People do not *buy* MS software. Hell, average Joes like my landlord (who has 3 desktops, one for himself and two for his kids) has no idea what 'software' is. His AOL is his internet and the monitor is his computer. Windows was bundled with the Compaq desktop he got from Best Buy.
No matter how good any of OSS stuff is, its a long shot to take over MS software unless its pre-installed/bundled along with the machine.
Can you imagine a good reason why someone would not switch to FF over IE? (Opera users, stay away. I am not flaming here). There are atleast 10 SOLID ones that I (and probably you too) can count right now. But does anybody else care? Probably not.
Its all about pre-packaging. Till then, we are just bunch of hippies in eyes of everybody else.
Might not solve it, but at least people will know it exists.
And there probably lies the difference between 'average person' and 'average/.er'. What is spyware for you and I might not even be spyware for them. There are people who willing install Bonzi Buddy on their systems because its cute but I would not touch it with a ten feet pole.
And if these legislators were even half serious, their act should have included not the installation but the 'uninstallation' part. A lot of programs/utilities/helpers capture sensitive information (Google Toolbar anyone?) but the difference lies in getting the crap out of somebody's machine. Anybody who ever had to use HijackThis to figure out the fscking process eating up your machine knows what I am talking about.
Till then, just another stupid law and the life continues as always.
But speaking generally on the vulnerabilities Harris mentions, Diebold spokesman David Bear said by phone that no one would risk manipulating votes in an election because it's against the law and carries a heavy penalty.
I am shocked. Shocked.
He also said that election "policies and procedures dictate that no (single) person has access or is in control of a (voting) system," so it would be impossible for anyone to change votes on a machine without others noticing it. And even if someone managed to change the votes, auditing procedures would detect it.
And this just is a killer. What is this guy smoking? Auditing is not done by default anyway. I am pretty certain Cthulhu is going to be elected.
You can install Linkification that allows you "to view plain-text URLs and e-mail addresses as actual links". Well, of course I am assuming you are not running IE!
Absolutely. Nothing in this article except another futile observation passed on as a study.
If it contains money, they will come. Nothing new here. It has always been like that through the history of humankind. People used to keep money in the form of gold and *they* came. People started keeping money with their head of village and *they* came. People put the money in lockers/safes and *they* came. People started using banks and *they* came. Now people are using the web to store/trasnfer money and *they* are here.
Well, it certainly seems like Google is taking over everything that's G. Yes. You read that right. Eventually, everything that starts with the letter 'G' (or 'g') would be owned by Google.
As other fellow/.ers have already suggested in previous posts and including the article, some of the ideas include gbrowser, gos, gthis, gthat, ginternet and gindows amongst others. Well, it all sounds fine and dandy. Now I just hope they will leave the gspot out of their jurisdiction.
One of them, Vishal, told me why they had constructed a city in the shape of a giant question mark, floating on the water, just off the coast of Marine Drive, Bombay. "It represents the invisible actual, and metaphorically, the unknown perfect design that will stand there in 2250 AD. Obviously, this is not that working design but only a notion of it. Only the question remains.."
Since you hate watching ads, who gave you the rights to download the movie? Let's not even get into any IPrights/copyrights/goatball issues here. If you don't like watching the ads, then don't watch the movie. That doesn't give you any rights to download it. Don't try to justify it by your *hate* mantra.
If you don't agree with certain things, vote with your moolah. Go rent it if you have HAVE to. Go buy it on VHS/VCD/DVD or whatever. But if you don't like watching the theatre ads, it still doesn't give you the right to download it. Period.
my internet lagged so bad I had to reinstall Windows Xp. Worked better after that.
Bollocks. Reinstall XP? Did you atleast try removing SP2 to begin with? You could atleast set a system restore point before you do any major upgrade that contains patches and/or including third party drivers.
I am no Windows fan but just trying to make it sensational that you had to reinstall XP from scratch doesn't really do anything. I have installed SP2 pretty much after it was released and have had no problems. (Well, of course some people are going to see glitches considering the size of that damn thing).
And maybe, just maybe, did you think of the possibility that your *P2P* app might be the bugger. Just a thought.
