In college I saw a pirated movie in Windows Media format (ASF?) that opened Internet Explorer to a specific web page near the end. If someone crafted a file that opened an exploit page, your system will be compromised.
One solution is to disable Internet connectivity during movie playback, but that seems pretty annoying to me.
Mac OS X: Installer for SketchySharewareApp needs to run a script to determine where it should be installed. Please enter your root password. (PUT HACKING HERE)
Linux: See above in the event that the user wants to install applications outside the walled garden of a distribution's software repository.
I'm not saying that Windows is perfect, but the user represents a very weak link in the security process.
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My last name, Weill, is an Alsacian name (Alsace-Lorraine). In jingles for some French boutique that registered weill.com before I could, they used the V-sound for assonance: "Le vetement Weill vous va !" Except for "Le" every word starts with a v sound.
I've never studied French but based on my own selfish experience "Vee" seems the likely pronunciation unless Nintendo tries to make the name sound the same worldwide.
(Off topic follow up: in French is iPod pronounced "ee-PO"?)
Please stop making puns about the name or the state of copyright law or microsoft or government....
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If you're going to get all sanctimonious about Microsoft bashing, you could at least take the "MacroHard" reference out of your signature.
Chevy named one car the "Nova," which means "boring sciencey TV program" in English but in Spanish means supernova. The first time someone in Mexico started their newly-purchased Chevy Nova, the entire world was immolated in a cosmic orgy of destruction, or so the urban legend goes.
Because the rest of the world isn't South Korea, and as a result the rest of the world can't support an industry dedicated to watching people play video games? I mean, even The Wizard isn't available on DVD in the USA (though it was released on DVD in Germany)
I did read the intro. It contained a link to openmedia.co.nz. I'm not in New Zealand, so this product isn't for me. A DVB-T tuner doesn't help me as an American.
My sentence should have read: "If someone were to sell a MythTV box to American audiences... I'd buy one."
When I want to watch TV, I want to sit on the couch, turn my brain down to 1, and absorb some visuals for a while. I don't want to debug Linux software and download sketchy drivers for otherwise decent hardware -- not for free, anyway. If someone were to sell a MythTV box and support it as TiVo does with their boxes, I'd buy one.
I agree about the no-adware thing: Google seems to be on the most paranoid geek's whitelist, except for Google Web Accelerator and possibly Google's Desktop Search with multiple-computer searching option (yay for business data being sent over the 'net).
What exactly was so irritating about Doubleclick that Google doesn't do? At this point Google sells text ads (including for your parked domains), image ads, and Flash ads. Google doesn't seem likely to follow the trend Doubleclick did into pop-up and pop-under ads, but there's very little to stop Google Adsense subscribers from intrusively slapping Google ads all over their web sites just like they did with Doubleclick ads.
The only difference between Doubleclick and Google is that people trust Google enough to archive their personal e-mail, search histories, and browsing histories (Web Accelerator, wi-fi hotspots) forever. That just don't sit right with me.
Until web services work with each other, adhering to an underpinning even stronger than JavaScript and IE/Firefox's support of JavaScript, there is no "OS." There's a humongous difference between running a cool bunch of web applications and running an operating system.
They can find your location from your IP address, or if you've voluntarily given them your address (say, to customize Google Local) then they know exactly where you are.
When Doubleclick did the same exact thing they were denounced as the devil. Good thing Google can't be evil.:)
Social networking services weren't made much less vapid by Google's ill-fated introduction of Orkut BETA. Your problems with eBay seem related to eBay users being jerks. What can Google do to combat the same behavior that is so ingrained in the on-line auction seller community, a community that strikes me as the next dimension of flea market vendors?
