 pieces of malware PLUS anywhere from 35,000 to 50,000 websites revolving from the list. You see the difference between actual solutions and Petey's magical woobie is a little thing known as heuristics, along with a nice word known as sandboxing, neither of which his magical.txt file can do.
But if Petey wasn't completely batshit insane I wouldn't have to explain this, because this is why everyone makes fun of him. it is so obvious it is like someone arguing gravity is actually invisible pants gnomes trying to steal your underwear. It is the classic "default allow" which has NEVER EVER worked. Because if a piece of malware isn't in Petey's magical HOPES file he is royally fucked, and yet again I have shown that it is simply a roll of the dice whether he gets creamed or not, simply because he will always be behind
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So it is all on Petey and his magical HOPES woobie now. He made the extravagant claims, back them up with the math. If he can't? Well then he is full of shit, case closed. Notice how ALL PETEY CAN DO is throw insults and trollbomb? Why is that? I'll tell you why, because math doesn't lie and he just can't show the math He just can't, it would be like trying to mathematically prove PETEY is not an idiot. It just can't be done.
If that is the case then it is pretty damned sad and I think the FBI needs a good auditing to see where all the money they've been handed has gone. Because surely they have the tech to take the contents of an email, compare the text to the cypher, and ring a little bell if X number of words fit the pattern? After all isn't that how the old Bombe system worked in the 1940s?
That said I think they need to just file 13 the whole damned thing, as the likelihood of solving this with so little information to go on (no idea about content, no previous decodes to work with, etc) makes it about as solvable as the Voynich manuscript IMHO. It isn't like Enigma where they had a rough idea what the contents were (troop movements, orders, etc) because in this case it could be anything from where to meet his killer to his laundry list. The odds of solving any kind of cypher of any complexity with so little to go on would probably be pretty damned close to zilch.
Uhhh...that's why you hire someone instead of DIY? Having a website built really ain't expensive, just go to any mom and pop repair shop and ask them, they'll point you to a damned good website builder that is really affordable. I mean once upon a time anybody with a wrench could work on a car but I don't think we want to go back to having to manually set timings and deal with all the waste, do you?
Of course I used to love to see the looks on their faces when one of the many businesses around here would decide they needed a good website and would get recommended to us by all the satisfied customers because NOBODY would tell them beforehand about our in house kick ass website builder.
They'd come in with their fancy suit and ask to see the "great website designer" and I'd try not to snicker when I'd point them to the office in the corner, they would walk in and go "where is the website designer?" and the bosses 14 year old daughter would just roll her eyes and say "have a seat, I'm finishing up a client's site and be with you in a moment."
That girl was a little bit o' nothing, always popping her gum while bopping to those horrible boy bands, but with just an old 400Mhz Celeron and notepad she could whip up some damned nice business websites. That girl really knew her foo. So I'd say if the Wordpress templates don't do it for you, just throw a couple of bucks towards your local mom and pop shop. They'll give you a bad ass website custom coded that will look sharp and unique. Just don't be surprised if it is some 14 year old kid popping her gum.
Fuck it, somebody has to say it, might as well be me...FUCK THE GAS CHAMBER BULLSHIT okay? That shit happened 70 fucking years ago, it doesn't give the Jews a permanent pass on being douchebags, kay?
They walked into a place where other people already lived and said "My God (which you don't believe in) says this is my land so GTFO". If you wanted to give them something you should have gave the Austria, because taking Palestine would be like saying the blacks in America have been treated badly therefor everyone in the UK better be moving into a camp because we're giving England to the black folks.
You want to know what the fucking sad part is? Why the USA puts up with their bullshit instead of walking off and leaving them to sink or swim? ';Jesus won't come back" that's right folks, your foreign policy and thousands and thousands of lives in the balance are dictated on whether a 2500 year old prophecy about a 2000 year old dead guy can come true or not.
The hardcore right wingers truly believe if the USA doesn't pucker up and kiss Israel's butt then Jesus may not have a place to park his fluffy cloud. Sadly its true, my local college is ultra right wing conservative and gets the power mongers, heads of state and ex presidents, and frankly around their own they talk about it freely. if I hear "When the Jews return to Zion" one more damned time from someone in power I swear I'm gonna snap!
So for the rest of the world allow me to say Fuck You Israel, you have used up your gas chamber card with decades of douchebag behavior and don't get to scream antisemitic at everyone that doesn't kiss your ass or believe in your manifest destiny.
