I don't own a ps3 either. But that wont stop sony from getting a subpoena and having the cops kick down my door looking for it, with no investigation first.
The cops didn't bust down geohot's door, let alone anybody else's. All these actions have been through court orders and not carried out by police. No need to make shit up.
Just out of curiousity, do you actually use the minimize icon?
Yes, I use the minimize icon. It's natural to me to use the mouse. It's not that I can't or don't use keyboard shortcuts, it's just sometimes it feels more natural to use the mouse. I really don't see the positive in taking it away for people that are comfortable using it.
Second, why do you use minimize?
As you mentioned in your earlier post, to get rid of clutter when I don't need a window. And not to rehash things, but I don't like using workspaces for that.
Why minimize something (except to look at the pretty graphics) when you can more quickly alt-tab it away? If it's a problem because you have multiple windows occupying the screen, learn how to organize your information into desktops.
I've been exposed to workspaces for over 10 years, have given them a shot, and never liked them. I like minimize. It works for me. Do what works for you, and let others use what works for them. There's no need to be insulting about UI preferences.
So are driveby infections because people still use IE6.
IE6 still gets security updates, and will as long as XP does, which isn't until 2014. Also, browsers like Firefox also have had drive-by bugs. So, like all browsers, users need to stay on top of security updates.
I really don't get this, GeekBench has been around - on all three major platforms for several years... It has a results browser too - http://browse.geekbench.ca/
Yeah, but it's got a Canadian domain. Who wants to go to a ca site? Mostly joking, but you know there's some truth to this, stupid as it may be.
Turns out not hard at all. Foxconn = 400,000 employees, with 12 suicide attempts. US suicide rate is 11 per 100,000.
You should be more careful. The New York Times article you quoted was published in June. It remarked on the first suicide in January, and said since then there had been 12 other suicides or suicide attempts. So that's 13 total for half the year.
I'd also be really curious as to how many were deaths vs attempts. The US rate of 11 is for deaths, so more information is needed to compare the two rates.
Advertisers will go to where the biggest return is. and if 90% of the public is searching on google, it makes sense to advertise there. Google isn't making people advertise with them. No one is forced to do business with Google.
And nobody was forced to use Microsoft. You could always use Linux or a Mac. Some places would even install Linux for you. Telling advertisers that they could just ignore a company with 90% of the market is similar to telling people they could ignore Microsoft. Yeah, you could do it, but it isn't easy and would probably cost you in opportunities.
Even when Microsoft was at the top of it's position in the 90s, it didn't have exclusive control. You could always get a Mac or use Linux.
If I decide I'm tired of Google, I can at no cost and with no limitations switch to yahoo, or Bing or one of the other engines out there. There is no cost to the customer, there are no restrictions in choosing to use other options that are equally free.
As has been pointed out on Slashdot before, you aren't the customer. You are what is being sold to advertisers. The advertisers are the Google's customers, and from their point of view, if they want to pay for search engine advertisements, Google is the monopoly equivalent of Microsoft.
I was actually shocked when I read the headline. I knew Google was popular, but the number two position is only at 4%? Wow.
One of the better kept secrets of physics over the years, sort of -- that there are two theories (SM and relativity) that prove out to the nth decimal in their own domains, but can't be used together at all.
Considering that this the fundamental problem in physics (or at least was before dark energy and dark matter), and has been much talked about in regards to a "Theory of Everything" and string theory in popularizations by Hawking or Greene, and televised on shows like Nova, I don't agree that it is in any way some kind of "kept secret".
If the average layman doesn't know about this, it's probably due to poor education or lack of interest. There's been plenty of publicity about it.
It doesn't always work to mention how they will be modded down, I've seen it happen.
Not always, but more often that not.
The entire modding system is horribly broken with it just being handed out at more or less random so then people will try to use them to censor anything they don't approve of or to use them against others they've come to dislike.
It could be better, and it's really bad on topics like global warming or file sharing, but it still does a reasonable job to keep the site readable. Certainly better than sites like Reddit, where everybody has a vote for each post.
My sole beef is with the description of the social engineering portion of the attack as "sophisticated", when it was anything BUT.
Yet you listed all the steps in the attack, concluding with "Your basic molotov cocktail of fail." So you can hardly claim you didn't go beyond just the social engineering aspect.
Also, it's unfair to look at the social engineering step in isolation. What made it sophisticated was the series of hacks surrounding it, lending it legitimacy and potency. An unsophisticated and routine attack would be calling up and posing as some random 3rd party. Hacking into a high-value target's email account and mining it to make an extremely convincing impersonation is sophisticated social engineering.
I think this is just typical geek "yeah, that's easy, anybody could have done that" mentality.
Sometimes its just better to post the truth in something like this as an AC. If you don't, you'll be modded into the ground.
This is a pet peeve of mine. First off, who cares if you make the occasional post that gets modded down? Once you get enough positive karma it doesn't matter at all, and it just isn't hard to do that.
The other pet peeve is when people mention how they are going to get modded down, and then, presto, the upmods follow. Stupid Slashdot trick.
