They put games into phones because it's a distraction for every idiot 14 year old kid who buys a phone and pays some ridiculously high prepay rate for phone minutes.
It's failry obvious that there is a security risk involving a Microsoft product, or any computing sytem for that matter, however since this only accounts for such a small amount of votes it would probablly not be attractive for anybody trying to cheat. However, the hype and controversy surrounding the system is probablly the largest security risk, regardless of it's OS dependency. The simple fact that everybody will be focusing their attention on this "New" and "Controversial" system of voting, will detract attention from other security holes in the voting system as a whole (including traditional paper ballots and what not) and could allow somebody to exploit those holes even moreso than before.
Someone who r00ts my box and types "rm -rf/*" is not an artist, he's a criminal who should have his nuts ripped off - no matter how 1337 his 5ki11z are.
I would assume that by "Script Kitty" he meant somebody who does that kind of shit. However, there is a distinction between knowing how to so something like that, and actually doing it. A person who knows how to "r00t" your box and erase your entine root partition, but chooses not to and rather decides to help to solve that problem would most certianly not be a script kitty. Just because somebody has "1337 5ki11z" doesn't mean that they have to use them for evil.
"Microsoft is a company passionate about innovation and creativity. We are also very committed to respect for others' intellectual property and we request the same respect applied to our innovations."
My response to quote, "How long have you worked for Microsoft?"
The motorist, Mathew Rich, 33, of Deptford, said he had left his wife at her mother's house and was turning onto Kendall on his way to work at Philadelphia International Airport when a youth in a long black coat stepped in front of him.
Of course, ever since Columbine teenagers wearing black coats are violent criminals. Just like anybody who has a little bit darker skin is a terrorist.
"I thought you'd like to know that I am a warrior, I am fighting for mankind's freedom. Freedom from this society,"
So they really didn't call themselves 'Warriors of Freedom' they just came to a rather dubious conclusion.
"In a sense, these guys probably were acting out a game," Thompson said.
I serioiusly doubt it. It is more obvious to me, from just readint he quotes from his letter, that the kid had some serious mental problems. Obviously, he was depresed or enraged or something. But I doubt that video games actually caused them to do that. Video games may have influenced some of the methodology of carrying out their plot (i.e. the swords), but I highly doubt it. However, I dont' think that the absence of video games would have changed anything. Bottom line, this was not a game for these kids. They were seriously disturbed and they all realized the gravity of their intended plot.
But this article did what it was intended to do, which was to smear video games publically. This is enough to get groups like MAVAV all fired up. Of course, what will really tell the truth about this incident and any connection to games that it may have will be told in court. If one of them comes out and says so, then I'm sure that we could begin to draw a resonable conclusion. However, I highly doubt it. The sad thing is, when the trial is over the report will be a little 6 line column on the last page of the paper, so that the real motivations behind this crime will never be known. The general public is just left pointing a finger at games/music/tv.
Did you stop to think that every once in a while telemarketers and mail soliticters actually offer a good deal on a product or service. We got called from the phone company, and cut our DSL cost by $10.00, for the exact same service package.
As far as the elderly population goes, I think that they simply have the tendancy to listen more often to a caller while, mostly everybody else just hangs up right away. Once they hear the sales pitch then they're hooked, not because they're slow old folks or anything like that, but just because the sales pitches are actually that effective. Humor me for a second, and actually pretend to be interested in what a telemarketer has to say next time one calls, then throw all your objections at him/her, and see how hard it is to say "no." Oh well, flame me if you must, but it's just food for thought.
This will be a small victory, but I don't know how much of a long term effect this will have. Certianly, this won't have much of an impact in the United States or elsewhere.
I'd have to also disagree, advertising and marketing techniques are around as long as they are selling. Can you recall the last time you saw the Taco Bell dog on TV? He was only on as long as people were buying tacos, then they moved on. Now, do you remember the last time you saw an ad for IBM Business solutions? Probablly, within the last few days. Advertizing techniques are only around as long as they sell.
