"To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this file from showing active content that could access your computer. Click here for options..."
Quite nice really
FF completely blows on Windows, and contrary to the sibling poster, the menus are not available.
Wheres the vulnerability? when does the spyware attack? Do I need to reinstall Windows? Should I buy a virus checker?
Anyone stupid enough to host this "exploit" on their site are just dumb, "oooooh it makes your firefox freeze" BFD - stay away from dodgy parts of the net
(goatse is a bigger "exploit" and generally leads to complete machine shutdown/restart as you attempt to hide it from your colleagues)
I generally close my email package down entirely after dealing with the morning rush. I then open it up again once after lunch and make sure nothing vital has happened.
Unless I am specifically expecting something, it can wait. If indeed it cannot wait I will have a call or somebody shouting over.
Email is not meant to be instant and unless its part of your job you should not let it dictate how you work.
Was Pitfall. Did they remake that recently or something?
I loved playing that game years ago, they don't make em like that any more.
On the real subject of indies, I am finding Linux to be a wonderful world of shareware from way back when. Looking around finding decent gems hidden away in the repositories and distros. Sooner or later these will be polished and will become the must have games of tomorrow.
The bedroom coder is up there right now making the software, give it time:)
These screens sound more and more like the novelty cards, and will need a switch on the page otherwise the batteries will flatten before you buy them.
So... just wait a couple of hours with the page open, and then carefully start hacking. I think you could have a usable display soon afterwards.
One other thing, I went looking at their methods and this paper is not the same as e-ink, they say on the website (link below) it doesn't hold its display without power.
(On the Siemens
website, they talk more about it, the method they are using involves electrochromic substances, and there is an example of one such film being built here)
Ad Block v2 incorporates a nifty tool called scissors.
Or you could use the old faithful and black marker them out.
I would personally hate to pick up a newspaper and have the same problems as the web. It also takes away my biggest argument against web-adverts "You don't see magazine adverts jumping around and flashing about".
MSN messenger disables all sounds and doesn't "pop" messages to the front if you set yourself to busy, but sometimes the human factor kicks in and you simply forget to do it.
It makes you jump every time.
The sound is useful, and wouldn't really be annoying if it was just quieter. So far the only way to achieve this has been to use alternate samples, this Vista method sounds much simpler:)
Usually I have the media player turned all the way up, and also the other main audio all the way up - simply because movie files often come with very low level audio.
Then, as the GP points out, someone IMs you and you jump out of your seat.
Being able to lower the volume of everything except the media player is whats needed, and it looks like they are adding it:)
Devil's BSD writes "It seems like the latest MyDoom worm variant has caused a bit of an Internet storm. Google, at this time (12:28 EDT), is returning 503 errors on all queries submitted from certain locations. The MyDoom variant searches the user's address book for email domains (i.e. @yahoo.com) and searches various engines (such as Google) for email addresses in that domain."
Go and read the article and see what peoples reaction is, there are literally hundreds of people posting saying "its working over here" and "omg i just tried it and its dead over here".
Everyone I know was saying "have you heard about google being down?", I mustv had around 50 IMs and emails asking about it, it was a big deal, and only settled down after a couple of days and people stopped worrying about it.
I was only light on details because (wrongly) I assumed most tech ppl would remember such an event.
the problem with most DOS attacks that hit the news is once it hits the news, thousands of individual web users from around the world all click the link just to see if the site is still down.
Each person doing that is unwittingly taking part in the DOS attack. If you think slashdot effect is bad, think about the slashdot AND routers/yahoo/NYT/humble news sties all ganging up on one site.
This is how googlewent down recently, not because of the worms activity, but because of peoples curiosity. Sure, the worm had an effect, but nowhere near as bad as the casual knock on effect of browsing.
How many times have you done the following:
Seen a story saying xyz.com is under attack. Your action - "is it still under attack?".....CLICK.........no response............CLICK CLICK..... "Yep, its still down".
if thats similar to your actions, congrats, you are personally a bot:)
Its much more believable if you think the "big cat" is just a smaller cat hung between the camera and the guy. It also makes it more believable that the bullet blew its head clean off.
Yes, the cat mightv had a big fat tail, but this guy shouldv given more evidence than an easily mocked up picture and a bit of tail (we don;t know if its the full thing or just a small end piece)
Why not just add a law mandating documented file formats? Even if your company goes bust, your customers data should remain accessible.
How the data is used privately should be up to the customer, and is not the concern of the producer. We will have laws soon telling us how to use toilet roll, and inspectors coming round arresting us for unlicensed operations.
