An Xfire system wide message did go out making the same announcement that was edited to Wikipedia. The cited source may have been poor but it is not an outrageous claim.
All source code is readily available on the UserScripts.org website and there's nothing destructive (other than to your existing WoW forum posts) in the code. Still, if you feel uncomfortable, you should not run it.
Although they reverted this change, I'm still pretty weary of the direction that Real ID is going. Personally, I've opted to delete all official WoW forum posts using a GreaseMonkey script I've found: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/81103
The protection measure holds the searched domains at Network Solutions for up to 4 days so customers can take the time to decide whether registration of the domain name will help them build and protect their brand.
By providing a parked page that offers registration to anyone who views it?
Is this something we're going to start seeing more of? There are already enough variants of viruses as it is. Imagine the craziness of five thousand variants of every virus that comes along. Gaobot was already painful enough to deal with.
It could be awesome. How about setting up some Ad-Hoc network across cars driving in between the rest stations. If you get enough users, you would never lose connectivity!
If definitely believe him. I've seen it happen all the time. My situation may be unique since I'm on a large college network, but I've seen blaster/welchia/gaobot/sasser infect a machine in a quarter of that time without the proper Windows Updates.
I've always turned the Windows software firewall on before running the windows update. It's kept me clean so far and I've never run into the problem. It's the simplest solution considering it's already there. No hardware/software setup or difficult CDs!
I think this presents some neat possibilities beyond the mentioned focuses. It'd be pretty cool to have a PDA respond differently to you based on your heart rate (which can be an indicator to certain emotions).
It's interesting just because of the fact that it can be done. Impractical, but I'd be interested in seeing what else he can do with this thing (since he states that it is not finished yet, and just provided as a proof of concept). I don't forsee it ever becoming practical.
What makes me laugh is that when I was using BASIC, I was printing a man to the screen as he went through the positions of a jumping jack. Clearing the screen after each position made it seem as though he was doing a jumping jack because of the processing speed.
It's amazing what some people will do to waste...errr, entertain themselves.
A little bit of added competition in the space arena is exactly what is needed. The more countries that put their space programs on the map, the more pressure there is for the larger space programs to stay on top of things.
I think this could be a very good thing for even more expansion in space.
And even if the pressure isn't put in other programs, it's still an increase in the space research being done.
A lot of businesses and schools enjoy spending money for some reason. It gives them a false sense of security. And, of course, it can't be good if it's free. Everything that is free is too good to be true.
I think that as more and more of these types of efforts come around, the movement towards seeing open source more widely used will pick up a little speed (as with everything else). Sure, it's only The Inquirer and some computer maintenance company in the UK, but ya gotta start somewhere.
But what happens after they do manage to level the play field a bit. Wouldn't there be a huge lack of funding after there are less closed source companies to pay the penalty? I'll be watching this one as it plays out.
I'm suprised there hasn't been this sort of "push" before. Why should money be wasted on Microsoft licenses when it could be spend on something more useful? Maybe even education.
I think using *nix is something that needs to be more forcefully sugested to schools, especially with the current financial situation most schools are being placed in (at least in Michigan). You drop Windows, Novell, and expensive website solutions, and convert to open source ones and you're gonna save a heck of a lot of money.
...being diagnosed? I show strong signs of having ADHD, but have avoided seeing someone about it. Is the money spent on doctors visits and druges, and he fact that you are letting other people know about it worth the benefits? I've learned to cope with it for the most part, but it's still quite frustrating when it takes me eight hours to study for a test when it should have taken no more than two.
Are there any recommendations other than going and being diagnosed? What can be done on a more transparent level to help cope with this?
Right, which for a great number of college students, is zero dollars, as he stated. College ain't cheap and, at least in my case, my current life savings is close to zero. Mommy and daddy aren't shelling any money out for my college education; feel fortunate if yours are/did...
Congratulations then. It's something that should be done. I wasn't the one who said people fail to use the resources they have; it was the article.
I was just stating what I felt was the general answer. Take your average support message board. You see the same question come up over and over again because people don't do a quick search to see if the question has been answered again. They think it is easier just to ask the question again, rather than to check other peoples, when in reality, it probably takes more work to type out the question.
haha, yeah, our indeed. At any rate, excellent sentence of usage. That example is perfect at showing the difference between the two, and yet, is is a great insult!
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An Xfire system wide message did go out making the same announcement that was edited to Wikipedia. The cited source may have been poor but it is not an outrageous claim.
All source code is readily available on the UserScripts.org website and there's nothing destructive (other than to your existing WoW forum posts) in the code. Still, if you feel uncomfortable, you should not run it.
