this only confirms what I suspected for a while. People who repeated get spyware, get it because they install it themselves (by visiting websites forcing them to, in order to get something). I know people running winxp who check their mail and visit decent websites that never get any smut installed on their computers. And then there are others who no matter what you do end up with smut after a couple of weeks.
Why didn't this guy install winxp2 on his wifes computer? Include a popup blocker, an antivirus program, enable the firewall, make it so that whenever she uses the computer in an unsafe way she runs into problems with it. Sure she'll call you and ask what is this or that but then you can teach her about the bad shit she is doing
it takes a statistician to makes sense of what does not make sense. I'll call you on your bullshit factor.
What you're saying it if a civilization ending event (now you see a civilization ending event is where everyone dies), so unlike an airplane crash where I choose not to participate in, I have no choice but to participate in the civilization ending event.
If someone told you you're 100 times more likely to die in a car crash than you do in an airplane but you don't have access to an airplane or you don't fly in one, then the statistic is useless. The bullshit factor for that statement is quite high.
So to summarize, in reality we don't give a shit about civilization ending events because they are about as likely as a universe or solar system ending event. Being on mars won't save you if our solar system is destroyed, being in another galaxy won't save you if the universe is destroyed.
In reality the statistics in the article is about as useless as tits on a bull.
I use winxp with service pack2. On IE with popup blocking enabled it opened to the citibank site and then started a "pop has been blocked" loop on the original window. It was sort of annoying how it kept looping but suffice to say the vulnerability didn't work.
On Netscape 7.1 with popblocking enabled, it opened the citibank site and nothing else happened.
so it seems the vulnerability doesn't work if you have popblocking enabled
seriously why does anyone think this would work? The winners of the xprize spend more than twice the amount of money they got from the xprize. The way the military does it is better. They have a bidding process where companies submit a prototype and all that stuff, then they pick the one they want and award a contract to get it built, with the added benefit of owning anything built from that process. The X-Prize way is just stupid and ultimately a more inefficient way to spend money
well yea but the point here is you don't know so that's a risk you take. When I buy any other kind of game, like those I listed in my previous post, I know as long as I have my cd I can play the game I paid money for. This is not guaranteed with HL2
they can, because you are a fool (sorry). People who paid for HL2 knew about this whole steam crap, some even like and defend it. So if valve sticks a big one down there, you have nobody to blame but yourself. I don't have hl2 only because of their method of distribution, because I don't want to deal with 50$ and 2 months later going through that kind of bullshit.
I have no problem buying games that require valid cdkeys to play online, starcraft, battlefield1942, farcry, need for speed 2 etc.
I would like to know this too. It's been strange the last couple of weeks with nobody mentioning it. I've also heard about how great the halflife2 graphics are, but all the screenshots I've seen don't even look better than the ones in farcry.
I read the pdf most of it is just a rehash of the government vs microsoft antitrust case where ms was found to be a monopoly and behave in an anticompetitive manner. A large chunk of the document references this over and over again.
They complain about missing API etc but no specifics, then again we all know what happens when you use undocumented functions.. they become incompatible in later oses. I imagine their complaints are based on the reasoning, "You published API's to open/save/print documents in windows 3.11, but it didn't work properly when windows 95 was released", it could be true but this problem affected the millions of other software that were rendered incompatible in the move to windows 95. Hell even moving from win98 or winXP introduced compatibility problems.
I'm betting they are hoping for a settlement, they aren't going to win anything in this case.. but then again when your business runs on giving shit away, your source of revenue tends to come from lawsuits.
My brother used to work for a company that used a bunch of CAD software to design products, and one day he brought home cds full of warez copies of the latest CAD software like proengineer, gxdeveloper, 3dmax etc.
If MS outsourced the creation of these wave files they got egg on their faces. Either way somebody is going to get audited.
I agree. It is hardly a bad game, infact is is quite enjoyable for a couple of days. If you reach a point where you don't enjoy playing it anymore STOP!
of course it's free. He already PAID for it. Jesus use your brain for a second. How is that different from you searching for a more reliable product and paying 50% more? same shit. There are choices. Buy the 400$ good tv that is very reliable or the 200$ crappy one that everyone complains about breaking in a year. You go to the store and offer you an extended warranty for 50$.
250$ with a free exchange if it breaks or 400$ known reliable product? Either choice and you still paid for it.
or maybe they realise it but don't care? It makes no business sense to spend your resources where you are weakest the most. If the xbox is strong in the west then that's why microsoft will focus their efforts (at the expense of the platform elsewhere). It would be hard for microsoft to take on nintendo or sony in japan so they probably just give it a halfassed attempt anyways.
The first question that also popped into my mind. Five to ten thousand men? say it ain't so! not even a sniff about it until now. Realistically five to ten thousand men would be an ideal scenario for the US forces. All those men gathered to get killed through airstrikes. I suspect it was far less.. or more spread out over a large area but from what we saw most of the iraqi army was non existent or surrended.
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couldn't they find something a little cheaper and make even more money?
he produced this laughable piece of crap http://homecomputer.istheshit.net/
or santa could just use human cloning and defeat the laws of physics
People are using it on a large scale and a flaw is a flaw regardless of whether it is beta or not.
this only confirms what I suspected for a while. People who repeated get spyware, get it because they install it themselves (by visiting websites forcing them to, in order to get something). I know people running winxp who check their mail and visit decent websites that never get any smut installed on their computers. And then there are others who no matter what you do end up with smut after a couple of weeks.
