This isn't about a new flaw in IE. RTFM. It's about a trojan who attaches itself to the Browser by an API.
It is an compressed Exe-File with a.gif ending. The user didn't run as admin and the Windows XP policy was in place so the file couldn't install. Through this it came to the admins attention. I guess Firefox wouldn't have be a more difficult target.
As soon as a trojan gets executed on your machine you can just hope you didn't do it with root-powers and that the trojan won't find a way to raise it's priviledges.
I am not at all surprised MS is making progress on this appeal. The ruling was really a piss poor way for the EU to flex its collective muscle against a US corporate giant.
I'm so tired of this black-white those-who-are-not-with-us-are-against-us stuff, it makes me wanna puke.
The EU court have fined and convicted so many EU corporations that it should have shown by now that they are doing what any court does: Applying its law and looking anyone gets what he deserves when he's trespassing it.
Do we have to discuss this everytime a US Corporation gets a slap from a non-US court? Pleeeeease....
Nanotubes are as toxic as Gen-modified ogranisms... they pose a potential thread to the current known environment... we just don't know if the thread is real or not, and in what way.
The thread comes from the size of nanotubes. Nanotubes are so small, that they can slip past your skin and later pierce a cell. Then within the cell nanotubes might influence how the cell reproduces... namly the DNA could be changed. Result: random mutation and possibly cancer.
That's what the Nanotube-danger gossip tells. Fact is, I haven't seen a single test with animals or smaller organisms exposed to nano-tech. Maybe Nanotubes aren't hazordous by themself. Maybe there are simple procedures or a mechanism to protect the environment from nano-tech, like self distruction when exposed to light or something.
If I understood you right. You say that you wouldn't want to see real-looking people die in a game that is supposed to be fun, for two reasons: - It would be too disgusting to see all the gory details. - Some would not be able to make the difference between fiction and real life and possibly mess it up.
For the first concern, lets look at the current movies. Todays movie-technology is perfectly suited to immerse people into a gory blood-fest. Some movies are good and can thus bring an interessting point of view on a subject (Apocalyps now, The Shining). Some don't. But most time mainstream film-makers don't touch this kind of genre... it's difficult to handle right and most people are not interested anyways. I guess it might be similar with gory real-looking games.
Your second concern is reality vs. fiction. I've got around 20 years of gaming on my back myself. I guess there is a distinction to be made among players... kids and grown-ups. Kids can be so totaly immersed that they can have a difficult time to snap back again into real life. This can be particularly difficult when kids take refugie in games because of social exclusion. Grown-ups don't have such problems. As soon as grown-ups sit down in front of a monitor, they know it is going to be virtual. The immersion can happen, but only for a short period of time. Afterwards you they remember that they killed a million *virtual* soldiers. The quality of the graphics doesn't really matter in the second case. They just don't have to imagine so many stuff like with the old games.
I'm infact a European citizen. But beeing a swiss (a citizen from switzerland) I'm not part of the EU (switzerland is an island surrounded by EU states). In switzerland, we got a thing we call direct democratie (no, has nothing do with MS). With this thing, a single person can start a petition and call for a vote to change the law or to turn over a decision made by the parlament (there is no senat or president who can pass laws here).
That said, if we would be part of the EU, all petitions would be usless... maybe the ratification of new laws could be disputed, I don't really know what kind of democracy the EU has.
But still, even though big corporations lobby for software patents, there are strong forces lobbying against it. Wouldn't that be the case, there would be software patents in the EU RIGHT NOW! I'm infact pretty optimistic that EU will remain software patent free.
I don't say our politicians aren't currupt here... I'm pretty sure most are. That said, i don't know any country who is in the position to point fingers at others. I mean, come-on. If the EU would be after the American Industries. It wouldn't roll it's heavy and slow-moving justice system against american enterprises. It would simply raise import-taxes on (say) foreign software products. This would be much faster and much more profitable. But the EU isn't doing such a thing, do they? But the US did exactly this with its the steel-import tax. Right?