OMGWTFBBQ! Did you just compare your retard troll ass to fucking Gandhi? Are you THAT fucking mental now Petey? Hell they've already run you off of Ars, thanks to your obvious insanity and souckpuppettry (which I'm helping to point out now with my new sig) you'll soon be the laughing stock of/. so what's next? Maybe hanging with Twitter at BoycottNovell?
C'mon monkey boy, do the crazy dance for us. Your idiocy is mildly entertaining, like watching a homeless guy play in traffic. Entertain us freak, dance!
Did you hold you code up in front of a full length mirror? you know your code won't enjoy the full affirmation effect if you don't use the full length mirror. For best results hold your code in front of the FLM while wearing a soft yet tasteful blue sweater, this will make the code more secure by making it feel safe in its surroundings.
Remember anything worth doing is worth doing right, and don't let those negative comments about your code ever deter you, just march up and tell them you don't subscribe to stinkin' thinkin'.
Hi Metrix007! I hope you don't mind but I borrowed part of your sig. After being stalked by old Crazy Pete for a couple of months off and on I need a shorthand for batshit loonie, and yours works better than any I've seen yet. if you want me to change it or add credit just let me know.
As for your post I have to agree that any USian post automatically makes me think "Anti-American douchebag" and ignore anything after. And it isn't like there are other countries calling themselves Americans, so there really isn't even a point to it other than being an ass, like those grammar nazis that will nitpick every little detail even though a post is perfectly readable. Just assholes being assholes I guess.
I hope you like it Petey, I did it just for you. Now on EVERY SINGLE POST I make I can not only insult you, I can show everyone how completely batshit you are! its a two for one baby yeah!
BTW You know it is usually considered good form to at least make a sock puppet, posting AC to plug your own AC posts? Kinda sad. And for the 400th time Correlation != Causation. I can build an XP Sp2 machine with NO patches, NO AV, and change the desktop to a LOLCat. Now if I only use this machine to check my email and go to my bank I will NEVER get a bug, but I don't think it was my magical LOLCat protecting it, do you?
The simple fact is this: no matter how many times trollie says "1+1 = 3" the math simply proves you wrong and THAT is why all you can do is throw insults. You have 190,000 to 340,000 infected websites at this very moment and that list will change by the thousands per minute as sites are cleaned, new sites are infected, new vulnerabilities found, etc. Now for your HOPES file to actually be a REAL protection and not just a woobie? It will have to dynamically scale and keep up with that ever changing list of infections. Now even if you had twenty fingers and subscribed to every security list on the planet your HOPES file will ALWAYS BE OUT OF DATE and behind the curve. Always.
Now if you have a mathematical proof that shows how a static.txt file dropped into system 32 can magically scale dynamically? Lets see it. Otherwise it is NOTHING more a magical LOLCat pic backed up by anecdotes. That is the nice thing about math, it doesn't lie or believe in anecdotes.So the ball is in your court Petey, lets see the math. put up or STFU. Oh and I fart in your general direction!
ABSOLUTELY SO Drinkypoo. Since you don't seem to remember how the Win9X arch worked, let this old greybeard fill you in. At the bottom most level was DOS, which worked not only as a boot loader, but was also used for some file operations, then you had the drivers, then the VxD virtual device driver class, then the OS, and THEN the apps.
The problem, and the reason why apps such as NS 4 could BSOD the OS, was a little thing known as GDI, or graphics document interface. You see GDI on Win9X could only use a MAXIMUM of 1Mb (the old DOS limit) and anything over that? Welcome to badness as the machine choked and died, since it couldn't actually draw anymore objects and the buffers would overflow.
So I'm sorry Drinkypoo, while your posts are usually on the ball you missed the mark this case. Now on the NT arch you are talking a different ball of wax, and Windows after XP is damned near impossible to BSOD (in fact in the 4 years since Win Vista I've seen exactly ONE BSOD, and that was a customer with a dying RAM module) but when NS 4 was released the dominant OS by far was Win9X, hell most machines wouldn't even run WinNT because there weren't drivers for anything other than workstations, and Linux was like a bad joke, you needed serious hacking skills to get it to even run in those days.
So I'm sorry, but you're wrong. Hell you can see it yourself, just install Win9X (95-98 will do, WinME doesn't rely on DOS as much and thus will take a LITTLE more abuse, not much though) and fire up NS 4 and start opening pages. Use the system resource meter to watch GDI usage and you'll find on any page more complex than black text it'll slamm the shit out of GDI. Once you reach the limit it is buffer overflow and bye bye baby. This was just one of a string of problems that ultimately killed NS as a company. Myself and many other would have kept buying the product if they'd have made a usable offering, but by the time they got around to making a functional product the "designed for IE" phase was in full swing and NS was dead.
