The BBC is funded by a single licence fee per household, not by the number of TVs. You only need pay it in the UK if you use a TV to view television material (I believe console use is excluded, but significantly also if you view such material on the internet, so if you watch it, the licence fee will still be legally required, even if you don't have a TV.
I'd be interested as to how copyright for certain shows is going to be handled. A few BBC DVDs have already been cut significantly, e.g. for The Young Ones release, as, in that example, copyright to music used hadn't been resolved.
What happens if some of these functions don't quite work identically to Excel's in 0.1% of cases, be it for a bug in Excel or Gnumeric? I don't see much rush for converting existing work to Gnumeric, just because of this risk factor.
In the end, this sort of thing will drive away potential legitimate users also. Programs and their authors can get a bad reputation if they do things like this, and I'd be wary of buying and using a program that had reports of spyware like this in.
How exactly would a program go about detecting accurately whether it's cracked? I'd hate to get a virus infection, which changed the executable slightly, and then end up being accused of cracking the software.
That's actually a great potential use of this worm. Just hack it about a bit, restricting it to scanning university IP ranges, and making infected machines download the patch off a server on the LAN. And, to cover any privacy issues, just make it a condition of connecting to the university network.
One of the first things I disable in Windows is 'automatic updates', and a lot of people think it's intrusive and won't use this feature. However, the patch for this exploit has been out for a month, and yet thousands of users are getting affected by this, me included. If people did allow Windows to automatically update, or even took the time to update it themselves, this problem wouldn't have been nearly as bad.
Having said that, who here trusts Microsoft?
No, it's extraordinarily stupid. If it didn't crash the machine, most people who got it wouldn't even know they had a problem, and the worm would go on it's merry way for days or weeks, happily infecting other machines.
So, your idea of an 'intelligent' worm is one which spreads, but does absolutely nothing else? Guess that'll make big headlines...
A lot of people seem to think the executable is bugged, crashing the RPC service and causing Windows to shutdown. Seems like a good payload to me.
In my example, my computer shut down within a few minutes. This makes it exceedingly hard for people to find information and download a patch to fix it, yet at the same time, the trojan is scanning and infecting others while you're trying to fix it. I was struggling to download the patch on modem, took about 5 shutdowns until I had it.
Also, at this moment, the main cable provider in the UK seems swamped with this problem, and I don't think it'll go away fast.
Slashdot's server admins seem to like Futurama quite a lot, the server sends out an extra HTTP header with each query. e.g.
X-Bender: Well I don't have anything else planned for today, let's get drunk!
X-Fry: They're great! They're like sex except I'm having them.
Please do not go on a tirade about "stealing" or "copyright infringement" - I know technically what I do is illegal, but in principle, is what I do wrong?
Yes it is.. you need to share your mp3s!
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Now, my issue is.. why can't I easily help serve that file again?
You can, just open the torrent file again, and try to save the file to the same location you did before. It'll then check the file is OK and continue serving it for others.
Microsoft paid my university a visit a few months ago, and I was rather surprised to see that on one of their demo machines they actually had VMware installed, together with all sorts of Unix OSes configured, not something I'd have expected to see.
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The BBC is funded by a single licence fee per household, not by the number of TVs. You only need pay it in the UK if you use a TV to view television material (I believe console use is excluded, but significantly also if you view such material on the internet, so if you watch it, the licence fee will still be legally required, even if you don't have a TV.
Even if you managed to find the mysterious 2nd step, the BBC is a non-profit organisation, which is exactly why it can do something like this.
I'd be interested as to how copyright for certain shows is going to be handled. A few BBC DVDs have already been cut significantly, e.g. for The Young Ones release, as, in that example, copyright to music used hadn't been resolved.
With the huge bandwidth needed for a project like this, just wait til it's online and Slashdot links to it ;)
What happens if some of these functions don't quite work identically to Excel's in 0.1% of cases, be it for a bug in Excel or Gnumeric? I don't see much rush for converting existing work to Gnumeric, just because of this risk factor.
Gnumeric Now Supports All Excel Worksheet Functions - followed by this:
all of the worksheet functions in the U.S. version of MS Excel are now supported. Not quite 'All Excel Worksheet Functions' then...
So, the U.S. Excel version is missing stuff from other versions? Any idea what?
In the end, this sort of thing will drive away potential legitimate users also. Programs and their authors can get a bad reputation if they do things like this, and I'd be wary of buying and using a program that had reports of spyware like this in.
How exactly would a program go about detecting accurately whether it's cracked? I'd hate to get a virus infection, which changed the executable slightly, and then end up being accused of cracking the software.
That's actually a great potential use of this worm. Just hack it about a bit, restricting it to scanning university IP ranges, and making infected machines download the patch off a server on the LAN. And, to cover any privacy issues, just make it a condition of connecting to the university network.
One of the first things I disable in Windows is 'automatic updates', and a lot of people think it's intrusive and won't use this feature. However, the patch for this exploit has been out for a month, and yet thousands of users are getting affected by this, me included. If people did allow Windows to automatically update, or even took the time to update it themselves, this problem wouldn't have been nearly as bad. Having said that, who here trusts Microsoft?
So, your idea of an 'intelligent' worm is one which spreads, but does absolutely nothing else? Guess that'll make big headlines...
A lot of people seem to think the executable is bugged, crashing the RPC service and causing Windows to shutdown. Seems like a good payload to me. In my example, my computer shut down within a few minutes. This makes it exceedingly hard for people to find information and download a patch to fix it, yet at the same time, the trojan is scanning and infecting others while you're trying to fix it. I was struggling to download the patch on modem, took about 5 shutdowns until I had it. Also, at this moment, the main cable provider in the UK seems swamped with this problem, and I don't think it'll go away fast.
Pah, with a big pipe like that, I'm sure that even with a Dreamcast router, you could handle Slashdot :)
Slashdot's server admins seem to like Futurama quite a lot, the server sends out an extra HTTP header with each query. e.g. X-Bender: Well I don't have anything else planned for today, let's get drunk! X-Fry: They're great! They're like sex except I'm having them.
'See you on some other channel'
Yes it is.. you need to share your mp3s!
You can, just open the torrent file again, and try to save the file to the same location you did before. It'll then check the file is OK and continue serving it for others.
They never gave out any pirate software at the VS.NET demonstrations at my uni - people had to use their own CD-Rs.
In the UK, we have April Fools day too - whether thats a good thing or not, I'm not sure.
If geeks wouldn't want to install something with an EULA which gives the creators total power over you and your CPU, how is Windows XP so popular...?
Microsoft paid my university a visit a few months ago, and I was rather surprised to see that on one of their demo machines they actually had VMware installed, together with all sorts of Unix OSes configured, not something I'd have expected to see.