Tens of thousands of systems are inflicted with Gator, Comet Cursor, Sony's root kit, and so on. I guess that means that these pieces of software are beneficial?
Besides, how do you know that an attacker hasn't put their own trojaned copy of the software on the publisher's web site? How do you know that an attacker hasn't subverted the software publisher's DNS server and isn't redirecting requsts for the software to their own modified copy? How do you know the software has really been downloaded tens of thousands of times, and the VersionTracker web site isn't lying to you in order to get you to download the malicious software, or that the tens of thousands of downloads weren't just triggered by wget in a for loop in order to boost the software's popularity on this site?
Every point you raise (except for the wget one) applies as equally to any package download site you care to name. VersionTracker has a product to sell and a reputation to maintain. They are a trusted site, just like the package download sites.
VT has admins that are capable of removing listings. Also, VersionTracker has product ratings and a comment system. If a product turns out to be spyware or something, someone will end up reporting it. If it looks like someone is astroturfing their own product under different usernames, you can send a report in to the admins.
On the linux box (I am going to choose Debian as I'm familiar with it). Fire up synaptic from the gnome menu. Search for barcode. Two results returned. Both of these programs I know to be free of trojans, compatable with my system & configured for it. To install, I double click.
On Version Tracker, I get 48 results for "barcode." The top two have been downloaded more that 10,000 times each. I'd say that's free of trojans, and I don't even need to think if it's compatible & configured for my system. Of course it is! Download, drag from the disk image to my own hard drive. Done.
It's not the apps that have problems, it's Software Update. It doesn't know that you moved the app. Granted, that's an issue, but the apps themselves work fine wherever you put 'em. Except, you might have problems running an app from a read-only disk image.
Since reading bloggers is a totally user driven experience, compared to adds on TV or even print, there is no reason for any limits.
This is what the FEC decided. The new regs treat a blog like the blogger's own personal soapbox. He can say whatever he wants, and it is not regulated. He counts as media. But paid advertisements, or a paid-for blog entry, is regulated.
I've never seen implemented something like: fight a bit to show that you could kill the other, than speak and use the result of the fight as an intimidation ("I could have killed you").
I have got a Mac, so I can't try this myself. But it seems to me that the reviewer mentioned an Intimidate skill in DDO. If DDO adds bonuses to that skill for doing damage to a creature, then maybe you can do this.
I didn't start out learning Logo, I started out with BASIC. But I've done Logo programming. It was a very good introductory language. Taught me all about functional programming, abstraction, and how not to use line numbers.
Both of our senators voted against the Patriot Act. Why haven't yours?
Our senator did! But Murray voted against it less because Washington favors liberty than because Washington is die-hard liberal. But still, I wrote her a quick "thank you" note.
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Tens of thousands of systems are inflicted with Gator, Comet Cursor, Sony's root kit, and so on. I guess that means that these pieces of software are beneficial?
Besides, how do you know that an attacker hasn't put their own trojaned copy of the software on the publisher's web site? How do you know that an attacker hasn't subverted the software publisher's DNS server and isn't redirecting requsts for the software to their own modified copy? How do you know the software has really been downloaded tens of thousands of times, and the VersionTracker web site isn't lying to you in order to get you to download the malicious software, or that the tens of thousands of downloads weren't just triggered by wget in a for loop in order to boost the software's popularity on this site?
Every point you raise (except for the wget one) applies as equally to any package download site you care to name. VersionTracker has a product to sell and a reputation to maintain. They are a trusted site, just like the package download sites.
VT has admins that are capable of removing listings. Also, VersionTracker has product ratings and a comment system. If a product turns out to be spyware or something, someone will end up reporting it. If it looks like someone is astroturfing their own product under different usernames, you can send a report in to the admins.
I wish I knew. Only happens with some apps, though.
"Nullity" is simply the essence of "nullness," which we can say is the state of having "nullality."
HTH, HAND
On the linux box (I am going to choose Debian as I'm familiar with it). Fire up synaptic from the gnome menu. Search for barcode. Two results returned. Both of these programs I know to be free of trojans, compatable with my system & configured for it. To install, I double click.
On Version Tracker, I get 48 results for "barcode." The top two have been downloaded more that 10,000 times each. I'd say that's free of trojans, and I don't even need to think if it's compatible & configured for my system. Of course it is! Download, drag from the disk image to my own hard drive. Done.
Mac OS X, FTW!
It's not the apps that have problems, it's Software Update. It doesn't know that you moved the app. Granted, that's an issue, but the apps themselves work fine wherever you put 'em. Except, you might have problems running an app from a read-only disk image.
NO WAI!!!
(I suppose, at this point, it behooves me to link to the O RLY page.)
O RLY?
o_O
In the Star Trek universe, they've moved beyond money.
You mean...
It's a trap!
Since reading bloggers is a totally user driven experience, compared to adds on TV or even print, there is no reason for any limits.
This is what the FEC decided. The new regs treat a blog like the blogger's own personal soapbox. He can say whatever he wants, and it is not regulated. He counts as media. But paid advertisements, or a paid-for blog entry, is regulated.
Before OSX, the mac had the reputation of the machine that crashed all the time.
True. The Japanese-style mascot for OS 9 is a bipolar girl holding a bomb. One minute, all happy, the next, blowing things up
You can turn off some things with TinkerTool.
Hey, Event Horizon was a pretty scary movie.
"An Apparatus and Process for Extracting Oxygen from a Low-Density Fluid Using Positive and Negative Pressure Differentials" ...breathing?
Or rather, you deserve to be in business only so long as the other company makes crappy products.
True dat. There's the water-walking thing, but there's a lot more material in the bible that has a harmful influence on people:
Whoa, whoa! PostgreSQL has notifications? Dammit, why wasn't I informed of this?!
Now the question becomes, are there DB interface libraries that support notifications? (I'm looking at you, Hibernate.)
I've never seen implemented something like: fight a bit to show that you could kill the other, than speak and use the result of the fight as an intimidation ("I could have killed you").
I have got a Mac, so I can't try this myself. But it seems to me that the reviewer mentioned an Intimidate skill in DDO. If DDO adds bonuses to that skill for doing damage to a creature, then maybe you can do this.
I didn't start out learning Logo, I started out with BASIC. But I've done Logo programming. It was a very good introductory language. Taught me all about functional programming, abstraction, and how not to use line numbers.
:)
I still think it's kinda cool.
A "war room" environment doubles productivity.
Maybe in a "putting out fires" situation. But on normal, day-to-day, low-priority work?
You know, there's a reason why they call it a "war room."
But not before they break him financially and make it so he can not get another job.
:)
Well, he's lucky he plans to open his own business, then.
The laptop was destroyed. I wonder if that would constitute hacking.
I was just wondering if a clean reformat counts...
Hey, I liked Hootie!
Poor guy ended up doing BK commercials, though.
The overpressure plasma shockwave from the bits flying through the air would still get you.
Both of our senators voted against the Patriot Act. Why haven't yours?
Our senator did! But Murray voted against it less because Washington favors liberty than because Washington is die-hard liberal. But still, I wrote her a quick "thank you" note.
Very literate, I like it.