I'm pretty freaking tired of all this "advice" that you need this protection for Windows machines.
Why should I have a firewall? I have a NAT router (hardware firewall) Software firewalls can provide outbound connection control. Obviously this isn't perfect but it's the best it can be really.
Why should I have antispyware? I know what I'm downloading. most of this shit is embedded in other programs, you'd never know it was there.
Why should I have antivirus? to slow down your computer of course
I run IE7 and Firefox. Although neither are perfectly secure I don't make it a habit to go to Russian warez sites. iframe ads, iframes injected by attacking the main site, site take over, etc... don't count on sites you trust being safe.
It's illegal for anyone to open mail not intended for them. The same should be done for electronic communication.
And if I hear one libertarian say we need less laws, I'll puke. It's as if they though they had a magic wand and all the troubles of the world would disappear by removing government. Unfortunately, the world hasn't worked that way since we left the caves 12,000 years ago. In fact it is already illegal to open USPS mail not intended for you. It's a federal crime. The problem is that the laws of the real world that have been in place and working for a very long time have not yet been interpreted to apply on the internet. I fail to see the difference between physical mail and electronic mail.
I don't get why China gets as many breaks as they do
Because they hold over $1.4 trillion dollars in US debt? Because they could crush our economy by unloading that paper and their dollar reserves on the open market? Because the US is still going to China to beg for handouts because we can't balance our budget? Because their population of men available for military service exceeds that of the entire United States? And possibly, because our leadership, world famous as staunch defenders of civil rights themselves, really doesn't give a shit about Chinese human rights abuses?
But what do I know? I'm just guessing here...
Ah we have yet another person who does not understand M.A.D. Mutually Assured Destruction. If China destroyed our economy, they would also be destroying their own, we are after all by far their largest market. If China stops giving us loans, we will be forced to stop spending so much, which would destroy their economy (but would only be a temporary setback for ours). If China was to militarily attack the United State and was caught doing so, the entire country would be black ash within 2 hours, unfortunately so would we.
They succeed only by giving us a free ride, their economy will have to have a fairly large middle class with significant spending power before they will be able to stop trading with the United States. Even if they were to have a large middle class with immense spending power the wealth that the United States has amassed by basically screwing the rest of the world would be far to much to resist.
This seems like entrapment to me, they are effectively soliciting child pornography. They are not allowed to solicit in prostitution stings, the john must make the solicitation.
I'm sure they get around this by claiming you must click the link, an affirmative action on your part, but wouldn't that be the same as putting up a sign advertising prostitution? (which is illegal too I might add)
The wisdom of the crowds has peaked,' says Calacanis. 'Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0--the wisdom of the crowds--and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined. That sounds an awful lot like how it all worked before... maybe because it actually WORKED before.
Javascript Crypto can actually be very useful for secure authentication over a completely untrusted channel, by completely I mean assume that the root SSL authorities are corrupt and sold their private key.
If you can do it in a limited account, and the repair function actually turns off the network, and on again, it's a dos in the making... DDoS == Distributed Denial of Service DoS == Denial of Service
The article says exactly the opposite of the summary.
Still, for all the big talk, the actual government investment is not overwhelming. The researchers estimated that the Chinese government only invested $400 million from 2002 to 2007, although that investment is expected to rise considerably.
It's abundantly clear that SCO's court case isn't going anywhere and this is a really poor investment. I agree that we should look for who is back-stoping the investment (as last time), because nobody in their right mind would make this investment expecting to make a profit. I don't think it's even worthwhile for FUD value any longer. We've essentially won this case already, there isn't really any going back.
Bruce
While it is true that it appears that the court case has essentially been settled, the investment by The Carlyle Group tells me otherwise.
The Carlyle Group is very well connected and has an absurd amount of money.
Maybe you remember from Fahrenheit 9/11 that the Carlyle Group is connected to President Bush and the Saudi Royal family.
This isn't some stupid individual throwing away $100 million, this is a successful front company that injects cash into businesses it supports for reasons that might not be financial.
