Yes, Darl has a wife and children, which proves two things: Females can also be afflicted by bad judgement, and it doesn't take intelligence to procreate.
I'd believe it. Looking at the last 18 hours of my firewall logs I have had 1084 connection attempts on port 445 alone which has a remote exploitable vulnerability. Thats on average one attempt per a minute!
what about.xinitrc, at, cron jobs, the rc file of whatever shell you use, adding replacement commands at the beginning of a users path such as su or ls?
There are many ways to have a program run within a users account without too much trouble assuming that a piece of code can be executed to set it up in the first place. What you're probably meaning is that the results of such a thing are localised to that account (although it would still be possible to drag a machine down by using up its resources if it was not carefully set up).
Not directly related to your comment.. Spyware exists because the trust that an application does what is expected when its installed is abused. But unless we're willing to write an entire OS from scratch ourselves we need to trust someone. Be it the source code we compile, the compiler to compile it with, the package maintainer such that they do not add a malicious post install script (think kazaa.rpm) or the distribution the package comes from to check for such things.
Most household users will trust that the application is clean because they do not know better. If linux were in all the households the situation would be exactly the same as it is now with Windows because we would still have the same inexperienced people administering the boxes. The only solution to this is improving awareness and visibility... or banning all computers.. capital punishment for spyware authors?;)
This isn't any different from whats been going on for the last 10 years except it used to be with computer games. They drove hardware upgrades and improvements but thats been pushed more onto the video cards these days.
Also I don't see a problem with building an OS for hardware that does not exist yet. In fact, MS need to do that because hardware will have moved on from what it is now. Look at what was an entry level computer two years ago compared to today for example. They've improved a lot and I doubt that will slow or stop in the next year or two. Whoever said MS's customers are the big computer suppliers weren't kidding.
I'm not sure they were meaning install debian, rather create a new distribution thats reasonably idiot proof to install and run. sort of like a free version of lindows.
Something similar used to be running an emulator inside another emulator. So you ended up with a chain of emulation. e.g. spectrum emulator inside a c64 emulator inside an amiga emulator inside...
Slashdot can send daily emails with a list of the topics. So its really only a week without slashdot comments:D
All I think this 75% shows is that other programs access web sites far more often than they should. Why does a media player need to access a webpage, how often and to what end is something I'd want to know.
I'd think the answer depends on when they left the job. If its before or even during the beginning phase of whatever nasty practice the company is in then they would have no problem explaining. However if they stay for a long time then I doubt they could get over the stigma (and I personally think they shouldn't) and I would have to ask why they did stay so long. Only so much time can be attributed to loyalty before other reasons apply.
Automatic update my ass. No way was this a mistake, if the program needs to delete files (be it for an upgrade or other reason) it should do it itself when the new program is run and not when a remote server instructs it to by sending a suitably encoded packet (out of curiosity, how does this remote server know when to delete the file for an upgrade, so to speak, or where if the IP is truly hidden?)
Actually, you'd be surprised of the number of PDA users that read books on them. I bought my Clie specifically for that reason. Your first argument makes it look like a voracious reader wouldn't spend time on a computer ever. But perhaps thats because they get the books from a library? If more e-libraries existed I think you'd find that wouldn't be the case, especially with the younger generations.
Publishers would probably be better working with piracy than against it. (think of the current mp3 news). I've seen publishers put out bad quality digital files, why? For the majority of people it'll cost more to print it than it would to purchase the book in paper form so what is the reason? Simply to make people go out and buy the paper version I guess.
Publishers should make good quality e-books, make them cheap so people will have less reason to pirate them plus think of the paper saved:). If all the publishers work out a nice open format that is difficult to crack but still reasonable portable then I believe there would be little piracy.
btw, if you think making it available digitally is really a problem you can't think cheap good quality scanners and OCR software exist. You really think people type in the books by hand when they're ripped into ebook form? All it takes is some patience.
aha, exactly! We're conditioned by tv so that our subconscious keeps track of everything we do or say that is outside government defined parameters. This information can then be relayed back when the government need it. e.g. while we are asleep or posting humerous replies on slashdot. This means they do not need a supercomputer or massive amounts of storage. They use us to keep information on us! Wrap your head in cotton wool now, don't listen to anyone or they've got us...
