I could hear my old 21" TV set, but when I replaced it with a new widescreen HDTV tube set, I noticed that (AFAIC) it's dead quiet. Probably due to that higher scan rate with all the extra lines.
You're right, but missed one thing: Symantec cannot make a single dollar off of this particular bug / exploit, since it's an IE-level issue.
Think about this for a sec: if Symantec knew about an exploit, and ALSO knew that they could fix it, wouldn't they hand out that fix, or maybe even sell it? Wouldn't they encourage their users of NAV to upgrade their definitions, and thus encourage people to purchase NAV?
By publishing the bug notice, Symantec brought (more) attention to a problem that Microsoft refused to address, and by publishing the exploit, they consolidated freely-available information in an attempt to illustrate the seriousness of the issue, perhaps to spur MS into action. Aside from a positive public image, there's no other benefit that Symantec can realize.
That's not quite how it works. The producers of a program own the copyright: PBS, as an entity, doesn't produce its own programming. PBS acquires the right to air that program a certain number of times over a certain period of time. Other rights are attached during this period, like if a school can record and playback, and how long that school has the right to keep that recording, etc. PBS spends money on that acquisition, which is why they need corporate underwriting, government funding, and "contributions from viewers like you."
The producer (it could be independent people, or another member station, like WGBH) retains all rights to the program, as they are the actual copyright owner for it.
In short, yes, you could probably get hassled for trading NOVA online, but it wouldn't be PBS that hunted you down.
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Why is it that MSNBC is biased when they say that Netscape 6.0 was buggy, but when everyone on/. (and almost everywhere else on the net) says the same thing they're not?
Simple:/.ers aren't paid employees of what tries to be a news organization. This forum is for the discussion of opinion; a front-page story on CNET News.com or MSNBC is for the presentation of fact.
Of course, if you want to see some real bias, consider that it's only in the last month or two that CNET and others have dropped the word "beleagured" when talking of anything Apple related. Don't get me started....
I still haven't figured out how I got this one installed, but I recently found it on my computer at work.
I frequently visit sites that have alternate media types and weird plugins when doing research online, so it could have been installed during one of those sessions. In any case, I noticed it when a "pop-under" ad didn't have the usual icon in the menu bar. Instead of the usual IE 'e', it was a little green dollar sign. I checked my Task Manager, and sure enough, a program called SaveNow was running. (It was in the processes tab, and didn't show up as a usual program.)
I had seen it before, thinking it was some stupid MS thing (maybe a daemon to make sure my Excel sheets were autosaved, or something; never gave it much thought) but was outraged that something was installed on my machine without my consent.
If I consented to the plugin on the page, fine, install the plugin. Don't piggyback this garbage and f*ck with my machine. Who knows what kind of information that thing was sending to wherever??
Has anyone seen this before? Where does this trojan bastard come from?
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I could hear my old 21" TV set, but when I replaced it with a new widescreen HDTV tube set, I noticed that (AFAIC) it's dead quiet. Probably due to that higher scan rate with all the extra lines.
You're right, but missed one thing: Symantec cannot make a single dollar off of this particular bug / exploit, since it's an IE-level issue.
Think about this for a sec: if Symantec knew about an exploit, and ALSO knew that they could fix it, wouldn't they hand out that fix, or maybe even sell it? Wouldn't they encourage their users of NAV to upgrade their definitions, and thus encourage people to purchase NAV?
By publishing the bug notice, Symantec brought (more) attention to a problem that Microsoft refused to address, and by publishing the exploit, they consolidated freely-available information in an attempt to illustrate the seriousness of the issue, perhaps to spur MS into action. Aside from a positive public image, there's no other benefit that Symantec can realize.
That's not quite how it works. The producers of a program own the copyright: PBS, as an entity, doesn't produce its own programming. PBS acquires the right to air that program a certain number of times over a certain period of time. Other rights are attached during this period, like if a school can record and playback, and how long that school has the right to keep that recording, etc. PBS spends money on that acquisition, which is why they need corporate underwriting, government funding, and "contributions from viewers like you."
The producer (it could be independent people, or another member station, like WGBH) retains all rights to the program, as they are the actual copyright owner for it.
In short, yes, you could probably get hassled for trading NOVA online, but it wouldn't be PBS that hunted you down.
Simple: /.ers aren't paid employees of what tries to be a news organization. This forum is for the discussion of opinion; a front-page story on CNET News.com or MSNBC is for the presentation of fact.
Of course, if you want to see some real bias, consider that it's only in the last month or two that CNET and others have dropped the word "beleagured" when talking of anything Apple related. Don't get me started....
I still haven't figured out how I got this one installed, but I recently found it on my computer at work. I frequently visit sites that have alternate media types and weird plugins when doing research online, so it could have been installed during one of those sessions. In any case, I noticed it when a "pop-under" ad didn't have the usual icon in the menu bar. Instead of the usual IE 'e', it was a little green dollar sign. I checked my Task Manager, and sure enough, a program called SaveNow was running. (It was in the processes tab, and didn't show up as a usual program.) I had seen it before, thinking it was some stupid MS thing (maybe a daemon to make sure my Excel sheets were autosaved, or something; never gave it much thought) but was outraged that something was installed on my machine without my consent. If I consented to the plugin on the page, fine, install the plugin. Don't piggyback this garbage and f*ck with my machine. Who knows what kind of information that thing was sending to wherever?? Has anyone seen this before? Where does this trojan bastard come from?