I don't think this is so bad. If all the trojan is doing is deleting the folder, they can just have it install in a different folder. It has to be re-downloaded and installed once a month so this shouldn't be a problem.
I think this is going to increase the likelihood of students getting beat up for their ID's if it really makes it hard for bad students to do what they do.
Are we certain it's a religious issue? Maybe they just think the logo doesn't create the impression they're trying to make. Maybe they think a cartoon character will make people think it's a toy operating system rather than one for serious business.
Perhaps refraining from adding a feature until it can be done right could be considered "getting something right". And it would be easy to change "Microsoft got something right" to "Everybody except Microsoft got something wrong". But I would agree that in this case Microsoft didn't make their browser safer through actual thought. They just got lucky.
Don't forget those Sony video cameras that can see through people's clothes. And old DVD burners will probably skyrocket in value as soon as copyright protection becomes standard in the new ones.
blockquote>Trolls can have a couple of days fun on slashdot.
I'd like to know your definition of 'troll'. In this case, it looks like Microsoft got something right and everybody else got it wrong. In fact, the fix for Firefox is to make it behave like IE (disable support for IDN). I'm guessing anybody who makes mention of this is a troll. I've only been modded down one time, and it was for saying something negative about Firefox even though it was completely true. I just recently got modded up for saying something negative about Microsoft. I would tell you what I think about that but I'd probably get modded down for that.
I think it's important to note that Wordperfect was way more popular than Microsoft Office. Then they started making deals that caused Microsoft Office to be included with every computer sold at every major distributor. Being good had nothing to do with the popularity of Microsoft Office. Now some of the distributors give you a choice between Wordperfect and Microsoft Office but that's only after everyone's become dependent on Microsoft Office.
May I ask why you're using IE to view slashdot rather then Firefox/Opera/Mozilla/your other options? I'm sorry to say but unless you can give me a really good reason to be using IE for general browsng (as IE is), I think your opinion might not be so..... equal to all sides. I can't think of a single friend I have who uses IE the second they try firefox, except one who is a MS fanboy, who after a couple of months tried again and used plug ins to make it run how he wanted and was much happier with it and now feels the same way about IE as the rest of us (fuck it and it's fans).
Based on what you just typed, you sound like you only use Firefox and only hang out with people who use Firefox. Does that make you more objective than somebody who uses Internet Explorer? By the way, I'm a Firefox user so there's no need to kill me.
Seriously, they give email to 'everyone'.. what they should do is give corporate email accounts to select people who have to deal with outsiders.
I suspect the companies prefer everybody having in-house email rather than something external. It probably helps them catch a lot of company employees up to no good (at least from the perspective of the company).
I've always felt like the whole programming paradigm changed from one of efficiency to one of excess. Even though I am the only Slashdot user who isn't universally anti-Microsoft, I think Microsoft is at the forefront of this disturbing trend. Every time they put out a new operating system, they think it is reasonable to suggest that you upgrade your computer to use the OS. And their greater system requirements take away all of the benefit of getting new hardware.
Personally I think the problem started with the introduction of memory paging. Now that we can use swapfiles, instead of being concerned with efficient use of memory, people assume they'll never run out. And if they do run out, it's a problem with the computer, not the software. Also, I think people make the assumption that there is surplus processing power so they don't worry about speed either. In our software engineering classes, were taught that there are tradeoffs between speed and memory requirements. Somehow as soon as we graduate, both speed and memory efficiency become less of a concern.
I think one of the big reasons people get away with such crap programming is the end users just assume it's a problem with the hardware. I have had more than one friend tell me her computer is running slow, only to follow by saying "maybe I should let it rest." And after turning their computer off to let it rest and relax for a day or so, they turn it back on. Then they decide they need a new computer. I think I'm going to throw up.
This is probably the most useless patent ever filed. It allows HP to attempt to sell a device that no one will buy, because what it does is prevents someone from photographing the owner with a camera, also produced by HP, that no one will buy, because it can be scrambled.
All it takes is for them to get a new privacy law passed that requires all cameras to have these devices.
