I no longer use facebook as their privacy policy allows them to sell your information to third parties. I signed up without reading it to begin with and used it for a couple weeks. Then I started getting spam in my uni account, which is great seeing as how I also use that account to communicate with my profs, classmates, coworkers, etc. So I deleted my account. Too little too late, of course, but at least I won't be subjected to the advertising on their site anymore. (Which wasn't that bad, but combined with selling my information... that's too much) Other than having a license-to-spam, I really did like facebook. It has some really nice features. I particulary liked being able to input my schedule, and then browse profiles of people who I was in class with. Great for finding out who that certain hottie is.;)
acronym, n., A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging.
Doesn't look like it needs to be pronounceable to be an acronym.
You can't do it (uninstall Explorer from Windows). Have you ever tried? Want to really break your windows install, try uninstalling explorer.
That was the point of my comment, although I meant Internet Explorer the browser, and not Explorer.exe the Windows shell (just to clarify). IE should be a separate program from the operating system's shell, and a user should be able to uninstall it completely if they so choose. But it isn't, and we can't.
The problem seems to me to be that the Mozilla browser is the culprit here.
I do think that the problem in Firefox that allows this to happen should be fixed, but...
Since when do we blame MS for a leaky browser that allows files to be infected on our machine, then in the next breath blame MS for being infected by a vulnerability in the Mozilla browser? That makes very little sense to me.
...the problem is just as much a result of vulnerabilities in IE. If IE was more secure, it would have taken longer to notice and probably wouldn't be a problem. If IE was removed from most people's machines who use Firefox, again, it would have taken longer to notice and probably wouldn't be a problem. But attackers might make use of this vulnerability simply because they know without a doubt that a Windows machine will have IE installed, because you can't uninstall it.
And off the topic (but inline with the intent of my original post), it's not right that we can't remove IE completely from our Windows machines, as I said above. I can't stress that enough.
Over the summer I worked for a small ISP (six employees including myself) with a decent customer base of about 1800 people. As an extra source of revenue, we also sold hardware, built custom PCs, and provided repair services at $38.50 an hour.
In my two months working there, we had quite a few people come in for repairs, and I would say about 90-95% of those cases were spyware related. They would come in complaining about their computer slowing down, crashing often, or my personal favorite: pop-ups constantly appearing, even when "not on the internet". They would generally describe the problem by telling us "I think it has a virus or something". In cases where spyware was the primary problem, we used several free tools including Spybot and Ad-aware to remove as many traces of the malicious programs as possible, and made sure there were no suspicious processes left running and that the computer was working normally (although the average machine we saw was at least two years old, if not older, and relatively ran very slowly despite all the other common optimizations we applied). We left a note in their service ticket about the software we left installed on their computer (typically Spybot and maybe AVG Antivirus), and offered to instruct any interested customer in their origin and use (not many customers were interested).
It really wasn't a bad summer job, but not the sort of occupation I would enjoy for an extended period of time.
First off, I like Linux and all, but this setup has worked great for me:
Windows 2000 PC w/ 8-channel sound on the board + iTunes + Niveus Media remote control + a three dollar cable that runs to my stereo
iTunes is, in my opinion, the best software to come along in a long time for managing a large database of music. The PC remote has its quirks (I think they all do) but it still works really well to only be $40, plus, it's a universal remote and can control my TV, stereo, and DVD player as well.
And the best part is, I can still use the computer to do anything else I need a PC for. I don't need to put a lot of time and energy into building a dedicated server for music when all I have to do is hit two buttons on the remote to start iTunes and start it playing. And while it's playing, I can check my email, play games, whatever. It kicks ass, man.
Maybe it's just because of the nature of my work, but I tend to have a lot of windows open at any given time.... When writing an article (especially big NDA launches), I'd have around 20 IE windows open...
I always thought that cooking involved various types of physical/chemical reactions taking place within organic substances that, when combined properly, stimulated human tastebuds in a pleasurable manner (with some deviation among test subjects -- I don't like mustard, myself).
Why can't cooking be a combination of art and science?
My Thinkpad is sitting on my lap right now as I'm typing this, and the temperature is perfectly norm... AAAAAH! IT BURRRRRRRRNS! FOR THE LOVE OF NI, PLEASE SOMEONE STOP THE BURNING IN MY CROTCH!
...kinda threw me for a loop. Look, chihuahuas are classified as dogs due to their genetic composition. They're sorted down to a certain genus and species and are most certainly close enough (in their genetic makeup) to other animals we call dogs to be considered one. Size does not matter.
