Congratulations! Your post is not only dumb, herd-mentality crap, but it is almost completely offtopic too!
Yah, Ogg and Open Source are really beating Micro$loth LOLOL!!!! Lets get a new version of LUNIX and we can install some Open Source Software on it !!!#!!
Funny you should mention implanted chips. Check out this BBC article. I linked to it in a story I submitted a couple of days ago, but in true Slashdot style, they rejected it, instead posting a less interesting story on an identical subject. </rant>
What I like to call the 'rape story effect'. It applies to many situations, this, rape debates, drug debates...just about anything with an emotional element.
You'll always end up with one person who says 'Well *ACTUALLY* it happened to me, so my opinion is clearly right, your opinion is clearly wrong, and you're not allowed to argue against me because bad things happened to me'
I've had many debates on such subjects, and in the case of a debate on rape (whether a particular case could really be called rape - I forget exactly) a girl made some poor, reflexive comments, I shot her down, and she said 'Well *ACTUALLY* I've been raped!' As if that's supposed to make a fucking difference. From then on of course, half the people pussy-footed around her, and criticised me for continuing to shoot her down.
Please don't do the same shit here, I am notorious IRL for having zero sympathy when people use misfortune to make a point
So you mailed a small list of people to sell floppies, and got no sales. This guy sends out mail to every usenet group his script could find, successfully generating between $100,000 and $200,000 despite the fact that the cancelling of their account meant that they could not read tens of thousands more emails. He proved it was commercially viable, and thus spawned a myriad of copycats. Gee, I wonder why they wrote the article about him not you;-)
/changes subject
Okay, so spamming is a royal pain in the arse. but some people are vilifying this man to a stupid extent, like the poster who said he was like Hitler (and I think he was being serious) Please try not to lose perspective of how relatively trivial this matter was. Yes, I said trivial and meant it; every day atrocities happen that are far worse than this - spam is annoying and very little more. Besides, it's evidently creating business for advertisers, and created an industry of providers, so it's not all bad...
Yeah, I know that Spock's brain and the midgets were from the original series. That's what I meant by 'the good old days...spock's brain etc' My tounge was firmly planted in cheek.
Maybe I was wrong about the war run by computers being TNG, but I was not seriously arguing that TOS was some sort of perfect masterpiece;-)
I seem to remember a Star Trek episode about this - You know, one of the tedious moralistic crappy ones.
The long running war was damaging their artwork and architecture, so instead they ran a simulation, and whenever a strike was successful, the computer said how many died, and then the government rounded up that many people and killed them (in some non gory, painless ST kinda way)
Please God, take me back to the good old days with Bones using a remote control to make Spock walk because his brain had been stolen, or Kirk doing horse impressions whils being ridden by a midget. Oh, yeah.
Sorry, I did reply to this but my connection went down, I lost the reply, and couldn't be arsed to type it again. I wasn't going to bother (no fun typing the same thing twice) but I saw the other two pathetic offerings, so I promise that some time within the next day I will retype the reply.
You may not agree with it, you may offer your own argument against it, but I promise that it will enrich you more than the other two responses that can be summarised as:
I'd guess it's all about support. You buy a computer from manufacturers like dell for two reasons:
Guaranteed quality - you expect the components to be high quality and not conflict with each other.
Support - when something goes wrong you have some monkeys to call for help
Given that most people's problems (pure, if defensible, conjecture here) are software not hardware, then allowing somebody to install their own OS of choice is a real headache for support. Force them to use pre-installed Windows, everyone has a common platform which makes support easier(=faster(=cheaper))
Example: My friend had a Gateway PC, and was reinstalling Windows (they'd partitioned the HD in such a stupid way she ran out of space on the system partition, whilst having gigs left on a data partition - WAKE UP GATEWAY! Installs often copy files to the system folder!) She had asked me to help, and all went smoothly until installing the graphics drivers - I just couldn't get the res that we knew we could, and the screen stayed the default shade of blue (anyone else noticed that the exact shade of blue changes when you install graphics drivers for the first time?) Eventually I gave up, she called tech support. She explained the problem, then they asked for the serial number of her PC. Slight pause, then they gave the solution 'Set it to 800*600@16bpp, reboot, then you'll be able to select the res you want'
Imagine how much longer that would have taken, and how many more (more skilled) staff they'd have needed to support any OS.
even though i could whip RMS's ass any day of the week?
Not literally - only ESR is allowed to do that.
Metaphorically I'm sure you could. All it takes is a fat beardy to stand up, shout 'GNU/Freedom!' and suddenly everyone thinks that he's a great coder. RMS always makes sure *everyone* knows about the new app or modification he's written to make himself sound like such a l337 H4xX0r. Good coders don't need to do that; good coders are immediately recognisable as good coders, and this fact spreads by word of mouth. RMS is an idiot.
Have to agree with you there. I am highly suspicious at the way that they rate the quality of Real as being almost as good as Darwin's, and being *much* better than Windows Media. I'm sorry, but I've watched porn on Real, and porn on WMP, and there is no comparison - Real is jerky (no pun intended), blocky, and low res for a similar bit-rate.
