Oh, you haven't seen the new XPI installer plugin adware thinga-ma-joos.
I happened across a few sites this week which used mozilla's own installer to load up some juicy spyware/adware (just like how momma used to make).
I had accidently clicked yes.... I normally click no... actually I ALWAYS click no. In any event, I watched in horror as I realized what I had done. Then I spent 30 or so minutes with spybot, adware, and manual deletion.
I suppose I'll just have to write my own browser to be safe.
Of course, then I'll probably happen across a zero day exploit for Cylix's Browser.
Just can't win...
Though honestly, they really need to refine the laws or perhaps someone should roll their own Antivirus + Malware suite. If you can't see the signs... this is the next big thing. Symantec could easily push a few kabillion units with something like this.
A friend of mine actually had a non-working speedometer, but the judge required a mechanic to issue a small piece of paper detailing the speedometer was in fact defunct. In this case, a speeding ticket is a very minor infraction of the law and a judge taking someones word is going to happen at some point. Exactly what was the cited evidence that you had been speeding?
You could have also asked for the last test results of the officers equipment. Rarely are these things ran through the tests to ensure proper calibration and the ticket can be thrown out with that manner as well. Sure, it probably is working, but there are many ways to work within the system. Pointing out the system is flawed, which is a fairly common notion, doesn't make his claim any less worth looking into.
Of course it contains spin, but its hard to assumme it is all fluff when they continually site points over and over. At some point, if they expect to win, they will have to back their claims. In a situation like this there will or will not be documentation.
However, siting that many sources, I would suspect there is some valid claims there.
I suspect the guy was a bit of an ass, but so am I and I can still get the job done. Also, from experience, I know being an ass does not mean I can't do quality work and make sure everyone else gets their job done too.
In any event, until evidence is presented from both sides there is little point to argue. For the safety of slashdot, let us simply assumme my view is correct.
Also note, if you want to get out of speeding tickets, try calling the station and find out the officers day off. Then, have your court date set for that particular day. If you are lucky, he won't come in on his day off to sit in court.
I found a fantastic online banking presence. It looked very professional!
What did strike me as odd though... was the annoying POP up ad that jumped out at me. I suppose they are just a bit of a progressive banking instititution and using that money to pass the savings on to the customer!
Really, if you are going to scam people at least give it some good effort.
While their selection can be a tad on the small side when considering the great internet at large... their prices kick major woo-ha's.
I recently managed to get a replacement vid card for my laptop for 10$. It was a bit of a deal. Granted the part wasn't tested and sold as-is working pull.... but all in all it worked out well for me.
I check them often... I hope you guys don't drive up the prices. Oh wait... pc surplus bad.. don't shop there... ever... please dont!
On many accounts, a software engineer said, we are not in compliance... we should fix this.
All the while, management ignores the issue and tells the compliance folks they are in the clear.
Among other things, sounds like they directly foobarred him for not pushing the product through.
In a situation like this, where you are a code author for a criticl piece of software, do you really want to risk being brought up to discuss why things failed later... in a court of law.
Sounds like he did the best he could to cover his ass over a product that was being pushed through the door to meet a deadline.
Provided his complaints are well documented it should be an easy win for him and a nice exposure for some crap software.
I'm not terribly surprised after reading many many other stories just like mine.
Here, we had the unfortunate problem of the bottler plant going on strike. This happened right near the begining of the promotion and went on about half way through it. For a little while it wasn't horribly tough to get an iTunes promo bottle, but they quickly faded. We would normally see about 7 rows of non-iTunes pepsi and about 2 columns of iTunes promo endorsed goodness.
I'm not really sure why they went to the trouble of actually having a promotion when it was terribly difficult to purchase said product. (Not counting the time the plant was on strike)
In any event, I made the most of it as I did take steps to ensure I was a winner.
I still have a few sitting on my desk here. I'm not really going to use them. As soon as I did find some new things on iTunes a friend of mine went and nabbed whole albums by the artists I had sampled. Now, my friend didn't use iTunes, but another "network."
For once, I had these downloaded songs which were not of the other variety of downloaded music. It was initially a nice feeling... I chalked it up to something new. Then of course that was all washed away when my friend offered me the apple from the garden.
In any event... one free iTunes song for the world from me.
That was the thing with slackware though...it wasn't really version number centric. You just had to update your slackware install.
I think this quote from his faq stated it best.
First off, I think I forgot to count some time ago. If I'd started on 6.0 and made every release a major version (I think that's how Linux releases are made these days, right?;), we would be on Slackware 47 by now. (it would actually be in the 20s somewhere if we'd gone 1, 2, 3...)
I still play as no one has quite made a game that captures all the aspects of Tribes 2.
Onslaught mode on Unreal 2004 is as close as it comes now a days.
