But how could one get a CWS variant for study? Are there archives online for infected programs and trojans such as these?
I run Linux for my primary desktop -- have for 5 years. I run WinXP in VMWare, with snapshots enabled. So when I wish to experiment with questionable sites and programs, I roll back when I'm done.
That said, if CWS is as nasty as every says, I'd *love* to let it loose in a sterile VM and try my hand at removing it manually (mainly using the Sysinternals suite of programs to find the offending process/dlls/etc., snoop the traffic by routing vie the Linux host box, and using a boot disk or LiveCD to disable/remove the thing).
Sure, anyone can run the canned spyware removal tools. It's like hunting deer with spears -- hardly practical given current technology, but you'll sure learn a hell of a lot about your prey.:-)
I like how the article points out that 2nd-hand smoke is "hudreds of time more dilute" (such bad wording) than mainstream smoke, then goes on to state that a 10-lb bag of charcoal emits an equivalent amount of smoke and toxins as 160 packs of cigs. Then it asks the idiotic quesiton (paraphrased) "what, you gonna quit grilling burgers?".
At least when I toss a few franks onto the Weber, I *choose* to do so.
Living within 20 miles of a coal-fired power plant may expose you to as much mercury over the course of a year as eating 20 cans of tuna over the same period, but only an idiot would argue the fact that it's *okay* for said plant to emit mercury. (The mercury numbers -- plausible though they may be -- were pulled from my ass to highlight the absurdity of the OP's argument.)
If the guy in the next cube wants to look at tentacle rape bukakke on the company PC, that doesn't harm me in any way. If I must walk through the same guy's Marlboro cloud to get in/out of the building, he *is* harming me.
I'm sure my insurance premiums are impacted far less for treating porn addicts than the hundreds of ailments smokers need fixed.
Slight difference there, buddy.
That said, I don't think tobacco taxes are spent to offset public health issues (merely as a "deterrent"), so I object to them in practice.
Any clue on how the hell to d/l those high-bandwidth versions with a proper URL (for feeding to wget, etc.)? I can't stand when sites embed media for use with a player, rather than a straight d/l.
No shit. I took my wife to see War of the Worlds (blah!), and yet another childhood favorite was trashed during the previews: The Bad News Bears. They didn't even use the same theme music! For shame.
Ah, yes! Scary case. For those who haven't heard, there was a wonderful segment about this case in 2003 on "This American Life", a public radio show. Google for it, find the site, then d/l the audio archive. (Or just cheat and download this Real Audio clip.)
This is *my* government in action?
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1. Inline MIDI (or *any* sound) files that play when you visit the page.
The worst I had to endure was a MIDI of "Dueling Banjos". Oh, the humanity!
The best modders are as talented as professional programmers (though those two groups aren't mutually exclusive). I *still* find the old Doom mod "Aliens TC" to be one of the best suspense gaming experiences ever produced (the original Unreal was close). Admittedly, I haven't purchased a retail game since Quake II, but having tried various demos and watching peers play games, I stand by my opinion.
You know... the "family values" crowd pushing for Rockstar's downfall concerning this *may* be doing us a favor. If the EULA is not found by the courts sufficient to protect Rockstar, then that sets legal precedent (a high profile one, at that) that could help others put software companies in their place.
Because then, why should Microsoft be protected by their EULA when a 3rd party program (insert "Worm of the Week") causes problems, but Rockstar not be allowed such protection?
Sure, the Rockstar case is different because the "problem" (fully clothed, pixel-rendered sex simulation) was a potential feature that Rockstar put in the product to begin with. But that is irrelevant with regard to the EULA.
If corps had to pay taxes on their gross (or individuals only had to pay on their net) income, you may have a point.
If corps "died" in 75-to-100 years, like most people, then you might have a point.
If every person in a corp were held personally responsible for the actions of said corp, and could be punished (as a matter of course, not the rare Enron-type situation), you may have a point.
As it stands, corps have far to many advantages over individuals. It's no wonder that they stomp all over people with impunity.
However, I only started playing Nethack within the past year, and I'm hooked. It's addictive.
The last PC game I actually bought and played with any regularity was Quake II. I played a few demos after that, and "borrowed" a few titles, but they didn't last more than a week or so.
When I need a game fix, I usually fire up GXMame and play favorite titles from my youth. So there *is* some good-ol'-days psychology there. However, my kids love those old games, so they're still very playable.
What would ruin my sleep routine these days? New versions of the old SMS "Phatasy Star" (original, the sequals sucked), and the old PC "Starflight". (I've been watching the Starflight III site for *years* but it hasn't gone anywhere.) Both very easy to immerse yourself in and get caught up in the virtual world.
Give me a large and cool world to explore. That's what all 3 of these games offer. I don't know of any contemporary counterparts to these games, though.
