Why in the hell would anyone buy a digital converter and tune the thing to analog signals?!?! Aren't they kind of missing the whole point?!?!
I get more analog signals than I do digital signals. Some digital signals are unwatchable with blocky refreshes and sound cutting in and out, while their analog equivalents are just slightly fuzzy.
Captchas aside, aren't there other ways of preventing bots from registering multiple accounts? Instead of focusing on humans, how about focusing on the behavior of the bots. Do they change their IP address every time? Do they fill forms faster than humanly possible? Does any human register more than one account on your site? Do they enter random text or put in URLs where they shouldn't?
I still do not see any attempts to weed out the bots.
Find a way to pay third world people $2 to verify that 1000 website visitors are human (to replace the captchas, not defeat them). Then, it becomes a war of money-attrition: whoever is willing to spend the most money wins.
Two to three a year isn't rare. The autorun bug has been an issue for almost a decade, so it's included in the 2-3/yr figure. Even Sun with its "Hey lets leave a root-exploitable version of telnetd running unfirewalled by default" mindset only does that once a release.
We disable autorun via group policy already, what exactly is missing without this patch?
The ability for the autorun-disable GPO (or registry setting) to _actually_ disable autorun. The buggy GPO/registry settings disabled the auto-popup, but when you double-click on a drive in "My Computer", Autorun.inf is still accessed, and the executable it references is still run. If the executable uses the standard drive icon or folder icon, many people won't think twice about double-clicking versus right-click-open.
and it doesn't work. For folks wanting to do this on hundreds of machines:
When using "@" as the target value name with the GUI.reg file clicky method, the value that the data gets written to is (Default), not @. When reg.exe is used and @ is the target, a @ value gets created, and (Default) is blank. Using "(Default)" for the value with reg.exe creates a new (Default) entry, so there are two (Default)s in the registry. Nice. The trick is to use an empty value (/ve). So, a good reg.exe looks like:
Then it works. It would have been nice if the CERT folks had explained in detail the magic that the "@" in their registry file did; not all of us are Windows gurus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoRun#The_AutoRun_disable_bug
This bug has been fixed in security updates issued in July 2008. For Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 the relevant Knowledge Base Article is 950582[24] with further details in the security bulletin itself.[25]
For Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 the relevant Knowledge Base Article is 953252[26] with details and links to the OS specific patches available from that page. Windows 95 and Windows 98 are not affected.
Note that these are not installed via auto-update, nor do they show up in Windows Update. Also, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953252/ is broken because it points to KB950582 for the XP fix, but KB950582 says it's Vista-only. Microsoft should re-release these as automatic updates. They don't turn off auto-run, but they allow you to turn it off.
what is this fascination with naming the most fascinating, sexy, robots "Six"?
Exchange the vowel for another vowel. 50% of your choices leave good imagery. 75% if you have a foot fetish. I'm not counting "y" because it doesn't make a recognizable word.
The writers of the show, in an interview. Personally, I think this is further proof of my theory I've had ever since Season 1: Everyone is a Cylon, but the "Colonials" are kept thinking they're human for some reason. My original thought was that the Cylons needed to think like the humans to find Earth, but now that's blown out of the water; in the same aforementioned interview, they said the nuke-world _is_ Earth. Now I think it might be Cylon guilt for having killed all the humans, so they're keeping the human "spark" alive. Who knows how it will reboot when more people (like Starbuck) find out they've got copies.
I honestly don't care if my TV uses 20 Watts when it isn't turned on or not, that is a rather insignificant part of my electric bill for a major part of my (and most people's) life.
No it not rather insignificant. The devices add up. And you don't know shit about most people. You are just stating that out of your ass. Show me someone who does not want to save money.
Wow, are you a depression era kid (or a kid of a DEK)? Almost everyone I know younger than 60 doesn't care if they leave lights on all over the place. That's at minimum 40W per light, more likely 75W. Even my parents (who do turn off lights when not in a room) don't remove power from devices like VCRs, DVDs, TVs, computers, wifi routers, stereos, etc. I'm not a wastrel, but I find my way of life much less stressful, not worrying about the $0.01s
Then unplug and replug in your TV, the rest of the world wants TVs to boot up instantly.
Am I right guessing that you ignore connector strips with real power switches,
It's the same thing, but more expensive. Why would you ask him to spend $0.99 after in-store rebate? Is he made of money?
The makers say the machine can eliminate 540 tons of carbon emissions per year, in large part by reducing the amount of waste that goes to methane-generating landfills.
So instead of burying carbon, it's being shifted into a fuel that will be burned (releasing it into the air)?
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Why in the hell would anyone buy a digital converter and tune the thing to analog signals?!?! Aren't they kind of missing the whole point?!?!
I get more analog signals than I do digital signals. Some digital signals are unwatchable with blocky refreshes and sound cutting in and out, while their analog equivalents are just slightly fuzzy.
I bet you don't have a clock built into your sliced bread either.
Radiation Poisoning? Cancer?
What's needed is a change in the business model that links payment to a finished, correct product.
I'd suggest linking payment to a finished product, "correct" or not. Then fines for bugs found depending on severity.
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1103159&cid=26587471
The first thing I'm thinking is "will this prevent me from working from home on Monday?"
And if it did, would physically being at work be any better? Some people's jobs are heavily dependent on the internet, not work's intranet.
