Well, several people became infected just by visiting The Register. You can read about it here. It wasn't even The Register's fault, but rather their advertising provider that was responsible for infecting computers with the Bofra exploit.
I suppose we should be thankful that most games still ship with a basic instruction manual. It's only a matter of time before they decide to skimp on that, too, and make it a crummy PDF on the CD/DVD instead.
Many of Microsoft's security flaws are self imposed. ActiveX and security zones in IE, for example. Eager to make the web another Windows application zone, they introduced ActiveX. Wanting to crush Netscape because they could possibly make Microsoft Windows irrelavent in the future, they integrated IE into Windows, and that required security zones. I won't lay the blame entirely on Microsoft for the viruses and worms, but I will lay it on them for the drive-by install of spyware that every IE user has to beware of. In their efforts to destroy competition, they opened their customers up to this.
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Unless you can prove that gravity occurs, it should not be taught in physics. Sure, we experience the effects of gravity every day, but we have virtually no idea how it works. Does that make the theories that physics uses to predict the effects of gravity invalid? No one has ever seen or measured a graviton, you know. Perhaps we should just believe that God pulls things together instead of pursuing this gravity nonsense?
Creationism has another problem within the realm of science. It can not be used to predict or model anything. The only thing the theory is good for is reinforcing your own belief in God. To make matters worse, it can be used as an excuse for anything we do not yet understand, undermining the ability to replace theories that do not properly conform to reality. Many people believe that accepting Creationism would hail a throwback to when the Church was the only authority on truth, and where the Earth was the centre of the universe, and everyone knew that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones.
NTLM authentication works fine in recent versions of Mozilla/Firefox/Gecko, even on non-Windows platforms. Plug in the proxy server settings, and go. Firefox will ask for your proxy authentication on the first page request, and remember it until you close the browser.
Contrary to what you say, the H1B program is far from indentured servitude. [snip]
For one thing, an immigrant on a two-year gig will be more willing to put in more hours, and spend those hours more productively. A temporary immigrant has no family in the US he/she needs to spend time with, and is here for the sole purpose of making money and gaining experience. Plus he/she will not spend company time farting around on the internet looking for better jobs.
It's funny. You tell the poster he's wrong, and then go on to make his case for him. H1Bs are attractive to employers because they get an employee that they have more control over, who won't complain about minor injustices done to them by the company and can be paid less. Full fledged immigrants at least have access to all the things they'll pay taxes to support, and are not held hostage by an employer.
I've known lots of J1s and this was the worst situation I had ever seen, but it is far from uncommon. I also know quite a few H1Bs, and none of them have any horror stories like this.
Just because the J1 program is worse, that doesn't make the H1B less bad. Just because people allow themselves to be abused, it does not make it acceptable to abuse them.
I think I've seen a Rage Fury MAXX working on a machine ONCE. The other times, it was always, "install driver, reboot windows, scream at black screen when Windows doesn't finish booting." Unfortunately, when the thing did work, playing the game was a little odd because you were always delayed by at least one frame (and that could be anywhere from less than 16ms [60fps] to more than 100ms [10fps] depending on the framerate at that exact moment). Not enough to seriously affect your ability to play the game, but usually enough to make the disconnect between your control and display obvious.
So, of course the answer is, no, this is not compatible with gigabit ethernet. Gigabit signalling may be compatible with running power over those same lines, but the fact of the matter is the Power over Ethernet standard (802.3af) is incompatible with the gigabit ethernet standard (802.3ab).
To be completely honest, it's a bad time to play EVE Online. The new expansion pack has made the game unstable and difficult to play. Since the expansion packs are non-optional (and free) everyone has to deal with the new bugs like it or not. It's going to take a few more weeks before they get the nastier bugs out of it. On the other hand, this is an excellent excuse for training Lv.5 of all those skills that take forever to learn.
Microsoft - first microcomputer software company
I don't know who was 'first', but Microsoft was founded in 1975. Gary Kildall's CP/M dates back to 1973 or 1974. Digital Research Inc., the company that was founded to sell CP/M was also founded in 1975.
