We had an excellent experience with Sears yesterday when we went to buy a stovetop. We wanted a Frigidaire and I was expecting the salesperson to try to steer us to store brands. But no one did. He just took our order and only asked once if we wanted the extended warranty (we didn't). And this isn't the first time I've had good experiences with Sears.
That contrasted with buying a TV at Best Buy last year with my father. I've never heard a salesman put down his own product so in order to try to sell us a PRP. "Oh, those flat screen TV's are terrible. They don't last much more than a year." He didn't succeed either, but we went out of the store feeling dirty, like we'd been in a fleabag motel. Never again.
This is nothing but predatory practice on the part of some lawyers who discovered (belatedly) that Google has the money and maybe they can take some of it. Trademarks are almost always product-specific. So you can have a newspaper named "Onion" and a nightclub named "The Onion" and no infringement exists. How can anyone expect to retain all rights to the word "googol" (or anything that sounds like "googol")? There are too damn many lawyers in the world.
Whether or not the findings have any validity,
their website designer is certainly not doing them any favors. Not
with those bold, sensationalistic headlines and
dramatic picture. It looks like something out of
a tabloid rather than a serious, scientific report.
We seem to be somewhat divided on whom to blame for these virus and other attacks. Micro$oft is an easy choice since it was their code. And they're supposed to get all of the bugs out of it before they sell it. Right? That's what we do. We never ship any code that still has bugs in it.
Or we could blame the victims. They should have installed patch xyz123foo. "It was announced weeks ago." And some of them may have spread the virus to other computers. Maybe we should fire them, as someone suggested, and hire people with even less knowledge.
No, I think all this just avoids facing the fact that these viruses (and all the other various worms, trojan horses, and even spam) came from the hand of a computer expert, a hacker, nerd, geek. One of us. I know you don't write viruses and I certainly don't but when we blame Micro$oft or computer users, we are pointing the blame away from the group which certainly deserves it: a small but very destructive subset of us.
So I think we should find these people who are engaging in network terrorism and throw them in jail. These are not heroes, folks. These are terrorists. If we knew who they were, we should be turning them in and stop wasting our efforts blaming Micro$oft. God knows there are plenty of other things to blame them for.
"noone" is not a word. It is not in the
dictionary. You've made an excellent point
in your post, but it's tarnished, at least to
my eye, when I see you use things like "noone."
Look it up and use "No one" next time. Two words.
Thank you.
Not quite the same thing, Sam. M-x occur (return) foo (return) gives you a list of hits which you can then click on and go to that place in the file. But you can't edit this list and make changes in the file.
In Kedit (and XEDIT), "all" actually hid lines from view, so what you saw were the actual lines in the file.
I've been using Kedit ever since it came out for DOS and I still use it for all my Win32 work. It has one feature I haven't seen in any other editor. You can enter the command (yes, it has a command line!!) "all/foo/" and it will hide all lines except those with foo in them. Makes it easy to see everything you're interested in in one place.
And yes, it has a REXX as it's scripting language. But much more powerful than any other editor (unless you're a LISP hacker using EMACS), it will let you write a script that will respond to any particular keystroke -- even single letters. And while most editors let you cut and paste streams, Kedit lets you also cut and paste lines and blocks.
I use XEMACS for all my UNIX work, which is most of what I get paid for, but for an easily-programmable editor, nobody has yet written anything that beats Kedit.
And it just keeps on running. I am using the same binary I bought 10 years ago. It's survived 95, 98, ME, 2000, and now is running like a champ on XP. Just keeps going and going.
Kevin, if you're still around and following this, well done!!!
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We had an excellent experience with Sears yesterday when we went to buy a stovetop. We wanted a Frigidaire and I was expecting the salesperson to try to steer us to store brands. But no one did. He just took our order and only asked once if we wanted the extended warranty (we didn't). And this isn't the first time I've had good experiences with Sears.
That contrasted with buying a TV at Best Buy last year with my father. I've never heard a salesman put down his own product so in order to try to sell us a PRP. "Oh, those flat screen TV's are terrible. They don't last much more than a year." He didn't succeed either, but we went out of the store feeling dirty, like we'd been in a fleabag motel. Never again.
Well, they can't be trained too well or they'd have enough sense to stay away from those land mines.
This is nothing but predatory practice on the part of some lawyers who discovered (belatedly) that Google has the money and maybe they can take some of it. Trademarks are almost always product-specific. So you can have a newspaper named "Onion" and a nightclub named "The Onion" and no infringement exists. How can anyone expect to retain all rights to the word "googol" (or anything that sounds like "googol")? There are too damn many lawyers in the world.
Whether or not the findings have any validity, their website designer is certainly not doing them any favors. Not with those bold, sensationalistic headlines and dramatic picture. It looks like something out of a tabloid rather than a serious, scientific report.
Or we could blame the victims. They should have installed patch xyz123foo. "It was announced weeks ago." And some of them may have spread the virus to other computers. Maybe we should fire them, as someone suggested, and hire people with even less knowledge.
No, I think all this just avoids facing the fact that these viruses (and all the other various worms, trojan horses, and even spam) came from the hand of a computer expert, a hacker, nerd, geek. One of us. I know you don't write viruses and I certainly don't but when we blame Micro$oft or computer users, we are pointing the blame away from the group which certainly deserves it: a small but very destructive subset of us.
So I think we should find these people who are engaging in network terrorism and throw them in jail. These are not heroes, folks. These are terrorists. If we knew who they were, we should be turning them in and stop wasting our efforts blaming Micro$oft. God knows there are plenty of other things to blame them for.
"noone" is not a word. It is not in the dictionary. You've made an excellent point in your post, but it's tarnished, at least to my eye, when I see you use things like "noone." Look it up and use "No one" next time. Two words. Thank you.
Not quite the same thing, Sam. M-x occur (return) foo (return) gives you a list of hits which you can then click on and go to that place in the file. But you can't edit this list and make changes in the file.
In Kedit (and XEDIT), "all" actually hid lines from view, so what you saw were the actual lines
in the file.
I've been using Kedit ever since it came out for DOS and I still use it for all my Win32 work. It has one feature I haven't seen in any other editor. You can enter the command (yes, it has a command line!!) "all /foo/" and it will hide all lines except those with foo in them. Makes it easy to see everything you're interested in in one place.
And yes, it has a REXX as it's scripting language. But much more powerful than any other editor (unless you're a LISP hacker using EMACS), it will let you write a script that will respond to any particular keystroke -- even single letters. And while most editors let you cut and paste streams, Kedit lets you also cut and paste lines and blocks.
I use XEMACS for all my UNIX work, which is most of what I get paid for, but for an easily-programmable editor, nobody has yet written anything that beats Kedit.
And it just keeps on running. I am using the same
binary I bought 10 years ago. It's survived 95, 98, ME, 2000, and now is running like a champ on XP. Just keeps going and going.
Kevin, if you're still around and following this, well done!!!