You seriously think the entire population of the world has access to electricity ? Wake up please
It is true some of the population simply does without electricity. Other parts of the population only get limited quanities of power when the sun is shining. (Solar cells for cell phone charging)
I remember some of the last days of quality stereo equipment that had a true power button. From the service side of things, they were a high failure item. Each time you hit the power button the surge from powering the power transformer and charging up all the filter capacitors vaporized a small amount of the switch contacts. Ever seen a power switch with a toothpick stuck in it to hold it just right to get the power on? Having a small standby supply on to run the buttons and listen to a remote was a big blessing to the reliability of stereo equipment. Now the power button simply shuts down the transistors in the main switch mode power supply. The main filter capacitors never go dead. Now the lights don't blink when the stereo is switched on.
I think more items such as stereos and inkjet printers are being made that don't draw enough power to even be slightly warm to the touch since they draw much less than a watt in standby. Many such items draw and produce less heat than the doorbell transformer in the house. How come there is no rush to make switch mode power supplies for doorbells? Dropping that from 1-2 watts to a couple milliwatts would change the doorbell standby power by over an order of magnitude.
Find your doorbell transformer. Feel it. Is it warm? If it is, it is because of the power it uses for electric heat.
My doorbell uses more standby power than my inkjet printer. Don't blame the printer manufacture.
I'd love to get some of the latest CD, but, with the copy protected emblem on the back and saying it may not actually work on pretty much any device makes me keep my money.
The emblem on the front that says $12.95 is the main killer for me.
The lack of a Compact Disc tm logo is the icing on the cake.
The Compact Disk tm logo is my assurance I can play it, rip it, mix it, and load it in my MP3 player.
In the uk they have a series of distance lines painted on the road and the camera takes two photos when triggered. They can then use the distance your car travelled in the time interval between the photos to double check your speed if there is a dispute.
I wish we had something that sane here. I got a ticket in the mail where that system would have made it a no-brainer. Not everyone is so lucky. Here a position adjustment to change lanes into a hole in traffic can trigger a ticket. That's how I got mine. My speed over distance was well within limits.
Surveillance cameras are on 24/7 speed cameras only when you speed.
Or something causes a false trigger.
When two signals are mixed (radar speed gun) from 2 moving objects, the output is the doplar shift of each object, the diffrence and sum. These are artifacts of non-linerar mixing in the gun down-converter. If most traffic is traveling close to the same speed, the strongest signal is the speed. However in an overtaking situation, one vehicle passing another so they have a large difference, the SUM may cause a false trigger. As an example, passing a tractor trailer just pulling off the edge of the road and traveling 15 MPH while you are going 55 MPH may cause a false trigger of 70MPH as the raw mixed signal contains 15, 30, 55, & 70 MPH frequencies. A semi truck can contribute a large signal to be mixed from the microwave beam side lobe and mix strongly with your low profile sports car signal. Not all the microwave energy is confined to the area in the photograph. The truck might not even be in the camera field of view, but still in the radar side lobe.
The problem with automatic speed cameras is there is no other verification of your detected speed. I have resorted to logging the NMEA data from my GPS. I can match my record to their record and contest a bad snap with a running speed, time distance log from the GPS of the same time, date, location.
(The GPS manual lists the speed accuracy as 0.1 Nautical Mile per Hour. It should hold up in court.)
Ordinary citizens should not have to keep logs to fight false positives.
Just imagine how many neon lights and LEDs you could power in your modded case with that thing! It'd be like the sun!
I have an idea what that would look like. At a local cinema the projectors use a 1600 Watt high pressure Xenon bulb. It gets real bright inside the lamphouse.
Not trying to be an ass but it hurts the eyes when so many posts including opening article have kW wrong. It is kW not KW. It has a small k because kilo isn't taken from somebody's name.
I found a list of metric prefixes.
I have no idea why Kilo is not uppercase as are most multiplyers of greater than unity. In common pratice is is common for greater then unity multiplyers to be uppercase to avoid confusion with less then unity multiplyers. That is why most street signs read KM to the next exit and transistors are measured in nm and leakage current is measured in uA.
