... which, for most consumers, is unacceptable. What guy is going to accept a remote that doesn't work? As far as the consumer is concerned, that will be a product defect. What next - you can't turn it off until the commercial is over?
Eve better - now people will have even MORE reason to channel-surf. Advertisers HOPE you watch their ads, but they know that a lot of times, you're clicking away to see what's on other channels.
And if it prevents you from switching channels? Return it as defective.
The problem is a lot of telemarketers call from jurisdictions where that's not enforceable - hence the reason you'll see boiler rooms in Montreal buying long distance in bulk. Dirty rat bastards.
It is, if you exercise your right of free speech by going to the web site http://www.dearaol.com/ and signing the petition. The idea that spammers can pay a fraction of a cent to bypass spam filters is as bad as the games the phone company plays with unlisted numbers and caller ID.
You get caller ID
Telemarketing company pays extra to block caller ID on all outbound calls
You pay extra for an unlisted number
Telemarketing company pays extre for list of unlsted numbers
When God hates all the same people you do, its a sign you've created Him in your own image.
Great signature. Yours?
No, its just on loan (okay - I saw it somewhere and liked it, so I "liberated" it:-)
The great thing about it is that people of all persuasions, from the hard-core athiest to the INSERT_RELIGION_OR_DEITY_OR_LIFESTYLE_OF_CHOICE can agree with it. Of course, groups like the fundamentalists would tend to be offended because they don't consider it "hate". They "love the sinner, condemn the sin." Somehow, though, it loses in translation from theory to practice. Sort of like how the government's "conforming with all the information privacy laws" means that they're free to splash all your info all over the net and nobody's accountable.
Let's see... half of all spouses cheat (and this figure may be on the LOW side)... so if there were more than two women working as accountants there , consider yourself just one in 1,000,000,000,000. (gee, there's more than a billion just like you world-wide).
I can see why Slashdot doesn't allow post editing or retraction, but sometimes it would be nice.
... but imagine the trolling possibilities if they did:-)
Back on-topic - I would hope that mssql also has a default limit that's reasonable. If not, forgetting to spec a LIMIT would be pretty fatal to any server that has a lot of records.
If its mysql, if yo don't supply a LIMIT clause, it defaults to 1000 (and I'll bet they changed the default to 50). You should have added a LIMIT 10000 to give you a good start.
It's still working fine. What's worse, if you don't give a first name, it gives you by last name only, so you can just do a dictionary attack on last names,
I just randomly picked a last name, and a couple of clicks later I know that (I've removed the names)
L.A.P and A.J.P got a mortgage for 141,999.00 on 5/14/2004 from the CITY FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK.
So, if I were a phisher, I now have two names, and a dollar amount. I already know approximately where, and by clicking on the other records I know that they've been there for about 20 years, and that they also had some legal problems back in 1991, again, I'm leaving out the details.
W.T.F ?!?!?!?!
I would be humongously upset that this sort of stuff is available just by clicking.
The totally ridiculous part about this is that the speculators have no preference as to what they gobble up--not even a look at what the domain is. Case in point: I used to own squirreltweezers.com because it was a totally dumb name. No meaning. Nothing. However, the second it became available, some squatter snapped it up, like they're going to make some money off of it.
Hey, back in '96 I had a dot.org that I let expire. It's subsequently been bought by TWO cybersquatters, neither one of whom could make any money out of trying to sell it. Earth to current squatter - domains-4-sale@i.la - indstead of buying domains nobody wants, and that OTHER squatters have abandoned, buy a clue.
So what is an average power user? Did somebody do a survey?
Survey says:
North America: 120 volts
Europe: 240 volts
Now, since the article itself is slashdotted... why not a little off-topic Sunday entertainment:
... come on, "power user"? Right up there with "road warrior" for laptop users. If you don't code, you're not a "power user" - you're a user. And please, spare us all the "I can modify my spreadsheets" - that was the original idea - that USERS can modify them. No technical skill required. No real "coding".
Now plese wxcuse me while I look for my asbestos undies.
Actually, what I said was "Next time I have to go to a customer's site and "fix" something that ain't borken, its $300.00 plus expenses. On second thought, let's make that EVERY time."
That puts an end to a lot of BS. No more calls to configure a server when the connection hasn't been verified, etc. And when they DO call, they're very happy to write the cheque, because its a REAL problem, not some "well, your software prints from the mainframe, but not on the local printer - and we need it for a government inspection and report tomorrow" - which meant a visit to plug the printer cable into the computer!!! "oh, that's right, someone in I.T. changed the motherboard last week."
Most people who buy a computer call their friends, their neighbours, the kid next door, or someone from work when they have a problem. They don't mind springing for a supper in return for getting their stuff fixed. It'll be the same for OXSonX86 sales.
