This is the DoJ (FBI) we're talking about, they want to thank Bill personally for keeping them all busy and employed during these uncertain economic times. Also, I'm sure there's a card with a box of chocolates on the way to Redmond from McAfee.
Utterly fascinating that the DoJ (FBI) is looking into these flaws for the difficulty exploits could cause people, after basically letting M$ off the hook in the monopoly punishment phase. Hope the states prevail, and if you haven't written your opinion in (to the court), here's another reason why monopoly for a universally adoptedand used O/S is bad.
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After all the blather and FUD from Redmond, they again pushed a product out the door with great media hype which is again unsecure. It would be so ironic if Microsoft were punished for this kind of negligence after getting a slap on the wrist. I don't expect that to happen though.
Often I've had to modify systems which, once I understand how they work, which parts are actually still used, what's redundant/poorly written, I've usually pulled off changes in 1/2 to 1/5 the amount of code. Nice, neat, clean well documented stuff, too.
We're still in the middle of a sweeping change and lemme tell ya, make d@mn sure there's someone accountable for managing the whole project from beginning to end, particularly this being their main focus.
Transitioning in new managers or having the current manager only look in on the project once in a while is as sure a path to madness and doom as no management at all.
Our due date was mid-August, we'll be lucky to get it through testing and into production by January 31st. All the while with the logjam we're having to put pieces of it into production and cross our fingers that the new changes don't break anything.
Love to talk more about it, but need another gallon of coffee.
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Heinlein's Troopers was more political and social philosophy, from his point of view, than sci-fi. The actual slugging it out with the bugs was just the vehicle. Heinlein was like that a lot, and if you only saw the movie you know diddly about the book.
The content guys are obviously stupid, but MS's tactics...
...
You have IBM supporting linux on one hand, and its hard drive people pulling that digital
management stuff for IDE drives.
Thought for the day:
If you think Microsoft is bad for assailing Linux, with all it's distros, open source and accessibility, imagine how much worse things would be if they supported it and pushed their closed "Shared Source" and whoring to the content industry in their own brand of Microsoft Linux.
HavenCo is the business arm of Sealand, which handles hosting of such services. Seemingly hosting KaZaa's business there would grant owners and developers anonymity and protection. Though now that they've got their shorts in the wringer in Dutch courts it's probably too late for that maneuver.
I'm actually curious why noone seems to have started one of these P2P enterprises there, yet. Fear that the RIAA will buy up old warships and attack them? Hmm, now there's a concept. Piracy to prevent piracy... P2PP
BTW, to whomever modded the original post, get a fsking clue, this is hardly offtopic.
Lots of neat stuff in the shallows, too.
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Go out into the Monterey Bay in a small boat on a calm morning and you'll see lots of interesting invertebrates near the surface. Crystal Jellies and the like.
A great loud beeping sound could be heard all over the world today, eminating from Redmond, Washington, USA, as Windows CE backed into another victory. When asked what this means for consumers, Ralph Nader had this to say, "Why this just plain sucks farts from a dead pigeon's ass!"
Meanwhile, Bill Gates of Microsoft had this to say on the subject. "Ehhx-cellent..."
Write a convincing pitch "Send $5 or we'll shoot this dog", "Fire your boss and make $5,000/week", "Wipe out debt"
Send spam
If 1%, or even 1/100% respond, you made money, you're encouraged to do it again
or
Write javascript/hyperlink/redirection in HTML email which launches scads of pr0n pages which open more upon closing. Eventually dupes see a picture that intrigues them and are reeled in.
IMHO, you must be full-bore stupid if you respond to anything which comes from an email address which looks like garbage (i.e. fjds8984@hotmail.com)
Re:30-40k messages of SPAM? Stay away from the por
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Have your email address on a webpage seems a surefire way to get spammed. Many of mine are related to re-registering my domain, reduce costs of web hosting, accept credit cards, etc.
He's supposed to be watching Lord of the Rings, or so he said at the end of an earlier article. I've been waiting for Taco's review, which will probably go something like this:
It would be nice to see some stats on what concentrations there are in other countries. My main problem is that I've had the same email address for ~5 years. If I still had my college account or any of my other old addresses then I'd probably get more than the ~11,000 annual pieces I get now.
Missing, but important info, "How often does the average Korean change email addresses Vs. U.S. netizens?"
Imagine having one email address for life, for a child born in 1995. By the time they reached 70 years old they'd need a T1 just to download it all.
