I asked the people who clicked the link why they had done such a thing.
I don't have a file with their exact quotes, but:
A couple of people thought it had to be something "funny" from the person whose address was on the message
Over half thought it was a real virus, and clicked it to see "What would happen" or "If it would work." Please note that this was only a couple weeks after "I Love You." infected half the computers on the network, and a company wide meeting about NOT opening attachments that you weren't expecting.
Half of them thought it was a real virus and opened it anyway.
This is the kind of brain dead stupidity we're dealing with here people!
We need to require a license to own and operate a computer. A simple test, NOT opening unknown attachments being one of them.
As MyDoom is showing, hackers don't need an exploit to spread. The social engineering is still more than enough to spread.
This is a cute vector that can be used to take in another 10% of users, but since it looks like most of them will run any attachment you send them anyway, it's a moot point.
A few years back, I coded an app and e-mailed it to all our users. The message came "from" the company owner and said "This is a virus, you will destroy all the data you have access to if you run this file."
If they ran the file, it sent me a message with their computer name, username and other details.
Because we all know how well anti-virus programs on their computers would protect against a worm that doesn't even affect their computers. It's main target where Cisco DSL products (if I recall correctly).
You might want to read up on Code Red. He/she's collecting the IPS of the computers that are actually trying to infect his system via an exploit. There are no forged e-mail addresses in the scenario he / she describes.
What makes doing a bunch of guys at 3 degrees any different than just doing a bunch of random guys? I didn't express what I meant as clearly as I would have liked.
They're proud of being VERY sexually active.
Friendster is just one venue for meeting guys.
The benefit is that they know guys they meet through other friends are less likely to be psychos who'll tie them up and leave them in the basement for three days, beat them or otherwise do things they do not want done.
Guys their friends have already done are an extra bonus.
That, and these communities tend to be rather closed, in that once inside, there's a lot of action, but people outside it have to get blood tests to get in. (No pun intended)
It's not something to be more proud of, it's just safer than picking up people in bars.
You're confusing AOL cat rooms with Friendster. It's a common mistake.
Mind you, I wouldn't want to venture too far from my existing list of friends if I was cruising Friendster for some action. Two or Three degrees away and you can be pretty sure of the accuracy of the person's profile. Finding someone randomly on the other hand...
I don't use it for that purpose myself, as I'm happily engaged, but I am acquaintances with some very, ehrm, active and proud of it women on the site.
Well, "The joy of Cooking" tells you how to skin a rabbit. I guess you can just adapt those directions for the cat.
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Maybe this book keeps most of the original laptop intact and hides it in the frame, because any other way seems unlikely for the reasons I listed above
Actually, that's exactly what they're doing. This provides all the computing power necessry to run Linux and attach to a network. A laptop will work much better hidden behind a frame than a full sized PC.
I think most/.ers picked up on that, because there has been a couple repeats of an article on how to turn an old MAC laptop into a picture frame. The case was torn apart and the parts moved around to fit into a custom built (But fairly large) picture frame.
The main difference is this book tells you how to do it with Linux and an old wintel laptop instead of MAC and Appletalk.
Well, if I left an opening for opposing viewpoints, I would be going against slashdot tradition.:)
Aside from that, you're right, I was harsh.
Taking Daredevil as a continuing example, aside from the casting for the Kingpin, there isn't much that was done RIGHT with the movie, and it left the field wide open for tearing the film apart. The difference between Daredevil's "sight" in the comics versus in the movie is fairly trivial, the fact that he's a public defender who is the prosecutor in a criminal rape case smacks of poor choices and bad writing.
My "Only idiots don't agree with me" comment was directed at people who spend all their time picking a movie apart, ranting about the differences between the book and the movie, unable to enjoy the film in its own right.
There are plenty of examples of "bad adaptation" that I pretty much shut the door on with my comment.
For example, giving a "scientific" explanation for "The Force" in "Phantom Menace" kills much of religious symbolism and imagery of the mythos. It's, theoretically, an adaptation, a way to move the story forward and make it more contemporary and accessible, but it is ultimately damaging. It hurts the earlier movies.
Having Anakin build C3PO on the other hand if an innocuous change, and the fact that C3PO doesn't "recognize" the planet in "A New Hope" is easily dismissed by the whole "Blank their memory" comment Uncle Owen makes.
All that said, getting upset about the changes is silly. So what if Lucas trashes his earlier movies with the new ones? They're his, and he has the right to do with them as he wishes. We can say what we do and don't like and move on.
I remember reading about the "Kingpin" casting choice. They tried to find a white guy for the part, but couldn't find anyone who could pull the role off without looking like a bouncer pretending to be smart.
Point being, unless race is a plot point, changing a character's race (or even gender) can work out well, and not damage the story.