Prefix Symbol Multiplier Exp yotta- Y 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 10+24 zetta- Z 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 10+21 exa- E 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 10+18 peta- P 1 000 000 000 000 000 10+15 tera- T 1 000 000 000 000 10+12 giga- G 1 000 000 000 10+9 mega- M 1 000 000 10+6 kilo- k 1 000 10+3 hecto- h 100 10+2 deca- da 10 10+1 deci- d 0.1 10-1 centi- c 0.01 10-2 milli- m 0.001 10-3 micro- 0.000 001 10-6 nano- n 0.000 000 001 10-9 pico- p 0.000 000 000 001 10-12 femto- f 0.000 000 000 000 001 10-15 atto- a 0.000 000 000 000 000 001 10-18 zepto- z 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 001 10-21 yocto- y 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 001 10-24
1KW, 4KW.... you can heat a room up with 1KW and heat a whole house with 4KW
You must have a small house or a super tight house. My heat has 3 5KW elements. I had a breaker trip dropping 2 elements. 5KW was not enough to keep a 2 story 4 bedroom home warm.
(UBI I love you guys, make the next GR playable all-over just like any other developers and I won't own an illegal copy I promise.
I don't have a game console because I have kids. Kids in a hurry with friends over don't care where they put the disks. They get knocked over and next thing you know it somebody has stepped on a $50 disk.
Be honest. How may stores will exchange a damaged disk that's about 1 year old for 50 cents?
I copy everything. Music, Games, etc and put the originals away and use work copies. Some disks don't copy. They don't get played, they get exchanged.
Until there is a sane kid proof exchange program for no-hastles exchanges, I'll work from work copies and software that installs and runs from the hard drive. Using the CD as a dongle for the game is not an option.
In the old days the dongle was screwed to the printer port. Nowdays, your kids get to install, remove, and store them. It's the kid handeling that cuts the service life of the dongle ware.
My biggest $ loss to date for a single damaged CD is a copy (original) of Microsoft's Office. The 52X drive shreded it on a re-install. Think the store will exchange it for me? Yea Right. Installed Open Office instead.
Given that more and more CDs are being crippled by this, I find myself putting more and more of them back on the shop shelf.
To make sure I get non-DRM CD's I look for the Compact Disk logo. They are very scarce. I finaly bought a retail CD this year. American Gramaphone has some CD's with the Compact Disk logo proudly displayed on the front cover! I always liked Mannheim Steamroller. I was looking for Trans-Siberian Orchestra, but the store I was in did not have it.
Yeah, same here. My collection would be a bit more varied but for every news story about the RIAA suing some grandmother and every news story about how Sony gets more tangled in its rootkit tar baby, the less inclined I am to buy another CD.
The big thing is the music industry hasn't grown up with the digital age. There are lots of new compelling reasons to buy music. Unfortunately most of them are not legal.
There are several examples on the web that could get people in lots of hot water. The first that comes to mind is that crazy Christmas display that is all over the web. Has anybody thought that posting the music with the light show is not legal, or geting legal could bankrupt the guy that put up the lights? Do you have any idea how much legal problems there could be because he broadcast the music on FM so people in their cars could tune in as they drove by? Check out the list of prohibited activities for a retail music CD. That guy put together a fantastic light show. It was mostly against copyright law, even though the band loved it.
I put together a couple slide shows for weddings. I had the slide show set to music for the wedding. After the wedding several family members asked for copies of the slide show. How the heck do you go about getting a proper license for 5 copies of 3 songs to be used on your slide show and permission to include the school class and sports pictures?
The music industry is not interested in you doing anything with CD's except take them home to listen to them. The music industry needs to get with the times and have a fee structure in place where you can fill out the form, list the songs, number of copies, date of public performance (wedding), webcast, etc and pay a reasonable fee and recieve a legal certificate for the use.
I can't use the CD's for the wedding slide show as it is now, so I don't buy them. I let the Bride provide the music which plays during the show then the sync copy is deleted afterward and the original CD is returned. I can still distrubute my slide show afterward, but only after deleting the grade, middle, and high school studio photos and soundtrack. Private non-studio photos remain in the show as they are the only ones I can obtain permission from the copyright holders to use.
Ever try to get permission from a school photographer to dirstribute photos that was taken 10 years ago? They are in my slide show only as a presentation, but not for distribution. That is very hard to explain to the bride and groom's parents. They provided the originals to put into the slide show. They don't understand why I don't have permission to make copies of the school photos.
