After the first 20 or so victims you eventually figured out how to avoid leaving that nasty black welt on the inside of their arms (which incidentally also gave the impression they were doing drugs)
I have one of these from doing plasma that's been there a few months.
Interesting 'other side of the coin' story:
My first computer science teacher (actual teacher) in high school was a woman.
I remember hearing a few years after I graduated that there was a case of one of her male CS students actually stalking her.
You could say there's a bit of a barrier forming--women being taught by male professors who patronize them, or female professors not being taken seriously (or too seriously) by male students.
I'm not calling for strict segregation by gender for CS classes, but it's interesting how it's on both sides of the issue.
you know because you send based on IP address / machine name... it's not a back door, it's a wide freaking open service.
I was always under the impression that it was just multicasted using the 'shotgun method.'
on top of that, grc.com's crap to do this is unnessecary - just turn the damn service off, problem solved. better yet, turn the firewall on.
GRC's utility is useful for people who are too afraid to figure out how to turn the service off themselves, or can't be bothered to, or turning on the firewall is too difficult. I've seriously met users like this.
Download the program and push the button are words they can understand.
FTA: "Lawyers for the pair said that they were not trying to extort consumers by bombarding them with ads and argued they only intended to send one a day to computer users."
A few things:
Someone can't code...
The article has some misquotes: They use Messenger Service and MSN Messenger as if they were the same thing. This looks to be using the Messenger Service to send ads.
GRC.COM's Shoot the Messenger is your friend (small assembly program that tells the service to shut itself down and disable it)
When you use a backdoor like that, how do you control that one ad is sent to one machine? Wait. You don't. If they had graduated from college, they might have known that...
I went to Penn State and got my math minor by changing two 300-level STAT courses into 400-level ones and adding a few extra math courses.
Translation: Computer Science more or less CONTAINS a Math Minor. I tend to think that's not just confined to PSU...
They're going to be Sys Admins who WISH they were as cool as BOFH.;)
I slogged four years (with breaks for co-ops) at a major American university very close to where I lived.
I learned an incredible amount of theory, computing background, and a good solid programming style....that was 20 years old.
The sad thing is that I had a good amount of trouble (thanks Dubya) finding work. However, my theory has served me well.
If you have the theory, you can pick up the current much easier than if you just have the current and no theory. (My beef with my school is that they spend all of their efforts on theory, and learn little practical knowledge.)
My college just started an entire new college called "IST" which attempts to merge business (MS/IS) majors with computer science.
I'm finding that a lot of people who want to go into that major:
1) want lots of money, quickly
2) can't program and have no desire to
3) don't know about the old "Paper Novell Engineer" phenomena and are happy with getting certificates.
Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Electrial Engineering majors tend to call it "The System Administration Major":)
While too much theory can be a bad thing (evidenced by my difficulties entering the market) it's definitely better than learning the latest and greatest in a highly protean field (like computing) without at least some roots in theory.
(Incidentally, this is why Visual Basic programming has a stigma attached. The bar was lowered to make entry easier--and it means while VB 'works' for many applications, I haven't seen a lot of elegant VB code that is scalable and designed well.)
--BA
SMS doesn't have attachment capability AFAIK, so it's most likely just straight-up SMTP.
Not as useful in the States from what I've seen--people have more space to dedicate to a desktop machine. The Japanese have more stringent space requirements.
(IANANetwork Engineer.)
My latest PC, Ellen, will run Doom 3. I built her for about $300, by shopping around.
If you build your own system, a lot of the cash that you'd pony up to a PC company for their knowledge of how to build a PC is suddenly now in your pocket.
Of course, you have to support it, but no big deal.
"...told a federal judge yesterday that the government wants to look at the software, code-named Longhorn, early enough in its development so that it is not presented as a "fait accompli" that would be difficult to change". Emphasis mine.
#2 you have some more weight on (what's the point of watchdogging it if Ashcroft ran back with his tail between his legs) and #3 you could be frighteningly right about...(what ever became of that 'NSA key' from Windows 95 or so?) but that's just speculation.
Airlines, some facing lawsuits, have been caught up in the controversy because they provided passenger information for use in testing the screening system.