Some people etch the VIN of their vehicle on every window.
I had a roomie in college who spray-painted his shiny new HP48-SX (circa 1991) flourescent safety orange. It looked god-awful, but I doubt anyone considered it a target.:)
Buy some 2nd-hand laptop and do a creative case mod on it. Wire her or initials in bright purple LEDs on the top cover or something. It'll stand out like a sore thumb, easy to spot if she's looking for it, and it'll be a bitch to fence to someone else.
However, truth be told, Utah just doesn't have that much influence. It's only a few major cities (or perhaps just one - Salt Lake City), and most of the region is desert and salt flats. There just isn't all that much there to influence the rest of the country.
Two points:
1. The LDS Church, being a fairly good-sized, fast-growing non-profit organization whose members diligently ante up 10% of their income, has some politial clout. They lobbied heavily in Hawaii and Alaska (maybe wrong on this state) to defeat state bills that would sanction gay marriages (several years ago). I *think* the bills were defeated, but I can't say for sure.
2. Orrin Hatch. He's Mormon and he's got some clout in Congress. (This scares the hell out of me, to be honest.)
I (an atheist) live in central Utah and I kept tabs on what the locals were on about during this last election. While LDS friends tell me that the Church has an actual policy against peddling its political preferences at the pulpit, I'm almost certain that it happens all the time. If not during normal "service" (whatever they call it), very likely during the various other activities the church members engage in. The LDS implementation is of a "distributed" nature. No real offical clergy, per se, other than the standing profit -- err, I mean prophet -- and the Quorum of Twelve (or somesuch). Average joes are selected to act as "bishop" of local stakes/wards and lower members serve various functions, too. Given that, it's almost a guarantee that these people push/reinforce their political view amongst each other.
It's no wonder this state was the reddest on the map in 2004. I swear, The Stepford Wives story must have been about Provo, but some influencial Mormon put pressure on the author.:)
Granted, regmon is a little rough, but it's not the nightmare you make it to be. I don't think even the developers expect people to watch the thing real-time, at least not without the filters in place.
Fire it up. Run the program. Stop regmon. Export to text file, then grep for the executable name of the program you just ran.
Your complaints are about as valid as someone running Linux complaining about strace(1) spewing stuff to STDOUT too fast. Common-sense use of the tool can go a long way.
I grew up with PCs, did 6 years in college which was heavy on UNIX, supporting WfW 3.11 labs, Sun Workstations, and dumb terminals connecting to UNIX mainframes (as a lab support guy). Did a 6-month internship supporting WfWG and NT 3.5 at a *huge* industrial site. Worked 3 years supporting Win95/NT4 workstations and NT Server, SCO Server, and AIX at a shop of 50, where I got certified an MCSE in NT4. Worked five years at a large University, supporting primarily Redhat and Solaris at the senior-admin level, though a fair bit of AIX and IRIX, too.
You'd think I'd be able to name my price, but it ain't so! In *addition* to all this crap, companinies want all of the above, plus, an experienced DBA and a developer who speaks Java, SQL, and C++. Oh, and they want someone who's an expert in networking hardware.
I don't mind being a jack of all trades type of admin, but isn't there a point where one can be *too* diluted with skills?
I'm a "systems guy" through and through -- and a pretty damned good one, if I do say so myself. I *can* bang together the occasional bash/perl/sed/awk script to automate *systems* administration, but I'm no code jockey (and I really don't want to be one). I know enough about TCP/IP and routing to help dedicated network staff trouble-shoot network problems by way of ping, traceroute, and packet dumps, but I'm noenterprise-level network guru (and I don't want to be one).
I feel this person's pain, as I've been in the job market for a while. It seems comapanies -- of a surprisingly wide range of sizes -- want people that can do it all. AND... they don't seem to want to pay what just the senior-level admin skills in one platform alone are worth, never mind the programming and hardware networking expertise.
I mean, how many contractors expect people who are experts in plumbing, electrical, *and* HVAC to be the same person for hire? It's getting silly out there.
The inclusion of "real" actors in games s fairly recent in gaming history, isn't it? I mean, the VG industry managed to gross more revenue than the movie industry without all that much help. Hell, aren't a majority of the majorly popular title not based on a Hollywood franchise?
Game producers should just tell Hollywood to shove off.
I think the main hatred of CEOs of the type being discussed is the ungodly disparity in wages. Sure, the *EOs can be fired like anyone else. Do you think any of them would lose their homes or need to go on a Top Ramen diet to make ends meet?
I know die-hard capitalists hate this question, bording on pinko-commie talk, but: "When is enough enough?"
One really has to sneer at the mult-million dollar bonuses. If someone plopped $100,000 in my lap today, I've never have to work again for the rest of my life -- and I'm only 33. I could *easily* live a comfortable, healthy life with that much in the bank, *and* send my kids through college. Don't laugh -- some of us know how to manage money very well.
