.... when you can identify which security software someone is running by the error code from outlook express...
Gone are the times that a majority of user problems were actually user-related...
90% of email problems I get phone calls about are cause by security software. (doing 1st line support for a major ISP)
It's a good thing that more and more people are buying Apple noawdays. Apples never have software problems, just user problems and broken hardware.
The dutch police did send about one police officer per 100 visitors to the 'What the Hack' event in Liempde.
I don't know why though... nothing bad happened at any of the previous incarnations of the event. Politicians seem to confuse hackers alot with computer criminals.
Better this than people surfing the web without a tool to warn them.
The average person does not understand the technology that supports the web, nor do they wish to. To understand how phishing works they'd need to have a grasp of several concepts such as web servers, DNS and others.
Seeing how I have to hold peoples hands while getting their computer online at work, I don't think user education is ever going to work.
Just yesterday I explained to my mother how to change the homepage on firefox. (Don't ask me how firefox got on there)
What's wrong with making Word documents DRMed to make you the documents unalienable owner?
DRM owes its existance to the need to protect intellectual property. A Word document you've written definately falls under that header.
I also see uses for this in the corporate world where the company owns whatever you make on their time.
FreeBSD comes with pre-compiled Xorg and whichever desktop environment you want (KDE and Gnome).
Also installing either from source is a piece of cake.
although I do like the rc start up scripts of Linux over FreeBSD.
Hate to be a nitpicker, but Linux doesn't have RC scripts; Linux-based OSes might.
It's one of the points that the author of the article was trying to make. FreeBSD is a complete OS, while Linux is just a kernel that some people have created an OS around.
I can agree that certain Linux distributions have better RC scripts and even a better ports system.
Overall though I much prefer FreeBSD as an OS to any Linux-based OS I have tested.
But since Maxthon and other similar programs use the IE core for rendering pages (and thus essentially _are_ IE) they are prone to the same security issues that IE is vulnerable to. Using Maxthon on top of IE5 is just as bad as using it vanilla flavored.
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.... when you can identify which security software someone is running by the error code from outlook express... Gone are the times that a majority of user problems were actually user-related... 90% of email problems I get phone calls about are cause by security software. (doing 1st line support for a major ISP) It's a good thing that more and more people are buying Apple noawdays. Apples never have software problems, just user problems and broken hardware.
how about utwente.nl? Foreign institutes of education should be allowed to register a name within the .edu TLD.
The dutch police did send about one police officer per 100 visitors to the 'What the Hack' event in Liempde. I don't know why though... nothing bad happened at any of the previous incarnations of the event. Politicians seem to confuse hackers alot with computer criminals.
Better this than people surfing the web without a tool to warn them. The average person does not understand the technology that supports the web, nor do they wish to. To understand how phishing works they'd need to have a grasp of several concepts such as web servers, DNS and others. Seeing how I have to hold peoples hands while getting their computer online at work, I don't think user education is ever going to work. Just yesterday I explained to my mother how to change the homepage on firefox. (Don't ask me how firefox got on there)
What's wrong with making Word documents DRMed to make you the documents unalienable owner? DRM owes its existance to the need to protect intellectual property. A Word document you've written definately falls under that header. I also see uses for this in the corporate world where the company owns whatever you make on their time.
FreeBSD comes with pre-compiled Xorg and whichever desktop environment you want (KDE and Gnome). Also installing either from source is a piece of cake.
Hate to be a nitpicker, but Linux doesn't have RC scripts; Linux-based OSes might.
It's one of the points that the author of the article was trying to make. FreeBSD is a complete OS, while Linux is just a kernel that some people have created an OS around.
I can agree that certain Linux distributions have better RC scripts and even a better ports system.
Overall though I much prefer FreeBSD as an OS to any Linux-based OS I have tested.
But since Maxthon and other similar programs use the IE core for rendering pages (and thus essentially _are_ IE) they are prone to the same security issues that IE is vulnerable to. Using Maxthon on top of IE5 is just as bad as using it vanilla flavored.