If we classifed planets using the closest possible method, say material composition ("This rock is 70% nickel, 30% iron... whatever, you get what I mean?"), it would be too damn hard to classify an object as a planet properly. Compare Jupiter's chemical composition to Earth's. Doesn't work. So instead, I believe planets should be classified by relative size, orbital pattern, and possibly the rate at which they orbit. It's easy to say that in order to be a planet, the object must be determined to be orbiting a solar system's sun. You could also possibly define a certain speed of orbit to further clarify things, though it would be harder to settle on. The first (relative size) isn't as easy to define as the others though, for example say a rock out there orbiting the sun is, oh, 5km in diameter. We decide to call it a planet. It's fairly big, it's orbiting the major heavenly body (sun) in the solar system in question. Then suddenly from around the planet comes another rock with a slightly larger orbit and different orbital trajectory. It's big too, but only 4.9km in diameter. Or 4km. Or 3km. Size is hard to include in the definition of a planet. But it does matter.
But no matter what you decide, with the knowledge we have of the universe today, it's going to be hard to settle these little conflicts over what's a planet, and what's just an asteroid, and what's just a little rock that happens to be orbiting the sun. Maybe a committee should come up with a set of standards for defining and classifying heavenly bodies?
I dunno. I just kinda jumped on the chihuahua thing and wanted to contest that argument.:P
I'll have to grow some longer arms before I can even reach both sides of the controller at once, but hey, once I do, PSO will be taking up even more of my time!
Sorry if I'm wrong here, but didn't the headline say "found in the wild?" After reading the article it sounds to me like they got the image from an ABC show that was actually about steganography. That's not in the wild, among several million images on eBay, like the headline suggested.
First off, I agree! But it needs to be pointed out that bin Laden has committed acts of this sort in the past and has gone unpunished, and he also openly encourages terrorism. He definitely deserves to be punished, but not everybody in that entire country is a terrorist.
"You should all be glad that you are alive and well and able to masturbate as frequently as you like while looking at goatse.cx, and not stuck under 100 stories of a collapsed building with your penis sliced off from shrapnel."
Apparently, we are.
The 9/11 tragedy was terrible. Last I saw on CNN, over 300 people have been confirmed dead, and over five thousand are missing. But, how many people do you hear going around saying the same basic thing you said, but about Pearl Harbor? The atomic bomb? World War I, the "war to end all wars"? The Civil War? The American Revolution? Or even OKC? Until now. I haven't heard many people on the street cursing others for going on with their daily lives when only a few years ago several people died in the OKC bombing. Why? Because we moved on.
And even now, we (and by "we", I mean Joe Average, like me) need to move on. Our best hope to defeat the intent of these terrorists is to go on with our daily lives. I'm not saying we should forget the people who died for no other reason than being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or their families and friends, or the totally awesome police, firemen, and volunteers who are still out there, weeks after it all happened, searching for survivors and digging through the wreckage. Slashdot is a technology news site and *nix advocacy site, not a typical news site/organization like CNN, AP, Reuters, etc. Therefore, it should not be expected to just drop everything and keep updating the site with news about the rescue efforts.
On that note, what do YOU think Slashdot should be doing? I notice nowhere above where you posted what you think Slashdot should do to correct itself. Your post came off sounding more like a flame against "computer-playing-linux-geeks".
I know nothing about you. Maybe someone you know and love is still missing. Maybe you just live in NY. Maybe you have loved ones in the Armed Forces who may be in danger in the future should this whoel situation escalate. Maybe you are just a concerned American who is only affected by the attacks patrioticly and symbolicly, like me. (excuse my spelling if it's incorrect, please)
This whole damn situation should not be forgotten. But we have to move on eventually.
Slashdot Mirror
Get off my lawn. *grumble*
...combine to form Vistatron, hero of the universe?
Look out evildoers...
I no longer use facebook as their privacy policy allows them to sell your information to third parties. I signed up without reading it to begin with and used it for a couple weeks. Then I started getting spam in my uni account, which is great seeing as how I also use that account to communicate with my profs, classmates, coworkers, etc. So I deleted my account. Too little too late, of course, but at least I won't be subjected to the advertising on their site anymore. (Which wasn't that bad, but combined with selling my information... that's too much) ;)
Other than having a license-to-spam, I really did like facebook. It has some really nice features. I particulary liked being able to input my schedule, and then browse profiles of people who I was in class with. Great for finding out who that certain hottie is.
acronym, n., A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging.