Linux is difficult to configure, but that's why companies like SuSE [suse.com] and Mandrake
[linux-mandrake.com] produce distributions that are bundled with special graphical widgets to do
all that configuration for you. At least with Linux you get the choice.
Perhaps my top b*tch about Microsoft's products, the decision has been made for you, as arrived at by whatever autonomatons they have drawing these conclusions for you. Like "Share and Enjoy" from a well known book, about the ubiquitous manufacturer of well meaning, but exasperating products. If the option is there, it's buried, often in least obvious locations and hard to find (often because they ignore established terminology and invent their own.) Products often ship with all features enabled, which has caused a world wide security nightmare and wasted countless hours of people fishing around trying to turn things off or figure out how to.
I expect a considerable amount of ill feeling towards Microsoft would go away if they'd drop the mindset of "We know what's best for you", it's already been IBM's albatross and at least they've learned.
Flash is already in cameras. I have a few 16 Meg and a 32 Meg for my ancient (almost 2 year old) Nikon CoolPix 800. With the NikonView driver the flash memory looks just like regular hard disk on my Win98 laptop. Tho Windows knows about it, too, and decides to warn me that the D: drive is almost full when I put it in the PCMCIA adapter and plug it in, full to capacity with jpeg files.
Check out my web page to see some photos I've taken with it.
If you have local bands, go listen to them and support if you like their music and they sell their own CD's and tapes.
I used to live in mid-Michigan and the music scene died an agonizing slow death, as clubs switched to karoke and dj's. Tell club/bar owners you'd be there more often if they'd switch to live music.:-)
``Unfortunately, phenomenon like Napster and the ease of `ripping and
burning' are causing artists and record companies real harm,'' said Hilary
Rosen [as her nose grew about 7 inches], head of the Recording Industry Association of America. ``The
unprecedented amount of music being copied is hurting the industry.'' [she went on to lie]
So.. will this lead to a quick scarfing up of old, unprotected CD's before the garbage hits the stores? Real harm to artists and manufacturers will come when disgusted consumers return useless CDs in floods.
"Hey, my royalty check is $-57,000, what's with that?"
"Restocking fee, you have to pay it because consumers don't. I suggest putting pr0n on your album covers so people are less inclined to return them because they don't play."
Well, yeah, and what happens in reality if you jump off a twenty foot building is you hit the ground fast. Where Mario the plumber has to jump slowly enough so you can follow him on the screen, essentially playing in slo-mo.
Physics eye-candy is something I've enjoyed in a few games. The actual movement of characters or other objects is smooth, fluid, looks good and might even be coupled with decent sound effects. The last exceptional game I knew by those characteristics was something with an air car on an Amiga. Sadly, I lent the disk to someone who moved and I never saw it again.
Want to become good at pattern games? Play (and die a lot) at high difficulty levels, then go back and play at medium or whatever. Your reaction timing is improved and you'll do better.
To achieve the sharpest blade, use the hardest stone.
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They set up a bogus server to crit update code into your system or just wreck it
They hack DNS to point to it
Yeah, that's a nice feature to have....
The DOD was instrumental in forming the basis of the internet, DARPA-NET
Man, I remember when it was a secret network.
No. No you evidently don't.
This is the DoJ (FBI) we're talking about, they want to thank Bill personally for keeping them all busy and employed during these uncertain economic times. Also, I'm sure there's a card with a box of chocolates on the way to Redmond from McAfee.
After all the blather and FUD from Redmond, they again pushed a product out the door with great media hype which is again unsecure. It would be so ironic if Microsoft were punished for this kind of negligence after getting a slap on the wrist. I don't expect that to happen though.
Often I've had to modify systems which, once I understand how they work, which parts are actually still used, what's redundant/poorly written, I've usually pulled off changes in 1/2 to 1/5 the amount of code. Nice, neat, clean well documented stuff, too.
Transitioning in new managers or having the current manager only look in on the project once in a while is as sure a path to madness and doom as no management at all.
Our due date was mid-August, we'll be lucky to get it through testing and into production by January 31st. All the while with the logjam we're having to put pieces of it into production and cross our fingers that the new changes don't break anything.
Love to talk more about it, but need another gallon of coffee.
Heinlein's Troopers was more political and social philosophy, from his point of view, than sci-fi. The actual slugging it out with the bugs was just the vehicle. Heinlein was like that a lot, and if you only saw the movie you know diddly about the book.
