The fact that the bang might be heard and the news radioed ahead is rather trivial as cruise missiles don't need to follow a straight line of attack.
Advanced warning of a cruise missile attack would still allow evacuations and air defense response. The targets of cruise missiles would be fairly obvious - command and control, airfields, power stations, etc., regardless of the evasive path the missile might take.
Just had a horrible vision of the future - an ageing Jackson, having failed to get the rights to the Hobbit and having released several new editions of LoTR, including the chronological cut, Directors Birthday Cut, Special Edition and Ultimate Edition, decides to loosely base a prequel trilogy on the Silmarillion.
I haven't RTFA'ed, but I'd imagine Microsoft would put emergency patches out as soon as possible - that a monthly update would be more the mundane patches.
Up until I switched to Firebird earlier this year, I hadn't gotten one virus or piece of spyware.
And have you got viruses or spyware since then? If not, why did you write a sentence which implies that you did?
None while using Firebird, either. Common sense goes a long way - the guy from Korea sending me "Anna Kournikova.jpg.exe" doesn't have my best interests in mind.
Best Spyware defense? Don't install it, and don't change IE's settings to the "do whatever the fuck you like" setting. That's right - IE defaults to prompting every time spyware tries to install itself.
Up until I switched to Firebird earlier this year, I hadn't gotten one virus or piece of spyware.
Disclaimer: I use and love Mozilla Firebird. However, FUD doesn't do anyone good, even if it's for a "good" cause...
Mozilla/Firebird is NOT being developed with corporate dollars
If you ignore the fact that just about all their money is from AOL, sure. I imagine AOL will continue donating, so they probably have a little influence still.
It does not include the ActiveX or thousands of other unfixed security flaws
No ActiveX, but there's 24,000+ "major" or higher open bugs in Bugzilla.
you will honest to God never see a pop up advertisement again in your life
NYTimes.com manages to get popups past Mozilla Firebird sometimes.
It's becoming a rather large problem on MovableType blogs. Apparently, the spammed referrers are usually fake blogs, that are front sites to get a porn webcam link high in Google PageRank.
I have no idea what he's talking about when he says "invisible HTML characters", but it does seem to point to a certain technical incompetence, similar to the ostritch belief - "If I can't see you, then you can't see me."
If you look at the source of most HTML spam, you'll see things like:
v<!-- the -->i<!-- brown -->a<!-- cow -->g<!-- is -->r<!-- dead -->a
The <!-- --> parts are HTML comments and thus won't be displayed to the user, but they can mess up some spam filters that don't account for them.
SpamAssassin should deal with them just fine, though - it did when I was using it over a year ago.
Every little bit helps, though - and some people have to use Outlook at work. Plus, there are some nice client-side filters - look at Mozilla Thunderbird's filtering for a nice example.
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I think a blowjob is more normal for serious cases of bitterness like these. :/
That criteria applies to just about all land on the planet, with the exception of Antartica.
Some would argue ... that every square inch of what is today America was taken by force
Some would be utterly wrong, then. The US peacefully and legally bought the Louisiana Purchase territories from France and Alaska from Russia.
Hardly taking by force.
The fact that the bang might be heard and the news radioed ahead is rather trivial as cruise missiles don't need to follow a straight line of attack.
Advanced warning of a cruise missile attack would still allow evacuations and air defense response. The targets of cruise missiles would be fairly obvious - command and control, airfields, power stations, etc., regardless of the evasive path the missile might take.
The fact that IBM's lawyers will be there, too, perhaps?
Just had a horrible vision of the future - an ageing Jackson, having failed to get the rights to the Hobbit and having released several new editions of LoTR, including the chronological cut, Directors Birthday Cut, Special Edition and Ultimate Edition, decides to loosely base a prequel trilogy on the Silmarillion.
You forgot the Rather Spiffy Edition.
I haven't RTFA'ed, but I'd imagine Microsoft would put emergency patches out as soon as possible - that a monthly update would be more the mundane patches.
Making the spammers waste a few thousands emails every day due to spamholes is still a small victory.
So's winning fifty cents in the lottery.
20 megatons per e-mail?
Ouuuuuuuuuuuuch.
Easy solution for the spammers - their spamware will send out a test e-mail every 1000 or so spams and check that it went through.
Spammers may be obnoxious, but they're not all stupid. They'll figure something like this out pretty quickly.
Up until I switched to Firebird earlier this year, I hadn't gotten one virus or piece of spyware.
And have you got viruses or spyware since then? If not, why did you write a sentence which implies that you did?
None while using Firebird, either. Common sense goes a long way - the guy from Korea sending me "Anna Kournikova.jpg.exe" doesn't have my best interests in mind.
Best Spyware defense?
Linux
Best Spyware defense? Don't install it, and don't change IE's settings to the "do whatever the fuck you like" setting. That's right - IE defaults to prompting every time spyware tries to install itself.
Up until I switched to Firebird earlier this year, I hadn't gotten one virus or piece of spyware.
Methinks you missed the sarcasm...
Along similar lines, there's someone attempting the game with nothing equipped. Just running around dealing a couple melee damage points with fists.
It's not very intuitive. Pretty ironic. Under Mandrake you just click on the security tool.
:-p
Yeah, it's just the rest of the OS that'll make Grandma likely to off herself in frustration and get you that inheritance early.
Grandma should probably stick to a Mac, I'd say.
Disclaimer: I use and love Mozilla Firebird. However, FUD doesn't do anyone good, even if it's for a "good" cause...
Mozilla/Firebird is NOT being developed with corporate dollars
If you ignore the fact that just about all their money is from AOL, sure. I imagine AOL will continue donating, so they probably have a little influence still.
It does not include the ActiveX or thousands of other unfixed security flaws
No ActiveX, but there's 24,000+ "major" or higher open bugs in Bugzilla.
you will honest to God never see a pop up advertisement again in your life
NYTimes.com manages to get popups past Mozilla Firebird sometimes.
That solution would make an open-source search engine virtually useless, then. The algorithims are what makes Google so great, not the code itself.
Whoever modded this flamebait really needs to read this.
It's becoming a rather large problem on MovableType blogs. Apparently, the spammed referrers are usually fake blogs, that are front sites to get a porn webcam link high in Google PageRank.
b ehind_blogs.php t _referral_spamming
http://echo.ashpool.org/blog/305/
http://www.idly.org/2003/11/14/porn_sites_hiding_
http://www.jayallen.org/comment_spam/2003/11/aler
I have modpoints right now, but I can't find the "-1, Dumbass" one... hmm...
So, summary of your comment:
"iPod batteries DO cost $255! See? The Apple page says they're $99!"
If you still don't like that price, get one of the third-party kits for $59 and do it yourself.
Perhaps he uses RHN to keep everything else updated, and thus it'd be convenient?
I have no idea what he's talking about when he says "invisible HTML characters", but it does seem to point to a certain technical incompetence, similar to the ostritch belief - "If I can't see you, then you can't see me."
If you look at the source of most HTML spam, you'll see things like:
v<!-- the -->i<!-- brown -->a<!-- cow -->g<!-- is -->r<!-- dead -->a
The <!-- --> parts are HTML comments and thus won't be displayed to the user, but they can mess up some spam filters that don't account for them.
SpamAssassin should deal with them just fine, though - it did when I was using it over a year ago.
I'd like to see what guarantees the commercial lists come with.
The guarantee that if they don't do an acceptable job, they won't make any money, and thus have a strong incentive to please their users?
Every little bit helps, though - and some people have to use Outlook at work. Plus, there are some nice client-side filters - look at Mozilla Thunderbird's filtering for a nice example.