But that was my point, actually. I said "only" security through obscurity, which it is not. It's the icing on the cake. Once you lock down a box, you ignore anything that is not relevant or needed for your purposes.
There is no reason, explicit or implicit, to allow an attacker to learn what OS you are running. It is none of their business. You have to pair apache with mod_security to turn off server tokens, but does it really matter what http server it is as long as it serves the pages properly? The idea is a holdover from the early days of the net when everyone was on the buddy system. That idea has been dead nearly 20 years now.
It's an irony that OpenBSD prides itself on spamd being used to waste spammers time and resources, but can't see the simple beauty of making a would be attacker having to actually guess what he is up against. Is it Windows 2000? Is it Linux? Is it vulnerable to this old crusty exploit, or is it up to date with all the patches? They can figure it out I'm sure, but they will have to waste time and resources to do it.
Ping me, find nothing and move on, or hit me with a shot in the dark, either way, the odds are better for me that I don't tell you anything that could help you.
For the same reason they claim that "stealth" firewalling is only "security through obscurity" and never acknowledge the sheer sense of not revealing jack shit a would be attacker. It goes against the group think, Theo de Raadt said it somewhere, so it's unquestionable.
It's by far easier to yell, scream, point fingers, and name call than it is to write a truly secure OS. They built a pretty impressive house of cards around being proactively secure, but over the past year or so the hype has fallen short. Mostly, this is due to not acknowledging problems that they have, from the IPv6 bug that turned out to be a remote hole, to the simple FTP client that wasn't keeping connections open (they actually blamed firewalls for this one), to this PRNG bug which everyone has patched except them (and CRApple). There are more examples, basically just look for really long threads of name calling on MARC, this is how the real problems end up. They are a vitriolic (or is that viTROLLic?) community who insults anyone who questions their kooky decisions (Apache in base, Perl in base, Xorg in base, branch tagging ports in CVS, the 8GB boot loader limit, the lack of hardware acceleration support).
I have used OpenBSD for 5 years now, but will be migrating to FreeBSD in the near future. They can have their hype, I would rather have functionality, performance, frequent updates, a helpful user community, and PROACTIVE SECURITY. That's right, OpenBSD isn't the only OS to think about how to keep people out, but they are the only ones who claim their poor performance is caused by the measures, at least until they get around to patching the real cause.
Reading stuff where they refuse to patch known problems, and this is actually far from the first, is icing on the cake to my decision.
I actually BLOCK google-analytics.com for serving up CASE AND POINT unnecessary scripts to my browser. It is both THIRD PARTY and add NO RELEVANCE to the first party content. Finally, why would I want to give Google any information about my page views? I feel no obligation to reduce myself to a demographic stereotype for which they sling up advertisements that will probably annoy me, or at worst offend me. Even just for security purposes, should Google's DNS get hijacked, servers compromised, or the local hosts file modified, trusting a world wide silent running script that is seen by millions every second is every hackers dream come true.
Yes, the first thing I do when install NoScript is to remove all of it's generous default allowances.
Yes, because no one makes a combination MP3 player/cellphone that can do video playback with internet capabilities.
Oh wait... EVERYBODY makes them. Even before the iPooed. In fact, some of them have even more capabilities and are already linux based. They merely lack the hype and yuppie got-to-have-it chic, but may include buttons for increased functionality.
Um, yes. He did. Just the same as anyone else, he knew how do behave. He taunted something that was captive and learned quick that he didn't have the balls to back up his mouth. If this would happen more often, natural selection instead of pansy apologism, the world would be a much better place.
He pissed off a tiger for crying out loud, and that's a mistake you should be able only make once.
BSD isn't so confused and conflicting as Linux distros. There are 4 major branches, and each is very openly a different train of thought. Free, Net, Dragonfly, and Open.
FreeBSD and NetBSD spring about from the same original 4.4BSD-lite2 codebase but go in different directions from there.