Although they reverted this change, I'm still pretty weary of the direction that Real ID is going. Personally, I've opted to delete all official WoW forum posts using a GreaseMonkey script I've found: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/81103
Is this something we're going to start seeing more of? There are already enough variants of viruses as it is. Imagine the craziness of five thousand variants of every virus that comes along. Gaobot was already painful enough to deal with.
It could be awesome. How about setting up some Ad-Hoc network across cars driving in between the rest stations. If you get enough users, you would never lose connectivity!
If definitely believe him. I've seen it happen all the time. My situation may be unique since I'm on a large college network, but I've seen blaster/welchia/gaobot/sasser infect a machine in a quarter of that time without the proper Windows Updates.
I've always turned the Windows software firewall on before running the windows update. It's kept me clean so far and I've never run into the problem. It's the simplest solution considering it's already there. No hardware/software setup or difficult CDs!
In a lot of cases, it doesn't even prove that...You can easily make it through college without attending a good portion of your classes.
Yeah. He'd only get the blank stares if he mentioned he was using Windows ;)
I think this presents some neat possibilities beyond the mentioned focuses. It'd be pretty cool to have a PDA respond differently to you based on your heart rate (which can be an indicator to certain emotions).
It's interesting just because of the fact that it can be done. Impractical, but I'd be interested in seeing what else he can do with this thing (since he states that it is not finished yet, and just provided as a proof of concept). I don't forsee it ever becoming practical.
What makes me laugh is that when I was using BASIC, I was printing a man to the screen as he went through the positions of a jumping jack. Clearing the screen after each position made it seem as though he was doing a jumping jack because of the processing speed.
It's amazing what some people will do to waste...errr, entertain themselves.
A little bit of added competition in the space arena is exactly what is needed. The more countries that put their space programs on the map, the more pressure there is for the larger space programs to stay on top of things.
I think this could be a very good thing for even more expansion in space.
And even if the pressure isn't put in other programs, it's still an increase in the space research being done.
Just like that junkyard wars where the crazy Brittish always beat the Americans!
A lot of businesses and schools enjoy spending money for some reason. It gives them a false sense of security. And, of course, it can't be good if it's free. Everything that is free is too good to be true.
I think that as more and more of these types of efforts come around, the movement towards seeing open source more widely used will pick up a little speed (as with everything else). Sure, it's only The Inquirer and some computer maintenance company in the UK, but ya gotta start somewhere.
It could be called Coffee 2, even if it is really coffee 1.1 in disguise.
I don't know about you, but the only reason I ever even come close to touching coffee is for the caffeine. There are better beverages without caffeine
But what happens after they do manage to level the play field a bit. Wouldn't there be a huge lack of funding after there are less closed source companies to pay the penalty? I'll be watching this one as it plays out.
I'm suprised there hasn't been this sort of "push" before. Why should money be wasted on Microsoft licenses when it could be spend on something more useful? Maybe even education.
I think using *nix is something that needs to be more forcefully sugested to schools, especially with the current financial situation most schools are being placed in (at least in Michigan). You drop Windows, Novell, and expensive website solutions, and convert to open source ones and you're gonna save a heck of a lot of money.
...being diagnosed? I show strong signs of having ADHD, but have avoided seeing someone about it. Is the money spent on doctors visits and druges, and he fact that you are letting other people know about it worth the benefits? I've learned to cope with it for the most part, but it's still quite frustrating when it takes me eight hours to study for a test when it should have taken no more than two.
Are there any recommendations other than going and being diagnosed? What can be done on a more transparent level to help cope with this?
Right, which for a great number of college students, is zero dollars, as he stated. College ain't cheap and, at least in my case, my current life savings is close to zero. Mommy and daddy aren't shelling any money out for my college education; feel fortunate if yours are/did...
It's a good thing I play blackjack...
Congratulations then. It's something that should be done. I wasn't the one who said people fail to use the resources they have; it was the article.
I was just stating what I felt was the general answer. Take your average support message board. You see the same question come up over and over again because people don't do a quick search to see if the question has been answered again. They think it is easier just to ask the question again, rather than to check other peoples, when in reality, it probably takes more work to type out the question.
Looking at myself at least...
Most of us are lazy by nature. It takes a lot of effort to go out and find what source code I need. Why would I do that when I can just write it all?
And of course, my code is better than whatever else I could find. Why would I want to use someone else's?
haha, yeah, our indeed. At any rate, excellent sentence of usage. That example is perfect at showing the difference between the two, and yet, is is a great insult!
Well done mate!