As the director of MS security engineering says: 'Microsoft is a long way from its ultimate goal where users can take security for granted in its products...the majority of viruses written attack Microsoft products.'
The article says:
Mark Litchfield, a security researcher with Next Generation Security Software (NGSSoftware) of Sutton, England. Litchfield and NGSSoftware have been credited with discovering a number of bugs in Microsoft software.
[...]
However, Microsoft is a long way from its ultimate goal where users can take security for granted in its products, Litchfield said.
The quote in the summary is from Litchfield, who isn't even employed by Microsoft; much less is he the "director of MS security engineering".
Sheesh.
XP by default rejects all remote logons by users with blank passwords. So even though admin$ points to %systemroot% with r/w access for administrator, if administrator has no password, it can never be used.
Does this mean Sun has to integrate Visual Basic support into Solaris?
Government tells Microsoft not to integrate so many things with operating system. Then government tells Microsoft to please integrate their competitor's platform with their operating system. What gives?
WPA is simply not meant to stop crackers. I mean, there are all kinds of tricks out there you can pull during installation to fool the setup procedure into not installing wpa, et cetera. WPA's main target is the small business who buys one copy of Windows and installs on all 10 of their machines. Now M$ gets ten times the profit out of them. Most people who run small businesses aren't computer savvy enough to know about keygens and cracks, and they'd probably be very worried about getting caught if they used one. Microsoft probably doesn't care very much if everyone at slashdot installs windows without paying (actually, they might be happy do get most *NIX geeks to install windows).
This is why the concept of real estate has never been a good one. No one can really own land.
Land can be occupied. That's what armies are for. They occupy land that their respective countries claim and repel others who claim it.
Which bring us to the problem of the moon. Does the US own the moon, as has been suggested? My invariable answer must be no. The US neither exploiting its resources (any more than anyone else on the planet, anyway), nor occupying it.
The question is would the US attempt to defend the moon from invasion from other sovereign powers? For example, if {insert your least favorite country here - if it's the US insert your second choice} started building a colony on the moon, would the US start a war over it?
Actually, I find it more likely that the US would just send country#2 a bill. Or legislate that no one may build moon colonies. Especially if the name of the moon colony closely resembles the name of a government website.:-)
The main thing that AMD has gained out of this whole Athlon thing is respect. Real respect. Not just, "Gee, since I'm a very poor geek, I'm going to put an AMD chip in my box."
To illustrate: my college's career fair was just a few days ago. AMD was there. They have been there in the past. In the past, only die-hard computer engineering hardware geeks talked to them. This year, however, as they had Athlon processor periphenalia and even a couple actual processors (none of which they were giving away) there was a line. I'm talking about a long line. Everybody wanted to talk to teh AMD guys. I waited in it for over twenty minutes then decided that since hardware doesn't make me feel an extreme amount of joy inside I would go talk to someone else.
Bright Young Minds (at least, I think that's what we are) are taking notice of AMD and are intensely interested in being hired by them. This seems like a Good Crowd to have on your side when speculating on the future.
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XP by default rejects all remote logons by users with blank passwords. So even though admin$ points to %systemroot% with r/w access for administrator, if administrator has no password, it can never be used.
Does this mean Sun has to integrate Visual Basic support into Solaris?
Government tells Microsoft not to integrate so many things with operating system. Then government tells Microsoft to please integrate their competitor's platform with their operating system. What gives?
o wa ri ma su
do mo a ri ga to u
sa yo u na ra
I tried to post this in hiragana, but the comment system called my Japanese encoding "junk charaters".
It's easy to write haiku in kana, you just count the characters. So the middle line sticks out two characters.
But this isn't really haiku, because it's not nature themed. But I don't know any nature words, so that's hard.
The Oracle of Bacon - Find any given actor's degree of seperation from Kevin Bacon. Ties in to the imdb database.
The Center of the Hollywood Universe - Lists the 1000 best connected in hollywood.
Now, it turns out, Christopher Lee (average number 2.599102) has passed Rod Steiger (average number 2.603871).
WPA is simply not meant to stop crackers. I mean, there are all kinds of tricks out there you can pull during installation to fool the setup procedure into not installing wpa, et cetera. WPA's main target is the small business who buys one copy of Windows and installs on all 10 of their machines. Now M$ gets ten times the profit out of them. Most people who run small businesses aren't computer savvy enough to know about keygens and cracks, and they'd probably be very worried about getting caught if they used one. Microsoft probably doesn't care very much if everyone at slashdot installs windows without paying (actually, they might be happy do get most *NIX geeks to install windows).
This is why the concept of real estate has never been a good one. No one can really own land.
:-)
Land can be occupied. That's what armies are for. They occupy land that their respective countries claim and repel others who claim it.
Which bring us to the problem of the moon. Does the US own the moon, as has been suggested? My invariable answer must be no. The US neither exploiting its resources (any more than anyone else on the planet, anyway), nor occupying it.
The question is would the US attempt to defend the moon from invasion from other sovereign powers? For example, if {insert your least favorite country here - if it's the US insert your second choice} started building a colony on the moon, would the US start a war over it?
Actually, I find it more likely that the US would just send country#2 a bill. Or legislate that no one may build moon colonies. Especially if the name of the moon colony closely resembles the name of a government website.
The main thing that AMD has gained out of this whole Athlon thing is respect. Real respect. Not just, "Gee, since I'm a very poor geek, I'm going to put an AMD chip in my box."
To illustrate: my college's career fair was just a few days ago. AMD was there. They have been there in the past. In the past, only die-hard computer engineering hardware geeks talked to them. This year, however, as they had Athlon processor periphenalia and even a couple actual processors (none of which they were giving away) there was a line. I'm talking about a long line. Everybody wanted to talk to teh AMD guys. I waited in it for over twenty minutes then decided that since hardware doesn't make me feel an extreme amount of joy inside I would go talk to someone else.
Bright Young Minds (at least, I think that's what we are) are taking notice of AMD and are intensely interested in being hired by them. This seems like a Good Crowd to have on your side when speculating on the future.