This is why I tell customers having a backup they can hold in their hands is always of the good. The data lost in TFA was less than 300Gb total, that would have been trivial to back up to a nice cheap WD Essentials while they were uploading it "just in case". this of course wouldn't let the ISP off the hook, but they wouldn't have lost an entire seasons worth of work either.
In this day and age where you can often pick up 2Tb externals for just $80 having no on premises backups to me just seems like begging for trouble. I've found most small businesses can easily back up the entire data of the business in 1Tb with space left over, and a pair of them is less than $180. Why do they even take the risk? For me these WD drives have been an easy sell, as nobody wants to think about having to try to deal with major data loss. Better safe than sorry, especially when the costs are so trivial to be safe.
And this coming from poor wittle APK, also know as "Petey, the idiot HOPES file guy"? As in you HOPES that one of the 300,000+ constantly changing array of websites that are infected doesn't happen to be the one you visit today? Or that you HOPES that nobody notices after repeatedly being asked you have FAILED to show even the tiniest shred of mathematical proof that your magical woobie can scale? That you HOPES nobody notices your only "proof" is anecdotes, often by your own sock puppets like Kingsjester?
If there is ANYONE that should be LOLing it is me, for pointing out there are still morons that believe 16Mb HOPES files can do anything but block ads since ad servers are...what do you call it...oh yeah STATIC, just like your HOPES file, but really you are just kinda pathetic. You're like the idiot that just keeps hanging onto that three years out of date copy of Norton, because he is just so damned sure it still works, only the Norton guy is actually better protected than you are, since it did used to work in the past 5 years.
So please, keep posting APK, I do so enjoy pointingoutthe totaluber fail of your magical woobie so. I also personally consider it a public service to point people to solutionsthat actuallywork instead of relying on magical woobies and anecdotes. And of course bitch slapping your retarded ass around is also quite fun, even if it is too easy!
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It comes down to profits, which is EXACTLY what he was saying! The prisons? They're being privatized, and they don't make money on empty beds. More prisons, more profits, which equals more kickbacks. And how do you think certain three letter agencies pay for their dirty off the books black ops shit? Give ya a hint, they were landing C130s filled with sacks of coke and flown by the military in Mena AR in the 80s. profits from that coke? That don't show up on any congressional reports, they can do with it what they will...bribe, pay for hits, anything you please.
And as far as "making a difference"? Until the masses in the USA are ready to pull our own Egypt (which I give a decade tops) the simple fact is you won't make a difference not in the system, because it takes 50 million just to run for congress so they are bought before a single vote is cast sorry. Hows that hope and change working out? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. ANY lobbyist with the ability to write big fat checks will get more laws in a day than you can in a decade and thanks to SCOTUS they are now people too, so they are just like you only better!
Oh please! You think you're the new hotness because you're a soldier? You're out of date daddy-o! The new hotness is mercs! The mercs get better toys than you do, better money from your own government than you do (are you on food stamps? Most of the soldiers I met get paid so shitty their families are) and they can get away with more shit than you do!
Now do you think when the shit hits the bladed cooling device they are gonna call on you to crush the peasants, you who may actually believe in quaint terms like "honor" and the constitution? Hell no! It'll be some Blackwater style "Security force" which will take all the dirty work, kinda like....well right now.
Riiight, because I can knock on the door of any neighbor and they ALL have...wait a minute, who the fuck owns one of those?
What you seem to be missing on purpose is that nearly everyone has a gas can whereas the odds that the guy down the street has a portable charger that 1.-has enough power to actually give an electric car enough juice to move more than 4 inches, and 2.-just happens to have said magical charger all juiced up and waiting for me is practically non existent. Hell I bet if you figured the odds you would have better odds of winning $500 with scratch off tickets than actually finding that charger in ANY random sample.
So whether you choose to face it or go "la la la" is your business but the simple FACT is the current infrastructure doesn't support EVs and ICs simply don't have that problem. I guarantee in just my apt building if I started knocking on doors I'd find at least 3 that had gas cans in their cars, how many of these electric chargers am I gonna find? None. And THAT was the point OP was trying to drive home that you seem to be missing. So here is your WHOOSH thanks and have a nice day.
Question:Why not just buy two cheap 16:9 widescreens and use a stand to mount them on top of each other? Even cheap graphics cards nowadays support multimonitor, and the price of 2 bog standard 19 inch wides would be cheaper than finding a decent 4:3 monitor now anyways. That wouldn't give you perfectly square but would certainly give you more height.
