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Comment Re:Online Banking (Score 3, Insightful) 291

by polymerousgeek (#28330599) Attached to: MS Money Poll

I was in an internet cafe...to check my credit balance...it was using win 98/5...and some archaic version of IE...

Wait, let's go over that again:

  1. You're using a public internet cafe...
  2. ...with an ancient, near-infinitely insecure windows system...
  3. ...running an equally ancient and even less secure version of (shudders) IE...
  4. ...to check personal (and presumably confidential) banking information.

You're like that LifeLock guy, who put his SSN on the side of that truck, except without the LifeLock.

Comment Vim/DevC++ (Score 1) 1055

by polymerousgeek (#28105821) Attached to: What Free IDE Do You Use?
On the rare occasion I'm forced to write something for windows, I prefer DevC++. Even though I haven't seen or heard anything new about it in years, it was the first IDE I ever used, and my first experience with C/C++, so I'm still very fond of the interface. For all my real work (on Linux), I stick with vim.

Comment Re:DoS (Score 1) 842

by polymerousgeek (#26953811) Attached to: Average User Only Runs 2 Apps, So Microsoft Will Charge For More
and what exactly justifies as an anti-virus program?
  • windows defender/ms-built av app?
  • big name av apps (norton, mcaffee)?
  • other non-huge av suites (AVG, nod32)?
  • free/oss av systems (clam)?
  • viruses claming to be antivirus software?
  • my favorite games after i tell windows that its av software?
  • something else entirely that won't exist for another 5 years?

Is ms going to whitelist apps? How? Checksums/signatures (that'll really work)? This is probably even more ridiculous than the 3-app limit (or at least harder to actually keep).
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Submission + - RIAA Hearing Next Week To Be Televised (blogspot.com)

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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "One commentator labels it 'another fly in the RIAA's ointment'. In SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, the Boston, Massachusetts, RIAA case in which the defendant is represented by Harvard law professor Charles Nesson and a group of his students, the Judge has ruled that the hearing scheduled for January 22nd will be televised over the internet. The hearing will relate to Mr. Tenenbaum's counterclaims against the record companies and against the RIAA. In her 11-page opinion (PDF), District Judge Nancy Gertner labeled as 'curious' the record companies' opposition to televising the proceedings, since their professed reason for bringing the cases is deterrence, 'a strategy [which] effectively relies on the publicity arising from this litigation'."

Comment Re:Mail to 'everyone', [click] (Score 1) 384

by polymerousgeek (#26405759) Attached to: State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm
I recall in basic computer class, someone had just learned about wildcards (*?), and I was asked "Is it possible to send an email to *@*.*"?
"No."
"Why not?"
"Can you imagine the amount of network traffic that would cause? Sending an email to EVERYONE?"
"uhhh..."
"Email programs have built in protection for this, but it has happened occasionally."
"Oh, okay"

I think he actually believed it.

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