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Comment Re:AV companies scare their customers (Score 1) 272

I have ran Norton Internet Security since the 2009 incarnation, with generally OK results [I'm a 40-year IT veteran and was curious how a "big box" suite would perform], but when I got the pop-up pushed at me to upgrade to 2011, I was appalled to see that it refused to install unless I uninstalled Threatfire, which it deemed to be "incompatible" - that's it; no other option, no explanation, just uninstall, "trust me, I'm Symantec and know best." Guess who will NOT be renewing their subscription in 24 days? What's the difference between "Security Toolkit" [as an example] telling me I have BAD STUFF on my system, and this?
Cellphones

Apple, AT&T Sued Over iPhone 4 Antennas 435

bannable writes "Apple has been accused of violation of the Federal Communications Act, three counts of products liability related to negligence, defect in design and breach of implied warranty, intentional and negligent misrepresentation, fraud by concealment, unfair business practices and more. 'The iPhone 4 manifests design and manufacturing defects that were known to Defendants before it was released which were not disclosed to consumers, namely, a connection problem caused by the iPhone 4's antenna configuration that makes it difficult or impossible to maintain a connection to AT&T's network,' the California complaint reads."

Comment Re:It could be related to ACTA, or. . . (Score 4, Informative) 190

DISCLAIMER: I am part of the support team of an ISP
Yes, we do hate those users who suck bandwidth via bittorrent to the detriment of the majority who simply want to read their email, keep up-to-date via a social networking site and do other non-intensive tasks. However if we were being completely cynical, the over usage charges we can collect (and which our users agreed to in our AUP when they signed up) are a nice earner. PLUS I agree, we don't have to invest so heavily and so often to upgrade our infrastructure. I don't necessarily agree with such a position, but I'm stuck with it. However, I read TFPDF and it bleats about illegal copyrighted downloads which it seems to imply is the only use for bittorrent, nowhere do I see (except after the download is complete) how this violation can be proven. I have lost count over the years of how many iso's of various Linux distros I have downloaded, how many times the kids have updated WoW.... This sanctimonious BS posturing in the guise of protecting copyright leaves me cold.
Upgrades

NVIDIA Driver Update Causing Video Cards To Overheat In Games 155

After a group of StarCraft II beta testers reported technical difficulties following the installation of NVIDIA driver update 196.75, Blizzard tech support found that the update introduced fan control problems that were causing video cards to overheat in 3D applications. "This means every single 3D application (i.e. games) running these drivers is going to be exposed to overheating and in some extreme cases it will cause video card, motherboard and/or processor damage. If said motherboard, processor or graphic card is not under warranty, some gamers are in serious trouble playing intensive games such as Prototype, World of Warcraft, Farcry 3, Crysis and many other games with realistic graphics." NVIDIA said they were investigating the problem, took down links to the new drivers, and advised users to revert to 196.21 until the problem can be fixed.

Comment Re:Their country, their standards. Reciprocity suc (Score 1) 5

It's not that the Brazil government can't afford a Thawte or Verisign certificate - the actual reasoning is that as a sovereign nation they don't trust (and can't depend on) these foreign corporations. The website is (IMHO, correctly and appropriately) certified by the chief Brazilian trusted authority.

Hmm. When I go to The Consulate General of India in San Francisco, I am assured that

Effective October 1st, 2007 Travisa Outsourcing will handle all requests for Indian visas.

Strangely enough, that site [registered by Verizon Wireless] is authenticated by Verisign Inc., but that does not seem to bother your governments sensibilities. BTW, I myself am a UK Citizen and a Permanent Resident of the United States, so I don't think your xenophobic rant really applies to me.

But yes, it's your country so your rules apply. I understand that a visa is a privilege, not a right.

I applied for my visa/"Green Card" in the same way that a non-citizen from anywhere must, and although the process involves vetting as might be expected, I am never "excruciatingly humiliated" [to paraphrase your comment] when re-entering the US.

The point of my post was to highlight the fact that there exists a web of trust on the internet which seems to be ignored in this particular case; is that my browser's problem? I think not. They all quite rightly caution that there can be no trust applied to this particular site and to try to turn this into a specious allegation on what happens to a non-citizen entering the US is garbage.

Comment Re:let's wait and see (Score 1) 286

There are good and bad points to be made on both sides of this contentious subject. Eliminating spurious traffic/spam etc could never be bad, but given the .au government's draconian position, I wouldn't trust them to monitor the corridors in a kindergarten school. As for "How?" - tail -f /var/log/messages works for me. Pipe it to some simple filters and you have it. Want to know who's reaching out on port 445? Or spamming on port 25? There's a filter for that.

Comment Following to the MSDN (Score 1) 206

article pointed me to [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ColumnHandlers\{F9DB5320-233E-11D1-9F84-707F02C10627}] @="PDF Column Info"
Hoping to mitigate the vulnerability, I deleted the key after exporting it. However it does not cure the idiocy of Adobe allowing executables in something supposed to simply describe a document.

Comment Re:Apple Damage Control (Score 1) 327

TFA says:

The perception of iPhone being a failure was created by a newspaper in Japan, Sankei Shimbun, Hayashi noted in his original reply to Wired. Last fall, it wrote although Softbank tried to sell one million units by the end of 2008, they only sold about 200,000. This article was wrong in two fronts. One is that Softbank nor Apple never publicly claimed they would sell 1 million units. Second, their estimate of 200,000 units were also wrong. Although Apple nor Softbank releases the real number of shipment, today, it is strongly believed that they have shipped more than 300,000 and possibly near 400,000 units in Japan.

(My emphasis)
shipped!=sold

Comment Not quite all.... (Score 4, Informative) 259

the goodies OP would have us believe are actually included. From this story

In another move to counter VMware's lead, Citrix will offer its XenServer software free starting in April. One or two high-end features from that product, including the high-availability features, will be moved to Citrix Essentials for XenServer, but many of the existing capabilities will be available for no charge, said Citrix CTO Simon Crosby. Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V and Citrix Essentials for XenServer each will be priced at US$1,500 to $5,000 per server, depending on the features selected, Crosby said.

Censorship

Submission + - Net Neutrality Still Alive?

BuhDuh writes: Despite previous reports, and as subsequently discussed here on /., it appears that Sen. Feinstein's ammendment[pdf] did not make it into the approved "HR1 version of the bill[pdf]
Of course, I cannot aver to having read all 680 pages, but searching for the terms Ms. Feinstein used came up blank, so can we breathe a collective sigh of relief until someone tries to bury similar proposals in the next wide-ranging legislation?

Comment Maybe I'm off base here but (Score 3, Insightful) 175

FTFA:

.....instructs its drone machines to report to 250 different internet addresses each day. Without the service, admins would have to manually block 1,750 domains each week, or 91,250 each year.

Wouldn't blocking "this weeks" known IP addresses stop the addition of new ones, rendering the infection impotent?

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