That said you CAN still get square monitors you know, they just don't come any bigger than 19 inch, at least I couldn't find any. So why not keep the wide and use something like this for when a square view would be best, thus getting the best of both?
Uhhh...actually Foxit had something similar to sandboxing a good 6 months BEFORE Adobe, they just don't call it sandboxing, they call it "safe reading mode" where they strip out any and all executable code so you just get text and pics, which is 90% of what people use PDFs for. For links you simply copy/paste instead of direct click. This is even safer than a sandbox since there isn't any executable code to worry about possibly jumping the box.
Because it is MUCH better for security to not have everyone and their dog running the same PDF viewer? I use the Foxit PDF viewer for Firefox, Which is a small self contained executable, load fast, easy to update. You might use Sumatra, or Adobe, or one of a dozen other viewers which means it is harder to infect everyone with a single PDF whereas this will give them a single target, because if it works on one FF it'll work on all.
But frankly I'd say the FF team lost their way when Chrome came out anyway. Since Chrome they've been ripping more and more of the look, without ripping the functionality like low rights mode.
So I'd say FF 4 will probably be the last one me and my customers mess with. I've been trying Comodo Dragon (based on Chromium without the phone home of Chrome and with some nice security features) and as soon as I get the hang of it I'll be switching my customers over. FF 3.5.x was nice but since 3.6.x I've been seeing memory jump and frankly it just doesn't handle as nice as the Chromium browsers.
Why the FF team thinks aping Chrome will gain them fans I don't know, because if they are just gonna rip off Chrome, why not just use Chrome or Chromium? It isn't like they cost money or something.
Riiiight, because your "choices" of corporate cock sucking sellout A or B REALLY makes a difference. How's that hope and change? See in the USA it is "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" and has been as long as anyone can remember because that's the way the corps like it and they are the ones writing the checks for the ads and TV time.
When it takes something like 50 million just to run for congress? The odds of being able to get anyone that hasn't already sold out is pretty much zipola.
Where have you been? The new hotness is "non lethal weapons" because after all it is hard to beat the shit out of someone later if you kill them up front. Plus it sounds better to the press, you just leave out those pesky blindness and/or electrocution issues.
You see that way you can say "and then they were brought down with a taser/phazelight" and leave off the "and it killed him" and it sounds like you were just trying to stop them! Whereas "and then we whomped the shit out of them with a rubber hose" just doesn't give it the whole "Star Trek" vibe. I'm sure the main street media will be making star wars/ star trek comparisons so the public thinks you are using a phaser on stun not a torture device which looks MUCH better in the papers.
It is all about spin now my boy, didn't you get the memo?
Hey how is those latest graphics cards working? or those thousands of devices sold in the B&M stores? oh right, they don't. Look I have NO problem with Linux in the server role in fact I use it that way all the time. The reason it works as a server is because millions of dollars and man hours have been spent making it rock solid and making sure it just works. Also OEMs have likewise spent millions (which they wouldn't have had to if Linus wasn't a douche and would allow a hardware ABI which everyone else has had FOR OVER A DECADE) to make sure drivers are solid and stable.
What I DO have a problem with is dipshits like you that think you can take a server OS and stuff it onto a desktop and then think because YOU were able to surf the mounds of Man pages, the piles of Howtos and readmes and other bullshit, that suddenly that makes it ready for the masses. Well to quote Mel Brooks bullshit bullshit AND bullshit. There is a damned good reason why XP stomped Linux on netbooks, even though netbooks were designed around the strengths of Linux and that is because your entire driver model is shit. I repeat your driver model? Poo, crap, shite, runny nasty festering turd o' fail.
There is also a good reason why Linux TMs exist, read them if you dare, because unlike normal people who find they have a problem who...oh whats the word?...oh yeah FIX IT...FOSSies (or as they call them on Linux TM Freetards) will make up the same stock excuses such as "worksforme" or "Linux supportsmorehardware" and trot this bullshit out so many times I can cover a good 90% of any conversation with a FOSSie with nothing but TMs.
So if you don't want to stay in dead last forever, ask yourself THIS question"What are the others doing right that I'm doing wrong?" because when you can't even update Dell Ubuntu machines using the standard repos because it breaks half the hardware you should know your shit is shit and needs serious work. but go ahead, lay some TMs on me. It'll be like buzzword bingo, I'll match a TM to every thing you counter. Because that is what your arguments will be, hot air and bullshit.
Oh I agree completely but what still amazes me is how so many think if you can stop the supply you can stop the behavior and as I have seen with my own eyes with junkies shooting cold pills and ditch water trying to get high they will always do drugs and if they can't find or make any they will do the most foul things to their bodies all in an effort to get high.