However, I do agree that telemarketers have a shitty job, usually they're high-pressure positions with high quotas and a high turnover rates.
[Grandpa Simpson Mode on] Why, back in my day, not everybody could write a virus. It took skill and planning, now every 15 year old punk kid can string 15 lines of code together and call it a virus!
Well, what's to stop the same idiots from not just using "root" all the time. Most people don't care to understand or learn about anything beyond Instant Messaging, Web, E-mail and KaZaA. If a system was Linux based it woudln't matter. User stupidity is the largest security flaw in softare, no matter how good it is.
This argument is a myth, and has been used by Microsofties to try and downplay the vastly superior security of both *BSD and GNU/Linux. Mac OS X is a FreeBSD derivative in many respects, and vastly better designed from the ground up than Microsoft windows, for whom things like networking and security were afterthoughts cobbled together in an ad-hoc frenzy of featuritis and catch-up. Such an ad-hoc approach to design will never yield acceptable security, as Microsoft's shoddy products have demonstrated so dramatically in recent years, time and time again...and once again today, with this irritating worm.
However, people writing worms or viruses are looking to infect those most likely to spread it. In other words, your grandmother who barely knows how to turn on the computer. People like that don't use *nix.
Excuse me for sounding like an idiot... But why does shit like this only affect Outlook/Outlook Express? I get shit like this on a daily basis and when I click on it, nothing happens at all because I use Mozilla Mail. Is Microsoft, for some perverse reason, intentionally making shitty software just to make peoples' lives a living hell?
It's actually Bastille day, which commemorates when French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille, an old fortress which was convereted to a prison. This is recognized in France as the day that kicked off the French Revolution, overthrew of the monarchy and the installed "The Committe For Public Safety" as it came to be known.
Not to defend Orrin Hatch in any way, But let's assume that that was simply a mistake in the administration of his website. Let's also say that he qualified for a free version of the code, and it really didn't hurt the original author of the code. Now, should that allow the author to knock his webserver down for a while. If those servers host other sites, e.g. they're part of a large hosting network or something, who's responsible for those who may have lost money because of a trivial mistake on somebody else's part?
However, in my opinion, I think that Hatch should fork over the $900 (and then some) to pay for that software. I would not consider his website personal or nonprofit considering that he uses it to promote his own political career.
Personally, I don't care too much because it makes it one less trip to return the DVD's I rent. However, I would certianly be pissed if an attempt was ever made to replace a more permanant media.
This is nothing new. For about 4 years I've known about dard drive recorderes. My uncle has been selling them in his store, and using them to make his own recordings for quite a while. They are quite nice, and the sound quality is excellent.
This seems to be quite a bit of a stretch. Of course it would make sense if they were suing for damages caused by the slammer fiasco, but to accuse Microsoft of intentionally putting the bug in there is quite ridiculous. Either way, the outcome of the case will have overall grave consequences.
Why the hell are they doing this when the heatsinks they ship with Athlons are pieces of crap. I bought an Athlon and used the stock heatsink for about a month. Mind you, I didn't even overclock it and, according to the internal temperature sensors, it was running it at about 65-70 degrees (celsius)! The heat alarm would start to go off every time I'd play Warcraft III. I went to the computer store, and bought the cheapest heatsink/fan there, slapped it on there and it runs at least HALF of that.
However, on a lighter note, I don't see why the thermal pads (or whatever comes stuck to the AMD heatsinks) are any better. I could be wrong (and I most likely am), but I was under the impression that thermal grease, even cheap thermal grease, is better than the pads they put on those things.
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I guess President Bush was sick of all criticism about his last bad decision.
They put games into phones because it's a distraction for every idiot 14 year old kid who buys a phone and pays some ridiculously high prepay rate for phone minutes.
Don't you mean the department of Homeland Insecurity?
Do people still make a big deal about trying to get first post?
