Scarry for someone like me who operates an Anti-Bush site.
Here comes the logic.
I can't stand everyone who is 'anti-Bush'. Why don't you devote your efforts to being pro-Kerry? I ask you, who do you think should be president, and you say, "Not Bush!". Well, Jerry Falwell is not Bush. Saddam Hussein is not Bush. Hell, I am not Bush, but I'll take the job, and I guarantee if you don't like Bush, you definitely won't like me.
This is the problem with simple negation. Sorry it had to come down on you, but there it is.
You damn hippies and your newfangled plastic toys. Real men would make a space elevator with an Erector Set, using that tiny little wrench the whole way up.
Here's a fantastic excuse for using ActiveX: every one of your customers will be using Windows with Internet Explorer anyway, and you want to quickly develop a program that will permit them to locally control their machine without having to download and install software.
You mean like something users don't need their system administrator's permission and approval to install? Yeah, software like that will go far. And I know that Administrators can allow and deny ActiveX components, but if they're going to go this far to approve software (which requires administrator intervention), then they should use software that is locally installed.
The only practical purpose for ActiveX is for the spyware makers.
...Because everyone can understand \sum_{i=0}^{\infty}{ \frac{x^{i}}{i!} }
Or is it that if you can't understand it, you shouldn't be reading/writing it? Don't get me wrong, I love LaTeX (being a math student), but many professors give me the blank stare if I ask them to help me edit a paper.
Do you realize how many essential web components, many of them from companies that are now out of business, would stop working if ActiveX were turned off altogether?
There is no excuse, ever, for using ActiveX. If your web site depends on or even uses ActiveX, you need to hang yourself from your server rack with a cat5 cable.
ActiveX is not cross platform, and therefore by no means suitable for web purposes. If you can't accomplish the task with DHTML/JavaScript, then you need to find another way.
As for the atrocity against humanity that is stateful programs embedded into web sites, if you're going to commit the crime, Java better be your weapon of choice.
It's funny, the machine I type on at work was recently rebuilt, and Word re-installed. However, my user account doesn't have read permission to the share that Office was installed from. Every time I start up an Office component, I see:
Windows Installer progress bar -> Access Denied -> Application
And the app starts up fine. Real good design, kids.
I took work off today because I thought the internet was gonna go down. I didn't mention my absence to any of my supervisors, because I figured they would all be freaking out because the internet is down so they wouldn't notice I was missing.
I should either:
A) Go to work.
B) Bring in some pruning shears and re-create the effect of the internet being down on a much more local scale by severing the fiber line.
I'm one of those people who doesn't like the idea of people being able to reach me all the time. And to the argument of turning it off:
Boss: "I called your cell phone but you didn't pick up."
Me: "Yeah, I turned it off. I didn't want to be reached."
Boss: "Why do you have a cell phone, then?"
-Or: My Way-
Boss: "I called your cell phone but you didn't pick up"
Me: "I don't have a cell phone..."
Boss: "Oh. I guess I am a blithering idiot and need to commit suicide so I don't reproduce and pollute the gene pool."
Republicans owe me an apology to this day for that one. Yes the only president to shoot missiles at bin Laden got shut down cause he had a blowjob. You owe me an apology, republicans.
We're sorry. Please accept this complimentary copy of Fahrenheit 9/11 and this gift certificate, which is good for one free vasectomy so that you will not further degenerate the human race. I know, threaded discussions are hard, try to stay on topic next time.
Attention Slashdot Readers. The above mentioned article concerning California Governor Schwarzenegger does not exist, and it never did.
You all know that Republicans can't do anything positive for open source/consumer freedoms/anything else you need to whine about.
Thank you for your time.
Respectfully,
The RNC
Re:Works when the machine is locked too
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Point, Click, Root.
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The cool thing about the VNC payload is that it works if the machine is not logged in, or if the screen is locked.
Parent has a good point, how often do you leave your servers logged in? Could be fun for unsuspecting people at their workstations, though. I can see it now, the calls coming in "OMG MY MOUSE IS TEH MOVING....HAXORS IN TEH MY pC!!11".
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No need for profanities, and your logic seems a little flawd
That's not the only thing thats flawed.
I usually go to nightclubs to dance and meet women, but I guess this is the Slashdot Way.
Scarry for someone like me who operates an Anti-Bush site.
Here comes the logic.
I can't stand everyone who is 'anti-Bush'. Why don't you devote your efforts to being pro-Kerry? I ask you, who do you think should be president, and you say, "Not Bush!". Well, Jerry Falwell is not Bush. Saddam Hussein is not Bush. Hell, I am not Bush, but I'll take the job, and I guarantee if you don't like Bush, you definitely won't like me.
This is the problem with simple negation. Sorry it had to come down on you, but there it is.
