I've had a situation very recently when somebody needed to send a file to me. They had little technical know how, and a basic PC Configuration. On top of this, they were behind a severely firewalled Nats, I was behind a proxy server, and the only thing we both had access to was email & the web. It sounds like an extreme case, but this is something that happens all the time. It's well and good saying - "Don't send files by email", but for the inexperienced user, there isn't much else they can do.
Second example. We have a customer that uses Outlook. I can't tell them not to do this, and I can't go round every one of there users configuring the software so they can email me properly. Emails sent by them with pictures(screenshots) usually have those pictures stripped out (some weird outlook configuration/mime thing). It's also difficult for them to paste Alt-PrtScrn screenshots into anything other than word. For this reason, all emails from this company usually come to me as word attachments.
It's OK to say "Ban email attachments", but in reality, it'd make things more difficult for my users.
It can be frustrating. Luckily, there are services like dropload which allow you to "email" executable files easily.
As long as your recipient has web access, then it's good for the very situation you described.
Even Simple Heuristics could probably have ensured that netsky wasn't so prevalant. I'm tired of seeing new variants of this virus appear in my kapersky scanned inbox with attachments (sometimes zipped) called something.txt[space][space][space][space][space][s pace][space][space].exe
It'd take nothing for Kapersky to update thier scanner to be able to identify this as probably malicious code. The fact that they haven't is extremely frustrating.
Plus - If the Captcha "image" was a java applet with a picture in it, and an entry box, then this applet could (a) suck the image off the yahoo server, and (b) post the answer back to the yahoo server. All information passed / recieved could be encrypted against the viewers IP address, and you could limit the number of captchas allowed by each IP address.
Not sure how spammers could get round that, but I'm no Hacker.
I think it's a video on demand system where requests for programs are passed over the internet, but the actual programs are broadcast using the standard TV broadcasting network (Mpeg encoded - obviously.) That way, several thousand people can request a new film, but it only needs to be broadcast once. Less popular programs will be broadcast more slowly, or they may be sent over broadband.
Tivo are needed for the recording / storing / replaying software.
From the taking on titanic link: My guess is that at 8 per cent of the cost we can achieve 90 per cent of the production quality of any of their movies. The last mile will cost us more, given the current status of the technology available here-but even that we can achieve at, say, another 8 per cent.
This is why Bollywood will ultimately fail. Sure, they have a bigger market, and they make more movies, but Hollywood knows the cost (and value) of western movies. The Indian distributers can flood Kazaa with as many Bollywood movies as they want, and they can expend that extra 8% of effort, but very few people in the west will spend money on this.
There's always copy files over the net, over ftp, from email. From a command prompt, you can use paste (copy con go.exe) over a terminal services client. There's a basic telnet session, there's the ability to share files. You could use Word to import a "Gif" file. And I know nothing very much about this stuff. I'm thinking that if somebody really wants to get a file onto a machine, they can. The question is (And I'm pretty sure you can do this unix) is whether you can stop people executing files which are downloaded into a user space.
Maybe not even a paragraph of introduction is needed. A byline like "an open source replacement for cddb - click about for more info" would have been perfect.
First time I went there it took a few frustrating seconds to pick up on the fact that I'd have to click on "about" to find out what it was. This was caused by my expectations of what product homepages usually are, and it would have been nice to have been given an instant pointer to the info I needed initially to know.
I agree that you have to be pretty stupid to not be able to work it out, but some people are pretty stupid.
Arrrgh. Good call. I don't know if it's because I'm a sexist pig(I hope not), or just because the article is a huge and boring list, but somehow I just assumed it was written by a man. Somebody please - mod me down -1 (Misogynist)
Not the best article in the world. If there was any substance hidden in the 1000 something domain names, I didn't find it. The only interesting thing was that with "...Such emotion may well have lead to IDislikeRob.com, GordonIsAMoron.com, IHateAdamOliver.com, and HeatherThompsonIsABigDork.com" he missed the cultural significance of www.gordonisamoron.com. (A major cultural event from the Eighties in Britain. If you're 25-32, you'll probably have chanted this at schoolmates at some time in your life.) I'm wondering how much else he missed, and how many of the funny domains were automatically registered by automated robots.
heh - this could work... The camera gets "stolen", but because it can take photographs, you tell the assembled crowds that it's OK, you can ID exactly who did it. Phone the friend, and minutes later, they arrive with another Ericcson containing a picture of the thief. Show the picture of the thief to the "policeman" who turns up at the right time, identify the perp, send in a fake call, and the whole world suddenly thinks your product is marvelous. Now, where's the number of that advertising agency again...
