And even if you are comfortable troubleshooting and fixing problems yourself, you'll save yourself shipping, phone calls, and just a lot of general hassle.
Do not ever buy cheap stuff over the web because it just ends up costing a lot when you need to rma it. Make sure the amount of cash you're saving is significant.
Hey!!! Nice double karma grab man! Post something with misspelling, and then dis yourself to get the funny points on top of your original post. Ingenious!!!
By the way, If I share my recordings of free broadcast TV how is that stealing?
Not so much stealing as illegal distribution. You don't have the rights to redistribute a television show. Just like you don't have the rights to record songs of the radio and redistribute them.
But if asked, just tell them you're making offsite backups of your important data.
No...but the book industry hasn't been hit by rampant piracy. You can bet if/when it does publisher's will be jumping on the same bandwagon. Besides, the e-book publishing game is toying with the same type of watermarking and copy right protection schemes that the music industry has been trying.
Does Ford get money when I sell my car as used ??
No...but your car depreciates in value...rapidly.
On the other hand, you pay tax when you resell your land, something else that doesn't depreciate in value (usually) - (ok, not the greatest example since the land isn't technically isn't yours -- but just as good as the previous examples).
As one of the shoppers the writer interviews points out: "It's cheap to buy used discs. . . . They sound just the same as new ones," said Estrella.
Anyways, I don't really agree with this, but I just thought someone should do a take from the other side of things.
Can you back up that their estimation is bullshit? Even the article itself mentions how the used cd sales hurt new cd sales:
"When Alanis Morissette's new album was released, we had a lot of customers in our stores looking for her (catalog album) 'Jagged Little Pill,' " said Matt Allen, the company's vice president.
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While I think IE is a great browser and have used it for years, I recently started using Mozilla and love it. The main reasons I'm using it are:
1) I find it faster. 2) I like the tabbed browsing.
I highly recommend giving it a go. And even if you don't like it, realize that it has benefits and some people (not all) choose it not because it's Non-Microsoft, but because they find it provides a better browsing experience.
I am willing to sell this fine, low UID slashdot account for only $10000 (or about $500 per byte stored on the server). If that isn't a bargain, I don't know what is:-)
You call that a low ID? It's 7 digits! Geez.
Even 6 digit ICQ numbers only sell for around $20 on Ebay.
Personally, I think this is a great idea, it keeps kids off of the streets
Personally, I want my kids on the streets.... playing hockey. You haven't been a kid if you haven't yelled "CAR!" to get the hockey net moved out of the way.
:-) Seriously though, gaming at school a couple times a month is a cool idea. I'd rather him game with friends than gaming with a bunch of strange folk online who could be stalkers, pedophiles, or even/.'ers!
Gopher is a protocol developed at the University of Minnesota in the early 1990's. Gopher servers offer hierarchically organized directories and files. These form a "gopherspace" which can be thought of as the predecessor of the World Wide Web. Gopher was mostly abandoned soon after HTTP and the World Wide Web started gaining popularity.
Microsoft Internet Explorer has a built-in gopher client. Gopher pages can be accessed via URLs starting with "gopher://". The part of code in IE which parses gopher replies contains an exploitable buffer overflow bug. A malicious server may be used to run arbitrary code on an IE user's system.
DETAILS =======
When the overflow is triggered, a fixed sized buffer in stack gets overwritten with data from the gopher server. This data can contain most octets from 0 to 255 (also nulls) which makes it particularly easy to inject a working shellcode in it. This is a traditional, trivially exploitable buffer overflow. A test exploit has been successfully used to run arbitrary code without user intervention with various IE versions and systems including IE 5.5 and 6.0.
The attack can be launched via a web page or an HTML mail message which redirect the user to a malicious gopher server when the victim views them. The server can be very minimal, ie. a program that can listen on a TCP port and write a block of data; a fully operational gopher server isn't necessary in order to carry out the attack.
The exploiter could do anything that a regular user could do on the system: retrieve, install, or remove files, upload and run programs, etc.
Full technical details aren't disclosed at this time to prevent exploitation.
WORKAROUND ==========
Internet Explorer users can protect themselves from the flaw by disabling the gopher protocol. Barely any gopher servers exist on the Internet today, so this is unlikely to cause problems. If needed, a gopher client or some other web browser can be used to access the gopherspace.