AOL - one of the original online services
CompuServe predates AOL by quite a bit. CompuServe was founded in 1969. The company ("The Source") that would eventually become AOL was founded in 1978.
Intel - first microprocessor company Sony - first widespread transistor radio company
Texas Instuments was probably the first to develop both these technologies. The microprocessor situation is fuzzy at best. TI's transistor radio predates Sony's by about three years (and Robert Denk's radio may have predated that by another 6 years). Sony's wasn't even first-to-market. That honor belonged to I.D.E.A's Regency TR-1.
Frankly, I don't think there's any 'first mover advantage' in these examples at all. On the other hand, there's a very real ability for the dominant companies to use their marketing muscle to 'rewrite' history in their favor. Few people question the 'fact' that Microsoft was the first software company, or that Intel invented the microprocessor, or that AOL was the first online service.
Uhm, because it's a different company? C&C was made by Westwood Studios (now just another indistinguisable part of EA), and Starcraft was a Blizzard game. Blizzard isn't going to be using the Electronic Arts Sage engine any time soon, I think.
Not at all. The idea is "be liberal in what you accept, but strict in what you produce". It's the reason why there are very few SMTP mail incompatibilities on the internet despite there being hundreds of SMTP server programs, and thousands of MUAs. Most any SMTP server will accept an e-mail even if it's not 100% valid according to the RFC, and most MUAs will display the RFC violating e-mail without a problem. Would you prefer an error message, "This e-mail is not RFC 822 compliant" everytime you got an e-mail that was in RFC 2822 format?
Browsers should act the same way (although a validate feature built-in to the browser might be a good idea). IE and Mozilla should not fail to render the file just because it's structure is invalid provided there is enough of it there to produce a proper render. However, no one should ever assume that the two will render the thing in the same way.
On the other hand, if you want valid targets for your complaints, complain about Frontpage, complain about MS Word, or any other HTML generator which cannot generate comformant HTML even if you only use the 'WYSIWYG' editor.
There are some URI domain blacklists that cover URIs that often appear in spam messages, but that's a little different. Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange's spam filtering consisted of several blacklisted words, and blacklists from any mail from @hotmail.com, @yahoo, etc. This may have changed in later versions, however. The snakeoil anti-spam systems many vendors release has got to be the worst, though.
Joe-jobbing seems to be highly overrated. There never seem to be any real cases cited, only hand-wringing by people who have not been joe-jobbed but who seem more concerned with hypothetical joe-jobbing of unnamed, unknown others that no one can point to than with the stark, ugly reality that significant and increasing levels of Internet bandwidth are being eaten up by the billions of spam and worm/virus messages being propagated daily, not to mention the millions of person hours lost to weeding through and disposing of spam and disinfecting machines.
Okay, how about the spamcop joe job. I did recieve a spam promoting spamcop.net, and threatening me with having my domain blocked and demanding money. In reality, the e-mail did not come from spamcop, and it only took a few minutes to determine this. This didn't stop a large number of angry people from complaining on the spamcop forums. The Spamhaus Project has also been the victim of a joe job, as well as a wide variety of other people.
That's the reality. Your joe-jobbing fears are entirely speculative and not taken seriously by anyone familiar with the protocols and programming involved in designing and implementing something like the Lycos screen saver.
No, the reality is if something like this becomes a popular anti-spam measure, then we're likely to see joe jobbing take off. As much as I hate spammers, I hope the full weight of the law falls on Lycos for this demonstration of gross negligence.
I'm sure this will be some consolation to the poor slob that gets joe jobbed by your self-styled justice. Or are we to believe that it would never occur to a spammer to redirect their DNS to an anti-spam site when undergoing such an attack?
The USPTO stopped requiring a working model of the object long ago. In return, people started filing lots of theoretical patents for things they either could not build or had no idea how to implement that which they had 'invented'.
Except for one minor detail. Copyright still applies to the software, regardless of if you agree to the EULA or not. Posting the disassembled source would still be copyright violation, although you could probably legally do the first two without any problems.
Have you any reason to believe that the IT industry won't find a way to decrease worker efficiency? So far we've introduced such marvels of technology like PC solitaire, instant messaging, the World Wide Web, spam, and spyware. A four of those were within the last 10 years alone.
