But, hey, you can insult women who want to devote their lives to their children all you like. And I could call you a feminazi supporter. But I won't, because I'd like to think I'm above that.
Is there a name for this sort of statement? You know, the "I'd call you x, but I'm above that sort of thing".
I'm with you. Just don't find people talking on cellphones very annoying (or at least any more annoying than they would be with the other person next to them).
Yes, but you didn't click it, did you? You were through with the actual transaction and then applied a clue and read what it had to say before clicking like that monkey on PBS trying to get another hit of cocaine, didn't you? The people who fall for this? Same people who have machines chock full of spyware and trojans that they agreed to install when prompted. I'm certainly not going to try to defend the ethics of the assholes that run WLI since they know damn good and well they are tricking people into spending this money, but on the other hand I can't really feel sorry for the people that fall for it. Kinda like leaving your keys in the car on MLK blvd while running into the gas station for a stick of gum.
Don't forget that online play will be cut off after two years since EA pressured MS into owning the matchmaking servers instead of using live, thereby completely obsoleting all of your older titles! I * love * EA.
Tell me about it. I refuse to preorder a game or to even buy games from places that take preorders (unless I *know* that they will still sell games on release day to non preorder folks). I mean you can go to a gamestop and try to get a shitty game or even a strategy guide on release day and be told "oh, no preorder, sorry". Idiotic.
Sure, that's true, never said otherwise. But imagine if MS had released ODF and there were no excel formula definitions. Say what you will about word, but Excel is the crown jewel of office and if the format did not define something as fundemental as the the forumals and I tried to come back with "it's in progress" I'd get laughed off the stage.
And of course I can use the same cop out for criticism to OOXML. There are fixes in progress (and yes, there are. MS knows there will be "with comments" votes and that for ratification many of the mentioned flaws will have to be addressed.
Hey you're right. If someone beat the casino for 9 bucks.
"Well after a brief period of normal play (and here we have him on video walking over to the ATM machine) he actually put 600 dollars into machine and then immediately cashed out for 6,000."
"The records for the machine indicate that after a brief period of play (when the flaw in the software was discovered by the defendant) he inserted 600 dollars and immediately cashed out. No play was recorded. We also have video evidence in addition to the state reported log from the machine itself since we'd hate to trust anything the machine reported based on it having known flawed software"
"If the player made the assumption that it awarded the Xth player of the day why did he visit an ATM machine between plays, reloading the machine with money? A new play would register as a new player."
... Except that none of them are really plausible. People are convicted on circumstantial evidence all of the time because jurys are made up of people who can sometimes show a remarkable ability to see through complete bullshit. So a defense based on "my client thought this is how the machine was supposed to work" is probably doomed to fail.
Hate to reply so late, but you do understand that just because IIS is hosting malware does NOT mean that IIS got owned. It means that WINDOWS got owned. BIG difference. If the majority of windows machines that got owned were running apache then it would just be apache serving malware. This study speaks more to how well people keep their operating systems patched than it does to the quality/security of apache/iis. But that's not how it is presented.
Right, and all that says is that a lot a windows boxes got owned and are using IIS to distribute malware. If IIS did not exist we'd STILL have more apache web servers than anything else and some OTHER webserver (probably the meanest and leanest that can easily be distributed inside of the malware itself) would still be responsible for distributing the bulk of the malware.
My irritation with the article and how it is presented in the summary here is that it seems to show that apache is somehow more secure than IIS. Which it is not. What it DOES show is that a LOT of windows machines out there are just not secure. And since this fact is obvious to even the most casual of observers I'm left scratching my head asking "what the fuck was the point of this article?"
I think it was Google trolling, karma be motherfucked. I'll call a spade a spade.;)
This requires uploading a maliciously constructed asp file to a directory where there is script execute privilege. If I can upload script and have it run on a web server (any web server) doesn't that mean I've already pretty much got her pants down?
Ah. So google's researchers came to an obvious conclusion: The most popular operating system being run by people who can't be bothered to patch it is prone to being used to distribute malware.
Patches? Patches for what? Has IIS had any remotely exploitable holes since version 5? Or are these machines that get owned via some other method and then just happen to have IIS so it is used to serve the malware? So really, this has more to do with unpatched windows than IIS? Or am I missing something?
Slap on the wrist? Negative. A co-worker of his showed up and cited the driver of the other vehicle for failing to yield to an emergency vehicle. The driver of the car that got broadsided paid said ticket and his insurance company paid for his/hers and the cops damage/injury.
Wow, I thought I was the only person on the planet with the same story. My daughter wanted to camp for a Wii, so we did. Played it for a week or so, and then she's back on RealGames/Playing GC games/Viva Pinata (so technically, it does get touched, just not for Wii games).
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No thanks, I like being in the position where it doesn't annoy me :)
But, hey, you can insult women who want to devote their lives to their children all you like. And I could call you a feminazi supporter. But I won't, because I'd like to think I'm above that.