What is the definition of audio media? Would a mp3 CD count? If I can pop it into my CD player and it plays music without requiring a third party piece of software I would say it is. Sounds like this could be the basis for a large legal collection so long as it can't be proved how the files were collected in the first place.
Does this also mean they can be snail mailed around legally as well or is only the first copy legal?
This does affect you even if you use an IRC server that masks ip addresses. A direct connection will give out your ip address and they can get that by requesting anything from fserve be it the file list, an mp3 or even a dcc chat session.
If a direct connection is not used then you can be protected by a foreign server more. The only way to be truly safe on irc is not to send files and be on a server that masks ip's.
It works if you go to the main page and in from there: http://www.dejavu.org/emulator.htm. Now this does bring back memories, what ever happened to being able to carry around a copy of netscape on one mac floppy disk anyway? (yes, I was forced to use a mac at uni - I am better now)
The 40 - 80 years isn't too bad since you'd get travelling expenses in the millions. Learning to talk to the bereaved aliens, now that would be a challenge. "Look out Kenny, that NASA space probe is heading straight for... oh well, nevermind."
One of the advantages of the 1st person 3d style game is that it is very easy to get into. Generally they don't have many intricate keyboard commands that require a dedicated emacs user to hit quickly (and in the right order). Newer games are becoming the exception though. Killing everything in sight just extends this easy use concept so that anyone that picks up one of these games can get into it almost immediately. That in itself gets past one of the hurdles that games companies have to face when trying to get people to buy the game, does the player really have to read a 50 page manual?
I can think of a couple more non-violent 1st person 3d games, Normality used the doom 2 engine to provide a unique environment where you could walk around (looking up and down as well) pick up items using the mouse in a manner similar to existing 2d adventures. I remember there was also a kids style version of a game where you had to pick up trash and stop littering animals from messing up the place but I forget the name, anyone remember?
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Yes, Darl has a wife and children, which proves two things: Females can also be afflicted by bad judgement, and it doesn't take intelligence to procreate.
Then we geeks still have a chance? Yippeeeee....
I'd believe it. Looking at the last 18 hours of my firewall logs I have had 1084 connection attempts on port 445 alone which has a remote exploitable vulnerability. Thats on average one attempt per a minute!
what about .xinitrc, at, cron jobs, the rc file of whatever shell you use, adding replacement commands at the beginning of a users path such as su or ls?
;)
There are many ways to have a program run within a users account without too much trouble assuming that a piece of code can be executed to set it up in the first place. What you're probably meaning is that the results of such a thing are localised to that account (although it would still be possible to drag a machine down by using up its resources if it was not carefully set up).
Not directly related to your comment.. Spyware exists because the trust that an application does what is expected when its installed is abused. But unless we're willing to write an entire OS from scratch ourselves we need to trust someone. Be it the source code we compile, the compiler to compile it with, the package maintainer such that they do not add a malicious post install script (think kazaa.rpm) or the distribution the package comes from to check for such things.
Most household users will trust that the application is clean because they do not know better. If linux were in all the households the situation would be exactly the same as it is now with Windows because we would still have the same inexperienced people administering the boxes. The only solution to this is improving awareness and visibility... or banning all computers.. capital punishment for spyware authors?
This isn't any different from whats been going on for the last 10 years except it used to be with computer games. They drove hardware upgrades and improvements but thats been pushed more onto the video cards these days.
Also I don't see a problem with building an OS for hardware that does not exist yet. In fact, MS need to do that because hardware will have moved on from what it is now. Look at what was an entry level computer two years ago compared to today for example. They've improved a lot and I doubt that will slow or stop in the next year or two. Whoever said MS's customers are the big computer suppliers weren't kidding.
I'm not sure they were meaning install debian, rather create a new distribution thats reasonably idiot proof to install and run. sort of like a free version of lindows.
Something similar used to be running an emulator inside another emulator. So you ended up with a chain of emulation. e.g. spectrum emulator inside a c64 emulator inside an amiga emulator inside...