I like this bit of the article... Even marketing executives disapprove. "It is reprehensible and desperate," says Paul MacFarlane, co-owner of the Experiment, a small ad firm in St. Louis, that has done work for Southwestern Bell...
I guess that should translate as... "in separate news, competitors of Ericcson infiltrated other advertising firms with actors and actresses whose job it was to show a faux-genuine disapproval of a well known and much used advertising technique. 'We hope to implicate Ericsson in underhand practices at a grass-roots level' said one unnamed exectutive..."
I don't care about other people's daily life. I don't care what happened to somebody on the street. I don't care about what one person finds funny about this waiter at his/her favorite restaurant. Moderate -1
Asperger's.
Didn't Charles Dickens write his novels as a form of Steam-Blog. (serialised, weekly, etc) It's certainly a possibility. I'd refer you to this
link. The most interesting comment is A Tale of Two Cities" (135) is actually the result of weekly serial publication, a form which Dickens had tried three times previously, and which had given him, as he confessed to his friend John Forster, "perpetual trouble." "The small portions [of weekly installments] . . . drive me frantic," he complained
I think there's a difference between British DTV and American DTV. British DTV is completely compatible with older TVs, and old TV technology. I think the American DTV format is a High Definition Format which needs a better CRT and more electronics.
Given that having access to TV is seen more and more as a social neccesity (The Government wants you to (a) keep on buying the lovely things and (b) listening to what it has to say to you), I'm of the opinion that come switchover, the TV manufacturers will be forced to give/subsidise TV's to those people who don't have them. Or at least they'll have to sell them at cost.
At least, I think that is what'll happen over here in Britain.
I thought that the radio frequencies available to different people (TV, Radio, Mobile phones, etc) was controlled by the government. Analog TV uses a huge amount of the available r/f bandwidth, and this is bandwidth that can be split up, controlled and resold by the government. As such, I think it's a government decision. They want some of that bandwidth back by 2006, and the only way they're going to get it (and make sure that people can watch TV) is by forcing Sony et/al to start going digital now.
While of course you can't write code simultaneously for two or three different companies Ermm - And what about code reuse. Of course you can write code simultaneously for two or three different companies.
A really good guy will probably spend most of his time thinking and experimenting, rather than writing final production code. - I'm not convinced about this. Yes, a good programmer takes time to think out a design, but I've seen many cases where a simple problem is turned into an algorithm-fest by the sharpest and brightest programmers. The code's great, but five years down the line, when the programmer is doing better and brighter things, that code makes no sense to the people trying to maintain it. I'd agree with you, but with the proviso that all code must be written to be read by less gifted coders. Sometimes the solution which is best is the solution which is understood by everyone in your team.
1. Does this mean I can DOS the MPAA if I believe that they are illegally distributing music I've copyrighted.
2. If my ISP had a MPAA/DOS section in it's service contract that said I was liable to pay Damages of $3000.00 every time the MPAA forced a DOS attack on me, then would the MPAA be liable for those damages. The attack would cost me money, and so the MPAA would be liable for damages.
Also - has the ability to...
- find in Multiple Files
- Search and replace in all open files.
This means I can do a regular expression search for some text in a folder, automatically open all files that contain that expression, and then Search and replace in all the open files. V+Powerful, and simle to use.
Ironically, I remember the olden days (1989 ish), when the Leeds Sci-Fi Intellegensia and its entourage would devote its time mauling Stross's (and sometimes only Stross's) newbie ass. Peoples main professions seemed to be nit-picking grammatical errors, followed by pandering to their prick Sci-Fi friends. Plus ca Change Pas. Or something else french.
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I've had a situation very recently when somebody needed to send a file to me. They had little technical know how, and a basic PC Configuration. On top of this, they were behind a severely firewalled Nats, I was behind a proxy server, and the only thing we both had access to was email & the web.
It sounds like an extreme case, but this is something that happens all the time.
It's well and good saying - "Don't send files by email", but for the inexperienced user, there isn't much else they can do.