Of course, the Daredevil movie was deeply flawed in other respects, so it may not be an ideal example, but I think it gets the point across.
I wonder, how much does the book make an issue of the race of the characters? If the character's race isn't relevant to their actions or the plot, then there's no reason for them to be played by a a "white" actor as opposed to someone else. Why not pick an actor who will bring something interesting to the stage? Who the Hell cares about what amount to little more than cosmetic differences in the characters?
I find it fascinating the so many "fans" will have a hissy fit over changes made when making a movie based on a book. I had a writing Minor in college, and am nearing the finishing stage of my first novel, and one thing we learned is that changes in the medium require changes in the story.
One seminal example is how Agatha Christie changed the plot of "And Then there were None" (AKA "Ten Little Indians") between the book and the play. (Most the movie versions are based on the play)
She inserted a love interest and change who lives and who dies, and it works really well.
One movie adaptation is set in Africa, where the characters are trapped in a valley instead of on an island. It works well and doesn't harm the story. It ads to the visual appeal.
A rote conversion of a book into a movie is dull, boring and doesn't work. You HAVE to make changes in order to successfully move from one medium to another.
And by the way, the PLOT CAN CHANGE!!!!!! Books can be inspirations for, and the foundation of a movie without keeping all the plot points intact. It's a perfectly valid form of interpretation.
Anyone who rants and raves about changes made is revealing their ignorance of the creative process.
My girlfriend is involved in event planning, and it's hard enough to plan an event that takes place in the same venue every year. Just changing the facility and keeping the same city is a headache.
Between the venue's contracts, union woes and all the other issues, you really need people local to the area to avoid being gouged on price at every turn.
Moving to a new city every year is a cute idea, the the expense and the pain is not worth it. For large events, you'd want to be lining up the staff a t least a year and a half in advance.
Hell, I remember my girlfriends telling me about the pain from the last time Arisia tried to change the hotel they use!
You can try configuring the program to Run as the Administrator. I've found this helps in many cases.
I like the ideas that have been posted of using drive imaging software to do restores of something thats completely FUBAR. While Norton Ghost works very well, there are Open Source options that are a little more work. There was a/. story on such software a few weeks back. Keep your data on a separate drive / partition.
If the hard drive is large enough, a multi boot system is an option. One install lets them into a system where they have admin rights, another lets them into a system where they don't. Have the "Work only" partition(s) hidden from the "Gaming" partition, and as long as the boot manager and the "work" partitions are untouched you can still get in to do work.
This is assuming a laptop, or a second computer or a second system on the same I/O via a KVM switch are out of the question due to cost. I love how so many people say "Just buy X, Y and Z" never thinking about the possibility that someone might not HAVE the cash on hand due to any number of options. (Saving for the Kids' college, money is tight, Johnny needs braces and the company dental plan sucks, saving for a family vacation and so on)
My home setup involves two computers. One is the Linux box that has my vital data and is used for work, the other is the "Who the Hell Cares what happens to it" Windows box for burning DVDs, gaming and general futzing around. They're both on the same KVM switch, so I can toggle between them.
Here in Mass, they tried something like that when the Speedpass first came out on MA 90.
People stopped using the passes, and people stopped getting them. It pretty much halted the adoption of the whole Speedpass concept.
They stopped issuing tickets, and Speedpass slowly ramped up again.
If they use it to issue speeding tickets, then people will go back to using change and toll booths. Getting rid of toll booths is not plausible anytime in the next few decades, as out of state and out of country drivers can't be expected have a pass in their car.
OK, now we can all move on and tell REAL jokes instead of just bashing Microsoft.
Oh, and just so the trolls don't beat me to it:
Microsloth
Yeah, I don't find them funny either, but they have to be gotten out of the way.
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Well, I just blocked it today. The parent post I first replied to convinced me that my blood pressure will fare better if I just stop reading the contstant updates about SCO.
It's a bunch of litigation happy jerks who can't make money any other way. I'll check in now and then, but I won;t care until the case really does go to court or SCO reveals it's "evidence."
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It wrote to a log file, so I could track down who clicked it. That was close enough. More functionality would have required more coding time.
Additional Note:
I asked the people who clicked the link why they had done such a thing.
I don't have a file with their exact quotes, but:
A couple of people thought it had to be something "funny" from the person whose address was on the message
Over half thought it was a real virus, and clicked it to see "What would happen" or "If it would work." Please note that this was only a couple weeks after "I Love You." infected half the computers on the network, and a company wide meeting about NOT opening attachments that you weren't expecting.
Half of them thought it was a real virus and opened it anyway.
This is the kind of brain dead stupidity we're dealing with here people!
We need to require a license to own and operate a computer. A simple test, NOT opening unknown attachments being one of them.
