I'm actually glad about this change. It requires putting quotes around all sorts of MS-DOS commands. Otherwise you can end up with really confusing errors, such as:
"Could not find the file C:\My"
Having gone through school myself, I can tell you this won't make any difference AT ALL. Kids aren't stupid, they know how to get around this. At my school, parents could toggle some option on their kid's account so they could only buy balanced "combo meals." Naturally, I noticed a handfull of kids asking others to buy a cookie, bag of chips, or whatever for them since they couldn't themselves. Now the question will just change at this school to, "Could you buy (such and such) for me? My parents would get mad if I did. I'll pay you back." Trust me, nothing useful will come of this. Don't worry.
Uhh, Netscape is not based on Firefox. Back many ages ago, Netscape donated a bunch of code that became the Mozilla project, spawning many many projects, most notably Seamonkey, (original mozilla suite) Firefox, and Thunderbird. I think that Netscape may have started using a heavily branded version of Seamonkey a while ago, but I'm pretty sure that it wasn't Firefox. As we all know, Firefox has only gone 1.0 only a few months ago.
I'm running 98SE too, and I haven't had a problem with most of the security holes, from remote assistance, to RPC, to shell:, etc. Any other exploits that _are_ backwards compatible get dispatched by Tiny Personal Firewall or by AVG antivirus.
So, all this SP2 hullaballo is irrelevant to me. What I don't get is why Slashdot of all places is covering this. Slashdot is _supposed_ to be linux-heavy. On the other hand, out of the handful of clicks from my sig, one was linux, one was mac, and the rest were windows.
As for Gentoo, I plan on making Gentoo my first Linux distro once I'm the only one using this comp. (Note: No flames please, Debian users)
I think that numbski is getting to the heart of the issue, not waffling about "well, it's only a free service" or "well, it's only a beta."
One other thing, I haven't run into the word verification during logon yet, so it must be an every now-and-then thing.
Actually, it's not all that awesome for me. You see, it appears to be for Windoze 2000, XP, or newer. I'm posting this from good old 98SE. What could possibly break compatibility is beyond my comprehension. Do they use transparency with their notifier? (most other apps make that optional to ensure compatibility) However, they say they are working on versions for other operating systems, so by the alpha or final release stage, I may be in luck.
Also, Michael filed this under the "life-not-complicated-enough-already-apparently dept." He doesn't seem very happy about XHTML, or valid HTML for that matter, either.
Using the fix mentioned doesn't work on WinGaim.78 for me. I'm still getting the same error message. However, in this comment someone says it's fixed in the CVS. I for one won't bother with the fix since most of my friends are n00bs attached to AIM, a few MSN, and only a few YIM.
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Mod parent funny, not interesting! This is a play off a quote from the beginning credits sequence in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. As for the pdf link, it's the first link in the purdue page referenced in the article. RTFA, people!
No, you have it all wrong. According to other QC articles I have read from Discover, SciAm, etc. it is impossible to eavesdrop when being detected because the photons can spin in one of four ways, and you can only detect for two of the spin types. So, half the photons you intercept you didn't measure for the right spin, so you know that the spin is one of the other two spins you didn't check for. Then, the only thing left to do is send another photon and randomly pick one of the two spins. This works out to 1/4 photon loss, which will show up easily to the sender and receiver. This level of photon loss indicates that there is an eavesdropper. So, it really is impossible to eavesdrop QC without detection.
Man, what does that 9 stand for? It isn't "Amazon".length, that's 6. As far as I can tell, there aren't 9 things that start with A related to this. Any ideas?
I wish we could Search Inside The Programmer's Head to find out what on Earth it is.
So, Rockstar could sell it via their website or catalogs or whatever. Fans would still be able to get the game if they really wanted to and knew where to look. However, there would be a gigantic sales hit if it disappeared from store shelves. Of course, this is only if Rockstar loses the court battle.
I would like to point out just as a side note that the original GTA is available FREE at Rockstar's website here. See this./ article.