So let's call it quits and be nice again. Ok? I'm too tiered for tits and tats between countries who are much more similar than different and who play into the games of their respective country politics.
I guess it's obvious that Windows with a Player is better than one without. But this is *not* the point.
The point is: OEM's need to be able to choose a MS-Mediaplayer competitor. And to date, MS would not allow OEMs to ship their Windows boxes with somehting else than the default Windows-Installation. With this regualtion, OEMs would have the choice to ship their windows installations with whatever they want.
From then on, normal market forces can come into play again (consumer wanting a good computer with a good player and-so-on)
No-one said Microsoft is going to to ship with Realplayer. All the EU is forcing them to do is to ship two versions: One with Windows Mediaplayer and one without.
That's all.
Like this the OEM might still choose to install additional software from third parties. But this won't be MS'es business. It's about choice. And you will be able to choose your ol' Windows with the Mediaplayer if you want to.
First health insurances are risk insurances. So generaly they don't know in advance who much will how much their customers in the future.
Second here in switzerland health insurances with many sick and old people get money from the insurances with less of them. The swiss government regulates the system. Everthing works fine.
As I'm explaining that... what if ISP's would have a similar solution with their download-happy customers?
I've read some 4-5 modded up comments from you and I'm with you here: ISP's need to make a profit to stay alive. No doubt about that.
So you open a shop. You guesstimate about how many of each customer will surf around with your unlimited-bandwith offer. You buy as much bandwith as you will need to satisfy the customers need and sell it with a small profit. Everyone enjoys fast surfing, everyone is happy.
Enters the kid that finds-out, that he should be able to download some movies with daddies new unlimited-bandwith connection. Daddy is okay with it, since knows he pays a flat rate. You become unhappy because some customers begin to use a lot more than rest of them. You begin to calculate how much you could spare, if you could get rid of your costy customers and begin to send "Warning" Letters to said customers.
Come-on, it's just so easy to see through this situation. How can an ISP no think, that some customers will use above-avarage of the bandwith *somehow*.
Know, this is letter sending is all still cool with me as long as it is stated such in the contract. But if you begin to rat out customers, and the costumer has no note about how exactly the service is accepted to be used, it's going to be False Advertising.
Do they run their XFS filesystem on HDD Drives on their ATM machines? With LCD Displays, connecting by TCP- and IP-protocol? Funny stuff from the united states of USA:)
I just skimmed through the article. They base their assumption upon the fact, that many IT-jobs are clerical and that they will move offshore.
I guess they might be right about that with the current situation. Still, 2015 is still 11 years ahead. I don't know ANY serious predictions in IT which go for 2+ years. IT is still changing fast and is changing faster every year. Who knows what kind of computer engineers will be needed for the new tools in 2+ years? And who knows how the outsourcing country economies will develop in 11 years?
I'd recommend to remain calm for now. Stay ahead with new technologies and don't panic.
Since we are talking about translations here, let me be your translation-nazi for this article, yes? Disclaimer: English isn't my first language either
under in english means a physical location. In other langugase such as german (unter) it can also describe sub-group from a mass of things. In english I would us the word among to describe that fact. So your sentence would look like this
For the non-french speaking among you: Xouvert means "X open".
Totally agree with you about your post. This year I almost switched to console because of the patching-party one has to go through. I wonder how my fellow gamers without broadband connections pull this through. This and the fact that many gaming shops don't host their patches anymore, instead they link to so-called mirrors where one needs to sign up to download those damn things! Thanks, but no-thanks, I won't sign-up for such crap. Thanks to p2p, to help me out here. CS-1.6 whould have been nightmare without it. Again I wonder how other people who just want install their game out of the box and just (rightly) expect them to work do this.
The only reason I buied a new PC instead of a console was, because I like to play with my clan on LAN-Parties. I wonder how long until Console will catch up there and provide Consoles with Lan-Party "Support"
Even if this helps the casual gamer (which would be waaay better running Windows anyway), this is in fact a regression from the free software perpective.
