I can't remember its name, but a friend of mine played a console game for Nintendo 64(?) that was an RPG similar to Final Fantasy, but when you killed an opponent, a giant gushing fountain of blood would spew straight up out of the character/creature for at least three seconds, then they would die. Now, I'm talking about an amount of blood easily twenty times what was in their body. The battles were isometric, so the blood fountains were ridiculous looking.
Why use made up prefixes when you can just use a googolbyte?
Because in 15 years, when googolplexibytes fit in thumb drives, everyone will laugh at the quaint movie that featured a future full of googolbyte drives.
For most single user systems, the first account that windows has you set up is an admin account. There is not sufficient guidance during setup telling people to create and use a non admin account for every day use.
Just like on Mac OS X and the more user friendly Linux distros like Ubuntu, yes.
Hmm, not just like... On Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, ".\Administrator" is disabled, and the first user account created is given admin rights by making it part of "BUILTIN\Administrators" group. This gives it a lot more power than it should have, especially since there is no further admonition to create a non-admin account and use the admin account sparingly (I remember at least 8 years ago, Suse used to make root's KDE desktop background image a splash of red with a giant cartoon bomb and a warning about not using root for anything but system maintenance). It was so visible that I made it Windows' Administrator background for our desktops.
As old as it is, it hasn't lost its futuristic feel and foresight; although, wherever megabytes of data are mentioned, they'll have to upgrade them
Not to Tera or Peta. Everyone's used to Tera, and Peta's being used in big arrays (and is the next step up). Exa or Zetta, or better yet, a made-up big-sounding prefix: gooliobytes or congrebibliobytes. The benefit of the made up prefix is that the film isn't hilariously wrong (one way or the other) when viewed ten years later.
Technically, that account is a member of the administrators group and is prevented from doing some things due to UAC. It's closer to a user edited to be UID 0, and prevented from doing stuff due to selinux. There are things an administrator user can do without authenticating via UAC that ordinary users can't do.
Microsoft: rich as hell company who uses terrible tactics to get where it is in the business world
The worst Microsoft does to their end-user customers is engineer lock-in or turn off DRM servers. They do some shady business dealings to keep themselves prominent, but that's not close to Sony:
Sony: not-so-rich company who uses slightly terrible tactics to get where it is in the business world.
Sony intentionally installs malware on computers via music CDs.
Sony shuts down MMORPG servers without notice.
Sony disables features you payed for (and sues you when you try to get them back).
Sony doesn't tell you when your CC# was stolen. Then they tell you it was, it wasn't, well it might have been...
Now they don't admit when their console overheats. Software shouldn't cause computers(consoles) to overheat unless the computers are poorly designed. What could L.A. Noire be doing that the U.S. Airforce isn't doing with their PS3 compute nodes? Sounds like it's the firmware...
So if you scp successfully five times in three minutes, you have to wait two minutes before you can connect again? Great for a personal system, but I could see issues with a multi-user system.
I know distributed botnet brute forces (a botnet focusing on a computer/network instead of just making each zombie run its own attacks) aren't happening as much these days as they did a couple years ago, but banning via synchronized lists is the only way to really stop these. Any large group with a lot of public facing computers that might have the same accounts on each would probably like something like this (if nothing else to prevent a ton of accounts from being locked by a botnet).
I will go read the article, but this is confusing. Neither confirming nor denying that a given piece of software is installed seems odd. Even if they are going to say "but you installed it, so we can't help you," why should they not be allowed to say "Yes, that software is installed."... ?
The software might be installed via a privilege escalation exploit, and Apple doesn't want to say "but you installed it" if that's not true. They'd rather just say "we can't help you".
Rockstar Games initially confirmed that the firmware was causing the overheating, but later backtracked. They issued a joint statement with Sony
So, Sony talked to them nicely, convinced them with irrefutable logic that neither the game nor the firmware was the problem, and they skipped happily, hand-in-hand to the podium to announce it jointly. Sony would never be so evil as to threaten Rockstar Games with new firmware that prevents all Rockstar Games' games from working at all.