Second example. We have a customer that uses Outlook. I can't tell them not to do this, and I can't go round every one of there users configuring the software so they can email me properly.
Emails sent by them with pictures(screenshots) usually have those pictures stripped out (some weird outlook configuration/mime thing).
It's also difficult for them to paste Alt-PrtScrn screenshots into anything other than word. For this reason, all emails from this company usually come to me as word attachments.
It's OK to say "Ban email attachments", but in reality, it'd make things more difficult for my users.
It can be frustrating. Luckily, there are services like dropload which allow you to "email" executable files easily. As long as your recipient has web access, then it's good for the very situation you described.
Even Simple Heuristics could probably have ensured that netsky wasn't so prevalant. I'm tired of seeing new variants of this virus appear in my kapersky scanned inbox with attachments (sometimes zipped) called something.txt[space][space][space][space][space][s pace][space][space].exe
It'd take nothing for Kapersky to update thier scanner to be able to identify this as probably malicious code. The fact that they haven't is extremely frustrating.
Plus - If the Captcha "image" was a java applet with a picture in it, and an entry box, then this applet could (a) suck the image off the yahoo server, and (b) post the answer back to the yahoo server. All information passed / recieved could be encrypted against the viewers IP address, and you could limit the number of captchas allowed by each IP address. Not sure how spammers could get round that, but I'm no Hacker.
I think it's a video on demand system where requests for programs are passed over the internet, but the actual programs are broadcast using the standard TV broadcasting network (Mpeg encoded - obviously.) That way, several thousand people can request a new film, but it only needs to be broadcast once. Less popular programs will be broadcast more slowly, or they may be sent over broadband. Tivo are needed for the recording / storing / replaying software.
Which differs from American Blockbusters only in that ...
1. Boy Meets Girl
2. Girl doesn't like boy at first
5. Individuals object because of race/religion/money/dress sense
6. Big fights and explosions
7. Boy gets the girl
8. Everybody lives happily ever after
Remember that there are only between 7 and 9 stories in the world anyway....
1. Unrecognised virtue at last recognised.
2. The fatal flaw.
3. The debt that must be paid.
4. The love triangle.
5. The spider and the fly.
6. Boy meets girl, plus obstacles.
7. The treasure taken away
8. The irrepressible winner.
From the taking on titanic link: My guess is that at 8 per cent of the cost we can achieve 90 per cent of the production quality of any of their movies. The last mile will cost us more, given the current status of the technology available here-but even that we can achieve at, say, another 8 per cent. This is why Bollywood will ultimately fail. Sure, they have a bigger market, and they make more movies, but Hollywood knows the cost (and value) of western movies. The Indian distributers can flood Kazaa with as many Bollywood movies as they want, and they can expend that extra 8% of effort, but very few people in the west will spend money on this.
There's always copy files over the net, over ftp, from email. From a command prompt, you can use paste (copy con go.exe) over a terminal services client. There's a basic telnet session, there's the ability to share files. You could use Word to import a "Gif" file. And I know nothing very much about this stuff. I'm thinking that if somebody really wants to get a file onto a machine, they can. The question is (And I'm pretty sure you can do this unix) is whether you can stop people executing files which are downloaded into a user space.
Maybe not even a paragraph of introduction is needed. A byline like "an open source replacement for cddb - click about for more info" would have been perfect.
First time I went there it took a few frustrating seconds to pick up on the fact that I'd have to click on "about" to find out what it was. This was caused by my expectations of what product homepages usually are, and it would have been nice to have been given an instant pointer to the info I needed initially to know.
I agree that you have to be pretty stupid to not be able to work it out, but some people are pretty stupid.
Arrrgh. Good call. I don't know if it's because I'm a sexist pig(I hope not), or just because the article is a huge and boring list, but somehow I just assumed it was written by a man. Somebody please - mod me down -1 (Misogynist)
Not the best article in the world. If there was any substance hidden in the 1000 something domain names, I didn't find it. The only interesting thing was that with "...Such emotion may well have lead to IDislikeRob.com, GordonIsAMoron.com, IHateAdamOliver.com, and HeatherThompsonIsABigDork.com" he missed the cultural significance of www.gordonisamoron.com. (A major cultural event from the Eighties in Britain. If you're 25-32, you'll probably have chanted this at schoolmates at some time in your life.) I'm wondering how much else he missed, and how many of the funny domains were automatically registered by automated robots.
