Here's the deal, though. The virus was targeted toward luddite users who don't know what a.vbs file is. They may know what an.exe file is, possibly know what.com and.bat file are, but assume everything else will open in word. After seeing.doc.wpf.xls.msg.html.htm.gif.jpg, etc, they get really confused. They don't know what these files are. They just know that they double-click them and see what's in them. I know it's hard to put yourself in that position. I can't even remember if/when I would have been that dumb. I do know that I speak with technicians every day who are still unclear on this concept. Think about this, you recieve an HTML file from a friend. The subject line says that it's the funniest damn thing they've ever seen. How do you feel about opening it? I personally wouldn't have too much of a problem with it! It's just an HTML file. Right? Consider this, luddites (like Lars Ulrich) don't know that a.vbs is anything different than an HTML file! Those that know better don't open wierd shit. They save it, maybe open it with notepad, but don't open it right away. These are the kind of people who don't even need antivirus programs, and this particular virus isn't targeted at them.
Actually, I have a Garage Days Re-Revisited tape. It's too much trouble to try to encode the tape to MP3. I'm going to download the song with gNapster. Fuck that.
Please give me a take on what you understand that Napster does, how it's used by music fans, and why that's wrong. As a kind of Turing test (so I know this is really you) please tell me what Axl Rose did at the Metallica/GNR show where James got hurt by the pyrotechnics.
This should scare a few legitimate people because "Today kiddie porn, tomorrow politicol statements." It should scare enough kiddie porn searchers because "Today kiddie porn." Eventually, both camps will move toward freenet or another way to stay anonymous. I believe that anoynimity is a good thing in certain circumstances. It doesn't matter that this time the kiddie porn people are looking for it, because next time it could be someone else. Hell, next time it could even be you! Here's an "Ask Slashdot": How can we remain as anonymous as possible on the internet while we're downloading porn^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmaking politicol statements?
I actually recieved many of the messages. One showed up in my preview pane, but didn't infect my system. Maybe some versions of outlook automatically open the VBScript files and some don't. Can we get some confirmation on this? I'm running Outlook 2k.
Many people in our company recieved the message, but because of the signs posted everywhere most of us around here didn't open the message. Right now I've got Outlook Express open and logged in to the exchange server through IMAP. I don't know how much that'll help, but I can always hope, can't I? Hell, at least I'm reading the really important email (stuff from my wife) through my ssh session with my server at home. I know Pine isn't susceptible to that shit.
After all this Metallica hoopla with them acting a bit dumb I went and downloaded all the songs from Garage Days Rerevisited. I have the tape somewhere in a drawer or a box or something, but it was eaten by my old car stereo a long time ago. It felt good to hear Last Caress seeing as how that's exactly what this is. Metallica are sellouts. I'll be erasing the songs from my drive as soon as I'm bored of them.
There is a pole on the page. Unfortunately, the lUs3Rz at ZDNet didn't give a Cowboy Neal option. I propose we Slashdot the poll. At the very least it shows that most of the readers of ZDNet.com feel that Open source is "John Taschek's worst nightmare." A side effect is that it gives them a little more ad revenue, but that's not that big of a deal. Right? They're still losing money anyway, aren't they?
Exactly. The guards books are the cream of the crop. The fifth elephant is also a guards book, though I haven't purchased it yet. (I'm waiting for paperback.)
I guess it's time to find my 11 year old cousin in China and have him download the file, copy the spec, and email it back to me. Seriously, when a number of people have taken the spec, posted it everywhere on the internet, and the secret is out, what's going to stop the spec from being included in Samba?
Which one was the blah one? The only one I really didn't like that much was Small Gods. I've really liked all the others. There ought to be a poll regarding favorite Discworld books. I'd vote for Jingo.
A copy of the letter I just wrote to John Taschek
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I'm sure you've received many responses on your attack piece on Open Source software where you likened Mozilla's development cycle with all of Open Source software. I'm sure you've been reminded by a number of people of the successes of Open Source software like Apache, Free BSD Unix, Sendmail, Perl, and many others. I'm also pretty sure that in your self righteous way you managed to ignore those criticisms and still think that you were correct about this whole open source thing. I'm not going to bother to correct you on your misconceptions. I'm just going to tell you that I have a free subscription to PCWeek. A magazine of which you are the editor. I thought I detected an anti-Linux bias, and now I'm sure that with an editor like you the magazine could not remain objective regarding my favorite server operating system. I'm going to cancel my subscription to PCWeek and ignore any more of your Op Ed pieces. You have no credibility and obviously don't research your articles. Please educate yourself so that you don't embarrass yourself further. Andy Glover
The "editor" that looked the story over was John Tsacheck (whatever). He's the editor of PCWeek. The magazine that ran the benchmarketing tests to prove that the Mindcraft tests were valid.
Your overgeneralization is more than unfair. It's offensive. I read Slashdot every day and I've never flamed a company for GPL violations. It's not my code out there, and these companies aren't violating my license. Remember that everywhere you go 99% of everybody are idiots. Especially on the internet. Here's a little something to think about:
Bruce Perens' code was misused last time
He spoke to someone at Be, didn't sue, signed a writ of understanding and didn't cause them any financial harm.
