that the actual exploit was released under the GPL... this means that anyone who takes it and modifies it has to release their improvements if they then proceed to distribute it... so if anyone does get infected, please get the person you got it from sued by Gnu for failing to make the source code available as well...
keep resetting the default search back to msn everytime the AOL client gets launched despite the customer's preferences...
If they do do this, then they can find themselves right back in court for abusing their monopoly position...
There is no other way they can possibly hurt Google except by continuously FUDding them into the ground with scare stories about Google being a gateway to pron and/or whatever the current bête noir is... remember, think of the children...
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even better is the fact that most auditing software doesn't look for Java games... they ignore.jar files, which means you only have to get the game downloaded once... you don't have to keep going online to play them... and you can even email yourself games you've found while browsing at home.
they get away with it by using the CD-Text standard... it lets them put a "CD" logo on the disk... it takes a sharp eye to note that the word in the logo is "Text" and not "Audio". "Joe Public" doesn't know the difference anyway, he's been well trained to just look for the "CD" logo and not the actual standard.
Features??? all they can do is play music... that's all... mp3 players are two a fscking penny nowadays... they'll be giving them away with the cornflakes next, just like calculators... if you want to do anything else with an iPod, you've got to hack them... all iPods have now over the other MP3 players, is a perceived image of coolness... but that's gone now as everybody andhis dog has got one...
What I like about Microsoft-related articles is that they're all the same. Take an article about Windows 95 and compare it with an article about Vista. Nothing has changed. More eyecandy, more possibilities, easier than ever, more features. But while they were adequate in 1995, they don't get the picture in 2005. People are tired of continuosly paying for upgrades just to get more features they don't need. I use a Pentium III and won't upgrade my CPU because I don't need to. Everything works, any app I install won't give a message that I need to pay for a new PC. I'm able to even play Doom3 in low-res
You do realise that Microsoft couldn't give a 5h1t3 about you and your PIII...they got their money off you long ago... there's plenty more fools about that will believe their hype about their wonderfull new version of windows... as PT Barnum is famously misquoted as saying, "there's a fool born every minute", Microsoft will continue to exist purely because of these new fools...
iPods are NOT cool anymore if every Tom, Dick and Harriette has one... you want coolness??/ get yourself one of these babies... while they're only listening to music, you can be watching movies... playing games, reading a book or listening to music as well...
Linux is pre-installed on computers because it's free and the purchase price is more dear in China than in the US. It's promptly replaced by a pirated copy of Windows, which (in cities, at least) is never more than a 5 minute walk away.
You honestly believe that Linux gets replaced by a pirated copy of windows??? why on earth would anyone want to revert to such a resource hungry insecure OS??? I dumped windows back in '99 and have never been happier... I laugh whenever my co-workers complain about viruses etc. on their windows boxes... do I miss any of the features in windows??? NO. I have always been happy since dumping that shite... for Games I have a PS2... for everything else, I HAVE LINUX.
ps. my daughter finds the trials and tribulations of her windows using friends highly amusing as well... they're always having to disinfect their computers, but her computer just keeps on running... she can't understand why on earth they persist with windows...
well whoever makes them... I want one... I was going to get an Ipod for Xmas and stick Linux on it, but this beastie is far more usefull and cooler than an iPod... iPods.. every Tom, Dick and Harry's got one... far too common...
I have a palm Tungsten E and I love reading E-Books on it.
it's bloody useless in bright light though isn't it... that Palm colour display is great indoors out of direct sunshine or at night, but is absolutely useless when you take it into bright light... even with the BLOFF (backlight off) utility, it's damn near impossible to read it if you're in the sunshine... and at night, when you're trying to do serious stuff like astronomy, it's too damn bright at the normal minimum
you may find yourself forced to go for the upgrade though... when the latest version of your "can't do without" program will only run on Vista...
Firm I was working for last year was finally having to upgrade from win95 and office 97 cos Autocad no longer supported win95 and their customers where sending them drawings in the new formats
how would you like it if the very next version of photoshop for windows only runs on Vista???
I wouldn't be particularly surprised if the next major version of DirectX was only for Vista and new games required it.
Lotus v Borland is what applies here... and it went all the way to the supreme court where they punted it leaving the appeal decision standing, neither confirmed nor denied... so currently, menu structure is NOT "copyrightable"
Conclusion
Because we hold that the Lotus menu command hierarchy is uncopyrightable subject matter, we further hold that Borland did not infringe Lotus's copyright by copying it. Accordingly, we need not consider any of Borland's affirmative defenses. The judgment of the district court is
Ubuntu take a snapshot of Sid every six months and then work on that to get it good enough for release... DCC is based on Debian Stable... currently Sarge.
I like Ubuntu cos the apps are more up to date. Currently KDE3.4 as opposed to 3.3? and Xorg as opposed to xfree86... I'm currently playing with Breezy on my testing box and it's very nice... latest Gnome 3.12 as opposed to 3.8 on Sarge...
I reserve Debian stable for my workhorse server...
