It's science if yes, (s)he is hired to investigate a particular claim and see if it holds truth. However, it is not science if the clauses on the funding prevent him from publishing results that go against the funder's agenda.
In other words, there's nothing wrong with offering cash to *investigate* and offer facts on a particular subject, nor with offering said cash to disprove or prove a particular theory, provided that - if the evidence does in fact go against what they expect - the results may still be published as such. Many companies don't allow this, so I'd have to see what the actual contract (or just the strings on the funding) says.
Both sides play this game, but the oil companies seem to be getting panicky and throwing out a lot of money with these sort of funny clauses in attempts to debunk the pollution=global warming angle of things. You can't prove or disprove anything unless you can offer evidence from both sides.
And what, then, is Vista? To run it properly the customer needs to learn the new OS, the tech departments need to learn the new OS, etc. You get stuck with IE7. You get DRM up the arse. You need faster computers.
Yes, you could stay with XP, but it seems that by making newer DirectX (and likely others) for Vista only, Microsoft is already pushing the game towards requiring the big Vista "upgrade." Granted, newer DirectX is not big for most offices, but I've heard other stories about getting older versions of Word run on Vista, etc... so what happens when the company ends up with half the (new) computers running Vista and not having downward-compatible apps, and the rest running XP and not having new versions available for that OS?
Microsoft might not be vocally demanding that the customer adapt, but they're definately pushing it all the same, as they have in the past with their our-way-or-the-highway approaches to "standards" and other such things.
You can also test SMB related connections from a basic windows system with little work. On the other hand, to test against exchange requires an existing exchange server (to test client functionality against) and perhaps a configured exchange client (to test server replacements against). While pretty much anyone with a windows box might have networking to test, having an exchange server at one's fingertips is a little different.
If this atttitude comes directly from your wife, I hope her malpractice insurance is paid up.
Yes, because we all know that not prescribing a useless medication is a good sign of malpractice....
I'm not a doctor, but a computer tech. I've had any number of people who insisted the *knew* what was wrong with their computer (relatives are particularly bad), for example insisting that their network card is broken because a particular webpage shows up. How about the masses that install "Toolbar X" because it claims their computer is slow.
Or my grandparents, whom every time their internet has issues, the ISP (Telus) gets them to unplug their damn router and plug their windows box into the internet giving it a live IP and leaving it at the mercy of whatever roaming infection might pass by... they do it every time.
Now I've seen what the power of suggestion can do to people. I've known people who were scared to death imagining that they had all sorts of unpleasant things, oftimes to the point where their mental state has created not only mental (imagined) but in fact real (physical) medical symptoms. One person thought he had been exposed to a particular condition, and stressed about it so much symptoms appeared and it took five months and about four doctors to calm him down enough that they went away (never to come back).
Now, I doubt a doctor is going to act like that if somebody "asks" about a medication. Although being continually asked about "medication X" because it's been recently on the TV 24/7 is probably somewhat irritating. However, when the doctor gets the hypochrindriac symptom-imagining person who insists they have condition Y and demands access to medication X... I can see the point of the parent.
Furthermore, a discussion would likely go like this:
Patient: "Have you considered OverPricedMedication (tm)? Isn't that sopposed to help me?"
Doctor: No, you have condition X and that is for condition Y. In addition, that medication has the symptoms of A, B, and C.
Patient: But I saw it on TV and it's supposed to work great. Plus I heard blah blah blah
Doctor: This medication won't help you etc etc
Patient: I want to try it anyways
Doctor: Writes prescription
(patient stops taking his regular proper medication and switches to just OverPricedMedication)
Patient: Three weeks later. I took OverPricedMedication, which you wrote me a prescription for. It didn't help me and now I'm sicker and also have A, B, and C
Doctor: I told you this...
Patient: I'm gonna sue, SUE, SUE!!!
How about game accessories?
You know, the hi-def cables, the controllers, the special cases, game guides, figurines, etc etc?
I don't know about online, but there's definately a decent markup on some of these at the local retailers. Mind you, in physical stores it's often about location and salesmen... you put the console behind all the other stuff the store wants to sell, and beside all the hi-def cables, then have the salesman sell them a PS3 for $2.00 profit, and the cables, carrying case, extra warranty, etc for an extra $20-40 bucks profit on top of that.