I don't know if I've used the true "Model M", but I probably have at one point. I remember beastly clicking sounds on my roomie's IBM PC when I was in college.
I've always liked the rubber squishies. Light to the touch and don't make a ton of noise.
Oh for fuck's sake, give them some credit. Your random script kiddie never would have managed what they pulled off.
What's cool about their hack is they strung together a series of weaknesses in a short amount of time, including writing some very convincing and urgent emails from "the boss" asking for an obscure and temporary hole.
I'm willing to bet a lot of admins would have accommodated this kind of request. Is it easy to crucify the admin after the fact? Yeah. In the real world, do people break security rules all the time for expediency? You bet, especially if the risk seems low.
Sorry about transposing the 4 from G4 onto the year. I'd still question just how useful it is for an everyday computer. By the way, the last security update for 10.4, according to this page anyways, was in 2009.
My PCs have always lasted me several years, except for one bad motherboard during the bad cap era (and cheaply fixed with a new motherboard). I would commonly upgrade RAM before buying a new PC.
As for PCI, it's fine if you aren't doing any gaming, and if it was a concern to you, it's the kind of thing you could pay a bit more for instead of going for rock-bottom prices. Even Macs come at different price points. You have to buy what you need.
As for bundled crapware, delete it, or pay a bit more and go with a vendor who doesn't install it.
The idea that you need to replace your PC every 18-24 months is just completely ludicrous. If that's the route you choose, then fine, but don't blame PCs.
Can't say I understand the need to understand replace a PC every 18-24 months. Those days have been gone for almost 10 years now. I'm still running a PC with XP on it from 2002. It's a bit sluggish, but not too bad.
And a computer from 1994 as an everyday computer? Come on. Does a modern version of Safari even run on it?
And what made your wife's PC "useless" from 2005 to 2007??
:) Just a sign of diminishing returns, and evidence against Kurzweil's beloved singularity resulting from unending exponential progress. We saw CPU clock speeds hit a brick wall in the early 2000s, and we've seen graphic cards with less and less improvement over each generation.
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I don't own a ps3 either. But that wont stop sony from getting a subpoena and having the cops kick down my door looking for it, with no investigation first.
The cops didn't bust down geohot's door, let alone anybody else's. All these actions have been through court orders and not carried out by police. No need to make shit up.
Just out of curiousity, do you actually use the minimize icon?
Yes, I use the minimize icon. It's natural to me to use the mouse. It's not that I can't or don't use keyboard shortcuts, it's just sometimes it feels more natural to use the mouse. I really don't see the positive in taking it away for people that are comfortable using it.
Second, why do you use minimize?
As you mentioned in your earlier post, to get rid of clutter when I don't need a window. And not to rehash things, but I don't like using workspaces for that.
Why minimize something (except to look at the pretty graphics) when you can more quickly alt-tab it away? If it's a problem because you have multiple windows occupying the screen, learn how to organize your information into desktops.
I've been exposed to workspaces for over 10 years, have given them a shot, and never liked them. I like minimize. It works for me. Do what works for you, and let others use what works for them. There's no need to be insulting about UI preferences.
So are driveby infections because people still use IE6.
IE6 still gets security updates, and will as long as XP does, which isn't until 2014. Also, browsers like Firefox also have had drive-by bugs. So, like all browsers, users need to stay on top of security updates.
I really don't get this, GeekBench has been around - on all three major platforms for several years...
It has a results browser too - http://browse.geekbench.ca/
Yeah, but it's got a Canadian domain. Who wants to go to a ca site? Mostly joking, but you know there's some truth to this, stupid as it may be.
Story over, thread over.
Fuck off.
Protip: photos of you in tie-dye and sandals do not inspire confidence in your professionalism.
Another pro-tip: If you're fat and ugly, being anonymous on the Web is an advantage.
Turns out not hard at all. Foxconn = 400,000 employees, with 12 suicide attempts. US suicide rate is 11 per 100,000.
You should be more careful. The New York Times article you quoted was published in June. It remarked on the first suicide in January, and said since then there had been 12 other suicides or suicide attempts. So that's 13 total for half the year.
I'd also be really curious as to how many were deaths vs attempts. The US rate of 11 is for deaths, so more information is needed to compare the two rates.
And feel free to keep making empty responses.
I dont understand what the solution is.
I think you mean problem.
Advertisers will go to where the biggest return is. and if 90% of the public is searching on google, it makes sense to advertise there. Google isn't making people advertise with them. No one is forced to do business with Google.
And nobody was forced to use Microsoft. You could always use Linux or a Mac. Some places would even install Linux for you. Telling advertisers that they could just ignore a company with 90% of the market is similar to telling people they could ignore Microsoft. Yeah, you could do it, but it isn't easy and would probably cost you in opportunities.
Even when Microsoft was at the top of it's position in the 90s, it didn't have exclusive control. You could always get a Mac or use Linux.
If I decide I'm tired of Google, I can at no cost and with no limitations switch to yahoo, or Bing or one of the other engines out there. There is no cost to the customer, there are no restrictions in choosing to use other options that are equally free.
