"Because they are all so drunk they can't pick the right buttons to press. And believe me, I know"
Only because you in the UK are all on Ketamine or crack. Which is why no one ever buys drinks in clubs, which is why they turn the taps off in the club bathrooms at night, a whole room of people out of their collective trees, and none of them buying a drink.
According to this, Luxemberg and France come out ahead of Ireland, but you don't ever get comments like yours maligning their national character.
"Oh, FFS. I have Aspergers and am disorganised beyond belief to the point where I have to automate payments to take care I don't end up in arrears. I had a crap father (have, but to me he's dead), but I rank in Mensa tests in the top 1% of the country. So IQ doesn't impress me much - it's EQ"
That an interesting point, some others have suggested that Gates displays the symptoms of an Aspergers sufferer.
Of course the slideshow isn't viewable in Firefox.
It's a debatable point as to whether Gates ever actually grew up. He is famious for yelling "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard" at his underlings. It would expalin his total lack of a moral compass in his business dealings.
"Certain privacy/full session SSL email hosting services have been purchased/changed operational control by NSA and affiliates within the past few months, through private intermediary entities,"
"The attack involves patching particular Windows system files in RAM during the boot process, which explains why physical access is required, and why it doesn't work after a reboot"
'The latest version of VBootkit includes the ability to remotely control the victim's computer. In addition, the software allows an attacker to increase their user privileges to system level, the highest possible level. The software can also able remove a user's password, giving an attacker access to all of their files. Afterwards, VBootkit 2.0 restores the original password, ensuring that the attack will go undetected'
I thought BitLocker was supposed to defend against such exploits if the boot sequence was altered?
"What I find interesting is the people who are trumpeting this as a horrible security vulnerability"
Where did you read that, from a quick browse most/all of them mention physical access. Where are all these nay-sayer comments?
"are likely to be the same ones who discounted the Intel cache overflow exploit being easier to execute on Linux than other systems"
That's what's knows as a straw man argument. As in making up imagionary quotes on another thread and addressing them instead of the current subject, which is researchers demo proof-of-concept code to take control of a Windows 7 virtual machine while it was booting up.
"The significance of SMM buried rootkits is that you can remove and shred the hard drive of your compromised machine, replace it with a new one, do a fresh install, and still be compromised"
How big of a rootkit can fit in SMM memory and how does this survive a power off?
On Linux systems it is trivial for the root user to modify system MTRRs7 via the/proc/mtrr pseudo-file. Assuming your system is an Intel DQ35 board with 2GB of RAM, it is likely that the
"caching map" of your memory looks like this, e.g:
[..]
We see here the first entry (reg00) is marking the whole memory as Write-Back cacheable8. Next we see a bunch of "exceptions" -- regions of memory each marked as uncacheable. One of those regions, (reg03) corresponds to the memory where the SMM's TSEG9 segment is located. We can now simply remove this MTRR entry for TSEG, with the following shell command:
echo "disable=3" >|/proc/mtrr
[..]
Of course on different systems than Linux, e.g. Windows, one doesn't have such a convenient access to/proc/mtrr pseudo-file. This is however only a minor technicality, as one can very well modify the MTRRs mapping using the standard WRMSR instructions.
Once the TSEG's memory is marked as WB cacheable, one can do something as simple as:
You should also take a look at Pirates of Silicon Valley, for an insight into the early Microsoft / Apple relationship. I don't know how much, if any, artistic license the writer took.
"I think that MS's behavior is only seen as anti-competitive because they happen to own such a massive share of the market" anonymous astroturfer
'Microsoft's conduct over the last two decades has demonstrated Microsoft's willingness and ability to engage in unlawful conduct to protect and extend its core monopolies'
'The only real difference between Microsoft's more recent practices and its earlier ones is that, as Mr. Gates predicted, Microsoft has now changed its document retention practices'
"do not archive your mail. 30 days.. This is not something that you get to decide. This is company policy"
'Btw, I'm a Linux user.. and IMO linux has a ways to go before it's "desktop-ready"', anonymous astroturfer
Sure you are, and what can't 'Linux' do yet for the average user, email, browsing, typing and viewing videos.