Online I suppose you could add a little reminder ad when somebody buys the console like:
- The Xbox360 you are purchasing comes standard with 1 controller and standard video cables. Would you like the hi-def cable kit and extra controller bundle for $xx. Also, click [here] to see our other XBox360 accessories.
Ever used a program such as skype or other voice-chat software? Notice when you have speakers and microphone on, you generally don't hear your voice constantly repeating into echoes (if echo-cancel is on, of course). Notice that you don't with the speakerphone on your cell either? That's because the software/hardware is smart enough to take the audio output and subtract/prevent it from entering the audio input (avoiding feedback loops etc). If used properly with voice-recognition software, it would defeat programs on a webpage from sending output to be re-picked up from your input system. Since MS assumedly has control over the audio subsystem of the operating system, it should be able to snag the master combined output and filter it in this way.
Now that doesn't preclude some annoying twit from walking by and telling your computer to do things it shouldn't. However, that issue could be prevented by engraining an element of "speaker recognition" (the person speaking, not the ones on your computer) to the machine. Further, it could require a user-defined prefix or suffix to the command, such as "Computer, earl grey tea, hot!" or "Open the doors, Hal!"
What I've always enjoyed is how many sellers will screw you on the shipping if you're not careful. I've been following auctions for some PDA's etc for awhile, and you'll find shipping ranges anywhere from $15 to $90. This sucks when items are listed with the sale price (some include shipping now when possible) but sorting by price etc is still screwed up by the shipping overcharge.
I wonder what happens when you have an unlisted shipping price and the seller decides to tell you that it's $100 to ship a paperback novel or some such thing.
In countries that don't tax lottery (see: Canada), there are laws for that sort of thing. First of all that the "lottery" in question has to be supported by the gov't lottery corporation. So a company can't pay you in cars, because the gov't would not legitimize the lottery.
Further to that, big corps in the US (and other countries, free lottery or no) do pay their bigwigs with cars etc. The cars belong to "the company" on paper, but in all actuality belong to the bigwig. In many ways these types of accounting let the big earners actually "earn" less on paper while having the company dime take care of their lifestyle, and the company can expense to cost of another car and gas, etc.
This bad press should be directed toward Oracle - why wasn't their "free" trip really free?
Oracle isn't charging taxes. Moreover, if the contest included taxes paid, the portion used to pay the main taxes is still... yup... taxable. They're unavoidable.
As for the working $5 and getting a $60k car, there can be clauses to cover this. Check out Canada and many other countries sometime that do not tax lottery winnings, even the big jackpots.
The also spring "contracts" on unsuspecting customers, and frankly since the strikes I've noticed a significant drop in service quality (mostly in the cellular region, although I've heard horror stories about extended loss-of-service from the landline offerings as well).
Telus will happily forgo mentioning a contract when you sign up for their internet service, but they *will* tell you that you're involved in one if you try to quit... apparently it's presented in a clickthrough agreement when you first use the Telus CD or somesuch (and they'll happily ignore the fact tha tsome customers do their device registration online where the contract was not presented). If you ask to see the contract then they'll happily tell you to get a lawyer and talk to their legal dept... I would know because I've had to deal with the sodsucking buggers on this (though not for myself).
I could be wrong, but I believe I installed an upgrade over an upgrade version without the previous media needed, just the previous version disc (upgrade or non)
Actually, they previously required *proof* of an old copy. For 95 you could have it scan your 3.x disks, 98 could scan the 95 discs, and XP you could let scan the 95/98 discs.
You didn't need to install the OS, just have the installation media. Not sure how this works when XP is often installed with a prebuilt image for many laptops etc though, or if Vista even supports the got-a-disc authentication.
Hmm, 300-600kbps and still it takes awhile to load everything. 50%+ CPU load with all the various flash, and MY EYES, MY EYES, DEAR LORD the layout is TERRIBLE!
they claim HDTV output via the S-Video port, which is of course not possible.
Where? I see "including support for HDTV out (via DVI/LVDS and S-video)"
Now it seems to be poorly worded, but the indicator is that there's ports for DVI/LVDS, and S-Video. The former would get you HDTV out, the S-Video would still be available for legacy.
More than enough. I have a C-3 (prior model processor) that runs as a LANserver to route internet traffic, share files (Samba), play music, and more recent running a GUI frontend for the music player.