I know the concepts of "morality" and "fair" have no place in econimcs. But damn! -- can't anyone else see just how messed up the current system really is?
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How many features were promised then dropped in Win2003 and Longhorn to get them released? Why the hell do they keep adding features?
At this rate we'll get Longhorn Lite in 2006, Longhorn Complete in 2007, and Longhorn As It Was Really Promised Ten Years Ago in 2012.
MS just needs to get over themselves and get a product out the door with the *current* set of features they promised.
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I run Linux for my primary desktop -- have for 5 years. I run WinXP in VMWare, with snapshots enabled. So when I wish to experiment with questionable sites and programs, I roll back when I'm done.
That said, if CWS is as nasty as every says, I'd *love* to let it loose in a sterile VM and try my hand at removing it manually (mainly using the Sysinternals suite of programs to find the offending process/dlls/etc., snoop the traffic by routing vie the Linux host box, and using a boot disk or LiveCD to disable/remove the thing).
Sure, anyone can run the canned spyware removal tools. It's like hunting deer with spears -- hardly practical given current technology, but you'll sure learn a hell of a lot about your prey. :-)
At least when I toss a few franks onto the Weber, I *choose* to do so.
Living within 20 miles of a coal-fired power plant may expose you to as much mercury over the course of a year as eating 20 cans of tuna over the same period, but only an idiot would argue the fact that it's *okay* for said plant to emit mercury. (The mercury numbers -- plausible though they may be -- were pulled from my ass to highlight the absurdity of the OP's argument.)
I'm sure my insurance premiums are impacted far less for treating porn addicts than the hundreds of ailments smokers need fixed.
Slight difference there, buddy.
That said, I don't think tobacco taxes are spent to offset public health issues (merely as a "deterrent"), so I object to them in practice.
Any clue on how the hell to d/l those high-bandwidth versions with a proper URL (for feeding to wget, etc.)? I can't stand when sites embed media for use with a player, rather than a straight d/l.
Cabbage Patch Kids and Mon Chi-Chi, the latter having an infinitely more annoying commercial jingle.
No shit. I took my wife to see War of the Worlds (blah!), and yet another childhood favorite was trashed during the previews: The Bad News Bears. They didn't even use the same theme music! For shame.
They're probably using the old cruft from their Terraserver project.
This is *my* government in action?
The worst I had to endure was a MIDI of "Dueling Banjos". Oh, the humanity!
Quite sad.
The best modders are as talented as professional programmers (though those two groups aren't mutually exclusive). I *still* find the old Doom mod "Aliens TC" to be one of the best suspense gaming experiences ever produced (the original Unreal was close). Admittedly, I haven't purchased a retail game since Quake II, but having tried various demos and watching peers play games, I stand by my opinion.
You know... the "family values" crowd pushing for Rockstar's downfall concerning this *may* be doing us a favor. If the EULA is not found by the courts sufficient to protect Rockstar, then that sets legal precedent (a high profile one, at that) that could help others put software companies in their place.
Because then, why should Microsoft be protected by their EULA when a 3rd party program (insert "Worm of the Week") causes problems, but Rockstar not be allowed such protection?
Sure, the Rockstar case is different because the "problem" (fully clothed, pixel-rendered sex simulation) was a potential feature that Rockstar put in the product to begin with. But that is irrelevant with regard to the EULA.
If corps "died" in 75-to-100 years, like most people, then you might have a point.
If every person in a corp were held personally responsible for the actions of said corp, and could be punished (as a matter of course, not the rare Enron-type situation), you may have a point.
As it stands, corps have far to many advantages over individuals. It's no wonder that they stomp all over people with impunity.
I have to laugh at /. being labelled "far-right wing". That's just too much!
However, I only started playing Nethack within the past year, and I'm hooked. It's addictive.
The last PC game I actually bought and played with any regularity was Quake II. I played a few demos after that, and "borrowed" a few titles, but they didn't last more than a week or so.
When I need a game fix, I usually fire up GXMame and play favorite titles from my youth. So there *is* some good-ol'-days psychology there. However, my kids love those old games, so they're still very playable.
What would ruin my sleep routine these days? New versions of the old SMS "Phatasy Star" (original, the sequals sucked), and the old PC "Starflight". (I've been watching the Starflight III site for *years* but it hasn't gone anywhere.) Both very easy to immerse yourself in and get caught up in the virtual world.
Give me a large and cool world to explore. That's what all 3 of these games offer. I don't know of any contemporary counterparts to these games, though.
Some people etch the VIN of their vehicle on every window.
I had a roomie in college who spray-painted his shiny new HP48-SX (circa 1991) flourescent safety orange. It looked god-awful, but I doubt anyone considered it a target. :)
Buy some 2nd-hand laptop and do a creative case mod on it. Wire her or initials in bright purple LEDs on the top cover or something. It'll stand out like a sore thumb, easy to spot if she's looking for it, and it'll be a bitch to fence to someone else.