Hey Pro Photographers and music industry, can you sell us a product we can use in this new age?
1) Is anyone else extremely troubled by the following line from the article "A DVD that retails for $21.99 could cost a local man more than $100,000,".
I think I will stop buying movies until I get my liability insurance up to par.;-)
I do agree that circumstantial evidence seems to suggest he's a bit more tech savvy than one might think,
I hope Paramount was able to secure the MAC addresses. It may help make or break the case. Many hardwire cards have fixed MAC addresses. If Paramount shows the MAC address of the wireless router was involved, it may help the defense, but if the MAC address of the cleaned machine shows, the defense gets pretty slim.
I know it may be wistful thinking as most of the MAC addresses stop at the local NAT router.
Unfortunately, I wouldn't hold my breath on getting permission.
No problem. I simply will let the band know how I found out about them and then let them know that I would not have found about them without it, I'll let them stick to the limited advertising as permitted by the RIAA. Good luck. I now see their product as less useful and have less reason to buy a copy because intended uses are prohibited.
It looks like my show will have to remain on MIDI Sound Canvas sequenced from old Public Domain Christmas songs due to license issues.
The real cause of music piracy is because a CD with 12 tracks isn't worth the money the labels are asking. Why anyone buys a CD which costs almost as much as a DVD is beyond me.
You are paying way too much for a DVD then. I don't buy CD's because they cost more than a DVD. Choice 12.95 DVD or 16.99 CD. Easy choice. I can find the 2 for $11 DVD's at walmart. Older CD's under $8 worth listening to... Not a chance. Good classic rock is just as much as new stuff.
How many musicians have succeeded in making a living this way? Without the exposure the record labels can give you (through their lock on radio) you aren't going to sell many songs. There may be one or two exceptions, (Ani DeFranco come to mind) but it's pretty rare.
In reality I just found a new band and label on the web. I have voiced my IP concerns to the band. There is a very cool Christmas light show done very will to the band's music. This exposed me to the band. I wrote the band and asked if their label was a RIAA member, do they frown on web publishing the music with the video of the lights, and do the CD's employ DRM as I like to do this type of thing but have refrained do to the RIAA and DMCA issues with DRM. I then reminded them I found out about them over the cool web video, not the radio and looked up their web site and sampled their other samples.
They will soon figure out word of mouth is valuable advertising. Limiting exposing new people to their work is not a good thing. Neither is DRM and heavy limits on the usefuleness of the product.
I'm not plugging their stuff yet. I haven't recieved a reply yet. For those who just has to know, it's Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Someone with ip address 140.201.76.1 tried to access your personal account!
Please click the link below and enter your account information to confirm that you are not currently away. You have 3 days to confirm account information or your account will be locked.
Click here to activate your account
The best part is.. I don't have a pay pal account. This scam is so old news. Does anybody still fall for it?
A couple of months ago I received a message on my home phone from American Express concerning "suspicious activity on my card."
So did I. I knew it was a phishing call. I was polite and refused to give my paticulars and asked about the activity. I asked if I gave the last 4 digits if they could verify the address. They said no they needed the full number, exp date, name as it is on the card and the verification number. I then told them I do not have an American Express card. I then called American Express and gave them the phishing information.
If a bank is having their customer base phished, and you don't have an account, let the bank know anyway instead of ignoring it. You may protect your neighbors.
All you have to do is convince the user to run the program, and if they do that, no matter what the OS, the program the user runs has all the same privlidges as the user.
This is a little harder to do. In windows all you have to do is convince the user to look at these pictures of my naked wife wife.gif.pif (the.pif does not show)
In linux you have to convince the user to save the attachment, change it's attributes to include execute and explain why the file must be executed instead of viewed.
Convincing the user is much harder in Linux. Microsoft has blurred the line between executing a program and viewing a file. Linux still makes it harder to trick a user into running a program.
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You seriously think the entire population of the world has access to electricity ? Wake up please
It is true some of the population simply does without electricity. Other parts of the population only get limited quanities of power when the sun is shining. (Solar cells for cell phone charging)
I've been thinking that maybe I should go a geek option and wire up for an X10 controlled solution.
So now you have a few dozen X-10 recievers on 24 X 7 instead of the set IR recievers. Is that an improvement?