FreeBSD is focused on usability and reliability. No hand holding. NetBSD focused on portability. No hand holding. DragonflyBSD branched from FreeBSD over the direction of SMP. No hand holding. OpenBSD branched from NetBSD over the focus on security. No hand holding... if you are looking for hand holding, go away.
DesktopBSD and PC-BSD are both rebranded FreeBSD with emphasis on creating a effortless user experience. So if you are wanting to play with a BSD variant, and want a little hand holding, the options really just come down to these two.
OSX is also a variant of FreeBSD, with emphasis on playing down it's heritage and playing up the fact that you can run Photoshop on it. I'm not sure if deleting help requests counts as a refusal to hold your hand or not...
I'm using FreeBSD as a desktop, and I am the only person I know who does (in person). I know a few Linux users, and about half as many Mac users. Generally speaking, the user percentages are a lie. It really depends on where you look. Linux and BSD users don't have a need to troll the same sites that alot of these statistics are pulled from. They also wont use catch-all sites (like news sites) that generally support only Windows (and sometimes Mac) users. Macs generally sell better than Linux PCs, because Linux isn't typically sold. Linux, which is free and downloadable, typically replaces Windows on x86 boxes, with Windows getting credit for the sale.
One other point of note. Alot of Linux users will also be using User Agent Switcher to masquerade as a supported browser/OS combination to avoid the hassle of being told that a website doesn't support them, even though it would work fine had they not scripted such an obnoxious obstacle.
Then you idiots keep railing about how using a Free(TM) OS will somehow solve the DRM problem - completely ignoring (and seemingly ignorant of) the fact that DRM can be implemented in ANY operating system with or without cooperation from the authors of the OS.
And then this idiot comes along and completely ignores that unless DRM is written into and protected by the Free(TM) OS, the OS will not be obligated to enforce the DRM, and thus allow it to be bypassed with the right tools.
Also, this idiot ignores that these Free(TM) OSes are also OpenSource(C) and are thus modifiable. So even with a Free(TM) OS that enforces DRM, it would be as easy (and inevitable) to see a fork of the Free(TM) OS that doesn't work against the user.
"Can" doesn't mean it will. Mod OP down as the troll/flamebait it is.
A lot of wind there for someone who has said basically nothing. To be so seasoned in the subject, you grossly underestimate how widespread Ogg is already. Just because noone with a monetary interest really cares to support it, doesn't mean it's not out there. True, most people don't even know the difference and could care less, but vendors will have to support it to be standards compliant, and this will in turn lead to more usage across the board. Consider too that if 0.1% of all existing media is in Ogg Theora/Vorbis format, how many terabytes of data that is?
I see your argument to that of "Windows works and is already on 95% of desktops, so there is no need to write any other OS because everyone will just think it's a joke." or "IE is already the standard browser so everyone should just use it even if it doesn't do everything it correctly. Everyone already works around its shortcomings, so actually working proper would be counterproductive at this point."
Somewhere about the point where you decry calling Ogg a "good codec" you boil into little more than long winded sour grapes. Somehow I find it amazing that you can't see why FOSS advocates would advocate FOSS for open standards.
Someone modded you insightful, but you show nothing of insight and should have been modded a troll. The gist of your rant is nothing more than "Wah! Ogg, noone uses it" and a bunch of links to yourself.
I, and many other non-Microsoft/Apple drones use Ogg. If it were not of some importance, this issue would not be newsworthy. If noone used Ogg, personal media player vendors would not be inundated with requests to support it.
Coincidently, I recently bought a personal media player, and yes, it supports Ogg. Those who don't support Ogg lost a potential sale. I plan to buy a bigger one in a few months, guess what support will make or break that sale too?
They fired their QA shortly after hiring them to test post-Exodus patches. Seems they kept delaying releases by insisting that things like this get fixed beforehand. CCP's efforts to keep its customer base happy knew it couldn't afford delays in exciting new feature nerfs and rollbacks, so it decided to get rid of them and ignore the volunteer beta testers recommendations too.
But you have to have some understanding here as well. Since they bought White Wolf, a huge part of their testing is going to converting Vampire from simple die rolls to a more enjoyable system involving calculus and a TI-89. I can't wait!