Does anyone else think this could catch on to be successful, especially in college towns?
Yes, but only if there is beer provided. Pizza also a plus.
You damn hippies and your newfangled plastic toys. Real men would make a space elevator with an Erector Set, using that tiny little wrench the whole way up.
Here's a fantastic excuse for using ActiveX: every one of your customers will be using Windows with Internet Explorer anyway, and you want to quickly develop a program that will permit them to locally control their machine without having to download and install software.
You mean like something users don't need their system administrator's permission and approval to install? Yeah, software like that will go far. And I know that Administrators can allow and deny ActiveX components, but if they're going to go this far to approve software (which requires administrator intervention), then they should use software that is locally installed.
The only practical purpose for ActiveX is for the spyware makers.
You must be the n00b on the team. I hear the other guys who work on AIX just ask SCO where the bugs are.
In the end of the day we are talking engineers, not scientists with their head in the clouds.
And your job still went to India.
...Because everyone can understand \sum_{i=0}^{\infty}{ \frac{x^{i}}{i!} }
Or is it that if you can't understand it, you shouldn't be reading/writing it? Don't get me wrong, I love LaTeX (being a math student), but many professors give me the blank stare if I ask them to help me edit a paper.
Do you realize how many essential web components, many of them from companies that are now out of business, would stop working if ActiveX were turned off altogether?
There is no excuse, ever, for using ActiveX. If your web site depends on or even uses ActiveX, you need to hang yourself from your server rack with a cat5 cable.
ActiveX is not cross platform, and therefore by no means suitable for web purposes. If you can't accomplish the task with DHTML/JavaScript, then you need to find another way.
As for the atrocity against humanity that is stateful programs embedded into web sites, if you're going to commit the crime, Java better be your weapon of choice.
It's funny, the machine I type on at work was recently rebuilt, and Word re-installed. However, my user account doesn't have read permission to the share that Office was installed from. Every time I start up an Office component, I see:
Windows Installer progress bar -> Access Denied -> Application
And the app starts up fine. Real good design, kids.
Hahhahaha wow thanks, that's one of the funniest ones I've heard all day. I wish I had mod points.
/me points out that your comment is on the internet.
I took work off today because I thought the internet was gonna go down. I didn't mention my absence to any of my supervisors, because I figured they would all be freaking out because the internet is down so they wouldn't notice I was missing.
I should either:
A) Go to work.
B) Bring in some pruning shears and re-create the effect of the internet being down on a much more local scale by severing the fiber line.
Where are those shears at?
News Flash: Some middle school kid gets made fun of and harassed by other middle school kids.
Call the care police.
First check to see if you are among the accused.
:)
The EFF is helpful
I'm one of those people who doesn't like the idea of people being able to reach me all the time. And to the argument of turning it off:
Boss: "I called your cell phone but you didn't pick up."
Me: "Yeah, I turned it off. I didn't want to be reached."
Boss: "Why do you have a cell phone, then?"
-Or: My Way-
Boss: "I called your cell phone but you didn't pick up"
Me: "I don't have a cell phone..."
Boss: "Oh. I guess I am a blithering idiot and need to commit suicide so I don't reproduce and pollute the gene pool."
See, our argument does have a positive side.
Some how I don't think their conversion-to-iPod feature is going to last, at least not once the new revision of iPod software comes out.
A lightning fast transmission medium is no match for a mechanical data access sytem, i.e. your hard disk.
I have a fast internet connection but a slow hard drive. Sigh.
it's going to evolve again eventually, because only the coolest net users control the vernacular:
...the list goes on. use your imagination!
intarweb: what we now know as the internet
intarchat: instant messaging or IRC
intarmail: e-mail
intarcash: any paypal-like system
Law Enforcement funded by taxpayers - never saw that one coming, eh?
Foundations of Government
Republicans owe me an apology to this day for that one. Yes the only president to shoot missiles at bin Laden got shut down cause he had a blowjob. You owe me an apology, republicans.
We're sorry. Please accept this complimentary copy of Fahrenheit 9/11 and this gift certificate, which is good for one free vasectomy so that you will not further degenerate the human race. I know, threaded discussions are hard, try to stay on topic next time.
Attention Slashdot Readers. The above mentioned article concerning California Governor Schwarzenegger does not exist, and it never did.
You all know that Republicans can't do anything positive for open source/consumer freedoms/anything else you need to whine about.
Thank you for your time.
Respectfully,
The RNC
The cool thing about the VNC payload is that it works if the machine is not logged in, or if the screen is locked.
Parent has a good point, how often do you leave your servers logged in? Could be fun for unsuspecting people at their workstations, though. I can see it now, the calls coming in "OMG MY MOUSE IS TEH MOVING....HAXORS IN TEH MY pC!!11".
Sigh. Never a dull moment in IT.