It reminds me of an old story I read about the USSR in Afghanistan. Apparently the rebels were getting Soviet guns by trading dope for weapons, so the KGB put strict controls on those leaving the bases and basically locked everything down. problem solved, right? Well what happened is soon after vehicles and planes started crashing because the brakes would fail, even brand new vehicles would have the brakes just go out. When they investigated it turned out the junkies were drinking brake fluid sifted through white bread to get high.
Having spent some time on the road playing seedy clubs and living on the wrong side of the tracks I've seen it first hand. I've seen guys smoke weeds they found in the woods, drink teas made out of any mushroom they can find, shoot cold pills mixed with ditch water, anything and everything to get high when they couldn't find or afford the real stuff. I even knew a junkie that held up a 7/11 not for the money, but to get put back in prison because he couldn't get enough smack on the outside and would rather give up his freedom than his habit.
So I'd say after nearly a century of misery its time to stop. Legalize, decriminalize, control and tax. The country is already broke and has more people in prison than China, the bullshit really needs to end. Because as it is a single drug bust pretty much ends any chance of a job or a future, so you are creating an ever growing underclass that has nothing better to do than crime, and no future to quit for.
Afraid to make an account? they are free you know. And thanks because I so rarely get to use this in a sentence...WHOOSH! And frankly i couldn't care less about your piddly little 1% OS okay? Go hang with the Amiga and OS/2 users, I hear they can almost party as well as Linux users!
And since you missed the point so completely, maybe you were trying to fix your wireless problems or get your OS to actually work, who knows, but the point which WHOOSHED by so easily over your head was the vast majority of attacks are social engineering based which NO, I repeat NO operating system can protect against since you are pitted against the user and if the user is actively helping the malware, which is how a social engineering attack works, then you WILL lose, full stop.
Unless you are telling me you support the Apple walled garden where no code is allowed without corporate approval? While that kinda spits in the face of your Linux freedoms having a locked down system where the users has no control WILL kill social engineering dead. Personally I don't care for that approach myself, but if cell phones become the new PCs we could see that happen.
of course if that happens we won't have to worry about Linux no more since it'll be dead as 8 tracks, but hey, take the good with the bad I always say. And before you scream Android where is the code for 3.0? oh right you can't have it, as Google is flipping you the bird. That is TiVoization for you. tried to warn ya, nobody listened. oh well so much for those pesky four freedoms eh?
Which just goes to show why we need some basic regulations when it comes to data security. I mean how many times have we seen epic levels of stupid when it comes to user data, like the guy that left the tapes unencrypted in the back of his car?
We really need some regulations in this area with regard to security practices. At the very least a minimum level of encryption and having important data separate from each other with different keys. The amount of data corps have on us is just getting staggering so demanding at least a minimum level of care shouldn't be too much to ask.
And the sad part is now not only is the money being generated by outlaws and various three letter agencies to fund their little dirty wars, but keeping it illegal is doing MUCH more harm than good.
Type "shooting bath salts" into Google for a taste of the reality. There have been a number of deaths and real horror stories around here as of late which can be traced to the new "artificial coke/crank" which the junkies get a hold of and shoot when their local supplier is out of the real stuff, or wants more money than the junkie can afford. if you think real coke/crank is bad it has NOTHING on this stuff. The mental institutions are filled to over capacity, cops don't know what to do with them as they are too insane to be put in general pop, it is bad all the way around.
The local cops I know say they are seeing the same thing to a lesser extent with the artificial pot, where people that have smoked the real stuff and are afraid of a piss test do this artificial crap and have a horrible reaction. Many of the older local cops have taken early retirement just to get away from the mess and frankly wish they would just legalize already. One said he went from dealing with simple drunks, break ins, and domestic disputes to dealing with totally crazy people four times a week or more. If said the stress of constantly dealing with someone out of their mind was just more than he could take.
So we need to just start with pot and slowly work our way up until ALL are legal, and use the money generated from taxing it to go to treatment centers free for all that need it, along with mental health facilities for all those that need them free. Because I've seen first hand with my ex brother in law that a junkie WILL find something to use, no matter what laws you pass. Hell that man would grind up over the counter drugs and mix with ditch water and shoot it just trying to get high when nothing else was readily available.
And guess who got to pay for all the hospitalization he required from all the dirty needles and bad reactions and such? that's right YOU the tax payer got to pay for that. Make it legal, tax it, and call it a day. We tried prohibition and it just didn't work, we've blown trillions and cost millions of lives ruined or rotting in prison over the current drug war, still didn't work, it is damned past time to try a new approach. Start with pot since nearly everyone is behind that, and then work your way up. Otherwise you are just pouring money into the banks of criminals while littering your streets with the broken and insane.