Found it and bought it. I'd love to see some new glory come out in an old series though:-)
As an interesting aside, it appears from the install license that the games run using dosbox to emulate an older system. Chances are one could get them to run in multiple operating systems in that case (I know dosbox runs in at least windows/linux).
The old sierra-style ones: Space Quest, Police Quest, Quest for Glory (formerly Hero's Quest), King's Quest, etc.
However, the new Sam'n'Max game is perhaps still somewhat along these lines, and perhaps the episodic model will breath some new life into an old genre. I'd love to see a well done new version of the Space Quest series...
Sometimes my SO is uncomfortably pushy in regards to my personal space. Yes, I like spending time together, cuddling, sex, etc. I also sometimes like to stop and read a book or play a video game.
Part of the reason is that it lets me distract/disable/derail my normal thought pattern. This means that when I've spent the day being bitched at by users, working late, and missing breaks/food, I get to distract my mind from what has gone on (and/or what I still need to do). Sexual distraction works sometimes, but as it's generally more physical than mental (and stress is not really conducive to a healthy sexual response anyhow) it doesn't always do the trick. Having a woman poking at my bits or hoving in front of my face really doesn't do much for me (although backrubs are great in general).
However, give me some time with a book or video game, and my troubled thought pattern is derailed. After that, I'm happy to engage in some more personal activities. If I happen to spend part of the down-time playing a game with my SO it's even better since nobody is feeling neglected at that point.
Without games or books etc, my busy life would intrude way too much on my personal life. They're a welcome break from reality.
Which is good and fine if you are, say, Sony. In that case they can afford to cut their console/video-game division. However, in the case of a company such as Nintendo whose primary market is centered around video-games, the packing-it-up option basically comes only with a complete shutdown. In this case, the pressure is for them to continue building a more diverse or better-selling product, despites the oodles of money that other companies may have to throw in that comes from their other divisions (for Microsoft: PC Software/hardware/etc, for Sony: Consumer Electronics, Stereo, Movies, Music, etc).
You're missing the "dump" part, which is where those that have pumped the stock take their money and drop it like a hot rock. Many of the others will end up with stock that's essentially worthless, or at the least not worth near what it was they paid for it.
Bank: You all suck at online skills, so you can't use our online banking services!
Customers: Bye!
Bank: What?
Ex-Customers:...
Bank: Good riddance
Banks aren't dumb, and they don't make megabucks by holding onto bad investments. In this case, said customers are bad investments. You really think that they bank is going to be overly upset if the a few dozen of the customers that just cost them upwards to a million bucks leave? Do you think that disabling internet accounts of people who have infected machines gives them a bad image, which would cause other customers to leave. I don't think so.
They'll call a SWAT team and have Joe's house raided. No proof. Sorry, Joe, for the mess. We're on to harassing the next person we vaguely suspect of illegal distribution.
Yes, but this is a different problem than the plague of DRM and other such things currently used on media. Watermarking is a lot nicer than invasive DRM (although I wonder about how it affects ownership exchange situation). The xxAA should not able to able to stage raids on public citizens like they do currently, but that's a different issue altogether and certainly shouldn't be considered a reason to look down on the use of watermarking.
I'm not a windows fanboy ('nix is my preferred OS), but why would the crooks pump out a linux binary or an OSX application in their scammy emails when probably 80-90% of the recipients are likely to use windows, and probably about 80-90% of linux/mac users are slightly more educated in terms of scammy emails.
This wasn't an automatically installed keylogged from the sounds of it, but rather one installed by dumb users. Windows has more users, so they email the windows users. PC's being more prevalent (and cheaper) plus windows being the preloaded OS, chances are the the less PC-educated are going to be using that OS too.
Much as I love linux (and macs aren't bad either), I'd have to say that in this case it's not so much of a case that the OS is insecure, but rather that the users are uneducated. If linux users suddenly skyrocketed, one could probably get similar results with a script that dumped a custom **firefox in the user folder with built-in keylogger, and then replaced the old firefox with the hacked version.
** Avoidable by having noexec on the home directory, but that's not generally a default setting, and could still be avoided by trolling for some other user-writeable + executable location to write insidious code...
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It's science if yes, (s)he is hired to investigate a particular claim and see if it holds truth. However, it is not science if the clauses on the funding prevent him from publishing results that go against the funder's agenda.
