I don't know where this idea that keyloggers are off-limits and unfair comes from.
Keyloggers are a real risk to security, and it's just as important to make sure your systems are resistant to keyloggers as it is to make sure they're resistant to XSS attacks.
As a sysadmin, it's just as important to find flaws in your physical security as it is to find flaws in your virtual security. The sysadmins need to work on locking down their computers as well as their procedures.
If this kid managed to install key loggers and magnetic stripe readers, then somebody else will be able to do it as well. Unfortunately, the next dozen times this happens the hackers are just going to abuse the flaw instead of telling anybody about it.
Actually, one of the common complaints of SSDs is that their power consumption is relatively constant. Unlike hard drives, their power consumption isn't reduced when the drive is idle.
Mind you, I haven't read the article (obviously!) so I don't know if there's anything different about this SSD.
I know you're trying to be funny, and you succeeded earlier in the thread with your "THREE TIMES" comment, which had me laughing for a good minute, but...
...nothing the GP said implied that the evidence was conclusive.
Something need not be fun to be entertaining. Many would argue that if videogames are to be taken seriously as an art-form, they need not be fun at all. After all, Schindler's List is not a very fun film.
AC: Ever worked a day in your life? I mean the hard kind of work that'll make you sweat during the day and blow black shit out of your nose and lungs at night? (or worse/similar) I doubt it.
The very fact that you're blowing black shit out of your nose and lungs should be enough to prompt a change in workplace regulations. It shouldn't matter if the black shit is a carcinogen.
Warnings are also being increasingly applied to trivial things; so much so that we can no longer trust them. A warning on medication that reads "Do not use beyond expiry date" could mean anything from "It may be less effective than usual" to "Your life will be in jeopardy." Let's say I have a friend in anaphylactic shock and I have an expired epipen. Will I do more good or harm if I use it? I don't know!
Same goes with these warnings. We have absolutely no indication of who should and shouldn't be concerned that the sand is a carcinogen. It would be nice if these warnings were qualified better so we could make actual, informed decisions.
It's not really a security concern. After all, if NoScript wanted to compromise your machine, they wouldn't have to do anything as exotic as inserting a browser exploit on their webpage. You already willingly installed their program on your machine!
I've never used NoScript, but some plugins have an option to turn off going to the release notes after an update. If NoScript doesn't have that option, you should badger them about it.
I'm sorry you were so greatly inconvenienced by having to scroll 200 pixels past a story you're not interested in. No, really, I am. I'm crying on the inside.
Well, the 386 (first 32-bit x86) came out 22 years ago, so any patents it required would have expired at least two years ago. But who knows what kinds of patents are out there that are required for the Pentium architecture, MMX, 3DNow, SSE, x64, modern socket designs, etc?
The problem with the word "American" is that, technically speaking, Canadians, Mexicans, Cubans, and South Americans are all "American". The GP is clearly trying to be more specific. (Although, "Usonian" seems to be a less awkward alternative.)
English isn't your first language, so I'll cut you some slack here. The part of my comment that you responded to was a tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I didn't completely understand what you were saying. If I was really ignoring your ideas, I wouldn't have posted the second and third paragraphs.
Instead of going on a tirade, you could have just corrected me on anything I misunderstood in your post.
The goal of Wine is a full reimplementation of the Windows API which will make Windows unnecessary.
Emphasis mine.
Wine comes with a full set of headers and libraries which make it possible for a programmer to view the Win32 API as a spec and recompile it with the Wine implementation.
However, Wine also comes with a program that loads native Win32.exe files and tricks them into thinking that they're running on a bona-fide Win32 OS. This is how most end-users experience Wine, and it's hard to argue that's not an emulator.
WINE should really stand for "Wine Is Not just an Emulator" or maybe "Wine Is Not a hardware Emulator".
Grammar doesn't seem to be your friend, so I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic. But somehow you got a +5 Interesting, so I feel compelled to reply.
It took two years without interim updates for the ARB to release OpenGL 3, which didn't end up being the rewrite we were promised. This is all after OpenGL 2 was released and also wasn't the rewrite we were promised.