Okay, I am telling on myself here. I work at a Walmart. My store has these in stock currently, but just two. Not sure how long we have had them, but the department manager decided not to put them out in favor of the expensive Gateway's that noone ever buys. Under the rare circumstance that I was allowed to be unchained from the game case, I got the honor of finding stuff to put on display tonight. I saw these and grabbed the store's assistant manager, told him the buzz of them and asked if there was any reason why I couldn't put them out. He said "do it". Now I am wondering if they will be bought up before I return from my weekend off, and if they go to tech savvy people who know what they are, or cheap dolts who grab the lowest priced stuff on the shelf. (Durabrand!)
When people hear my name, they think I am some charitable do-gooder helping people put aside their vices and pulling their lives back together.
Suckers!
"If you could do the same to Flash it would be the last nail in the coffin for the home user of Windows. Since he who controls flash controls the civilian entertain-web, I would be surprised if there was not a google, MS, Apple bidding war for them. I am actually suprised it hasn't happened yet."
Macromedia was bought by Adobe. If Apple bought Adobe, they would have defacto control over this as well.
Not so long ago, Microsoft forced an update on people. That is, if you chose not to have automatic updates, you got it anyway. This update causes issues that hose your ability to unhose your system in the event that your OS gets hosed.
Additionally, some (by some, I mean many) updates are conditional on your willingness to install other unrelated updates (WGA) and allow Microsoft to modify your OS in ways that are undesirable for a lot of users. For example, branding you criminal and forcing you to buy another copy of Windows. These are a far cry different from a driver rollback.
As Rotten said on the big mid 90's reunion tour... what's more punk than only doing it for the money?
I mean, if true, they will be the same musicians on the same (tired old) song and dance, even the same MONO equipment... probably not even with half the intensity that made the original famous. And best of all, they will be PAID to do it all over again.
I can hear Rotten saying this on the final take: "There's your bloody pop song, now where's my fucking check?"
Too many people seem to think that to be a real punk you must have this this thing called "integrity", which is defined as never moving out of your moms basement and dying young of a heroine overdose. Bollocks! If someone wants to pay you to do something, do it. Even if you suck, you still got paid for it. That's punk!
Several sites I have visited, having found via a Google search, get flagged as dangerous. It seems that ANY site in Russia is flagged. If you never have stumbled upon one of Google's "Malware Warning" pages, they more or less block you from accessing the page. Sure, they give you the URL, and you can manually type it (or copy and paste) it into the address bar, but that's just annoying. Everytime I've see this page, it has been a false alarm, while Google happily links to thousands of obvious malware sites on more common and general searches.
A prime example that happened to me only a couple of weeks back while I was researching the Ural Wolf motorcycle. It was designed in cooperation with the Russain biker "gang" Night Wolves MG. Of course, Google flags the site as malware (so visit at your own risk).
Maybe with my Firefox with AdBlock and NoScript on FreeBSD combo, I've save from whatever nasty Windows targeted crud is on the site. Or maybe Google is just full of shit.
Beyond the inappropriate flagging of content concern, this moves Firefox deeper into the realm of bloatware. Quite honestly, "Google Anti-Phishing" belongs as a addon, not in the browser itself. I'm sure it would be hugely popular as a download, but instead will become the feature most often disabled by users.
That does it! How dare you insult my newfound religion! How dare you insinuate that we are violent! It is you who are violent by letting people have this freedom to commit sins against Islam like watching TV and having a Bud! It is you who are looked upon with scorn because you choose to look at beautiful women instead of shamefully hiding them! Bedsheets are to be worn as a women's garment, not rolled on during sex play. It is you who...
wait...
Forgot what I was saying. This is a lot of rhetoric to remember for us recent converts.
Oh yeah!
How dare you call us violent decapitators of man! For this outrage we will cut of your head! In fact, we will kidnap a whole bunch of people who came in goodwill and peace and bring tourist dollars to our blessed land, and saw their heads off as well. We will even tape it while covering our faces like the brave warriors we are. We will show you that Islam is a religion of peace, and kill everyone who disagrees.