In other words, there's nothing wrong with offering cash to *investigate* and offer facts on a particular subject, nor with offering said cash to disprove or prove a particular theory, provided that - if the evidence does in fact go against what they expect - the results may still be published as such. Many companies don't allow this, so I'd have to see what the actual contract (or just the strings on the funding) says.
Both sides play this game, but the oil companies seem to be getting panicky and throwing out a lot of money with these sort of funny clauses in attempts to debunk the pollution=global warming angle of things. You can't prove or disprove anything unless you can offer evidence from both sides.
Demanding that the *customer* adapt is just silly
And what, then, is Vista? To run it properly the customer needs to learn the new OS, the tech departments need to learn the new OS, etc. You get stuck with IE7. You get DRM up the arse. You need faster computers.
Yes, you could stay with XP, but it seems that by making newer DirectX (and likely others) for Vista only, Microsoft is already pushing the game towards requiring the big Vista "upgrade." Granted, newer DirectX is not big for most offices, but I've heard other stories about getting older versions of Word run on Vista, etc... so what happens when the company ends up with half the (new) computers running Vista and not having downward-compatible apps, and the rest running XP and not having new versions available for that OS?
Microsoft might not be vocally demanding that the customer adapt, but they're definately pushing it all the same, as they have in the past with their our-way-or-the-highway approaches to "standards" and other such things.
You can also test SMB related connections from a basic windows system with little work. On the other hand, to test against exchange requires an existing exchange server (to test client functionality against) and perhaps a configured exchange client (to test server replacements against). While pretty much anyone with a windows box might have networking to test, having an exchange server at one's fingertips is a little different.
If this atttitude comes directly from your wife, I hope her malpractice insurance is paid up.
Yes, because we all know that not prescribing a useless medication is a good sign of malpractice....
I'm not a doctor, but a computer tech. I've had any number of people who insisted the *knew* what was wrong with their computer (relatives are particularly bad), for example insisting that their network card is broken because a particular webpage shows up. How about the masses that install "Toolbar X" because it claims their computer is slow.
Or my grandparents, whom every time their internet has issues, the ISP (Telus) gets them to unplug their damn router and plug their windows box into the internet giving it a live IP and leaving it at the mercy of whatever roaming infection might pass by... they do it every time.
Now I've seen what the power of suggestion can do to people. I've known people who were scared to death imagining that they had all sorts of unpleasant things, oftimes to the point where their mental state has created not only mental (imagined) but in fact real (physical) medical symptoms. One person thought he had been exposed to a particular condition, and stressed about it so much symptoms appeared and it took five months and about four doctors to calm him down enough that they went away (never to come back).
Now, I doubt a doctor is going to act like that if somebody "asks" about a medication. Although being continually asked about "medication X" because it's been recently on the TV 24/7 is probably somewhat irritating. However, when the doctor gets the hypochrindriac symptom-imagining person who insists they have condition Y and demands access to medication X... I can see the point of the parent.
Furthermore, a discussion would likely go like this:
Patient: "Have you considered OverPricedMedication (tm)? Isn't that sopposed to help me?"
Doctor: No, you have condition X and that is for condition Y. In addition, that medication has the symptoms of A, B, and C.
Patient: But I saw it on TV and it's supposed to work great. Plus I heard blah blah blah
Doctor: This medication won't help you etc etc
Patient: I want to try it anyways
Doctor: Writes prescription
(patient stops taking his regular proper medication and switches to just OverPricedMedication)
Patient: Three weeks later. I took OverPricedMedication, which you wrote me a prescription for. It didn't help me and now I'm sicker and also have A, B, and C
Doctor: I told you this...
Patient: I'm gonna sue, SUE, SUE!!!
How about game accessories?
You know, the hi-def cables, the controllers, the special cases, game guides, figurines, etc etc?
I don't know about online, but there's definately a decent markup on some of these at the local retailers. Mind you, in physical stores it's often about location and salesmen... you put the console behind all the other stuff the store wants to sell, and beside all the hi-def cables, then have the salesman sell them a PS3 for $2.00 profit, and the cables, carrying case, extra warranty, etc for an extra $20-40 bucks profit on top of that.
Online I suppose you could add a little reminder ad when somebody buys the console like:
- The Xbox360 you are purchasing comes standard with 1 controller and standard video cables. Would you like the hi-def cable kit and extra controller bundle for $xx. Also, click [here] to see our other XBox360 accessories.