"The irony that when Gates was in control, Microsoft was more aggressive on the business side, and since Ballmer took over, they've been working a lot harder on the technology side?"
'Microsoft sues TomTom over Linux and other patent claims'
'On February 27, 2008 the European Union (EU) competitions commission announced its decision to fine the Microsoft Corporation 899 million (US$1.35 billion), approximately 1/10th of the company's net yearly earnings, for failing to comply with the 2004 antitrust order'
"In the case of the fighter-jet program, the intruders were able to copy and siphon off several terabytes of data related to design and electronics systems"
And the solution is, find out who is responsible for implementing the system and then put them up against the wall and shoot them.
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Same here, where can I sign on for a service that I can watch what I want whenever I want and pay a fare price for it. Without hunting up stuff on iPlayer, Hulu, iPlayer, itvPlayer etc. One payment to the ISP and a pay-as-you-go service with micro-payments.
"What is expected of this CTO? Is he supposed to be like the Surgeon General is for healthcare, but without the nifty outfit?"
A good Surgeon General would be someone with a medical background and the ability to talk to the politicians and captains of industry. Given two equal candidates, what would be the logic in hiring the non-medical one.
Yea, lets give them the benefit of the doubt, after all in the entire history of the company they never once sabotaged the technology to shaft a competitor, especially one that relies on their technology.
"Screw Sun, cross-platform will never work. Let's move on and steal the Java language"
'Windows NT, OS/2 2.0 including a "bad app" that corrupted other applications and crashed the system'
'The demos of OS/2 were excellent, crashing the system had the intended effect -- to FUD OS/2 2.0'
"The FAMILY SAFTEY is working as it is supposed to"
Yes, it's blocking Google, the evil empire:)
"some parents wouldn't want their kids using Google that WILL RETURN DONKEY PORN VIDEOS because there is no way to intelligently filter the Google results"
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A California judge has ordered Microsoft to help a Colorado company revise its Internet greeting cards so they aren't blocked by the software giant's spam filter..
.. the company also offers free electronic greeting cards through a site that has become one of the 15 most popular on the World Wide Web, according to Media Metrix. Schutz said there were no problems with the free electronic greetings until last month, when Microsoft set up a competing service as part of its MSN.com portal
There is a big case here at the moment involving the PMs adviser in an email discussing how to smear opponents. The question no one seems to be asking is, how did the emails get leaked.
"Yeah, because obviously the answer is to have a hundred different systems with a hundred different sets of vulnerabilities. That will be much easier to keep patched"
Well, at least then things like Conficker would be stopped dead in their tracks, and a vulnerability in a particular system wouldn't lead to the kind of thing like the currrent virus/spam/phishing epidemic.
"One could argue that computing and the Internet would not be as ubiquitous as they are today without having had a defacto standard"
There is a defacto standard, it's called TCP/IP, SMTP and HTML
"There is an even stronger argument at the cost savings to businesses and governments in not having to train and retrain new employees on how to use numerous computer systems"
Invoking the ole cost of training FUD, I see
According to DELL 'the fundamental approach to the design and use of Desktop Computers
has not changed in 30 years'
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"Because they are all so drunk they can't pick the right buttons to press. And believe me, I know"
Only because you in the UK are all on Ketamine or crack. Which is why no one ever buys drinks in clubs, which is why they turn the taps off in the club bathrooms at night, a whole room of people out of their collective trees, and none of them buying a drink.
According to this, Luxemberg and France come out ahead of Ireland, but you don't ever get comments like yours maligning their national character.
"Slideshow works on Mozilla running on Solaris/Sparc - betcha that you don't have Flash installed"
Or a combination of noscript and a customized userContent.css file.