And best of all, we will never acknowledge the hypocrisy or irony of addressing criticisms of our "peaceful" religion through endless, violent, self-defeating conflict!
So if I read your dribble correctly, we are supposed to tolerate the biggest source of intolerance in the world? Religion is the biggest "excuse" for mankind's problems. It's a crutch and a security blanket for weak minded people who just want easy don't-have-to-think-too-much answers and opinions. And in that is the biggest problem of all, because one persons motives fed to the weak minded then becomes a movement. Whatever your priest/rabbi/imam tells you, you do in the name of your religion, and it's nothing more than an excuse for the followers unwillingness to understand or tolerate that which is different from him, that which jeopardizes his easy answers.
Quite honestly, go fuck your "tolerance". If you choose cuddle with killers, that's your business. But I have no intention of ever hand holding anyone who's views say they should ignore/berate/enslave/murder me for not being like them or for questioning the logic of "because some book says so". I hate the haters even more than they hate me. I hate them for having no real reason for their hate and stupidity, while at the same time directly giving me a reason to hate them. If religion is providing them a rationale for their actions, name one fucking reason why anyone should tolerate it or them?
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My wife runs Monopoly on XP to this day, and I never had any problems running any of the C&C games. If I hit a bump, compatibility mode typically fixed it. The two Westwood games I really miss are Blade Runner and Dune 2000.
Westwood was a brilliant company.
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Dune 2000, how I miss thee. Any Windows 95 or higher Westwood game actually doesn't seem to work anymore (and I have about all of them). Something about the way the game reads the disc for validation, Wine doesn't like it. It used to work, but now it doesn't and last I read Wine would "have to totally redo" the way it handles the disc access to get them to work.
Of all the apps I really could use Wine for, none work now, but used too. The lone exception is WoW which works great now, but I no longer use it.
Actually, even fully DX8 games I have don't work with Wines "fully implemented" DX8 api. I'm generally unimpressed with Wine so far.
I got a similar story but not so happy ending. A bank deposited my bill money in the wrong account, and all my bills bounced. The bank covered all fees, except one that seemingly hadn't bounced yet. It had, but the bank bounced it instead of paying it (and didn't charge me an overdraft), but the company (electronically) resubmitted the bill with a fee, and put the account back in the sink. The bank paid the fee, and charged me an overdraft again, but refused to cover the mistake saying it had been my fault this time. By that point, the next months bills started coming around, the money I had put in for them got eaten by the overdraft fee that went in a few days before my deposit, so those bills bounced too.
I actually went to another bank, took out a small loan to zero out my account at the other bank and shut it down. I have been with that bank ever since.
Some of the companies were really nice about it all and waived fees, others weren't, so I ended my associations with them too.
Making a fully developed proof of concept worm to show all the iTards that their "invincible" attitude is as retarded as they are should be illegal? More power to the guy. He's making sure it's nasty enough for Apple and their fanbois to no be able to blow off, a real threat. I would have given no warning or announcement at all, just set it free (which already is illegal). The iTards need a good iSmack like this to make them iSTFU. I'm quite sure Apple will outbid whoever just to bury this and pretend that OSuX has never had any holes. Pretty much like the same as they already do.
(I know, I "lie", Apple has never had a single virus or worm ever. Yesterday's article on the on Elk Cloner's 25th anniversary was also a lie. And Steve Jobs is really is iJesus.)
Which will in turn lead to more people becoming familiar with it, and getting used to having tools at their disposal that they don't with Windows (or do at great costs). It also means some people (possibly a lot) will also buy these systems so they can take work home with them and not have to sweat compatibility. It's a big step into reversing the Microsoft monopoly.
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But that was my point, actually. I said "only" security through obscurity, which it is not. It's the icing on the cake. Once you lock down a box, you ignore anything that is not relevant or needed for your purposes.
