I didn't raise the cross-platform Windows/Linux virus issue because, as is mentioned in the initial story, it doesn't exist in the wild (as of yet). But I'm willing to further adjust the statement:
They almost only affect Microsoft products, primarily Windows. If you aren't running Windows, you are almost entirely safe.
PortalPlayer, the chipmaker for the iPods just got fourth round funding of $42 million. Amongst the investors are J.P. Morgan Partners, Investcorp International and Shamrock Capital Advisors. Though the company has no announced customers for it's chips, it's relationship to the iPod has already been documented here on/. . According to representatives from PortalPlayer, this is the last round of financing before IPO (though they have no timetable at this point). Read more at news.com.
From under what bridge did these trolls come? I've never heard their nom de troll before. Have they previously waded so furiously into waters they have no understanding of, or is this shot across the bow to announce a new troll in town?
I can't believe I actually saw something referenced here without having to google cache trawl for it. I feel... priveledged.
The mod itself is interesting. I think that pressure on Nintendo to improve the screen situation is probably a longterm better course of action, but folks around here like to take things into their own hands (and disassemble them, modify the hell out of them and make them do things that nobody else had even imagined).
George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio will star in the Wolfgang Petersen directed thriller about an online auction house?
With the massive glut of movie theaters nationwide, and with the coming contraction in theater chains, I don't foresee a large shift to digital cinema anytime soon.
The chains don't have the money or the drive to make the switch. They vastly overbuilt stadium seating mega-multiplexes and they are not going to rework those theaters for an extraordinarily niche segment.
People might be inclined to make an effort and pay more for IMAX, but there is no such instinct towards digital cinema (Wow! Approaching the quality of film, if you don't look too hard. Here's my extra $1.)
And if the studios cut back on the number of film reels they ship and say they'll only send them digital? Well, they'd be self-destructive to do it before there was a critical mass of digital cinema theaters nationwide, and there won't be for quite awhile.
Consumers (rightly) don't perceive digital cinema as benefiting them, so they aren't driving it. Stadium seating did benefit them, which is why they'll pay extra and so many were built. As it turns out, too many, but that's because everyone was rushing forward in the boom times ignoring business cycles and such.
It's so good to know that with religious extremism ever-expanding, the BSA felt compelled to provoke a fatwa to protect their efforts. I'm sure they're already engaged in convocations with other religious leaders to spread the word that all versions of all Deities will strike down the users of "pirated" software. And that "free software" is an abomination before the Lord. And that the Ten Commandments are being rewritten to properly protect Intellectual Property rights, placing it above that "You will have no other God before me" stuff.
This worm (or snake) uses javascript as it's testing and construction tool. Is this the first major worm to do this? I'm asking only about worms, not web exploits or the like.
For those who have actually examined/worked on Microsoft code, how badly written/formatted/commented is it? If it was exposed, how long would it take to a) figure out what was being done and b) correct it?
I know their programs are bloatware. How is the code? Do they purposely obscure things? Do they leave huge blocks uncommented? Do they slip in multiple variable names that are almost exactly alike and totally unrelated to what they hold?
I wasn't the one asserting that they were succeeding. The article was. I felt that the article ignored or was ignorant of a number of issues, including the ones raised in the Red Mercury article. Hence my referring to it as a helpful corrective.
There are other issues as well: The strong lack of buzz surrounding the current Xbox offerings, the paucity of interesting new games coming down the pike, the bad PR in Japan and Europe.
In this Microsoft press release, Microsoft and Flextronics announce that they are opening an Xbox manufacturing and assembly plant to Doumen, China, replacing the one in Hungary. According to the release, price savings will come from the fact that a number of the components of the Xbox also come from Doumen, China.
Interesting corrective to Business 2.0 article
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This was a helpful analysis to correct the one concerning Microsoft's battle with Sony from the "Beating Bill" article at Business 2.0 . In that article, the author felt that Microsoft was succeeding against Sony because:
a) they didn't get it wrong right off the bat (as one former Microsoftie opines, "If version one of a product does not suck, it's game over."
b) the Xbox has more power hardware
c) it has an ethernet port intrinsically
d) it has the potential to be a future digital hub
e) a survey that states that 27% of PS2 owners intend to buy an Xbox
On May 1, I submitted the story that Universal Music was in negotiations with Eminem and Interscope, his label, to convince him to release his new, highly anticipated album, "The Eminem Show" with copy-protection.
Any decision will have to have been made by around 05/14/02 for the album to be pressed and in stores by June 3, the expected release date.
I felt this foreknowledge would allow us to inform Eminem, Interscope, and Universal/Vivendi's how wrong this would be. Too late. We'll just get to complain about it after the fact.
The antitrust remedy proposed by a number of states would weaken the security of Microsoft's operating systems according to Jim Allchin, Microsoft's senior vice president for Windows. He warned that too much disclosure of technical information in the wrong areas would benefit hackers and create more opportunity for virus attacks.
"The more creators of viruses know about how antivirus mechanisms in Windows operating systems work, the easier it will be to create viruses or disable or destroy those mechanisms," Allchin testified.
Allchin also warned that if Microsoft were compelled to disclose all the APIs and technical information the states are asking for, digital rights management would be compromised.
I downloaded the Mac OS X version yesterday. I fired up XDarwin/XFree86 and then started Abiword. It didn't work properly. There were two menus, File and Help. The file had New and Open... options, but neither actually opened/created anything.
I finally trashed 0.99 and went back to 0.96, which functions fine. Very disappointing.