I tend to disagree. I know many casual gamers and many "hardcore" gamers. Most of them are power-users who don't yet know the guru stuff, but they have their friends-of-friends network. They know how to install anything (Hardware and Software) on their PC, as soon as something doesn't work out as expected, they ask their network and at the end they will have it working as they want. Generally Gamers are pretty young and have tons of time to burn. A gamer form my clan has caught up the Linux-bug somehow (It wasn't me, I didn't advocate much because of the poor support for general-known-Games for linux. I'm not linux-guru either). I tried to help were ever I could (First kernel recompile, first KDE-stuff messup, first W-LAN-Driver get going... UGH). After 2 months we had everything working on SUSE (after trying out Red-hat and Mandrake), WLAN and all his beloved games too. He went to a Linux-gettogether. He even shelled his hard-earned money to SUSE just to support it. And now he advocates Linux to his friends and will show it around on every LAN-Party...
That's why Website owner will register thier sites under two Domain: The current one for english-keyboard users, and the (orginal) foreign-named Domain
You seem to fear that the UN would be able regulate the internet tightly and biased toward Saudi Arabia or Syria. Since the UN hasn't acted in the interest of america and with the "for us or against us"-mantra, I can understand your distrust against the UN. In my eyes the UN is a democratic lead organisation where everyone has one vote. It doesn't back america, but it won't back Saudi Arabia or Syria either. But I guess, the UN would do if the majority of the UN pariticiping Nations would decide to do so.
Many on/. are americans. So I guess those won't really welcome the move from the UN side. But I am not american I can't speak for them.
I know many americans from chat rooms and the many other ways the internet offers. I have had as many good encounters as I have with non-virtual from my own country. Americans are good fellows. But as much I consider americas people to be ok, I got to say that I strongly dislike the americas politics toward other countries.
The internet is an international entity. I should be regulated by an internationl organisation. The UN might just fit this definition.
Midi-Maze. Ah, those were the days... Damn, this game was cool. No bots. No strafeing. A single wapon (configurable at the start). But endless fun with my friends. My first Lan parties experience too:))
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It is an compressed Exe-File with a .gif ending. The user didn't run as admin and the Windows XP policy was in place so the file couldn't install. Through this it came to the admins attention. I guess Firefox wouldn't have be a more difficult target.
As soon as a trojan gets executed on your machine you can just hope you didn't do it with root-powers and that the trojan won't find a way to raise it's priviledges.
I'm so tired of this black-white those-who-are-not-with-us-are-against-us stuff, it makes me wanna puke.
The EU court have fined and convicted so many EU corporations that it should have shown by now that they are doing what any court does: Applying its law and looking anyone gets what he deserves when he's trespassing it.
Do we have to discuss this everytime a US Corporation gets a slap from a non-US court? Pleeeeease....
Thanks for the link :)
The thread comes from the size of nanotubes. Nanotubes are so small, that they can slip past your skin and later pierce a cell. Then within the cell nanotubes might influence how the cell reproduces... namly the DNA could be changed. Result: random mutation and possibly cancer.
That's what the Nanotube-danger gossip tells. Fact is, I haven't seen a single test with animals or smaller organisms exposed to nano-tech. Maybe Nanotubes aren't hazordous by themself. Maybe there are simple procedures or a mechanism to protect the environment from nano-tech, like self distruction when exposed to light or something.
But maybe not. We shall see.
If I understood you right. You say that you wouldn't want to see real-looking people die in a game that is supposed to be fun, for two reasons:
- It would be too disgusting to see all the gory details.
- Some would not be able to make the difference between fiction and real life and possibly mess it up.