There is no reason, explicit or implicit, to allow an attacker to learn what OS you are running. It is none of their business. You have to pair apache with mod_security to turn off server tokens, but does it really matter what http server it is as long as it serves the pages properly? The idea is a holdover from the early days of the net when everyone was on the buddy system. That idea has been dead nearly 20 years now.
It's an irony that OpenBSD prides itself on spamd being used to waste spammers time and resources, but can't see the simple beauty of making a would be attacker having to actually guess what he is up against. Is it Windows 2000? Is it Linux? Is it vulnerable to this old crusty exploit, or is it up to date with all the patches? They can figure it out I'm sure, but they will have to waste time and resources to do it.
Ping me, find nothing and move on, or hit me with a shot in the dark, either way, the odds are better for me that I don't tell you anything that could help you.
For the same reason they claim that "stealth" firewalling is only "security through obscurity" and never acknowledge the sheer sense of not revealing jack shit a would be attacker. It goes against the group think, Theo de Raadt said it somewhere, so it's unquestionable.
It's by far easier to yell, scream, point fingers, and name call than it is to write a truly secure OS. They built a pretty impressive house of cards around being proactively secure, but over the past year or so the hype has fallen short. Mostly, this is due to not acknowledging problems that they have, from the IPv6 bug that turned out to be a remote hole, to the simple FTP client that wasn't keeping connections open (they actually blamed firewalls for this one), to this PRNG bug which everyone has patched except them (and CRApple). There are more examples, basically just look for really long threads of name calling on MARC, this is how the real problems end up. They are a vitriolic (or is that viTROLLic?) community who insults anyone who questions their kooky decisions (Apache in base, Perl in base, Xorg in base, branch tagging ports in CVS, the 8GB boot loader limit, the lack of hardware acceleration support).
I have used OpenBSD for 5 years now, but will be migrating to FreeBSD in the near future. They can have their hype, I would rather have functionality, performance, frequent updates, a helpful user community, and PROACTIVE SECURITY. That's right, OpenBSD isn't the only OS to think about how to keep people out, but they are the only ones who claim their poor performance is caused by the measures, at least until they get around to patching the real cause.
Reading stuff where they refuse to patch known problems, and this is actually far from the first, is icing on the cake to my decision.
I actually BLOCK google-analytics.com for serving up CASE AND POINT unnecessary scripts to my browser. It is both THIRD PARTY and add NO RELEVANCE to the first party content. Finally, why would I want to give Google any information about my page views? I feel no obligation to reduce myself to a demographic stereotype for which they sling up advertisements that will probably annoy me, or at worst offend me. Even just for security purposes, should Google's DNS get hijacked, servers compromised, or the local hosts file modified, trusting a world wide silent running script that is seen by millions every second is every hackers dream come true.
Yes, the first thing I do when install NoScript is to remove all of it's generous default allowances.
Yes, because no one makes a combination MP3 player/cellphone that can do video playback with internet capabilities.
Oh wait... EVERYBODY makes them. Even before the iPooed. In fact, some of them have even more capabilities and are already linux based. They merely lack the hype and yuppie got-to-have-it chic, but may include buttons for increased functionality.
Um, yes. He did. Just the same as anyone else, he knew how do behave. He taunted something that was captive and learned quick that he didn't have the balls to back up his mouth. If this would happen more often, natural selection instead of pansy apologism, the world would be a much better place.
He pissed off a tiger for crying out loud, and that's a mistake you should be able only make once.
Which just meant that all their overseas users lived in Beverly Hills, 90210.
Funny, so did I!
I still do this when I purchase/register something and it asks me for this information with no option to decline.
BSD isn't so confused and conflicting as Linux distros. There are 4 major branches, and each is very openly a different train of thought. Free, Net, Dragonfly, and Open.
FreeBSD and NetBSD spring about from the same original 4.4BSD-lite2 codebase but go in different directions from there.
FreeBSD is focused on usability and reliability. No hand holding.
NetBSD focused on portability. No hand holding.
DragonflyBSD branched from FreeBSD over the direction of SMP. No hand holding.