Doesn't look like it needs to be pronounceable to be an acronym.
You can't do it (uninstall Explorer from Windows). Have you ever tried? Want to really break your windows install, try uninstalling explorer.
...the problem is just as much a result of vulnerabilities in IE. If IE was more secure, it would have taken longer to notice and probably wouldn't be a problem. If IE was removed from most people's machines who use Firefox, again, it would have taken longer to notice and probably wouldn't be a problem. But attackers might make use of this vulnerability simply because they know without a doubt that a Windows machine will have IE installed, because you can't uninstall it.
That was the point of my comment, although I meant Internet Explorer the browser, and not Explorer.exe the Windows shell (just to clarify). IE should be a separate program from the operating system's shell, and a user should be able to uninstall it completely if they so choose. But it isn't, and we can't.
The problem seems to me to be that the Mozilla browser is the culprit here.
I do think that the problem in Firefox that allows this to happen should be fixed, but...
Since when do we blame MS for a leaky browser that allows files to be infected on our machine, then in the next breath blame MS for being infected by a vulnerability in the Mozilla browser? That makes very little sense to me.
And off the topic (but inline with the intent of my original post), it's not right that we can't remove IE completely from our Windows machines, as I said above. I can't stress that enough.
And I'm not a dork.
Maybe if those who used Firefox on Windows were permitted by the operating system to uninstall IE completely, this wouldn't be a problem.
Google for 'french military victories' and click the next page button a few times. That was the only place I could find it.
...the first thing I thought was:
In related news, the sport of polo is still less accessible to non-'rich bastards'.
Seriously, though the players may or may not be paying for their own rides, that's still a lot of money rolling around out there.
You must be using Internet Explorer with your security settings set to allow ActiveX controls to use the Pest Scan
Doesn't look like I'm going to be able to scan my system without using IE with ActiveX enabled. I think I'll pass.
Over the summer I worked for a small ISP (six employees including myself) with a decent customer base of about 1800 people. As an extra source of revenue, we also sold hardware, built custom PCs, and provided repair services at $38.50 an hour.
In my two months working there, we had quite a few people come in for repairs, and I would say about 90-95% of those cases were spyware related. They would come in complaining about their computer slowing down, crashing often, or my personal favorite: pop-ups constantly appearing, even when "not on the internet". They would generally describe the problem by telling us "I think it has a virus or something". In cases where spyware was the primary problem, we used several free tools including Spybot and Ad-aware to remove as many traces of the malicious programs as possible, and made sure there were no suspicious processes left running and that the computer was working normally (although the average machine we saw was at least two years old, if not older, and relatively ran very slowly despite all the other common optimizations we applied). We left a note in their service ticket about the software we left installed on their computer (typically Spybot and maybe AVG Antivirus), and offered to instruct any interested customer in their origin and use (not many customers were interested).
It really wasn't a bad summer job, but not the sort of occupation I would enjoy for an extended period of time.
...when I tried it in IE. Although, several other links given did work, and IE crashed.
First off, I like Linux and all, but this setup has worked great for me:
Windows 2000 PC w/ 8-channel sound on the board + iTunes + Niveus Media remote control + a three dollar cable that runs to my stereo
iTunes is, in my opinion, the best software to come along in a long time for managing a large database of music. The PC remote has its quirks (I think they all do) but it still works really well to only be $40, plus, it's a universal remote and can control my TV, stereo, and DVD player as well.
And the best part is, I can still use the computer to do anything else I need a PC for. I don't need to put a lot of time and energy into building a dedicated server for music when all I have to do is hit two buttons on the remote to start iTunes and start it playing. And while it's playing, I can check my email, play games, whatever. It kicks ass, man.
From the article:
...
Maybe it's just because of the nature of my work, but I tend to have a lot of windows open at any given time.
When writing an article (especially big NDA launches), I'd have around 20 IE windows open...
Two words: Use Firefox!
Funny thought, but it would have to be a really hot room - 45 to 75 degress celsius.
Dress loosely.
I always thought that cooking involved various types of physical/chemical reactions taking place within organic substances that, when combined properly, stimulated human tastebuds in a pleasurable manner (with some deviation among test subjects -- I don't like mustard, myself).
Why can't cooking be a combination of art and science?
My Thinkpad is sitting on my lap right now as I'm typing this, and the temperature is perfectly norm... AAAAAH! IT BURRRRRRRRNS! FOR THE LOVE OF NI, PLEASE SOMEONE STOP THE BURNING IN MY CROTCH!
