Users should be able to form groups and communities within those worlds and those groups and communities should put into place their own cencorship policies. Or atleast rate their groups and other groups on self cencorship.
with every group or person with a rating on their cencorship and individuals with their self set (or parent enforced) tolarance levels the world would be self cencored.
Yes things would slip past, but when it does, that person (or group) would be censored by the users
either that or use slashcode and implement moderator and meta-moderator type cencorship level
everyone here knows that MS Access is very poor at multi user interactions. a project that a student worker did where I work was written in Access for one person to check stuff in and out with a barcode reader.
Time goes on and 3 years later this little project has 6-10 concurent users in the same database with the counter in the main table is over 1,200,000. (note that it does not actualy have 1200000 records, we archive them every few months for performance)
Now that we have compleatly rewritten it with a real interface and a SQL Server backend it is realy fast.
But now that we have rewritten it, I realize some simple logic changes and maby some linked tables would have been good enough.
Rename your.htm to.hta and run it localy on a windows system. Do a task list and you will see a mshta.exe is the task.
Now kill it, and your page dies too
in win2k and newer try this" open control Panel and run Add/Remove Programs You are looking at hta in action.
kill mshta.exe again, Add/Remove Programs dies as well.
I find HTA handy when I dont want to load visual studio for a quick app that I would rather run as a web page, but I can't because I need more system level access. A quick VBScript or JScript with a html frontend in notepad works wonders.
FYI: Little help is actualy written for HTA, but realize it is a mix of Script and HTML working together named *.hta
The real problem is when we do clear out all spyware, pop-ups, and other crap that drains preformance, we quickly disable it. We either use tools, reg hacks, or msconfig. and it is gone.
Now when we do that to a users computer, especialy a home user. apps no longer work, their taskbar nolonger tells the tempature, gator no longer saves passwords, that talking monkey or pariot is gone, that flag is gone, and the wallpaper dont change anymore. To them, we broke it. It dont work now and it did before.
The real problem is that it takes so much work to educate those users.
My solution, reformat and reinstall. (use any os except the system restore)
What ever happened to the world with out keyboards and mice? Where all we have to do is say cool phrases like; "computer, file, menu, menu, menu, file, menu, manu, meeen u, men you, darn thing, never works. nooo, dont open word", click, click, click....
Could we relate this to the glass half full or half empty? it depends, are we drinking or filling.
Its one thing to say that half the errors fall in Microsoft and everyhting else is other. But if we looked at lines of code (or Chances of error) causing the errors, what percentage of microsoft code is problem vs percentage of other code. Would that be a better indication of how they are improving?
What we realy need is a historical comparison, so we can see how much microsoft (or other) is improving (or getting worse).
If the spam site gets paid on views, the advertisers are expecting a percentage to click on adds. If every site is visited, but the links on the site are not clicked (or links that do not leave the domain) the click percentage will go down and advertisers will pay the sites even less. also, the increased banwidth bill will add cost.
We would have to strip out any identifying code in the urls to prevent added spam from email validation
Why dont we setup fake servers serving files with names that match the file.
or setup p2p clients that will respond to all requests for these files with a spoofed address.
If we flood the network with false positives, when it comes to the lawsuit it comes out that some people accused were not actualy shareing any files, they would have to prove that they verified each and every one of their victims.
we could easily create blank files with the same time and size as the "real" files
Atleast your users know what ICQ is. If my users dont see the shortcut on the desktop, the program is not installed. They wont even check the start menu . . . its an instant phone call.
the RIAA just keeps shooting themselves in the foot. Every major lawsuit just leads to more public attention.
I remember when mp3's were only found on IRC or FTP server or crappy porn filled mp3 warez sites or college network shares. the Dimond RIO suit put mp3 in the spotlight and the napster lawsuit made mp3 a household name. They may will according to the law, but thats all they are winning.
A what point is the information provided to you fair game. You can manualy take any information that is made public and view it under your own terms. You can save the page, copy/past into notepad, import into excell and even sort it.
What about public urls? can you visit a public url as often as you want as long as you dont DOS the server?
I got a SPAM that used a tracking url for a image source. can I write a script that passes that url bad tracking information?
http://216.219.227.69/cgi-bin/open/open.cgi?x=jo es mithhm@hotmail.com http://216.219.227.69/cgi-bin/ open/open.cgi?x=jack smithhm@hotmail.com http://216.219.227.69/cgi-bin /open/open.cgi?x=jims mithhm@hotmail.com
Slashdot Mirror
Users should be able to form groups and communities within those worlds and those groups and communities should put into place their own cencorship policies. Or atleast rate their groups and other groups on self cencorship.
with every group or person with a rating on their cencorship and individuals with their self set (or parent enforced) tolarance levels the world would be self cencored.
Yes things would slip past, but when it does, that person (or group) would be censored by the users
either that or use slashcode and implement moderator and meta-moderator type cencorship level
I was big into the website warez and serialz for a while, (and porn passwords) and I kept seeing this mp3 stuff.
I eventualy gave it a try and by the end of the week I was teaching my highschool teachers how to install winamp and find music on their own.