Slashdot can send daily emails with a list of the topics. So its really only a week without slashdot comments :D
All I think this 75% shows is that other programs access web sites far more often than they should. Why does a media player need to access a webpage, how often and to what end is something I'd want to know.
I'd think the answer depends on when they left the job. If its before or even during the beginning phase of whatever nasty practice the company is in then they would have no problem explaining. However if they stay for a long time then I doubt they could get over the stigma (and I personally think they shouldn't) and I would have to ask why they did stay so long. Only so much time can be attributed to loyalty before other reasons apply.
Automatic update my ass. No way was this a mistake, if the program needs to delete files (be it for an upgrade or other reason) it should do it itself when the new program is run and not when a remote server instructs it to by sending a suitably encoded packet (out of curiosity, how does this remote server know when to delete the file for an upgrade, so to speak, or where if the IP is truly hidden?)
Actually, you'd be surprised of the number of PDA users that read books on them. I bought my Clie specifically for that reason. Your first argument makes it look like a voracious reader wouldn't spend time on a computer ever. But perhaps thats because they get the books from a library? If more e-libraries existed I think you'd find that wouldn't be the case, especially with the younger generations.
:). If all the publishers work out a nice open format that is difficult to crack but still reasonable portable then I believe there would be little piracy.
Publishers would probably be better working with piracy than against it. (think of the current mp3 news). I've seen publishers put out bad quality digital files, why? For the majority of people it'll cost more to print it than it would to purchase the book in paper form so what is the reason? Simply to make people go out and buy the paper version I guess.
Publishers should make good quality e-books, make them cheap so people will have less reason to pirate them plus think of the paper saved
btw, if you think making it available digitally is really a problem you can't think cheap good quality scanners and OCR software exist. You really think people type in the books by hand when they're ripped into ebook form? All it takes is some patience.
aha, exactly! We're conditioned by tv so that our subconscious keeps track of everything we do or say that is outside government defined parameters. This information can then be relayed back when the government need it. e.g. while we are asleep or posting humerous replies on slashdot. This means they do not need a supercomputer or massive amounts of storage. They use us to keep information on us! Wrap your head in cotton wool now, don't listen to anyone or they've got us...
What is the definition of audio media? Would a mp3 CD count? If I can pop it into my CD player and it plays music without requiring a third party piece of software I would say it is. Sounds like this could be the basis for a large legal collection so long as it can't be proved how the files were collected in the first place.
Does this also mean they can be snail mailed around legally as well or is only the first copy legal?
This does affect you even if you use an IRC server that masks ip addresses. A direct connection will give out your ip address and they can get that by requesting anything from fserve be it the file list, an mp3 or even a dcc chat session.
If a direct connection is not used then you can be protected by a foreign server more. The only way to be truly safe on irc is not to send files and be on a server that masks ip's.
It works if you go to the main page and in from there: http://www.dejavu.org/emulator.htm. Now this does bring back memories, what ever happened to being able to carry around a copy of netscape on one mac floppy disk anyway? (yes, I was forced to use a mac at uni - I am better now)
The 40 - 80 years isn't too bad since you'd get travelling expenses in the millions. Learning to talk to the bereaved aliens, now that would be a challenge. "Look out Kenny, that NASA space probe is heading straight for... oh well, nevermind."
One of the advantages of the 1st person 3d style game is that it is very easy to get into. Generally they don't have many intricate keyboard commands that require a dedicated emacs user to hit quickly (and in the right order). Newer games are becoming the exception though. Killing everything in sight just extends this easy use concept so that anyone that picks up one of these games can get into it almost immediately. That in itself gets past one of the hurdles that games companies have to face when trying to get people to buy the game, does the player really have to read a 50 page manual?
I can think of a couple more non-violent 1st person 3d games, Normality used the doom 2 engine to provide a unique environment where you could walk around (looking up and down as well) pick up items using the mouse in a manner similar to existing 2d adventures. I remember there was also a kids style version of a game where you had to pick up trash and stop littering animals from messing up the place but I forget the name, anyone remember?