No, actually it isn't really agendized.
Ever used a program such as skype or other voice-chat software? Notice when you have speakers and microphone on, you generally don't hear your voice constantly repeating into echoes (if echo-cancel is on, of course). Notice that you don't with the speakerphone on your cell either? That's because the software/hardware is smart enough to take the audio output and subtract/prevent it from entering the audio input (avoiding feedback loops etc). If used properly with voice-recognition software, it would defeat programs on a webpage from sending output to be re-picked up from your input system. Since MS assumedly has control over the audio subsystem of the operating system, it should be able to snag the master combined output and filter it in this way.
Now that doesn't preclude some annoying twit from walking by and telling your computer to do things it shouldn't. However, that issue could be prevented by engraining an element of "speaker recognition" (the person speaking, not the ones on your computer) to the machine. Further, it could require a user-defined prefix or suffix to the command, such as "Computer, earl grey tea, hot!" or "Open the doors, Hal!"
What I've always enjoyed is how many sellers will screw you on the shipping if you're not careful. I've been following auctions for some PDA's etc for awhile, and you'll find shipping ranges anywhere from $15 to $90. This sucks when items are listed with the sale price (some include shipping now when possible) but sorting by price etc is still screwed up by the shipping overcharge.
I wonder what happens when you have an unlisted shipping price and the seller decides to tell you that it's $100 to ship a paperback novel or some such thing.
And if they shot some guy up into space on a contest they wouldn't be liable for his safety at all...?
In countries that don't tax lottery (see: Canada), there are laws for that sort of thing. First of all that the "lottery" in question has to be supported by the gov't lottery corporation. So a company can't pay you in cars, because the gov't would not legitimize the lottery.
Further to that, big corps in the US (and other countries, free lottery or no) do pay their bigwigs with cars etc. The cars belong to "the company" on paper, but in all actuality belong to the bigwig. In many ways these types of accounting let the big earners actually "earn" less on paper while having the company dime take care of their lifestyle, and the company can expense to cost of another car and gas, etc.
This bad press should be directed toward Oracle - why wasn't their "free" trip really free?
Oracle isn't charging taxes. Moreover, if the contest included taxes paid, the portion used to pay the main taxes is still... yup... taxable. They're unavoidable.
As for the working $5 and getting a $60k car, there can be clauses to cover this. Check out Canada and many other countries sometime that do not tax lottery winnings, even the big jackpots.
The also spring "contracts" on unsuspecting customers, and frankly since the strikes I've noticed a significant drop in service quality (mostly in the cellular region, although I've heard horror stories about extended loss-of-service from the landline offerings as well).
Telus will happily forgo mentioning a contract when you sign up for their internet service, but they *will* tell you that you're involved in one if you try to quit... apparently it's presented in a clickthrough agreement when you first use the Telus CD or somesuch (and they'll happily ignore the fact tha tsome customers do their device registration online where the contract was not presented). If you ask to see the contract then they'll happily tell you to get a lawyer and talk to their legal dept... I would know because I've had to deal with the sodsucking buggers on this (though not for myself).
I could be wrong, but I believe I installed an upgrade over an upgrade version without the previous media needed, just the previous version disc (upgrade or non)
Actually, they previously required *proof* of an old copy. For 95 you could have it scan your 3.x disks, 98 could scan the 95 discs, and XP you could let scan the 95/98 discs.
You didn't need to install the OS, just have the installation media. Not sure how this works when XP is often installed with a prebuilt image for many laptops etc though, or if Vista even supports the got-a-disc authentication.
And how about items that are used? How do they differentiate?
The taxes have already been paid, so in this case wouldn't the online auction fall in the same category as garage-sales and buy-and-sell ads?
Not that the government doesn't already happily double-dip elsewhere (houses, vehicles, etc)...
Just go to www.daum.net
Hmm, 300-600kbps and still it takes awhile to load everything. 50%+ CPU load with all the various flash, and MY EYES, MY EYES, DEAR LORD the layout is TERRIBLE!
they claim HDTV output via the S-Video port, which is of course not possible.
Where? I see "including support for HDTV out (via DVI/LVDS and S-video)"
Now it seems to be poorly worded, but the indicator is that there's ports for DVI/LVDS, and S-Video. The former would get you HDTV out, the S-Video would still be available for legacy.
