Admitally it might take years bt it should break in time or have I missed something fundemental.
No. It's just that you know you're in trouble when people use "age of the universe" as a unit of measurement. It'll break, it's just that it'll take so long that when you (or rather your far distant descendants) crack it, there probably won't be a great deal of point in knowing it;)
What terrifies me is that, at least where I work, people would click it anyway. It seems a depressing number of people don't actually read the contents of dialog boxes unless it is completely unexpected - they just automatically click on the button that is normally the positive action.
Quite honestly postal spam bothers me more than email, since I have to physically dispose of it all...
The way I deal with that is to play thier own system against them. It works best if you get quite a few with prepaid return envelopes - save up a pile of them and then go through mixing up replies. Don't fill anything in, just put some of the junk one firm sent you in the prepaid envelope for the other. And if you have any newspaper spare, fold up some sheets of that and include it, anything to increase the weight and the cost to the firm (adding old washers, other bits of metal used to be a good one, probably land you in trouble now though) then post them off. Pretty soon they'll work out that you're just costing them a lot of money and you really are serious about not wanting their crap.
Won't do much. What you really want to do is run a proxy with a filter or rewrite feature - squid with squidguard, squirm or similar or if you use windows, proxomitron.
With those, you're guaranteed to be able to kill the advert image/movie/whatever request before it even leaves your lan or computer. And that's before you use any of the other features of the proxies...
Not only that, but then you shouldn't actually say, in an interview, that you registered the domain because it sounds like "Microsoft". I wish the guy luck, but he really should learn to keep his mouth shut if he can't stop himself saying things that are going to blow holes in his own defense..
A few years ago, most people couldn't spell "virus".. and people still can't spell the plural of virus;)
Putting the spotlight on security holes and spam and and and for the average joe is what gets results, not locking shit down.
In the long term, yes. But unfortunately locking shit down does get results in the short term, just not the ones we'd like. And that's where most companies and governments look.
The good dev houses make games you want to play, with innovative features, impressive strylines and novel gameplay (not that I'd claim any of this for Unreal 2. I've finished it once and found it the emost cliche-ridden, predictable, bug-infested game for years, but that's beside the point). The problem is that doing this involves the very thing publishers increasingly tend to abhor: risks.
The uesless houses that churn out formulaic sequels are the low-risk, simple option. They're also less likely to be staffed by people who will stand up and object to publisher policy. Hence they get to survive at the cost of the better developers..
The problem is that, this sort of hiccup aside, the patent situation is exactly what the big players in the tech industry want. Yes, that's.5 billion Microsoft is now out of pocket, but the potential loss could be even more immense if patent laws were changed to be more accurate - microsoft patents are not just used to prevent newcomers, they are used in cross licening schemes and as a revenue source. If a substantial number of them were cancelled it could result in microsoft having to pay future and possible back licenses. And it wouldn't just be microsoft, a large number of big companies would suddenly find fairly significant holes where patents sit now.
I'd actually like that to happen (I'm vicious that way) but the tech industry is one big Old Boys network, it isn't going to push for reform.
Okay, I challenge you to wear a BSD t-shirt and walk around several south-US states (texas would be a good one).
Trust me, those religious nuts will have you arrested. And bring the asbestos underwear because they'll probably try burning you as a devil worshiper...
IMO the devils logo is good, the more religious nuts it pisses off the better - maybe someday they'll realise how rediculous they sound. Although I doubt it.
(/me wonders how long it'll take for this to get modded as flamebait.. meh, I've got karma spare..)
IME - PHBs and secretaries who have just about managed to grasp the concept of using computers as a means of communication (yet insist on printing out any emils you send them to read and then, if you're really, really, lucky to get the context, top-posting a reply - that's if they don't write on the printout and send that around..) but haven't worked out that immense PDFs or other documents with masses of embedded images take up a lot of space. There has been more than one occasion where I've had to deal with the fallout when one of the secretaries has tried to send nearly 500Mb of stuff in an email without realising what she was doing.
"Sounds like the system isn't being used properly cos they never get the overtime calculated right..."
No, that indicates the system is working flawlessly.. from the point of view of management anyway. It ensures the staff are firmly controlled and it provides a neat way of saying "you're not getting any overtime you horrible little peon" - it is far easier to say "oh, the computer must have got it wrong again, we'll sort it out next time". People will believe anything of computers..
Yeah, and then we'd have people whiging about how it's too difficult for Windows users to convert to, how it violates "industry standards" for GUIs, how the fact that it can predict what you're doing and do half your work for you is just annoying....
No matter what linux GUI designers try, they'll be criticised.
Rubbish. The same companies have to comply 100% with commercial software licenses or face massive fines, the same companies probably rely on people to comply 100% with their licenses to make money. So why the hell should they be let off complying with the GPL? If they want to use GPL software, they abide by the GPL, simple as that. There is no middle ground here.
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I've always called that the "unrefined brute force" method ;)
Admitally it might take years bt it should break in time or have I missed something fundemental.
;)
No. It's just that you know you're in trouble when people use "age of the universe" as a unit of measurement. It'll break, it's just that it'll take so long that when you (or rather your far distant descendants) crack it, there probably won't be a great deal of point in knowing it
What terrifies me is that, at least where I work, people would click it anyway. It seems a depressing number of people don't actually read the contents of dialog boxes unless it is completely unexpected - they just automatically click on the button that is normally the positive action.
Quite honestly postal spam bothers me more than email, since I have to physically dispose of it all ...
