The ILOVEYOU virus requires that the user run the script, typically after a dialog that says this might be dangerous.
Besides, it's easy to remove Windows Scripting Host from a system by using the add/remove programs. So for corporate environments, where this and others like it have really hit hard and be spread fastest (who uses outlook at home?), whose fault is it really then? The network admins... You would have figured after the MELISSA thing, they'd have disabled WSH.
The network admins at my employer did and while we received the ILOVEYOU letter from outside sources, it did absolutely nothing in our shop, which is a network of 3000 NT/2000 stations.
In regards to the ILOVEYOU virus, unless you're a complete moron (no this isn't a troll) you'd realize this "virus" isn't Microsoft's fault. You don't blame Borland's TASM or NASM for all of the real virii out there or do you? So how can you blame Microsoft for something that requires a user to consciously execute and open a file that is incredibly suspicious from the start and is nothing more then a shell script, which by last count Unix and kin all have.
The same thing could be done in OS/2 with a REXX script, and if OS/2 had 80% of the market share for desktop OS's, would a harmful REXX script sent through email, executed through the ACTIONS of a USER be IBM's fault? No.
So stop being stupid.
As for the Microsoft break up... I don't understand how this country of our rampantly embraces capitalism and then scowls at the outcome of it's behavior. Microsoft is the american dream, my friends, it's the bullshit we're filled with from Day 1 and "taught" to "respect".
I, personally, am against the breakup. I don't care for Microsoft, but I don't believe the breakup will do any good, and, in fact, cause more harm. Opening up the code and API's seems like a superior alternative, because, like it or not, some of Microsoft's products are best of class. And, obviously, some aren't.
It's odd that you post this scathing anti-corporate crap from an ISP owned by AOL, btw. And I know you probably get it for free, but everytime an add banner hits your browser when you're checking your HTML email puts more money in a company far worse then Microsoft.
There are two pascal compilers for linux that are nearly 80% compatible with Delphi 2, and both are open source and free: FPK and Sybil. Gnu Pascal is close, but only up to TurboPascal 7.0.
It's not all that different from cameras: lots of people use point-and-shoot cameras for all sorts of business applications, but the true "professional" cameras are still the Nikon F4's and Hasselblads, clunky and slow by consumer standards, but they get the job done in the hands of the professionals.
I'll be interested to see how the GNU compiler stands up to kylix in terms of code generation and optimization. I think what Borland meant by professional was a tool capable of compiling 250,000 lines of code in 20 seconds and producing highly optimized output.
And, I'd wager, once you see/use Delphi/Kylix for any length of time and are doing development for a windowed environment, you'll wonder why anyone would want to do it any differently.
While everyone is excited that a favorite development tool is coming to linux, I'm curious if anyone is thinking forward to what this will do for linux as an OS.
I've been using Delphi since version 1.0 and I can't, make that won't, imagine myself using anything else because it simply doesn't make economic sense in terms of prototype deployment, time to market, etc. I'm not entirely certain the average slashdot head truly comprehends how powerful Delphi exactly is, and how easy and mildly idiot proof it makes developing.
With Kylix will come quite a few Windows developers excited to provide their products for both OS's; but is Joe Blow linux guy prepared for the intrusion of Windows application economics and is John Doe Windows developer prepared for the linux market?
Ironically there is another article on Slashdot regarding MIDI sequencers and audio editing software; which happens to be the two things I've developed in Delphi and am dying to get to Linux as soon as I have kylix in hand. I know several other Delphi developers that feel the same way. I honestly believe that with the release of kylix will come a serious change in the Linux landscape; and are people prepared for that?
Is this speculation on his part? Does he realize that the Linux community will most likely not simply say "no, thanks" but instead firebomb their headquarters if they even think of integrating something that seems so close to Visual Basic?
He's talking about distributing "packages" which are similar to DLLs. They allow the Delphi developer to not have to link in the VCL code which produces a very tiny executable. If VCL packages aren't present, then the executable has to link that code in making it larger.
These packages don't have anything to do with how your system runs or what you run on it, they are simply provided to slim down an application's shipping size.
No, I completely agree with you, but that's the best case scenario of usability. Being in Silicon Alley and witnessing web shops start to apply usability guidelines to web design I've seen a few things happen:
The user is treated like a complete moron and the website has been dumbed down to facilitate this view.
Usability issues are applied to the wrong places at the wrong times. Sometimes it's more appropriate for a site to create a visual impact first and present information last, in terms of pushing a branding strategy forward and creating a lasting visual impression on the user.
The user experience has been generified to the point that whatever unique qualities a site should possess are lost.
One thing that all of the essays and articles I've read on information design and usability seem to pass over is the fact that people are indeed capable of learning. In fact, there is a body of research that suggests minor struggles in learning a concept or system can result in the retention of that person within the system. So, if we keep this in mind, perhaps we need to establish a balance between usability and requiring some level of learning where appropriate.