I couldn't care what the prices currently listed are. It's what they'll be when they've got you hooked that count. If you have 500 Macs and 20 PCs and you're charged for all 520, you might purchase PCs at the next computer purchase round. Thinking it's "cheaper" to "standardize". Then what will they be charging?
It's never better to set yourself up to be bled dry.
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They almost only affect Microsoft products, primarily Windows. If you aren't running Windows, you are almost entirely safe.
One statement of yours needs modification:
They only affect Microsoft Windows. If you aren't running Windows, you are safe.
There have been macro viruses which have inadvertently worked on the Mac versions of Word and Excel. I would correct the statement to:
They only affect Microsoft products, primarily Windows. If you aren't running Windows, you are almost entirely safe.
PortalPlayer, the chipmaker for the iPods just got fourth round funding of $42 million. Amongst the investors are J.P. Morgan Partners, Investcorp International and Shamrock Capital Advisors. Though the company has no announced customers for it's chips, it's relationship to the iPod has already been documented here on /. . According to representatives from PortalPlayer, this is the last round of financing before IPO (though they have no timetable at this point). Read more at news.com.
Only 25 comments and the site had already been /.'ed. And I was feeling so special after the GBA modification thing.
From under what bridge did these trolls come? I've never heard their nom de troll before. Have they previously waded so furiously into waters they have no understanding of, or is this shot across the bow to announce a new troll in town?
The mod itself is interesting. I think that pressure on Nintendo to improve the screen situation is probably a longterm better course of action, but folks around here like to take things into their own hands (and disassemble them, modify the hell out of them and make them do things that nobody else had even imagined).
George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio will star in the Wolfgang Petersen directed thriller about an online auction house?
Looking out for those Flying Ballmer Monkeyboys!!!
Coming out of nowhere and .. IT'S IN THE HOLE!
Whereas Veronica helped you search gopher systems for documents, Jughead searched directory titles only.
The chains don't have the money or the drive to make the switch. They vastly overbuilt stadium seating mega-multiplexes and they are not going to rework those theaters for an extraordinarily niche segment.
People might be inclined to make an effort and pay more for IMAX, but there is no such instinct towards digital cinema (Wow! Approaching the quality of film, if you don't look too hard. Here's my extra $1.)
And if the studios cut back on the number of film reels they ship and say they'll only send them digital? Well, they'd be self-destructive to do it before there was a critical mass of digital cinema theaters nationwide, and there won't be for quite awhile.
Consumers (rightly) don't perceive digital cinema as benefiting them, so they aren't driving it. Stadium seating did benefit them, which is why they'll pay extra and so many were built. As it turns out, too many, but that's because everyone was rushing forward in the boom times ignoring business cycles and such.
Babylonian or Jerusalem?
It's so good to know that with religious extremism ever-expanding, the BSA felt compelled to provoke a fatwa to protect their efforts. I'm sure they're already engaged in convocations with other religious leaders to spread the word that all versions of all Deities will strike down the users of "pirated" software. And that "free software" is an abomination before the Lord. And that the Ten Commandments are being rewritten to properly protect Intellectual Property rights, placing it above that "You will have no other God before me" stuff.
Posited that Australian werewolves were descended from Tasmanian Tigers (even had the stripes).
The Media Borg's Man in Washington
Their Man in Washington
This worm (or snake) uses javascript as it's testing and construction tool. Is this the first major worm to do this? I'm asking only about worms, not web exploits or the like.
So the Blue Screen of Death can lead to YOUR Blue Screen of Death.
"Reboot the car?!?!?"
I know their programs are bloatware. How is the code? Do they purposely obscure things? Do they leave huge blocks uncommented? Do they slip in multiple variable names that are almost exactly alike and totally unrelated to what they hold?
There are other issues as well: The strong lack of buzz surrounding the current Xbox offerings, the paucity of interesting new games coming down the pike, the bad PR in Japan and Europe.
In this Microsoft press release, Microsoft and Flextronics announce that they are opening an Xbox manufacturing and assembly plant to Doumen, China, replacing the one in Hungary. According to the release, price savings will come from the fact that a number of the components of the Xbox also come from Doumen, China.
This was a helpful analysis to correct the one concerning Microsoft's battle with Sony from the "Beating Bill" article at Business 2.0 . In that article, the author felt that Microsoft was succeeding against Sony because:
a) they didn't get it wrong right off the bat (as one former Microsoftie opines, "If version one of a product does not suck, it's game over."
b) the Xbox has more power hardware
c) it has an ethernet port intrinsically
d) it has the potential to be a future digital hub
e) a survey that states that 27% of PS2 owners intend to buy an Xbox
Any decision will have to have been made by around 05/14/02 for the album to be pressed and in stores by June 3, the expected release date.
I felt this foreknowledge would allow us to inform Eminem, Interscope, and Universal/Vivendi's how wrong this would be. Too late. We'll just get to complain about it after the fact.
The article about it: http://news.com.com/2100-1023-896391.html.
"The more creators of viruses know about how antivirus mechanisms in Windows operating systems work, the easier it will be to create viruses or disable or destroy those mechanisms," Allchin testified.
Allchin also warned that if Microsoft were compelled to disclose all the APIs and technical information the states are asking for, digital rights management would be compromised.
From Tuesday, news.com http://news.com.com/2100-1001-900905.html
I finally trashed 0.99 and went back to 0.96, which functions fine. Very disappointing.
I couldn't care what the prices currently listed are. It's what they'll be when they've got you hooked that count. If you have 500 Macs and 20 PCs and you're charged for all 520, you might purchase PCs at the next computer purchase round. Thinking it's "cheaper" to "standardize". Then what will they be charging?
It's never better to set yourself up to be bled dry.