Proof-reading isn't magic, but trying to comprehend the beginning of that comment was...
You can have dyslexic me or you can have Trump me, choose.
You should choose Trump me because I have the best most smartest comments you have ever read - everyone says they're great because they are and you wouldn't believe the view from here because I'm rich, I'm really rich. People say mean things because they don't like that I'm rich, they wanna be rich but I'm rich, not them. Before you thank me for my great writing skills, which people do all the time - like this one time I wrote this big wonderful review on Yeppie or some whatever site and I tweeted my review and everyone knew it was so good. I know you want to read my review because it is so good it would bring tears to your eyes but my wonderful, beautiful daughter Ivanka wants to use the big boy computer so I'm off to golf. Seriously though, how beautiful is Ivanka? Those kind of sexy looks are all Trump and when you look you'll know how great she is because I made her. Now get out of the way of the tee because my famously low golfing average is so going to be so low that- wait a second here... FOOOORT! Now where was I? Oh yeah, so my daughter Ivanka...
Banks do not have to be have perfect records of make smart choices with loans, they just need to come out with a positive margin of profit. I could foresee applying for a loan online, filling out a bunch of forms and then waiting for the server to approve or deny a loan. As they get more profit this model could easily expand to serve people in more locations until they are global. Bankers aren't magic, they are just analyze data.
Why don't we just bring back slavery? It would be more honest.
This is even more insidious than slavery because they have tricked people into begging for these shitty jobs and thus working their asses off to keep the job. To make the deal even sweeter for companies, they don't have to provide housing for them and when they don't/can't work as hard as they used to, you just send them back and get another.
Never understood why, in a time of.ogg files, MP3 was always the defacto format.
It's because OGG didn't always exist dummy! By the time OGG showed up, MP3 was already everywhere. I may be showing my age but perhaps you are too young to remember the days of MP3.
But the right wing goes even further. Once they give a person heart disease or cancer from burning coal they also don't want them to have medical care. They excuse all this nonsense as a monetary issue. But nobody counts the costs associated with heart or lung cripples and the long term disabilities that eat up the national budget. One sick person can run up millions in public expenses.
That's exactly why we can't afford to have universal healthcare! We gotta drill, baby, drill and you want death panels! #Palin2012!;)
One thing N. Korea lacks is resources/money to buy stuff (from China and Russia). They are the most prolific counterfeiter of $100... and then the $100 bill was changed. It seems entirely plausible that they are trying to replace their counterfeiting with cybercrime.
Is it time to doxx everyone involved in the production and distribution of these tabloids? Alternatively, you could boycott anything printed by the same company that prints the tabloids so that they drop the tabloids as client. (printing presses are expensive)
they exist because it works, because people fall for the clickbait. Tackle the cause not the symptom.
The root cause is humanity itself. The second order cause is freedom of the press. The third order cause is a business model based on attention grabbing. The fourth order cause is people willing to do anything because they want money.
Hi, I'm Troy Hunt, I write this blog, create courses for Pluralsight and am a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP who travels the world speaking at events and training technology professionals
It's obviously in his interest to make everyone Microsoft's puppets.
This is the most idiotic statement I've ever seen him make. It is a good thing if there was little reward, and his implication that he is disappointed that they didn't get more is just mind boggling.
I agree completely! I mean, with such an awful payment interface they shouldn't be rewarded! What they should have done is made a nice form where people can type in their credit card number which then purchases and sends the bitcoin where it's needed without any additional user interaction. I'm just say, streamlined ransomware interfaces are what we really need.;)
You're masking the underlying issue with a blame game.
I responded to a post that was specifically laying blame on the NSA. I didn't start off waving a banner and cheering, "this is Microsoft's fault" but rather I was merely correcting the original post so that blame was properly credited.
Bugs, remotely exploitable critical bugs, same thing different label.
Poppycock! You may think they are the same but one is a specific subtype of the other that doesn't just happen anywhere.
Nobody can do this perfectly but Microsoft is hardly trying.
I'm not sure I agree.
Considering the first thing the new guy at MS did was cut QA, I would say he's not interested in doing things like security reviews on existing code.
let's not forget who WanaCry actually initiates an infection: phishing email.
Actually, the email part is only required for isolated LANs. Access to SMB makes it fully remotely exploitable. Really though, it's beside the point.
The only group that I would say are really categorically "not trying" are IoT device manufacturers.
I agree they have little concern for security.
It seems the past 2 years have shown us a whole world of absolutely stupid bugs from outside the core operating system world.