The way I deal with that is to play thier own system against them. It works best if you get quite a few with prepaid return envelopes - save up a pile of them and then go through mixing up replies. Don't fill anything in, just put some of the junk one firm sent you in the prepaid envelope for the other. And if you have any newspaper spare, fold up some sheets of that and include it, anything to increase the weight and the cost to the firm (adding old washers, other bits of metal used to be a good one, probably land you in trouble now though) then post them off. Pretty soon they'll work out that you're just costing them a lot of money and you really are serious about not wanting their crap.
Won't do much. What you really want to do is run a proxy with a filter or rewrite feature - squid with squidguard, squirm or similar or if you use windows, proxomitron.
With those, you're guaranteed to be able to kill the advert image/movie/whatever request before it even leaves your lan or computer. And that's before you use any of the other features of the proxies...
And on the same basis, how does he own that domain name?
Not only that, but then you shouldn't actually say, in an interview, that you registered the domain because it sounds like "Microsoft". I wish the guy luck, but he really should learn to keep his mouth shut if he can't stop himself saying things that are going to blow holes in his own defense..
Someone HELP ME!
You're beyond help.
I believe Trusted apt-get will be available as the standard package manager from Debian 4.0 onwards.
Great! We only have another 20 years to wait then!
I don't know. Could be useful sometimes..
:)
1. Locate a state/country where killing sprees are legal
2. Schedule a meeting of all the people you hate there
3. Guess!
4. Ask for pay rise
Might even make meetings something to be enjoyed...
Okay, that's probably pushing the boundaries of probability.
A few years ago, most people couldn't spell "virus" .. and people still can't spell the plural of virus ;)
Putting the spotlight on security holes and spam and and and for the average joe is what gets results, not locking shit down.
In the long term, yes. But unfortunately locking shit down does get results in the short term, just not the ones we'd like. And that's where most companies and governments look.
Damn, I wish I had mod points. :)
The good dev houses make games you want to play, with innovative features, impressive strylines and novel gameplay (not that I'd claim any of this for Unreal 2. I've finished it once and found it the emost cliche-ridden, predictable, bug-infested game for years, but that's beside the point). The problem is that doing this involves the very thing publishers increasingly tend to abhor: risks.
The uesless houses that churn out formulaic sequels are the low-risk, simple option. They're also less likely to be staffed by people who will stand up and object to publisher policy. Hence they get to survive at the cost of the better developers..
No, then you'd probably be sacrificed by the devil worshiping religious nuts....
The problem is that, this sort of hiccup aside, the patent situation is exactly what the big players in the tech industry want. Yes, that's .5 billion Microsoft is now out of pocket, but the potential loss could be even more immense if patent laws were changed to be more accurate - microsoft patents are not just used to prevent newcomers, they are used in cross licening schemes and as a revenue source. If a substantial number of them were cancelled it could result in microsoft having to pay future and possible back licenses. And it wouldn't just be microsoft, a large number of big companies would suddenly find fairly significant holes where patents sit now.
I'd actually like that to happen (I'm vicious that way) but the tech industry is one big Old Boys network, it isn't going to push for reform.
Well, not most things. In fact, I can think of many things that'd be more uncomfortable to inhale. A cat for example. Or a small car.
Excuse me, I think it's time for my medication..
"It doesn't offend anyone."
Okay, I challenge you to wear a BSD t-shirt and walk around several south-US states (texas would be a good one).
Trust me, those religious nuts will have you arrested. And bring the asbestos underwear because they'll probably try burning you as a devil worshiper...
IMO the devils logo is good, the more religious nuts it pisses off the better - maybe someday they'll realise how rediculous they sound. Although I doubt it.
(/me wonders how long it'll take for this to get modded as flamebait.. meh, I've got karma spare..)
"who sends such large files via email,"
IME - PHBs and secretaries who have just about managed to grasp the concept of using computers as a means of communication (yet insist on printing out any emils you send them to read and then, if you're really, really, lucky to get the context, top-posting a reply - that's if they don't write on the printout and send that around..) but haven't worked out that immense PDFs or other documents with masses of embedded images take up a lot of space. There has been more than one occasion where I've had to deal with the fallout when one of the secretaries has tried to send nearly 500Mb of stuff in an email without realising what she was doing.
In which case you get bored after.. ah, sod it, can't be bothered..
OH, wait... They don't, ever, do they?
Not if my firewall logs are anything to go by.. <sigh>
"Sounds like the system isn't being used properly cos they never get the overtime calculated right..."
No, that indicates the system is working flawlessly.. from the point of view of management anyway. It ensures the staff are firmly controlled and it provides a neat way of saying "you're not getting any overtime you horrible little peon" - it is far easier to say "oh, the computer must have got it wrong again, we'll sort it out next time". People will believe anything of computers..
Yeah, and then we'd have people whiging about how it's too difficult for Windows users to convert to, how it violates "industry standards" for GUIs, how the fact that it can predict what you're doing and do half your work for you is just annoying....
No matter what linux GUI designers try, they'll be criticised.
Except that you'll soon develop RSI in your neck from having to look from side to side if you are that close to it. ;)
The one reliable thing I learnt from my economics course: to economists the real world is a special case.
Rubbish. The same companies have to comply 100% with commercial software licenses or face massive fines, the same companies probably rely on people to comply 100% with their licenses to make money. So why the hell should they be let off complying with the GPL? If they want to use GPL software, they abide by the GPL, simple as that. There is no middle ground here.