There is a mod in development which captures the original Tribes play style and this mod is currently in development on Unreal 2k engine (I suspect it will be moved to 2004 when the resources are availble (now maybe?).
If the mod is developed well enough it might be offered in an upgraded Tribes 3 package. Much like TFC and Half-Life were packaged after the initial release of Half-Life.
Still, nothing quite matches 64 player Tribes 2 matches.
If I were going to put on a costume it would definately be the guard's outfit. They were quite well armored and worked for that really cool corporation under the ol' MC.
GURPS can mimic any style of play you want and was always my choice.
The only problem was trying to get people to sit down and learn the system. The D&D series line offers a fairly simple structure, but it doesn't accommodate advanced tactics. (Yes, I know its improved...)
I still have several books sitting on the shelf, but I really don't play anymore.
There was an internet explorer exploit that would allow any website to install something without prompting for comfirmation. I'm sure there have been more then one.
I was browsing along, things seemed sluggish, and then low and behold gator popped up and said it had just been installed. No box's, no nothing, I would never agree to anything being installed. I had a comment on the exploit a day after it happened and found out it was just more then myself who found this mysterious install.
Wether or not this was initiated or known by Claria (formerly gator at the time) I'm not really sure of. It could have been a any company pulling revenue from gator installs.
This was the day I switched to mozilla.
This install/exploit method did not occurr very long as this is very much illegal. I would hope to think Gator/Claria was not aware some partner was doing this.
ZoneMinder (great security monitoring system) more group ware (I send money on occassion... this is an excellent group ware suite) PHBB (No more need since mgw forums are working with my setup on last cvs I grabbed) Postgresql MySQL (til I can convert a few more apps to pgsql) PatAuth ? (Finished postgres dumps, need to see what breaks) CUPS HylaFAX + some win32 open source print driver PylaFAX SambaFAX (Rewriting this for more options, pretty simple though) BATS (broadcast automation and traffic system... which is my own and not released yet) NAGIOS... which is over kill for us...
Um, lots of other stuff here in the office, but thats the stuff I can remember off hand. Thankfully, most everything works out of the box once its installed.
I didn't realize exactly how much we were using until we suffered a failure on a system the other night. At first, I was tempted to just reinstall/resetup everything and then remembered how much effort was on that particular system. So, I recovered the data instead
Note, I don't like blathering about which apps we are using. It just feels like trolling for advertisement on my favorite packages. I don't go on and on about which closed source software we use.
The next step is to look at integrating authentication into one system. Maintaining lots of passwords is getting to be a bit much. Most everything supports LDaP! The joy of open source.
However, that isn't so bad in the sense that there are still things that can be improved upon.
I'm only speaking from point of game mods entirely. Beyond the flashy graphics and single player experience it looks as if this game has been designed from the whole perspective of community involvement.
For me, the shining star is the flexibility to modify the original game. I've been following the documents available and hoping they deliver what they promise. So, more code, tools, and a wealth of functions to draw from coupled with the engines new abilities should prove to be interesting.
I know this is not revolutionary, but definately something for me to exercise some quality lazy time. I'm not really interested in many new FPS games and I tend to stick to my older favorites.
I dunno there are some groups that make money off of me.
I donate money when I need a bug fixed pronto.
Sure, its not too terribly often, but I usually stack bug's and work arounds in the forums and then send a small cash donation via paypal (Note, I don't like paypal, but too many people use it)
Money gets those dev's my attention for a wee bit.
I'll be in trouble when someone makes bugs to extort me for cash.
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Oh, you haven't seen the new XPI installer plugin adware thinga-ma-joos.
I happened across a few sites this week which used mozilla's own installer to load up some juicy spyware/adware (just like how momma used to make).
I had accidently clicked yes.... I normally click no... actually I ALWAYS click no. In any event, I watched in horror as I realized what I had done. Then I spent 30 or so minutes with spybot, adware, and manual deletion.
I suppose I'll just have to write my own browser to be safe.
Of course, then I'll probably happen across a zero day exploit for Cylix's Browser.
Just can't win...
Though honestly, they really need to refine the laws or perhaps someone should roll their own Antivirus + Malware suite. If you can't see the signs... this is the next big thing. Symantec could easily push a few kabillion units with something like this.
Just my 1/10th of a cent.
I've done this!
Over dialup no less.
Usually you can find the answer in the heading text.
Oh yeah,
Nearly every facility I have been to has been unmanned. Pretty much a few locks and a good door are all that keeps in a lot of expensive equipment.
It would be fairly trivial for someone to thieve a great deal of expensive equipment from any of the locations I know about.
The only problem would be getting support on any of the stolen goods.
None the less, ISP's of today are looking for ways to cut costs and stolen property is at the right price.
You managed to luck out then.
