I'm not against the content of the article itself, nor do I question the author's technical merits. I'm against the misleading title. I surely expected more info on First4internet, or who decided to make the deal, youknow, the "behind-the-screens" action and stuff.
But all it was, was a hyperlinked editorial a-la 60 minutes commentary. Perhaps the article should have been named "The unasked question behind the Rogue Rootkit", or something.
You may ask, "Oh well, if you weren't against the article itself, but just the title, why was your post entitled 'Article sucks!'"?
I read that article this morning, misled by the title "the REAL story behind the Sony rootkit".
It reads more or less: "And then this happened, but THAT's not the story. Also , this happened, but THAT's not the story. Sony did this, but THAT's not the story.... etc etc...
The REAL story is that the antivirus companies didn't detect it! Ta-da!:D"
And I was like "WTF!? O.o I spent reading all those paragraphs to read THIS crap? OK now THAT's a story".
Nothing worse than a title that is (at least) as misleading as the original Gator EULA. Blah.
Yes, I agree I did a bit of karma-whoring to post one or two comments in here according to the group-mentality. Yes, I'm sorry, I got carried on:(
*ahem* Anyway, remember it's the IE7 team doing the Firefox WMP plugins and such. Yes, the same ones that fixed those nasty guillotine bugs that made web programmers' lifes become a nightmare.
So, yes, I support their cross-browser compatibility effort. Now the only thing that worries me is that windows media DRM that can run remote code on your machine.
I'd recommend "Common Errors in English usage" instead. It has an online version. Specifically, look for the "its/it's" page. Nah, better not slashdot it. Here's the page:
The exception to the general rule that one should use an apostrophe to indicate possession is in possessive pronouns. Some of them are not a problem. "Mine" has no misleading "s" at the end to invite an apostrophe. And few people are tempted to write "hi's," though the equally erroneous "her's" is fairly common, as are "our's" and "their's--all wrong, wrong, wrong. The problem with avoiding "it's" as a possessive is that this spelling is perfectly correct as a contraction meaning "it is." Just remember two points and you'll never make this mistake again. (1) "it's" always means "it is" or "it has" and nothing else. (2) Try changing the "its" in your sentence to "his" and if it doesn't make sense, then go with "it's."
I *loved* TW2002. I even got an original copy for my BBS (back in the ol' times).
I managed to make a map of the sectors, and find a cozy space to hide my ship.
But after a while I got PK'ed:( I stopped playing online games since. It's not fun if you can't play because some bully just decides to have fun at your expenses.
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I'm not against the content of the article itself, nor do I question the author's technical merits. I'm against the misleading title. I surely expected more info on First4internet, or who decided to make the deal, youknow, the "behind-the-screens" action and stuff.
But all it was, was a hyperlinked editorial a-la 60 minutes commentary. Perhaps the article should have been named "The unasked question behind the Rogue Rootkit", or something.
You may ask, "Oh well, if you weren't against the article itself, but just the title, why was your post entitled 'Article sucks!'"?
And that's exactly my point. Misleading titles.
I mean, they're the underappreciated lonely guys working extra hours. At least let them wear what they want.
Tomorrow, to appear on Slashdot:
:( -- HEEELP!!!
Mad Bubbles invent colored Scientist (illustrated below)
oOoOOooOoOooOooOoOOo
on software depending on "purely functional features" similar to those of that commercial software.
:(
Then again, that was Canada's, not US' Supreme Court.
And of course, there's the issue of software patents...
I read that article this morning, misled by the title "the REAL story behind the Sony rootkit".
... etc etc...
:D"
It reads more or less:
"And then this happened, but THAT's not the story.
Also , this happened, but THAT's not the story.
Sony did this, but THAT's not the story.
The REAL story is that the antivirus companies didn't detect it! Ta-da!
And I was like "WTF!? O.o I spent reading all those paragraphs to read THIS crap? OK now THAT's a story".