I got a message from Red Hat about the GAIM patches for Red Hat 9.0. I think A Fedora patch is out as well.
As MyDoom is showing, hackers don't need an exploit to spread. The social engineering is still more than enough to spread.
This is a cute vector that can be used to take in another 10% of users, but since it looks like most of them will run any attachment you send them anyway, it's a moot point.
A few years back, I coded an app and e-mailed it to all our users. The message came "from" the company owner and said "This is a virus, you will destroy all the data you have access to if you run this file."
If they ran the file, it sent me a message with their computer name, username and other details.
About 80% of the users ran it.
I lost all faith in the human race that day.
Speak for yourself you prude.
Because we all know how well anti-virus programs on their computers would protect against a worm that doesn't even affect their computers. It's main target where Cisco DSL products (if I recall correctly).
You might want to read up on Code Red. He/she's collecting the IPS of the computers that are actually trying to infect his system via an exploit. There are no forged e-mail addresses in the scenario he / she describes.
Not all viruses or worms are mass mailers.
What makes doing a bunch of guys at 3 degrees any different than just doing a bunch of random guys?
I didn't express what I meant as clearly as I would have liked.
They're proud of being VERY sexually active.
Friendster is just one venue for meeting guys.
The benefit is that they know guys they meet through other friends are less likely to be psychos who'll tie them up and leave them in the basement for three days, beat them or otherwise do things they do not want done.
Guys their friends have already done are an extra bonus.
That, and these communities tend to be rather closed, in that once inside, there's a lot of action, but people outside it have to get blood tests to get in. (No pun intended)
It's not something to be more proud of, it's just safer than picking up people in bars.
You're confusing AOL cat rooms with Friendster. It's a common mistake.
Mind you, I wouldn't want to venture too far from my existing list of friends if I was cruising Friendster for some action. Two or Three degrees away and you can be pretty sure of the accuracy of the person's profile. Finding someone randomly on the other hand...
I don't use it for that purpose myself, as I'm happily engaged, but I am acquaintances with some very, ehrm, active and proud of it women on the site.
"From : Orkut
Dear sir,
After looking into the data google.com has on you, we've decided that you aren't good enough for us.
Kindly slog off."
Not quite.
It means that:
a. You have a real life with real friends
b. You're a hermit who can't even keep together an online relationship.
Since I'm a nice guy who tries to think the best, I'll assume "a"
Because most the people on Friendster are polly or sexually lose?
Because once on there are women who troll for "friends of friends" to bang?
Because most those women are computer Geeks who like "Geek pillow talk?"
Because most the female pics are very pretty???
Any of that explain it???
Well, "The joy of Cooking" tells you how to skin a rabbit. I guess you can just adapt those directions for the cat.
Maybe this book keeps most of the original laptop intact and hides it in the frame, because any other way seems unlikely for the reasons I listed above
/.ers picked up on that, because there has been a couple repeats of an article on how to turn an old MAC laptop into a picture frame. The case was torn apart and the parts moved around to fit into a custom built (But fairly large) picture frame.
Actually, that's exactly what they're doing. This provides all the computing power necessry to run Linux and attach to a network. A laptop will work much better hidden behind a frame than a full sized PC.
I think most
The main difference is this book tells you how to do it with Linux and an old wintel laptop instead of MAC and Appletalk.
Well, if I left an opening for opposing viewpoints, I would be going against slashdot tradition. :)
Aside from that, you're right, I was harsh.
Taking Daredevil as a continuing example, aside from the casting for the Kingpin, there isn't much that was done RIGHT with the movie, and it left the field wide open for tearing the film apart. The difference between Daredevil's "sight" in the comics versus in the movie is fairly trivial, the fact that he's a public defender who is the prosecutor in a criminal rape case smacks of poor choices and bad writing.
My "Only idiots don't agree with me" comment was directed at people who spend all their time picking a movie apart, ranting about the differences between the book and the movie, unable to enjoy the film in its own right.
There are plenty of examples of "bad adaptation" that I pretty much shut the door on with my comment.
For example, giving a "scientific" explanation for "The Force" in "Phantom Menace" kills much of religious symbolism and imagery of the mythos. It's, theoretically, an adaptation, a way to move the story forward and make it more contemporary and accessible, but it is ultimately damaging. It hurts the earlier movies.
Having Anakin build C3PO on the other hand if an innocuous change, and the fact that C3PO doesn't "recognize" the planet in "A New Hope" is easily dismissed by the whole "Blank their memory" comment Uncle Owen makes.
All that said, getting upset about the changes is silly. So what if Lucas trashes his earlier movies with the new ones? They're his, and he has the right to do with them as he wishes. We can say what we do and don't like and move on.
I remember reading about the "Kingpin" casting choice. They tried to find a white guy for the part, but couldn't find anyone who could pull the role off without looking like a bouncer pretending to be smart.