Actually I'd say the problem isn't Windows, it is PEBKAC which NO OS will solve or they would have done so by now. I just got finished cleaning one of these scareware infections where the user uninstalled their working AV to install the malware. Now why would they do that you say? Simple, they saw the number of "infections" reported on the fake scareware page and decided their good AV must not be working (since it wasn't reporting the non existent viruses) and therefor " must have gone bad" like cheese in the fridge and tossed it to install the malware.
Now show me ANY OS that would protect the system from that level of stupid, I dare you. You can't because idiot proofing will always be defeated by the bigger idiot. For Linux here is a nice trick, how to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps that uses nothing but bog standard social engineering. hell it doesn't even need root to be able to do all the things your average malware writer wants to accomplish. And we know this works because they used similar methods in the KDELook attack, where thousands of KDE users were infected by fake screensavers that were actually malware. Sound familiar?
So it is real simple folks, if the user has install rights then they have the ability to screw themselves, full stop. You can try education, making them jump through hoops like UAC or root prompts, it doesn't matter. it is the classic dancing bunnies problem where if the user WANTS the malware (and that is what it all boils down to, the malware uses fear or social engineering to convince the user they want to install the malware, a classic con game) then by God they're gonna get that malware whether you like it or not!
So in the end you do what you can, make sure they have a backup solution, and be ready to clean up the messes when they happen. it reminds me of how an old Linux admin of mine ended up being threatened with firing and had to show up before the head of the regional office because the PHB over him was demanding he allow the PHB's emails from Melissa without interference. In the end there is only so much you can do, you just can't knock the stupid out of some folks.
Awww isn't that cute, Petey's little sock puppets MEK_LoveBug and the kings jokwers got mod points and you used them all up to mod me down...that's soooo cute! You realize I have more karma that God almighty, yes? or that it will never get rid of my sig which mocks your impotence every single day in every single way, yes? How it must hurt to know that every single day thousands will see that sig and find how how truly pathetic you are Petey, I find that....delightful. Now enjoy some nice copypasta, sprinkled with the broken glass that is your failure...enjoy!...
I would be happy to give you the figures, feel free to check. Comodo AV = 98% hit rate and ZERO infections, Malwarebytes? 97% and ZERO infections. Type both into Youtube and feel free to watch Petey. I have also shown repeatedly, again feel free to choose ANY figures from ANY reputable site you like, you are talking on average 180,000 PER DAY of infected websites PLUS 1.8 million current PLUS 15,000 pieces of malware PLUS anywhere from 35,000 to 50,000 websites revolving from the list. You see the difference between actual solutions and Petey's magical woobie is a little thing known as heuristics, along with a nice word known as sandboxing, neither of which his magical .txt file can do.
But if Petey wasn't completely batshit insane I wouldn't have to explain this, because this is why everyone makes fun of him. it is so obvious it is like someone arguing gravity is actually invisible pants gnomes trying to steal your underwear. It is the classic "default allow" which has NEVER EVER worked. Because if a piece of malware isn't in Petey's magical HOPES file he is royally fucked, and yet again I have shown that it is simply a roll of the dice whether he gets creamed or not, simply because he will always be behind
. So it is all on Petey and his magical HOPES woobie now. He made the extravagant claims, back them up with the math. If he can't? Well then he is full of shit, case closed. Notice how ALL PETEY CAN DO is throw insults and trollbomb? Why is that? I'll tell you why, because math doesn't lie and he just can't show the math He just can't, it would be like trying to mathematically prove PETEY is not an idiot. It just can't be done.
If that is the case then it is pretty damned sad and I think the FBI needs a good auditing to see where all the money they've been handed has gone. Because surely they have the tech to take the contents of an email, compare the text to the cypher, and ring a little bell if X number of words fit the pattern? After all isn't that how the old Bombe system worked in the 1940s?
That said I think they need to just file 13 the whole damned thing, as the likelihood of solving this with so little information to go on (no idea about content, no previous decodes to work with, etc) makes it about as solvable as the Voynich manuscript IMHO. It isn't like Enigma where they had a rough idea what the contents were (troop movements, orders, etc) because in this case it could be anything from where to meet his killer to his laundry list. The odds of solving any kind of cypher of any complexity with so little to go on would probably be pretty damned close to zilch.