As the parent said, it may be better for ultra-low bit-rates, but now is not the best time to be investing in software to work with network hardware that is rapidly becoming obsolete (good riddance).
...but you'd need to tell the OS where to find the pieces, so whoever it is who's beaming radio waves at your foil hat would be able to track their location just as easily, by finding out where the system would look.
And even if the paranoid people who think that government agencies have advanced encryption breaking hardware are correct, I still think that locating the hidden chunks in the manner I suggested would be trivial compared to cracking MD5 hases.
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From the article:
He first used a bomb to ensure that whenever anyone typed the phrase "talentless hack" into Google they got the site of his friend Andy Pressman.
...replacing Jon Katz who had held the position previously.
Another poster has (constructively) posted a link to an anti-virus test file. You'll notice I gratefully accepted this advice.
As for contributing to the distribution, it goes something like this:
Person sends encrypted 'I love you' virus to me.
I copy this to a folder with a name warning of the contents
I chmod 000 the file
When I need it, I chmod 400 the file, unencrypt, and upload using the web interface. It works first time.
Delete the file.
Points to note include the fact the virus was not sent in executable form, and could not have been executed unless the key was compromised. Also, that the virus never left a linux server. It was chmod 000 and only myself or root could change that. It only existed on my system for as long as it took to perform the test. Also, the very first action taken by the web page if a virus was found was to unlink the file in the tmp directory. Not set a flag, display an error, but delete the file from the server, and then carry on.
Actually, I think I should labour a point here: It never existed on a platform that could execute it
The only safer way would have been to use the test file which the helpful other poster provided a link to.
PS. As for being in the user base, I'd rather not, I like being paid large sums of money for being a developer thank you. PPS. It wasn't a community website, the community can rarely afford this sort of site. PPPS. IHBT?
Click the 'Advanced...' button, then click on view/edit for one of the users. You'll see the fine grained security there, with a lot of options including the old favorites, and some others such as 'read attributes', 'take ownership' etc.
There are some serious checks in place to make it hard (impossible?) to subvert the class loader to avoid the security manager.
However your point still stands; if you run a.class file who's base is on your computer, you have full access to the filesystem etc. A java analogy with this virus would be an executable (IA32 native) that ran, emailed itself to everybody, and then ran a file within the JVM that did something or other (deleted files, printed 'hello, world!' or whatever) The Java zealot would scream 'But that's not a fucking Java virus, thats a normal worm that runs a java program! Where's the JVM security problem in that?' And fortunately, if unexpected, several posters have said the same about this worm.
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Congratulations! Your post is not only dumb, herd-mentality crap, but it is almost completely offtopic too!
Yah, Ogg and Open Source are really beating Micro$loth LOLOL!!!! Lets get a new version of LUNIX and we can install some Open Source Software on it !!!#!!
NT, moron.
Oh, and remember that the apostrophe is possessive, you were using a plural. The plural of 'business' is 'businesses' - 8/10 for effort though.
Will you drop an anvil on my head as well please?
Oh, your response appeared less than cordial. Pls fx, thx!
Funny you should mention implanted chips. Check out this BBC article. I linked to it in a story I submitted a couple of days ago, but in true Slashdot style, they rejected it, instead posting a less interesting story on an identical subject. </rant>
You'll always end up with one person who says 'Well *ACTUALLY* it happened to me, so my opinion is clearly right, your opinion is clearly wrong, and you're not allowed to argue against me because bad things happened to me'
I've had many debates on such subjects, and in the case of a debate on rape (whether a particular case could really be called rape - I forget exactly) a girl made some poor, reflexive comments, I shot her down, and she said 'Well *ACTUALLY* I've been raped!' As if that's supposed to make a fucking difference. From then on of course, half the people pussy-footed around her, and criticised me for continuing to shoot her down.
Please don't do the same shit here, I am notorious IRL for having zero sympathy when people use misfortune to make a point
IHBT?
So you mailed a small list of people to sell floppies, and got no sales. This guy sends out mail to every usenet group his script could find, successfully generating between $100,000 and $200,000 despite the fact that the cancelling of their account meant that they could not read tens of thousands more emails. He proved it was commercially viable, and thus spawned a myriad of copycats. Gee, I wonder why they wrote the article about him not you ;-)
/changes subject
Okay, so spamming is a royal pain in the arse. but some people are vilifying this man to a stupid extent, like the poster who said he was like Hitler (and I think he was being serious) Please try not to lose perspective of how relatively trivial this matter was. Yes, I said trivial and meant it; every day atrocities happen that are far worse than this - spam is annoying and very little more. Besides, it's evidently creating business for advertisers, and created an industry of providers, so it's not all bad...
Yeah, I know that Spock's brain and the midgets were from the original series. That's what I meant by 'the good old days...spock's brain etc' My tounge was firmly planted in cheek.
;-)
Maybe I was wrong about the war run by computers being TNG, but I was not seriously arguing that TOS was some sort of perfect masterpiece
I seem to remember a Star Trek episode about this - You know, one of the tedious moralistic crappy ones.
