Why are open source programs implementing thier own forumula functions anyway? Shouldn't there just be a library that they can all call when they need stuff calculating? Hell make it lgpl and then proprietary programs can use too thus allow more competition in the spreadsheet space, lgpl over bsd to guarantee interoperability!
The injection normally happens on bank websites, I'd hope few would ignore a big scary message they saw when entering their bank details! Or they could inject it into ALL websites (the injection happens based on a whitelist of URLS) If they user got the warning at the top of EVERY page they viewed (Across all browsers), they'd soon get fed up and do something about it!
"If YOUR homeland security fiddles with MY government computer, get ready for international troubles."
Link the IP to a location, then only fix bots in computers that are in your country, this has the additional advantage that you become more secure while your enemies get weaker. Alternatively, and i know that the American's about may find this crazy, you could ask permission of other countries to take out their bots too (as it benefits you that the bot net is dead). Ideally you could come to an agreement that protects you from prosecution of the laws you break, probably in exchange for the logs or some other evidence your not abusing the privilege. Hell the agreement could well be between a private (research) company and various countries police departments, avoiding the need for much of the bureaucratic bullshit you get when governments sort stuff out.
Fine, use geo-IP to only uninfect computers that are in countries that: 1) Aren't sue friendly (e.g not the US) 2) Don't have any jurisdiction in your country (e.g not the US)
which had already been registered by the criminals. Although we could have sent a blank conïguration ïle to potentially remove the web sites currently targeted by Torpig, we did not do so to avoid unforeseen consequences (e.g., changing the behavior of the mal-ware on critical computer systems, such as a server in a hospital). We also did not send a conïguration ïle with a different HTML injection server IP address for the same reasons.
I'm also under the impression that they couldn't uninstall the bots as they didn't have enough control. However i don't see why they couldn't change the page that is injected to a huge "your computer is infected, criminals have your bank details" and perhaps a url to a tool to remove the bot.
24px is perfectly ok in 3.5.x, when i last tried kde4 (4.1) the system tray was put into a curved box that meant the icons would get cut up if i went anywhere below ~34, i tried a few different themes but i couldn't find a way to disable the box.
Isn't this what IRC is for, only if you go to #kde with a question about anything that isn't to do with kde, its quite hard to figure out what you problem is when your new, you get next to no help (seriously its like kubuntu killed most of their dogs or something).
I'n terms of interface kde3 can get pretty minimal. *All kde apps (except amarok) let you hide the menubar for many apps (especially media players!) you rarely use the menubar *there is a shortcut to toggle window decoration (for when you just need more screen real estate *the window decorations can get pretty light (e.g BII) *kasbar can float and expand to show your running apps *the autohide feature on being a per toolbar and widgets being pretty useful can also save a lot of space
I've played around with fluxbox and others but i really get the most screen under kde3 (i mean im sure it can be beaten but not easily).
Until i can make my toolbars the same size as kde3's tiny, I'm simply not interested in kde4. I used to love kde for the way i could get it out of my way, right now it feels like they're just trying to show off all these fancy new desktop changing ideas, instead of focusing on what users want!
I think its more like the Russians see oil as a political tool, they control the supply to most of Europe, so if they can get oil without wasting any that makes them more powerful!
It allows them into markets they were being shut out of in europe. Plus ATM they don't have much to worry about, openoffice is clearly lagging behind and the other OSS suits while strong in some areas are significantly lacking in other. Additionally due to the lack of innovation in office suites it's unlikely that a something will take them away from number #1 spot quickly and they are unlikely to be caught off guard like they were by firefox, if they start seeing a major competitor then they can go back to their old techniques.
So while they opening themselves up to competition, they are so far ahead (in terms of market share and in some senses their product is also superior), that it's worth it in order to not get shut out of certain markets that require open documets.
Its not like this is their first effort to open up there formats either, i think they contributed to apache POI used to stand for "Poor Obfuscation Implementation", but that's not mentioned on their website much anymore;)) as well. There is also the iso that while not entirely open does force them to be somewhat more open.
You jest and/or troll, but some people seriously suggest that. Oh noes people are stealing your users, except they still go to your site, still count as pagehits and some still click your ads/comment on your threads/subscribe to your mailinglist!
stumbleupon's frame means you don't need to install the extension, which is a great move: 1)It gives the site more screen realestate 2)It's one less addon 3)It works with all (modern) browsers not just those they have an extension for.
Not that this affects you point, but for sites that don't offer that (I haven't come across any), In firefox: right click -> this frame -> show only this frame, will sort you out, other browsers probably perform similarly.
