I find explaining in detail all the spyware stuff that was installed via IE.
Most common in the machines I have fixed is Horse Dialler and varitions of.
The people whos machine I have fixed, still use modem and are able to equate the damage to real world money on their phone bill.
One of them had over 300 euros to a number in Nigeria which was most likely the dialer program. They had been arguing with their phone provider for some time claiming they never called the number.
For one, I am using the latest Firefox and it is not happening to me. You on the other hand appear to have gone back to IE.
But as the other post points out, all you seem to post is the same bug over and over. A formatting bug (which as mentioned, appears not to happen to current firefox users).
Why not post the bugs that allow you to..
- Send a jpg in IE which will launch an exe
- Move the IE scrollbar and open your machine to hacking.
- Inject exploit that allows full access to your machine.
Of course some of these require disabling a large amount of functionality of IE to protect yourself.
Just because you have the market share now, does not mean you will always have it.
MS gets the market share by bundling it free with windows while (at the time, not sure now) not making it easy for competitors to bundle theirs on the same machine (see MSvsDOJ findings of fact).
Slow network speeds have kept people on IE. The ability to easily download firefox along with spyware and numerous exploits still existing in IE is what is killing them.
They can reform their team all they want, but the damage is done.
There was a TV program on ITV one time about the cameras in London.
One guy interviewed was annoyed that a camera was pointed at his window most of the time. One stage someone on the street was getting mugged and it took the police 20 minutes to turn up, while the camera filmed the whole thing.
Annoyed, he created a suit that made him look like Predator (very impressive). He then went out and walked around outside where he knew the camera scanned.
Within 5 minutes the whole road was full of cops.
Makes you wonder if they have a special divsion for aliens like they do for vampires.;)
As far as I recall the exit poll was done by a company, which claimed the opposition had won when they hadn't.
Add to that the opposition claiming a fraud, but then refusing to take part in the auditing makes it sound more sour grapes.
I'd hardly call a country where you only have the choice of two people already picked out for you a place of champion of democracy.
Before someone mentions "Nader", the Republican party funding Nader to pull votes from the Democrats shows you how much they think of the third person to vote for.
>The country that currently champions democracy,
I'd hardly call a country where you only have the choice of two people already picked out for you a place of champion of democracy.
> For adminstrative jobs that require physical presence and attention, outsourcing might be good.
I admined three machines one time. Not one of them was in the same country as me and I had no problem maintaining them. I could even remotely kick the power if it was absolutly required.
So don't go assuming that your job is safe either.
> As they get richer, they start buying more expensive luxuries made in the industrialized nations.
Which are probably being made in the poorer countries anyway to keep the prices down, so they can cut out the middle man altogether.
The US already outsourced a lot of its manual work years ago.
He said the problem wasn't with the technology as such. It was with filing a flight plan in order to take off.
I am recalling the interview from memory, so maybe someone can shed more light. But I recall him talking about some kind of automated flight plan system that was being worked on.
However I think that 9/11 probably did away with any chance of a flying car coming anytime soon.
Kind of. NC1 is for most parts dead now. NC2 is being released end of September. They are killing off the first Neocron (much to the pain of the people playing)
If your a real talented programmer then the language is probably not going to matter, except in what tool you need to complete your job.
There are armies of mediocre programmers in any language. You have them for a reason.
Do you want your real talented programmer working on the same thing over and over or have them code in such a way that a mediocre programmers can maintain it?
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I've seen Bush talk in public. There is no way in hell he wrote those answers. Probably got someone in the office to do it.
I find explaining in detail all the spyware stuff that was installed via IE.
Most common in the machines I have fixed is Horse Dialler and varitions of.
The people whos machine I have fixed, still use modem and are able to equate the damage to real world money on their phone bill.
One of them had over 300 euros to a number in Nigeria which was most likely the dialer program. They had been arguing with their phone provider for some time claiming they never called the number.
I looked at the article and it had..
:-O
"Beware of the End of the World (Wide Web), " Says Intel
Clearly the " the start of the internet corruption.
On a more serious note, the news story doesn't actually tell you anything except use Intel stuff.
OMG people saying Firefly is like Andromanda and Star Trek..
BURN THE HERETICS!! >_'''
How would you know it still happens?
For one, I am using the latest Firefox and it is not happening to me. You on the other hand appear to have gone back to IE.
But as the other post points out, all you seem to post is the same bug over and over. A formatting bug (which as mentioned, appears not to happen to current firefox users).
Why not post the bugs that allow you to..
- Send a jpg in IE which will launch an exe
- Move the IE scrollbar and open your machine to hacking.
- Inject exploit that allows full access to your machine.
