Back in the 90s a friend of mine described one of his best legal highs, and it involved caffeine.
He took a fortnight out from all caffeine, pop, coffee, tea, pro-plus and all the rest. He made sure that he was totally caffeine free for the whole 14 days, then at the end of it he popped two pro-plus (caffeine tablets) and washed them down with a litre can of Coke. He said it was better than amphetamine, and legal to boot.
I should point out that we are UK residents, and having a cup of coffee is a 30 minute-ly occurrence, with no hype about it, just a coffee and no wall bouncing.
Not really. I tend to live on the latest driver releases and even the WindowsUpdate drivers crash my machine (Via Rhine 2 NIC Onboard).
The last set of Catalyst drivers for my Radeon 9600 kept crashing the graphics card to black screen, and DirectX isn't as reliable as it was at version 7.0.
12% of the time average, I fit in there at about 8 out of every hundred times I run WindowsXP.
to make sure that hacking requires maximum effort with minimum reward
IANAH, but I play one on hackthissite dot org.
I have spent hours learning to hack websites, applications and databases, I'm not great, but I found the process of learning fun.
I don't think you can dissuade people from cracking your apps by making it hard work, the harder it is, the more credibility you get in cracking circles.
The thing that gets to me is that coders and packagers can spend so long trying to lock up their apps that they spend time on that which could be spent debugging or advertising, fundraising for the next version or putting eye candy in the app so that the people who actually pay for software will find it attractive and pay for it because it looks professional.
Most bank charges and fees (they are not called fines) occur when YOU start eating into THEIR money, by being overdrawn, etc
Seems to me that banks make a hell of a lot of money by letting people go overdrawn, interest on overdrafts has always been a big earner, hence Credit Cards being born in banks, then growing up into their own business model. Eating into their money is just another legal way for them to take money off you, the reasons have never had to be true.
Does anyone know of a way to stop this kind of advertising besides turning off JavaScript in the browser?
Try emailing them and telling them. Then stop visiting their site. Websites depend on traffic and ads like that and the ones that happen during a page transition are the kind of thing that make my blood boil.
Nice that when I load the page you linked to I get an Alert Box saying the document contains no data, and a firewall alert telling me that an intrusion attempt has been made consisting of
A computer with the IP address 127.0.0.1 sent information that is characteristic of the HTTP_ActivePerl_Overflow attack.
I wonder what happens if you're running IE or IIS?
Now for the next part of the problem, the ISP's need to block port
The next thing ISPs need to do is STOP blocking ports.
I run a webserver, I use cable on my home account. I consider it my right to run my webserver because I'm paying for internet access. I resent being told which parts of the Internet Protocol I can access and what I can do with it.
I have an email server running and I actually received test messages from my ISP testing the proxy status of it.
NTL in the UK don't throttle my connection or block my ports. If they did, or even hinted they were going to, I would be off like a shot to DSL and never look back.
PS For all those NTL users that have intermittent problems with their cable, I did too until I got rid of the TV top box and got a Cable Modem. Nag the hell out of the Support teams, they will cave in.
I also use XP and I don't like sub-pixel technology.
To me it makes letters look fuzzy round the edges, but maybe that is because I use a 15" LCD @ 1024x768 32bpp (or as close as the monitor will allow to that).
paste some text that I just copied from the internet to my word document without having word wanting to connect to the internet and then applying some lame undesired formating
Set your firewall to disallow Word access to the net?
No, that is a standard Taser with a laser red-dot sighting system. The yellow box at the front contains the compresed air charge and the electrodes that fire out.
The cartridge is disposed of after use and another one fitted.
It's a holiday that celebrates his failure and execution
Speaking personally, that aspect was never emphasised in either my Primary, nor Secondary schools. We just learned that he tried to blow up Parliament and that we celebrated this.
I clicked the screenshots and I see what you are describing.
To me it just looks like Sub-Pixel rendering.
Something I always turn off.
I fist came accross Sub-Pixel rendering when some article (may have been Steve Gibson) told how MSFT ripped it off someone and rebadged it as "ClearType" and shoved it in XP.
I think it makes the edges of letters look fuzzy on my 15" LCD 1024x768 so I don't use it.
Run for office - I'll vote for Common Sense like that.
The thing is, all these voters seem to think that a policeman giving their kid a clip round the ear is a bad thing. Hence kids stand and mouth off at policemen because they have no respect for someone without the power to actually do anything.
Mosquitos smartphone 'Trojan' there by design
By
John Leyden
Published Wednesday 11th August 2004 13:31GMT
The Mosquitos Symbian dialler Trojan is not really a Trojan horse
after all.