It's failry obvious that there is a security risk involving a Microsoft product, or any computing sytem for that matter, however since this only accounts for such a small amount of votes it would probablly not be attractive for anybody trying to cheat. However, the hype and controversy surrounding the system is probablly the largest security risk, regardless of it's OS dependency. The simple fact that everybody will be focusing their attention on this "New" and "Controversial" system of voting, will detract attention from other security holes in the voting system as a whole (including traditional paper ballots and what not) and could allow somebody to exploit those holes even moreso than before.
Someone who r00ts my box and types "rm -rf /*" is not an artist, he's a criminal who should have his nuts ripped off - no matter how 1337 his 5ki11z are.
I would assume that by "Script Kitty" he meant somebody who does that kind of shit. However, there is a distinction between knowing how to so something like that, and actually doing it. A person who knows how to "r00t" your box and erase your entine root partition, but chooses not to and rather decides to help to solve that problem would most certianly not be a script kitty. Just because somebody has "1337 5ki11z" doesn't mean that they have to use them for evil.
"Microsoft is a company passionate about innovation and creativity. We are also very committed to respect for others' intellectual property and we request the same respect applied to our innovations."
My response to quote, "How long have you worked for Microsoft?"
The motorist, Mathew Rich, 33, of Deptford, said he had left his wife at her mother's house and was turning onto Kendall on his way to work at Philadelphia International Airport when a youth in a long black coat stepped in front of him.
Of course, ever since Columbine teenagers wearing black coats are violent criminals. Just like anybody who has a little bit darker skin is a terrorist.
"I thought you'd like to know that I am a warrior, I am fighting for mankind's freedom. Freedom from this society,"
So they really didn't call themselves 'Warriors of Freedom' they just came to a rather dubious conclusion.
"In a sense, these guys probably were acting out a game," Thompson said.
I serioiusly doubt it. It is more obvious to me, from just readint he quotes from his letter, that the kid had some serious mental problems. Obviously, he was depresed or enraged or something. But I doubt that video games actually caused them to do that. Video games may have influenced some of the methodology of carrying out their plot (i.e. the swords), but I highly doubt it. However, I dont' think that the absence of video games would have changed anything. Bottom line, this was not a game for these kids. They were seriously disturbed and they all realized the gravity of their intended plot.
But this article did what it was intended to do, which was to smear video games publically. This is enough to get groups like MAVAV all fired up. Of course, what will really tell the truth about this incident and any connection to games that it may have will be told in court. If one of them comes out and says so, then I'm sure that we could begin to draw a resonable conclusion. However, I highly doubt it. The sad thing is, when the trial is over the report will be a little 6 line column on the last page of the paper, so that the real motivations behind this crime will never be known. The general public is just left pointing a finger at games/music/tv.
Nova means "No Go" in spanish, SHIT!
With most Epson Printers though, it's possible to find prefectly cheap generic cartridges.
Did you stop to think that every once in a while telemarketers and mail soliticters actually offer a good deal on a product or service. We got called from the phone company, and cut our DSL cost by $10.00, for the exact same service package.
As far as the elderly population goes, I think that they simply have the tendancy to listen more often to a caller while, mostly everybody else just hangs up right away. Once they hear the sales pitch then they're hooked, not because they're slow old folks or anything like that, but just because the sales pitches are actually that effective. Humor me for a second, and actually pretend to be interested in what a telemarketer has to say next time one calls, then throw all your objections at him/her, and see how hard it is to say "no." Oh well, flame me if you must, but it's just food for thought.
They must be very afraid...
This will be a small victory, but I don't know how much of a long term effect this will have. Certianly, this won't have much of an impact in the United States or elsewhere.
I'd have to also disagree, advertising and marketing techniques are around as long as they are selling. Can you recall the last time you saw the Taco Bell dog on TV? He was only on as long as people were buying tacos, then they moved on. Now, do you remember the last time you saw an ad for IBM Business solutions? Probablly, within the last few days. Advertizing techniques are only around as long as they sell.