Does anybody else have problems with flash/videos not playing in frames when flashblock is running on firefox3.5 on linux. I have an entirely 64bit system here and don't have the time to be messing with 32bit stuff, so if somebody could tell me it work for them on linux with minefield(32)/minefield(64)+nspluginwrapper/minefield(64)+flash(64) , ill just shut up and eventually get round to fixing my mess or reopen the bug report i closed when it work for while the otherday
While i agree that youtube is a completely different platform to hulu, i think youtube is going to run into problems if it doesn't change its ways soon. In looking to get commercial content providers on-bored they stopped protecting their users and will take down just about anything instantly, this is loosing them users, who either go elsewhere (dailymotion, etc) or just using online videosites much because they can't find what they want. By shutting down the accounts of high volume user that infringed copyright and/or offended xenu, they have clearly reduced their user base significantly. Given the safe harbor provisions in the DMCA, the only reason to become so pro-active is to appeal to the content providers, at the cost of pissing off their userbase.
While this is clearly hurting youtube, as im not google all i can offer in the place of evidence is an anecdote. I have a friend who uploads highlights of wrestling videos with old video games as the soundtrack, at some point last year he got his account closed down for copyright infringement. He set up a second account and since then he has made it into the top 100 subscribed channels a few times, however his old channel had something like 10 times as many subscribers. Now even if what he was doing wasn't fair use (not having seen them i cant say), youtube could have just taken off the offending videos while leaving his account open.
Here was me thinking that you couldn't possible make a game where you just run ordinary peoples lives, any less interesting, then the go and add myface into the mix!
I don't get what this "news" is doing here, other than as material to laugh at!? After the drm laden disappointment that was spore, who the fuck cares what EA / will wright do next!
Won't something like Metcalfe's law also apply to games. The more people that play the game the higher the worth of the game. So while losing customers to pirated versions is bad (but I'd argue not too common and entirely unstoppable by DRM), gaining non-customers to pirated versions is actually good (not very good as you don't get any money) as it adds value to your game. In the case of multiplayer games this value is obvious (even if they can't play against legit version, they will help augment the community) and for single player games they may tell friends and eventually somebody they know who likes the game may pay for it.
It would be interesting if somebody could put a monetary value on pirated version (other than stupidly assuming every pirated copy is a lost sale)
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Really with 50m people using xbox360s or ps3s i think the power architecture is far from dead
but why was a civil-war-era dollar bill 189 Ã-- 79 mm ???
No shit? Welcome to the world. When people get along, they stick to one project. When they don't we can choose who's right and who's wrong. Neat huh?
However our choices have little effect, compared to those of people with:
a) money
b) the skills required to pull the task off.
Why are open source programs implementing thier own forumula functions anyway? Shouldn't there just be a library that they can all call when they need stuff calculating? Hell make it lgpl and then proprietary programs can use too thus allow more competition in the spreadsheet space, lgpl over bsd to guarantee interoperability!
The injection normally happens on bank websites, I'd hope few would ignore a big scary message they saw when entering their bank details! Or they could inject it into ALL websites (the injection happens based on a whitelist of URLS) If they user got the warning at the top of EVERY page they viewed (Across all browsers), they'd soon get fed up and do something about it!
"If YOUR homeland security fiddles with MY government computer, get ready for international troubles."
Link the IP to a location, then only fix bots in computers that are in your country, this has the additional advantage that you become more secure while your enemies get weaker. Alternatively, and i know that the American's about may find this crazy, you could ask permission of other countries to take out their bots too (as it benefits you that the bot net is dead). Ideally you could come to an agreement that protects you from prosecution of the laws you break, probably in exchange for the logs or some other evidence your not abusing the privilege. Hell the agreement could well be between a private (research) company and various countries police departments, avoiding the need for much of the bureaucratic bullshit you get when governments sort stuff out.
Fine, use geo-IP to only uninfect computers that are in countries that:
1) Aren't sue friendly (e.g not the US)
2) Don't have any jurisdiction in your country (e.g not the US)
which had already been registered by the criminals. Although we could have sent a blank conïguration ïle to potentially remove the web sites currently targeted by Torpig, we did not do so to avoid unforeseen consequences (e.g., changing the behavior of the mal-ware on critical computer systems, such as a server in a hospital). We also did not send a conïguration ïle with a different HTML injection server IP address for the same reasons.
I'm also under the impression that they couldn't uninstall the bots as they didn't have enough control. However i don't see why they couldn't change the page that is injected to a huge "your computer is infected, criminals have your bank details" and perhaps a url to a tool to remove the bot.
24px is perfectly ok in 3.5.x, when i last tried kde4 (4.1) the system tray was put into a curved box that meant the icons would get cut up if i went anywhere below ~34, i tried a few different themes but i couldn't find a way to disable the box.
Nah i think your thinking of swine syphilis, again!
Isn't this what IRC is for, only if you go to #kde with a question about anything that isn't to do with kde, its quite hard to figure out what you problem is when your new, you get next to no help (seriously its like kubuntu killed most of their dogs or something).