The betas of these developer tools are free, the final product (Visual X Express) will not be. Last I heard, the price of the Visual Express products is going to be something like $50 to $100 each. To be completely honest, it's unlikely it'll be free anyway. To do so would kill Borland, who Microsoft is keeping on life support just so they can say they have competition in developer tools on Windows. The only product in that lineup that Microsoft has said will be free is the SQL Server Express, which is a replacement for the free MSDE engine anyway.
1. Bright white text on a black background. Yellow or green also works. Less glare, good contrast, etc. Great for x-terms. Harder in Word. Find what works for you.
I find white text on a black background very difficult to read on an LCD monitor. It's usually readable for the first few lines, but after a while it becomes very difficult to follow the lines, and scrolling the text causes visual phantoms which make it harder to read the rest of the text until my eyes adjust again. I find using white text on a dark grey or blue background far easier on my eyes in the long term. When I was using a CRT, I found the opposite to be true, that white text on black was easy to read, but visual phantom lines often appeared on black text on white backgrounds.
It's the same effect as those optical illusions where you look at a static image for a period of time, and then look at something else, and 'see' the inverse to the image you were just looking at earlier.
The patching issue would've been a valid excuse, or the generic "we do not have the resources to support that application on our network" would've been valid as well. BS answers filled with garbage excuses like above can make an admin look bad if the user is smart enough to find the way to prove them wrong. For most admins, this doesn't happen, but it's still no excuse for this behaviour.
Do you have any idea how much money it would take to litigate a patent claim to the bitter end, even if you did succeed? We're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars here. The patent aggressor is likely to make you an offer that would be less than the cost to take it to the courts to decide, but still far too expensive. Besides, a patent parasite's business plan IS to harass people into paying their fees. Challenging them isn't likely to get them to ease off you.
Also, I believe patents expire in 21 years, not 14 these days, although I believe that also depends on if the patent owner renews or not.
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And remove the packaging. Probably the most difficult part!
That's pretty optimistic. I give it an hour.
Well, several people became infected just by visiting The Register. You can read about it here. It wasn't even The Register's fault, but rather their advertising provider that was responsible for infecting computers with the Bofra exploit.
I suppose we should be thankful that most games still ship with a basic instruction manual. It's only a matter of time before they decide to skimp on that, too, and make it a crummy PDF on the CD/DVD instead.
Many of Microsoft's security flaws are self imposed. ActiveX and security zones in IE, for example. Eager to make the web another Windows application zone, they introduced ActiveX. Wanting to crush Netscape because they could possibly make Microsoft Windows irrelavent in the future, they integrated IE into Windows, and that required security zones. I won't lay the blame entirely on Microsoft for the viruses and worms, but I will lay it on them for the drive-by install of spyware that every IE user has to beware of. In their efforts to destroy competition, they opened their customers up to this.
Creationism has another problem within the realm of science. It can not be used to predict or model anything. The only thing the theory is good for is reinforcing your own belief in God. To make matters worse, it can be used as an excuse for anything we do not yet understand, undermining the ability to replace theories that do not properly conform to reality. Many people believe that accepting Creationism would hail a throwback to when the Church was the only authority on truth, and where the Earth was the centre of the universe, and everyone knew that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones.
NTLM authentication works fine in recent versions of Mozilla/Firefox/Gecko, even on non-Windows platforms. Plug in the proxy server settings, and go. Firefox will ask for your proxy authentication on the first page request, and remember it until you close the browser.
I think I've seen a Rage Fury MAXX working on a machine ONCE. The other times, it was always, "install driver, reboot windows, scream at black screen when Windows doesn't finish booting." Unfortunately, when the thing did work, playing the game was a little odd because you were always delayed by at least one frame (and that could be anywhere from less than 16ms [60fps] to more than 100ms [10fps] depending on the framerate at that exact moment). Not enough to seriously affect your ability to play the game, but usually enough to make the disconnect between your control and display obvious.
So, of course the answer is, no, this is not compatible with gigabit ethernet. Gigabit signalling may be compatible with running power over those same lines, but the fact of the matter is the Power over Ethernet standard (802.3af) is incompatible with the gigabit ethernet standard (802.3ab).
