"Selling vulnerabilities == little money"

Are you sure about that?

I know of a certain company in Redmond that sold vulnerabilities in bulk packages. They seem to be doing alright.

That reminds me of the good old Windows messenger service pop-up ads.... Microsoft is probably is a good position to contest this pattern.

Doesn't sound so bad... as long as the kid has had the essential basic such as reading and arithmetic. It's actually what I did my entire junior high period where I self studied computer science during the nights and slept in school during the days.. pretty much in protest in the teaching method and some useless content of the regular classes.

My teachers back then pretty much referred to as 'a failure that will never amount to anything'. Then the Internet boom came....


Although, the child's own drive to learn would be paramount to this method of education. Some guidance and support from the parents whenever needed would probably be nice too.

Nothing spectacular.. just little convenience tools here and there:

• most of all, easy-to-use names instead of memorizing/typing out the IPs of my network and those of my friends.
• creating email aliases so I can have custom addresses for each thing I sigh up. So that I turn them off when the address gets sold to spammers
• centralized depository of little utilities I often find myself needing to use on remote PCs
• for sharing photos and home videos with the family.
• a place to put my ebooks, organized to my liking on a simple list, so I can access them easily on my mobile devices when I get bored on a bus
• posting little pictures in forums, because most free image hosting places are too fussy for me.
• simple forums for friends and family

downtown Vancouver?


I kinda wonder how much of the 'good stuff' is in our air..

Sometimes I get a bit of a buzz just walking down the street after work to the bus stop.

Because, the primary diet for silkworms are mulberry leaves.

Actually I'd argue there is still enough difference between the meat space analogy and actualy computer security to make it not work.

It's a lot of work (comparatively) for a thief to physically break into a house and loot the valuables. So they actually do recon work ahead of time to ensure they have an easier target with better potential pay off.


However, it's relatively low cost for someone with access to a botnet to just try a range of attacks on a large number of potential victims. If you are vulnerable the attack, it doesn't matter if you are "15% more secure" than the next guy. You will just both get owned.

Windows Live Family Safety operates in two modes: basic and strict... ...The author of the post was probably running in STRICT mode and didn't realize the purpose of the software.

From TFP:

...so I decided to give it a spin. Turned it on, set it to 'basic filtering' (their lowest level), and went to Google...

They just have to be smart about how the ads are posted. I don't really mind the single line text ad on the top of my gmail inbox. I sometimes click them if they happen to draw my interest. However, if a someone decides to make pop-up, animated, cursor/focus stealing, flashing, seizure/vomit-inducing, 10MB flash file, expect it to be blocked.

ok, contrary to certain common believes, the average Chinese people do have a sense of humor, which is what this ultimately is, and it will be recognized as such.


Now someone with a giant stick of wood up his ass in media control may object to this meme because the humor part just goes whoosh right over his head, and if he is lucky, may end up getting a censor put on this in the end. However I doubt it will gather enough steam to force anyone into slave labor.


It will be as ridiculous as prosecuting someone for a tom cruise missile comment.

Actually, many are. There are a few method of character creations (with Japanese pronouciations for your benefit):


Xiangxin/shoukei(look alike): pictures, basically. From drawing of the object.

Zheshi/shiji(indicator): simple ideas expressed by modified pictogram and such. Since you are a

Huiyi/kaii(combined meaning): combined objects to express certain ideas

Xingsheng/keisei(shape-sound combo): now we are into phonetically created characters. Theses character often contain one part which is a picture that express certain idea, accompanied by another part that gives it a sound. This actually accounts for a good number of chinese characters.

Jiajie/kasha(false-loan): These are the purely phonetically created characters. They are the use of existing character of similar sound for things in speech that does not have a character for. This method has been abused over and over and caused many... unfortunate puns.

Zhuanzu/tenchuu(now, there is a pun)... "reciprocal meaning" from wiki... I've never really understood this category.. even though my father and grandfather are both ancient Chinese teachers, this subject gives me massive headaches. As far as I can tell, characters that are similar enough are used in place of each other either to make a rhyme in poetry or to avoid certain taboo.

Japanese.

You'd actually be ok. My wife is tone deaf and she speaks just fine.


The thing is, we are not listening to absolute tones, but relative changes in tone during the pronunciation of the syllable, such as a flat tone, a rising tone, a falling tone, a falling-then-raising tone, or the light tone (removal of the vowel).

They could have just offered free snacks on sticks, like corn dogs or popsicle, and maybe drinks, in their holding cells, and make the collection voluntary...


*please discard sticks&plastic cups in this recycling bin*

$5,000 discount just for listening to ads, that you may find a way to turn off? Unlikely.

What I do think may happen is, it maybe marketed as a 'feature' with some actual perks. Such as free access to extra live GPS information (reads, advertised businesses on your map), free satellite radio/digital music where they interject these ads (basically like traditional radio, but they can monopolize), or something along those lines.

I know certain... people... who would definitely go for this if it offered live sale notifications... "*beep* 20% off on woman's footwear, 200 metres ahead on your right"