Uhhh...that's why you hire someone instead of DIY? Having a website built really ain't expensive, just go to any mom and pop repair shop and ask them, they'll point you to a damned good website builder that is really affordable. I mean once upon a time anybody with a wrench could work on a car but I don't think we want to go back to having to manually set timings and deal with all the waste, do you?
Of course I used to love to see the looks on their faces when one of the many businesses around here would decide they needed a good website and would get recommended to us by all the satisfied customers because NOBODY would tell them beforehand about our in house kick ass website builder.
They'd come in with their fancy suit and ask to see the "great website designer" and I'd try not to snicker when I'd point them to the office in the corner, they would walk in and go "where is the website designer?" and the bosses 14 year old daughter would just roll her eyes and say "have a seat, I'm finishing up a client's site and be with you in a moment."
That girl was a little bit o' nothing, always popping her gum while bopping to those horrible boy bands, but with just an old 400Mhz Celeron and notepad she could whip up some damned nice business websites. That girl really knew her foo. So I'd say if the Wordpress templates don't do it for you, just throw a couple of bucks towards your local mom and pop shop. They'll give you a bad ass website custom coded that will look sharp and unique. Just don't be surprised if it is some 14 year old kid popping her gum.
Fuck it, somebody has to say it, might as well be me...FUCK THE GAS CHAMBER BULLSHIT okay? That shit happened 70 fucking years ago, it doesn't give the Jews a permanent pass on being douchebags, kay?
They walked into a place where other people already lived and said "My God (which you don't believe in) says this is my land so GTFO". If you wanted to give them something you should have gave the Austria, because taking Palestine would be like saying the blacks in America have been treated badly therefor everyone in the UK better be moving into a camp because we're giving England to the black folks.
You want to know what the fucking sad part is? Why the USA puts up with their bullshit instead of walking off and leaving them to sink or swim? ';Jesus won't come back" that's right folks, your foreign policy and thousands and thousands of lives in the balance are dictated on whether a 2500 year old prophecy about a 2000 year old dead guy can come true or not.
The hardcore right wingers truly believe if the USA doesn't pucker up and kiss Israel's butt then Jesus may not have a place to park his fluffy cloud. Sadly its true, my local college is ultra right wing conservative and gets the power mongers, heads of state and ex presidents, and frankly around their own they talk about it freely. if I hear "When the Jews return to Zion" one more damned time from someone in power I swear I'm gonna snap!
So for the rest of the world allow me to say Fuck You Israel, you have used up your gas chamber card with decades of douchebag behavior and don't get to scream antisemitic at everyone that doesn't kiss your ass or believe in your manifest destiny.
OMGWTFBBQ! Did you just compare your retard troll ass to fucking Gandhi? Are you THAT fucking mental now Petey? Hell they've already run you off of Ars, thanks to your obvious insanity and souckpuppettry (which I'm helping to point out now with my new sig) you'll soon be the laughing stock of /. so what's next? Maybe hanging with Twitter at BoycottNovell?
C'mon monkey boy, do the crazy dance for us. Your idiocy is mildly entertaining, like watching a homeless guy play in traffic. Entertain us freak, dance!
Did you hold you code up in front of a full length mirror? you know your code won't enjoy the full affirmation effect if you don't use the full length mirror. For best results hold your code in front of the FLM while wearing a soft yet tasteful blue sweater, this will make the code more secure by making it feel safe in its surroundings.
Remember anything worth doing is worth doing right, and don't let those negative comments about your code ever deter you, just march up and tell them you don't subscribe to stinkin' thinkin'.
Hi Metrix007! I hope you don't mind but I borrowed part of your sig. After being stalked by old Crazy Pete for a couple of months off and on I need a shorthand for batshit loonie, and yours works better than any I've seen yet. if you want me to change it or add credit just let me know.
As for your post I have to agree that any USian post automatically makes me think "Anti-American douchebag" and ignore anything after. And it isn't like there are other countries calling themselves Americans, so there really isn't even a point to it other than being an ass, like those grammar nazis that will nitpick every little detail even though a post is perfectly readable. Just assholes being assholes I guess.
I hope you like it Petey, I did it just for you. Now on EVERY SINGLE POST I make I can not only insult you, I can show everyone how completely batshit you are! its a two for one baby yeah!
BTW You know it is usually considered good form to at least make a sock puppet, posting AC to plug your own AC posts? Kinda sad. And for the 400th time Correlation != Causation. I can build an XP Sp2 machine with NO patches, NO AV, and change the desktop to a LOLCat. Now if I only use this machine to check my email and go to my bank I will NEVER get a bug, but I don't think it was my magical LOLCat protecting it, do you?