Why didn't this guy install winxp2 on his wifes computer? Include a popup blocker, an antivirus program, enable the firewall, make it so that whenever she uses the computer in an unsafe way she runs into problems with it. Sure she'll call you and ask what is this or that but then you can teach her about the bad shit she is doing
it takes a statistician to makes sense of what does not make sense. I'll call you on your bullshit factor.
What you're saying it if a civilization ending event (now you see a civilization ending event is where everyone dies), so unlike an airplane crash where I choose not to participate in, I have no choice but to participate in the civilization ending event.
If someone told you you're 100 times more likely to die in a car crash than you do in an airplane but you don't have access to an airplane or you don't fly in one, then the statistic is useless. The bullshit factor for that statement is quite high.
So to summarize, in reality we don't give a shit about civilization ending events because they are about as likely as a universe or solar system ending event. Being on mars won't save you if our solar system is destroyed, being in another galaxy won't save you if the universe is destroyed.
In reality the statistics in the article is about as useless as tits on a bull.
I think what they meant was, in 40million days, windows will have a bug for every line of code.
I use winxp with service pack2. On IE with popup blocking enabled it opened to the citibank site and then started a "pop has been blocked" loop on the original window. It was sort of annoying how it kept looping but suffice to say the vulnerability didn't work.
On Netscape 7.1 with popblocking enabled, it opened the citibank site and nothing else happened.
so it seems the vulnerability doesn't work if you have popblocking enabled
seriously why does anyone think this would work? The winners of the xprize spend more than twice the amount of money they got from the xprize. The way the military does it is better. They have a bidding process where companies submit a prototype and all that stuff, then they pick the one they want and award a contract to get it built, with the added benefit of owning anything built from that process. The X-Prize way is just stupid and ultimately a more inefficient way to spend money
well yea but the point here is you don't know so that's a risk you take. When I buy any other kind of game, like those I listed in my previous post, I know as long as I have my cd I can play the game I paid money for. This is not guaranteed with HL2
they can, because you are a fool (sorry). People who paid for HL2 knew about this whole steam crap, some even like and defend it. So if valve sticks a big one down there, you have nobody to blame but yourself. I don't have hl2 only because of their method of distribution, because I don't want to deal with 50$ and 2 months later going through that kind of bullshit.
I have no problem buying games that require valid cdkeys to play online, starcraft, battlefield1942, farcry, need for speed 2 etc.
I would like to know this too. It's been strange the last couple of weeks with nobody mentioning it. I've also heard about how great the halflife2 graphics are, but all the screenshots I've seen don't even look better than the ones in farcry.
it is not computer nerd slang. African's or African americans usually say "axe" instead of "ask". So to some, it might not be that funny..
in your country do accused criminal get directly sent to the electric chair?
I read the pdf most of it is just a rehash of the government vs microsoft antitrust case where ms was found to be a monopoly and behave in an anticompetitive manner. A large chunk of the document references this over and over again.
They complain about missing API etc but no specifics, then again we all know what happens when you use undocumented functions.. they become incompatible in later oses. I imagine their complaints are based on the reasoning, "You published API's to open/save/print documents in windows 3.11, but it didn't work properly when windows 95 was released", it could be true but this problem affected the millions of other software that were rendered incompatible in the move to windows 95. Hell even moving from win98 or winXP introduced compatibility problems.
I'm betting they are hoping for a settlement, they aren't going to win anything in this case.. but then again when your business runs on giving shit away, your source of revenue tends to come from lawsuits.
My brother used to work for a company that used a bunch of CAD software to design products, and one day he brought home cds full of warez copies of the latest CAD software like proengineer, gxdeveloper, 3dmax etc.
If MS outsourced the creation of these wave files they got egg on their faces. Either way somebody is going to get audited.
in case you didn't read the article, the address for the search engine is http://beta.search.msn.com/
you can't get more beta than that
it has bugs, it is not ready, all that jazz, did I mention it was beta?
I agree. It is hardly a bad game, infact is is quite enjoyable for a couple of days. If you reach a point where you don't enjoy playing it anymore STOP!
6/10 score looks like a grudge score.
Just like black and white once you get on the second island it just becomes a game of repetitive tasks.
well what if it's a coincidence or bullshit? If someone accused you and it was wouldn't you say it was coincidence or bullshit? o
doesn't this flaw have more to do with what email client you are using than activex and windows scripting host?
it would be helpful to say which email clients to avoid (probably outlook express I take it?)
of course it's free. He already PAID for it. Jesus use your brain for a second. How is that different from you searching for a more reliable product and paying 50% more? same shit. There are choices. Buy the 400$ good tv that is very reliable or the 200$ crappy one that everyone complains about breaking in a year. You go to the store and offer you an extended warranty for 50$.
250$ with a free exchange if it breaks or 400$ known reliable product? Either choice and you still paid for it.
or maybe they realise it but don't care? It makes no business sense to spend your resources where you are weakest the most. If the xbox is strong in the west then that's why microsoft will focus their efforts (at the expense of the platform elsewhere). It would be hard for microsoft to take on nintendo or sony in japan so they probably just give it a halfassed attempt anyways.
The first question that also popped into my mind. Five to ten thousand men? say it ain't so! not even a sniff about it until now. Realistically five to ten thousand men would be an ideal scenario for the US forces. All those men gathered to get killed through airstrikes. I suspect it was far less.. or more spread out over a large area but from what we saw most of the iraqi army was non existent or surrended.