Actually, with IoT, it's not bugs that are the problem as much as it is bad default configurations. IoT device vendors write the absolute bare minimum amount of code that is required (usually just a handful of scripts) and just slap it on top of a Linux base. This vastly reduces the chance their code has exploitable bugs but then they put shit like telnet and have a default username and password.
As the US continues falling into a post-intellectual, foreigner-fearing state
Sweeping generalizations like this lack accuracy. There is a good possibility we can emerge from this slump with a more enlightened perspective on the world.
Honestly, I think the first really open system that isn't tied to a specific make and model will actually be for electric cars because they are significantly less complex. Tesla slapped on a lot of neat features that ups the complexity to new heights but the basic control system is very very simple.
I have a better idea, instead of blaming someone who had a bug in their code and patched that code the moment they discovered it
Why wouldn't you blame the people who wrote poorly secured code?
If we blame Microsoft then all programmers should hang because I've yet to see a bug free piece of software.
It doesn't have to be bug free, it just shouldn't have remotely exploitable bugs in critical systems. Critical systems include the kernel, startup configs/scripts and daemons/services. In this case, Microsoft failed to secure their WINS service.
That includes open source security software which we all hold near and dear to our hearts.
Absolutely, I hold the Apache devs equally responsible for their HTTPd daemon's poor security model, especially with regard to addons like PHP. Simply put, people need to validate their inputs and mitigate unexpected failure scenarios. Nobody can do this perfectly but Microsoft is hardly trying.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sure they'll be spending $20M to advertise how great they are for doing this.
Proof-reading isn't magic, but trying to comprehend the beginning of that comment was...
You can have dyslexic me or you can have Trump me, choose.
You should choose Trump me because I have the best most smartest comments you have ever read - everyone says they're great because they are and you wouldn't believe the view from here because I'm rich, I'm really rich. People say mean things because they don't like that I'm rich, they wanna be rich but I'm rich, not them. Before you thank me for my great writing skills, which people do all the time - like this one time I wrote this big wonderful review on Yeppie or some whatever site and I tweeted my review and everyone knew it was so good. I know you want to read my review because it is so good it would bring tears to your eyes but my wonderful, beautiful daughter Ivanka wants to use the big boy computer so I'm off to golf. Seriously though, how beautiful is Ivanka? Those kind of sexy looks are all Trump and when you look you'll know how great she is because I made her. Now get out of the way of the tee because my famously low golfing average is so going to be so low that- wait a second here... FOOOORT! Now where was I? Oh yeah, so my daughter Ivanka...
Banks do not have to be have perfect records of make smart choices with loans, they just need to come out with a positive margin of profit. I could foresee applying for a loan online, filling out a bunch of forms and then waiting for the server to approve or deny a loan. As they get more profit this model could easily expand to serve people in more locations until they are global. Bankers aren't magic, they are just analyze data.
Why don't we just bring back slavery? It would be more honest.
This is even more insidious than slavery because they have tricked people into begging for these shitty jobs and thus working their asses off to keep the job. To make the deal even sweeter for companies, they don't have to provide housing for them and when they don't/can't work as hard as they used to, you just send them back and get another.
Modern wage slavery is diabolical.
Never understood why, in a time of .ogg files, MP3 was always the defacto format.
It's because OGG didn't always exist dummy! By the time OGG showed up, MP3 was already everywhere. I may be showing my age but perhaps you are too young to remember the days of MP3.
But the right wing goes even further. Once they give a person heart disease or cancer from burning coal they also don't want them to have medical care. They excuse all this nonsense as a monetary issue. But nobody counts the costs associated with heart or lung cripples and the long term disabilities that eat up the national budget. One sick person can run up millions in public expenses.
That's exactly why we can't afford to have universal healthcare! We gotta drill, baby, drill and you want death panels! #Palin2012! ;)
The 230-foot rocket delivered the spacecraft larger than a double-decker bus to an orbit more than 22,000 miles over the equator.
Could someone please convert that to football fields? ;)
One thing N. Korea lacks is resources/money to buy stuff (from China and Russia). They are the most prolific counterfeiter of $100... and then the $100 bill was changed. It seems entirely plausible that they are trying to replace their counterfeiting with cybercrime.
Or hey, put the two ideas, above, together, and simply go kill them all (tabloidists) in their homes!
Whoa, dude. Killing people is way over the line.
Is it time to doxx everyone involved in the production and distribution of these tabloids?