An easy way to disable processing and displaying gopher pages is to define a non-functional gopher proxy in Internet Options. Select Tools -> Internet options -> Connections. Click on "LAN settings". Check "Use a proxy server for your LAN". Click on "Advanced...". Here you can define proxy servers to be used with different protocols. Go to the Gopher text field and enter "localhost", and "1" in the port text field. This will stop Internet Explorer from fetching any gopher documents.
After installing the patch from Microsoft you can remove these gopher proxy settings (or restore them to values they had before).
For more information and a vulnerability test see
http://www.solutions.fi
VENDOR STATUS =============
Microsoft was contacted on May 20th. At the moment of writing this advisory, Microsoft has started designing and coding a fix, but hasn't given any approximation of when it would be released. The patch will be available at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current. asp
"With the death of the only person who knew the password to an archive held at a museum in Norway, suddenly the website became inaccessible. The result? A nationwide radio appeal asking for "slashdotters" to volunteer to help solve the problem! The Norway Post had the story"
Slashdot Mirror
its says so in the first line of the article, and its not in kanji.
bla bla bla InterOpto'02 bla bla bla 12cm CDbla bla bla
RTFA!
Well, I don't know kanji!!!! For all I know "cm" is the kanji characters for "inches"...
Go on to http://www.ask.com and ask Jeeves if he's gay :-)
This used to result in a funny error message something like:
"Server Error 505 - None of your business".
Toronto was 52 with the Garbagedex yesterday (Toronto city garbage collectors are on strike -- this city absolutely stinks!)
And even if you are comfortable troubleshooting and fixing problems yourself, you'll save yourself shipping, phone calls, and just a lot of general hassle.
Do not ever buy cheap stuff over the web because it just ends up costing a lot when you need to rma it. Make sure the amount of cash you're saving is significant.
Hey!!! Nice double karma grab man! Post something with misspelling, and then dis yourself to get the funny points on top of your original post. Ingenious!!!
;)
Good point. Let's drop that Windows thing.
By the way, If I share my recordings of free broadcast TV how is that stealing?
Not so much stealing as illegal distribution. You don't have the rights to redistribute a television show. Just like you don't have the rights to record songs of the radio and redistribute them.
But if asked, just tell them you're making offsite backups of your important data.
Do used book sales generate for authors ?
No...but the book industry hasn't been hit by rampant piracy. You can bet if/when it does publisher's will be jumping on the same bandwagon. Besides, the e-book publishing game is toying with the same type of watermarking and copy right protection schemes that the music industry has been trying.
Does Ford get money when I sell my car as used ??
No...but your car depreciates in value...rapidly.
On the other hand, you pay tax when you resell your land, something else that doesn't depreciate in value (usually) - (ok, not the greatest example since the land isn't technically isn't yours -- but just as good as the previous examples).
As one of the shoppers the writer interviews points out: "It's cheap to buy used discs. . . . They sound just the same as new ones," said Estrella.
Anyways, I don't really agree with this, but I just thought someone should do a take from the other side of things.
Can you back up that their estimation is bullshit? Even the article itself mentions how the used cd sales hurt new cd sales:
"When Alanis Morissette's new album was released, we had a lot of customers in our stores looking for her (catalog album) 'Jagged Little Pill,' " said Matt Allen, the company's vice president.
While I think IE is a great browser and have used it for years, I recently started using Mozilla and love it. The main reasons I'm using it are:
1) I find it faster.
2) I like the tabbed browsing.
I highly recommend giving it a go. And even if you don't like it, realize that it has benefits and some people (not all) choose it not because it's Non-Microsoft, but because they find it provides a better browsing experience.
You must've missed my following message correcting my mistake :)
LOL, confused the message number with the ID - my bad ;)
I am willing to sell this fine, low UID slashdot account for only $10000 (or about $500 per byte stored on the server). If that isn't a bargain, I don't know what is :-)
You call that a low ID? It's 7 digits! Geez.
Even 6 digit ICQ numbers only sell for around $20 on Ebay.
I've actually had success looking at an esclipse through a CD
/. is braille browser friendly.
I've had success looking at an eclipse with my naked eyes. Last thing I ever saw though...good thing
Seriously though, would a CD actually be effective? I have my doubts....
Pfftt... you and your hair dye. I want ones that will move the hair off my back and put it back on my head where it belongs!