Jesus no. If that happens, I will be grepping for "rewards" and similar strings without actually doing anything. The people incharge of big/popular/successful project already take care of these things to being with during the 'design' phase. That is also a part of the reason that these projects are big/popular/successful to begin with. Look at Apache and you will get the idea. More eyeballs != More security. But its the whole flexibility that once something is found, even you can write an internal patch if you are an org running open source software in case you don't feel like waiting even a day or two for the community to release it.
But seriously, screw these scum of the earth bastards. Remember those days when web was a nice place and everybody you knew had a cutesy little homepage and you would leave cute little message in their guest books and such with your name and email and such. DAMN I WANT THAT BACK. That was a nicer web instead of trying to take every bit of care not to leak your email EVEN ONCE. Coming up with NOSPAM crap in your email addresses while posting them somewhere in the hope that some bastard spammer's spider won't catch that. Putting all those funky signs and punctuation and ascii characters to fool those spiders. Using spam filters, white lists, black lists, bayseian etc. etc. Telling everybody not to send, forward anything and never to use your email except for personal reasons.
And then your girlfriend sends you that cute little card to your email account from that cutesy flowery website that is an email harvester.
DAMN I WANT THE OLD WEB BACK BEFORE THESE SPAMMERS CAME AND TOOK IT OVER.
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People do not *buy* MS software. Hell, average Joes like my landlord (who has 3 desktops, one for himself and two for his kids) has no idea what 'software' is. His AOL is his internet and the monitor is his computer. Windows was bundled with the Compaq desktop he got from Best Buy.
No matter how good any of OSS stuff is, its a long shot to take over MS software unless its pre-installed/bundled along with the machine.
Can you imagine a good reason why someone would not switch to FF over IE? (Opera users, stay away. I am not flaming here). There are atleast 10 SOLID ones that I (and probably you too) can count right now. But does anybody else care? Probably not.
Its all about pre-packaging. Till then, we are just bunch of hippies in eyes of everybody else.
Might not solve it, but at least people will know it exists.
/.er'. What is spyware for you and I might not even be spyware for them. There are people who willing install Bonzi Buddy on their systems because its cute but I would not touch it with a ten feet pole.
And there probably lies the difference between 'average person' and 'average
And if these legislators were even half serious, their act should have included not the installation but the 'uninstallation' part. A lot of programs/utilities/helpers capture sensitive information (Google Toolbar anyone?) but the difference lies in getting the crap out of somebody's machine. Anybody who ever had to use HijackThis to figure out the fscking process eating up your machine knows what I am talking about.
Till then, just another stupid law and the life continues as always.
Alright. Go mailinator go!
but I know not a single person in my circle of friends and business associates who've said they're getting raises
Pffftttt. Neighbor's kids in the basement don't count as circle of friends and business associates. Nice try. Thanks for playing.
GEMS runs on the Windows operating system.
Truly a Gem!
But speaking generally on the vulnerabilities Harris mentions, Diebold spokesman David Bear said by phone that no one would risk manipulating votes in an election because it's against the law and carries a heavy penalty.
I am shocked. Shocked.
He also said that election "policies and procedures dictate that no (single) person has access or is in control of a (voting) system," so it would be impossible for anyone to change votes on a machine without others noticing it. And even if someone managed to change the votes, auditing procedures would detect it.
And this just is a killer. What is this guy smoking? Auditing is not done by default anyway. I am pretty certain Cthulhu is going to be elected.
You can install Linkification that allows you "to view plain-text URLs and e-mail addresses as actual links". Well, of course I am assuming you are not running IE!
If you haven't read Beyond Fear by Bruce Schneier, I definitely recommend you should before buying any other security book!
idiot next to me who's eating cereal and reading the paper while driving ... all those types of folks can do that safely if we get robot cars!
They are already in robot cars. You need to upgrade.
"You spin me right round, baby right round, like a record baby, right round, round round...."
I HATE YOU. This is stuck in my head for the rest of the day now. DAMN YOU
Absolutely. Nothing in this article except another futile observation passed on as a study.
If it contains money, they will come. Nothing new here. It has always been like that through the history of humankind. People used to keep money in the form of gold and *they* came. People started keeping money with their head of village and *they* came. People put the money in lockers/safes and *they* came. People started using banks and *they* came. Now people are using the web to store/trasnfer money and *they* are here.