As has been pointed out on Slashdot before, you aren't the customer. You are what is being sold to advertisers. The advertisers are the Google's customers, and from their point of view, if they want to pay for search engine advertisements, Google is the monopoly equivalent of Microsoft.
I was actually shocked when I read the headline. I knew Google was popular, but the number two position is only at 4%? Wow.
One of the better kept secrets of physics over the years, sort of -- that there are two theories (SM and relativity) that prove out to the nth decimal in their own domains, but can't be used together at all.
Considering that this the fundamental problem in physics (or at least was before dark energy and dark matter), and has been much talked about in regards to a "Theory of Everything" and string theory in popularizations by Hawking or Greene, and televised on shows like Nova, I don't agree that it is in any way some kind of "kept secret".
If the average layman doesn't know about this, it's probably due to poor education or lack of interest. There's been plenty of publicity about it.
It doesn't always work to mention how they will be modded down, I've seen it happen.
Not always, but more often that not.
The entire modding system is horribly broken with it just being handed out at more or less random so then people will try to use them to censor anything they don't approve of or to use them against others they've come to dislike.
It could be better, and it's really bad on topics like global warming or file sharing, but it still does a reasonable job to keep the site readable. Certainly better than sites like Reddit, where everybody has a vote for each post.
My sole beef is with the description of the social engineering portion of the attack as "sophisticated", when it was anything BUT.
Yet you listed all the steps in the attack, concluding with "Your basic molotov cocktail of fail." So you can hardly claim you didn't go beyond just the social engineering aspect.
Also, it's unfair to look at the social engineering step in isolation. What made it sophisticated was the series of hacks surrounding it, lending it legitimacy and potency. An unsophisticated and routine attack would be calling up and posing as some random 3rd party. Hacking into a high-value target's email account and mining it to make an extremely convincing impersonation is sophisticated social engineering.
I think this is just typical geek "yeah, that's easy, anybody could have done that" mentality.
Sometimes its just better to post the truth in something like this as an AC. If you don't, you'll be modded into the ground.
This is a pet peeve of mine. First off, who cares if you make the occasional post that gets modded down? Once you get enough positive karma it doesn't matter at all, and it just isn't hard to do that.
The other pet peeve is when people mention how they are going to get modded down, and then, presto, the upmods follow. Stupid Slashdot trick.
I don't know if I've used the true "Model M", but I probably have at one point. I remember beastly clicking sounds on my roomie's IBM PC when I was in college.
I've always liked the rubber squishies. Light to the touch and don't make a ton of noise.
You're over-thinking it. This isn't Hollywood. Security contractor pokes Anon, Anon pokes back. Pretty simple.
Oh for fuck's sake, give them some credit. Your random script kiddie never would have managed what they pulled off.
What's cool about their hack is they strung together a series of weaknesses in a short amount of time, including writing some very convincing and urgent emails from "the boss" asking for an obscure and temporary hole.
I'm willing to bet a lot of admins would have accommodated this kind of request. Is it easy to crucify the admin after the fact? Yeah. In the real world, do people break security rules all the time for expediency? You bet, especially if the risk seems low.
Sorry about transposing the 4 from G4 onto the year. I'd still question just how useful it is for an everyday computer. By the way, the last security update for 10.4, according to this page anyways, was in 2009.
My PCs have always lasted me several years, except for one bad motherboard during the bad cap era (and cheaply fixed with a new motherboard). I would commonly upgrade RAM before buying a new PC.
As for PCI, it's fine if you aren't doing any gaming, and if it was a concern to you, it's the kind of thing you could pay a bit more for instead of going for rock-bottom prices. Even Macs come at different price points. You have to buy what you need.
As for bundled crapware, delete it, or pay a bit more and go with a vendor who doesn't install it.
The idea that you need to replace your PC every 18-24 months is just completely ludicrous. If that's the route you choose, then fine, but don't blame PCs.
Who sucks more, the person who wrote it, or that fucking retard cmdrtaco for not taking the time to read and/or edit the post before submission?
Give him a break. I'm sure he's just a n00b editor.
Nice troll account. Hopefully one day you can leave your mom's basement.
Can't say I understand the need to understand replace a PC every 18-24 months. Those days have been gone for almost 10 years now. I'm still running a PC with XP on it from 2002. It's a bit sluggish, but not too bad.
And a computer from 1994 as an everyday computer? Come on. Does a modern version of Safari even run on it?
And what made your wife's PC "useless" from 2005 to 2007??
2-3 simple steps are too much of a hassle to most geeks??
Yes, messing with router settings and worrying about securing a service I don't need and will hardly ever use is a hassle.
If you can't ssh into your home computer, please turn in your geek card. Thank you.
I'm willing to bet most geeks haven't set up their computers for remote ssh access. Yeah, I could do it, no, it isn't worth the hassle.
:) Just a sign of diminishing returns, and evidence against Kurzweil's beloved singularity resulting from unending exponential progress. We saw CPU clock speeds hit a brick wall in the early 2000s, and we've seen graphic cards with less and less improvement over each generation.