I've been working in the on-site support field for over a decade. I've seen the viruses get nastier and nastier.
It used to be that the virus got a hold of the system, maybe did a little damage or had a little fun. Sometimes it was pretty funny. Such as screwing with the mouse.
Then things started to get a little more serious. The virus would insinuate itself into the system folder and maybe IE. They stated doing tasks. Thus rose the botnets.
Then it became big business for people. The spreading of spam and fake anti-virus (that wanted you to purchase the "full version" so that you'd get rid of the virus they said you had) was the order of the day. They started blocking access to the run box, the task manager, and sites that might be able to help you (online virus scanners). They started killing the AV programs. They also replaced the explorer.exe and iexplore.exe files. Hell, they even go after Firefox, Chorme, and Opera.
They really get their hooks into in and don't want to let go because it means money. Big money. So I'm not surprised that AV programs are having a tough time getting rid of them. It hasn't been kiddies out for fun for a long time. Now it's all about professional programmers out to make an ill gotten buck.
I've been using it since the morning it came out (before it showed up on the home page, but was on the mirrors).
I haven't had any show stopping problems. I've found it to be waaay better than 9.04. The sound works far better (it used to not work for some apps), as does compiz.
Oddly, the only thing that didn't work about Ubuntu One. It complained that I had a version too new for the servers. *shrug*
Because, as they've shown time and time again, the big difference between them and Microsoft is the total amount of power wielded. They've made it known that they're a competitor in the Industry of Evil.
"Non-anthropomorphic causes of warming do not satisfactoryly explain the current warming tend."? You do know that this isn't the warmest the Earth's ever been, right?
I like how a less than one degree of change over the past 200 years is clearly not normal. What's even more interesting is that pro-global warming charts only go back 200 years or so (some go back 500 years). And not say...back past 10,000 years ago. Which was the end of the last ice age. Of which there have been many.
I'm not going to go so far as to say with 100% certainty that mankind isn't responsible for any of the warming. However, until you (and pro-global warming people like you) even acknowledge that the planet changes its temperate most of the time, I just can't take you seriously.
It common knowledge that nothing on this planet ever changes. Most certainly not the temperature or weather!
Of course, three thousand years ago, the Sahara was a savannah and not the desert it is today. But we all know that's just the product of oil companies' propaganda.
Very few countries didn't accept the UN findings on climate change, China and India both did for instance.
Do you think that they agreed to readily to it because the associate plan (The Kyoto Protocol) to deal with the problem didn't include them having to do anything?
The same thing works on sharks. I watched a Discovery show where they got the sharks into a feeding frenzy, dropped some of the repellent (dead shark material) into the water, and all of the sharks took off in seconds.
Thinking about it, I doubt very much that humans millennia ago smelled dead human and though, "Hey, I wonder what killed him. I'm going to go see."
When did the user that submitted the article ever mention anything about politics? Or race? The submitter is concerned with ramifications regarding personal rights.
You're the sort of person who just sits around waiting for anything even similar to a discussion so you can spew out your political beliefs and try to act holier-than-thou.
There's the running joke about slashdotters living in their parents basements and not having a life, but you really don't seem to a have a life. So put down the moral superiority and go get one.
The primary reason that they went extinct was due to a loss of food. The Maori hunted all of the moa species of bird (large and flightless) to extinction. Another prime example of natives living "in tune" with nature...
I was mostly being facicious. But!...what does the timing off a video card have to do with me setting the refresh rate too high and potentially damaging my monitor?
When I was setting up the X Server, it presented a warning telling me that if I set the refresh rate too high (for a given resolution) that I could permanently damage my monitor.
To someone who had just gotten into computers (and Windows at that), that was some scary stuff.
I did end up setting the refresh too high, but my monitor had a safety device that simply shut it off when I did that.
When I first gave Linux a try back 1998, I tried slackware. It came with a game called "X Server". If you won, you got to see pretty colors and stuff. If you lost, that's to say, if you set the refresh rate above what you monitor could take, you got a smoking monitor.
Okay, I'm a little shoddy on the details (this story was told to me years ago), but the gist of it stands.
An airline company wanted to improve the construction of their cockpits to withstand hitting a geese. So they went to NASA and essentially asked them to build a "bird gun". Simply put, it was a gun to fire a birds carcass (chicken) at the cockpit at speeds of a few hundred miles an hour.
So NASA built it for them and sent it off.
A few days later, NASA gets a call from the airline informing them that the gun was way more powerful than they'd asked for. The chicken went through the windshield, the pilots chair, and embedded itself into the bulkhead.
After a little back and forth, NASA figured out the problem. They told them, "There is no such thing as frozen flying birds. Next time, thaw the chicken first."
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I've been working in the on-site support field for over a decade. I've seen the viruses get nastier and nastier.
It used to be that the virus got a hold of the system, maybe did a little damage or had a little fun. Sometimes it was pretty funny. Such as screwing with the mouse.
Then things started to get a little more serious. The virus would insinuate itself into the system folder and maybe IE. They stated doing tasks. Thus rose the botnets.
Then it became big business for people. The spreading of spam and fake anti-virus (that wanted you to purchase the "full version" so that you'd get rid of the virus they said you had) was the order of the day. They started blocking access to the run box, the task manager, and sites that might be able to help you (online virus scanners). They started killing the AV programs. They also replaced the explorer.exe and iexplore.exe files. Hell, they even go after Firefox, Chorme, and Opera.