We are still in a world where an attack like the slammer worm combined with a PC BIOS eraser or disk locking tool could wipe out half the PCs exposed to the internet in a few hours. In a sense we are fortunate that most attackers want to control and use systems they attack rather than destroy them.
cos if they actually destroyed them, then people would take proper care... apparently, it's quite normal for people to view their ms-windows boxes filling up with vermin etc. as just a fact of computer life... they only do something when they can't get online anymore... and then it now appears cheaper to buy a new box than get the damned thing fixed properly...
It can be effectively killed by requiring producers to be licensed and to conform to a content rating system... it's amazing how beaurocracy can be used to tie people up in regulations and other cr4p so that people give up rather than submit to the byzantine maze of getting approval.
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that the actual exploit was released under the GPL... this means that anyone who takes it and modifies it has to release their improvements if they then proceed to distribute it... so if anyone does get infected, please get the person you got it from sued by Gnu for failing to make the source code available as well...
keep resetting the default search back to msn everytime the AOL client gets launched despite the customer's preferences...
If they do do this, then they can find themselves right back in court for abusing their monopoly position...
There is no other way they can possibly hurt Google except by continuously FUDding them into the ground with scare stories about Google being a gateway to pron and/or whatever the current bête noir is... remember, think of the children...
correct, we do not want the source code, just properly documented APIs that aren't encumbered with ridiculous licensing agreements...
same old, same old... Microsoft upsetting people again...
contender ready.....
even better is the fact that most auditing software doesn't look for Java games... they ignore .jar files, which means you only have to get the game downloaded once... you don't have to keep going online to play them... and you can even email yourself games you've found while browsing at home.
they get away with it by using the CD-Text standard... it lets them put a "CD" logo on the disk... it takes a sharp eye to note that the word in the logo is "Text" and not "Audio". "Joe Public" doesn't know the difference anyway, he's been well trained to just look for the "CD" logo and not the actual standard.
Me too, welcome to the real world... :)
Features??? all they can do is play music... that's all... mp3 players are two a fscking penny nowadays... they'll be giving them away with the cornflakes next, just like calculators... if you want to do anything else with an iPod, you've got to hack them... all iPods have now over the other MP3 players, is a perceived image of coolness... but that's gone now as everybody and his dog has got one...
fine words from an "anonymous coward"... nuff' said... as far as I'm concerned, iPods are for the herd...
You do realise that Microsoft couldn't give a 5h1t3 about you and your PIII...they got their money off you long ago... there's plenty more fools about that will believe their hype about their wonderfull new version of windows... as PT Barnum is famously misquoted as saying, "there's a fool born every minute", Microsoft will continue to exist purely because of these new fools...
iPods are NOT cool anymore if every Tom, Dick and Harriette has one... you want coolness??/ get yourself one of these babies... while they're only listening to music, you can be watching movies... playing games, reading a book or listening to music as well...
You honestly believe that Linux gets replaced by a pirated copy of windows??? why on earth would anyone want to revert to such a resource hungry insecure OS??? I dumped windows back in '99 and have never been happier... I laugh whenever my co-workers complain about viruses etc. on their windows boxes... do I miss any of the features in windows??? NO. I have always been happy since dumping that shite... for Games I have a PS2... for everything else, I HAVE LINUX.
ps. my daughter finds the trials and tribulations of her windows using friends highly amusing as well... they're always having to disinfect their computers, but her computer just keeps on running... she can't understand why on earth they persist with windows...
well whoever makes them... I want one... I was going to get an Ipod for Xmas and stick Linux on it, but this beastie is far more usefull and cooler than an iPod... iPods.. every Tom, Dick and Harry's got one... far too common...
you must be new here... ;)
it's bloody useless in bright light though isn't it... that Palm colour display is great indoors out of direct sunshine or at night, but is absolutely useless when you take it into bright light... even with the BLOFF (backlight off) utility, it's damn near impossible to read it if you're in the sunshine... and at night, when you're trying to do serious stuff like astronomy, it's too damn bright at the normal minimum
Firm I was working for last year was finally having to upgrade from win95 and office 97 cos Autocad no longer supported win95 and their customers where sending them drawings in the new formats
how would you like it if the very next version of photoshop for windows only runs on Vista???
I wouldn't be particularly surprised if the next major version of DirectX was only for Vista and new games required it.
see, there was only three minutes difference between my previous two posts...
tralalalala...
they up the time during busy periods... enables their servers to withstand a slashdotting... ;)
I like Ubuntu cos the apps are more up to date. Currently KDE3.4 as opposed to 3.3? and Xorg as opposed to xfree86... I'm currently playing with Breezy on my testing box and it's very nice... latest Gnome 3.12 as opposed to 3.8 on Sarge...
I reserve Debian stable for my workhorse server...
cos if they actually destroyed them, then people would take proper care... apparently, it's quite normal for people to view their ms-windows boxes filling up with vermin etc. as just a fact of computer life... they only do something when they can't get online anymore... and then it now appears cheaper to buy a new box than get the damned thing fixed properly...
It can be effectively killed by requiring producers to be licensed and to conform to a content rating system... it's amazing how beaurocracy can be used to tie people up in regulations and other cr4p so that people give up rather than submit to the byzantine maze of getting approval.
ah yes... it doesn't default to giving you a BSOD anymore... it just reboots instead...