I always found WinMX to be better than Kazaa for music because they didn't have nearly as many fake songs. I guess there was a benefit to being less popular. It also made them less of a target. I hope the recording industry doesn't visit Slashdot.
Shortly after mega web portal Google converted its e-mail and search features into a paid service, it has announced *Region-Encoded-HTML". This will ensure that users of Google's portal who travel abroad will not be allowed to abuse the system by using it in other countries without paying a second usage fee. Google believes this will protect its consumers by insuring the price of its web services will not be affected by the new wave of consumers who think a webpage should be available anywhere in the world.
MSN and Yahoo are expected to follow suit.
March 2008
Ford Motors announces it will be the first automobile maker to include automotive rights management (ARM) in its vehicles. The technology involves the use of GPS hardware to ensure that no Ford vehicle will operate outside of the country in which it has been purchased. Microsoft states its new ARM software, included on its CarPC operating system, will allow consumers to feel secure in knowing their automobile purchases are legitimate, not involving vehicles purchased in other countries and sold in places that command higher prices.
Can anybody sue Monsanto for contaminating their fields with its seeds? If somebody sprinkled a competitor's seeds into Monsanto's fields, could Monsanto be sued? How does Monsanto get access to the people's crops to determine that their seeds were used? Did they do it legally? There has to be some way to get these crooks.
is it still possible to wreak havoc on modern PC's via non-bios software instructions? theoretically? without any physical hardware modification?
I haven't thought about this in a while, and I know more about software and hardware. Maybe it's possible to constantly write data to a critical cluster of a hard drive so that the cluster goes bad prematurely and renders the drive useless? If the computer's fan is software-controlled then maybe you can shut it off and burn the system out? I remember somebody telling me a story about it being possible to blow out an old SoundBlaster card with proper instructions but that was a long time ago. And this is all assuming you want to actually kill the hardware. If you just mean wreaking havoc in general then I suppose you can just hook up another line printer and launch paper in the air still. And I am a person who feels the same about my hardware that people feel about their pets so this whole topic is somewhat disturbing to me.
In my high school robotics class, the robotic arms were controlled by big boxes which connected to ports on the back of the computers. You'd send data and receive status with functions like out(port, value) and in(port). If all else fails, you can hook one of these to the computer and program it to swing hard into the monitor. This is just sickening.
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I don't think this is so bad. If all the trojan is doing is deleting the folder, they can just have it install in a different folder. It has to be re-downloaded and installed once a month so this shouldn't be a problem.
I think this is going to increase the likelihood of students getting beat up for their ID's if it really makes it hard for bad students to do what they do.
Are you sure they're pseudocode? They both look like real code to me. Maybe I've been on the computer too long.
/* f-ck */
Are we certain it's a religious issue? Maybe they just think the logo doesn't create the impression they're trying to make. Maybe they think a cartoon character will make people think it's a toy operating system rather than one for serious business.
That sounds like what you get when you type about:mozilla in Firefox.
Let me introduce you to the PHP guys...
Perhaps refraining from adding a feature until it can be done right could be considered "getting something right". And it would be easy to change "Microsoft got something right" to "Everybody except Microsoft got something wrong". But I would agree that in this case Microsoft didn't make their browser safer through actual thought. They just got lucky.
Don't forget those Sony video cameras that can see through people's clothes. And old DVD burners will probably skyrocket in value as soon as copyright protection becomes standard in the new ones.
I'd like to know your definition of 'troll'. In this case, it looks like Microsoft got something right and everybody else got it wrong. In fact, the fix for Firefox is to make it behave like IE (disable support for IDN). I'm guessing anybody who makes mention of this is a troll. I've only been modded down one time, and it was for saying something negative about Firefox even though it was completely true. I just recently got modded up for saying something negative about Microsoft. I would tell you what I think about that but I'd probably get modded down for that.
So if I get Linux, all my Linux software will run. Right?
I think it's important to note that Wordperfect was way more popular than Microsoft Office. Then they started making deals that caused Microsoft Office to be included with every computer sold at every major distributor. Being good had nothing to do with the popularity of Microsoft Office. Now some of the distributors give you a choice between Wordperfect and Microsoft Office but that's only after everyone's become dependent on Microsoft Office.