Google doesn't have an online storage service. Read the blurb carefully; the submitter thinks that Google may release an online storage service and that if Google were to do so, Microsoft would then compete with the service Google were to offe--
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If you can't wait or don't want to subscribe, here's the next Googledot story:
"Ford plans to unveil a new seven-passenger full-size sports utility vehicle at the 2006 International Auto Show. This vehicle sounds awfully similar to Google's as-yet-publicly-unannounced GoogleUV that the blogosphere has been abuzz about for awhile now. What will Google think of next?"
Mac OS X is associated with the "more educated" (that's marketing-speak for "rich") consumer, so businesses have more of an incentive to offer high-end products to OS X users. Although there are plenty of educated Linux users, I guess your typical Linux user is much less likely to splurge on products as unnecessarily expensive as what Apple sells.
Dell's printers are rebadged from other manufacturers. I searched Google for "dell a920 rebadged" and found that your printer is either a rebadged Lexmark X1150 or X1180. Unfortunately, linuxprinting.org has no record of either printer. Lexmark is something of a persona non grata among the Free Software set for invoking the dreaded DMCA to fight 3rd-party cartridge vendors, so even folks who would write printer drivers may stay away from Lexmark on principle. Sorry.:(
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Is that really any better than buying the $300 Nintendo Wii SIMPLY because it can play old game ROMs you can download from an on-line service?
Mature consumers buy a product because they like the product, not because they like the people buying it.
In college I saw a pirated movie in Windows Media format (ASF?) that opened Internet Explorer to a specific web page near the end. If someone crafted a file that opened an exploit page, your system will be compromised.
One solution is to disable Internet connectivity during movie playback, but that seems pretty annoying to me.
Mac OS X: Installer for SketchySharewareApp needs to run a script to determine where it should be installed. Please enter your root password. (PUT HACKING HERE)
Linux: See above in the event that the user wants to install applications outside the walled garden of a distribution's software repository.
I'm not saying that Windows is perfect, but the user represents a very weak link in the security process.
My last name, Weill, is an Alsacian name (Alsace-Lorraine). In jingles for some French boutique that registered weill.com before I could, they used the V-sound for assonance: "Le vetement Weill vous va !" Except for "Le" every word starts with a v sound.
I've never studied French but based on my own selfish experience "Vee" seems the likely pronunciation unless Nintendo tries to make the name sound the same worldwide.
(Off topic follow up: in French is iPod pronounced "ee-PO"?)
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"Wii! That's what you say when you're having fun: you refer to yourself and some other people." -- Mitch Hedberg
If you're going to get all sanctimonious about Microsoft bashing, you could at least take the "MacroHard" reference out of your signature.
Chevy named one car the "Nova," which means "boring sciencey TV program" in English but in Spanish means supernova. The first time someone in Mexico started their newly-purchased Chevy Nova, the entire world was immolated in a cosmic orgy of destruction, or so the urban legend goes.
Because the rest of the world isn't South Korea, and as a result the rest of the world can't support an industry dedicated to watching people play video games? I mean, even The Wizard isn't available on DVD in the USA (though it was released on DVD in Germany)
Yes. TiVo's HDTV model won't be out before 2021 at the rate they've been going, anyway.
(disclosure: I own stock in TiVo and wish they would get off their asses about HDTV already; HD boxes are pieces of crap now)
I did read the intro. It contained a link to openmedia.co.nz. I'm not in New Zealand, so this product isn't for me. A DVB-T tuner doesn't help me as an American.
... I'd buy one."
My sentence should have read: "If someone were to sell a MythTV box to American audiences
When I want to watch TV, I want to sit on the couch, turn my brain down to 1, and absorb some visuals for a while. I don't want to debug Linux software and download sketchy drivers for otherwise decent hardware -- not for free, anyway. If someone were to sell a MythTV box and support it as TiVo does with their boxes, I'd buy one.
If you want Google to promote free iPod offers to you, you just have to ask :)
I agree about the no-adware thing: Google seems to be on the most paranoid geek's whitelist, except for Google Web Accelerator and possibly Google's Desktop Search with multiple-computer searching option (yay for business data being sent over the 'net).