I believe further upthread, someone was bitching about how non-trivial Windows apps won't run unless you're running as a user with admin right.
Someone responded that filemon and regmon were quick and dirty tools to see what access app was trying to use.
Someone else bitched that those tolls are too raw to be useful.
I responded saying they were useful for the purpose they serve.
My wife was raised Mormon, if that counts. As we live across the street from an LDS church, I often get to hear her vent about what goes on there.
Two points:
1. The LDS Church, being a fairly good-sized, fast-growing non-profit organization whose members diligently ante up 10% of their income, has some politial clout. They lobbied heavily in Hawaii and Alaska (maybe wrong on this state) to defeat state bills that would sanction gay marriages (several years ago). I *think* the bills were defeated, but I can't say for sure.
2. Orrin Hatch. He's Mormon and he's got some clout in Congress. (This scares the hell out of me, to be honest.)
I (an atheist) live in central Utah and I kept tabs on what the locals were on about during this last election. While LDS friends tell me that the Church has an actual policy against peddling its political preferences at the pulpit, I'm almost certain that it happens all the time. If not during normal "service" (whatever they call it), very likely during the various other activities the church members engage in. The LDS implementation is of a "distributed" nature. No real offical clergy, per se, other than the standing profit -- err, I mean prophet -- and the Quorum of Twelve (or somesuch). Average joes are selected to act as "bishop" of local stakes/wards and lower members serve various functions, too. Given that, it's almost a guarantee that these people push/reinforce their political view amongst each other.
It's no wonder this state was the reddest on the map in 2004. I swear, The Stepford Wives story must have been about Provo, but some influencial Mormon put pressure on the author. :)
Fire it up. Run the program. Stop regmon. Export to text file, then grep for the executable name of the program you just ran.
Your complaints are about as valid as someone running Linux complaining about strace(1) spewing stuff to STDOUT too fast. Common-sense use of the tool can go a long way.
I grew up with PCs, did 6 years in college which was heavy on UNIX, supporting WfW 3.11 labs, Sun Workstations, and dumb terminals connecting to UNIX mainframes (as a lab support guy). Did a 6-month internship supporting WfWG and NT 3.5 at a *huge* industrial site. Worked 3 years supporting Win95/NT4 workstations and NT Server, SCO Server, and AIX at a shop of 50, where I got certified an MCSE in NT4. Worked five years at a large University, supporting primarily Redhat and Solaris at the senior-admin level, though a fair bit of AIX and IRIX, too.
You'd think I'd be able to name my price, but it ain't so! In *addition* to all this crap, companinies want all of the above, plus, an experienced DBA and a developer who speaks Java, SQL, and C++. Oh, and they want someone who's an expert in networking hardware.
I don't mind being a jack of all trades type of admin, but isn't there a point where one can be *too* diluted with skills?
I'm a "systems guy" through and through -- and a pretty damned good one, if I do say so myself. I *can* bang together the occasional bash/perl/sed/awk script to automate *systems* administration, but I'm no code jockey (and I really don't want to be one). I know enough about TCP/IP and routing to help dedicated network staff trouble-shoot network problems by way of ping, traceroute, and packet dumps, but I'm noenterprise-level network guru (and I don't want to be one).
I feel this person's pain, as I've been in the job market for a while. It seems comapanies -- of a surprisingly wide range of sizes -- want people that can do it all. AND... they don't seem to want to pay what just the senior-level admin skills in one platform alone are worth, never mind the programming and hardware networking expertise.
I mean, how many contractors expect people who are experts in plumbing, electrical, *and* HVAC to be the same person for hire? It's getting silly out there.
Game producers should just tell Hollywood to shove off.
I know die-hard capitalists hate this question, bording on pinko-commie talk, but: "When is enough enough?"
One really has to sneer at the mult-million dollar bonuses. If someone plopped $100,000 in my lap today, I've never have to work again for the rest of my life -- and I'm only 33. I could *easily* live a comfortable, healthy life with that much in the bank, *and* send my kids through college. Don't laugh -- some of us know how to manage money very well.
I know the concepts of "morality" and "fair" have no place in econimcs. But damn! -- can't anyone else see just how messed up the current system really is?
How many features were promised then dropped in Win2003 and Longhorn to get them released? Why the hell do they keep adding features?
At this rate we'll get Longhorn Lite in 2006, Longhorn Complete in 2007, and Longhorn As It Was Really Promised Ten Years Ago in 2012.
MS just needs to get over themselves and get a product out the door with the *current* set of features they promised.
Regardless of the actual timetable of events, it is quite a stretch to say Konqueror appeared out of nowhere.