For the first concern, lets look at the current movies. Todays movie-technology is perfectly suited to immerse people into a gory blood-fest. Some movies are good and can thus bring an interessting point of view on a subject (Apocalyps now, The Shining). Some don't. But most time mainstream film-makers don't touch this kind of genre... it's difficult to handle right and most people are not interested anyways. I guess it might be similar with gory real-looking games.
Your second concern is reality vs. fiction. I've got around 20 years of gaming on my back myself. I guess there is a distinction to be made among players... kids and grown-ups. Kids can be so totaly immersed that they can have a difficult time to snap back again into real life. This can be particularly difficult when kids take refugie in games because of social exclusion. Grown-ups don't have such problems. As soon as grown-ups sit down in front of a monitor, they know it is going to be virtual. The immersion can happen, but only for a short period of time. Afterwards you they remember that they killed a million *virtual* soldiers.
The quality of the graphics doesn't really matter in the second case. They just don't have to imagine so many stuff like with the old games.
I'm infact a European citizen. But beeing a swiss (a citizen from switzerland) I'm not part of the EU (switzerland is an island surrounded by EU states). In switzerland, we got a thing we call direct democratie (no, has nothing do with MS). With this thing, a single person can start a petition and call for a vote to change the law or to turn over a decision made by the parlament (there is no senat or president who can pass laws here).
That said, if we would be part of the EU, all petitions would be usless... maybe the ratification of new laws could be disputed, I don't really know what kind of democracy the EU has.
But still, even though big corporations lobby for software patents, there are strong forces lobbying against it. Wouldn't that be the case, there would be software patents in the EU RIGHT NOW! I'm infact pretty optimistic that EU will remain software patent free.
I don't say our politicians aren't currupt here... I'm pretty sure most are. That said, i don't know any country who is in the position to point fingers at others. I mean, come-on. If the EU would be after the American Industries. It wouldn't roll it's heavy and slow-moving justice system against american enterprises. It would simply raise import-taxes on (say) foreign software products. This would be much faster and much more profitable. But the EU isn't doing such a thing, do they? But the US did exactly this with its the steel-import tax. Right?
So let's call it quits and be nice again. Ok? I'm too tiered for tits and tats between countries who are much more similar than different and who play into the games of their respective country politics.
Greets Herbiestone
This is offtopic but since you brought it up...
m -eat-dirt" remark have to do with anything?!
The EU is as to date still software patent free. As long as this is the case, I don't wanna hear any snide remarks about it.
And what does this "they-are-an-non-european-operation-lets-have-the
I guess it's obvious that Windows with a Player is better than one without. But this is *not* the point.
The point is: OEM's need to be able to choose a MS-Mediaplayer competitor. And to date, MS would not allow OEMs to ship their Windows boxes with somehting else than the default Windows-Installation. With this regualtion, OEMs would have the choice to ship their windows installations with whatever they want.
From then on, normal market forces can come into play again (consumer wanting a good computer with a good player and-so-on)
No-one said Microsoft is going to to ship with Realplayer. All the EU is forcing them to do is to ship two versions:
One with Windows Mediaplayer and one without.
That's all.
Like this the OEM might still choose to install additional software from third parties. But this won't be MS'es business.
It's about choice. And you will be able to choose your ol' Windows with the Mediaplayer if you want to.
HerbieStone out.
...and then there was this girl. I thought we had a nice relationship going, but then she dumped me.
When I asked her what went wrong, she shrugged and said: "... That's life." To that I replied: "No, that's you."
First health insurances are risk insurances. So generaly they don't know in advance who much will how much their customers in the future.
Second here in switzerland health insurances with many sick and old people get money from the insurances with less of them. The swiss government regulates the system. Everthing works fine.
As I'm explaining that... what if ISP's would have a similar solution with their download-happy customers?
So you open a shop. You guesstimate about how many of each customer will surf around with your unlimited-bandwith offer. You buy as much bandwith as you will need to satisfy the customers need and sell it with a small profit. Everyone enjoys fast surfing, everyone is happy.