Even Microsoft admits that most users don't use (or even know about) 80% of the features in MS-Office. So, for most users, OpenOffice IS a viable replacement.
Most people could get by fine with just WordPerfect Office 2000 (WP9). It worked fine years ago, and nothing has changed. Heck, even WP6 would meet most of their needs. Typing correspondence doesn't require 3 ghz, 1 gig ram, 1/2 tb of storage, and a 21" screen.
Heck, they were probably MORE productive on those old 386 and 486s, because they didn't have so many options to choose from.
Then there are those of us who are happy with a term and vi... neither one is a viable replacement...
Right. An OS is nothing without applications. Explain how Apple can release OS X for a generic PC and have people buy it when there are no applications for it. What's the replacement for Office? Oh, that's right. When Apple competes directly with with MS, there WILL NOT be Office for OS X.
News
February 2006: Beginning with 2.0.2rc1 OpenOffice.org X11 regular builds for Intel based Macs are avaialable. In order to get them follow the link to non-qa'ed builds on our download site
Late January, 2006: OpenOffice.org announced the first build of OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 for Mac OS X (X11) that can run natively on the newly released Macintosh Intel desktops
The software's already made, so the development cost is zip.
As for tech support, when's the last time anyone called Microsoft for tech support? I don't know anyone who's ever done it; they didn't do it for DOS, not for Windows 3x, 9x, NT or XP. Everyone I know does the following, though in varying order:
tries stuff, swears, tries more stuff
reboots
clicks all over the place
looks it up on the net
asks a friend
You'll notice they NEVER READ THE FUCKING MANUAL!
... and they NEVER call tech support.
The only time I call a support number for hardware or software is for an RMA.
this is just stupid, no way in hell apple will open it up to normal pc's, it would kill them, it really would.
Like it killed Microsoft?
Come on - Microsoft is vulnerable - Vista is severely wounded, the vendors are all looking for something new for the fall back-to-school and christmas seasons - this could be IT.
And which are they going to have bigger profit margins on - a CD that they sell for $200 or a mac mini at $500?
Plus, how many companies would like to get off the MS treadmill?
This could quadruple their market share in the next 12 months.
You're all missing the point - this proof-of-concept makes NO system calls. There is NO need for "privilege escalation". Once started, it has enough knowledge of the host filesystem to read and write to files itself. Think of a viral equivalent to the kernel printk function.
No call to the OS means no opportunity for the OS to say "sorry, you don't have enough privileges to call that function." Fat chance patching for THAT.
Think of it - the kernel code is out there - it boots without any system libraries already being loaded. The printk (kernel print function) doesn't call the os at any point - it has enough knowledge to talk to the hardware directly. So, do the same, and add enough functionality to read and write to the various filesystems out there, and you're home - you don't even need to do it in assembler... just #include the appropriate pre-existing header files, and #include any code that you would normally call from a shared library.
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... which, for most consumers, is unacceptable. What guy is going to accept a remote that doesn't work? As far as the consumer is concerned, that will be a product defect. What next - you can't turn it off until the commercial is over?
And if it prevents you from switching channels? Return it as defective.
The problem is a lot of telemarketers call from jurisdictions where that's not enforceable - hence the reason you'll see boiler rooms in Montreal buying long distance in bulk. Dirty rat bastards.
You get caller ID
Telemarketing company pays extra to block caller ID on all outbound calls
You pay extra for an unlisted number
Telemarketing company pays extre for list of unlsted numbers
You pay for call block
Telemarketing company pays to bypass call block
You can do the same with an index of your own making. Performance-wise, it kicks ass over any general-purpose solution.
gee, dont' tell me they're even dumber than I could have imagined ...
In mysql, its "LIMIT 1000,1000"..
Then if I want the next batch, its "LIMIT 2000, 1000" and so on. Easy to code in a loop, etc.
There doesn't seem to be a clean way to do that in mssql.
No, its just on loan (okay - I saw it somewhere and liked it, so I "liberated" it :-)
The great thing about it is that people of all persuasions, from the hard-core athiest to the INSERT_RELIGION_OR_DEITY_OR_LIFESTYLE_OF_CHOICE can agree with it. Of course, groups like the fundamentalists would tend to be offended because they don't consider it "hate". They "love the sinner, condemn the sin." Somehow, though, it loses in translation from theory to practice. Sort of like how the government's "conforming with all the information privacy laws" means that they're free to splash all your info all over the net and nobody's accountable.
Let's see ... half of all spouses cheat (and this figure may be on the LOW side) ... so if there were more than two women working as accountants there , consider yourself just one in 1,000,000,000,000. (gee, there's more than a billion just like you world-wide).
