just have your malware silently install a keylogger that grabs the user's credit card information whenever he types it in, and quietly sends out a copy of it to your drop site.
Why would Microsoft need to do that though? Haven't you seen their EULAs?
If Microsoft is not prepared to support their products on competitor's operating systems, they should not be allowed to develop closed formats, APIs or interfaces.
All you need to do is short out the fat storage mechanism, so that excess blood sugars are dumped into the urine instead of stored away.
No, that's trying to control the problem by fixing one of the symptoms. The actual problem is our appetite for more food than we can metabolise efficiently. The best approaches are to either find a way of switching the appetite mechanism on and off at will, or better still, find an alternate use for the metabolic response.
Personally, I think we should look at a way of altering our fat production processes to make high octane hydrocarbons instead. With the addition of an extra bladder to store the resultant fuel, we could have the capacity to power our own transport devices. Obviously, it would be a good idea to have a separate plumbing system to avoid contamination of the fuel with urine, so men would need to be fitted with an extra penis.
Come to think of it, I suspect a lot of people may have evolved this adaptation already. There's no way they could get that silly with just the one.
The headshets were way too bulky, expensive, and from my experience they always gave me a eyeache after an hour.
If they can solve all three of those problems then it would be accepted in the market place.
It's unlikely they'll solve the headache problem real soon. It's a result of your eyes having to focus on a screen a couple of cm away while your brain is interpreting the scene as being remote.
But i don't know if it'll turn out to be $500-worth. Rememeber, a full-fledged CAD package is in the vecinity of $700-800.
I've been using Sketchup for a couple of years now, and it's been well worth it to me. While it doesn't replace Autocad completely, i'm finding I'm using it a lot more often than Autocad, and often end up just using the traditional CAD package to do the final tweaks.
After four years of effort and $40,000,000,000 worth of revenue from their long-suffering customers, Microsoft succeeded in including a simple firewall with their operating system.
You're right, it is progress but somehow - and I can't quite put my finger on why - I'm feeling a little underwhelmed.
Then they slap a pretty label on the CD, package it in a bright colorful box extolling the virtues of the program and how it can do everything Microsoft Office can do including open Microsoft documents, include a quickstart manual with links to the website for more information, toss it onto the software shelf next to all the other Office Productivity software, and charge $5 for it.
The quickest way to learn Photoshop is to participate in competitions at sites which include forums. If you like an effect in an image, you can ask how things were done. http://photoshopcontest.com/ is one with a strong forum section, while http://www.fark.com/ and http://www.worth1000.com/ have some pretty cool comps as well.
Many of the experienced people in the competitions are generous about sharing tips and techniques. Some can be real pricks though, so develop a thick skin...
Unless everyone bought a $200+ player to listen to the same 10 songs over and over, they're getting songs from elsewhere, which must be illegally.
I have around 850 legally purchased CDs and about 300 vinyl records. The total cost of the collection would approach $20,000, and until recently I was buying a several new CDs every month. I have bought a few locally produced CDs over the past year or so, but none from the major ARIA/RIAA companies, and I have no intention of purchasing from those companies ever as a result of their unethical practices.
I welcome every dirty sleazy DRM effort the RIAA member companies attempt, because every trick they play, every downloader they harass, every squeeze they make, gives more traction and more income to the independant musicians who value their fans and make music for the sake of the music.
That's OK. I think we've just identified the origin of the "Slacker" part of your nick. I'm not sure if we want to go too deeply into the "Masked" bit though...
Microwaves. Very high powered, narrowly focused microwaves. You switch the unit on, put it to the wall, and if you hear a loud "OWWWWWWW!" from the other side of the wall, there's someone there.
Microsoft thus decided to test this premise by installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Pro 9.2, Mandrake 10, Linspire 4.5, Xandros Desktop 3.0, Fedora Core 3, Slackware 10.1, Knoppix 3.7; Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 out-of-the-box on older hardware to see what happened.
The real story here is how revealing this "Comparison" is about attitudes at Microsoft. They weren't interested in doing a valid test which might have been of some use in improving their product. All they were interested in doing was showing a competitor in a bad light, even if it meant blatantly rigging the test. This is an ostrich "head in the sand" trick.
It's because they refuse to accept fair comparison and competition, and to improve as a result of that competition that they continue to expose users to constant security risks.
I don't think so... did you see the elemental analyses?
Yes I did, but I don't believe it. I think they've messed up the analysis. SEMs are better suited to thin films than particulates, and the components listed in their analysis don't seem a good match for the physical characteristics of the particles.
If there actually is a high proportion of carbon in the material, it's likely to be from an iron-rich calcium carbonate meteorite instead.
From the paper: "Under low magnification the particles look like smooth, red coloured glass beads. Under high magnifications (1000x) their differences in size and shape can be seen,"
These are iron oxide chrondules from the vaporisation of a nickel-iron meteorite. There's no need to invoke aliens or intelligent designers.
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find out whether there actually have been any rouge WMF files floating around on the site?
Why are the red ones so bad? Wouldn't a blue one work as well?
just have your malware silently install a keylogger that grabs the user's credit card information whenever he types it in, and quietly sends out a copy of it to your drop site.
Why would Microsoft need to do that though? Haven't you seen their EULAs?
If Microsoft is not prepared to support their products on competitor's operating systems, they should not be allowed to develop closed formats, APIs or interfaces.
Okay, so which is it? 30% said IT problems were the top problem, but 63% said dealing with difficult people?
Both. 33% of people anthropomorphise their computers.
"Or at least have a much better chance of getting laid than most slashdotters."
<Aussie Mode>
Well, duh. Windows computers are _always_ getting rooted.
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All you need to do is short out the fat storage mechanism, so that excess blood sugars are dumped into the urine instead of stored away.