OpenBSD branched from NetBSD over the focus on security. No hand holding... if you are looking for hand holding, go away.
DesktopBSD and PC-BSD are both rebranded FreeBSD with emphasis on creating a effortless user experience. So if you are wanting to play with a BSD variant, and want a little hand holding, the options really just come down to these two.
OSX is also a variant of FreeBSD, with emphasis on playing down it's heritage and playing up the fact that you can run Photoshop on it. I'm not sure if deleting help requests counts as a refusal to hold your hand or not...
I'm using FreeBSD as a desktop, and I am the only person I know who does (in person). I know a few Linux users, and about half as many Mac users. Generally speaking, the user percentages are a lie. It really depends on where you look. Linux and BSD users don't have a need to troll the same sites that alot of these statistics are pulled from. They also wont use catch-all sites (like news sites) that generally support only Windows (and sometimes Mac) users. Macs generally sell better than Linux PCs, because Linux isn't typically sold. Linux, which is free and downloadable, typically replaces Windows on x86 boxes, with Windows getting credit for the sale.
One other point of note. Alot of Linux users will also be using User Agent Switcher to masquerade as a supported browser/OS combination to avoid the hassle of being told that a website doesn't support them, even though it would work fine had they not scripted such an obnoxious obstacle.
Then you idiots keep railing about how using a Free(TM) OS will somehow solve the DRM problem - completely ignoring (and seemingly ignorant of) the fact that DRM can be implemented in ANY operating system with or without cooperation from the authors of the OS.
And then this idiot comes along and completely ignores that unless DRM is written into and protected by the Free(TM) OS, the OS will not be obligated to enforce the DRM, and thus allow it to be bypassed with the right tools.
Also, this idiot ignores that these Free(TM) OSes are also OpenSource(C) and are thus modifiable. So even with a Free(TM) OS that enforces DRM, it would be as easy (and inevitable) to see a fork of the Free(TM) OS that doesn't work against the user.
"Can" doesn't mean it will. Mod OP down as the troll/flamebait it is.
A lot of wind there for someone who has said basically nothing. To be so seasoned in the subject, you grossly underestimate how widespread Ogg is already. Just because noone with a monetary interest really cares to support it, doesn't mean it's not out there. True, most people don't even know the difference and could care less, but vendors will have to support it to be standards compliant, and this will in turn lead to more usage across the board. Consider too that if 0.1% of all existing media is in Ogg Theora/Vorbis format, how many terabytes of data that is?
I see your argument to that of "Windows works and is already on 95% of desktops, so there is no need to write any other OS because everyone will just think it's a joke." or "IE is already the standard browser so everyone should just use it even if it doesn't do everything it correctly. Everyone already works around its shortcomings, so actually working proper would be counterproductive at this point."
Somewhere about the point where you decry calling Ogg a "good codec" you boil into little more than long winded sour grapes. Somehow I find it amazing that you can't see why FOSS advocates would advocate FOSS for open standards.
Someone modded you insightful, but you show nothing of insight and should have been modded a troll. The gist of your rant is nothing more than "Wah! Ogg, noone uses it" and a bunch of links to yourself.
I, and many other non-Microsoft/Apple drones use Ogg. If it were not of some importance, this issue would not be newsworthy. If noone used Ogg, personal media player vendors would not be inundated with requests to support it.
Coincidently, I recently bought a personal media player, and yes, it supports Ogg. Those who don't support Ogg lost a potential sale. I plan to buy a bigger one in a few months, guess what support will make or break that sale too?
Someone in their QA department needs to be fired.
They fired their QA shortly after hiring them to test post-Exodus patches. Seems they kept delaying releases by insisting that things like this get fixed beforehand. CCP's efforts to keep its customer base happy knew it couldn't afford delays in exciting new feature nerfs and rollbacks, so it decided to get rid of them and ignore the volunteer beta testers recommendations too.
But you have to have some understanding here as well. Since they bought White Wolf, a huge part of their testing is going to converting Vampire from simple die rolls to a more enjoyable system involving calculus and a TI-89. I can't wait!
