AIM and YIM have been around a lot longer and no one ever wrote a "worm" (debatable label in this case) for those...
There are worms for ICQ, AIM and MSN. Yahoo IM is the only one that doesn't have a worm right now.
MSN worms have been around for a while now.
This isn't news in any way. The worm relied on a website that is now shut, so the worm is effectively disabled.
If you want to know about IM spreading worms, read this or this
I'm not sure that's a good idea. I mean, in the end we all know it comes down to willpower. Having people here explain how they broke their addictions is probably very motivating, and I think that motivation is what is needed.
As I said in my earlier post, only YOU can do something about the addiction. Remember that, all the time!!
When I wanted to stop smoking (I know this is about caffeine, but I think quitting smoking is very similar), the hardest part was not the first few days when I felt bad (because at that time I hated cigarettes, knowing they were causing the pain). The worst part was when I "let my guard down", a month or two after quitting. You keep thinking about the nice relaxing feeling of having a cigarette, and all the pain you go though to quit almost disappears from you mind. This is when you MUST remember the pain you went through to quit.
You know, when I grew up my dad would always let me make my own choices. My dad is a vegitarian who doesn't drink alcohol. However, he would still let me eat whatever I wanted, and he didn't mind me drinking. He thought I'd make the best choice for myself in the end. The one thing my dad always told me though, was to never get addicted to anything, because there is a chance there will come a time when you cannot get what you are addicted to. He'd tell me the story of when he was in a refugee camp, and my grandfather was a heavy smoker (40+ cigarettes a day). In the refugee camp, there was no cigarattes (this was in the end of the 60's). He'd tell me about the pain my grandfather went though, and that I had the choice of never putting myself in a position where I would have to go though the same pain.
I quit smoking too, and I did it cold turkey a few years ago. I didn't smoke for two years, but then I picked it up again (at burning man of all places in the world).
Second time around, I was really pissed off at myself. I decided enough is enough, and I stopped, and haven't smoked for a while now. I've been weak at the pub a few times since I quit the second time, but I've managed to recover pretty nicely. Next morning when I woke up after having a cigarette in the pub, I decided it was only a minor setback, and I went on track straight away. Now it's been a few months since I had the last cigerette, and I feel really good.
It may have been easier for me to quit smoking than a lot of people, because I didn't actually like smoking. I hated what it did to my throat. I'd wake up with a bad throat, and that annoyed me.
BTW: I was smoking for around 7 years in total.
I know that you are trying to break a caffeine addiction, but quitting smoking is very similiar.
You just have to do it cold turkey. If it gets really bad, just remember why it is that way. Instead of thinking that a cup of coffie will fix the problem, remember that it is the source of the problem. You've come as far as asking for help, that means you really wanna quit... just do it!!
You have no idea where I work, how much I earn and why I was in the office on a sunday, yet you thought it was a good idea to tell me about your salary/job/holidays??
Seriously, must be one of the dumbest thing I've ever seen posted.
BTW: I make enough money, working on a sunday gives me two weekdays off, I'll have 29 days holiday next year and if I'm sick it doesn't go off my holiday and I still get full salary. Furthermore, differently from you, I like my job and I work here for that reason, not because of the money.
I'm sitting at work, and people around me started looking at me after I read that post, guess there's something weird about a person looking at a screen laughing really loud.
That post easily deserves +10.
Education is free in Sweden, and broadband connections are amazing. The only thing you don't want to know about are the taxes. Sweden has the worlds highest taxpressure.
Chalmers would be one of the harder uni's to get into to, as it is one of the best uni's in the country. Personally, if I had to choose a uni in Sweden right now, I'd go to KTH in Stockholm. It's a great uni, I like Stockholm, and the 5Gigabit accesspoint to the internet for GigaSunet (the swedish university network) is located right there:)
but the RIAA's actions have put the fear of God into many sharers
Makes me wonder... apart from the US, have they actually successfully taken anyone to court yet?
All the stories I've read so far are people in the states getting sued. I've heard of letter being sent out in other countries, but not an actual trial.
Do they mean there will come a day when one can download a 700MB Linux iso in less than 5 minutes? If my math is correct that's a 2333.3 kbps download speed!
There are many countries where this is a reality right at this moment... South Korea, Japan and Sweden are three that I can think of...