Line 709 - search for "representative"t
http://blake.prohosting.com/awsm/script/clerks.tx
heh - this could work... The camera gets "stolen", but because it can take photographs, you tell the assembled crowds that it's OK, you can ID exactly who did it. Phone the friend, and minutes later, they arrive with another Ericcson containing a picture of the thief. Show the picture of the thief to the "policeman" who turns up at the right time, identify the perp, send in a fake call, and the whole world suddenly thinks your product is marvelous. Now, where's the number of that advertising agency again...
I like this bit of the article... Even marketing executives disapprove. "It is reprehensible and desperate," says Paul MacFarlane, co-owner of the Experiment, a small ad firm in St. Louis, that has done work for Southwestern Bell ...
... "in separate news, competitors of Ericcson infiltrated other advertising firms with actors and actresses whose job it was to show a faux-genuine disapproval of a well known and much used advertising technique. 'We hope to implicate Ericsson in underhand practices at a grass-roots level' said one unnamed exectutive..."
I guess that should translate as
I don't care about other people's daily life. I don't care what happened to somebody on the street. I don't care about what one person finds funny about this waiter at his/her favorite restaurant.
Moderate -1 Asperger's.
Didn't Charles Dickens write his novels as a form of Steam-Blog. (serialised, weekly, etc) It's certainly a possibility. I'd refer you to this link.
The most interesting comment is A Tale of Two Cities" (135) is actually the result of weekly serial publication, a form which Dickens had tried three times previously, and which had given him, as he confessed to his friend John Forster, "perpetual trouble." "The small portions [of weekly installments] . . . drive me frantic," he complained
I think there's a difference between British DTV and American DTV. British DTV is completely compatible with older TVs, and old TV technology. I think the American DTV format is a High Definition Format which needs a better CRT and more electronics.
I'm not sure about this 100% though.
Given that having access to TV is seen more and more as a social neccesity (The Government wants you to (a) keep on buying the lovely things and (b) listening to what it has to say to you), I'm of the opinion that come switchover, the TV manufacturers will be forced to give/subsidise TV's to those people who don't have them. Or at least they'll have to sell them at cost.
At least, I think that is what'll happen over here in Britain.
I thought that the radio frequencies available to different people (TV, Radio, Mobile phones, etc) was controlled by the government. Analog TV uses a huge amount of the available r/f bandwidth, and this is bandwidth that can be split up, controlled and resold by the government. As such, I think it's a government decision. They want some of that bandwidth back by 2006, and the only way they're going to get it (and make sure that people can watch TV) is by forcing Sony et/al to start going digital now.
While of course you can't write code simultaneously for two or three different companies
Ermm - And what about code reuse. Of course you can write code simultaneously for two or three different companies.
A really good guy will probably spend most of his time thinking and experimenting, rather than writing final production code. - I'm not convinced about this. Yes, a good programmer takes time to think out a design, but I've seen many cases where a simple problem is turned into an algorithm-fest by the sharpest and brightest programmers. The code's great, but five years down the line, when the programmer is doing better and brighter things, that code makes no sense to the people trying to maintain it. I'd agree with you, but with the proviso that all code must be written to be read by less gifted coders. Sometimes the solution which is best is the solution which is understood by everyone in your team.
1. Does this mean I can DOS the MPAA if I believe that they are illegally distributing music I've copyrighted.
2. If my ISP had a MPAA/DOS section in it's service contract that said I was liable to pay Damages of $3000.00 every time the MPAA forced a DOS attack on me, then would the MPAA be liable for those damages. The attack would cost me money, and so the MPAA would be liable for damages.
Also - has the ability to ...
- find in Multiple Files
- Search and replace in all open files.
This means I can do a regular expression search for some text in a folder, automatically open all files that contain that expression, and then Search and replace in all the open files. V+Powerful, and simle to use.
No - is there a web link I can follow?
Ironically, I remember the olden days (1989 ish), when the Leeds Sci-Fi Intellegensia and its entourage would devote its time mauling Stross's (and sometimes only Stross's) newbie ass. Peoples main professions seemed to be nit-picking grammatical errors, followed by pandering to their prick Sci-Fi friends. Plus ca Change Pas. Or something else french.