The hair dye advancements can come later.
Gee.... how'd you guess? :-)
I don't suppose kids play baseball in the streets very much down south.
Personally, I think this is a great idea, it keeps kids off of the streets
/.'ers!
Personally, I want my kids on the streets.... playing hockey. You haven't been a kid if you haven't yelled "CAR!" to get the hockey net moved out of the way.
:-) Seriously though, gaming at school a couple times a month is a cool idea. I'd rather him game with friends than gaming with a bunch of strange folk online who could be stalkers, pedophiles, or even
Woohoo! My first karma whore post. Mom would be so proud.
Ignore that, that's a test for a slightly older IE bug from a year ago. Didn't do enough reading on the google link :-)
You can go here http://www.solutions.fi/iebug2/run.cgi to test your system to see if it's vulnerable.
:-)
Odd though, when I hit it in IE, it asks me if I want to download the program or not.... maybe this isn't as serious as originally thought.
Of course in Mozilla it just shows the code in the browser
The Official Bugtraq Post:
. asp
OVERVIEW
========
Gopher is a protocol developed at the University of Minnesota in the
early 1990's. Gopher servers offer hierarchically organized directories
and files. These form a "gopherspace" which can be thought of as the
predecessor of the World Wide Web. Gopher was mostly abandoned soon after
HTTP and the World Wide Web started gaining popularity.
Microsoft Internet Explorer has a built-in gopher client. Gopher pages can
be accessed via URLs starting with "gopher://". The part of code in IE
which parses gopher replies contains an exploitable buffer overflow
bug. A malicious server may be used to run arbitrary code on an IE user's
system.
DETAILS
=======
When the overflow is triggered, a fixed sized buffer in stack gets
overwritten with data from the gopher server. This data can contain most
octets from 0 to 255 (also nulls) which makes it particularly easy to
inject a working shellcode in it. This is a traditional, trivially
exploitable buffer overflow. A test exploit has been successfully used to
run arbitrary code without user intervention with various IE versions and
systems including IE 5.5 and 6.0.
The attack can be launched via a web page or an HTML mail message which
redirect the user to a malicious gopher server when the victim views them.
The server can be very minimal, ie. a program that can listen on a TCP
port and write a block of data; a fully operational gopher server isn't
necessary in order to carry out the attack.
The exploiter could do anything that a regular user could do on the
system: retrieve, install, or remove files, upload and run programs, etc.
Full technical details aren't disclosed at this time to prevent
exploitation.
WORKAROUND
==========
Internet Explorer users can protect themselves from the flaw by disabling
the gopher protocol. Barely any gopher servers exist on the Internet
today, so this is unlikely to cause problems. If needed, a gopher client
or some other web browser can be used to access the gopherspace.
An easy way to disable processing and displaying gopher pages is to define
a non-functional gopher proxy in Internet Options. Select Tools ->
Internet options -> Connections. Click on "LAN settings". Check "Use a
proxy server for your LAN". Click on "Advanced...". Here you can define
proxy servers to be used with different protocols. Go to the Gopher text
field and enter "localhost", and "1" in the port text field. This will
stop Internet Explorer from fetching any gopher documents.
After installing the patch from Microsoft you can remove these gopher
proxy settings (or restore them to values they had before).
For more information and a vulnerability test see
http://www.solutions.fi
VENDOR STATUS
=============
Microsoft was contacted on May 20th. At the moment of writing this
advisory, Microsoft has started designing and coding a fix, but hasn't
given any approximation of when it would be released. The patch will be
available at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current
when it is completed.
"With the death of the only person who knew the password to an archive held at a museum in Norway, suddenly the website became inaccessible. The result? A nationwide radio appeal asking for "slashdotters" to volunteer to help solve the problem! The Norway Post had the story"
Paying the employees (pay plus benefits).
....hehe ...hahahahahah... hahahahahahha..... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....HAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! !!
...heh
he thinks theatre employees get benefits...
heeheehee...
* Firstly, it pioneered mouse gestures:
Didn't Black & White pioneer mouse gestures? It's the first software I remember using the idea.
It is still a cool feature though.
I can't blame it for crashing when it tries to load certain sites
Can't blame it for crashing? Why the heck not? Shouldn't it be up to the coders of the browser to code in error trappings and handlers.