nobody's ever given up because something was difficult. This statement sounded suspicious to me, so I tried to think up a counter-example, but after twenty minutes I quit because it was too hard. I guess you were right!
I don't think Microsoft claims that IE 5.01 is currently the world's most secure browser. This bug that they are patching with the re-rerelease doesn't exist in IE on XP SP2, Server SP1 or in IE7 (including Vista), so the claims that things got more secure starting with XP SP2 again seem pretty reasonable.
Meh. The dangers of video games and consumer electronics towards children's development is over-rated. Most slashdotters grew up playing tons of video games and look how polite, physically fit and socially active we all ended up.
There is also an API called IsHungAppWindow that can be used to test whether a program is "not responding" in the task manager sense of not having pumped a message for five seconds.
By your definition, possession of it is not advocating anything and should not be illegal? What? How does "not advocating anything" mean it shouldn't be illegal? That doesn't follow at all. Picking someone's pocket isn't "advocating anything" but is righfully illegal. Advocating for stupid laws to be changed is advocacy but shouldn't be illegal.
For a long time it has been illegal in most of the world to advocate the torture, rape and murder of women (or any other group) in writing or speech. Why should it be okay to do so with images?
How is possession of images a way of "advocating" anything? That would apply more to making or distributing the images, but that is already illegal and not affected by this law, so not really relevant at all. Your argument that someone who looks at an image in the privacy of his home is "advocating" anything is bizarre.
It's not meant for application shortcuts. Apps have ctrl and alt. The win key is for the system shortcuts which are incredibly useful. There are tons of people who press win+L every time they get up from their computer, for example. Of course it is not useful by itself (which brings up the start menu). Ctrl and alt don't do anything useful by themselves either.
Unless you are doing some very blatent feigning (i.e. you know what you're doing), a semi-experienced swordsman would just hit you in an area not protected by your sword.
If you are just making a prototype, why is squeezing out extra perf so important? Prototyping is the sort of situation where you should be fine with just using straight python.
So what's to stop malware from affirming the prompt?
How would it do that? The prompt appears on the secure desktop, not on the regular desktop. If the malware can find a way of accessing that, there is a major security hole.
Your comments about bots are quite misinformed. I have played hundreds of thousands of hands online in the past few years (multitabling shorthanded games you can easily get 500+ hands/hr) and made more per hour than I do at my job. I have friends who make a living playing fulltime online. For a good player, there is plenty of money to be made. Bots are a complete non-issue (except insofar as fear of bots scares off potential fish). The best bots today cannot beat anything above the micro-limit games. If you think it is possible to buy a program that you can just start running and beat the games, you are very mistaken. If that were possible, everyone would be doing it (and there would be no more games).
There are frameworks available to play online, but they only handle the clicking of buttons and avoiding detection from the site and so forth. They do not include any useful AI. You need to write your own code for actually making tatctical decisions.
Collusion (from humans, not bots) is a bigger concern and you do need to look out for that. But the sites generally do a fairly good job of detecting it since unlike a casino, they can analyze every hand you've ever played including the cards you fold and look for suspicious patterns (e.g., you always sit at the same table as Player X and when he has a good hand, you raise even though you have nothing).
Why does google use their own user agent? It seems obvious that this is going to result in people abusing it in this way. Why wouldn't they just use the user agent string of a popular browser? If sites don't want to be searched at all, they can use robots.txt. I don't see the legimiate use for being able to give different data to the spider than to everyone else.
Bowie was very public ages ago about "retiring" his old material and only being interested in writing and performing new songs. He certainly could make a ton of money by perpetually doing "greatest hits" tours or he could just sit back and enjoy royalties from his old albums. But instead he has chosen to be an artist and try to create new music even though he could probably sell more concert tickets if he just played Ziggy Stardust at every show until he dies. I think that is commendable. If you chose to buy tickets for a concert without doing any work to find out what the content of the show would be, you don't get to complain that your uniformed purchase wasn't what you expected.
If Windows requires signed drivers, you don't think NVidia or whoever will be smart enough to just start signing their beta drives? They have a certificiate since they are going to sign the final version. You think they'll just give you beta drivers that can't be used at all? Do you also think that when a website is still under construction it can't use https since that requires a certificate?
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I gave up at the point where my homepage gets changed to a kind of cancer.
Unsurprisingly, the Nintendo World Store in Rockefeller Center is taking pre-orders.
nobody's ever given up because something was difficult.