No, that's trying to control the problem by fixing one of the symptoms. The actual problem is our appetite for more food than we can metabolise efficiently. The best approaches are to either find a way of switching the appetite mechanism on and off at will, or better still, find an alternate use for the metabolic response.
Personally, I think we should look at a way of altering our fat production processes to make high octane hydrocarbons instead. With the addition of an extra bladder to store the resultant fuel, we could have the capacity to power our own transport devices. Obviously, it would be a good idea to have a separate plumbing system to avoid contamination of the fuel with urine, so men would need to be fitted with an extra penis.
Come to think of it, I suspect a lot of people may have evolved this adaptation already. There's no way they could get that silly with just the one.
What about legends about bathing in virgin's blood to maintain youth?
Gimme a break. If every Slashdotter contributed half a cc, you'd be drowning in the stuff.
The headshets were way too bulky, expensive, and from my experience they always gave me a eyeache after an hour.
If they can solve all three of those problems then it would be accepted in the market place.
It's unlikely they'll solve the headache problem real soon. It's a result of your eyes having to focus on a screen a couple of cm away while your brain is interpreting the scene as being remote.
But i don't know if it'll turn out to be $500-worth. Rememeber, a full-fledged CAD package is in the vecinity of $700-800.
I've been using Sketchup for a couple of years now, and it's been well worth it to me. While it doesn't replace Autocad completely, i'm finding I'm using it a lot more often than Autocad, and often end up just using the traditional CAD package to do the final tweaks.
Does anyone actually look at their keyboard?? I can't remember the last time I even saw mine!
Man, you really need to lose some weight.
I don't know of any major application or platform that doesn't have internal APIs and undocumented functions.
http://www.kernel.org/
Including a firewall with Windows is no progress?
After four years of effort and $40,000,000,000 worth of revenue from their long-suffering customers, Microsoft succeeded in including a simple firewall with their operating system.
You're right, it is progress but somehow - and I can't quite put my finger on why - I'm feeling a little underwhelmed.
Then they slap a pretty label on the CD, package it in a bright colorful box extolling the virtues of the program and how it can do everything Microsoft Office can do including open Microsoft documents, include a quickstart manual with links to the website for more information, toss it onto the software shelf next to all the other Office Productivity software, and charge $5 for it.
. jsp
Maybe you should be discussing your ideas with these guys;
http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index
Indeed it likely started when the Earth was still a rock with scum problem.
That'd be the triaassic era, right?
What's a vinyl record?
If you were English, you'd be saying "What's a hot sun?"
The quickest way to learn Photoshop is to participate in competitions at sites which include forums. If you like an effect in an image, you can ask how things were done. http://photoshopcontest.com/ is one with a strong forum section, while http://www.fark.com/ and http://www.worth1000.com/ have some pretty cool comps as well.
Many of the experienced people in the competitions are generous about sharing tips and techniques. Some can be real pricks though, so develop a thick skin...
Switching from Linux to Windows is like switching from girlfriend to wife.
Nah, that's bullshit. Windows goes down on me all the time.
Unless everyone bought a $200+ player to listen to the same 10 songs over and over, they're getting songs from elsewhere, which must be illegally.
I have around 850 legally purchased CDs and about 300 vinyl records. The total cost of the collection would approach $20,000, and until recently I was buying a several new CDs every month. I have bought a few locally produced CDs over the past year or so, but none from the major ARIA/RIAA companies, and I have no intention of purchasing from those companies ever as a result of their unethical practices.
I welcome every dirty sleazy DRM effort the RIAA member companies attempt, because every trick they play, every downloader they harass, every squeeze they make, gives more traction and more income to the independant musicians who value their fans and make music for the sake of the music.
"It seems like you are writing a letter, but emacs is busy running a complex LISP expression. Do you want me to suspend the process for you?"
m l option whenever emacs slows down the UI might make me a bit more cheerful.
That might not improve my mood, but having an automatic renice http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/renice.8.ht
Sorry about the lack of paragraphs
That's OK. I think we've just identified the origin of the "Slacker" part of your nick. I'm not sure if we want to go too deeply into the "Masked" bit though...
Microwaves. Very high powered, narrowly focused microwaves. You switch the unit on, put it to the wall, and if you hear a loud "OWWWWWWW!" from the other side of the wall, there's someone there.
Have a read of this article - the linked text and the comments below will make it clear./ 2322201&tid=109&tid=106
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/07
Microsoft thus decided to test this premise by installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Pro 9.2, Mandrake 10, Linspire 4.5, Xandros Desktop 3.0, Fedora Core 3, Slackware 10.1, Knoppix 3.7; Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 out-of-the-box on older hardware to see what happened.
The real story here is how revealing this "Comparison" is about attitudes at Microsoft. They weren't interested in doing a valid test which might have been of some use in improving their product. All they were interested in doing was showing a competitor in a bad light, even if it meant blatantly rigging the test. This is an ostrich "head in the sand" trick.
It's because they refuse to accept fair comparison and competition, and to improve as a result of that competition that they continue to expose users to constant security risks.
I don't think so... did you see the elemental analyses?
Yes I did, but I don't believe it. I think they've messed up the analysis. SEMs are better suited to thin films than particulates, and the components listed in their analysis don't seem a good match for the physical characteristics of the particles.
If there actually is a high proportion of carbon in the material, it's likely to be from an iron-rich calcium carbonate meteorite instead.
From the paper: "Under low magnification the particles look like smooth, red coloured glass beads. Under high magnifications (1000x) their differences in size and shape can be seen,"
These are iron oxide chrondules from the vaporisation of a nickel-iron meteorite. There's no need to invoke aliens or intelligent designers.