What exactly was so irritating about Doubleclick that Google doesn't do? At this point Google sells text ads (including for your parked domains), image ads, and Flash ads. Google doesn't seem likely to follow the trend Doubleclick did into pop-up and pop-under ads, but there's very little to stop Google Adsense subscribers from intrusively slapping Google ads all over their web sites just like they did with Doubleclick ads.
The only difference between Doubleclick and Google is that people trust Google enough to archive their personal e-mail, search histories, and browsing histories (Web Accelerator, wi-fi hotspots) forever. That just don't sit right with me.
Thank you. I'm willing to pay you up to $15,000,000 for sharing this information with everyone.
Sincerely,
generic-man
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Step 2 is obviously introduce high-margin MP3 player with unprofitable music/video store that ties users* into said high-margin MP3 players for life.
* BZZT! WRONG! YOU CAN BURN YOUR 128KBPS AAC FILES TO CD THEN RE-RIP THEM INTO MP3 FORMAT! U SUCK! APPLE ][ 4EVER!
Until web services work with each other, adhering to an underpinning even stronger than JavaScript and IE/Firefox's support of JavaScript, there is no "OS." There's a humongous difference between running a cool bunch of web applications and running an operating system.
They can find your location from your IP address, or if you've voluntarily given them your address (say, to customize Google Local) then they know exactly where you are.
:)
When Doubleclick did the same exact thing they were denounced as the devil. Good thing Google can't be evil.
Social networking services weren't made much less vapid by Google's ill-fated introduction of Orkut BETA. Your problems with eBay seem related to eBay users being jerks. What can Google do to combat the same behavior that is so ingrained in the on-line auction seller community, a community that strikes me as the next dimension of flea market vendors?
Google doesn't have an online storage service. Read the blurb carefully; the submitter thinks that Google may release an online storage service and that if Google were to do so, Microsoft would then compete with the service Google were to offe--
EXCESSIVE SUBJUNCTIVE SENSE DETECTED, ABORTING COMMENT
If you can't wait or don't want to subscribe, here's the next Googledot story:
"Ford plans to unveil a new seven-passenger full-size sports utility vehicle at the 2006 International Auto Show. This vehicle sounds awfully similar to Google's as-yet-publicly-unannounced GoogleUV that the blogosphere has been abuzz about for awhile now. What will Google think of next?"
Mac OS X is associated with the "more educated" (that's marketing-speak for "rich") consumer, so businesses have more of an incentive to offer high-end products to OS X users. Although there are plenty of educated Linux users, I guess your typical Linux user is much less likely to splurge on products as unnecessarily expensive as what Apple sells.
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LINUX HARDWARE FAQ
Q. Does (new piece of hardware) work with Linux?
A. No. Go write some drivers.
MAC HARDWARE FAQ
Q. Does (new piece of hardware) work with Mac OS X?
A. No, but Mac OS X is kind of like UNIX, so go download the Linux drivers and get them to work.
Dell's printers are rebadged from other manufacturers. I searched Google for "dell a920 rebadged" and found that your printer is either a rebadged Lexmark X1150 or X1180. Unfortunately, linuxprinting.org has no record of either printer. Lexmark is something of a persona non grata among the Free Software set for invoking the dreaded DMCA to fight 3rd-party cartridge vendors, so even folks who would write printer drivers may stay away from Lexmark on principle. Sorry. :(
I would like to meet someone whose e-penis can "knock up a Perl script" and I would like to meet his daughter $_?&T:&B.
You RTFMed. I'm impressed. I've been told to RTFM when the FM is four versions out of date and filled with sections of "TODO: write this."
Open Source software documentation reminds me of Wikipedia: read it for help, but if it's not written yet, write it then read it.
Yes, I know the software comes with no warranty or support, but the notion of "you get what you pay for" is as strong as ever in many circles.