Point being, unless race is a plot point, changing a character's race (or even gender) can work out well, and not damage the story.
Of course, the Daredevil movie was deeply flawed in other respects, so it may not be an ideal example, but I think it gets the point across.
They all died.
I was trying to not give away the ending for anyone who hasn't read it yet.
I wonder, how much does the book make an issue of the race of the characters? If the character's race isn't relevant to their actions or the plot, then there's no reason for them to be played by a a "white" actor as opposed to someone else. Why not pick an actor who will bring something interesting to the stage? Who the Hell cares about what amount to little more than cosmetic differences in the characters?
I find it fascinating the so many "fans" will have a hissy fit over changes made when making a movie based on a book. I had a writing Minor in college, and am nearing the finishing stage of my first novel, and one thing we learned is that changes in the medium require changes in the story.
One seminal example is how Agatha Christie changed the plot of "And Then there were None" (AKA "Ten Little Indians") between the book and the play. (Most the movie versions are based on the play)
She inserted a love interest and change who lives and who dies, and it works really well.
One movie adaptation is set in Africa, where the characters are trapped in a valley instead of on an island. It works well and doesn't harm the story. It ads to the visual appeal.
A rote conversion of a book into a movie is dull, boring and doesn't work. You HAVE to make changes in order to successfully move from one medium to another.
And by the way, the PLOT CAN CHANGE!!!!!! Books can be inspirations for, and the foundation of a movie without keeping all the plot points intact. It's a perfectly valid form of interpretation.
Anyone who rants and raves about changes made is revealing their ignorance of the creative process.
My girlfriend is involved in event planning, and it's hard enough to plan an event that takes place in the same venue every year. Just changing the facility and keeping the same city is a headache.
Between the venue's contracts, union woes and all the other issues, you really need people local to the area to avoid being gouged on price at every turn.
Moving to a new city every year is a cute idea, the the expense and the pain is not worth it. For large events, you'd want to be lining up the staff a t least a year and a half in advance.
Hell, I remember my girlfriends telling me about the pain from the last time Arisia tried to change the hotel they use!
Not pretty. Not pretty at all.
Good point.
I know the computers at my lcoal YMCA are a mess. A restore on reboot would be a very good thing for them as well.
You can try configuring the program to Run as the Administrator. I've found this helps in many cases.
/. story on such software a few weeks back. Keep your data on a separate drive / partition.
I like the ideas that have been posted of using drive imaging software to do restores of something thats completely FUBAR. While Norton Ghost works very well, there are Open Source options that are a little more work. There was a
If the hard drive is large enough, a multi boot system is an option. One install lets them into a system where they have admin rights, another lets them into a system where they don't. Have the "Work only" partition(s) hidden from the "Gaming" partition, and as long as the boot manager and the "work" partitions are untouched you can still get in to do work.
This is assuming a laptop, or a second computer or a second system on the same I/O via a KVM switch are out of the question due to cost. I love how so many people say "Just buy X, Y and Z" never thinking about the possibility that someone might not HAVE the cash on hand due to any number of options. (Saving for the Kids' college, money is tight, Johnny needs braces and the company dental plan sucks, saving for a family vacation and so on)
My home setup involves two computers. One is the Linux box that has my vital data and is used for work, the other is the "Who the Hell Cares what happens to it" Windows box for burning DVDs, gaming and general futzing around. They're both on the same KVM switch, so I can toggle between them.
Here in Mass, they tried something like that when the Speedpass first came out on MA 90.
People stopped using the passes, and people stopped getting them. It pretty much halted the adoption of the whole Speedpass concept.
They stopped issuing tickets, and Speedpass slowly ramped up again.
If they use it to issue speeding tickets, then people will go back to using change and toll booths. Getting rid of toll booths is not plausible anytime in the next few decades, as out of state and out of country drivers can't be expected have a pass in their car.
fills me with the urge to stab it's creator in the eye.
I think you'll want to seek professional help, if something as simple as a game you can exit and never see again causes you to want to maim someone.
You clearly have serious anger issues.
Heh.
I'm happy with mine, thank you very much.
I want these bozos to leave me ALONE!
"Microsoft Works"
Ha! Ha!
OK, now we can all move on and tell REAL jokes instead of just bashing Microsoft.
Oh, and just so the trolls don't beat me to it:
Microsloth
Yeah, I don't find them funny either, but they have to be gotten out of the way.
Well, I just blocked it today. The parent post I first replied to convinced me that my blood pressure will fare better if I just stop reading the contstant updates about SCO.
It's a bunch of litigation happy jerks who can't make money any other way. I'll check in now and then, but I won;t care until the case really does go to court or SCO reveals it's "evidence."