I guess my original post is more of a warning that usability can be taken to an unhealthy extreme, and that this should be acknowledged by the IA and UE camps. It is very easy for the wrong people to make the wrong decisions and we all end up browsing something that looks like Jacob Neilsen's site.;)
Do you think, in the long term, increased focus on usability and simplifying the web experience for users will result in a loss of technical innovation? By dumbing down the web, do you think technology will be dumbed down in the process?
Secondly, how do you feel regarding the failures of HTML as an interface delivery mechanism? The notion that the web has gone from pure information (93 and before) to presenting specific chunks of information in a taped-together layout that is built outside of the best use functionality of HTML. Do you agree that trying to put together an application interface with Microsoft Word is a ridiculous idea, so why are we trying to put together functional GUIs with a markup specific to text formatting?
Can you envision another non document-centric mechanism for bringing the web interface back in line with application UIs?
Umm, nope, it's the other way around. C++ Builder uses Delphi's compiler but only in the capacity of compiling pascal code for inclusion into projects and the VCL. The source code to the VCL ships with Delphi Pro and better editions, btw.
THROW AWAY THE TECHNOLOGY BECAUSE IT MIGHT HURT US. Why even bother turning on your computer in the first place? You're harddrives might just fail today, are you ready to take that risk? Leave the switch off, stand away from the machine and everything will be OK. Everything will be fine. No malicious website will steal your cookies. Just leave that switch off, that's right don't touch it.
There are tons of ways of doing anti-aliasing. The quickest and dirtiest (and cheapest looking) is generating a 4-bit bitmap 2x the size you need and doing an interpolated scale down. You then take that bitmap and use it as a blending guide (or if your video card supports it, directly blitting to a surface using it as an alpha channel) as you rip it on the surface of whatever off-screen bitmap you are drawing too.
The reason unix/linux window managers look like shit (when they aren't stealing a look and feel from someone else) and will remain looking like shit is because unix people have no aesthetic sensibility, hence that stupid fucking penguin.
Brother, if kernel upgrades are your life then you need to get the hell out that house, sip some slimfast and discover the other wonders that makes human existance the miracle of science that it is.
Windows is what Windows is, and that's a good general purpose Desktop OS with more useful applications then linux has fat, sweaty, sausage fingered geeks. Every OS has it's advantages and disadvantages, and losing yourself in religious OS fervor puts you at a distinct disadvantage in terms of your capability to recognize and exploit technology and software to accomplish the task at hand.
Here are the specific FBI characteristics, according to several principals. Potentially good American(tm) citizens exhibit the following traits:
Usually boys of moderate to below moderate intelligence. ------------------------------------------------ ----------------- Exhibit strong feelings of love towards activities that promote misogynistic, machismo behaviors through ritualized violence; eg football, hockey. ------------------------------------------------ ----------------- Blindly follow the conservative social code of the day with little question to it's philosophical basis and ramifications. ------------------------------------------------ ----------------- Believes that when girls say no, they mean yes. ------------------------------------------------ ----------------- Has bullied those who exist outside the mainstream; mocking them for their non-compliance with established social behavior and dress codes. ------------------------------------------------ ----------------- Loves to hunt and kill small, defenseless animals. ------------------------------------------------ ----------------- Has called numerous "geeks" fags or homo's, followed by some sort of homo-erotic ritual with their friends that involves high-fiving or butt slapping. ------------------------------------------------ ----------------- Has been known to make claims of "boning bitches" in the locker room. ------------------------------------------------ ----------------- Has no qualms mocking minorities while bobbing their head to the latest Puff Daddy CD.
Just hop on some warez channels, and under heavy monitoring/recordkeeping, download all of the warez you can from as many people as you can. If you get a legitimate copy of a piece of software this way, note who it is, contact his ISP, subpoena his user records, get a search warrant and search his house and/or arrest him. Most would confess in short order.
Committing a crime to catch a crime, is that admissable in a US court of law?
Copyright Control Services tried to do the same thing with audio warez, with little to no success. The fact is that there are no real means to shut down these irc channels. The servers are wide and far, the channels limitless, and irc warez hounds have the upper hand when it comes to IRC related technology.
And what does it take to get a shell in a country that rejects international copyright? Not much. What is the BSA going to do then, with no legal grounds for stopping it?
I can see channels like #warezdcc and those vanishing for awhile (but not for long) and I doubt many in the warez community consider the BSA much of a real threat. I know the audiowarez community regards the CCS as a joke, and they pretty much are.
The trick is how dirty BSA will play and how close to skirting entrapment they will come, much like CCS. Setting up fake FTPs, faking logs of what is actually on a ftp, etc. None of this will stand up in court btw, computer logs are not exactly what you need to succeed at burden of proof!