More than enough. I have a C-3 (prior model processor) that runs as a LANserver to route internet traffic, share files (Samba), play music, and more recent running a GUI frontend for the music player.
Found it and bought it. I'd love to see some new glory come out in an old series though :-)
As an interesting aside, it appears from the install license that the games run using dosbox to emulate an older system. Chances are one could get them to run in multiple operating systems in that case (I know dosbox runs in at least windows/linux).
The old sierra-style ones: Space Quest, Police Quest, Quest for Glory (formerly Hero's Quest), King's Quest, etc.
However, the new Sam'n'Max game is perhaps still somewhat along these lines, and perhaps the episodic model will breath some new life into an old genre. I'd love to see a well done new version of the Space Quest series...
Sometimes my SO is uncomfortably pushy in regards to my personal space. Yes, I like spending time together, cuddling, sex, etc. I also sometimes like to stop and read a book or play a video game.
Part of the reason is that it lets me distract/disable/derail my normal thought pattern. This means that when I've spent the day being bitched at by users, working late, and missing breaks/food, I get to distract my mind from what has gone on (and/or what I still need to do). Sexual distraction works sometimes, but as it's generally more physical than mental (and stress is not really conducive to a healthy sexual response anyhow) it doesn't always do the trick. Having a woman poking at my bits or hoving in front of my face really doesn't do much for me (although backrubs are great in general).
However, give me some time with a book or video game, and my troubled thought pattern is derailed. After that, I'm happy to engage in some more personal activities. If I happen to spend part of the down-time playing a game with my SO it's even better since nobody is feeling neglected at that point.
Without games or books etc, my busy life would intrude way too much on my personal life. They're a welcome break from reality.
Which is good and fine if you are, say, Sony. In that case they can afford to cut their console/video-game division. However, in the case of a company such as Nintendo whose primary market is centered around video-games, the packing-it-up option basically comes only with a complete shutdown. In this case, the pressure is for them to continue building a more diverse or better-selling product, despites the oodles of money that other companies may have to throw in that comes from their other divisions (for Microsoft: PC Software/hardware/etc, for Sony: Consumer Electronics, Stereo, Movies, Music, etc).
You're missing the "dump" part, which is where those that have pumped the stock take their money and drop it like a hot rock. Many of the others will end up with stock that's essentially worthless, or at the least not worth near what it was they paid for it.
You forgot a line...
...
Bank: You all suck at online skills, so you can't use our online banking services!
Customers: Bye!
Bank: What?
Ex-Customers:
Bank: Good riddance
Banks aren't dumb, and they don't make megabucks by holding onto bad investments. In this case, said customers are bad investments. You really think that they bank is going to be overly upset if the a few dozen of the customers that just cost them upwards to a million bucks leave? Do you think that disabling internet accounts of people who have infected machines gives them a bad image, which would cause other customers to leave. I don't think so.
They'll call a SWAT team and have Joe's house raided. No proof. Sorry, Joe, for the mess. We're on to harassing the next person we vaguely suspect of illegal distribution.
Yes, but this is a different problem than the plague of DRM and other such things currently used on media. Watermarking is a lot nicer than invasive DRM (although I wonder about how it affects ownership exchange situation). The xxAA should not able to able to stage raids on public citizens like they do currently, but that's a different issue altogether and certainly shouldn't be considered a reason to look down on the use of watermarking.
I'm not a windows fanboy ('nix is my preferred OS), but why would the crooks pump out a linux binary or an OSX application in their scammy emails when probably 80-90% of the recipients are likely to use windows, and probably about 80-90% of linux/mac users are slightly more educated in terms of scammy emails.
This wasn't an automatically installed keylogged from the sounds of it, but rather one installed by dumb users. Windows has more users, so they email the windows users. PC's being more prevalent (and cheaper) plus windows being the preloaded OS, chances are the the less PC-educated are going to be using that OS too.
Much as I love linux (and macs aren't bad either), I'd have to say that in this case it's not so much of a case that the OS is insecure, but rather that the users are uneducated. If linux users suddenly skyrocketed, one could probably get similar results with a script that dumped a custom **firefox in the user folder with built-in keylogger, and then replaced the old firefox with the hacked version.
** Avoidable by having noexec on the home directory, but that's not generally a default setting, and could still be avoided by trolling for some other user-writeable + executable location to write insidious code...