***
Seriously, that would suck though, huh?
...kinda threw me for a loop. Look, chihuahuas are classified as dogs due to their genetic composition. They're sorted down to a certain genus and species and are most certainly close enough (in their genetic makeup) to other animals we call dogs to be considered one. Size does not matter.
:P
If we classifed planets using the closest possible method, say material composition ("This rock is 70% nickel, 30% iron... whatever, you get what I mean?"), it would be too damn hard to classify an object as a planet properly. Compare Jupiter's chemical composition to Earth's. Doesn't work. So instead, I believe planets should be classified by relative size, orbital pattern, and possibly the rate at which they orbit.
It's easy to say that in order to be a planet, the object must be determined to be orbiting a solar system's sun. You could also possibly define a certain speed of orbit to further clarify things, though it would be harder to settle on. The first (relative size) isn't as easy to define as the others though, for example say a rock out there orbiting the sun is, oh, 5km in diameter. We decide to call it a planet. It's fairly big, it's orbiting the major heavenly body (sun) in the solar system in question. Then suddenly from around the planet comes another rock with a slightly larger orbit and different orbital trajectory. It's big too, but only 4.9km in diameter. Or 4km. Or 3km. Size is hard to include in the definition of a planet. But it does matter.
But no matter what you decide, with the knowledge we have of the universe today, it's going to be hard to settle these little conflicts over what's a planet, and what's just an asteroid, and what's just a little rock that happens to be orbiting the sun. Maybe a committee should come up with a set of standards for defining and classifying heavenly bodies?
I dunno. I just kinda jumped on the chihuahua thing and wanted to contest that argument.
...69 percent of American adults were internet users last year. This is up from only 56 percent in 1999 and a measley 9 percent in 1995.
:P
Sounds to me like the non-adults using the net in '95 have grown up and are now counted as adults.
I'll have to grow some longer arms before I can even reach both sides of the controller at once, but hey, once I do, PSO will be taking up even more of my time!
Sorry if I'm wrong here, but didn't the headline say "found in the wild?" After reading the article it sounds to me like they got the image from an ABC show that was actually about steganography. That's not in the wild, among several million images on eBay, like the headline suggested.
First off, I agree! But it needs to be pointed out that bin Laden has committed acts of this sort in the past and has gone unpunished, and he also openly encourages terrorism. He definitely deserves to be punished, but not everybody in that entire country is a terrorist.
Hrm. I suppose that is all I'm really doing isn't it? Well, it felt good to say what I did anyway.
"You should all be glad that you are alive and well and able to masturbate as frequently as you like while looking at goatse.cx, and not stuck under 100 stories of a collapsed building with your penis sliced off from shrapnel."
Apparently, we are.
The 9/11 tragedy was terrible. Last I saw on CNN, over 300 people have been confirmed dead, and over five thousand are missing. But, how many people do you hear going around saying the same basic thing you said, but about Pearl Harbor? The atomic bomb? World War I, the "war to end all wars"? The Civil War? The American Revolution? Or even OKC? Until now. I haven't heard many people on the street cursing others for going on with their daily lives when only a few years ago several people died in the OKC bombing. Why? Because we moved on.
And even now, we (and by "we", I mean Joe Average, like me) need to move on. Our best hope to defeat the intent of these terrorists is to go on with our daily lives. I'm not saying we should forget the people who died for no other reason than being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or their families and friends, or the totally awesome police, firemen, and volunteers who are still out there, weeks after it all happened, searching for survivors and digging through the wreckage. Slashdot is a technology news site and *nix advocacy site, not a typical news site/organization like CNN, AP, Reuters, etc. Therefore, it should not be expected to just drop everything and keep updating the site with news about the rescue efforts.
On that note, what do YOU think Slashdot should be doing? I notice nowhere above where you posted what you think Slashdot should do to correct itself. Your post came off sounding more like a flame against "computer-playing-linux-geeks".
I know nothing about you. Maybe someone you know and love is still missing. Maybe you just live in NY. Maybe you have loved ones in the Armed Forces who may be in danger in the future should this whoel situation escalate. Maybe you are just a concerned American who is only affected by the attacks patrioticly and symbolicly, like me. (excuse my spelling if it's incorrect, please)
This whole damn situation should not be forgotten. But we have to move on eventually.
Ouch. That's the last time I ever try to help out an anti-Linux dumbass.
Obviously several thousand TKing, laming, generally sucky Tribes players were left out of this study.