What happens if the 5% of the American workforce that makes, sells, and finances cars is suddenly out of a job?
If Americans can get cars for $2,000 instead of $20,000, they'll (theoretically) have another $18,000 kicking around to buy other products. The 5% of Americans who just lost their jobs will now be making those other products, most likely.
Yes, it's simplified, but you get the general idea.
You don't need a collection of files in this format, it is just a matter of going to a website that was written to take advantage of the vulnerability, and having winamp associated with XM tracker files.
Regardless, if you use winamp, you should keep it up-to-date. It's not difficult, and it's a good practice for all your software (or at least the ones with free updates).
I happily put up an example of this on my site just to see what you were talking about, and it's a dog! click this link to see it. And I took care to not show the whole phpinfo stuff, just the relevant image...
You have to give the vi/emacs people time to respond. After all, they're manually sending SYN's and ACK's to slashdot to submit their comments. It's not as quick as you may think.
Well, Excel craps out at 65535 lines. It's better than 32,000, but neither are very good. File size should not be limitted by some "max possible value" the developers think you won't exceed.
A few days from now, a search for "Mark Maughan" will include this slashdot posting, and lots of posts which are even less flattering than his initial problem with the State of California.
The internet is a risky place to throw tantrums. I assume Mark Maughan hasn't spent much time on the internet, otherwise he'd realize what he was getting into. How many blogs are writing nasty things about him right now?
That can't be good for his search results. If he (hypothetically, of course) wins his case against the search engines for indexing pages he doesn't like, I'm sure he'll find that the new search engine results will be even worse. Gross negligence and practicing without a permit may be bad, but the internet is far less tolerant of whiny bastards who sue search engines because they don't understand how search engines work.
Why would you need anything more than mkdvdisofs, vi, and a little creative piping and redirection? I'm disappointed in you, sir. Real men put the bits in right where they want them... in the basement of mom's house on a Friday night.
So now SCO's sleazy game extends to Autozone shareholders. The symbol is AZO. As of this writing they're down $4.40, to 84.00, in pre-market trading.
Seems to me that this would be a good time to buy Autozone stock. After all, we don't think this is going to cause permanent damage to the company, and if it's in a little slump now, then the stock price should go up in the future, right? IANASB, but I'd say wait till this afternoon, 3 or 4 ish, then buy some AZO stock. It will go back up soon, I bet.
yeah, at first I was going to go anonymous, but then I changed my mind, and then I missed the checkbox. I'm too busy watching unemployed actors in a spelling bee. Mr. Jefferson lost, and I just couldn't focus on proper slashdot posting. Mods, use your extra "offtopic" points on me! I am not afraid!
Something tells me that if people were to actually expand their horizons on the beer front, they would discover the Sierra Nevadas, Shiners and such that have nationwide markets and comprable pricing to Bud ($9 a 12-er compared to $11 a 12-er for Shiner).
Who cares if the beer even has national distribution? Around upstate NY, you can get Saranac, Ommegang, Magic Hat, Wachussettes, or tons of other great beers. I'm sure other parts of the country have similar good small breweries. And these breweries know that they have to sell you a better beer if you're going to buy it, so they're almost always better than A-B or SAB beers.
Ok, you can't make fun of "Linux zealots" if you end you slashdot posts with pseudo function calls. The girls in gym class are really going to kick your ass in dodgeball for this next Monday.
Surely something like sobig or mydoom counts as a successful attack, right? Do these attacks have to be performed by an actual person sitting at a desk with a hex editor, or can somebody write a program that attacks a computer, and then uses that computer to attack other computers?
Judging by the low numbers for Windows, I'd say the study was looking for the kind of attack they show in the movies - you know, big red letters that say "ACCESS DENIED to FEDERAL BANK ACCOUNTS" or "ACCESS GRANTED - HERE IS THE PRESIDENT'S BANK ACCOUNT" and the server room is protected with swiveling lasers.
So I guess what I'm saying is, the study's view of an attack seems to have missed out a crucial segment, namely the worms that are now successful enough to combine the forces of infected machines to attack multinational corporations.
How would you know whether or not to trust it? It's not like the patch could be released as source, is it? Not all of us have the code.
In the real world, this probably would not be the official patch. But MS would have to decide between using the rogue patch, or writing a patch independently of the publicly-available source. The latter choice means a known vulnerability with a known solution would be in the wild while the vendor looks in the other direction (theoretically) while writing its own patch.
And then, if this sort of thing happens again in the future, we would want to find out if MS used the rogue patch and claimed to write their own independently. By then, the company will be the equivalent of today's SCO - not really releasing anything of value, but suing people for using some phantom bit of source code that they bought the rights to a few years before.
Microsoft is doing this based on pressure from the Thailand's People's PC project, not to be confused with the People's PC project of Thailand, the People's Project for PC's for Thailand's People, or the Judean People's PC front.
I just don't understand why MS is spending money on creating a new version of Windows (and forking the development, in theory) which will cost less. If they are going to charge less for it, why not put less work into this version? Seems like MS would be better off just selling plain old Windows XP Home, and maybe just going with cheaper materials to ship it.
Mr McBean added that the first release would essentially be XP Home edition with some reduced functionality, although for future versions there would be a chance of additional or incremental development and innovation.
You sure as hell had better make some changes to the software for the next version! You can't just sell the same product in a new box and call it an upgrade! Well, I suppose it's better than AOL's claims that version x lets you connect to the internet faster than version (x-1). After all, 56kbps is - wait, no, I guess 56kbps is only 53kbps. Wow, all this computer stuff is a pain in the ass to keep track of.