Apple is for the technologically illiterate gay yuppie with more money than sense. Windows is for the 14-year-old irresponsible brat who only cares about gaaaaamez or using facebook to publish his or her egoshots, his or her grandparents and for subordinates of the many shady executives that Microsoft has bribed. Linux is for the 30-year-old unemployed virgin who live in their mom's basement, uses an obsolete machine and rants on Slashdot and/or 4chan between prolongued sessions of angry masturbation.
I'm a 37-year-old employed heterosexual virgin who only cares about gaaaaamez and ranting on Slashdot. I use all three OSes, and more besides! You can't pin us all down with your fancy categorizations.
P.S. I know you weren't trolling
P.P.S. I never lived in the basement.
The last real security issue in Windows, the "hey lets have everyone run as admin!" died when Vista came out.
Not entirely true. For most single user systems, the first account that windows has you set up is an admin account. There is not sufficient guidance during setup telling people to create and use a non admin account for every day use.
Add to that: last I checked, the firewall GUI only exists in OSX Server, not the desktop version of OSX. Sure, there's ipfw, but what home user want to use ipfw on the command line?
Remember those botnets that were attempting to distributively brute force ssh, targeting only machines that used OSX? I had machines running Linux and Windows with Cygwin's sshd, and they weren't touched. I heard the botnet members were infected with a Trojan from an Adobe CS crack.
Don't forget that there are some Christians out there who take the transfiguration literally and actually believe they are eating flesh and drinking blood. Granted, it looks like bread (or Styrofoam) and watered-down wine respectively, but if you take them at their word...
The Romans did. Cannibalism was at the top of the list of crimes of the early church, along with atheism (not worshiping the gods of Rome) and orgies (love feasts).
once anyone actually knew what was happening, it would be common to start greeting people in the distance, 'I'm not a zombie!' 'Me neither!' 'Okay then, come over!'.
Is the denyhosts server model released yet? I know large orgs would love to use denyhosts central server, but not rely on "The Internet" to tell them what should be denied.
CentOS probably wanted to create a new complete process for compiling the kernel w/ and w/o patches and verify it worked (since RH started rolling the patches into their distributed kernel source).
Servers (esp. Linux ones) are run by admins, developers, professors, grad students, a contractor who was hired for a week five years ago, and casual geeks. Everyone makes enough mistakes that security problems arise.
The app store may help, but i'll still put my trust, for now, in the linux repo model.
But I don't trust people to use the linux repo model. I've known a lot of newbie linux users/admins over the years, and the first thing they do when they learn about a new software package is google it and download the first binary they find. I've had to explain more than once why "gpg'd distro repo package">"compile from source">"binary from maintainer">"random binary from 'trusted' third party">"random binary from unknown third party (which includes third party and maintainer repos; some people believe repo==safe, and blindly auto-update from 3rd party repos)"
You can't really do anything "useful" with 60 Hz AC without rectifying it, or doing some AC motor stuff. I think it would take a rather large number of "poles" to make a three phase motor run off THz AC, and as you note, the inductance makes it unbuildable, so we won't be doing either the electric or the electronic thing.. leaving us with not much. Resistive heating?
And not over a long distance either. So IR input -> antenna -> extremely short distance THz AC -> IR output. At best, it's a cooling/heating film, radiating heat only on one side. At worst, it's the reverse of glass, transparent to IR, but opaque to the visible spectrum.
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I can't remember its name, but a friend of mine played a console game for Nintendo 64(?) that was an RPG similar to Final Fantasy, but when you killed an opponent, a giant gushing fountain of blood would spew straight up out of the character/creature for at least three seconds, then they would die. Now, I'm talking about an amount of blood easily twenty times what was in their body. The battles were isometric, so the blood fountains were ridiculous looking.