A friend of mine actually had a non-working speedometer, but the judge required a mechanic to issue a small piece of paper detailing the speedometer was in fact defunct. In this case, a speeding ticket is a very minor infraction of the law and a judge taking someones word is going to happen at some point. Exactly what was the cited evidence that you had been speeding?
You could have also asked for the last test results of the officers equipment. Rarely are these things ran through the tests to ensure proper calibration and the ticket can be thrown out with that manner as well. Sure, it probably is working, but there are many ways to work within the system. Pointing out the system is flawed, which is a fairly common notion, doesn't make his claim any less worth looking into.
Of course it contains spin, but its hard to assumme it is all fluff when they continually site points over and over. At some point, if they expect to win, they will have to back their claims. In a situation like this there will or will not be documentation.
However, siting that many sources, I would suspect there is some valid claims there.
I suspect the guy was a bit of an ass, but so am I and I can still get the job done. Also, from experience, I know being an ass does not mean I can't do quality work and make sure everyone else gets their job done too.
In any event, until evidence is presented from both sides there is little point to argue. For the safety of slashdot, let us simply assumme my view is correct.
Also note, if you want to get out of speeding tickets, try calling the station and find out the officers day off. Then, have your court date set for that particular day. If you are lucky, he won't come in on his day off to sit in court.
On their site they listed some other websites.
I found a fantastic online banking presence. It looked very professional!
What did strike me as odd though... was the annoying POP up ad that jumped out at me. I suppose they are just a bit of a progressive banking instititution and using that money to pass the savings on to the customer!
Really, if you are going to scam people at least give it some good effort.
While their selection can be a tad on the small side when considering the great internet at large... their prices kick major woo-ha's.
I recently managed to get a replacement vid card for my laptop for 10$. It was a bit of a deal. Granted the part wasn't tested and sold as-is working pull.... but all in all it worked out well for me.
I check them often... I hope you guys don't drive up the prices. Oh wait... pc surplus bad.. don't shop there... ever... please dont!
Kidding, I hope they do well.
I guess you didn't read the court complaint list.
On many accounts, a software engineer said, we are not in compliance... we should fix this.
All the while, management ignores the issue and tells the compliance folks they are in the clear.
Among other things, sounds like they directly foobarred him for not pushing the product through.
In a situation like this, where you are a code author for a criticl piece of software, do you really want to risk being brought up to discuss why things failed later... in a court of law.
Sounds like he did the best he could to cover his ass over a product that was being pushed through the door to meet a deadline.
Provided his complaints are well documented it should be an easy win for him and a nice exposure for some crap software.
You are welcome!
Yeah,
I'm not terribly surprised after reading many many other stories just like mine.
Here, we had the unfortunate problem of the bottler plant going on strike. This happened right near the begining of the promotion and went on about half way through it. For a little while it wasn't horribly tough to get an iTunes promo bottle, but they quickly faded. We would normally see about 7 rows of non-iTunes pepsi and about 2 columns of iTunes promo endorsed goodness.
I'm not really sure why they went to the trouble of actually having a promotion when it was terribly difficult to purchase said product. (Not counting the time the plant was on strike)
In any event, I made the most of it as I did take steps to ensure I was a winner.
I still have a few sitting on my desk here. I'm not really going to use them. As soon as I did find some new things on iTunes a friend of mine went and nabbed whole albums by the artists I had sampled. Now, my friend didn't use iTunes, but another "network."
For once, I had these downloaded songs which were not of the other variety of downloaded music. It was initially a nice feeling... I chalked it up to something new. Then of course that was all washed away when my friend offered me the apple from the garden.
In any event... one free iTunes song for the world from me.
kzhlr tmjpr
Enjoy
That was the thing with slackware though...it wasn't really version number centric. You just had to update your slackware install.
;), we would be on Slackware 47 by now. (it would actually be in the 20s somewhere if we'd gone 1, 2, 3...)
I think this quote from his faq stated it best.
First off, I think I forgot to count some time ago. If I'd started on 6.0 and made every release a major version (I think that's how Linux releases are made these days, right?
I think I am the only person who liked Super Marior Brothers.
It probably helped I liked all the actors involved, especially Bob Hoskins. The man does a great job with a Bronx access.
In any event, I thought it was a bit cheesy, but that doesn't necessarily make it a bad movie. I thought it was quite humorous.
Just not enough people agree with me as there will be no sequel.
Everone's taste are different, but it doesn't mean I don't like every other bad movie out there.
Anyhow, I have to go, the goombas are dancing again.
I got one better...
I watched two towers at my universities planetarium. It already had a great projector, we simply hooked up a DVD player to the unit.
Yeah, I think they spent well over 2 mil on the setup, but what's the point in having something if you can't abuse it?
Labtech's are handy creatures to keep around.
You are all wrong...
According to the matrix... there are no lights.