Buy some RAM, they are practically giving it away for free. KDE4 is not really meant for low end machines (yet).
Why? kde3+compiz ran fine on less than that.
I'n terms of interface kde3 can get pretty minimal.
*All kde apps (except amarok) let you hide the menubar for many apps (especially media players!) you rarely use the menubar
*there is a shortcut to toggle window decoration (for when you just need more screen real estate
*the window decorations can get pretty light (e.g BII)
*kasbar can float and expand to show your running apps
*the autohide feature on being a per toolbar and widgets being pretty useful can also save a lot of space
I've played around with fluxbox and others but i really get the most screen under kde3 (i mean im sure it can be beaten but not easily).
Until i can make my toolbars the same size as kde3's tiny, I'm simply not interested in kde4. I used to love kde for the way i could get it out of my way, right now it feels like they're just trying to show off all these fancy new desktop changing ideas, instead of focusing on what users want!
I think its more like the Russians see oil as a political tool, they control the supply to most of Europe, so if they can get oil without wasting any that makes them more powerful!
unplug the cable going into the lid and then there is no power loss (i think the monitor accounts for almost 1/2 of a laptops power usage)
It allows them into markets they were being shut out of in europe. Plus ATM they don't have much to worry about, openoffice is clearly lagging behind and the other OSS suits while strong in some areas are significantly lacking in other. Additionally due to the lack of innovation in office suites it's unlikely that a something will take them away from number #1 spot quickly and they are unlikely to be caught off guard like they were by firefox, if they start seeing a major competitor then they can go back to their old techniques.
So while they opening themselves up to competition, they are so far ahead (in terms of market share and in some senses their product is also superior), that it's worth it in order to not get shut out of certain markets that require open documets.
Its not like this is their first effort to open up there formats either, i think they contributed to apache POI used to stand for "Poor Obfuscation Implementation", but that's not mentioned on their website much anymore ;)) as well. There is also the iso that while not entirely open does force them to be somewhat more open.
You jest and/or troll, but some people seriously suggest that. Oh noes people are stealing your users, except they still go to your site, still count as pagehits and some still click your ads/comment on your threads/subscribe to your mailinglist!
stumbleupon's frame means you don't need to install the extension, which is a great move:
1)It gives the site more screen realestate
2)It's one less addon
3)It works with all (modern) browsers not just those they have an extension for.
Not that this affects you point, but for sites that don't offer that (I haven't come across any),
In firefox: right click -> this frame -> show only this frame, will sort you out, other browsers probably perform similarly.
How is framing a bad alternative? It does the job perfectly, its a great option, in that situation.
Does anybody else have problems with flash/videos not playing in frames when flashblock is running on firefox3.5 on linux. /minefield(64)+flash(64) , ill just shut up and eventually get round to fixing my mess or reopen the bug report i closed when it work for while the otherday
I have an entirely 64bit system here and don't have the time to be messing with 32bit stuff, so if somebody could tell me it work for them on linux with minefield(32)/minefield(64)+nspluginwrapper
While i agree that youtube is a completely different platform to hulu, i think youtube is going to run into problems if it doesn't change its ways soon. In looking to get commercial content providers on-bored they stopped protecting their users and will take down just about anything instantly, this is loosing them users, who either go elsewhere (dailymotion, etc) or just using online videosites much because they can't find what they want. By shutting down the accounts of high volume user that infringed copyright and/or offended xenu, they have clearly reduced their user base significantly. Given the safe harbor provisions in the DMCA, the only reason to become so pro-active is to appeal to the content providers, at the cost of pissing off their userbase.
While this is clearly hurting youtube, as im not google all i can offer in the place of evidence is an anecdote. I have a friend who uploads highlights of wrestling videos with old video games as the soundtrack, at some point last year he got his account closed down for copyright infringement. He set up a second account and since then he has made it into the top 100 subscribed channels a few times, however his old channel had something like 10 times as many subscribers. Now even if what he was doing wasn't fair use (not having seen them i cant say), youtube could have just taken off the offending videos while leaving his account open.
Here was me thinking that you couldn't possible make a game where you just run ordinary peoples lives, any less interesting, then the go and add myface into the mix!
I don't get what this "news" is doing here, other than as material to laugh at!? After the drm laden disappointment that was spore, who the fuck cares what EA / will wright do next!
Won't something like Metcalfe's law also apply to games. The more people that play the game the higher the worth of the game. So while losing customers to pirated versions is bad (but I'd argue not too common and entirely unstoppable by DRM), gaining non-customers to pirated versions is actually good (not very good as you don't get any money) as it adds value to your game. In the case of multiplayer games this value is obvious (even if they can't play against legit version, they will help augment the community) and for single player games they may tell friends and eventually somebody they know who likes the game may pay for it.
It would be interesting if somebody could put a monetary value on pirated version (other than stupidly assuming every pirated copy is a lost sale)