You have IBM supporting linux on one hand, and its hard drive people pulling that digital management stuff for IDE drives.
Thought for the day:
The horror! The horror!
I'm actually curious why noone seems to have started one of these P2P enterprises there, yet. Fear that the RIAA will buy up old warships and attack them? Hmm, now there's a concept. Piracy to prevent piracy... P2PP
BTW, to whomever modded the original post, get a fsking clue, this is hardly offtopic.
My favorite is this one.
Some 1600x1200 jpegs from the Monterey Aquarium, in Monterey, California. Enjoy!
Crystal Jelly
Giant Sea Slug with Giant Sea Cucumber back among the anemones
Anemone and Clownfish
Meanwhile, Bill Gates of Microsoft had this to say on the subject. "Ehhx-cellent..."
Millions have email addresses
Write a convincing pitch "Send $5 or we'll shoot this dog", "Fire your boss and make $5,000/week", "Wipe out debt"
Send spam
If 1%, or even 1/100% respond, you made money, you're encouraged to do it again
or
Write javascript/hyperlink/redirection in HTML email which launches scads of pr0n pages which open more upon closing. Eventually dupes see a picture that intrigues them and are reeled in.
IMHO, you must be full-bore stupid if you respond to anything which comes from an email address which looks like garbage (i.e. fjds8984@hotmail.com)
He's supposed to be watching Lord of the Rings, or so he said at the end of an earlier article. I've been waiting for Taco's review, which will probably go something like this:
I laughed
I cried
I drove back home to get my wallet
The U.S. is where the money is
or
The U.S. is where the stupid people are
It would be nice to see some stats on what concentrations there are in other countries. My main problem is that I've had the same email address for ~5 years. If I still had my college account or any of my other old addresses then I'd probably get more than the ~11,000 annual pieces I get now.
Missing, but important info, "How often does the average Korean change email addresses Vs. U.S. netizens?"
Imagine having one email address for life, for a child born in 1995. By the time they reached 70 years old they'd need a T1 just to download it all.
Perhaps my top b*tch about Microsoft's products, the decision has been made for you, as arrived at by whatever autonomatons they have drawing these conclusions for you. Like "Share and Enjoy" from a well known book, about the ubiquitous manufacturer of well meaning, but exasperating products. If the option is there, it's buried, often in least obvious locations and hard to find (often because they ignore established terminology and invent their own.) Products often ship with all features enabled, which has caused a world wide security nightmare and wasted countless hours of people fishing around trying to turn things off or figure out how to.
I expect a considerable amount of ill feeling towards Microsoft would go away if they'd drop the mindset of "We know what's best for you", it's already been IBM's albatross and at least they've learned.
It would be a h00t if the media had got this quote wrong and reported that "according to a Microsoft source, Xboxes have caught fire."
Imagine the cost of a PR campaign to straighten that out. :-)
"According to a source, the internet has caught on fire, as it abounds with flames."
Today the missing drive with atomic secrets was found behind a Garfield coffee mug in an employee breakroom.
Check out my web page to see some photos I've taken with it.
Suport Windows ME/2000/XP, Mac OS (ver. 8.6 or above) and Linux kernel version 2.4.0 or above without driver.
I used to live in mid-Michigan and the music scene died an agonizing slow death, as clubs switched to karoke and dj's. Tell club/bar owners you'd be there more often if they'd switch to live music. :-)
I'd better get busy stocking up so I can finance my Evil Empire(TM) by selling them on eBay.
Muah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!(TM)
So.. will this lead to a quick scarfing up of old, unprotected CD's before the garbage hits the stores? Real harm to artists and manufacturers will come when disgusted consumers return useless CDs in floods.
"Hey, my royalty check is $-57,000, what's with that?"
"Restocking fee, you have to pay it because consumers don't. I suggest putting pr0n on your album covers so people are less inclined to return them because they don't play."
Ever tried this with polar math? I'm considering doing something this way and wonder if I'm off my rocker.
Physics eye-candy is something I've enjoyed in a few games. The actual movement of characters or other objects is smooth, fluid, looks good and might even be coupled with decent sound effects. The last exceptional game I knew by those characteristics was something with an air car on an Amiga. Sadly, I lent the disk to someone who moved and I never saw it again.
Want to become good at pattern games? Play (and die a lot) at high difficulty levels, then go back and play at medium or whatever. Your reaction timing is improved and you'll do better.
To achieve the sharpest blade, use the hardest stone.