You're implying netscape is more solid then IE? Brother give me a break. In spreading the gospel it's important not to dillute the facts about which is more stable/feature rich/fast as a browser.
Nutscrape ain't it.
What is going to kill linux is a lack of vision and trading ease of use over nerdy utilitarian bullshit. Most "unnecessary glitter" in web pages is there for a purpose, either extending the user experience, simplifying navigation or adding character and context to a site.
Browsers aren't going to kill linux, the people developing applications for it will!
> other major plugins WILL be ported to > Linux - at least if their vendors/proponents > want them to survive! According to StatMarket, 94% of the web viewing public uses windows. Other/Linux only nears the 3% mark. What gain do they have porting it to linux? None, financially. Losing 6% of the web viewing public on a site due to their lack of web browsing technology isn't such a bad thing. - the sinister mister earache.
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Besides, it's easy to remove Windows Scripting Host from a system by using the add/remove programs. So for corporate environments, where this and others like it have really hit hard and be spread fastest (who uses outlook at home?), whose fault is it really then? The network admins... You would have figured after the MELISSA thing, they'd have disabled WSH.
The network admins at my employer did and while we received the ILOVEYOU letter from outside sources, it did absolutely nothing in our shop, which is a network of 3000 NT/2000 stations.
So whose fault is it?
And what's the security hole? COM?
The same thing could be done in OS/2 with a REXX script, and if OS/2 had 80% of the market share for desktop OS's, would a harmful REXX script sent through email, executed through the ACTIONS of a USER be IBM's fault? No.
So stop being stupid.
As for the Microsoft break up ... I don't understand how this country of our rampantly embraces capitalism and then scowls at the outcome of it's behavior. Microsoft is the american dream, my friends, it's the bullshit we're filled with from Day 1 and "taught" to "respect".
I, personally, am against the breakup. I don't care for Microsoft, but I don't believe the breakup will do any good, and, in fact, cause more harm. Opening up the code and API's seems like a superior alternative, because, like it or not, some of Microsoft's products are best of class. And, obviously, some aren't.
It's odd that you post this scathing anti-corporate crap from an ISP owned by AOL, btw. And I know you probably get it for free, but everytime an add banner hits your browser when you're checking your HTML email puts more money in a company far worse then Microsoft.
Consistency, clear heads ...
the sinister mister earache
I own an OmniSky too and getting a signal on a Palm VII is easier, not to mention the networking seems a bit faster then the OmniSky.
earache
How wonderfully random. Thanks for the laugh! (The misposting not AskANigger.com)
Coincidently, here is an article written by someone who has seen Kylix in action and gives some more info about it.
- the sinister mister earache
I'll be interested to see how the GNU compiler stands up to kylix in terms of code generation and optimization. I think what Borland meant by professional was a tool capable of compiling 250,000 lines of code in 20 seconds and producing highly optimized output.
And, I'd wager, once you see/use Delphi/Kylix for any length of time and are doing development for a windowed environment, you'll wonder why anyone would want to do it any differently.
- the sinister mister earache
I've been using Delphi since version 1.0 and I can't, make that won't, imagine myself using anything else because it simply doesn't make economic sense in terms of prototype deployment, time to market, etc. I'm not entirely certain the average slashdot head truly comprehends how powerful Delphi exactly is, and how easy and mildly idiot proof it makes developing.
With Kylix will come quite a few Windows developers excited to provide their products for both OS's; but is Joe Blow linux guy prepared for the intrusion of Windows application economics and is John Doe Windows developer prepared for the linux market?
Ironically there is another article on Slashdot regarding MIDI sequencers and audio editing software; which happens to be the two things I've developed in Delphi and am dying to get to Linux as soon as I have kylix in hand. I know several other Delphi developers that feel the same way. I honestly believe that with the release of kylix will come a serious change in the Linux landscape; and are people prepared for that?
- the sinister mister earache.
He's talking about distributing "packages" which are similar to DLLs. They allow the Delphi developer to not have to link in the VCL code which produces a very tiny executable. If VCL packages aren't present, then the executable has to link that code in making it larger.
These packages don't have anything to do with how your system runs or what you run on it, they are simply provided to slim down an application's shipping size.
- earache
- The user is treated like a complete moron and the website has been dumbed down to facilitate this view.
- Usability issues are applied to the wrong places at the wrong times. Sometimes it's more appropriate for a site to create a visual impact first and present information last, in terms of pushing a branding strategy forward and creating a lasting visual impression on the user.
- The user experience has been generified to the point that whatever unique qualities a site should possess are lost.