The news about Abit just came out (AFAIK)
Be was not reamed. In fact, there was a big reaction to the fact that Bruce was being unfair to Be and jumping the gun. He seemed to take that criticism well.
This is the point I made both times I submitted this story. Of course, the story was declined both times. By the way, that would only work if you just downloaded the song and never let anyone else download it.
The curvature of the universe in scientific terms is: "Somewhat curvy" To laymen, the translation is: "Quite wobbly." I'll bet the shape they're seeing out there is really just a turtle shell. If the looked up a little the might get an impression of four large elephants.
This is the only good post I've seen directly in reply to mine. Would it be possible to port the kernel module to *BSD since the source is available? If that code were ported, would the GART portion matter?
From what I've heard about it, XFree86 4.0 server binaries work on all operating systems written for the same architecture so the Linux binary should work with *BSD. If you actually have a BSD system you might want to install it and see if it works.
I'd like to see a study done on the effects of team sports and aggression. My son comes home from Lacrosse games and practices and the usually calm nice 15 year old is a pumped up mass of testosterone. He usually has to take an hour to just hang out alone in his room watching tv until he can deal with anyone else without being too boisterous. I'd say his games have a large effect on his behavior, but that doesn't mean that we don't encourage him with what he's doing. He loves the sport, and he is very good at it. Besides, the game has made him tougher and more physically fit. Also, I play Quake 3 with my son. We play capture the flag and are usually on the same team. I run and he blocks. We work together and feel a real sense of accomplishment when we trounce another team. I don't see any problem with this at all. What? I was supposed to have a point? Oh. Nevermind.
The best way is to order the free CDs and not purchase the required one. Nothing gets you off the list like being a delinquent. By the way, don't use your real name.
Goofy or not, in our city solicitors (People selling stuff. Not lawyers.) aren't allowed to darken your door if you have a "No Solicitors" sign. Maybe the system would be configurable so that you could enable it while you're eating dinner or spending time with the family watching a movie or playing Scrabble. We don't usually go to the trouble of turning off the ringer or screening our calls, so we have to stop a lot of nice sounding people in mid-schpiel to turn them down. I'd much rather have the voice.
Would it be possible for the phone company to offer a service that either before the number rings or immediately after a connection has been established a computerized voice says "No solicitors"? Either that or a tone (because the phone companies seem really attached to them.) I know I'd pay about $5 a month for that. Especially if they had to be obeyed like the signs.
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Here's the deal, though. The virus was targeted toward luddite users who don't know what a .vbs file is. They may know what an .exe file is, possibly know what .com and .bat file are, but assume everything else will open in word. After seeing .doc .wpf .xls .msg .html .htm .gif .jpg, etc, they get really confused. They don't know what these files are. They just know that they double-click them and see what's in them. I know it's hard to put yourself in that position. I can't even remember if/when I would have been that dumb. I do know that I speak with technicians every day who are still unclear on this concept. .vbs is anything different than an HTML file! Those that know better don't open wierd shit. They save it, maybe open it with notepad, but don't open it right away. These are the kind of people who don't even need antivirus programs, and this particular virus isn't targeted at them.
Think about this, you recieve an HTML file from a friend. The subject line says that it's the funniest damn thing they've ever seen. How do you feel about opening it? I personally wouldn't have too much of a problem with it! It's just an HTML file. Right? Consider this, luddites (like Lars Ulrich) don't know that a
Actually, I have a Garage Days Re-Revisited tape. It's too much trouble to try to encode the tape to MP3. I'm going to download the song with gNapster. Fuck that.
Please give me a take on what you understand that Napster does, how it's used by music fans, and why that's wrong.
As a kind of Turing test (so I know this is really you) please tell me what Axl Rose did at the Metallica/GNR show where James got hurt by the pyrotechnics.
This should scare a few legitimate people because "Today kiddie porn, tomorrow politicol statements."
It should scare enough kiddie porn searchers because "Today kiddie porn."
Eventually, both camps will move toward freenet or another way to stay anonymous. I believe that anoynimity is a good thing in certain circumstances. It doesn't matter that this time the kiddie porn people are looking for it, because next time it could be someone else. Hell, next time it could even be you!
Here's an "Ask Slashdot": How can we remain as anonymous as possible on the internet while we're downloading porn^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmaking politicol statements?
Big Mac
Large Fries
Large Coke
Happy Meal
Medium Chocolate Shake
Trinoo Attack on CNN
McDonald Land cookies
10 pc Chicken McNuggets
I can see how this would come in handy.
I actually recieved many of the messages. One showed up in my preview pane, but didn't infect my system. Maybe some versions of outlook automatically open the VBScript files and some don't. Can we get some confirmation on this? I'm running Outlook 2k.
Many people in our company recieved the message, but because of the signs posted everywhere most of us around here didn't open the message. Right now I've got Outlook Express open and logged in to the exchange server through IMAP. I don't know how much that'll help, but I can always hope, can't I? Hell, at least I'm reading the really important email (stuff from my wife) through my ssh session with my server at home. I know Pine isn't susceptible to that shit.