I remember some of the last days of quality stereo equipment that had a true power button. From the service side of things, they were a high failure item. Each time you hit the power button the surge from powering the power transformer and charging up all the filter capacitors vaporized a small amount of the switch contacts. Ever seen a power switch with a toothpick stuck in it to hold it just right to get the power on? Having a small standby supply on to run the buttons and listen to a remote was a big blessing to the reliability of stereo equipment. Now the power button simply shuts down the transistors in the main switch mode power supply. The main filter capacitors never go dead. Now the lights don't blink when the stereo is switched on.
I think more items such as stereos and inkjet printers are being made that don't draw enough power to even be slightly warm to the touch since they draw much less than a watt in standby. Many such items draw and produce less heat than the doorbell transformer in the house. How come there is no rush to make switch mode power supplies for doorbells? Dropping that from 1-2 watts to a couple milliwatts would change the doorbell standby power by over an order of magnitude.
Find your doorbell transformer. Feel it. Is it warm? If it is, it is because of the power it uses for electric heat.
My doorbell uses more standby power than my inkjet printer. Don't blame the printer manufacture.
I'd love to get some of the latest CD, but, with the copy protected emblem on the back and saying it may not actually work on pretty much any device makes me keep my money.
The emblem on the front that says $12.95 is the main killer for me.
The lack of a Compact Disc tm logo is the icing on the cake.
The Compact Disk tm logo is my assurance I can play it, rip it, mix it, and load it in my MP3 player.
No gurantee of compatibility, no sale.
In the uk they have a series of distance lines painted on the road and the camera takes two photos when triggered. They can then use the distance your car travelled in the time interval between the photos to double check your speed if there is a dispute.
I wish we had something that sane here. I got a ticket in the mail where that system would have made it a no-brainer. Not everyone is so lucky. Here a position adjustment to change lanes into a hole in traffic can trigger a ticket. That's how I got mine. My speed over distance was well within limits.
Surveillance cameras are on 24/7 speed cameras only when you speed.
Or something causes a false trigger.
When two signals are mixed (radar speed gun) from 2 moving objects, the output is the doplar shift of each object, the diffrence and sum. These are artifacts of non-linerar mixing in the gun down-converter. If most traffic is traveling close to the same speed, the strongest signal is the speed. However in an overtaking situation, one vehicle passing another so they have a large difference, the SUM may cause a false trigger. As an example, passing a tractor trailer just pulling off the edge of the road and traveling 15 MPH while you are going 55 MPH may cause a false trigger of 70MPH as the raw mixed signal contains 15, 30, 55, & 70 MPH frequencies. A semi truck can contribute a large signal to be mixed from the microwave beam side lobe and mix strongly with your low profile sports car signal. Not all the microwave energy is confined to the area in the photograph. The truck might not even be in the camera field of view, but still in the radar side lobe.
The problem with automatic speed cameras is there is no other verification of your detected speed. I have resorted to logging the NMEA data from my GPS. I can match my record to their record and contest a bad snap with a running speed, time distance log from the GPS of the same time, date, location.
(The GPS manual lists the speed accuracy as 0.1 Nautical Mile per Hour. It should hold up in court.)
Ordinary citizens should not have to keep logs to fight false positives.
We occasionally get the IP address that detected the infringement, too.
Please, Please post it. I would find it a valuable addition to my hosts file.
When can I have a yottawatt power supply?
When you move to the bright side of Mecury.
Just imagine how many neon lights and LEDs you could power in your modded case with that thing! It'd be like the sun!
I have an idea what that would look like. At a local cinema the projectors use a 1600 Watt high pressure Xenon bulb. It gets real bright inside the lamphouse.
Not trying to be an ass but it hurts the eyes when so many posts including opening article have kW wrong. It is kW not KW. It has a small k because kilo isn't taken from somebody's name.
I found a list of metric prefixes.
I have no idea why Kilo is not uppercase as are most multiplyers of greater than unity. In common pratice is is common for greater then unity multiplyers to be uppercase to avoid confusion with less then unity multiplyers. That is why most street signs read KM to the next exit and transistors are measured in nm and leakage current is measured in uA.
