What if the viruses do what you do? The viruses will just zip up their files and send them along, except now it will have more of an impact upon newbie users. All the (decently) smart newbie users have been told not to open.exe files, then suddenly, they'll see a.zip file and think "Doh, well that's not harmful" and they'll go open up the zip file and open up a can of worms.
I'm using Outlook Express, with the Preview Pane activated, and I got two SoBig viruses a few hours ago. Express didn't attempt to autolaunch the attachments for me.
(Of course, if it had tried, my Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition would have held it at bay.)
Anyway, I didn't even know what a.PIF file was until I looked it up.
As an Anonymous Coward has said previously, the Java license does have a nuke provision:
3.RESTRICTIONS. Software is confidential and copyrighted. Title
to Software and all associated intellectual property rights is
retained by Sun and/or its licensors. Unless enforcement is
prohibited by applicable law, you may not modify, decompile, or
reverse engineer Software. Licensee acknowledges that Licensed
Software is not designed or intended for use in the design,
construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. disclaims any express or implied warranty
of fitness for such uses. No right, title or interest in or to
any trademark, service mark, logo or trade name of Sun or its
licensors is granted under this Agreement. Additional
restrictions for developers and/or publishers licenses are set
forth in the Supplemental License Terms.
(emphasis added)
That's excerpted from my Java 2 SDK, 1.4.2
What if some people who hold the copyright to Linux code (maybe at least 250,000 lines) licensed their code to, say, slashdot, and then all the slashdotters, who now have a partial share in the Linux code (being members in the illustrious/.), just go and complain to their attorney general? Seriously, I don't have any claims to Linux code (I'm mostly a Java guy), but if I did, I'd be writing to my attorney general complaining of this violation. Can I get some lawyer opinions here?
But perhaps the programmer that did Linux and the programmer who handled the SCO UNIX looked in the same programming book and copied it from there? It is what you said, there's pretty much only one right way to do it in programming, so maybe they lifted the commenting from someone else who previously did the programming.
Slashdot Mirror
It's a good idea, all we need is some custom scripts to handle and classify all the mail.
Any takers?
It's a virus, still. Notice how they misspelled Mountain (there's no ending "e" in the word mountain) The real company wouldn't have done that.
Ban college students from having Windows? Half of them don't even know any other OS!
What if the viruses do what you do? The viruses will just zip up their files and send them along, except now it will have more of an impact upon newbie users. All the (decently) smart newbie users have been told not to open .exe files, then suddenly, they'll see a .zip file and think "Doh, well that's not harmful" and they'll go open up the zip file and open up a can of worms.
I'm using Outlook Express, with the Preview Pane activated, and I got two SoBig viruses a few hours ago. Express didn't attempt to autolaunch the attachments for me. (Of course, if it had tried, my Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition would have held it at bay.) Anyway, I didn't even know what a .PIF file was until I looked it up.
As an Anonymous Coward has said previously, the Java license does have a nuke provision: 3.RESTRICTIONS. Software is confidential and copyrighted. Title to Software and all associated intellectual property rights is retained by Sun and/or its licensors. Unless enforcement is prohibited by applicable law, you may not modify, decompile, or reverse engineer Software. Licensee acknowledges that Licensed Software is not designed or intended for use in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility. Sun Microsystems, Inc. disclaims any express or implied warranty of fitness for such uses. No right, title or interest in or to any trademark, service mark, logo or trade name of Sun or its licensors is granted under this Agreement. Additional restrictions for developers and/or publishers licenses are set forth in the Supplemental License Terms. (emphasis added) That's excerpted from my Java 2 SDK, 1.4.2
What if some people who hold the copyright to Linux code (maybe at least 250,000 lines) licensed their code to, say, slashdot, and then all the slashdotters, who now have a partial share in the Linux code (being members in the illustrious /.), just go and complain to their attorney general? Seriously, I don't have any claims to Linux code (I'm mostly a Java guy), but if I did, I'd be writing to my attorney general complaining of this violation. Can I get some lawyer opinions here?
But perhaps the programmer that did Linux and the programmer who handled the SCO UNIX looked in the same programming book and copied it from there? It is what you said, there's pretty much only one right way to do it in programming, so maybe they lifted the commenting from someone else who previously did the programming.
He did link to apple.com, it's fairly straightforward to get to the G5 purchase page from there.