the_Monk

Reply to lulzSec Hacks Arizona Police: Now the Angry Gamers Have Gone Political in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Philly0381" reply="74" id="2957296"]I suppose things have changed. When I grew up, and it has been awhile, we didn't look to others to give meaning to our life, that came from within each of us. Now for a purpose, it was to be there when our parents called for us and we had better not take our time getting there. [/quote] Of course times have changed. But we as a society are still responsible for how our children have g

Reply to lulzSec Hacks Arizona Police: Now the Angry Gamers Have Gone Political in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Posting things like a few of you have about killing them (or even wishing them dead), celebrating when their scalps are hanging somewhere etc. etc. just perpetuates this [i]cycle[/i] and I find [b]that[/b] is the real travesty here. Someone posted that he/she believes there is only right and wrong. To me there is only love and hate. Those types of comments are not love, they are hate and you know what hate does? It breeds

Reply to lulzSec Hacks Arizona Police: Now the Angry Gamers Have Gone Political in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="48" id="2956861"]4. You seem to think one has to "refute you". I said "We don't agree." That's enough for me. Again, if that doesn't satisfy you, that doesn't matter to me. [/quote] If one enters into discussion around or states points to a discussion the expected response from anyone would be to receive "counter arguments" / points with which to continue discussion. A courtesy which was afforded to you in my reply (reply

Reply to lulzSec Hacks Arizona Police: Now the Angry Gamers Have Gone Political in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

@ DrJBHL Maybe if you took the time to respond to my points in the manner I did yours I'd know what exactly you're responding to but as it stands you didn't reply to or even remotely refute anything I actually said in my reply to you ([b]reply #37[/b]). I never mention religion, I don't ever mention terrorism or the like, I never talk about anything that could be construed as "US envy", and I most certainly never allude to the fact that

Reply to lulzSec Hacks Arizona Police: Now the Angry Gamers Have Gone Political in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Wow it does actually seem impossible to get you to understand that I didn't bring up, speak to or in any other way allude to any of the "sins" you're [i]claiming[/i] I posted about. Of course if you actually reread all of my posts in this thread you'd see just how invalid your accusations are. Since you keep insisting on starting a debate about something which I didn't even post about I will cease responding to you as I don'

Reply to lulzSec Hacks Arizona Police: Now the Angry Gamers Have Gone Political in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

What point exactly are you trying to prove? Pointing the finger at someone else's shortcomings doesn't lessen your own. You do know that right? If you'll notice my point simply addresses the fact that *most* of these "attacks" seem to be levied (as I've already stated previously in this thread) against US-held interests. I was entering into discussion on that point (and possible reasons for that which include

Reply to Need help with setting up a network in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Mumble, Don't worry, nothing taken personally over here. :) I absolutely agree with you about the exponential increase in hardware which is not even remotely being realised however in software. I do however also know that part of my reasons for tweaking my previous machines the way I used to was because I'm actually very much OCD. I'm trying to get better Mumble (my wife has threatned to leave me if my OCD doesn't get better...j/k).....w

Reply to lulzSec Hacks Arizona Police: Now the Angry Gamers Have Gone Political in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="34" id="2956612"]1. It hasn't been proven where these punks are from nor where they currently are.[/quote] Irrelevant. [quote who="DrJBHL" reply="34" id="2956612"] 2. What they do is crime. They cloak it in 'noble causes', but they are criminal punks.[/quote] Again, irrelevant. It really doesn't matter what the group in question or anyone on the outside says. Information breaches are occuring (whatever the motiva

Reply to lulzSec Hacks Arizona Police: Now the Angry Gamers Have Gone Political in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

The [i]real[/i] way to combat these types of [i]targeted[/i] attacks is to do exactly what I detailed in another thread. Just like with anything try not to make a target out of yourself. An area in which the US as a world nation certainly needs some work. As long as the US stomps around the world like a bull in a china-shop you're going to see more and more such US-targeted attacks taking place. Sinp

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@Sinperium hey buddy....how's the "war on drugs" working for y'all? Mark my words......it'll be the same damn thing all over again! Take down one group? Three more spring up in it's vacuum. You'll see......I will not be wrong.

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I think some of you are in dreamland...... There are plenty of cracker groups out there with more knowledge and tools available to them then the entirety of law enforcement world wide. I predict in the times to come we will see breaches 10x worse than those reported today and there will be NOTHING anyone (least of all "uncle sammy") can do about it. I come from somewhat such a background, and I can tell you.....there were a few guys even back then who trul

Reply to lulzSec Hacks Arizona Police: Now the Angry Gamers Have Gone Political in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

none of this surprises me.......I've been preaching the looming danger of cyber-crime explosions for over a decade (and I'm sure I wasn't alone in this either). The problem is we as a society keep wanting more and more ease of access to [u]all[/u] of our information these days. Cloud computing is only making this kind of stuff easier. We collectively want access to [i]everything[/i] [b]now[/b] which means more and more risk is ente