So far, the ARB doesn't have a very good track record of revising their specs to make developers happy. Maybe they'll try again and we'll have another update in another two years, but generally speaking, something two years old isn't usually considered "cutting edge".
That's right, WINE is not an emulator. It just, uh, "approximates" the Win32 libs.
"Approximates?" No, that's not right. Simulates? Imitates? Hmm... if only there was a word for something that attempts to perform a task in an identical way to something else.
I used to be a hard-core trackball enthusiast. I used them for years and years, and I've had an exotic collection of trackballs (my favourite was the Logitech Trackman Marble FX Wireless). But then I went to college, and all the labs had mice. Since I spent so many hours in the labs, my trackballs at home began to feel increasingly alien. I switched to mice, and haven't seen a reason to go back.
Back in the day, a couple things I liked about trackballs were that you didn't have a cord pulling your mouse in awkward ways and that they took far less time to clean, but now we have wireless mice (preferably with hot-swappable battery packs!) and, unlike modern trackballs, modern mice don't have to be cleaned at all!
As I made the change to mice, I also found myself getting better at FPS games. I found that trackballs made it easier to move quickly and accurately in a certain direction, but mice make it easier to move quickly and accurately to a certain position (in other words, relative movement vs absolute movement). Since FPS games are basically just glorified versions of Whack-A-Mole, quick absolute movement is, I find, more useful. But I wouldn't have said that when my muscle memory was more familiar with trackballs >:)
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I don't know where this idea that keyloggers are off-limits and unfair comes from.
Keyloggers are a real risk to security, and it's just as important to make sure your systems are resistant to keyloggers as it is to make sure they're resistant to XSS attacks.
As a sysadmin, it's just as important to find flaws in your physical security as it is to find flaws in your virtual security. The sysadmins need to work on locking down their computers as well as their procedures.
If this kid managed to install key loggers and magnetic stripe readers, then somebody else will be able to do it as well. Unfortunately, the next dozen times this happens the hackers are just going to abuse the flaw instead of telling anybody about it.
If you know that a system has been under control of an unauthorised person
The alternative is having your system under control of an unauthorized person and not knowing.
Which causes more damage?
That's pretty funny; the nightlies of Firefox display a giant warning when you try to go to that site, because it has a self-signed certificate!
Here's a different link that won't force you to add an exception to your browser.
You can compare classic games to chess, because they're pure gameplay.
Many modern games are more about story-telling, so a comparison to Citizen Kane would make more sense.
Actually, one of the common complaints of SSDs is that their power consumption is relatively constant. Unlike hard drives, their power consumption isn't reduced when the drive is idle.
Mind you, I haven't read the article (obviously!) so I don't know if there's anything different about this SSD.
I know you're trying to be funny, and you succeeded earlier in the thread with your "THREE TIMES" comment, which had me laughing for a good minute, but...
Wait... what? You're saying these emails weren't sent by George?
Hmm... is there a rare form of dyslexia where you rotate a letter upside down and move it a couple positions to the left?
My first guess was that he was thinking about slashing.
Something need not be fun to be entertaining. Many would argue that if videogames are to be taken seriously as an art-form, they need not be fun at all. After all, Schindler's List is not a very fun film.
Blame Nietzsche. It's a reference to his book Human, All Too Human.
AC: Ever worked a day in your life? I mean the hard kind of work that'll make you sweat during the day and blow black shit out of your nose and lungs at night? (or worse/similar) I doubt it.
The very fact that you're blowing black shit out of your nose and lungs should be enough to prompt a change in workplace regulations. It shouldn't matter if the black shit is a carcinogen.
Warnings are also being increasingly applied to trivial things; so much so that we can no longer trust them. A warning on medication that reads "Do not use beyond expiry date" could mean anything from "It may be less effective than usual" to "Your life will be in jeopardy." Let's say I have a friend in anaphylactic shock and I have an expired epipen. Will I do more good or harm if I use it? I don't know!
Same goes with these warnings. We have absolutely no indication of who should and shouldn't be concerned that the sand is a carcinogen. It would be nice if these warnings were qualified better so we could make actual, informed decisions.