To be completely honest, it's a bad time to play EVE Online. The new expansion pack has made the game unstable and difficult to play. Since the expansion packs are non-optional (and free) everyone has to deal with the new bugs like it or not. It's going to take a few more weeks before they get the nastier bugs out of it. On the other hand, this is an excellent excuse for training Lv.5 of all those skills that take forever to learn.
I don't know who was 'first', but Microsoft was founded in 1975. Gary Kildall's CP/M dates back to 1973 or 1974. Digital Research Inc., the company that was founded to sell CP/M was also founded in 1975.
AOL - one of the original online services
CompuServe predates AOL by quite a bit. CompuServe was founded in 1969. The company ("The Source") that would eventually become AOL was founded in 1978.
Intel - first microprocessor company
Sony - first widespread transistor radio company
Texas Instuments was probably the first to develop both these technologies. The microprocessor situation is fuzzy at best. TI's transistor radio predates Sony's by about three years (and Robert Denk's radio may have predated that by another 6 years). Sony's wasn't even first-to-market. That honor belonged to I.D.E.A's Regency TR-1.
Frankly, I don't think there's any 'first mover advantage' in these examples at all. On the other hand, there's a very real ability for the dominant companies to use their marketing muscle to 'rewrite' history in their favor. Few people question the 'fact' that Microsoft was the first software company, or that Intel invented the microprocessor, or that AOL was the first online service.
Uhm, because it's a different company? C&C was made by Westwood Studios (now just another indistinguisable part of EA), and Starcraft was a Blizzard game. Blizzard isn't going to be using the Electronic Arts Sage engine any time soon, I think.
Browsers should act the same way (although a validate feature built-in to the browser might be a good idea). IE and Mozilla should not fail to render the file just because it's structure is invalid provided there is enough of it there to produce a proper render. However, no one should ever assume that the two will render the thing in the same way.
On the other hand, if you want valid targets for your complaints, complain about Frontpage, complain about MS Word, or any other HTML generator which cannot generate comformant HTML even if you only use the 'WYSIWYG' editor.
There are some URI domain blacklists that cover URIs that often appear in spam messages, but that's a little different. Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange's spam filtering consisted of several blacklisted words, and blacklists from any mail from @hotmail.com, @yahoo, etc. This may have changed in later versions, however. The snakeoil anti-spam systems many vendors release has got to be the worst, though.
I'm sure this will be some consolation to the poor slob that gets joe jobbed by your self-styled justice. Or are we to believe that it would never occur to a spammer to redirect their DNS to an anti-spam site when undergoing such an attack?
The USPTO stopped requiring a working model of the object long ago. In return, people started filing lots of theoretical patents for things they either could not build or had no idea how to implement that which they had 'invented'.
Except for one minor detail. Copyright still applies to the software, regardless of if you agree to the EULA or not. Posting the disassembled source would still be copyright violation, although you could probably legally do the first two without any problems.
Have you any reason to believe that the IT industry won't find a way to decrease worker efficiency? So far we've introduced such marvels of technology like PC solitaire, instant messaging, the World Wide Web, spam, and spyware. A four of those were within the last 10 years alone.
The betas of these developer tools are free, the final product (Visual X Express) will not be. Last I heard, the price of the Visual Express products is going to be something like $50 to $100 each. To be completely honest, it's unlikely it'll be free anyway. To do so would kill Borland, who Microsoft is keeping on life support just so they can say they have competition in developer tools on Windows. The only product in that lineup that Microsoft has said will be free is the SQL Server Express, which is a replacement for the free MSDE engine anyway.
It's the same effect as those optical illusions where you look at a static image for a period of time, and then look at something else, and 'see' the inverse to the image you were just looking at earlier.
The patching issue would've been a valid excuse, or the generic "we do not have the resources to support that application on our network" would've been valid as well. BS answers filled with garbage excuses like above can make an admin look bad if the user is smart enough to find the way to prove them wrong. For most admins, this doesn't happen, but it's still no excuse for this behaviour.
Also, I believe patents expire in 21 years, not 14 these days, although I believe that also depends on if the patent owner renews or not.