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I'm actually glad about this change. It requires putting quotes around all sorts of MS-DOS commands. Otherwise you can end up with really confusing errors, such as: "Could not find the file C:\My"
Having gone through school myself, I can tell you this won't make any difference AT ALL. Kids aren't stupid, they know how to get around this. At my school, parents could toggle some option on their kid's account so they could only buy balanced "combo meals." Naturally, I noticed a handfull of kids asking others to buy a cookie, bag of chips, or whatever for them since they couldn't themselves. Now the question will just change at this school to, "Could you buy (such and such) for me? My parents would get mad if I did. I'll pay you back." Trust me, nothing useful will come of this. Don't worry.
Uhh, Netscape is not based on Firefox. Back many ages ago, Netscape donated a bunch of code that became the Mozilla project, spawning many many projects, most notably Seamonkey, (original mozilla suite) Firefox, and Thunderbird. I think that Netscape may have started using a heavily branded version of Seamonkey a while ago, but I'm pretty sure that it wasn't Firefox. As we all know, Firefox has only gone 1.0 only a few months ago.
Are you sure you meant to say "All your base are belong to us?" Did you mean "All you lasers are better than us?"
I'm running 98SE too, and I haven't had a problem with most of the security holes, from remote assistance, to RPC, to shell:, etc. Any other exploits that _are_ backwards compatible get dispatched by Tiny Personal Firewall or by AVG antivirus. So, all this SP2 hullaballo is irrelevant to me. What I don't get is why Slashdot of all places is covering this. Slashdot is _supposed_ to be linux-heavy. On the other hand, out of the handful of clicks from my sig, one was linux, one was mac, and the rest were windows. As for Gentoo, I plan on making Gentoo my first Linux distro once I'm the only one using this comp. (Note: No flames please, Debian users)
For that matter, use this email! Early bird gets the worm http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-8f4191c0b8-dd12e91 420-e99ddd1927
I think that numbski is getting to the heart of the issue, not waffling about "well, it's only a free service" or "well, it's only a beta." One other thing, I haven't run into the word verification during logon yet, so it must be an every now-and-then thing.
Actually, it's not all that awesome for me. You see, it appears to be for Windoze 2000, XP, or newer. I'm posting this from good old 98SE. What could possibly break compatibility is beyond my comprehension. Do they use transparency with their notifier? (most other apps make that optional to ensure compatibility) However, they say they are working on versions for other operating systems, so by the alpha or final release stage, I may be in luck.
Open Style! You know what you doing! Open Style for great justice!
Also, Michael filed this under the "life-not-complicated-enough-already-apparently dept." He doesn't seem very happy about XHTML, or valid HTML for that matter, either.
Using the fix mentioned doesn't work on WinGaim .78 for me. I'm still getting the same error message. However, in this comment someone says it's fixed in the CVS. I for one won't bother with the fix since most of my friends are n00bs attached to AIM, a few MSN, and only a few YIM.
Note to mods: Mod parent funny, not interesting! This is a play off a quote from the beginning credits sequence in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. As for the pdf link, it's the first link in the purdue page referenced in the article. RTFA, people!
No, you have it all wrong. According to other QC articles I have read from Discover, SciAm, etc. it is impossible to eavesdrop when being detected because the photons can spin in one of four ways, and you can only detect for two of the spin types. So, half the photons you intercept you didn't measure for the right spin, so you know that the spin is one of the other two spins you didn't check for. Then, the only thing left to do is send another photon and randomly pick one of the two spins. This works out to 1/4 photon loss, which will show up easily to the sender and receiver. This level of photon loss indicates that there is an eavesdropper. So, it really is impossible to eavesdrop QC without detection.
Man, what does that 9 stand for? It isn't "Amazon".length, that's 6. As far as I can tell, there aren't 9 things that start with A related to this. Any ideas? I wish we could Search Inside The Programmer's Head to find out what on Earth it is.
Aah! It's a business deal from South Africa! *BLAM* That's right spammers, bring it on!
So, Rockstar could sell it via their website or catalogs or whatever. Fans would still be able to get the game if they really wanted to and knew where to look. However, there would be a gigantic sales hit if it disappeared from store shelves. Of course, this is only if Rockstar loses the court battle. I would like to point out just as a side note that the original GTA is available FREE at Rockstar's website here. See this ./ article.