Of course some of these require disabling a large amount of functionality of IE to protect yourself.
intresting.. I stand corrected. I looked it some more and somehow monsoon5.com had somehow been added to my approved lists of sites to allow popups.
This is strange because I have seen this happen on a few machines.
Firefox does not stop all pop ups though.
For example...
http://www.aol.com/
Go there, even with popups blocked I still get a popup. Although with ad-block installed the popup is just a blank window.
>like Mozilla, it has the resident memory thingy in the systray)
I have never seen it for firefox. Are you sure?
> Firefox supports the ActiveX applet that my company's support-site requires for my job
Active-X is horribly insecure. But yes you have a choice. You can install "open in IE" or "Active-X" extensions in firefox.
>in IE I can hide the File/Edit/View/Help menubar that I never use, and in IE I can make the icons really small)
You can do the same in Firefox. You can even completly design the icons to be smaller, or download already existing themes.
> Firefox can display my flight reservations on http://www.continental.com without a screwed-up layout
Looks fine to me. I even installed adblock so it means the site in question has no advert spam.
I've seen you post the exact same thing on other stories. You have already been debunked. The later version of firefox no longer has that issue.
Before MS there was IBM
Before IE there was Netscape
Before Google there was Altavista
Just because you have the market share now, does not mean you will always have it.
MS gets the market share by bundling it free with windows while (at the time, not sure now) not making it easy for competitors to bundle theirs on the same machine (see MSvsDOJ findings of fact).
Slow network speeds have kept people on IE. The ability to easily download firefox along with spyware and numerous exploits still existing in IE is what is killing them.
They can reform their team all they want, but the damage is done.
I only recently found the 'about:cache' option. Where do I see a list of the lot?
I'm pretty sure there is a big difference about pointing out what is wrong with Bushes 4 years (moveon.org) vs outright bare faced lying (SBVFT).
One guy interviewed was annoyed that a camera was pointed at his window most of the time. One stage someone on the street was getting mugged and it took the police 20 minutes to turn up, while the camera filmed the whole thing.
Annoyed, he created a suit that made him look like Predator (very impressive). He then went out and walked around outside where he knew the camera scanned.
Within 5 minutes the whole road was full of cops.
Makes you wonder if they have a special divsion for aliens like they do for vampires. ;)
Actually I would say Korea is more densely populated then USA.
48 million Koreans in a country that would fit in lake Michigan (more then once I would guess).
As far as I recall the exit poll was done by a company, which claimed the opposition had won when they hadn't. Add to that the opposition claiming a fraud, but then refusing to take part in the auditing makes it sound more sour grapes.
>The country that currently champions democracy,
I'd hardly call a country where you only have the choice of two people already picked out for you a place of champion of democracy.
Before someone mentions "Nader", the Republican party funding Nader to pull votes from the Democrats shows you how much they think of the third person to vote for.
>The country that currently champions democracy, I'd hardly call a country where you only have the choice of two people already picked out for you a place of champion of democracy.
> For adminstrative jobs that require physical presence and attention, outsourcing might be good. I admined three machines one time. Not one of them was in the same country as me and I had no problem maintaining them. I could even remotely kick the power if it was absolutly required. So don't go assuming that your job is safe either.
> As they get richer, they start buying more expensive luxuries made in the industrialized nations. Which are probably being made in the poorer countries anyway to keep the prices down, so they can cut out the middle man altogether. The US already outsourced a lot of its manual work years ago.
He said the problem wasn't with the technology as such. It was with filing a flight plan in order to take off.
I am recalling the interview from memory, so maybe someone can shed more light. But I recall him talking about some kind of automated flight plan system that was being worked on.
However I think that 9/11 probably did away with any chance of a flying car coming anytime soon.
I was told it was rolled out today (SP2), so can someone explain why my XP machines wanted to install the SP2 patch a few days ago?
Kind of. NC1 is for most parts dead now. NC2 is being released end of September. They are killing off the first Neocron (much to the pain of the people playing)
Only adverts in game are for in game weapons and the red light district.
If your a real talented programmer then the language is probably not going to matter, except in what tool you need to complete your job.
There are armies of mediocre programmers in any language. You have them for a reason.
Do you want your real talented programmer working on the same thing over and over or have them code in such a way that a mediocre programmers can maintain it?
>Any other compiled language compiles to a native executable that you run by typing its name.
Never heard of a self-executing jar files I take it. They have been around for ages. Just type the name of the jar file and it executes.
>I type the command line to start it, and wait. And wait. And wait. And wait.
Depends a lot on what your application is doing. I am guessing you are talking about GUI based applications.
>Here I am with a library written in C, or Fortran, and I want to call it from Java
JNI