The long running war was damaging their artwork and architecture, so instead they ran a simulation, and whenever a strike was successful, the computer said how many died, and then the government rounded up that many people and killed them (in some non gory, painless ST kinda way)
Please God, take me back to the good old days with Bones using a remote control to make Spock walk because his brain had been stolen, or Kirk doing horse impressions whils being ridden by a midget. Oh, yeah.
No, really, no text is needed for this story
Sorry, I did reply to this but my connection went down, I lost the reply, and couldn't be arsed to type it again. I wasn't going to bother (no fun typing the same thing twice) but I saw the other two pathetic offerings, so I promise that some time within the next day I will retype the reply.
You may not agree with it, you may offer your own argument against it, but I promise that it will enrich you more than the other two responses that can be summarised as:
'Mirco$oft i5 teh munOPOLY!@!!'
Given that most people's problems (pure, if defensible, conjecture here) are software not hardware, then allowing somebody to install their own OS of choice is a real headache for support. Force them to use pre-installed Windows, everyone has a common platform which makes support easier(=faster(=cheaper))
Example: My friend had a Gateway PC, and was reinstalling Windows (they'd partitioned the HD in such a stupid way she ran out of space on the system partition, whilst having gigs left on a data partition - WAKE UP GATEWAY! Installs often copy files to the system folder!) She had asked me to help, and all went smoothly until installing the graphics drivers - I just couldn't get the res that we knew we could, and the screen stayed the default shade of blue (anyone else noticed that the exact shade of blue changes when you install graphics drivers for the first time?) Eventually I gave up, she called tech support. She explained the problem, then they asked for the serial number of her PC. Slight pause, then they gave the solution 'Set it to 800*600@16bpp, reboot, then you'll be able to select the res you want'
Imagine how much longer that would have taken, and how many more (more skilled) staff they'd have needed to support any OS.
The shoddy drivers issue is another issue...
D'oh! I will use entity references, I will use entity references...
There was supposed to be a </DrEvil> after that.
In that case, we'll destroy 500 million billion tonnes!
Metaphorically I'm sure you could. All it takes is a fat beardy to stand up, shout 'GNU/Freedom!' and suddenly everyone thinks that he's a great coder. RMS always makes sure *everyone* knows about the new app or modification he's written to make himself sound like such a l337 H4xX0r. Good coders don't need to do that; good coders are immediately recognisable as good coders, and this fact spreads by word of mouth. RMS is an idiot.
Have to agree with you there. I am highly suspicious at the way that they rate the quality of Real as being almost as good as Darwin's, and being *much* better than Windows Media. I'm sorry, but I've watched porn on Real, and porn on WMP, and there is no comparison - Real is jerky (no pun intended), blocky, and low res for a similar bit-rate.
As the parent said, it may be better for ultra-low bit-rates, but now is not the best time to be investing in software to work with network hardware that is rapidly becoming obsolete (good riddance).
Hmm...been a while as I don't do weed anymore, but it always used to be stranger still:
Smallest common measurement is a 'teenth, then an eighth, quarter, half, ounce. Then it goes odd with a 9bar, followed by a KG.
But...when buying skunk, it's usually grams.
...but you'd need to tell the OS where to find the pieces, so whoever it is who's beaming radio waves at your foil hat would be able to track their location just as easily, by finding out where the system would look.
And even if the paranoid people who think that government agencies have advanced encryption breaking hardware are correct, I still think that locating the hidden chunks in the manner I suggested would be trivial compared to cracking MD5 hases.
Dude, a six-pack of Front Page First Posts! Most impressive bot ever - and it gets rid of the crap FPers.
I'm just waiting for my library submission to come up...
As for contributing to the distribution, it goes something like this:
Points to note include the fact the virus was not sent in executable form, and could not have been executed unless the key was compromised. Also, that the virus never left a linux server. It was chmod 000 and only myself or root could change that. It only existed on my system for as long as it took to perform the test. Also, the very first action taken by the web page if a virus was found was to unlink the file in the tmp directory. Not set a flag, display an error, but delete the file from the server, and then carry on.
Actually, I think I should labour a point here: It never existed on a platform that could execute it
The only safer way would have been to use the test file which the helpful other poster provided a link to.
PS. As for being in the user base, I'd rather not, I like being paid large sums of money for being a developer thank you.
PPS. It wasn't a community website, the community can rarely afford this sort of site.
PPPS. IHBT?
Click the 'Advanced...' button, then click on view/edit for one of the users. You'll see the fine grained security there, with a lot of options including the old favorites, and some others such as 'read attributes', 'take ownership' etc.
There are some serious checks in place to make it hard (impossible?) to subvert the class loader to avoid the security manager.
.class file who's base is on your computer, you have full access to the filesystem etc. A java analogy with this virus would be an executable (IA32 native) that ran, emailed itself to everybody, and then ran a file within the JVM that did something or other (deleted files, printed 'hello, world!' or whatever) The Java zealot would scream 'But that's not a fucking Java virus, thats a normal worm that runs a java program! Where's the JVM security problem in that?' And fortunately, if unexpected, several posters have said the same about this worm.
However your point still stands; if you run a
Noted, bookmarked and downloaded, cheers. Well, downloaded once I persuaded my virus scanner to stop buggin me about it.