Prefix Symbol Multiplier Exp
yotta- Y 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 10+24
zetta- Z 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 10+21
exa- E 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 10+18
peta- P 1 000 000 000 000 000 10+15
tera- T 1 000 000 000 000 10+12
giga- G 1 000 000 000 10+9
mega- M 1 000 000 10+6
kilo- k 1 000 10+3
hecto- h 100 10+2
deca- da 10 10+1
deci- d 0.1 10-1
centi- c 0.01 10-2
milli- m 0.001 10-3
micro- 0.000 001 10-6
nano- n 0.000 000 001 10-9
pico- p 0.000 000 000 001 10-12
femto- f 0.000 000 000 000 001 10-15
atto- a 0.000 000 000 000 000 001 10-18
zepto- z 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 001 10-21
yocto- y 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 001 10-24
1KW, 4KW .... you can heat a room up with 1KW and heat a whole house with 4KW
You must have a small house or a super tight house. My heat has 3 5KW elements. I had a breaker trip dropping 2 elements. 5KW was not enough to keep a 2 story 4 bedroom home warm.
Anyone remember the Teac 450?
Yes. Mine is on it's third set of belts. Instead of recording, it's playing for capture to CD. Great machine.
I keep the old media as a license for the content, but archive it on new media since the industry has no exchange program for obsolete media.
Will this move help AOL, or hurt Google?
Umm Yes.
(UBI I love you guys, make the next GR playable all-over just like any other developers and I won't own an illegal copy I promise.
I don't have a game console because I have kids. Kids in a hurry with friends over don't care where they put the disks. They get knocked over and next thing you know it somebody has stepped on a $50 disk.
Be honest. How may stores will exchange a damaged disk that's about 1 year old for 50 cents?
I copy everything. Music, Games, etc and put the originals away and use work copies. Some disks don't copy. They don't get played, they get exchanged.
Until there is a sane kid proof exchange program for no-hastles exchanges, I'll work from work copies and software that installs and runs from the hard drive. Using the CD as a dongle for the game is not an option.
In the old days the dongle was screwed to the printer port. Nowdays, your kids get to install, remove, and store them. It's the kid handeling that cuts the service life of the dongle ware.
My biggest $ loss to date for a single damaged CD is a copy (original) of Microsoft's Office. The 52X drive shreded it on a re-install. Think the store will exchange it for me? Yea Right. Installed Open Office instead.
Given that more and more CDs are being crippled by this, I find myself putting more and more of them back on the shop shelf.
To make sure I get non-DRM CD's I look for the Compact Disk logo. They are very scarce. I finaly bought a retail CD this year. American Gramaphone has some CD's with the Compact Disk logo proudly displayed on the front cover! I always liked Mannheim Steamroller. I was looking for Trans-Siberian Orchestra, but the store I was in did not have it.
Yeah, same here. My collection would be a bit more varied but for every news story about the RIAA suing some grandmother and every news story about how Sony gets more tangled in its rootkit tar baby, the less inclined I am to buy another CD.
The big thing is the music industry hasn't grown up with the digital age. There are lots of new compelling reasons to buy music. Unfortunately most of them are not legal.
There are several examples on the web that could get people in lots of hot water. The first that comes to mind is that crazy Christmas display that is all over the web. Has anybody thought that posting the music with the light show is not legal, or geting legal could bankrupt the guy that put up the lights? Do you have any idea how much legal problems there could be because he broadcast the music on FM so people in their cars could tune in as they drove by? Check out the list of prohibited activities for a retail music CD. That guy put together a fantastic light show. It was mostly against copyright law, even though the band loved it.
I put together a couple slide shows for weddings. I had the slide show set to music for the wedding. After the wedding several family members asked for copies of the slide show. How the heck do you go about getting a proper license for 5 copies of 3 songs to be used on your slide show and permission to include the school class and sports pictures?
The music industry is not interested in you doing anything with CD's except take them home to listen to them. The music industry needs to get with the times and have a fee structure in place where you can fill out the form, list the songs, number of copies, date of public performance (wedding), webcast, etc and pay a reasonable fee and recieve a legal certificate for the use.
I can't use the CD's for the wedding slide show as it is now, so I don't buy them. I let the Bride provide the music which plays during the show then the sync copy is deleted afterward and the original CD is returned. I can still distrubute my slide show afterward, but only after deleting the grade, middle, and high school studio photos and soundtrack. Private non-studio photos remain in the show as they are the only ones I can obtain permission from the copyright holders to use.