It's not really a security concern. After all, if NoScript wanted to compromise your machine, they wouldn't have to do anything as exotic as inserting a browser exploit on their webpage. You already willingly installed their program on your machine!
I've never used NoScript, but some plugins have an option to turn off going to the release notes after an update. If NoScript doesn't have that option, you should badger them about it.
I'm sorry you were so greatly inconvenienced by having to scroll 200 pixels past a story you're not interested in. No, really, I am. I'm crying on the inside.
Well, the 386 (first 32-bit x86) came out 22 years ago, so any patents it required would have expired at least two years ago. But who knows what kinds of patents are out there that are required for the Pentium architecture, MMX, 3DNow, SSE, x64, modern socket designs, etc?
That's your view from within the US, but across the pond they tend to refer to everybody on this continent as American.
The problem with the word "American" is that, technically speaking, Canadians, Mexicans, Cubans, and South Americans are all "American". The GP is clearly trying to be more specific. (Although, "Usonian" seems to be a less awkward alternative.)
English isn't your first language, so I'll cut you some slack here. The part of my comment that you responded to was a tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I didn't completely understand what you were saying. If I was really ignoring your ideas, I wouldn't have posted the second and third paragraphs.
Instead of going on a tirade, you could have just corrected me on anything I misunderstood in your post.
The goal of Wine is a full reimplementation of the Windows API which will make Windows unnecessary.
Emphasis mine.
Wine comes with a full set of headers and libraries which make it possible for a programmer to view the Win32 API as a spec and recompile it with the Wine implementation.
However, Wine also comes with a program that loads native Win32 .exe files and tricks them into thinking that they're running on a bona-fide Win32 OS. This is how most end-users experience Wine, and it's hard to argue that's not an emulator.
WINE should really stand for "Wine Is Not just an Emulator" or maybe "Wine Is Not a hardware Emulator".
Grammar doesn't seem to be your friend, so I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic. But somehow you got a +5 Interesting, so I feel compelled to reply.
It took two years without interim updates for the ARB to release OpenGL 3, which didn't end up being the rewrite we were promised. This is all after OpenGL 2 was released and also wasn't the rewrite we were promised.
So far, the ARB doesn't have a very good track record of revising their specs to make developers happy. Maybe they'll try again and we'll have another update in another two years, but generally speaking, something two years old isn't usually considered "cutting edge".
Why ask Carmack? He'll do whatever Nintendo tells him to do.
Yeah, that's pretty obvious by the glut of Id games on the Wii.
OpenGL's grave will likely be right next to Unix, X, vi and C (ie. no time soon).
Yep, just like Unix, X, vi, and C, OpenGL will drop from its high mantle as the solution and be relegated to about 5% of the market share.
I'm pretty crestfallen about this news.
That's right, WINE is not an emulator. It just, uh, "approximates" the Win32 libs.
"Approximates?" No, that's not right. Simulates? Imitates? Hmm... if only there was a word for something that attempts to perform a task in an identical way to something else.
This makes it great when you have to trace around something when editing a picture.
People still do that manually?
People usually do it using tablets, actually >:)
I used to be a hard-core trackball enthusiast. I used them for years and years, and I've had an exotic collection of trackballs (my favourite was the Logitech Trackman Marble FX Wireless). But then I went to college, and all the labs had mice. Since I spent so many hours in the labs, my trackballs at home began to feel increasingly alien. I switched to mice, and haven't seen a reason to go back.
Back in the day, a couple things I liked about trackballs were that you didn't have a cord pulling your mouse in awkward ways and that they took far less time to clean, but now we have wireless mice (preferably with hot-swappable battery packs!) and, unlike modern trackballs, modern mice don't have to be cleaned at all!
As I made the change to mice, I also found myself getting better at FPS games. I found that trackballs made it easier to move quickly and accurately in a certain direction, but mice make it easier to move quickly and accurately to a certain position (in other words, relative movement vs absolute movement). Since FPS games are basically just glorified versions of Whack-A-Mole, quick absolute movement is, I find, more useful. But I wouldn't have said that when my muscle memory was more familiar with trackballs >:)