The simple fact is this: no matter how many times trollie says "1+1 = 3" the math simply proves you wrong and THAT is why all you can do is throw insults. You have 190,000 to 340,000 infected websites at this very moment and that list will change by the thousands per minute as sites are cleaned, new sites are infected, new vulnerabilities found, etc. Now for your HOPES file to actually be a REAL protection and not just a woobie? It will have to dynamically scale and keep up with that ever changing list of infections. Now even if you had twenty fingers and subscribed to every security list on the planet your HOPES file will ALWAYS BE OUT OF DATE and behind the curve. Always.
Now if you have a mathematical proof that shows how a static .txt file dropped into system 32 can magically scale dynamically? Lets see it. Otherwise it is NOTHING more a magical LOLCat pic backed up by anecdotes. That is the nice thing about math, it doesn't lie or believe in anecdotes.So the ball is in your court Petey, lets see the math. put up or STFU. Oh and I fart in your general direction!
ABSOLUTELY SO Drinkypoo. Since you don't seem to remember how the Win9X arch worked, let this old greybeard fill you in. At the bottom most level was DOS, which worked not only as a boot loader, but was also used for some file operations, then you had the drivers, then the VxD virtual device driver class, then the OS, and THEN the apps.
The problem, and the reason why apps such as NS 4 could BSOD the OS, was a little thing known as GDI, or graphics document interface. You see GDI on Win9X could only use a MAXIMUM of 1Mb (the old DOS limit) and anything over that? Welcome to badness as the machine choked and died, since it couldn't actually draw anymore objects and the buffers would overflow.
So I'm sorry Drinkypoo, while your posts are usually on the ball you missed the mark this case. Now on the NT arch you are talking a different ball of wax, and Windows after XP is damned near impossible to BSOD (in fact in the 4 years since Win Vista I've seen exactly ONE BSOD, and that was a customer with a dying RAM module) but when NS 4 was released the dominant OS by far was Win9X, hell most machines wouldn't even run WinNT because there weren't drivers for anything other than workstations, and Linux was like a bad joke, you needed serious hacking skills to get it to even run in those days.
So I'm sorry, but you're wrong. Hell you can see it yourself, just install Win9X (95-98 will do, WinME doesn't rely on DOS as much and thus will take a LITTLE more abuse, not much though) and fire up NS 4 and start opening pages. Use the system resource meter to watch GDI usage and you'll find on any page more complex than black text it'll slamm the shit out of GDI. Once you reach the limit it is buffer overflow and bye bye baby. This was just one of a string of problems that ultimately killed NS as a company. Myself and many other would have kept buying the product if they'd have made a usable offering, but by the time they got around to making a functional product the "designed for IE" phase was in full swing and NS was dead.
This is why I tell customers having a backup they can hold in their hands is always of the good. The data lost in TFA was less than 300Gb total, that would have been trivial to back up to a nice cheap WD Essentials while they were uploading it "just in case". this of course wouldn't let the ISP off the hook, but they wouldn't have lost an entire seasons worth of work either.
In this day and age where you can often pick up 2Tb externals for just $80 having no on premises backups to me just seems like begging for trouble. I've found most small businesses can easily back up the entire data of the business in 1Tb with space left over, and a pair of them is less than $180. Why do they even take the risk? For me these WD drives have been an easy sell, as nobody wants to think about having to try to deal with major data loss. Better safe than sorry, especially when the costs are so trivial to be safe.
And this coming from poor wittle APK, also know as "Petey, the idiot HOPES file guy"? As in you HOPES that one of the 300,000+ constantly changing array of websites that are infected doesn't happen to be the one you visit today? Or that you HOPES that nobody notices after repeatedly being asked you have FAILED to show even the tiniest shred of mathematical proof that your magical woobie can scale? That you HOPES nobody notices your only "proof" is anecdotes, often by your own sock puppets like Kingsjester?
If there is ANYONE that should be LOLing it is me, for pointing out there are still morons that believe 16Mb HOPES files can do anything but block ads since ad servers are...what do you call it...oh yeah STATIC, just like your HOPES file, but really you are just kinda pathetic. You're like the idiot that just keeps hanging onto that three years out of date copy of Norton, because he is just so damned sure it still works, only the Norton guy is actually better protected than you are, since it did used to work in the past 5 years.
So please, keep posting APK, I do so enjoy pointing out the total uber fail of your magical woobie so. I also personally consider it a public service to point people to solutions that actually work instead of relying on magical woobies and anecdotes. And of course bitch slapping your retarded ass around is also quite fun, even if it is too easy!