Is there a name for this sort of statement? You know, the "I'd call you x, but I'm above that sort of thing".
I'm with you. Just don't find people talking on cellphones very annoying (or at least any more annoying than they would be with the other person next to them).
Yes, but you didn't click it, did you? You were through with the actual transaction and then applied a clue and read what it had to say before clicking like that monkey on PBS trying to get another hit of cocaine, didn't you? The people who fall for this? Same people who have machines chock full of spyware and trojans that they agreed to install when prompted. I'm certainly not going to try to defend the ethics of the assholes that run WLI since they know damn good and well they are tricking people into spending this money, but on the other hand I can't really feel sorry for the people that fall for it. Kinda like leaving your keys in the car on MLK blvd while running into the gas station for a stick of gum.
I'll bet they'll just pick a character instead of drawing a picture.
I'd have to train myself to remember the strokes to draw something with the same movements and pen lifts. Sounds like a pain in the nuts to me.
Gears of war. For the time being. Might not be your thing, but I think they sold 3 million of them.
Never under estimate the power of the ePeen. People like achievements. A LOT.
Don't forget that online play will be cut off after two years since EA pressured MS into owning the matchmaking servers instead of using live, thereby completely obsoleting all of your older titles! I * love * EA.
Hi, want some of the dust off of my Wii?
I camped in the cold for it.
It'll get some use when mario comes out or when I am tired of the 360 games I have.
Screw that. Let's go in on that ticket so he can go not vote somewhere else.
Tell me about it. I refuse to preorder a game or to even buy games from places that take preorders (unless I *know* that they will still sell games on release day to non preorder folks). I mean you can go to a gamestop and try to get a shitty game or even a strategy guide on release day and be told "oh, no preorder, sorry". Idiotic.
Sure, that's true, never said otherwise. But imagine if MS had released ODF and there were no excel formula definitions. Say what you will about word, but Excel is the crown jewel of office and if the format did not define something as fundemental as the the forumals and I tried to come back with "it's in progress" I'd get laughed off the stage.
And of course I can use the same cop out for criticism to OOXML. There are fixes in progress (and yes, there are. MS knows there will be "with comments" votes and that for ratification many of the mentioned flaws will have to be addressed.
If ODF, as it stands, were released by Microsoft and called Microsoft ODF, we'd have the same level of FSF, GNU, etc pushback
Oh there would be MUCH much more.
Check the "Criticism" section of the ODF wikipedia article for a good starting point.
Hate to reply so late, but you do understand that just because IIS is hosting malware does NOT mean that IIS got owned. It means that WINDOWS got owned. BIG difference. If the majority of windows machines that got owned were running apache then it would just be apache serving malware. This study speaks more to how well people keep their operating systems patched than it does to the quality/security of apache/iis. But that's not how it is presented.
Right, and all that says is that a lot a windows boxes got owned and are using IIS to distribute malware. If IIS did not exist we'd STILL have more apache web servers than anything else and some OTHER webserver (probably the meanest and leanest that can easily be distributed inside of the malware itself) would still be responsible for distributing the bulk of the malware.
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My irritation with the article and how it is presented in the summary here is that it seems to show that apache is somehow more secure than IIS. Which it is not. What it DOES show is that a LOT of windows machines out there are just not secure. And since this fact is obvious to even the most casual of observers I'm left scratching my head asking "what the fuck was the point of this article?"
I think it was Google trolling, karma be motherfucked. I'll call a spade a spade.
Actually, 5 was pretty solid. I really think you need to get back to 4 for it to turn into shit.
This requires uploading a maliciously constructed asp file to a directory where there is script execute privilege. If I can upload script and have it run on a web server (any web server) doesn't that mean I've already pretty much got her pants down?
Ah. So google's researchers came to an obvious conclusion: The most popular operating system being run by people who can't be bothered to patch it is prone to being used to distribute malware.
Bravo.
Patches? Patches for what? Has IIS had any remotely exploitable holes since version 5? Or are these machines that get owned via some other method and then just happen to have IIS so it is used to serve the malware? So really, this has more to do with unpatched windows than IIS? Or am I missing something?
Its not like flashing the drive lets you run cheats or install your aimbot.
:)
Actually . . .
Google "Coalesced.ini" to see how Gears of War had its ranked leaderboard hijacked by people who were enabled by flashing the drive.
Of course I am not niave enough to think that this is MS's primary motivation here
Oh for fucks sake, every OTHER article on this site is a "complain about microsoft" wankfest, but god forbid we bitch about the almighty google.
Slap on the wrist? Negative. A co-worker of his showed up and cited the driver of the other vehicle for failing to yield to an emergency vehicle. The driver of the car that got broadsided paid said ticket and his insurance company paid for his/hers and the cops damage/injury.
Wow, I thought I was the only person on the planet with the same story. My daughter wanted to camp for a Wii, so we did. Played it for a week or so, and then she's back on RealGames/Playing GC games/Viva Pinata (so technically, it does get touched, just not for Wii games).