There are still plenty of Tribes 2 servers.
I still play as no one has quite made a game that captures all the aspects of Tribes 2.
Onslaught mode on Unreal 2004 is as close as it comes now a days.
There is a mod in development which captures the original Tribes play style and this mod is currently in development on Unreal 2k engine (I suspect it will be moved to 2004 when the resources are availble (now maybe?).
If the mod is developed well enough it might be offered in an upgraded Tribes 3 package. Much like TFC and Half-Life were packaged after the initial release of Half-Life.
Still, nothing quite matches 64 player Tribes 2 matches.
True,
If I were going to put on a costume it would definately be the guard's outfit. They were quite well armored and worked for that really cool corporation under the ol' MC.
Hero's bleed red neon lights.
I noticed a good concept of choose your own adventure book over at somethingawful.com
e pi cs/photoshop/04-16-04-media/sparsely.jpg
Yeah....
http://images.somethingawful.com/inserts/articl
You can't beat photoshop fridays... not even with a really big stick.
Sounds like a bubble sort to me.
Eventually you will find a given order, but this can take a lot of time depending on the size of the list.
Bubble sorts are neat for very small things and easy to code!
Indeed,
GURPS can mimic any style of play you want and was always my choice.
The only problem was trying to get people to sit down and learn the system. The D&D series line offers a fairly simple structure, but it doesn't accommodate advanced tactics. (Yes, I know its improved...)
I still have several books sitting on the shelf, but I really don't play anymore.
Yes,
There was an internet explorer exploit that would allow any website to install something without prompting for comfirmation. I'm sure there have been more then one.
I was browsing along, things seemed sluggish, and then low and behold gator popped up and said it had just been installed. No box's, no nothing, I would never agree to anything being installed. I had a comment on the exploit a day after it happened and found out it was just more then myself who found this mysterious install.
Wether or not this was initiated or known by Claria (formerly gator at the time) I'm not really sure of. It could have been a any company pulling revenue from gator installs.
This was the day I switched to mozilla.
This install/exploit method did not occurr very long as this is very much illegal. I would hope to think Gator/Claria was not aware some partner was doing this.
Currently,
ZoneMinder (great security monitoring system)
more group ware (I send money on occassion... this is an excellent group ware suite)
PHBB (No more need since mgw forums are working with my setup on last cvs I grabbed)
Postgresql
MySQL (til I can convert a few more apps to pgsql)
PatAuth ? (Finished postgres dumps, need to see what breaks)
CUPS
HylaFAX + some win32 open source print driver
PylaFAX
SambaFAX (Rewriting this for more options, pretty simple though)
BATS (broadcast automation and traffic system... which is my own and not released yet)
NAGIOS... which is over kill for us...
Um, lots of other stuff here in the office, but thats the stuff I can remember off hand. Thankfully, most everything works out of the box once its installed.
I didn't realize exactly how much we were using until we suffered a failure on a system the other night. At first, I was tempted to just reinstall/resetup everything and then remembered how much effort was on that particular system. So, I recovered the data instead
Note, I don't like blathering about which apps we are using. It just feels like trolling for advertisement on my favorite packages. I don't go on and on about which closed source software we use.
The next step is to look at integrating authentication into one system. Maintaining lots of passwords is getting to be a bit much. Most everything supports LDaP! The joy of open source.
Don't forget syndication sales.
I've seen King Of The Hill in syndication, but I'm not sure if the simpsons has gone onto this particular venue.
Syndication is where a great deal of popular shows actually make real money. Money doesn't stop flowing just because the show is finished its run.
Definately evolutionary...
However, that isn't so bad in the sense that there are still things that can be improved upon.
I'm only speaking from point of game mods entirely. Beyond the flashy graphics and single player experience it looks as if this game has been designed from the whole perspective of community involvement.
For me, the shining star is the flexibility to modify the original game. I've been following the documents available and hoping they deliver what they promise. So, more code, tools, and a wealth of functions to draw from coupled with the engines new abilities should prove to be interesting.
I know this is not revolutionary, but definately something for me to exercise some quality lazy time. I'm not really interested in many new FPS games and I tend to stick to my older favorites.
You didn't read thea ct did you.
Deck to deck copy is perfectly fine to hand off to a friend assumming you don't profit from the transfer.
Read it again.
This is fairly well known...
Funny thing is, in an older IDE, I changed TAB to insert 3 spaces.
It was tighter regime for me.
Hrm,
I dunno there are some groups that make money off of me.
I donate money when I need a bug fixed pronto.
Sure, its not too terribly often, but I usually stack bug's and work arounds in the forums and then send a small cash donation via paypal (Note, I don't like paypal, but too many people use it)
Money gets those dev's my attention for a wee bit.
I'll be in trouble when someone makes bugs to extort me for cash.