Until you learn how a cpu works internally, and can build a system from scratch from just a data book, and then recite hex code for assembler you don't know diddly.
Now, I really hope you're being sarcastic. Because while you're building a system from scratch, some kid down the street is flipping burgers to pay for a $300 system that will kick your system's ass thirty-five times before you can move one byte to AX.
It might be nice to know everything about computers, but most people just don't have that kind of time - they're busy watching movies, cooking food, reading books, raising children, playing music, painting pictures, helping family, teaching students, building houses, fighting fires, and writing simple, relatively slow vb scripts that still get the job done. Not everybody can be so hardcore about programming.
'Maybe I should just choose Linux because there were 52 Slashdot postings saying that Linux is better,' he said
Well, he must have at least looked at the slashdot article, because a headline I made fun of last time has been removed! Previously, the headline read "10 Times Less Expensive Than Linux," and now it's "Far Less Expensive." It's stilll wrong, but at least it's not quite so absurd.
But since my voice was heard the first time, I have another suggestion. Stop trying to look like Apple! That page looked like it came straight out of Quartz! Why not try making your documents match your own company's image, instead of a competitor's image?
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Yes, it's simplified, but you get the general idea.
Regardless, if you use winamp, you should keep it up-to-date. It's not difficult, and it's a good practice for all your software (or at least the ones with free updates).
I use a three-pronged approach: subliminal, liminal, and superliminal.
HEY! JOIN THE NAVY!
I happily put up an example of this on my site just to see what you were talking about, and it's a dog! click this link to see it. And I took care to not show the whole phpinfo stuff, just the relevant image...
You have to give the vi/emacs people time to respond. After all, they're manually sending SYN's and ACK's to slashdot to submit their comments. It's not as quick as you may think.
Well, Excel craps out at 65535 lines. It's better than 32,000, but neither are very good. File size should not be limitted by some "max possible value" the developers think you won't exceed.
A few days from now, a search for "Mark Maughan" will include this slashdot posting, and lots of posts which are even less flattering than his initial problem with the State of California.
The internet is a risky place to throw tantrums. I assume Mark Maughan hasn't spent much time on the internet, otherwise he'd realize what he was getting into. How many blogs are writing nasty things about him right now?
That can't be good for his search results. If he (hypothetically, of course) wins his case against the search engines for indexing pages he doesn't like, I'm sure he'll find that the new search engine results will be even worse. Gross negligence and practicing without a permit may be bad, but the internet is far less tolerant of whiny bastards who sue search engines because they don't understand how search engines work.
// That's not a comment, this is a comment!
Why would you need anything more than mkdvdisofs, vi, and a little creative piping and redirection? I'm disappointed in you, sir. Real men put the bits in right where they want them... in the basement of mom's house on a Friday night.
On Queens Boulevard there are some better signs.
yeah, at first I was going to go anonymous, but then I changed my mind, and then I missed the checkbox. I'm too busy watching unemployed actors in a spelling bee. Mr. Jefferson lost, and I just couldn't focus on proper slashdot posting. Mods, use your extra "offtopic" points on me! I am not afraid!
I'm sure you can go back to the fun articles of 99, about 35,000 articles ago. Perhaps of interest would be the first mention of Napster.
Surely something like sobig or mydoom counts as a successful attack, right? Do these attacks have to be performed by an actual person sitting at a desk with a hex editor, or can somebody write a program that attacks a computer, and then uses that computer to attack other computers?
Judging by the low numbers for Windows, I'd say the study was looking for the kind of attack they show in the movies - you know, big red letters that say "ACCESS DENIED to FEDERAL BANK ACCOUNTS" or "ACCESS GRANTED - HERE IS THE PRESIDENT'S BANK ACCOUNT" and the server room is protected with swiveling lasers.
So I guess what I'm saying is, the study's view of an attack seems to have missed out a crucial segment, namely the worms that are now successful enough to combine the forces of infected machines to attack multinational corporations.
And then, if this sort of thing happens again in the future, we would want to find out if MS used the rogue patch and claimed to write their own independently. By then, the company will be the equivalent of today's SCO - not really releasing anything of value, but suing people for using some phantom bit of source code that they bought the rights to a few years before.
Wouldn't it be interesting to see the patch come out later today, from an anonymous source!
I just don't understand why MS is spending money on creating a new version of Windows (and forking the development, in theory) which will cost less. If they are going to charge less for it, why not put less work into this version? Seems like MS would be better off just selling plain old Windows XP Home, and maybe just going with cheaper materials to ship it.
You sure as hell had better make some changes to the software for the next version! You can't just sell the same product in a new box and call it an upgrade! Well, I suppose it's better than AOL's claims that version x lets you connect to the internet faster than version (x-1). After all, 56kbps is - wait, no, I guess 56kbps is only 53kbps. Wow, all this computer stuff is a pain in the ass to keep track of.
It might be nice to know everything about computers, but most people just don't have that kind of time - they're busy watching movies, cooking food, reading books, raising children, playing music, painting pictures, helping family, teaching students, building houses, fighting fires, and writing simple, relatively slow vb scripts that still get the job done. Not everybody can be so hardcore about programming.
I have a power supply that will sound an alarm every three seconds to let us know that everything is ok!
.... but, it does break easily.
Turn it off! Turn it off!
It CAN'T be turned off!
/not-so-obligatory Simpsons reference.
But since my voice was heard the first time, I have another suggestion. Stop trying to look like Apple! That page looked like it came straight out of Quartz! Why not try making your documents match your own company's image, instead of a competitor's image?