Enters the kid that finds-out, that he should be able to download some movies with daddies new unlimited-bandwith connection. Daddy is okay with it, since knows he pays a flat rate. You become unhappy because some customers begin to use a lot more than rest of them. You begin to calculate how much you could spare, if you could get rid of your costy customers and begin to send "Warning" Letters to said customers.
Come-on, it's just so easy to see through this situation. How can an ISP no think, that some customers will use above-avarage of the bandwith *somehow*.
Know, this is letter sending is all still cool with me as long as it is stated such in the contract. But if you begin to rat out customers, and the costumer has no note about how exactly the service is accepted to be used, it's going to be False Advertising.
Do they run their XFS filesystem on HDD Drives on their ATM machines? With LCD Displays, connecting by TCP- and IP-protocol? Funny stuff from the united states of USA :)
I just skimmed through the article. They base their assumption upon the fact, that many IT-jobs are clerical and that they will move offshore.
I guess they might be right about that with the current situation. Still, 2015 is still 11 years ahead. I don't know ANY serious predictions in IT which go for 2+ years. IT is still changing fast and is changing faster every year. Who knows what kind of computer engineers will be needed for the new tools in 2+ years? And who knows how the outsourcing country economies will develop in 11 years?
I'd recommend to remain calm for now. Stay ahead with new technologies and don't panic.
Disclaimer: English isn't my first language either
under in english means a physical location. In other langugase such as german (unter) it can also describe sub-group from a mass of things. In english I would us the word among to describe that fact. So your sentence would look like this
For the non-french speaking among you: Xouvert means "X open".
The only reason I buied a new PC instead of a console was, because I like to play with my clan on LAN-Parties. I wonder how long until Console will catch up there and provide Consoles with Lan-Party "Support"
I tend to disagree. I know many casual gamers and many "hardcore" gamers. Most of them are power-users who don't yet know the guru stuff, but they have their friends-of-friends network. They know how to install anything (Hardware and Software) on their PC, as soon as something doesn't work out as expected, they ask their network and at the end they will have it working as they want.
Generally Gamers are pretty young and have tons of time to burn. A gamer form my clan has caught up the Linux-bug somehow (It wasn't me, I didn't advocate much because of the poor support for general-known-Games for linux. I'm not linux-guru either). I tried to help were ever I could (First kernel recompile, first KDE-stuff messup, first W-LAN-Driver get going... UGH). After 2 months we had everything working on SUSE (after trying out Red-hat and Mandrake), WLAN and all his beloved games too. He went to a Linux-gettogether. He even shelled his hard-earned money to SUSE just to support it. And now he advocates Linux to his friends and will show it around on every LAN-Party...
Conclusion: We need MORE gamers like that!
And that's also why registrars love it.
You seem to fear that the UN would be able regulate the internet tightly and biased toward Saudi Arabia or Syria. Since the UN hasn't acted in the interest of america and with the "for us or against us"-mantra, I can understand your distrust against the UN.
In my eyes the UN is a democratic lead organisation where everyone has one vote. It doesn't back america, but it won't back Saudi Arabia or Syria either. But I guess, the UN would do if the majority of the UN pariticiping Nations would decide to do so.
I know many americans from chat rooms and the many other ways the internet offers. I have had as many good encounters as I have with non-virtual from my own country. Americans are good fellows. But as much I consider americas people to be ok, I got to say that I strongly dislike the americas politics toward other countries.
The internet is an international entity. I should be regulated by an internationl organisation. The UN might just fit this definition.
Yeah, but could the Arnold Schwarzenegger mice become governor too?
Midi-Maze. Ah, those were the days... Damn, this game was cool. :))
No bots. No strafeing. A single wapon (configurable at the start). But endless fun with my friends. My first Lan parties experience too
Yup. And Duke-Nukem Forever will eat Half-Life 2s panties.
Q: How deep would a bunny hop into the woods?
A: Right into the middle of it, beyond that point he would be hoping out of the woods.
Have nice day.