In Sweden, they are now offering 100MBits to your house, with a DL cap of 300gigs (scheduled to go live in January or April, cant remember exactly). 10 and 26 MBits (bi-directional) is more or less standard in the larger cities in Sweden, and it all costs less than 100dollars a month (10Mbit is less than 50dollars a month, uncapped).
If someone cracks the client, they can corrupt portions of the feed/website that is being served
You don't need to crack anything, just download the source and re-write it best you want... bittorrent is kinda open source.
Furthermore, corrupted files being sent out is already happening today, which is why some clients (I use the shadow bittorrent client) have an option of banning any user that sends corrupted data. Every now and then, my client will have banned a user or two, so this is already happening, and there is a solution in place.
Then there's also the chicken-and-egg problem of discovering the.torrent file (or its equivalent) in the first place: someone still has to serve it so that you can jump-start your torrent madness, and that someone can get slashdotted easily.
Agreed, this is definately the problem. However, a site that can "almost" deal with the bandwidth without using bittorrent, will probably be better off using it than not using it.
I don't think this is the ultimate solution to bandwidth problems, but it may help improve the current situation, which is really what is needed.
Anyways, there isn't any point in using bittorrent anywhere, as the ??AA's will close it down soon, regardless of how it's being used.
I've turned my TV on maybe 2hours during the entire month of November. I hate watching TV, because of all the adverts. I really can't stand them.
If I like a TV show, I download it and watch it.
I think it's great that these devices are coming into the market. I'd love to see the advert-supported TV collapse, as I'd rather pay for each TV channel individually if there were no adverts (where I live this can only be done for certain moviechannels).
Unfortunately, I don't think that advert support TV is going to disappear. We're gonna get digital TV soon, with broadcast bits set. Anything recorded with a broadcast bit set cannot be fast forwarded.
So, what's gonna happen now?
Well, here's my prediction.
1, TV companies complain.
2, Governemnt passes law. TV companies started broadcasting 10% more adverts, and after the law is passed, they still kept broadcasting 10% more adverts.
3, Profit!
Given thier track record, more than likely, they would have ignored him until someone publicly announced the problems.
You may be right, but it still doesn't change anything. I think this guy should have told Microsoft first, waited, if they don't respond within 48 hours, report it.
If you get a standard stupid automated copy/paste reply, report the holes.... but you SHOULD give the company some notice. As stated in the article, not giving the company any info just makes it bad for anyone having to use IE.
Is it news anymore that IE has holes?
Nope. Seriously, who here gives a crap about IE holes? Everyone here probably knows that using IE is about as secure as getting water in a fishingnet.
LOL, you're right! I was looking at sharp DVD players in another tab (my HK DVD-25 is giving up:/), didn't even notice that mistake... guess I mixed them up.... kinda funny...:)
Anyways, I didn't know the AE-500 was released, might be worth looking at an upgrade soon.
Now, if anyone has an easy DIY screen I can get rid of this bed sheet nailed to the ceiling in my basement....
ROFL, EXACTLY like my first screen (my bedsheet was light blue, made everything look really interesting):)))
It's really easy to make your own screen, all you need is the right colour paint and a big piece of thin, stable wood.
I found a forum that explained exactly which colours would give the best picture, and I ended up paiting the wood really light grey (gives a better black for my AE-300, without affecting the white too much).
You should find all the info you need on (I think it was here I found it anyways) http://www.avsforum.com/.
Actually, Astral Projection is well known outside of mp3.com, too... I don't think they need to make a living from their mp3s there.
I know they dont make a living off just mp3.com. I've seen them live twice myself (in Arboga/Sweden and Jerusalem/Israel).
My point was just that they are making enough money from mp3.com to theoratically make a living off it.
How can you have a serious home cinema projector comparison without comparing the Sharp AE series projectors?
I own the Sharp AE-100 and Sharp AE-300 (no, I don't work for them or think that they are the best brand in everything, they just make awesome "cheap" widescreen projectors).
I had some minor problems with my AE-100 (red/green tint in the picture), but this was a known problem with the AE-100, and it is solved in the AE-200 and AE-300.
In my livingroom I have the AE-300 running, projecting a 110 inch screen. If you get the right signal to it (progressive NTSC or VGA), the projector is unbeatable by anything in the same pricerange (asuming you want a WideScreen projector).