This statement sounded suspicious to me, so I tried to think up a counter-example, but after twenty minutes I quit because it was too hard. I guess you were right!
How about Jennifer Anniston in the metal bikini?
I don't think Microsoft claims that IE 5.01 is currently the world's most secure browser. This bug that they are patching with the re-rerelease doesn't exist in IE on XP SP2, Server SP1 or in IE7 (including Vista), so the claims that things got more secure starting with XP SP2 again seem pretty reasonable.
Meh. The dangers of video games and consumer electronics towards children's development is over-rated. Most slashdotters grew up playing tons of video games and look how polite, physically fit and socially active we all ended up.
There is also an API called IsHungAppWindow that can be used to test whether a program is "not responding" in the task manager sense of not having pumped a message for five seconds.
By your definition, possession of it is not advocating anything and should not be illegal?
What? How does "not advocating anything" mean it shouldn't be illegal? That doesn't follow at all. Picking someone's pocket isn't "advocating anything" but is righfully illegal. Advocating for stupid laws to be changed is advocacy but shouldn't be illegal.
How is possession of images a way of "advocating" anything? That would apply more to making or distributing the images, but that is already illegal and not affected by this law, so not really relevant at all. Your argument that someone who looks at an image in the privacy of his home is "advocating" anything is bizarre.
It's not meant for application shortcuts. Apps have ctrl and alt. The win key is for the system shortcuts which are incredibly useful. There are tons of people who press win+L every time they get up from their computer, for example. Of course it is not useful by itself (which brings up the start menu). Ctrl and alt don't do anything useful by themselves either.
That's why Link has a shield.
Not too surprising since recently Time Warner's site for kids has been pushing Zango spyware on them.
Don't change it! Great sig :)
Where is this mall with the dollar Pauly Shore movies?
awesome. i'm glad i had smoked a fat bowl before i watched that.
C'mon, this is the LAPD. Surely we can trust them to be responsible and not abuse their powers.
If you are just making a prototype, why is squeezing out extra perf so important? Prototyping is the sort of situation where you should be fine with just using straight python.
If it ends up costing Canadians their rights, isn't that a pretty expensive lunch?
How would it do that? The prompt appears on the secure desktop, not on the regular desktop. If the malware can find a way of accessing that, there is a major security hole.
Your comments about bots are quite misinformed. I have played hundreds of thousands of hands online in the past few years (multitabling shorthanded games you can easily get 500+ hands/hr) and made more per hour than I do at my job. I have friends who make a living playing fulltime online. For a good player, there is plenty of money to be made. Bots are a complete non-issue (except insofar as fear of bots scares off potential fish). The best bots today cannot beat anything above the micro-limit games. If you think it is possible to buy a program that you can just start running and beat the games, you are very mistaken. If that were possible, everyone would be doing it (and there would be no more games).
There are frameworks available to play online, but they only handle the clicking of buttons and avoiding detection from the site and so forth. They do not include any useful AI. You need to write your own code for actually making tatctical decisions.
Collusion (from humans, not bots) is a bigger concern and you do need to look out for that. But the sites generally do a fairly good job of detecting it since unlike a casino, they can analyze every hand you've ever played including the cards you fold and look for suspicious patterns (e.g., you always sit at the same table as Player X and when he has a good hand, you raise even though you have nothing).
Why does google use their own user agent? It seems obvious that this is going to result in people abusing it in this way. Why wouldn't they just use the user agent string of a popular browser? If sites don't want to be searched at all, they can use robots.txt. I don't see the legimiate use for being able to give different data to the spider than to everyone else.
Bowie was very public ages ago about "retiring" his old material and only being interested in writing and performing new songs. He certainly could make a ton of money by perpetually doing "greatest hits" tours or he could just sit back and enjoy royalties from his old albums. But instead he has chosen to be an artist and try to create new music even though he could probably sell more concert tickets if he just played Ziggy Stardust at every show until he dies. I think that is commendable. If you chose to buy tickets for a concert without doing any work to find out what the content of the show would be, you don't get to complain that your uniformed purchase wasn't what you expected.
If Windows requires signed drivers, you don't think NVidia or whoever will be smart enough to just start signing their beta drives? They have a certificiate since they are going to sign the final version. You think they'll just give you beta drivers that can't be used at all? Do you also think that when a website is still under construction it can't use https since that requires a certificate?
How do you link Stealing underwear to making profit? :P
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I think the more relevant question is where do you not send your resume.