Those were the days
fundamental limitations
everyone here knows that MS Access is very poor at multi user interactions. a project that a student worker did where I work was written in Access for one person to check stuff in and out with a barcode reader.
Time goes on and 3 years later this little project has 6-10 concurent users in the same database with the counter in the main table is over 1,200,000. (note that it does not actualy have 1200000 records, we archive them every few months for performance)
Now that we have compleatly rewritten it with a real interface and a SQL Server backend it is realy fast.
But now that we have rewritten it, I realize some simple logic changes and maby some linked tables would have been good enough.
Some mistakes you have to make
you can use this for the same effect: %00
href="http://www.msn.com%00@www.g oogle.com"
<a href="http://www.msn.com%00@www.google.co m" >fake msn</a>
I thought this test would work on slashdot, but I guess i am wrong, using %00 works for the exploit as well
Try it on your own
Rename your .htm to .hta and run it localy on a windows system. Do a task list and you will see a mshta.exe is the task.
Now kill it, and your page dies too
in win2k and newer try this"
open control Panel and run Add/Remove Programs
You are looking at hta in action.
kill mshta.exe again, Add/Remove Programs dies as well.
I find HTA handy when I dont want to load visual studio for a quick app that I would rather run as a web page, but I can't because I need more system level access. A quick VBScript or JScript with a html frontend in notepad works wonders.
FYI: Little help is actualy written for HTA, but realize it is a mix of Script and HTML working together named *.hta
The real problem is when we do clear out all spyware, pop-ups, and other crap that drains preformance, we quickly disable it. We either use tools, reg hacks, or msconfig. and it is gone.
Now when we do that to a users computer, especialy a home user. apps no longer work, their taskbar nolonger tells the tempature, gator no longer saves passwords, that talking monkey or pariot is gone, that flag is gone, and the wallpaper dont change anymore. To them, we broke it. It dont work now and it did before.
The real problem is that it takes so much work to educate those users.
My solution, reformat and reinstall. (use any os except the system restore)
MS can argue all they want about bundling IE with windows for all I care, But an email client? Outlook Express.
Where are the lawsuits, the lack of choice that it causes, the competition that is suffering? Why doesn't anyone care about outlook express?
The problem with putting it in the agreement box is that the majority of people dont read it and click next.
If the time is taken to crack the install process, couldn't it also edit the agreement box, or not show it at all?
What ever happened to the world with out keyboards and mice? Where all we have to do is say cool phrases like; "computer, file, menu, menu, menu, file, menu, manu, meeen u, men you, darn thing, never works. nooo, dont open word", click, click, click ....
Could we relate this to the glass half full or half empty? it depends, are we drinking or filling.
Its one thing to say that half the errors fall in Microsoft and everyhting else is other. But if we looked at lines of code (or Chances of error) causing the errors, what percentage of microsoft code is problem vs percentage of other code. Would that be a better indication of how they are improving?
What we realy need is a historical comparison, so we can see how much microsoft (or other) is improving (or getting worse).
If the spam site gets paid on views, the advertisers are expecting a percentage to click on adds. If every site is visited, but the links on the site are not clicked (or links that do not leave the domain) the click percentage will go down and advertisers will pay the sites even less. also, the increased banwidth bill will add cost.
We would have to strip out any identifying code in the urls to prevent added spam from email validation
I like using disposable cameras. but I keep throwing them away, and I still havent gotten any pictures back.
I couldn't resist
OK, I overlooked that detail. So sue me.
Why dont we setup fake servers serving files with names that match the file.
or setup p2p clients that will respond to all requests for these files with a spoofed address.
If we flood the network with false positives, when it comes to the lawsuit it comes out that some people accused were not actualy shareing any files, they would have to prove that they verified each and every one of their victims.
we could easily create blank files with the same time and size as the "real" files
[+]+Pause:System Properties and Alt+F4:Kill Window are also favorites of mine
Atleast your users know what ICQ is. If my users dont see the shortcut on the desktop, the program is not installed. They wont even check the start menu . . . its an instant phone call.
One major factor that you forgot in your quick history of warez, IRC. I am too young to know BBS, But FTP and IRC were my favorites.
FTP was simple and easy to host content. IRC intimidates newbies at first, but the community was very open and helpfull.
the RIAA just keeps shooting themselves in the foot. Every major lawsuit just leads to more public attention.
I remember when mp3's were only found on IRC or FTP server or crappy porn filled mp3 warez sites or college network shares. the Dimond RIO suit put mp3 in the spotlight and the napster lawsuit made mp3 a household name. They may will according to the law, but thats all they are winning.
A what point is the information provided to you fair game. You can manualy take any information that is made public and view it under your own terms. You can save the page, copy/past into notepad, import into excell and even sort it.
o es mithhm@hotmail.com/ open/open.cgi?x=jack smithhm@hotmail.comn /open/open.cgi?x=jims mithhm@hotmail.com
What about public urls? can you visit a public url as often as you want as long as you dont DOS the server?
I got a SPAM that used a tracking url for a image source. can I write a script that passes that url bad tracking information?
http://216.219.227.69/cgi-bin/open/open.cgi?x=j
http://216.219.227.69/cgi-bin
http://216.219.227.69/cgi-bi