I would definitely take a suggestion for name from somebody whose id is "YetAnotherName". Yup.
People seem to think that everything that google ever does is a god-sent gift!
You do realize that gift and god start with 'g', don't you? Not that I am suggesting anything...
Well, it certainly seems like Google is taking over everything that's G. Yes. You read that right. Eventually, everything that starts with the letter 'G' (or 'g') would be owned by Google.
/.ers have already suggested in previous posts and including the article, some of the ideas include gbrowser, gos, gthis, gthat, ginternet and gindows amongst others. Well, it all sounds fine and dandy. Now I just hope they will leave the gspot out of their jurisdiction.
As other fellow
Can't find the damn thing anyway.
It's a *hip* editorial way of saying "Last among equals" ;)
Who can come up with worse?
This thread is quickly going to be "That's nothing. This one time..."
One spam slips through and you can make a new entry at wik
And what's stopping a spam ring from going back to it and deleting it?
Don't forget that *authoritative* is still a grey area for wiki concepts.
One of them, Vishal, told me why they had constructed a city in the shape of a giant question mark, floating on the water, just off the coast of Marine Drive, Bombay. "It represents the invisible actual, and metaphorically, the unknown perfect design that will stand there in 2250 AD. Obviously, this is not that working design but only a notion of it. Only the question remains.."
WTF? Somebody care to translate. Please?
Since you hate watching ads, who gave you the rights to download the movie? Let's not even get into any IPrights/copyrights/goatball issues here. If you don't like watching the ads, then don't watch the movie. That doesn't give you any rights to download it. Don't try to justify it by your *hate* mantra.
If you don't agree with certain things, vote with your moolah. Go rent it if you have HAVE to. Go buy it on VHS/VCD/DVD or whatever. But if you don't like watching the theatre ads, it still doesn't give you the right to download it. Period.
Actually, even this new look would have done!
The page says "Roll mouse over timeline icons to see summary of each document". So I did and nothing. Hmmmm. Well, let's see how it validates.
OH well.
my internet lagged so bad I had to reinstall Windows Xp. Worked better after that.
Bollocks. Reinstall XP? Did you atleast try removing SP2 to begin with? You could atleast set a system restore point before you do any major upgrade that contains patches and/or including third party drivers.
I am no Windows fan but just trying to make it sensational that you had to reinstall XP from scratch doesn't really do anything. I have installed SP2 pretty much after it was released and have had no problems. (Well, of course some people are going to see glitches considering the size of that damn thing).
And maybe, just maybe, did you think of the possibility that your *P2P* app might be the bugger. Just a thought.
Sing, dance, strut about the stage
Sing?
Jesus no. If that happens, I will be grepping for "rewards" and similar strings without actually doing anything. The people incharge of big/popular/successful project already take care of these things to being with during the 'design' phase. That is also a part of the reason that these projects are big/popular/successful to begin with. Look at Apache and you will get the idea. More eyeballs != More security. But its the whole flexibility that once something is found, even you can write an internal patch if you are an org running open source software in case you don't feel like waiting even a day or two for the community to release it.
Top ten most wanted deserve 7 and 8 figures.
But seriously, screw these scum of the earth bastards. Remember those days when web was a nice place and everybody you knew had a cutesy little homepage and you would leave cute little message in their guest books and such with your name and email and such. DAMN I WANT THAT BACK. That was a nicer web instead of trying to take every bit of care not to leak your email EVEN ONCE. Coming up with NOSPAM crap in your email addresses while posting them somewhere in the hope that some bastard spammer's spider won't catch that. Putting all those funky signs and punctuation and ascii characters to fool those spiders. Using spam filters, white lists, black lists, bayseian etc. etc. Telling everybody not to send, forward anything and never to use your email except for personal reasons.
And then your girlfriend sends you that cute little card to your email account from that cutesy flowery website that is an email harvester.
DAMN I WANT THE OLD WEB BACK BEFORE THESE SPAMMERS CAME AND TOOK IT OVER.
It's about fscking time.
Oh yeah. Now since the playing field is little even, let me get my catcher's mit.