Turns out, you can't transfer a verisign domain in the last 90 days of registration.
Yes you can. Me (and many of my friends and people @ work) routinely transfer domains to an OpenSRS reseller with just days remaining before expiry with no problems whatsoever. I don't know where you heard the 90 day thing, but it's pure bullshit, probably spread by NetSol themselves to get more people to renew.
Detecting the presence of copy protection and removing such protection are different things, as I'm sure you'll agree. It would be sufficient for the drive to eject the CD.
If you were sick as often as they are you'd probably be more germ paranoid too
Cause and effect. Personally, I agree with the parent. I think all the people worried about getting sick and washing their hands every 5 minutes are sick WAY more often than your average person. Just like with everything else in life, common sense will keep you alive just fine. Wash your hands when appropriate (after bathroom visits, before preparing food, touching wounds/open skin (includes genitals I guess:), etc, and you won't get sick any more than you have to. Avoid filthy habits, like nail biting, nervously sticking fingers in mouth, etc. Eat good, sensible food, and you'll get plenty of vitamins/minerals to keep you healthy, and you won't get fat either. Get outside and run/walk/bike/hike/exercise, and you'll be stronger, feel and look better, and will be more resistant to sickness.
It's all worked for thousands of years, it may work for you too.
You see, with doctors, and other professionals like accountants and lawyers, you get more respected as you get older and have more experience. You make more money. You're sought after by employers. With IT people, well, you just become a dinosaur and no one wants to hire you or take you seriously.
And THAT's why so many people go into the professional fields.
I find it very hard to believe that Adobe spent very much money "researching" this "invention".
Exactly. Probably what happened was some Adobe developer was bored one day, or had some spare time between optimizing filters for those damn Motorola vs Intel benchmarks... and thought it would be neat to have multiple dialog boxes moved into a single tabbed one. All the necessary UI code is there, you just have to put it all together. It may not be immediately obvious, but it wasn't to the guy who coded this up. He was probably messing with all kinds of approaches.
I seriously doubt this was some grand multi-year multi-million-$ research project; and it cost Adobe nothing beyond what they had to pay the guy to otherwise sit idle.
Then just a couple weeks ago someone said that is like holding gun makers accountable for murders. Now I'm not so sure that MS is to blame - they had their reasons for building it in, dubious as they may be, and I'm sure people besides the virus writers have made use of this feature.
The problem is that guns (generally) do not go off by themselves. They don't shoot random people across the globe. There is nothing wrong with all the features in Outlook, they just should be turned OFF by default, so anyone who needs them can still use them. Most people have no idea what is and isn't turned on in their software, or even how to check for it.
The script is insufficient to stop image leaching. Instead of redirecting to the image after checking the referer, it should serve the image itself. If it redirects it's a trivial matter of manually telnetting to the server or capturing the request some other way to figure out the real URL.
Doesn't matter what they're running. The site is probably scripted. Any site bigger than a couple of pages will have a header include. Just stick two lines of PHP or ASP or whatever to check the referer and redirect if needed.
Nice of them to admit that their ads are invasive.
And why wouldn't they? I'm sure the guys who run the site like ads as much as the next person, but they need them to keep the site running. Do you have any alternatives? The GameSpot people sure do, which is what this story is about.
I can't find this on Download.com. Search for RadLight just brings up a single subtitler match. Their website's cnet.com download icon points directly to a SimTel mirror. Which is interesting because download.com allows user comments and ratings... are they hiding something?
Of all the automated traffic enforcement/monitoring, the red light camera is the only sensible one. There is absolutely NO excuse for running a red light or a stop sign. On 99+% of the roads I've driven on in my life so far, the speed limit was WAY low for normal driving conditions in a modern passenger car. Even in very bad conditions (blizzard), as long as the roads are drivable, the speed limit is too low. Which is why there is no 100% enforcement of the speed limit. Speed limits would just have to be raised. But a red light is there for a reason; it doesn't mean you can drive through it if you feel like it, because it means someone else has a green light, and you're gonna have a collision. Even if no one is in sight, you're gonna lose at most, what, 20 seconds waiting for your green?
But it is very simple to pop a real alert, a new window, or any multitude of other ways to trick an inexperienced user into installing software, joining a service, or disclosing personal information.
I've never fallen for those fake alert boxes, mostly beause my Windows colour scheme is totally different. You'd thing that those things would by now at least have a graduated title bar to match the default in 98/ME/2000...
The dead giveaway is the cursor as you mouse over the ad. However, it's relatively simple to change the cursor, make it not change into a hand over links. I'm surprised no one's done that yet, it would fool many people.
The only saving grace is that even the popup veriety, while legit looking at first glance, quickly turns out fake as you start moving your mouse to it... it only takes a fraction of a second for this to click in your head... waaaait a minute!