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And if I hear one libertarian say we need less laws, I'll puke. It's as if they though they had a magic wand and all the troubles of the world would disappear by removing government. Unfortunately, the world hasn't worked that way since we left the caves 12,000 years ago. In fact it is already illegal to open USPS mail not intended for you. It's a federal crime. The problem is that the laws of the real world that have been in place and working for a very long time have not yet been interpreted to apply on the internet. I fail to see the difference between physical mail and electronic mail.
Because they hold over $1.4 trillion dollars in US debt? Because they could crush our economy by unloading that paper and their dollar reserves on the open market? Because the US is still going to China to beg for handouts because we can't balance our budget? Because their population of men available for military service exceeds that of the entire United States? And possibly, because our leadership, world famous as staunch defenders of civil rights themselves, really doesn't give a shit about Chinese human rights abuses?
But what do I know? I'm just guessing here...
Ah we have yet another person who does not understand M.A.D. Mutually Assured Destruction. If China destroyed our economy, they would also be destroying their own, we are after all by far their largest market. If China stops giving us loans, we will be forced to stop spending so much, which would destroy their economy (but would only be a temporary setback for ours). If China was to militarily attack the United State and was caught doing so, the entire country would be black ash within 2 hours, unfortunately so would we.They succeed only by giving us a free ride, their economy will have to have a fairly large middle class with significant spending power before they will be able to stop trading with the United States. Even if they were to have a large middle class with immense spending power the wealth that the United States has amassed by basically screwing the rest of the world would be far to much to resist.
Actually the game of Go has yet to be mastered by a computer.
Maybe next time you criticize you could get it right yourself? http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1929797920080326?sp=true
Except in some cases there is a limited amount of work. There really is only one "pie".
This seems like entrapment to me, they are effectively soliciting child pornography. They are not allowed to solicit in prostitution stings, the john must make the solicitation.
I'm sure they get around this by claiming you must click the link, an affirmative action on your part, but wouldn't that be the same as putting up a sign advertising prostitution? (which is illegal too I might add)
Peak oil is a myth.
Peak available oil is not a myth.
The oil sands of Canada contain hundreds of times the amount of liquid oil reserves in the entire world.
The problem is simply that it takes burning 1 of every 5 barrels of oil extracted for the extraction process.
So basically with peak oil we will simply increase the CO2 production of North America by 25%. (sorry rest of the world)
So the accusation that the GPL is a viral license wasn't just a bunch of bullshit?
Honestly they are just doing the same thing the rest of your company is probably doing, covering their asses.
If they install something on your computer that leads to a network intrusion and massive down time or data theft, they get shafted not you.
Firstly because San Francisco is awesome.
Secondly because SFPD would be very hesitant about helping anybody raid their offices, there would be protests, the black mask group, etc.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9062527
Javascript Crypto can actually be very useful for secure authentication over a completely untrusted channel, by completely I mean assume that the root SSL authorities are corrupt and sold their private key.
Sites that hotlink stage6.com are probably to blame here, specifically http://legalmovies.tv/
DoS == Denial of Service
Fixed that for you.
Bruce
While it is true that it appears that the court case has essentially been settled, the investment by The Carlyle Group tells me otherwise.
The Carlyle Group is very well connected and has an absurd amount of money.
Maybe you remember from Fahrenheit 9/11 that the Carlyle Group is connected to President Bush and the Saudi Royal family.
This isn't some stupid individual throwing away $100 million, this is a successful front company that injects cash into businesses it supports for reasons that might not be financial.
Mute point, most nuclear missile silos are not vulnerable to nuclear attack, much less a conventional attack.
When they stop lending us money we are never going to pay back.
Nothing to see here.
Yahoo Web Hosting is run on FreeBSD.
I seriously doubt that microsoft is going to continue that.
Regardless of the fact that you are obviously joking your point is valid.
Many peoples computers run significantly slower because malware is utilizing the majority of their system resources.
If the malware is running parallel to the users they probably won't even notice.(not that they noticed before...)
Obviously Comcast didn't get the memo.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5430343841227974645