Okay, I am telling on myself here. I work at a Walmart. My store has these in stock currently, but just two. Not sure how long we have had them, but the department manager decided not to put them out in favor of the expensive Gateway's that noone ever buys. Under the rare circumstance that I was allowed to be unchained from the game case, I got the honor of finding stuff to put on display tonight. I saw these and grabbed the store's assistant manager, told him the buzz of them and asked if there was any reason why I couldn't put them out. He said "do it". Now I am wondering if they will be bought up before I return from my weekend off, and if they go to tech savvy people who know what they are, or cheap dolts who grab the lowest priced stuff on the shelf. (Durabrand!)
When people hear my name, they think I am some charitable do-gooder helping people put aside their vices and pulling their lives back together. Suckers!
"If you could do the same to Flash it would be the last nail in the coffin for the home user of Windows. Since he who controls flash controls the civilian entertain-web, I would be surprised if there was not a google, MS, Apple bidding war for them. I am actually suprised it hasn't happened yet."
Macromedia was bought by Adobe. If Apple bought Adobe, they would have defacto control over this as well.
You appear to be behind on some info.
Not so long ago, Microsoft forced an update on people. That is, if you chose not to have automatic updates, you got it anyway. This update causes issues that hose your ability to unhose your system in the event that your OS gets hosed.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/27/1345226
Additionally, some (by some, I mean many) updates are conditional on your willingness to install other unrelated updates (WGA) and allow Microsoft to modify your OS in ways that are undesirable for a lot of users. For example, branding you criminal and forcing you to buy another copy of Windows. These are a far cry different from a driver rollback.
As Rotten said on the big mid 90's reunion tour... what's more punk than only doing it for the money?
I mean, if true, they will be the same musicians on the same (tired old) song and dance, even the same MONO equipment... probably not even with half the intensity that made the original famous. And best of all, they will be PAID to do it all over again.
I can hear Rotten saying this on the final take: "There's your bloody pop song, now where's my fucking check?"
Too many people seem to think that to be a real punk you must have this this thing called "integrity", which is defined as never moving out of your moms basement and dying young of a heroine overdose. Bollocks! If someone wants to pay you to do something, do it. Even if you suck, you still got paid for it. That's punk!
Several sites I have visited, having found via a Google search, get flagged as dangerous. It seems that ANY site in Russia is flagged. If you never have stumbled upon one of Google's "Malware Warning" pages, they more or less block you from accessing the page. Sure, they give you the URL, and you can manually type it (or copy and paste) it into the address bar, but that's just annoying. Everytime I've see this page, it has been a false alarm, while Google happily links to thousands of obvious malware sites on more common and general searches.
A prime example that happened to me only a couple of weeks back while I was researching the Ural Wolf motorcycle. It was designed in cooperation with the Russain biker "gang" Night Wolves MG. Of course, Google flags the site as malware (so visit at your own risk).
Maybe with my Firefox with AdBlock and NoScript on FreeBSD combo, I've save from whatever nasty Windows targeted crud is on the site. Or maybe Google is just full of shit.
Beyond the inappropriate flagging of content concern, this moves Firefox deeper into the realm of bloatware. Quite honestly, "Google Anti-Phishing" belongs as a addon, not in the browser itself. I'm sure it would be hugely popular as a download, but instead will become the feature most often disabled by users.
That does it! How dare you insult my newfound religion! How dare you insinuate that we are violent! It is you who are violent by letting people have this freedom to commit sins against Islam like watching TV and having a Bud! It is you who are looked upon with scorn because you choose to look at beautiful women instead of shamefully hiding them! Bedsheets are to be worn as a women's garment, not rolled on during sex play. It is you who...
wait...
Forgot what I was saying. This is a lot of rhetoric to remember for us recent converts.
Oh yeah!
How dare you call us violent decapitators of man! For this outrage we will cut of your head! In fact, we will kidnap a whole bunch of people who came in goodwill and peace and bring tourist dollars to our blessed land, and saw their heads off as well. We will even tape it while covering our faces like the brave warriors we are. We will show you that Islam is a religion of peace, and kill everyone who disagrees.