Ever try to get permission from a school photographer to dirstribute photos that was taken 10 years ago? They are in my slide show only as a presentation, but not for distribution. That is very hard to explain to the bride and groom's parents.
They provided the originals to put into the slide show. They don't understand why I don't have permission to make copies of the school photos.
Hey Pro Photographers and music industry, can you sell us a product we can use in this new age?
For a good how-to, check out junkbusters
1) Is anyone else extremely troubled by the following line from the article "A DVD that retails for $21.99 could cost a local man more than $100,000,".
;-)
I think I will stop buying movies until I get my liability insurance up to par.
I do agree that circumstantial evidence seems to suggest he's a bit more tech savvy than one might think,
I hope Paramount was able to secure the MAC addresses. It may help make or break the case. Many hardwire cards have fixed MAC addresses. If Paramount shows the MAC address of the wireless router was involved, it may help the defense, but if the MAC address of the cleaned machine shows, the defense gets pretty slim.
I know it may be wistful thinking as most of the MAC addresses stop at the local NAT router.
Unfortunately, I wouldn't hold my breath on getting permission.
No problem. I simply will let the band know how I found out about them and then let them know that I would not have found about them without it, I'll let them stick to the limited advertising as permitted by the RIAA. Good luck. I now see their product as less useful and have less reason to buy a copy because intended uses are prohibited.
It looks like my show will have to remain on MIDI Sound Canvas sequenced from old Public Domain Christmas songs due to license issues.
So far I do not have a reply. I'll keep checking.
The real cause of music piracy is because a CD with 12 tracks isn't worth the money the labels are asking. Why anyone buys a CD which costs almost as much as a DVD is beyond me.
You are paying way too much for a DVD then. I don't buy CD's because they cost more than a DVD. Choice 12.95 DVD or 16.99 CD. Easy choice. I can find the 2 for $11 DVD's at walmart. Older CD's under $8 worth listening to... Not a chance. Good classic rock is just as much as new stuff.
How many musicians have succeeded in making a living this way? Without the exposure the record labels can give you (through their lock on radio) you aren't going to sell many songs. There may be one or two exceptions, (Ani DeFranco come to mind) but it's pretty rare.
In reality I just found a new band and label on the web. I have voiced my IP concerns to the band. There is a very cool Christmas light show done very will to the band's music. This exposed me to the band. I wrote the band and asked if their label was a RIAA member, do they frown on web publishing the music with the video of the lights, and do the CD's employ DRM as I like to do this type of thing but have refrained do to the RIAA and DMCA issues with DRM. I then reminded them I found out about them over the cool web video, not the radio and looked up their web site and sampled their other samples.
They will soon figure out word of mouth is valuable advertising. Limiting exposing new people to their work is not a good thing. Neither is DRM and heavy limits on the usefuleness of the product.
I'm not plugging their stuff yet. I haven't recieved a reply yet. For those who just has to know, it's Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
I just checked my e-mail and this is just in...
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Someone with ip address 140.201.76.1 tried to access your personal account!
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The best part is.. I don't have a pay pal account. This scam is so old news. Does anybody still fall for it?
A couple of months ago I received a message on my home phone from American Express concerning "suspicious activity on my card."
So did I. I knew it was a phishing call. I was polite and refused to give my paticulars and asked about the activity. I asked if I gave the last 4 digits if they could verify the address. They said no they needed the full number, exp date, name as it is on the card and the verification number. I then told them I do not have an American Express card. I then called American Express and gave them the phishing information.
If a bank is having their customer base phished, and you don't have an account, let the bank know anyway instead of ignoring it. You may protect your neighbors.
All you have to do is convince the user to run the program, and if they do that, no matter what the OS, the program the user runs has all the same privlidges as the user.
.pif does not show)
This is a little harder to do. In windows all you have to do is convince the user to look at these pictures of my naked wife wife.gif.pif (the
In linux you have to convince the user to save the attachment, change it's attributes to include execute and explain why the file must be executed instead of viewed.
Convincing the user is much harder in Linux. Microsoft has blurred the line between executing a program and viewing a file. Linux still makes it harder to trick a user into running a program.