And will it work when you're playing that *WOOMP*WOOMP*WOOMP* song on the stereo? (I don't know who does that song, but most of the customized rice boxes near here play it.)
To be a safe hands-free design, it should use voice commands. However I see a problem with a voice controlled car stereo. "Lower the volume!" "WHUT?" "Turn it down!" "WHUT?"
I think that there's a couple orders of magnitude difference in complexity between network code and playing MIDI files. (Although buffer overflows are always lame.)
The Jump-Shift stories are slightly skew from the Known Space series. (The earlier end at least. By Ringworld, it's moot.) For example, All the Bridges Rusting doesn't fit into Known Space history. (Teleporting interstellar expeditions.)
I wouldn't mind so much if these were subtle bugs in a complex part of the OS, but a buffer overrun when playing a MIDI file?? MIDI isn't exactly rocket science: Play this note on this channel at this volume for this long. How could they mess that up? So much for trust in their software.
And yet Microsoft is claiming that you have to click on it (and possibly say okay.)
"They'd have to come up with some way to get the user to click on that file," said Stephen Toulouse of Microsoft's Security Response Center, noting that default security settings in recent versions of Microsoft Outlook e-mail software and the Internet Explorer Web browser prevent automatic launching of such files.
Hmm, if the bug is in the MIDI play routines, I don't see why a BGSOUND couldn't cause the same problem. I'd take Stephen's click claim with a grain of salt. (After all, how lame would the software be to have a buffer overrun playing a fscking MIDI file?!?!)
The exception to the rule are pump'n'dump spammers. They push the virtues of some penny stock in hopes that some suckers will buy, pushing up the price. Then when the stock hits a peak, they unload their stock (profit!) and let the suckers take the fall.
Nukes are too messy. (What about the wildlife? Will no one think of the wildlife?) A few good deepsinkholes would be perfect but mainly tend to be in west-central Florida. (Perfect for swallowing Clearwater, Flag base of $cientology.)
Whoah! Remember what happened when they served ground-up sheep to cows? We got Mad Cow disease. (And when you feed the cows to humans, you get same thing, different name. Creutzfeldt-Smirnov?) I'm not saying that spammers have some spam prion protein infecting them (or brains to infect), but why take chances?
According to the Ransom Center, only about 200 were produced and only 48 copies exist today
The neat thing is that each copy is unique because each was illuminated by hand.
The Texas Gutenberg was used in monasteries in southern Germany as late as the 1760s. It was marked up by monks who scratched out some passages and corrected others. Other markings indicate which sections were to be read aloud or reserved for church services.
Heh, wouldn't want anyone to accidently read the parts that you're not supposed to read during services. (Reminds me of the Canadian Criminal Code. Lawyers have special expensive annotated copies with all the juicy stuff explaining what it really means.)
I suspect the article quoted him out of sequence. If you slide his "we control the verti^w communications" remark after his concern that the press release seemed to be from the stadium then it doesn't sound so bad.
Not my fettle of kish, but I could see a serious baseball fan cruising a stats and info page during the game. (Has the ball park thought about a "live" page for during the game?)
Then again, lots of noisy fans, jumping up during good plays, cups full of beer -- better bring the hardened laptop!
Oh? And how much did you pay for your.NET extentions? (I did mention which EULA for a reason.) They could trash my machine and have sex with my cat, but the most I could collect would be $5. (Which is greater than the $0 that I paid.)
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Some MS apps ask to send an error report even under Win98. (I forget which ones, possibly WMP.) Not that I let them.
And if I have physical access to a Linux machine?
Doesn't have to be externally trojaned. You're trusting the wage-slave who installed/maintains it.
And will it work when you're playing that *WOOMP*WOOMP*WOOMP* song on the stereo? (I don't know who does that song, but most of the customized rice boxes near here play it.)
To be a safe hands-free design, it should use voice commands. However I see a problem with a voice controlled car stereo. "Lower the volume!" "WHUT?" "Turn it down!" "WHUT?"
I think that there's a couple orders of magnitude difference in complexity between network code and playing MIDI files. (Although buffer overflows are always lame.)
Hey, he's the guy who started the first flash crowd riot.
The Jump-Shift stories are slightly skew from the Known Space series. (The earlier end at least. By Ringworld, it's moot.) For example, All the Bridges Rusting doesn't fit into Known Space history. (Teleporting interstellar expeditions.)
In retaliation, several flash mobs will coverge on the Slashdot offices. (They have offices right?)
I wouldn't mind so much if these were subtle bugs in a complex part of the OS, but a buffer overrun when playing a MIDI file?? MIDI isn't exactly rocket science: Play this note on this channel at this volume for this long. How could they mess that up? So much for trust in their software.
Yeah, but they get Slashdot to do their spamming for them. :^P
For that, they don't need a contact method.
Nukes are too messy. (What about the wildlife? Will no one think of the wildlife?) A few good deepsinkholes would be perfect but mainly tend to be in west-central Florida. (Perfect for swallowing Clearwater, Flag base of $cientology.)
Whoah! Remember what happened when they served ground-up sheep to cows? We got Mad Cow disease. (And when you feed the cows to humans, you get same thing, different name. Creutzfeldt-Smirnov?) I'm not saying that spammers have some spam prion protein infecting them (or brains to infect), but why take chances?
So by getting a huge number of people angry enough to call (or wanting to buy) this would be an .. MS-DDOS .. ?
You mean like one of these?
I started to read that as Nine Inch .. Vails?
Of course, since InterTrust was involved in security apps, it's quite possible that someone there hangs around Security Focus.
So long as you're dreaming, why not rent Steve Ballmer to do a "Fired!" dance?
I suspect the article quoted him out of sequence. If you slide his "we control the verti^w communications" remark after his concern that the press release seemed to be from the stadium then it doesn't sound so bad.
Then again, lots of noisy fans, jumping up during good plays, cups full of beer -- better bring the hardened laptop!
Oh? And how much did you pay for your .NET extentions? (I did mention which EULA for a reason.) They could trash my machine and have sex with my cat, but the most I could collect would be $5. (Which is greater than the $0 that I paid.)
Exactly. Worth reading to see what they're on about, but legally not worth the electrons printed with.