And best of all, we will never acknowledge the hypocrisy or irony of addressing criticisms of our "peaceful" religion through endless, violent, self-defeating conflict!
Admiral Ackbar!
(No, seriously, FUCK ISLAM!)
So if I read your dribble correctly, we are supposed to tolerate the biggest source of intolerance in the world? Religion is the biggest "excuse" for mankind's problems. It's a crutch and a security blanket for weak minded people who just want easy don't-have-to-think-too-much answers and opinions. And in that is the biggest problem of all, because one persons motives fed to the weak minded then becomes a movement. Whatever your priest/rabbi/imam tells you, you do in the name of your religion, and it's nothing more than an excuse for the followers unwillingness to understand or tolerate that which is different from him, that which jeopardizes his easy answers.
Quite honestly, go fuck your "tolerance". If you choose cuddle with killers, that's your business. But I have no intention of ever hand holding anyone who's views say they should ignore/berate/enslave/murder me for not being like them or for questioning the logic of "because some book says so". I hate the haters even more than they hate me. I hate them for having no real reason for their hate and stupidity, while at the same time directly giving me a reason to hate them. If religion is providing them a rationale for their actions, name one fucking reason why anyone should tolerate it or them?
My wife runs Monopoly on XP to this day, and I never had any problems running any of the C&C games. If I hit a bump, compatibility mode typically fixed it. The two Westwood games I really miss are Blade Runner and Dune 2000.
Westwood was a brilliant company.
Dune 2000, how I miss thee. Any Windows 95 or higher Westwood game actually doesn't seem to work anymore (and I have about all of them). Something about the way the game reads the disc for validation, Wine doesn't like it. It used to work, but now it doesn't and last I read Wine would "have to totally redo" the way it handles the disc access to get them to work.
Of all the apps I really could use Wine for, none work now, but used too. The lone exception is WoW which works great now, but I no longer use it.
Actually, even fully DX8 games I have don't work with Wines "fully implemented" DX8 api. I'm generally unimpressed with Wine so far.
I got a similar story but not so happy ending. A bank deposited my bill money in the wrong account, and all my bills bounced. The bank covered all fees, except one that seemingly hadn't bounced yet. It had, but the bank bounced it instead of paying it (and didn't charge me an overdraft), but the company (electronically) resubmitted the bill with a fee, and put the account back in the sink. The bank paid the fee, and charged me an overdraft again, but refused to cover the mistake saying it had been my fault this time. By that point, the next months bills started coming around, the money I had put in for them got eaten by the overdraft fee that went in a few days before my deposit, so those bills bounced too.
I actually went to another bank, took out a small loan to zero out my account at the other bank and shut it down. I have been with that bank ever since.
Some of the companies were really nice about it all and waived fees, others weren't, so I ended my associations with them too.
I'm pretty sure that all of the BSDs will throw their weight behind the GPL2 branch. Along with a good portion of other commercial entities using GCC.
Making a fully developed proof of concept worm to show all the iTards that their "invincible" attitude is as retarded as they are should be illegal? More power to the guy. He's making sure it's nasty enough for Apple and their fanbois to no be able to blow off, a real threat. I would have given no warning or announcement at all, just set it free (which already is illegal). The iTards need a good iSmack like this to make them iSTFU. I'm quite sure Apple will outbid whoever just to bury this and pretend that OSuX has never had any holes. Pretty much like the same as they already do.
(I know, I "lie", Apple has never had a single virus or worm ever. Yesterday's article on the on Elk Cloner's 25th anniversary was also a lie. And Steve Jobs is really is iJesus.)
Which will in turn lead to more people becoming familiar with it, and getting used to having tools at their disposal that they don't with Windows (or do at great costs). It also means some people (possibly a lot) will also buy these systems so they can take work home with them and not have to sweat compatibility. It's a big step into reversing the Microsoft monopoly.
The NoScript addon has Yahoo as one of their exemptions to its anti-XSS protection by default.