Most.gov bureaucrats would say "Wow, we have more money coming in. Better spend it!"
That's exactly what most would say, because a large number of government agencies/departments/etc have a 'use it or lose it' budget; if it's not spent by end of fiascal year, it's gone.
Get knocked up by your cousin's boyfriend and skate it out from there. No marriage, no commitment, no work, no worries. And they are OK with it, because the government is taking care of them. And you and I are paying for it.
And laughing about it on Springer... who do you think those people are? Stock brokers?
If the music industry can't satisfy my wishes but the file sharing networks can, what do you expect me to do?
But file sharing networks are NOT satifying your wishes:
Rip it to high-quality Ogg/Vorbis files for my workstation
Nope. OK, Rarely, but they'll be in mp3 format anyways, not ogg, and you have to trust someone else to do the job right.
Rip it to small MP3 files for my PDA
This can be done easily.
Copy it to a CDR for my car player (originals are too valuable to leave them exposed to extreme climatic conditions)
See crappy quality above. But it is for your car, and unless you spent way too much money on it you won't be able to tell the difference.
20 or 30 years later dig the original out of a box, listen to it and remember the time when that music popular
Except you don't have the original CD.
# Pay at most 10 for an album, of which the artists make at least 2.
With file sharing networks, you pay 0, and that's exactly how much artists get.
So tell me again, which of your wishes are satisfied by file sharing networks? Face it, you just like getting shit for free.
the problem with C++ was that exactly zero of code was reused, even though it was supposed to be made simpler. Java code actually reuses itself pretty darn well, and last I checked J2EE library just keeps growing and growing, and largely its success is in that.
Oh, well, ok, as long as we're talking libraries here, I doubt Java will beat the breadth and raw number of C++ libraries out there for a while yet.
In any case, I would hardly consider the number and size of libraries available a sign of reuse.
I've been going to that We Have The Way Out site, and they make a pretty convincing argument that Windows is the only way to go.
Oh, it does, hmm? Care to tell us which specific page on the site told you that? This should be very easy, as there is only the one page on there, and strangely it doesn't mention Windows anywhere...
I don't trust any web site with what it installs on my machine. It has nothing to do with the web sites that I visit. I like Slashdot, trust it even, but I'll be damned if I install ANYTHING it offers, just because it came from/.
Viewing habits (ie, choice of entertainment) and trust are two separate issue, don't lump them together.
Any attacker who can control 100,000 machines is a major force on the internet, while someone with a million or more is currently unstoppable: able to launch massively diffuse DDOS attacks, perform needle in a hayfield searches, and commit all sorts of other mayhem...
Doesn't take an attacker to bring about mayhem. I think we can safely trust BD to screw up their very first release (if it ever gets that far). I bet their little P2P scheme will DDoS SOMETHING purely unintentionally through incompetence (of which they're shown plenty so far).
Slashdot Mirror
The spec would be published, yeah. The keys, no.
Yes you can. Me (and many of my friends and people @ work) routinely transfer domains to an OpenSRS reseller with just days remaining before expiry with no problems whatsoever. I don't know where you heard the 90 day thing, but it's pure bullshit, probably spread by NetSol themselves to get more people to renew.
In that case, what about the 'Disney DVDs'? I've always wondered what was hiding behind THAT label...
Detecting the presence of copy protection and removing such protection are different things, as I'm sure you'll agree. It would be sufficient for the drive to eject the CD.
Cause and effect. Personally, I agree with the parent. I think all the people worried about getting sick and washing their hands every 5 minutes are sick WAY more often than your average person. Just like with everything else in life, common sense will keep you alive just fine. Wash your hands when appropriate (after bathroom visits, before preparing food, touching wounds/open skin (includes genitals I guess :), etc, and you won't get sick any more than you have to. Avoid filthy habits, like nail biting, nervously sticking fingers in mouth, etc. Eat good, sensible food, and you'll get plenty of vitamins/minerals to keep you healthy, and you won't get fat either. Get outside and run/walk/bike/hike/exercise, and you'll be stronger, feel and look better, and will be more resistant to sickness.
It's all worked for thousands of years, it may work for you too.
Now you're getting confused. There is still bias, just more of it. More bias all around does not mean the coverage is suddenly balanced.
You see, with doctors, and other professionals like accountants and lawyers, you get more respected as you get older and have more experience. You make more money. You're sought after by employers. With IT people, well, you just become a dinosaur and no one wants to hire you or take you seriously.
And THAT's why so many people go into the professional fields.
Exactly. Probably what happened was some Adobe developer was bored one day, or had some spare time between optimizing filters for those damn Motorola vs Intel benchmarks... and thought it would be neat to have multiple dialog boxes moved into a single tabbed one. All the necessary UI code is there, you just have to put it all together. It may not be immediately obvious, but it wasn't to the guy who coded this up. He was probably messing with all kinds of approaches.