Back on-topic - I would hope that mssql also has a default limit that's reasonable. If not, forgetting to spec a LIMIT would be pretty fatal to any server that has a lot of records.
And the second hit was "Microsoft SQL Server: how to make mysql's LIMIT m,n function in Ms-sql" Oh, well.
oops - me == tired!
If its mysql, if yo don't supply a LIMIT clause, it defaults to 1000 (and I'll bet they changed the default to 50). You should have added a LIMIT 10000 to give you a good start.
I got a bit of a surprise - I sent some registered mail - and now I have an "electronic copy" of their signature, sutiable for cut-n-paste.
I am NEVER AGAIN going to accept registered mail, or if I do, I'm signing someone else's name. This is getting ridiculous!
I just randomly picked a last name, and a couple of clicks later I know that (I've removed the names) L.A.P and A.J.P got a mortgage for 141,999.00 on 5/14/2004 from the CITY FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK.
So, if I were a phisher, I now have two names, and a dollar amount. I already know approximately where, and by clicking on the other records I know that they've been there for about 20 years, and that they also had some legal problems back in 1991, again, I'm leaving out the details.
W.T.F ?!?!?!?!
I would be humongously upset that this sort of stuff is available just by clicking.
Worse, by searching on the same two names + broward county plus a good guess as to another term, I found a link to a dump of 756k from google's cache. http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&safe =off&q=www.co.broward.fl.us%2Fdatabase%2Frecords%2 F03-24nme.txt&btnG=Search
If I were a phisher, a few minutes with perl would give me a decent dictionary with which to start ...
Hey, back in '96 I had a dot.org that I let expire. It's subsequently been bought by TWO cybersquatters, neither one of whom could make any money out of trying to sell it. Earth to current squatter - domains-4-sale@i.la - indstead of buying domains nobody wants, and that OTHER squatters have abandoned, buy a clue.
So what is an average power user? Did somebody do a survey?
Survey says:
Now, since the article itself is slashdotted ... why not a little off-topic Sunday entertainment:
Now plese wxcuse me while I look for my asbestos undies.
1 post and its already inaccessible.
No wonder the guy submitted it anonymously.
No, most people are getting clued in - they've skipped the last upgrade cycle. I know people who are still on '97 because its "good enough."
That puts an end to a lot of BS. No more calls to configure a server when the connection hasn't been verified, etc. And when they DO call, they're very happy to write the cheque, because its a REAL problem, not some "well, your software prints from the mainframe, but not on the local printer - and we need it for a government inspection and report tomorrow" - which meant a visit to plug the printer cable into the computer!!! "oh, that's right, someone in I.T. changed the motherboard last week."
Most people who buy a computer call their friends, their neighbours, the kid next door, or someone from work when they have a problem. They don't mind springing for a supper in return for getting their stuff fixed. It'll be the same for OXSonX86 sales.
Most people could get by fine with just WordPerfect Office 2000 (WP9). It worked fine years ago, and nothing has changed. Heck, even WP6 would meet most of their needs. Typing correspondence doesn't require 3 ghz, 1 gig ram, 1/2 tb of storage, and a 21" screen.
Heck, they were probably MORE productive on those old 386 and 486s, because they didn't have so many options to choose from.
Then there are those of us who are happy with a term and vi ... neither one is a viable replacement ...
It is that simple ...
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/
As for tech support, when's the last time anyone called Microsoft for tech support? I don't know anyone who's ever done it; they didn't do it for DOS, not for Windows 3x, 9x, NT or XP. Everyone I know does the following, though in varying order:
- tries stuff, swears, tries more stuff
- reboots
- clicks all over the place
- looks it up on the net
- asks a friend
You'll notice they NEVER READ THE FUCKING MANUAL!The only time I call a support number for hardware or software is for an RMA.
So why would OSX be different?
Like it killed Microsoft?
Come on - Microsoft is vulnerable - Vista is severely wounded, the vendors are all looking for something new for the fall back-to-school and christmas seasons - this could be IT.
And which are they going to have bigger profit margins on - a CD that they sell for $200 or a mac mini at $500?
Plus, how many companies would like to get off the MS treadmill?
This could quadruple their market share in the next 12 months.
No call to the OS means no opportunity for the OS to say "sorry, you don't have enough privileges to call that function." Fat chance patching for THAT.
It doesn't use system calls or libraries.
Think of it - the kernel code is out there - it boots without any system libraries already being loaded. The printk (kernel print function) doesn't call the os at any point - it has enough knowledge to talk to the hardware directly. So, do the same, and add enough functionality to read and write to the various filesystems out there, and you're home - you don't even need to do it in assembler ... just #include the appropriate pre-existing header files, and #include any code that you would normally call from a shared library.