"Oh, FFS. I have Aspergers and am disorganised beyond belief to the point where I have to automate payments to take care I don't end up in arrears. I had a crap father (have, but to me he's dead), but I rank in Mensa tests in the top 1% of the country. So IQ doesn't impress me much - it's EQ"
That an interesting point, some others have suggested that Gates displays the symptoms of an Aspergers sufferer.
Of course the slideshow isn't viewable in Firefox.
It's a debatable point as to whether Gates ever actually grew up. He is famious for yelling "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard" at his underlings. It would expalin his total lack of a moral compass in his business dealings.
"Certain privacy/full session SSL email hosting services have been purchased/changed operational control by NSA and affiliates within the past few months, through private intermediary entities,"
"The attack involves patching particular Windows system files in RAM during the boot process, which explains why physical access is required, and why it doesn't work after a reboot"
'The latest version of VBootkit includes the ability to remotely control the victim's computer. In addition, the software allows an attacker to increase their user privileges to system level, the highest possible level. The software can also able remove a user's password, giving an attacker access to all of their files. Afterwards, VBootkit 2.0 restores the original password, ensuring that the attack will go undetected'
I thought BitLocker was supposed to defend against such exploits if the boot sequence was altered?
"What I find interesting is the people who are trumpeting this as a horrible security vulnerability"
Where did you read that, from a quick browse most/all of them mention physical access. Where are all these nay-sayer comments?
"are likely to be the same ones who discounted the Intel cache overflow exploit being easier to execute on Linux than other systems"
That's what's knows as a straw man argument. As in making up imagionary quotes on another thread and addressing them instead of the current subject, which is researchers demo proof-of-concept code to take control of a Windows 7 virtual machine while it was booting up.
"The significance of SMM buried rootkits is that you can remove and shred the hard drive of your compromised machine, replace it with a new one, do a fresh install, and still be compromised"
How big of a rootkit can fit in SMM memory and how does this survive a power off?
On Linux systems it is trivial for the root user to modify system MTRRs7 via the /proc/mtrr pseudo-file. Assuming your system is an Intel DQ35 board with 2GB of RAM, it is likely that the
"caching map" of your memory looks like this, e.g:
/proc/mtrr
/proc/mtrr pseudo-file. This is however only a minor technicality, as one can very well modify the MTRRs mapping using the standard WRMSR instructions.
// generate SMI
[..]
We see here the first entry (reg00) is marking the whole memory as Write-Back cacheable8. Next we see a bunch of "exceptions" -- regions of memory each marked as uncacheable. One of those regions, (reg03) corresponds to the memory where the SMM's TSEG9 segment is located. We can now simply remove this MTRR entry for TSEG, with the following shell command:
echo "disable=3" >|
[..]
Of course on different systems than Linux, e.g. Windows, one doesn't have such a convenient access to
Once the TSEG's memory is marked as WB cacheable, one can do something as simple as:
*(ptr) = evil_data;
outb 0x00, 0xb2
You should also take a look at Pirates of Silicon Valley, for an insight into the early Microsoft / Apple relationship. I don't know how much, if any, artistic license the writer took.
"I think that MS's behavior is only seen as anti-competitive because they happen to own such a massive share of the market" anonymous astroturfer
.. This is not something that you get to decide. This is company policy"
.. and IMO linux has a ways to go before it's "desktop-ready"', anonymous astroturfer
'Microsoft's conduct over the last two decades has demonstrated Microsoft's willingness and ability to engage in unlawful conduct to protect and extend its core monopolies'
'The only real difference between Microsoft's more recent practices and its earlier ones is that, as Mr. Gates predicted, Microsoft has now changed its document retention practices'
"do not archive your mail. 30 days
'Btw, I'm a Linux user
Sure you are, and what can't 'Linux' do yet for the average user, email, browsing, typing and viewing videos.
"The irony that when Gates was in control, Microsoft was more aggressive on the business side, and since Ballmer took over, they've been working a lot harder on the technology side?"