However, I do agree that telemarketers have a shitty job, usually they're high-pressure positions with high quotas and a high turnover rates.
[Grandpa Simpson Mode on]
Why, back in my day, not everybody could write a virus. It took skill and planning, now every 15 year old punk kid can string 15 lines of code together and call it a virus!
[Grandpa Simpson Mode off]
Well, what's to stop the same idiots from not just using "root" all the time. Most people don't care to understand or learn about anything beyond Instant Messaging, Web, E-mail and KaZaA. If a system was Linux based it woudln't matter. User stupidity is the largest security flaw in softare, no matter how good it is.
This argument is a myth, and has been used by Microsofties to try and downplay the vastly superior security of both *BSD and GNU/Linux. Mac OS X is a FreeBSD derivative in many respects, and vastly better designed from the ground up than Microsoft windows, for whom things like networking and security were afterthoughts cobbled together in an ad-hoc frenzy of featuritis and catch-up. Such an ad-hoc approach to design will never yield acceptable security, as Microsoft's shoddy products have demonstrated so dramatically in recent years, time and time again...and once again today, with this irritating worm.
However, people writing worms or viruses are looking to infect those most likely to spread it. In other words, your grandmother who barely knows how to turn on the computer. People like that don't use *nix.
Excuse me for sounding like an idiot... But why does shit like this only affect Outlook/Outlook Express? I get shit like this on a daily basis and when I click on it, nothing happens at all because I use Mozilla Mail. Is Microsoft, for some perverse reason, intentionally making shitty software just to make peoples' lives a living hell?
It's actually Bastille day, which commemorates when French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille, an old fortress which was convereted to a prison. This is recognized in France as the day that kicked off the French Revolution, overthrew of the monarchy and the installed "The Committe For Public Safety" as it came to be known.
Not to defend Orrin Hatch in any way, But let's assume that that was simply a mistake in the administration of his website. Let's also say that he qualified for a free version of the code, and it really didn't hurt the original author of the code. Now, should that allow the author to knock his webserver down for a while. If those servers host other sites, e.g. they're part of a large hosting network or something, who's responsible for those who may have lost money because of a trivial mistake on somebody else's part?
However, in my opinion, I think that Hatch should fork over the $900 (and then some) to pay for that software. I would not consider his website personal or nonprofit considering that he uses it to promote his own political career.
This reminds me of this Slashdot article from a while ago. Nothing really new...
After I read the article, I went Counter-hack.net and read the IRC transcript from the "interview" with [myg0t]g0d and it kind of reminded me of this.
All Cheaters are Fuckheads, but not all fuckheads are cheaters.
Personally, I don't care too much because it makes it one less trip to return the DVD's I rent. However, I would certianly be pissed if an attempt was ever made to replace a more permanant media.
This is nothing new. For about 4 years I've known about dard drive recorderes. My uncle has been selling them in his store, and using them to make his own recordings for quite a while. They are quite nice, and the sound quality is excellent.
This seems to be quite a bit of a stretch. Of course it would make sense if they were suing for damages caused by the slammer fiasco, but to accuse Microsoft of intentionally putting the bug in there is quite ridiculous. Either way, the outcome of the case will have overall grave consequences.
Why the hell are they doing this when the heatsinks they ship with Athlons are pieces of crap. I bought an Athlon and used the stock heatsink for about a month. Mind you, I didn't even overclock it and, according to the internal temperature sensors, it was running it at about 65-70 degrees (celsius)! The heat alarm would start to go off every time I'd play Warcraft III. I went to the computer store, and bought the cheapest heatsink/fan there, slapped it on there and it runs at least HALF of that.
However, on a lighter note, I don't see why the thermal pads (or whatever comes stuck to the AMD heatsinks) are any better. I could be wrong (and I most likely am), but I was under the impression that thermal grease, even cheap thermal grease, is better than the pads they put on those things.