Laws are already in place for improper sharing of copyrighted materials, so why on earth do we need anything else?
The only true "Cure" is palladium/Trusted Computing.
Since the backlash from that would be too great at present, its not going to happen. As long as an process can run with administrator rights, then any system will be insecure (yes, even Linux OSX etc)
The balancing trick everyone is looking for is running the system as a restricted user, but still allowing the users power to do everything they want with their computer not getting in the way.
Antivirus/malware detection and scanning tools will be needed until Palladium arrives.
Alright, something makes me shudder about these new dvd formats. Single electronic copy. This implies heavy DRM, I doubt I can copy and play on Linux, nor can I copy it to an Archos player.
Now the on topic part, with no region encoding, the hackers have no legitimate reason to hack the format and so judges and lawyers can't fight against it (wasn't the console hacks sold on this premise?)
These disks worry me, and it will be a long time before I even consider one.
Just so I didn't look like a fool in that event, I went out and tested my car. The manual locks have never been used since day one (1999 model) and worked perfectly, though felt extremely strange turning the key.
My advice to everyone - go test your locks because the parent makes an excellent point.
Keys are a tried and tested, secure and relatively intelligent way to secure a house. I would hate to be locked out of my house because of a power cut (battery charge doesn't last forever), or ignored because I'm drenched (and can't be recognised).
This is a solution searching for a problem.
(Having said that, electronic locks in addition to manual gives best of both worlds (like incar central locking)
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Actually, IE doesn't fall for it.
It displays a box at the top informing me:
"To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this file from showing active content that could access your computer. Click here for options..."
Quite nice really
FF completely blows on Windows, and contrary to the sibling poster, the menus are not available.
This can freeze your browser.
Wheres the vulnerability? when does the spyware attack? Do I need to reinstall Windows?
Should I buy a virus checker?
Anyone stupid enough to host this "exploit" on their site are just dumb,
"oooooh it makes your firefox freeze" BFD - stay away from dodgy parts of the net
(goatse is a bigger "exploit" and generally leads to complete machine shutdown/restart as you attempt to hide it from your colleagues)
Why didn't you submit it 5 days ago then?
I tried to, but strangely my connection kept going do%^!$%[NO_CARRIER]
I generally close my email package down entirely after dealing with the morning rush.
I then open it up again once after lunch and make sure nothing vital has happened.
Unless I am specifically expecting something, it can wait. If indeed it cannot wait I will have a call or somebody shouting over.
Email is not meant to be instant and unless its part of your job you should not let it dictate how you work.
Was Pitfall. Did they remake that recently or something?
:)
I loved playing that game years ago, they don't make em like that any more.
On the real subject of indies, I am finding Linux to be a wonderful world of shareware from way back when.
Looking around finding decent gems hidden away in the repositories and distros.
Sooner or later these will be polished and will become the must have games of tomorrow.
The bedroom coder is up there right now making the software, give it time
Take the batteries out of them.
These screens sound more and more like the novelty cards, and will need a switch on the page otherwise the batteries will flatten before you buy them.
So... just wait a couple of hours with the page open, and then carefully start hacking.
I think you could have a usable display soon afterwards.
One other thing, I went looking at their methods and this paper is not the same as e-ink, they say on the website (link below) it doesn't hold its display without power.
(On the Siemens
website, they talk more about it, the method they are using involves electrochromic substances, and there is an example of one such film being built here)
Ad Block v2 incorporates a nifty tool called scissors.
:)
Or you could use the old faithful and black marker them out.
I would personally hate to pick up a newspaper and have the same problems as the web.
It also takes away my biggest argument against web-adverts "You don't see magazine adverts jumping around and flashing about".
great. just great.
On the other hand, it would be great for ebooks
MSN messenger disables all sounds and doesn't "pop" messages to the front if you set yourself to busy, but sometimes the human factor kicks in and you simply forget to do it.
:)
It makes you jump every time.
The sound is useful, and wouldn't really be annoying if it was just quieter. So far the only way to achieve this has been to use alternate samples, this Vista method sounds much simpler
Actually, no you can't.
:)
Usually I have the media player turned all the way up, and also the other main audio all the way up - simply because movie files often come with very low level audio.
Then, as the GP points out, someone IMs you and you jump out of your seat.
Being able to lower the volume of everything except the media player is whats needed, and it looks like they are adding it
I wonder what these quarks sound like, smell like, or feel like.
Based on the universal poultry constant, the answer is intuitively Chicken.
Posted by CmdrTaco on 18:20 23rd October, 2001
from the well-thats-not-very-exciting dept.