Captchas aside, aren't there other ways of preventing bots from registering multiple accounts? Instead of focusing on humans, how about focusing on the behavior of the bots. Do they change their IP address every time? Do they fill forms faster than humanly possible? Does any human register more than one account on your site? Do they enter random text or put in URLs where they shouldn't?
I still do not see any attempts to weed out the bots.
You don't see the attempts because they're not visible. http://www.modsecurity.org/projects/modsecurity/apache/index.html The bad part is that the bots can be made to eventually fit within defined rules.
Find a way to pay third world people $2 to verify that 1000 website visitors are human (to replace the captchas, not defeat them). Then, it becomes a war of money-attrition: whoever is willing to spend the most money wins.
After several more years testing in Fedora releases?
Two to three a year isn't rare. The autorun bug has been an issue for almost a decade, so it's included in the 2-3/yr figure. Even Sun with its "Hey lets leave a root-exploitable version of telnetd running unfirewalled by default" mindset only does that once a release.
FYI DiskMon and FileMon have been superseded by ProcMon.
DigiMon?
Get your Linux install CDs handy. Bill might know something about Windows and 2009/01/23 or 2009/01/24 that we don't.
It doesn't seem to be required for Vista either. Manual download and installation required.
We disable autorun via group policy already, what exactly is missing without this patch?
The ability for the autorun-disable GPO (or registry setting) to _actually_ disable autorun. The buggy GPO/registry settings disabled the auto-popup, but when you double-click on a drive in "My Computer", Autorun.inf is still accessed, and the executable it references is still run. If the executable uses the standard drive icon or folder icon, many people won't think twice about double-clicking versus right-click-open.
and it doesn't work. For folks wanting to do this on hundreds of machines: .reg file clicky method, the value that the data gets written to is (Default), not @. When reg.exe is used and @ is the target, a @ value gets created, and (Default) is blank. Using "(Default)" for the value with reg.exe creates a new (Default) entry, so there are two (Default)s in the registry. Nice. The trick is to use an empty value (/ve). So, a good reg.exe looks like:
/ve /d "@SYS:DoesNotExist"
When using "@" as the target value name with the GUI
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf"
Then it works. It would have been nice if the CERT folks had explained in detail the magic that the "@" in their registry file did; not all of us are Windows gurus.
just type your name to instantly access your account!
Which is why my usernames are always 2048-4096 characters long.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoRun#The_AutoRun_disable_bug
This bug has been fixed in security updates issued in July 2008. For Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 the relevant Knowledge Base Article is 950582[24] with further details in the security bulletin itself.[25]
For Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 the relevant Knowledge Base Article is 953252[26] with details and links to the OS specific patches available from that page. Windows 95 and Windows 98 are not affected.
Note that these are not installed via auto-update, nor do they show up in Windows Update. Also, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953252/ is broken because it points to KB950582 for the XP fix, but KB950582 says it's Vista-only. Microsoft should re-release these as automatic updates. They don't turn off auto-run, but they allow you to turn it off.
what is this fascination with naming the most fascinating, sexy, robots "Six"?
Exchange the vowel for another vowel. 50% of your choices leave good imagery. 75% if you have a foot fetish. I'm not counting "y" because it doesn't make a recognizable word.
"SW: The Clone Wars" is much happier and upbeat, despite the knowledge of what the main character ends up doing. BSG is being depressing on purpose.
Who says Helen is a Cylon?
The writers of the show, in an interview. Personally, I think this is further proof of my theory I've had ever since Season 1: Everyone is a Cylon, but the "Colonials" are kept thinking they're human for some reason. My original thought was that the Cylons needed to think like the humans to find Earth, but now that's blown out of the water; in the same aforementioned interview, they said the nuke-world _is_ Earth. Now I think it might be Cylon guilt for having killed all the humans, so they're keeping the human "spark" alive. Who knows how it will reboot when more people (like Starbuck) find out they've got copies.
That's like having to buy a case of beer for your TV every six months.
My TV is worth it. Prost!
I honestly don't care if my TV uses 20 Watts when it isn't turned on or not, that is a rather insignificant part of my electric bill for a major part of my (and most people's) life.
No it not rather insignificant. The devices add up. And you don't know shit about most people. You are just stating that out of your ass. Show me someone who does not want to save money.
Wow, are you a depression era kid (or a kid of a DEK)? Almost everyone I know younger than 60 doesn't care if they leave lights on all over the place. That's at minimum 40W per light, more likely 75W. Even my parents (who do turn off lights when not in a room) don't remove power from devices like VCRs, DVDs, TVs, computers, wifi routers, stereos, etc. I'm not a wastrel, but I find my way of life much less stressful, not worrying about the $0.01s
Then unplug and replug in your TV, the rest of the world wants TVs to boot up instantly.
Am I right guessing that you ignore connector strips with real power switches,
It's the same thing, but more expensive. Why would you ask him to spend $0.99 after in-store rebate? Is he made of money?
Because what every sniper needs is to have his face lit up when he's trying to remain hidden.
Nothing handles MSOffice files well, not even other Microsoft applications. Their format is a mystery wrapped in an enigma enveloped by a binary blob.
The makers say the machine can eliminate 540 tons of carbon emissions per year, in large part by reducing the amount of waste that goes to methane-generating landfills.
So instead of burying carbon, it's being shifted into a fuel that will be burned (releasing it into the air)?