After all this Metallica hoopla with them acting a bit dumb I went and downloaded all the songs from Garage Days Rerevisited. I have the tape somewhere in a drawer or a box or something, but it was eaten by my old car stereo a long time ago. It felt good to hear Last Caress seeing as how that's exactly what this is. Metallica are sellouts. I'll be erasing the songs from my drive as soon as I'm bored of them.
There is a pole on the page. Unfortunately, the lUs3Rz at ZDNet didn't give a Cowboy Neal option. I propose we Slashdot the poll. At the very least it shows that most of the readers of ZDNet.com feel that Open source is "John Taschek's worst nightmare."
A side effect is that it gives them a little more ad revenue, but that's not that big of a deal. Right? They're still losing money anyway, aren't they?
Exactly. The guards books are the cream of the crop. The fifth elephant is also a guards book, though I haven't purchased it yet. (I'm waiting for paperback.)
I guess it's time to find my 11 year old cousin in China and have him download the file, copy the spec, and email it back to me.
Seriously, when a number of people have taken the spec, posted it everywhere on the internet, and the secret is out, what's going to stop the spec from being included in Samba?
Which one was the blah one?
The only one I really didn't like that much was Small Gods. I've really liked all the others. There ought to be a poll regarding favorite Discworld books. I'd vote for Jingo.
I'm sure you've received many responses on your attack piece on Open Source software where you likened Mozilla's development cycle with all of Open Source software. I'm sure you've been reminded by a number of people of the successes of Open Source software like Apache, Free BSD Unix, Sendmail, Perl, and many others. I'm also pretty sure that in your self righteous way you managed to ignore those criticisms and still think that you were correct about this whole open source thing. I'm not going to bother to correct you on your misconceptions. I'm just going to tell you that I have a free subscription to PCWeek. A magazine of which you are the editor. I thought I detected an anti-Linux bias, and now I'm sure that with an editor like you the magazine could not remain objective regarding my favorite server operating system. I'm going to cancel my subscription to PCWeek and ignore any more of your Op Ed pieces. You have no credibility and obviously don't research your articles. Please educate yourself so that you don't embarrass yourself further. Andy Glover
The "editor" that looked the story over was John Tsacheck (whatever). He's the editor of PCWeek. The magazine that ran the benchmarketing tests to prove that the Mindcraft tests were valid.
Yes. About 2.4 gigs. The smallest HDD with more than 1024 cylinders would be 8.4 gigs.
I read Slashdot every day and I've never flamed a company for GPL violations. It's not my code out there, and these companies aren't violating my license. Remember that everywhere you go 99% of everybody are idiots. Especially on the internet. Here's a little something to think about:
This is the point I made both times I submitted this story. Of course, the story was declined both times.
By the way, that would only work if you just downloaded the song and never let anyone else download it.
The curvature of the universe in scientific terms is:
"Somewhat curvy"
To laymen, the translation is:
"Quite wobbly."
I'll bet the shape they're seeing out there is really just a turtle shell. If the looked up a little the might get an impression of four large elephants.
This is the only good post I've seen directly in reply to mine. Would it be possible to port the kernel module to *BSD since the source is available? If that code were ported, would the GART portion matter?
From what I've heard about it, XFree86 4.0 server binaries work on all operating systems written for the same architecture so the Linux binary should work with *BSD.
If you actually have a BSD system you might want to install it and see if it works.
I'd like to see a study done on the effects of team sports and aggression. My son comes home from Lacrosse games and practices and the usually calm nice 15 year old is a pumped up mass of testosterone. He usually has to take an hour to just hang out alone in his room watching tv until he can deal with anyone else without being too boisterous. I'd say his games have a large effect on his behavior, but that doesn't mean that we don't encourage him with what he's doing. He loves the sport, and he is very good at it. Besides, the game has made him tougher and more physically fit.
Also, I play Quake 3 with my son. We play capture the flag and are usually on the same team. I run and he blocks. We work together and feel a real sense of accomplishment when we trounce another team. I don't see any problem with this at all.
What? I was supposed to have a point? Oh. Nevermind.
What advantages do you see SCO having over Linux?
What advantages do you see Linux having over SCO?
The best way is to order the free CDs and not purchase the required one. Nothing gets you off the list like being a delinquent. By the way, don't use your real name.
Goofy or not, in our city solicitors (People selling stuff. Not lawyers.) aren't allowed to darken your door if you have a "No Solicitors" sign.
Maybe the system would be configurable so that you could enable it while you're eating dinner or spending time with the family watching a movie or playing Scrabble. We don't usually go to the trouble of turning off the ringer or screening our calls, so we have to stop a lot of nice sounding people in mid-schpiel to turn them down. I'd much rather have the voice.
Would it be possible for the phone company to offer a service that either before the number rings or immediately after a connection has been established a computerized voice says "No solicitors"? Either that or a tone (because the phone companies seem really attached to them.) I know I'd pay about $5 a month for that.
Especially if they had to be obeyed like the signs.