I read A LOT of articles/reviews/forums before going for the sharp, and with the AE-300, I'm really happy! You'd be able to get the AE-300 for under $2000, and you can get the AE-100 for around $1000 (although you should be aware of the red/green tint in the picture on the AE-100).
One thing mp3.com has proven is that nobody buys such alternatives consistently.
I like electronic music, Astral Projection being one of my favourite bands. I have every sinlge mp3 they have ever had up on mp3.com, and I have ordered several CDs from mp3.com, most of them being Astral Projection, but a few others as well.
I don't know that mp3.com looks like now, but when I was using it (haven't used it for about 6 months), you could see how much every band was earning. Looks to me like Astral Projection was making enough money from just mp3.com to make a living.
Add the fact that they DJ and release commercial records (although all the tunes can be leeched from mp3.com for free), I think that you CAN make a living, even though you are giving away your music for free. Astral Projection is the best example of this that I can think of.
If you're good, people like me will buy your music. I'm not buying Astral Projection cd's for any other reason that to support them. I like them and I want them to make more music. Instead of buying the CDs, I could have just DLed the music and burnt it myself, but I choose not to!
My advice to you, keep trying, it isn't impossible to make money, its just difficult (but hey, if it was easy, everyone would do it).
If you are making the music to make a living out of it, try to get a record contract and join the croud of people who are in it for the money.
If you are making music because you enjoy it, start off by giving it away. The number of DL's rising should be sufficient payment for you, and if you're good, you WILL make money.
Then again, I'm not a musician, and everything in this post is just my opinions. Some may agree with me, other may thinks its pure BS. Either way, I have excellent karma, and whats the point of that if you dont spend some of it every now and then:)
Slashdot Mirror
and understanding of statistics even less so
:)
Everyone knows that 95% of all statistics are made up on the spot
brave words... but then again.. you're such a pussy you can't even post it under your login... Had to be AC .. didn't it?
AIM and YIM have been around a lot longer and no one ever wrote a "worm" (debatable label in this case) for those...
There are worms for ICQ, AIM and MSN. Yahoo IM is the only one that doesn't have a worm right now.
MSN worms have been around for a while now. This isn't news in any way. The worm relied on a website that is now shut, so the worm is effectively disabled.
If you want to know about IM spreading worms, read this or this
Ask your doctor rather than ask Slastdot.
I'm not sure that's a good idea. I mean, in the end we all know it comes down to willpower. Having people here explain how they broke their addictions is probably very motivating, and I think that motivation is what is needed.
As I said in my earlier post, only YOU can do something about the addiction. Remember that, all the time!!
When I wanted to stop smoking (I know this is about caffeine, but I think quitting smoking is very similar), the hardest part was not the first few days when I felt bad (because at that time I hated cigarettes, knowing they were causing the pain). The worst part was when I "let my guard down", a month or two after quitting. You keep thinking about the nice relaxing feeling of having a cigarette, and all the pain you go though to quit almost disappears from you mind. This is when you MUST remember the pain you went through to quit.
You know, when I grew up my dad would always let me make my own choices. My dad is a vegitarian who doesn't drink alcohol. However, he would still let me eat whatever I wanted, and he didn't mind me drinking. He thought I'd make the best choice for myself in the end. The one thing my dad always told me though, was to never get addicted to anything, because there is a chance there will come a time when you cannot get what you are addicted to. He'd tell me the story of when he was in a refugee camp, and my grandfather was a heavy smoker (40+ cigarettes a day). In the refugee camp, there was no cigarattes (this was in the end of the 60's). He'd tell me about the pain my grandfather went though, and that I had the choice of never putting myself in a position where I would have to go though the same pain.
Still, I started smoking when I was sixteen.
I quit smoking too, and I did it cold turkey a few years ago. I didn't smoke for two years, but then I picked it up again (at burning man of all places in the world).
Second time around, I was really pissed off at myself. I decided enough is enough, and I stopped, and haven't smoked for a while now. I've been weak at the pub a few times since I quit the second time, but I've managed to recover pretty nicely. Next morning when I woke up after having a cigarette in the pub, I decided it was only a minor setback, and I went on track straight away. Now it's been a few months since I had the last cigerette, and I feel really good.
It may have been easier for me to quit smoking than a lot of people, because I didn't actually like smoking. I hated what it did to my throat. I'd wake up with a bad throat, and that annoyed me.
BTW: I was smoking for around 7 years in total.