If your logged in, you get to choose the display format
Preferences/Homepage tab/ "Date/Time Format".
Why didn't you submit it after you read it then?
:P
Slashdot operates and gets stories because people like you search the web and submit interesting things you find.
I hold you personally responsible for the lateness of this article.
I couldn't quite hear you.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/26/164924 5
The article head reads thus:
Devil's BSD writes "It seems like the latest MyDoom worm variant has caused a bit of an Internet storm. Google, at this time (12:28 EDT), is returning 503 errors on all queries submitted from certain locations. The MyDoom variant searches the user's address book for email domains (i.e. @yahoo.com) and searches various engines (such as Google) for email addresses in that domain."
Go and read the article and see what peoples reaction is, there are literally hundreds of people posting saying "its working over here" and "omg i just tried it and its dead over here".
Everyone I know was saying "have you heard about google being down?", I mustv had around 50 IMs and emails asking about it, it was a big deal, and only settled down after a couple of days and people stopped worrying about it.
I was only light on details because (wrongly) I assumed most tech ppl would remember such an event.
the problem with most DOS attacks that hit the news is once it hits the news, thousands of individual web users from around the world all click the link just to see if the site is still down.
.....CLICK.... .....no response..... .......CLICK CLICK.....
:)
Each person doing that is unwittingly taking part in the DOS attack.
If you think slashdot effect is bad, think about the slashdot AND routers/yahoo/NYT/humble news sties all ganging up on one site.
This is how googlewent down recently, not because of the worms activity, but because of peoples curiosity.
Sure, the worm had an effect, but nowhere near as bad as the casual knock on effect of browsing.
How many times have you done the following:
Seen a story saying xyz.com is under attack.
Your action -
"is it still under attack?"
"Yep, its still down".
if thats similar to your actions, congrats, you are personally a bot
The only problem I see here is that not everything is microwave safe.
How do oyu microwave your brand new microwave?
What happens when your steel toe capped boots go in there?
Will the fabric on your GFs dress screw up if you you zap it?
Will the DVD you just bought be playable or writable?
thats just a few thoughts, but microwaving should be safe... YMMV
Its much more believable if you think the "big cat" is just a smaller cat hung between the camera and the guy.
It also makes it more believable that the bullet blew its head clean off.
Yes, the cat mightv had a big fat tail, but this guy shouldv given more evidence than an easily mocked up picture and a bit of tail (we don;t know if its the full thing or just a small end piece)
Why not just add a law mandating documented file formats?
Even if your company goes bust, your customers data should remain accessible.
How the data is used privately should be up to the customer, and is not the concern of the producer. We will have laws soon telling us how to use toilet roll, and inspectors coming round arresting us for unlicensed operations.
Laws are already in place for improper sharing of copyrighted materials, so why on earth do we need anything else?
The only true "Cure" is palladium/Trusted Computing.
Since the backlash from that would be too great at present, its not going to happen.
As long as an process can run with administrator rights, then any system will be insecure (yes, even Linux OSX etc)
The balancing trick everyone is looking for is running the system as a restricted user, but still allowing the users power to do everything they want with their computer not getting in the way.
Antivirus/malware detection and scanning tools will be needed until Palladium arrives.
Its not the external threats MS should be thinking of.
Its the users clicking on "Britney spears naked sex pictures.mpeg.exe" and actually expecting to stay safe.
Alright, something makes me shudder about these new dvd formats.
Single electronic copy. This implies heavy DRM, I doubt I can copy and play on Linux, nor can I copy it to an Archos player.
Now the on topic part, with no region encoding, the hackers have no legitimate reason to hack the format and so judges and lawyers can't fight against it (wasn't the console hacks sold on this premise?)
These disks worry me, and it will be a long time before I even consider one.
Damn good point.
Just so I didn't look like a fool in that event, I went out and tested my car. The manual locks have never been used since day one (1999 model) and worked perfectly, though felt extremely strange turning the key.
My advice to everyone - go test your locks because the parent makes an excellent point.
Keys are a tried and tested, secure and relatively intelligent way to secure a house.
I would hate to be locked out of my house because of a power cut (battery charge doesn't last forever), or ignored because I'm drenched (and can't be recognised).
This is a solution searching for a problem.
(Having said that, electronic locks in addition to manual gives best of both worlds (like incar central locking)
Hey, innovation comes along.
I remember hearing about Perpendicular drives. You can buy them now.
(Ok, I know its not a huge advance, but I like the marketting, so its mentioned here)
Its not slow.
Somebody subscribed the reader to www.google.com/reader/rss and now its dissapeared up its own arse.