I seriously doubt this was some grand multi-year multi-million-$ research project; and it cost Adobe nothing beyond what they had to pay the guy to otherwise sit idle.
The problem is that guns (generally) do not go off by themselves. They don't shoot random people across the globe. There is nothing wrong with all the features in Outlook, they just should be turned OFF by default, so anyone who needs them can still use them. Most people have no idea what is and isn't turned on in their software, or even how to check for it.
The script is insufficient to stop image leaching. Instead of redirecting to the image after checking the referer, it should serve the image itself. If it redirects it's a trivial matter of manually telnetting to the server or capturing the request some other way to figure out the real URL.
Doesn't matter what they're running. The site is probably scripted. Any site bigger than a couple of pages will have a header include. Just stick two lines of PHP or ASP or whatever to check the referer and redirect if needed.
Or for the non-Americans. Or the youngins, who, were it not for Pearl Harbour The Movie, would have no idea what happened on Dec 7.
And why wouldn't they? I'm sure the guys who run the site like ads as much as the next person, but they need them to keep the site running. Do you have any alternatives? The GameSpot people sure do, which is what this story is about.
I can't find this on Download.com. Search for RadLight just brings up a single subtitler match. Their website's cnet.com download icon points directly to a SimTel mirror. Which is interesting because download.com allows user comments and ratings... are they hiding something?
Ahh, so that's what that does! I always uncheck this option, since I have no idea what it is, and everything seems to work fine without it.
Of all the automated traffic enforcement/monitoring, the red light camera is the only sensible one. There is absolutely NO excuse for running a red light or a stop sign. On 99+% of the roads I've driven on in my life so far, the speed limit was WAY low for normal driving conditions in a modern passenger car. Even in very bad conditions (blizzard), as long as the roads are drivable, the speed limit is too low. Which is why there is no 100% enforcement of the speed limit. Speed limits would just have to be raised. But a red light is there for a reason; it doesn't mean you can drive through it if you feel like it, because it means someone else has a green light, and you're gonna have a collision. Even if no one is in sight, you're gonna lose at most, what, 20 seconds waiting for your green?
Hmm.... click, click, click, no they don't.
I've never fallen for those fake alert boxes, mostly beause my Windows colour scheme is totally different. You'd thing that those things would by now at least have a graduated title bar to match the default in 98/ME/2000...
The dead giveaway is the cursor as you mouse over the ad. However, it's relatively simple to change the cursor, make it not change into a hand over links. I'm surprised no one's done that yet, it would fool many people.
The only saving grace is that even the popup veriety, while legit looking at first glance, quickly turns out fake as you start moving your mouse to it... it only takes a fraction of a second for this to click in your head... waaaait a minute!
That's exactly what most would say, because a large number of government agencies/departments/etc have a 'use it or lose it' budget; if it's not spent by end of fiascal year, it's gone.
And laughing about it on Springer... who do you think those people are? Stock brokers?
But file sharing networks are NOT satifying your wishes:
Rip it to high-quality Ogg/Vorbis files for my workstation
Nope. OK, Rarely, but they'll be in mp3 format anyways, not ogg, and you have to trust someone else to do the job right.
Rip it to small MP3 files for my PDA
This can be done easily.
Copy it to a CDR for my car player (originals are too valuable to leave them exposed to extreme climatic conditions)
See crappy quality above. But it is for your car, and unless you spent way too much money on it you won't be able to tell the difference.
20 or 30 years later dig the original out of a box, listen to it and remember the time when that music popular
Except you don't have the original CD.
# Pay at most 10 for an album, of which the artists make at least 2 .
With file sharing networks, you pay 0, and that's exactly how much artists get.
So tell me again, which of your wishes are satisfied by file sharing networks? Face it, you just like getting shit for free.
Oh, well, ok, as long as we're talking libraries here, I doubt Java will beat the breadth and raw number of C++ libraries out there for a while yet.
In any case, I would hardly consider the number and size of libraries available a sign of reuse.
Oh, it does, hmm? Care to tell us which specific page on the site told you that? This should be very easy, as there is only the one page on there, and strangely it doesn't mention Windows anywhere...
I don't trust any web site with what it installs on my machine. It has nothing to do with the web sites that I visit. I like Slashdot, trust it even, but I'll be damned if I install ANYTHING it offers, just because it came from /.
Viewing habits (ie, choice of entertainment) and trust are two separate issue, don't lump them together.
Doesn't take an attacker to bring about mayhem. I think we can safely trust BD to screw up their very first release (if it ever gets that far). I bet their little P2P scheme will DDoS SOMETHING purely unintentionally through incompetence (of which they're shown plenty so far).