I know that you are trying to break a caffeine addiction, but quitting smoking is very similiar. You just have to do it cold turkey. If it gets really bad, just remember why it is that way. Instead of thinking that a cup of coffie will fix the problem, remember that it is the source of the problem. You've come as far as asking for help, that means you really wanna quit... just do it!!
In the end, only YOU can do it. Remeber that.
ehhh... wtf was the point of that post?
You have no idea where I work, how much I earn and why I was in the office on a sunday, yet you thought it was a good idea to tell me about your salary/job/holidays??
Seriously, must be one of the dumbest thing I've ever seen posted.
BTW: I make enough money, working on a sunday gives me two weekdays off, I'll have 29 days holiday next year and if I'm sick it doesn't go off my holiday and I still get full salary. Furthermore, differently from you, I like my job and I work here for that reason, not because of the money.
Brilliant, just brilliant :)
I'm sitting at work, and people around me started looking at me after I read that post, guess there's something weird about a person looking at a screen laughing really loud.
That post easily deserves +10.
Education is free in Sweden, and broadband connections are amazing. The only thing you don't want to know about are the taxes. Sweden has the worlds highest taxpressure.
:)
Chalmers would be one of the harder uni's to get into to, as it is one of the best uni's in the country. Personally, if I had to choose a uni in Sweden right now, I'd go to KTH in Stockholm. It's a great uni, I like Stockholm, and the 5Gigabit accesspoint to the internet for GigaSunet (the swedish university network) is located right there
but the RIAA's actions have put the fear of God into many sharers
Makes me wonder... apart from the US, have they actually successfully taken anyone to court yet?
All the stories I've read so far are people in the states getting sued. I've heard of letter being sent out in other countries, but not an actual trial.
Does anyone know?
Do they mean there will come a day when one can download a 700MB Linux iso in less than 5 minutes? If my math is correct that's a 2333.3 kbps download speed!
There are many countries where this is a reality right at this moment... South Korea, Japan and Sweden are three that I can think of...
In Sweden, they are now offering 100MBits to your house, with a DL cap of 300gigs (scheduled to go live in January or April, cant remember exactly). 10 and 26 MBits (bi-directional) is more or less standard in the larger cities in Sweden, and it all costs less than 100dollars a month (10Mbit is less than 50dollars a month, uncapped).
That statement wasn't serious, I was just being sarcastic.
If someone cracks the client, they can corrupt portions of the feed/website that is being served
.torrent file (or its equivalent) in the first place: someone still has to serve it so that you can jump-start your torrent madness, and that someone can get slashdotted easily.
You don't need to crack anything, just download the source and re-write it best you want... bittorrent is kinda open source.
Furthermore, corrupted files being sent out is already happening today, which is why some clients (I use the shadow bittorrent client) have an option of banning any user that sends corrupted data. Every now and then, my client will have banned a user or two, so this is already happening, and there is a solution in place.
Then there's also the chicken-and-egg problem of discovering the
Agreed, this is definately the problem. However, a site that can "almost" deal with the bandwidth without using bittorrent, will probably be better off using it than not using it.
I don't think this is the ultimate solution to bandwidth problems, but it may help improve the current situation, which is really what is needed.
Anyways, there isn't any point in using bittorrent anywhere, as the ??AA's will close it down soon, regardless of how it's being used.
You may be right... although, if they started integrating adverts into the shows, I'd stop watching TV completly. I really don't care for it...
I've turned my TV on maybe 2hours during the entire month of November. I hate watching TV, because of all the adverts. I really can't stand them.
If I like a TV show, I download it and watch it.
I think it's great that these devices are coming into the market. I'd love to see the advert-supported TV collapse, as I'd rather pay for each TV channel individually if there were no adverts (where I live this can only be done for certain moviechannels).
Unfortunately, I don't think that advert support TV is going to disappear. We're gonna get digital TV soon, with broadcast bits set. Anything recorded with a broadcast bit set cannot be fast forwarded.
So, what's gonna happen now?
Well, here's my prediction.
1, TV companies complain.
2, Governemnt passes law. TV companies started broadcasting 10% more adverts, and after the law is passed, they still kept broadcasting 10% more adverts.
3, Profit!
Given thier track record, more than likely, they would have ignored him until someone publicly announced the problems.
You may be right, but it still doesn't change anything. I think this guy should have told Microsoft first, waited, if they don't respond within 48 hours, report it.