Reply to Need help with setting up a network in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Mumblefratz" reply="14" id="2956330"]One thing I definitely found out was that if you setup your network to use static IP's there was no way,at least that I could find, that allowed you to reliably access all three members of the Workgroup.[/quote] Incorrect. I [b]only[/b] run static IP's and have never had an issue whatsoever, of course I also don't [i]agressively[/i] service-manage (ala internet-joe's like Black Viper etc.) so "networ

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[quote who="Mumblefratz" reply="9" id="2955582"]If there really is a network Discovery service then perhaps that was my problem.[/quote] I didn't mean that there was a service called "network discovery" I meant certain services collectively used to perform "network discovery" such as: DNS client service FDResPub service (Function Discovery Resource Publication) SSDPSrv and UPnPhost services Generally sp

Reply to Need help with setting up a network in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Unfortunately what you're describing is a problem related to the "election process" with regard to the "Computer Browser" service. Essentially when running a network (workgroup) without the benefit of a server someone still has to sort of hold a "master list" of paths on the network etc. This is somewhat accomplished by the "Computer Browser" service in a very WINS-like (legacy windows) fashion. What I'm saying is, since you're not running a serv

Reply to Need help with setting up a network in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Hi Mumble, If you only have a few network devices (ie between 10-15) then it is always easiest to just set up a static IP for each and never have to worry about things again. The important considerations with regard to static addressing are that all addresses remain subnetted to the same network ID (in order to "see" the rest of said network) and retain the correct upstream gateway information so they won't have issues "finding"

Reply to Problem with laptop starting up. Need some help... in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

If you suspect the battery just remove the battery completely and try starting up without it. I always run my notebooks without the battery if I know I'm not going to need to be mobile for a while. Saves on battery longevity..... (less charge cycling)

Reply to When Surfing With FireFox Beware This Phony MS Update Notification! in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

...and once again here I go. Let's see.....I've said the following maybe 1000 times? Maybe more......sigh Don't EVER browse the internet using an account with ADMIN credentials, educate yourself on what your computer system's "Local Security Policy" is/does and then use it to lock-down things correctly. Doing those two things alone will have a much much mu

Reply to Mac Trojan getting worse, should this be cause for celebration? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="the_Monk" reply="22" id="2942926"] should this be cause for celebration? Sure......if you don't care that I celebrate each and every time some PC-head gets infected because he didn't listen when I preached "LEAST-PRIVILEDGE learn to think that way"........or... "learn to use your PC's LOCAL SECURITY POLICY".........or....."keep your OS up-to-date"......or....."never ever browse the internet using an ADMIN accoun

Reply to LulzSec Hacks SonyPictures–1,000,000 Customer Accounts Compromised in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

@ Doc Who said anything about having to "crack" said encryption. Encryption data is often very accessible from within so once the attacker is inside the organization there is often no longer a need to crack anything. Like I said, good hackers can compromise your system, reside there for months while they go digging through your things until they find the keys needed to access whatever it is they want. That was the point of [b]posting reply #22[/

Reply to LulzSec Hacks SonyPictures–1,000,000 Customer Accounts Compromised in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="35" id="2946249"] Your examples, and the_Monk's are off, because if a company cannot guard the data, they have no business keeping it. If a person is hurt as a result: 1. The one CAUSING the damage is directly responsible criminally and civilly. (the hacker) 2. The one holding the data insecurely has cotributory negligence (the degree of which is set CIVILLY by a jury and a Judge can negate, affirm or change it). &nbsp

Reply to LulzSec Hacks SonyPictures–1,000,000 Customer Accounts Compromised in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Some of you people just don't get it do you? It doesn't matter what SONY would have done to "protect" the user information. When groups of individuals [i]who feel[/i] they have an axe to grind with a business or the practices of same choose to perform illegal (even if same can only be deemed [i]morally[/i] corrupt for the sake of argument) activities/actions against said instiitution then [b]there is nothing that could be done to prevent said actions.[/b]<

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All things considered.......Medal of Honor (2010) was actually a very nice FPS. Smooth as silk (even on low-end machines) and really promoted team-play after they nerfed the sniper gheyness! Of course the devs (EA and DICE) dropping [i]active[/i] support for the game only a month after releasing PAID-for DLC does seem like a swift slap in the face to their community and allowed the game to fall victim to the hacker crowd. Sad really.....

Reply to Mac Trojan getting worse, should this be cause for celebration? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

should this be cause for celebration? Sure......if you don't care that I celebrate each and every time some PC-head gets infected because he didn't listen when I preached " LEAST-PRIVILEDGE learn to think that way "........or... " learn to use your PC's LOCAL SECURITY POLICY ".........or....." <span s

Reply to my email is sending spam mails in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="1" id="2939861"]Change your password and make it strong. Use a free bidirectional firewall. Try ZoneAlarm. [/quote] The windows firewall is "bi-directional" as well. Just go into the "advanced" view and you'll see all kinds of goodies you don't normally see. EDIT: @tito_defekt what service pack are you running on XP (as this also affects what level of configuration is availabe in the windows f