They really get their hooks into in and don't want to let go because it means money. Big money. So I'm not surprised that AV programs are having a tough time getting rid of them. It hasn't been kiddies out for fun for a long time. Now it's all about professional programmers out to make an ill gotten buck.
Next he can sue auto manufacturers for not making cars accessible to the blind.
I've been using it since the morning it came out (before it showed up on the home page, but was on the mirrors).
I haven't had any show stopping problems. I've found it to be waaay better than 9.04. The sound works far better (it used to not work for some apps), as does compiz.
Oddly, the only thing that didn't work about Ubuntu One. It complained that I had a version too new for the servers. *shrug*
Because, as they've shown time and time again, the big difference between them and Microsoft is the total amount of power wielded. They've made it known that they're a competitor in the Industry of Evil.
"Non-anthropomorphic causes of warming do not satisfactoryly explain the current warming tend."? You do know that this isn't the warmest the Earth's ever been, right?
I like how a less than one degree of change over the past 200 years is clearly not normal. What's even more interesting is that pro-global warming charts only go back 200 years or so (some go back 500 years). And not say...back past 10,000 years ago. Which was the end of the last ice age. Of which there have been many.
I'm not going to go so far as to say with 100% certainty that mankind isn't responsible for any of the warming. However, until you (and pro-global warming people like you) even acknowledge that the planet changes its temperate most of the time, I just can't take you seriously.
It common knowledge that nothing on this planet ever changes. Most certainly not the temperature or weather!
Of course, three thousand years ago, the Sahara was a savannah and not the desert it is today. But we all know that's just the product of oil companies' propaganda.
So long as PETA doesn't get involved, the issue of remote controlled animals will go fine.
Very few countries didn't accept the UN findings on climate change, China and India both did for instance.
Do you think that they agreed to readily to it because the associate plan (The Kyoto Protocol) to deal with the problem didn't include them having to do anything?
I used to think I was somewhat intelligent...and then I read your post... :(
The same thing works on sharks. I watched a Discovery show where they got the sharks into a feeding frenzy, dropped some of the repellent (dead shark material) into the water, and all of the sharks took off in seconds.
Thinking about it, I doubt very much that humans millennia ago smelled dead human and though, "Hey, I wonder what killed him. I'm going to go see."
I have nothing against SW: Galaxies, but I'm glad to see it failing. If only because Sony owns it.
I hope anything and everything that Sony touches fails miserably. They deserve it.
What the fuck are you babbling about?
When did the user that submitted the article ever mention anything about politics? Or race? The submitter is concerned with ramifications regarding personal rights.
You're the sort of person who just sits around waiting for anything even similar to a discussion so you can spew out your political beliefs and try to act holier-than-thou.
There's the running joke about slashdotters living in their parents basements and not having a life, but you really don't seem to a have a life. So put down the moral superiority and go get one.
The primary reason that they went extinct was due to a loss of food. The Maori hunted all of the moa species of bird (large and flightless) to extinction. Another prime example of natives living "in tune" with nature...
I was mostly being facicious. But!...what does the timing off a video card have to do with me setting the refresh rate too high and potentially damaging my monitor?
When I was setting up the X Server, it presented a warning telling me that if I set the refresh rate too high (for a given resolution) that I could permanently damage my monitor.
To someone who had just gotten into computers (and Windows at that), that was some scary stuff.
I did end up setting the refresh too high, but my monitor had a safety device that simply shut it off when I did that.
It comes with lots of cool games.
When I first gave Linux a try back 1998, I tried slackware. It came with a game called "X Server". If you won, you got to see pretty colors and stuff. If you lost, that's to say, if you set the refresh rate above what you monitor could take, you got a smoking monitor.
It was almost as scary as FEAR.
He "died of a...brain tumor" and then "blamed steroids."
I think he/shes are the least of our worries.
United 300
Jerkses: "But, but...we're over Cleveland!"
Leonidas: "The tonight we dine in...Ohio!"
Yeah, yeah, I know you're talking about Cleveland, UK.
http://www.torrentportal.com/torrents-details.php?id=3476802
They should make a game of your post.
Okay, I'm a little shoddy on the details (this story was told to me years ago), but the gist of it stands.
An airline company wanted to improve the construction of their cockpits to withstand hitting a geese. So they went to NASA and essentially asked them to build a "bird gun". Simply put, it was a gun to fire a birds carcass (chicken) at the cockpit at speeds of a few hundred miles an hour.
So NASA built it for them and sent it off.
A few days later, NASA gets a call from the airline informing them that the gun was way more powerful than they'd asked for. The chicken went through the windshield, the pilots chair, and embedded itself into the bulkhead.
After a little back and forth, NASA figured out the problem. They told them, "There is no such thing as frozen flying birds. Next time, thaw the chicken first."
You guys use falcons? That's just mean.
Really, who ties a falcon to a plane before lift off?!
when China becomes the new superpower
As an American, I think that the rest of the world deserves to have that happen.
He reads, but he does not understand...
I don't think you understand the purpose of the question mark?
Or you could try to understand that Slashdot is a US-centric website and tends to tell it from an American perspective.
Everything on the web doesn't need to be done from a perspective that you find acceptable.