Why use made up prefixes when you can just use a googolbyte?
Because in 15 years, when googolplexibytes fit in thumb drives, everyone will laugh at the quaint movie that featured a future full of googolbyte drives.
For most single user systems, the first account that windows has you set up is an admin account. There is not sufficient guidance during setup telling people to create and use a non admin account for every day use.
Just like on Mac OS X and the more user friendly Linux distros like Ubuntu, yes.
~$ cat /etc/shadow /etc/shadow: Permission denied
cat:
Hmm, not just like... On Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, ".\Administrator" is disabled, and the first user account created is given admin rights by making it part of "BUILTIN\Administrators" group. This gives it a lot more power than it should have, especially since there is no further admonition to create a non-admin account and use the admin account sparingly (I remember at least 8 years ago, Suse used to make root's KDE desktop background image a splash of red with a giant cartoon bomb and a warning about not using root for anything but system maintenance). It was so visible that I made it Windows' Administrator background for our desktops.
As old as it is, it hasn't lost its futuristic feel and foresight; although, wherever megabytes of data are mentioned, they'll have to upgrade them
Not to Tera or Peta. Everyone's used to Tera, and Peta's being used in big arrays (and is the next step up). Exa or Zetta, or better yet, a made-up big-sounding prefix: gooliobytes or congrebibliobytes. The benefit of the made up prefix is that the film isn't hilariously wrong (one way or the other) when viewed ten years later.
Technically, that account is a member of the administrators group and is prevented from doing some things due to UAC. It's closer to a user edited to be UID 0, and prevented from doing stuff due to selinux. There are things an administrator user can do without authenticating via UAC that ordinary users can't do.
An on/off switch is not a GUI for ipfw.
Microsoft: rich as hell company who uses terrible tactics to get where it is in the business world
The worst Microsoft does to their end-user customers is engineer lock-in or turn off DRM servers. They do some shady business dealings to keep themselves prominent, but that's not close to Sony:
Sony: not-so-rich company who uses slightly terrible tactics to get where it is in the business world.
Sony intentionally installs malware on computers via music CDs.
Sony shuts down MMORPG servers without notice.
Sony disables features you payed for (and sues you when you try to get them back).
Sony doesn't tell you when your CC# was stolen. Then they tell you it was, it wasn't, well it might have been...
Now they don't admit when their console overheats. Software shouldn't cause computers(consoles) to overheat unless the computers are poorly designed. What could L.A. Noire be doing that the U.S. Airforce isn't doing with their PS3 compute nodes? Sounds like it's the firmware...
So if you scp successfully five times in three minutes, you have to wait two minutes before you can connect again? Great for a personal system, but I could see issues with a multi-user system.
Who needs to synchronize ban lists?
I know distributed botnet brute forces (a botnet focusing on a computer/network instead of just making each zombie run its own attacks) aren't happening as much these days as they did a couple years ago, but banning via synchronized lists is the only way to really stop these. Any large group with a lot of public facing computers that might have the same accounts on each would probably like something like this (if nothing else to prevent a ton of accounts from being locked by a botnet).
I will go read the article, but this is confusing. Neither confirming nor denying that a given piece of software is installed seems odd. Even if they are going to say "but you installed it, so we can't help you," why should they not be allowed to say "Yes, that software is installed." ... ?
The software might be installed via a privilege escalation exploit, and Apple doesn't want to say "but you installed it" if that's not true. They'd rather just say "we can't help you".
Rockstar Games initially confirmed that the firmware was causing the overheating, but later backtracked. They issued a joint statement with Sony
So, Sony talked to them nicely, convinced them with irrefutable logic that neither the game nor the firmware was the problem, and they skipped happily, hand-in-hand to the podium to announce it jointly. Sony would never be so evil as to threaten Rockstar Games with new firmware that prevents all Rockstar Games' games from working at all.