'Microsoft sues TomTom over Linux and other patent claims'
'On February 27, 2008 the European Union (EU) competitions commission announced its decision to fine the Microsoft Corporation 899 million (US$1.35 billion), approximately 1/10th of the company's net yearly earnings, for failing to comply with the 2004 antitrust order'
"In the case of the fighter-jet program, the intruders were able to copy and siphon off several terabytes of data related to design and electronics systems"
And the solution is, find out who is responsible for implementing the system and then put them up against the wall and shoot them.
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sig:
Jesus H. tap dancing Christ on roller skates, who is their right mind puts a secret fighter project on the Internet
Just goes to show that you shouldn't try your hand at being a career criminal, armed with nothing more than a MSP credential.
Same here, where can I sign on for a service that I can watch what I want whenever I want and pay a fare price for it. Without hunting up stuff on iPlayer, Hulu, iPlayer, itvPlayer etc. One payment to the ISP and a pay-as-you-go service with micro-payments.
"What is expected of this CTO? Is he supposed to be like the Surgeon General is for healthcare, but without the nifty outfit?"
A good Surgeon General would be someone with a medical background and the ability to talk to the politicians and captains of industry. Given two equal candidates, what would be the logic in hiring the non-medical one.
"That describes in a nutshell why OS/2 never caught on big"
Yea, OS/2 Warp never came near to matching Windows 95 in GUI functionality.
"There are lots of Operating Systems involved. They just happen to originate from the same place"
What Operating System does the extended botnet run on that is used to hose the Internet with spam?
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I can't refute the top post so I'll just get my sock.Puppet accounts to mod it FUNNY
"It probably wasn't intentional, most likely.."
Yea, lets give them the benefit of the doubt, after all in the entire history of the company they never once sabotaged the technology to shaft a competitor, especially one that relies on their technology.
"Screw Sun, cross-platform will never work. Let's move on and steal the Java language"
'Windows NT, OS/2 2.0 including a "bad app" that corrupted other applications and crashed the system'
'The demos of OS/2 were excellent, crashing the system had the intended effect -- to FUD OS/2 2.0'
"The FAMILY SAFTEY is working as it is supposed to"
:)
Yes, it's blocking Google, the evil empire
"some parents wouldn't want their kids using Google that WILL RETURN DONKEY PORN VIDEOS because there is no way to intelligently filter the Google results"
--
X-Astroturfing-Status: YES
X-Astroturfing-Level: 5
Key-words: donkey goat porn, donkey porn, features, integrated, live family safety features, open search engine, open standards, standard, web standard
A California judge has ordered Microsoft to help a Colorado company revise its Internet greeting cards so they aren't blocked by the software giant's spam filter ..
.. the company also offers free electronic greeting cards through a site that has become one of the 15 most popular on the World Wide Web, according to Media Metrix. Schutz said there were no problems with the free electronic greetings until last month, when Microsoft set up a competing service as part of its MSN.com portal
What Operating Systems did this malicious code run on?
There is a big case here at the moment involving the PMs adviser in an email discussing how to smear opponents. The question no one seems to be asking is, how did the emails get leaked.
"Yeah, because obviously the answer is to have a hundred different systems with a hundred different sets of vulnerabilities. That will be much easier to keep patched"
Well, at least then things like Conficker would be stopped dead in their tracks, and a vulnerability in a particular system wouldn't lead to the kind of thing like the currrent virus/spam/phishing epidemic.
"One could argue that computing and the Internet would not be as ubiquitous as they are today without having had a defacto standard"
There is a defacto standard, it's called TCP/IP, SMTP and HTML
"There is an even stronger argument at the cost savings to businesses and governments in not having to train and retrain new employees on how to use numerous computer systems"
Invoking the ole cost of training FUD, I see
According to DELL 'the fundamental approach to the design and use of Desktop Computers has not changed in 30 years'