The main differences between a laptop and a desktop are the mobility and the integrated battery powered UPS.
Oh, right, and the desktop can contain water-cooled blazingly fast graphic cards, which you need for high-power gaming, but not much else. I haven't used a desktop in five years now, neither at home nor at work.
Sorry, I see we're talking about different user groups.
From the user perspective a virus scanner (and NoScript) will indeed protect you from installing malware on your computer, which may be downloaded from a hijacked website (XSS is a more common attack vector for that, but I've had an Invision forum hijacked via SQL injection too).
I was speaking more from the perspective of the web admin whose site gets defaced, who won't get around some lessons on secure input handling.;)
What they took down was a webhost, ie the place where the spam revenue was earned. Without a way to sell their product, spammers can't be profitable, so they hit exactly the right place.
It's interesting to look at this in the context of evolution.
Viruses and bacteria have a distinct evolutionary advantage in mutating far more quickly and being far more numerous. Thus they can develop immunities to cures more quickly than humans can develop immunities to the diseases.
On the other hand, we have the technology to identify and isolate the gene that grants us immunity, and then manufacture a cure without having to wait thousands of years for natural selection to make us all immune.
Strongly seconded. I've had Jabber evangelists preaching to me and bought their line ("and until you can convince all your unenlightened friends to use this, you can stay in touch using gateway servers"), forsaking multi-protocol clients for remote transport servers.
It was absolute hell to use, unreliable, extremely insecure (I was giving my ICQ/AIM passwords to a remote service), feature-incomplete (no AIM exchange rooms), and it was also annoying to my contacts. After bearing that pain for over a year, I finally went back to Pidgin and talking to everyone in the protocol they were using, right from my client. I still use Jabber, but only with other people who are also using it.
Ah, I see you are insisting on a right to be fat. Well, surely, you have that right, and in my opinion it is not even so dreadful (though annoying) if you waste tons of tax money on avoidable health problems.
But the surprise is that millions of people who are fat don't want to be. These people are fat not because they choose to exercise a right, but because they are poorly educated on health risks, on what constitutes proper food and where to get it. It is a good idea for the state to spend some money on giving you that education, so you can at least make an informed choice.
Please note that 1) Cuba's biggest economic problem is the decade long embargo your country has imposed on it and 2) since you're probably not Native American, you're kind of an immigrant yourself.
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The main differences between a laptop and a desktop are the mobility and the integrated battery powered UPS.
Oh, right, and the desktop can contain water-cooled blazingly fast graphic cards, which you need for high-power gaming, but not much else. I haven't used a desktop in five years now, neither at home nor at work.
It does stretch the definition of the term a bit, yes.
Clearly, you have never been to /b/.
I was about to type "Whoosh", but then I realized I would earn one myself.
Sorry, I see we're talking about different user groups.
From the user perspective a virus scanner (and NoScript) will indeed protect you from installing malware on your computer, which may be downloaded from a hijacked website (XSS is a more common attack vector for that, but I've had an Invision forum hijacked via SQL injection too).
I was speaking more from the perspective of the web admin whose site gets defaced, who won't get around some lessons on secure input handling. ;)
I just looked on Google maps, and I absolutely can't find it...
It's a bloody SQL injection attack. I'd like to see your virus checker automatically rewrite your web application to use input filtering.
What these people need is a real web application instead of some self-built PHP script - not a virus scanner, whether free or expensive.
What they took down was a webhost, ie the place where the spam revenue was earned. Without a way to sell their product, spammers can't be profitable, so they hit exactly the right place.
That and the fact that every animal that lives there has either deadly venom or sharp teeth or is a koala. ;)
Billions of lines of undocumented spaghetti code with randomly commented-out sections, it will take you decades to understand all that.
"Intelligent"? The people who designed that were grade-A morons.
It's interesting to look at this in the context of evolution.
Viruses and bacteria have a distinct evolutionary advantage in mutating far more quickly and being far more numerous. Thus they can develop immunities to cures more quickly than humans can develop immunities to the diseases.
On the other hand, we have the technology to identify and isolate the gene that grants us immunity, and then manufacture a cure without having to wait thousands of years for natural selection to make us all immune.
"It's rm [space] -rf [space] /"
Hahahaha...
Oh wait, nevermind.
You're just saying that because you prefer emacs to vi, admit it. :P
That was my immediate reaction too. The book seriously rocks!
We need to hold another vote!
( :P )
"self-aware virtual photorealistic soldiers that can be deployed in the battlefield through 'quantum ghost imaging.'"
What the hell is this project - Artificial Intelligence? Virtual Reality? Robotics?
Dodo LIVES!
Cthulhu fhtagn!
Wait, I thought Microsoft had been trying for the past year to bury Windows XP - and now we find out they were still selling 3.x all along?
Does this make sense to anyone?
"I think we can all agree, 256 cores is enough for anybody."
Quoted for posterity.
I absolutely /love/ it, and I'm not Scandinavian.
Disclaimer: I'm German. :P
Strongly seconded. I've had Jabber evangelists preaching to me and bought their line ("and until you can convince all your unenlightened friends to use this, you can stay in touch using gateway servers"), forsaking multi-protocol clients for remote transport servers.
It was absolute hell to use, unreliable, extremely insecure (I was giving my ICQ/AIM passwords to a remote service), feature-incomplete (no AIM exchange rooms), and it was also annoying to my contacts. After bearing that pain for over a year, I finally went back to Pidgin and talking to everyone in the protocol they were using, right from my client. I still use Jabber, but only with other people who are also using it.
Ah, I see you are insisting on a right to be fat. Well, surely, you have that right, and in my opinion it is not even so dreadful (though annoying) if you waste tons of tax money on avoidable health problems.
But the surprise is that millions of people who are fat don't want to be. These people are fat not because they choose to exercise a right, but because they are poorly educated on health risks, on what constitutes proper food and where to get it. It is a good idea for the state to spend some money on giving you that education, so you can at least make an informed choice.
Please note that 1) Cuba's biggest economic problem is the decade long embargo your country has imposed on it and 2) since you're probably not Native American, you're kind of an immigrant yourself.