Apple is for the technologically illiterate gay yuppie with more money than sense. Windows is for the 14-year-old irresponsible brat who only cares about gaaaaamez or using facebook to publish his or her egoshots, his or her grandparents and for subordinates of the many shady executives that Microsoft has bribed. Linux is for the 30-year-old unemployed virgin who live in their mom's basement, uses an obsolete machine and rants on Slashdot and/or 4chan between prolongued sessions of angry masturbation.
I'm a 37-year-old employed heterosexual virgin who only cares about gaaaaamez and ranting on Slashdot. I use all three OSes, and more besides! You can't pin us all down with your fancy categorizations. P.S. I know you weren't trolling P.P.S. I never lived in the basement.
The last real security issue in Windows, the "hey lets have everyone run as admin!" died when Vista came out.
Not entirely true. For most single user systems, the first account that windows has you set up is an admin account. There is not sufficient guidance during setup telling people to create and use a non admin account for every day use.
Add to that: last I checked, the firewall GUI only exists in OSX Server, not the desktop version of OSX. Sure, there's ipfw, but what home user want to use ipfw on the command line?
Remember those botnets that were attempting to distributively brute force ssh, targeting only machines that used OSX? I had machines running Linux and Windows with Cygwin's sshd, and they weren't touched. I heard the botnet members were infected with a Trojan from an Adobe CS crack.
Don't forget that there are some Christians out there who take the transfiguration literally and actually believe they are eating flesh and drinking blood. Granted, it looks like bread (or Styrofoam) and watered-down wine respectively, but if you take them at their word...
The Romans did. Cannibalism was at the top of the list of crimes of the early church, along with atheism (not worshiping the gods of Rome) and orgies (love feasts).
If Marvel Zombies taught me nothing else: in case of Zombie Apocalypse, eat Galactus.
once anyone actually knew what was happening, it would be common to start greeting people in the distance, 'I'm not a zombie!' 'Me neither!' 'Okay then, come over!'.
"Um nuh uh zummy! braains..."
"Muh nuffer! braains..."
"Uh Kuh, cuhm uhvuh! Huh! Yu Luhd! Yu zummy! Yur brains tust uhful!"
Is the denyhosts server model released yet? I know large orgs would love to use denyhosts central server, but not rely on "The Internet" to tell them what should be denied.
CentOS probably wanted to create a new complete process for compiling the kernel w/ and w/o patches and verify it worked (since RH started rolling the patches into their distributed kernel source).
Yeah, I've never seen a RedHat shill before, but this first poster is just like that MS first post shill.
Servers (esp. Linux ones) are run by admins, developers, professors, grad students, a contractor who was hired for a week five years ago, and casual geeks. Everyone makes enough mistakes that security problems arise.
FTFY
The app store may help, but i'll still put my trust, for now, in the linux repo model.
But I don't trust people to use the linux repo model. I've known a lot of newbie linux users/admins over the years, and the first thing they do when they learn about a new software package is google it and download the first binary they find. I've had to explain more than once why "gpg'd distro repo package">"compile from source">"binary from maintainer">"random binary from 'trusted' third party">"random binary from unknown third party (which includes third party and maintainer repos; some people believe repo==safe, and blindly auto-update from 3rd party repos)"
Not only that, but there are millions of people, young and old, using Facebook that never heard of AIM.
You can't really do anything "useful" with 60 Hz AC without rectifying it, or doing some AC motor stuff. I think it would take a rather large number of "poles" to make a three phase motor run off THz AC, and as you note, the inductance makes it unbuildable, so we won't be doing either the electric or the electronic thing.. leaving us with not much. Resistive heating?
And not over a long distance either. So IR input -> antenna -> extremely short distance THz AC -> IR output. At best, it's a cooling/heating film, radiating heat only on one side. At worst, it's the reverse of glass, transparent to IR, but opaque to the visible spectrum.