Alternatively, you could boycott anything printed by the same company that prints the tabloids so that they drop the tabloids as client. (printing presses are expensive)
they exist because it works, because people fall for the clickbait. Tackle the cause not the symptom.
The root cause is humanity itself. The second order cause is freedom of the press. The third order cause is a business model based on attention grabbing. The fourth order cause is people willing to do anything because they want money.
Which cause should we tackle exactly?
at troyhunt.com
Hi, I'm Troy Hunt, I write this blog, create courses for Pluralsight and am a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP who travels the world speaking at events and training technology professionals
It's obviously in his interest to make everyone Microsoft's puppets.
Change the button that launches ICBMs into a button that kills the person that presses the button.
You cannot convince a fool using logic.
This is the most idiotic statement I've ever seen him make. It is a good thing if there was little reward, and his implication that he is disappointed that they didn't get more is just mind boggling.
I agree completely! I mean, with such an awful payment interface they shouldn't be rewarded! What they should have done is made a nice form where people can type in their credit card number which then purchases and sends the bitcoin where it's needed without any additional user interaction. I'm just say, streamlined ransomware interfaces are what we really need. ;)
British PM Candidate Explains, "I don't understand how the Internet works!"
There seems to be an awful lot of politicians that don't understand how powerless they are to control what happens outside of their country.
Yeah... just waiting for the next headline from "Slashdot Asks"
Slashdot Asks: Should I Saw Off An Employee's Legs To Keep Him From Leaving The Company
You're masking the underlying issue with a blame game.
I responded to a post that was specifically laying blame on the NSA. I didn't start off waving a banner and cheering, "this is Microsoft's fault" but rather I was merely correcting the original post so that blame was properly credited.
Bugs, remotely exploitable critical bugs, same thing different label.
Poppycock! You may think they are the same but one is a specific subtype of the other that doesn't just happen anywhere.
Nobody can do this perfectly but Microsoft is hardly trying.
I'm not sure I agree.
Considering the first thing the new guy at MS did was cut QA, I would say he's not interested in doing things like security reviews on existing code.
let's not forget who WanaCry actually initiates an infection: phishing email.
Actually, the email part is only required for isolated LANs. Access to SMB makes it fully remotely exploitable. Really though, it's beside the point.
The only group that I would say are really categorically "not trying" are IoT device manufacturers.
I agree they have little concern for security.
It seems the past 2 years have shown us a whole world of absolutely stupid bugs from outside the core operating system world.
Actually, with IoT, it's not bugs that are the problem as much as it is bad default configurations. IoT device vendors write the absolute bare minimum amount of code that is required (usually just a handful of scripts) and just slap it on top of a Linux base. This vastly reduces the chance their code has exploitable bugs but then they put shit like telnet and have a default username and password.
It's almost as if someone saw this coming.
When a government ignores its own laws, the law loses its authority. When the law loses its authority, lawlessness begins to emerge.
As the US continues falling into a post-intellectual, foreigner-fearing state
Sweeping generalizations like this lack accuracy. There is a good possibility we can emerge from this slump with a more enlightened perspective on the world.
Honestly, I think the first really open system that isn't tied to a specific make and model will actually be for electric cars because they are significantly less complex. Tesla slapped on a lot of neat features that ups the complexity to new heights but the basic control system is very very simple.
understand that the "side" referred to here is in context, as the correct side of the DRM issue to be on and your comment pedantry.
I was merely pointing out there there is a right and a wrong side of history. It's far less subjective than he would like it to be.
There is no right or wrong "side" of history one could be on.
That sure sounds like someone who's never read up on history... or are you arguing those in favor of slavery were not on the wrong side of history?
I have a better idea, instead of blaming someone who had a bug in their code and patched that code the moment they discovered it
Why wouldn't you blame the people who wrote poorly secured code?
If we blame Microsoft then all programmers should hang because I've yet to see a bug free piece of software.
It doesn't have to be bug free, it just shouldn't have remotely exploitable bugs in critical systems. Critical systems include the kernel, startup configs/scripts and daemons/services. In this case, Microsoft failed to secure their WINS service.
That includes open source security software which we all hold near and dear to our hearts.
Absolutely, I hold the Apache devs equally responsible for their HTTPd daemon's poor security model, especially with regard to addons like PHP. Simply put, people need to validate their inputs and mitigate unexpected failure scenarios. Nobody can do this perfectly but Microsoft is hardly trying.
You imply NSA is innocent and only Windows can be hacked.
I did not imply either of those, you inferred that using faulty logic.