What about all the data they already have? What's going to happen to it? I doubt the U.S. government will throw that data out unless specifically ordered to, and even then they're going to throw more of a fit than a dozen 2-year-olds.
I've travelled and been green lighted by CAPPS I.
So CAPPS II is dead...but is my information still...
You may have to put multiple sites into the trusted sites.
Add: http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com
Add: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
WU works fine for me.
Slashdot Mirror
I hope they take a cue from /. for once and allow sharks with frickin' lazer beams. :P
Even viruses don't always work. Look up stuff like the Form virus. It's non-descructive but has two bugs. :)
Or the Irish about people who name their daughters 'Colleen'
I have one of these from doing plasma that's been there a few months.
How do I get rid of it?
invite sent.
Windows 98 wasn't entirely Y2K compliant IIRC. :)
The Lotus Elise is this way too (the UK/racing version is not street legal in the US.) There is a US version, though.
Interesting 'other side of the coin' story: My first computer science teacher (actual teacher) in high school was a woman. I remember hearing a few years after I graduated that there was a case of one of her male CS students actually stalking her. You could say there's a bit of a barrier forming--women being taught by male professors who patronize them, or female professors not being taken seriously (or too seriously) by male students. I'm not calling for strict segregation by gender for CS classes, but it's interesting how it's on both sides of the issue.
I thought some macs used the 603 chips, or are those not POWER chips?
A few things:
"In a few days we're going to turn up the heat another notch."
;)
Translation: my computer's electricity bill and my winter heating bill just became synonymous.
VC# Express also expires in March 2005. Get coding. ;)
I went to Penn State and got my math minor by changing two 300-level STAT courses into 400-level ones and adding a few extra math courses. Translation: Computer Science more or less CONTAINS a Math Minor. I tend to think that's not just confined to PSU... They're going to be Sys Admins who WISH they were as cool as BOFH. ;)
I also didn't learn how to format slashdot posts.
;)
Bah.
I slogged four years (with breaks for co-ops) at a major American university very close to where I lived. I learned an incredible amount of theory, computing background, and a good solid programming style. ...that was 20 years old.
The sad thing is that I had a good amount of trouble (thanks Dubya) finding work. However, my theory has served me well.
If you have the theory, you can pick up the current much easier than if you just have the current and no theory. (My beef with my school is that they spend all of their efforts on theory, and learn little practical knowledge.)
My college just started an entire new college called "IST" which attempts to merge business (MS/IS) majors with computer science.
I'm finding that a lot of people who want to go into that major:
1) want lots of money, quickly
2) can't program and have no desire to
3) don't know about the old "Paper Novell Engineer" phenomena and are happy with getting certificates.
Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Electrial Engineering majors tend to call it "The System Administration Major" :)
While too much theory can be a bad thing (evidenced by my difficulties entering the market) it's definitely better than learning the latest and greatest in a highly protean field (like computing) without at least some roots in theory.
(Incidentally, this is why Visual Basic programming has a stigma attached. The bar was lowered to make entry easier--and it means while VB 'works' for many applications, I haven't seen a lot of elegant VB code that is scalable and designed well.)
--BA
SMS doesn't have attachment capability AFAIK, so it's most likely just straight-up SMTP. Not as useful in the States from what I've seen--people have more space to dedicate to a desktop machine. The Japanese have more stringent space requirements. (IANANetwork Engineer.)
Most cellphone providers here have an SMS to SMTP gateway, but an SMTP client built into the phones? Geez.
My latest PC, Ellen, will run Doom 3. I built her for about $300, by shopping around. If you build your own system, a lot of the cash that you'd pony up to a PC company for their knowledge of how to build a PC is suddenly now in your pocket. Of course, you have to support it, but no big deal.
I've travelled and been green lighted by CAPPS I.
So CAPPS II is dead...but is my information still...
Somewhat like Antibotics...
You may have to put multiple sites into the trusted sites. Add: http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com Add: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com WU works fine for me.
Windows has that sort of preference-passing. It's not complete, but it's there. Was implemented at PSU when I went there. --Ben