If you get a standard stupid automated copy/paste reply, report the holes.... but you SHOULD give the company some notice. As stated in the article, not giving the company any info just makes it bad for anyone having to use IE.
Is it news anymore that IE has holes?
Nope. Seriously, who here gives a crap about IE holes? Everyone here probably knows that using IE is about as secure as getting water in a fishingnet.
I totally agree... these things are too slow. You can get away from them if you have a normal bike.
:)
I'm sure the internal name for this project is Skynet. Lucky Arnie's a governour now, maybe he can stop the blast this time
... only geeks that get bullied anyways.. why do the /. crowd care about that? :)
Post bad things about me below here --->
LOL, you're right! I was looking at sharp DVD players in another tab (my HK DVD-25 is giving up:/), didn't even notice that mistake... guess I mixed them up.... kinda funny... :)
Anyways, I didn't know the AE-500 was released, might be worth looking at an upgrade soon.
Now, if anyone has an easy DIY screen I can get rid of this bed sheet nailed to the ceiling in my basement....
:)))
ROFL, EXACTLY like my first screen (my bedsheet was light blue, made everything look really interesting)
It's really easy to make your own screen, all you need is the right colour paint and a big piece of thin, stable wood.
I found a forum that explained exactly which colours would give the best picture, and I ended up paiting the wood really light grey (gives a better black for my AE-300, without affecting the white too much). You should find all the info you need on (I think it was here I found it anyways) http://www.avsforum.com/.
Actually, Astral Projection is well known outside of mp3.com, too... I don't think they need to make a living from their mp3s there.
I know they dont make a living off just mp3.com. I've seen them live twice myself (in Arboga/Sweden and Jerusalem/Israel).
My point was just that they are making enough money from mp3.com to theoratically make a living off it.
How can you have a serious home cinema projector comparison without comparing the Sharp AE series projectors?
I own the Sharp AE-100 and Sharp AE-300 (no, I don't work for them or think that they are the best brand in everything, they just make awesome "cheap" widescreen projectors).
I had some minor problems with my AE-100 (red/green tint in the picture), but this was a known problem with the AE-100, and it is solved in the AE-200 and AE-300.
In my livingroom I have the AE-300 running, projecting a 110 inch screen. If you get the right signal to it (progressive NTSC or VGA), the projector is unbeatable by anything in the same pricerange (asuming you want a WideScreen projector).
I read A LOT of articles/reviews/forums before going for the sharp, and with the AE-300, I'm really happy! You'd be able to get the AE-300 for under $2000, and you can get the AE-100 for around $1000 (although you should be aware of the red/green tint in the picture on the AE-100).
One thing mp3.com has proven is that nobody buys such alternatives consistently.
:)
I like electronic music, Astral Projection being one of my favourite bands. I have every sinlge mp3 they have ever had up on mp3.com, and I have ordered several CDs from mp3.com, most of them being Astral Projection, but a few others as well.
I don't know that mp3.com looks like now, but when I was using it (haven't used it for about 6 months), you could see how much every band was earning. Looks to me like Astral Projection was making enough money from just mp3.com to make a living.
Add the fact that they DJ and release commercial records (although all the tunes can be leeched from mp3.com for free), I think that you CAN make a living, even though you are giving away your music for free. Astral Projection is the best example of this that I can think of.
If you're good, people like me will buy your music. I'm not buying Astral Projection cd's for any other reason that to support them. I like them and I want them to make more music. Instead of buying the CDs, I could have just DLed the music and burnt it myself, but I choose not to!
My advice to you, keep trying, it isn't impossible to make money, its just difficult (but hey, if it was easy, everyone would do it).
If you are making the music to make a living out of it, try to get a record contract and join the croud of people who are in it for the money.
If you are making music because you enjoy it, start off by giving it away. The number of DL's rising should be sufficient payment for you, and if you're good, you WILL make money.
Then again, I'm not a musician, and everything in this post is just my opinions. Some may agree with me, other may thinks its pure BS. Either way, I have excellent karma, and whats the point of that if you dont spend some of it every now and then
:) ... I C ...
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English isn't my native language, that's probably why I didn't get it
Hey, I am a wo/man, you insensitive clod!
What's a Wo/man (as opposed to "Woman"; I'm not trying to be funny, just wondering what the '/' character is for)?
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