Many
news outlets, including
ourselves, reported that a trojanised version of Mosquitos
game for Symbian Series 60 smartphones was circulating
online and across P2P networks. Cracked versions of the game secretly
sends SMS messages to premium rate numbers, according to reports on various
online forums.
Illegal copies of the game display the following message on start-up:
This version has been cracked by SODDOM BIN LOADER No rights reserved.
Pirate copies are illegal and offenders will have lotz of phun!!!
Yesterday Symbian put out a
statement which contributed to the impression that malign code was
inserted into 'cracked' versions of the game by members of the computer
underground. However it turns out that the hidden SMS functionality, along
with a message written in the best vernacular VXer speak, was put in the
game from the beginning by the original games publisher Ojom.
In an
advisory, AV firm F-Secure explains: This functionality was intended to
be a copy-protecting technique - it didn't work as planned and the whole
functionality backfired.
The premium rate contracts for the phone numbers have been terminated,
so although old versions of the game still send hidden SMS messages, it only
costs the nominal fee of sending the message itself. Current versions of
this game no longer have this hidden functionality, but 'cracked' versions
of Mosquitos still float in P2P network - and they still send these
messages, it adds.
So what appeared to be a Trojan is actually a rather sneaky and somewhat
ineffective copy-protection technique. Proof that even if something looks
like a duck, talks like a duck and walks like a duck it isn't necessarily
Anas platyrhynchos.
Although the Mosquitos saga turns out to be an urban myth, the
recent
discovery of the first malware capable of infecting smartphones shatters
the comforting belief the mobile phones are safe from viral infection. The
threat is very low at present but shouldn't be completely discounted. ®
Slashdot Mirror
Back in the 90s a friend of mine described one of his best legal highs, and it involved caffeine.
He took a fortnight out from all caffeine, pop, coffee, tea, pro-plus and all the rest. He made sure that he was totally caffeine free for the whole 14 days, then at the end of it he popped two pro-plus (caffeine tablets) and washed them down with a litre can of Coke. He said it was better than amphetamine, and legal to boot.
I should point out that we are UK residents, and having a cup of coffee is a 30 minute-ly occurrence, with no hype about it, just a coffee and no wall bouncing.
Not really. I tend to live on the latest driver releases and even the WindowsUpdate drivers crash my machine (Via Rhine 2 NIC Onboard).
The last set of Catalyst drivers for my Radeon 9600 kept crashing the graphics card to black screen, and DirectX isn't as reliable as it was at version 7.0.
12% of the time average, I fit in there at about 8 out of every hundred times I run WindowsXP.
to make sure that hacking requires maximum effort with minimum reward
IANAH, but I play one on hackthissite dot org.
I have spent hours learning to hack websites, applications and databases, I'm not great, but I found the process of learning fun.
I don't think you can dissuade people from cracking your apps by making it hard work, the harder it is, the more credibility you get in cracking circles.
The thing that gets to me is that coders and packagers can spend so long trying to lock up their apps that they spend time on that which could be spent debugging or advertising, fundraising for the next version or putting eye candy in the app so that the people who actually pay for software will find it attractive and pay for it because it looks professional.
Most bank charges and fees (they are not called fines) occur when YOU start eating into THEIR money, by being overdrawn, etc
Seems to me that banks make a hell of a lot of money by letting people go overdrawn, interest on overdrafts has always been a big earner, hence Credit Cards being born in banks, then growing up into their own business model. Eating into their money is just another legal way for them to take money off you, the reasons have never had to be true.
Does anyone know of a way to stop this kind of advertising besides turning off JavaScript in the browser?
Try emailing them and telling them. Then stop visiting their site. Websites depend on traffic and ads like that and the ones that happen during a page transition are the kind of thing that make my blood boil.
The injustice is that you now get *good* karma!
Not at all, dumb schmuck posted as AC.
Nice that when I load the page you linked to I get an Alert Box saying the document contains no data, and a firewall alert telling me that an intrusion attempt has been made consisting of
A computer with the IP address 127.0.0.1 sent information that is characteristic of the HTTP_ActivePerl_Overflow attack.
I wonder what happens if you're running IE or IIS?
Now for the next part of the problem, the ISP's need to block port
The next thing ISPs need to do is STOP blocking ports.
I run a webserver, I use cable on my home account. I consider it my right to run my webserver because I'm paying for internet access. I resent being told which parts of the Internet Protocol I can access and what I can do with it.
I have an email server running and I actually received test messages from my ISP testing the proxy status of it.
NTL in the UK don't throttle my connection or block my ports. If they did, or even hinted they were going to, I would be off like a shot to DSL and never look back.