One thing that all of the essays and articles I've read on information design and usability seem to pass over is the fact that people are indeed capable of learning. In fact, there is a body of research that suggests minor struggles in learning a concept or system can result in the retention of that person within the system. So, if we keep this in mind, perhaps we need to establish a balance between usability and requiring some level of learning where appropriate.I guess my original post is more of a warning that usability can be taken to an unhealthy extreme, and that this should be acknowledged by the IA and UE camps. It is very easy for the wrong people to make the wrong decisions and we all end up browsing something that looks like Jacob Neilsen's site. ;)
Secondly, how do you feel regarding the failures of HTML as an interface delivery mechanism? The notion that the web has gone from pure information (93 and before) to presenting specific chunks of information in a taped-together layout that is built outside of the best use functionality of HTML. Do you agree that trying to put together an application interface with Microsoft Word is a ridiculous idea, so why are we trying to put together functional GUIs with a markup specific to text formatting?
Can you envision another non document-centric mechanism for bringing the web interface back in line with application UIs?
'Bout time@!#
Umm, nope, it's the other way around. C++ Builder uses Delphi's compiler but only in the capacity of compiling pascal code for inclusion into projects and the VCL. The source code to the VCL ships with Delphi Pro and better editions, btw.
THROW AWAY THE TECHNOLOGY BECAUSE IT MIGHT HURT US. Why even bother turning on your computer in the first place? You're harddrives might just fail today, are you ready to take that risk? Leave the switch off, stand away from the machine and everything will be OK. Everything will be fine. No malicious website will steal your cookies. Just leave that switch off, that's right don't touch it.
earache.
- earache
The reason unix/linux window managers look like shit (when they aren't stealing a look and feel from someone else) and will remain looking like shit is because unix people have no aesthetic sensibility, hence that stupid fucking penguin.
the sinister mister earache.
Windows is what Windows is, and that's a good general purpose Desktop OS with more useful applications then linux has fat, sweaty, sausage fingered geeks. Every OS has it's advantages and disadvantages, and losing yourself in religious OS fervor puts you at a distinct disadvantage in terms of your capability to recognize and exploit technology and software to accomplish the task at hand.
the sinister mister earache.
Usually boys of moderate to below moderate intelligence.- ------------------ ------------------ ------------------ ------------------ ------------------ ------------------ ------------------ -----------------
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Exhibit strong feelings of love towards activities that promote misogynistic, machismo behaviors through ritualized violence; eg football, hockey.
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Blindly follow the conservative social code of the day with little question to it's philosophical basis and ramifications.
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Believes that when girls say no, they mean yes.
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Has bullied those who exist outside the mainstream; mocking them for their non-compliance with established social behavior and dress codes.
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Loves to hunt and kill small, defenseless animals.
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Has called numerous "geeks" fags or homo's, followed by some sort of homo-erotic ritual with their friends that involves high-fiving or butt slapping.
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Has been known to make claims of "boning bitches" in the locker room.
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Has no qualms mocking minorities while bobbing their head to the latest Puff Daddy CD.
Who is more dangerous?
the sinister mister earache.
*sob*
the sinister mister earache.
the sinister mister earache.
Committing a crime to catch a crime, is that admissable in a US court of law?
the sinister mister earache.
Copyright Control Services tried to do the same thing with audio warez, with little to no success. The fact is that there are no real means to shut down these irc channels. The servers are wide and far, the channels limitless, and irc warez hounds have the upper hand when it comes to IRC related technology.
And what does it take to get a shell in a country that rejects international copyright? Not much. What is the BSA going to do then, with no legal grounds for stopping it?
I can see channels like #warezdcc and those vanishing for awhile (but not for long) and I doubt many in the warez community consider the BSA much of a real threat. I know the audiowarez community regards the CCS as a joke, and they pretty much are.
The trick is how dirty BSA will play and how close to skirting entrapment they will come, much like CCS. Setting up fake FTPs, faking logs of what is actually on a ftp, etc. None of this will stand up in court btw, computer logs are not exactly what you need to succeed at burden of proof!
The sinister mister earache.
Huh?
You're implying netscape is more solid then IE? Brother give me a break. In spreading the gospel it's important not to dillute the facts about which is more stable/feature rich/fast as a browser.
Nutscrape ain't it.
What is going to kill linux is a lack of vision and trading ease of use over nerdy utilitarian bullshit. Most "unnecessary glitter" in web pages is there for a purpose, either extending the user experience, simplifying navigation or adding character and context to a site.
Browsers aren't going to kill linux, the people developing applications for it will!
- the sinister mister earache.
> other major plugins WILL be ported to > Linux - at least if their vendors/proponents > want them to survive! According to StatMarket, 94% of the web viewing public uses windows. Other/Linux only nears the 3% mark. What gain do they have porting it to linux? None, financially. Losing 6% of the web viewing public on a site due to their lack of web browsing technology isn't such a bad thing. - the sinister mister earache.