Nothing worse than a title that is (at least) as misleading as the original Gator EULA.
Blah.
So we are still doing better than them in Math/Science PhDs, percentage-wise.
Yes, but the chine$e keep $elling more $tuff than the US anyway.
Yes, I agree I did a bit of karma-whoring to post one or two comments in here according to the group-mentality. Yes, I'm sorry, I got carried on :(
*ahem* Anyway, remember it's the IE7 team doing the Firefox WMP plugins and such. Yes, the same ones that fixed those nasty guillotine bugs that made web programmers' lifes become a nightmare.
So, yes, I support their cross-browser compatibility effort. Now the only thing that worries me is that windows media DRM that can run remote code on your machine.
They would think seriously about supporting openDocument.
It's called bargaining. "Oh, they support firefox, so they must not be THAT bad".
Finally I can put midis on my webpages again! :)
Boy, I missed those since Netscape 4.
So how exactly does this become "Microsoft mean to blind users!"
:P
Well, Microsoft has meant to blind its users for a LONG time...
the last thing we need is Britney Spears saying Open Source is cool. *shudder* :-S
Perhaps parent poster meant it to be a joke, but that's EXACTLY how the microwaves over lunar dust idea came to be.
Some guy took a pinch of moondust and put it in a microwave oven. It melted. EUREKA!
Romeo's enemy:"Romeo Montesco, get ur sword! ph34r m3!"
:'("
Juliet: "Romeo, I luv u, Pwn m3!"
Romeo: "OMG Juliet died?
*brrrrrr* I shudder of just thinking about it!
Need: Programmer ( vacant )
Need: Organization who will hire said programmer, and FAST ( vacant )
Destroyed in seconds by slashdotting.
Thankfully one of the readers (not me) used Coral Cache, so I was able to view the coralized version instantly. And yes, the images were cached, too!
Anyway, how about re-doing the circuitry like the C64-in-a-joystick? That'd be cool.
- but that's not the case. I can easily remove them, and it's a free service.
Just like you can delete unsolicited commercial e-mails, right?
Screen Magnification is part of Microsoft Windows, not of Microsoft office. Same goes for text-to-speech and sticky keys.
It seems that the guy compared Windows with Linux, not MS Office vs. OpenOffice.
I could really use a friend.
<bot>have you tried buying one at the store?
"Oh, all the communist states were NEVER really communist! All they did was being totalitarian but they never reached Marx's ideals".
Yeah right. Maybe you guys mean that Communism can never reach Marxism because Marxism is impossible to be enforced without a totalitarian government?
Please remind me to RTFSummary (oops :-S )
The rootkit infections turned out to be more than half a million.
I'd recommend "Common Errors in English usage" instead. It has an online version. Specifically, look for the "its/it's" page. Nah, better not slashdot it. Here's the page:
The exception to the general rule that one should use an apostrophe to indicate possession is in possessive pronouns. Some of them are not a problem. "Mine" has no misleading "s" at the end to invite an apostrophe. And few people are tempted to write "hi's," though the equally erroneous "her's" is fairly common, as are "our's" and "their's--all wrong, wrong, wrong. The problem with avoiding "it's" as a possessive is that this spelling is perfectly correct as a contraction meaning "it is." Just remember two points and you'll never make this mistake again. (1) "it's" always means "it is" or "it has" and nothing else. (2) Try changing the "its" in your sentence to "his" and if it doesn't make sense, then go with "it's."
See also apostrophes.
I suppose now that the evil eyes lurking in the cave labyrinth and eating you whenever your fireberries go out, are grues?
Argh, it's so hard to make a joke these days :(
I *loved* TW2002. I even got an original copy for my BBS (back in the ol' times).
:( I stopped playing online games since. It's not fun if you can't play because some bully just decides to have fun at your expenses.
I managed to make a map of the sectors, and find a cozy space to hide my ship.
But after a while I got PK'ed