PS For all those NTL users that have intermittent problems with their cable, I did too until I got rid of the TV top box and got a Cable Modem. Nag the hell out of the Support teams, they will cave in.
Try the "listen" link on the Radio 1 page, there is a Real download which happily plays through RealAlternative.
If it streams, you can cache/save it =)
Sorry.
They stopped showing the Zips on the main page because they wanted to test the installer properly.
There were still problems with it on 0.9, I don't know if they are fixed yet.
I use SuSE and I don't like sub-pixel technology.
I also use XP and I don't like sub-pixel technology.
To me it makes letters look fuzzy round the edges, but maybe that is because I use a 15" LCD @ 1024x768 32bpp (or as close as the monitor will allow to that).
paste some text that I just copied from the internet to my word document without having word wanting to connect to the internet and then applying some lame undesired formating
Set your firewall to disallow Word access to the net?
No, that is a standard Taser with a laser red-dot sighting system. The yellow box at the front contains the compresed air charge and the electrodes that fire out.
The cartridge is disposed of after use and another one fitted.
Here is a link.
Speaking personally, that aspect was never emphasised in either my Primary, nor Secondary schools. We just learned that he tried to blow up Parliament and that we celebrated this.
And to correct myself also:
In the Flash the text says Somebody, the voiceover says Someone.
Sorry.
Remember it like this ...
Read backwards it says:
Bomb the US, upset someone
I do not condone bombing the US.
Anonymous Cowards, however, are a different matter.
Alternatively you could argue that both KDE and MSFT are giving the users what they want?
Widget and Style themes are big for some people, but some would be just as happy to use a Command Line.
It takes all sorts to make a world and this is kinda the whole point of Linux, isn't it?
I clicked the screenshots and I see what you are describing.
To me it just looks like Sub-Pixel rendering.
Something I always turn off.
I fist came accross Sub-Pixel rendering when some article (may have been Steve Gibson) told how MSFT ripped it off someone and rebadged it as "ClearType" and shoved it in XP.
I think it makes the edges of letters look fuzzy on my 15" LCD 1024x768 so I don't use it.
Looks like it didn't stand up in metamod.
50% Funny / 50% Offtopic.
Damn mods lol
Run for office - I'll vote for Common Sense like that.
The thing is, all these voters seem to think that a policeman giving their kid a clip round the ear is a bad thing. Hence kids stand and mouth off at policemen because they have no respect for someone without the power to actually do anything.
Mosquitos smartphone 'Trojan' there by design By John Leyden Published Wednesday 11th August 2004 13:31GMT The Mosquitos Symbian dialler Trojan is not really a Trojan horse after all.
Many news outlets, including ourselves, reported that a trojanised version of Mosquitos game for Symbian Series 60 smartphones was circulating online and across P2P networks. Cracked versions of the game secretly sends SMS messages to premium rate numbers, according to reports on various online forums.
Illegal copies of the game display the following message on start-up: This version has been cracked by SODDOM BIN LOADER No rights reserved. Pirate copies are illegal and offenders will have lotz of phun!!!
Yesterday Symbian put out a statement which contributed to the impression that malign code was inserted into 'cracked' versions of the game by members of the computer underground. However it turns out that the hidden SMS functionality, along with a message written in the best vernacular VXer speak, was put in the game from the beginning by the original games publisher Ojom.
In an advisory, AV firm F-Secure explains: This functionality was intended to be a copy-protecting technique - it didn't work as planned and the whole functionality backfired.
The premium rate contracts for the phone numbers have been terminated, so although old versions of the game still send hidden SMS messages, it only costs the nominal fee of sending the message itself. Current versions of this game no longer have this hidden functionality, but 'cracked' versions of Mosquitos still float in P2P network - and they still send these messages, it adds.
So what appeared to be a Trojan is actually a rather sneaky and somewhat ineffective copy-protection technique. Proof that even if something looks like a duck, talks like a duck and walks like a duck it isn't necessarily Anas platyrhynchos.
Although the Mosquitos saga turns out to be an urban myth, the recent discovery of the first malware capable of infecting smartphones shatters the comforting belief the mobile phones are safe from viral infection. The threat is very low at present but shouldn't be completely discounted. ®
Informative?!? INFORMATIVE!?! FFS I was being **FUNNY**
/. mod guidelines:
You don't get karma++ for funny, to misquote from the
We want you to be smart, not smartassed.
But you did get karma++ for the informative, assuming that it holds up in metamod.
I'd hate to see SCO go out of business before it was determined who owns the IP it claims.
I know who owns every piece of code in GNU/Linux.
You point to the bit in question and I'll tell you who owns it, fair enough?
How about redirecting anything that doesn't have an explicitly specified page name redirected back to penguin.com?