Based on what you just typed, you sound like you only use Firefox and only hang out with people who use Firefox. Does that make you more objective than somebody who uses Internet Explorer? By the way, I'm a Firefox user so there's no need to kill me.
And if this is the only security system, it can be breached by anybody who knows you. Somebody like your armadillo-loving buddy.
launch.yahoo.com doesn't work with Firefox. Try watching a music video there.
Sheetrock's comment is just another example of why night clubs aren't worried about competition from Slashdot as a place to meet people.
I suspect the companies prefer everybody having in-house email rather than something external. It probably helps them catch a lot of company employees up to no good (at least from the perspective of the company).
I've always felt like the whole programming paradigm changed from one of efficiency to one of excess. Even though I am the only Slashdot user who isn't universally anti-Microsoft, I think Microsoft is at the forefront of this disturbing trend. Every time they put out a new operating system, they think it is reasonable to suggest that you upgrade your computer to use the OS. And their greater system requirements take away all of the benefit of getting new hardware.
Personally I think the problem started with the introduction of memory paging. Now that we can use swapfiles, instead of being concerned with efficient use of memory, people assume they'll never run out. And if they do run out, it's a problem with the computer, not the software. Also, I think people make the assumption that there is surplus processing power so they don't worry about speed either. In our software engineering classes, were taught that there are tradeoffs between speed and memory requirements. Somehow as soon as we graduate, both speed and memory efficiency become less of a concern.
I think one of the big reasons people get away with such crap programming is the end users just assume it's a problem with the hardware. I have had more than one friend tell me her computer is running slow, only to follow by saying "maybe I should let it rest." And after turning their computer off to let it rest and relax for a day or so, they turn it back on. Then they decide they need a new computer. I think I'm going to throw up.
All it takes is for them to get a new privacy law passed that requires all cameras to have these devices.
They'd probably get tired of their hard drives filling up with self-portraits.
I always found WinMX to be better than Kazaa for music because they didn't have nearly as many fake songs. I guess there was a benefit to being less popular. It also made them less of a target. I hope the recording industry doesn't visit Slashdot.
January 2007
Shortly after mega web portal Google converted its e-mail and search features into a paid service, it has announced *Region-Encoded-HTML". This will ensure that users of Google's portal who travel abroad will not be allowed to abuse the system by using it in other countries without paying a second usage fee. Google believes this will protect its consumers by insuring the price of its web services will not be affected by the new wave of consumers who think a webpage should be available anywhere in the world.
MSN and Yahoo are expected to follow suit.
March 2008
Ford Motors announces it will be the first automobile maker to include automotive rights management (ARM) in its vehicles. The technology involves the use of GPS hardware to ensure that no Ford vehicle will operate outside of the country in which it has been purchased. Microsoft states its new ARM software, included on its CarPC operating system, will allow consumers to feel secure in knowing their automobile purchases are legitimate, not involving vehicles purchased in other countries and sold in places that command higher prices.
People should also understand that Firefox Extensions are every bit as risky and capable of being abused as ActiveX. We've been lucky so far.
Can anybody sue Monsanto for contaminating their fields with its seeds? If somebody sprinkled a competitor's seeds into Monsanto's fields, could Monsanto be sued? How does Monsanto get access to the people's crops to determine that their seeds were used? Did they do it legally? There has to be some way to get these crooks.
I haven't thought about this in a while, and I know more about software and hardware. Maybe it's possible to constantly write data to a critical cluster of a hard drive so that the cluster goes bad prematurely and renders the drive useless? If the computer's fan is software-controlled then maybe you can shut it off and burn the system out? I remember somebody telling me a story about it being possible to blow out an old SoundBlaster card with proper instructions but that was a long time ago. And this is all assuming you want to actually kill the hardware. If you just mean wreaking havoc in general then I suppose you can just hook up another line printer and launch paper in the air still. And I am a person who feels the same about my hardware that people feel about their pets so this whole topic is somewhat disturbing to me.
In my high school robotics class, the robotic arms were controlled by big boxes which connected to ports on the back of the computers. You'd send data and receive status with functions like out(port, value) and in(port). If all else fails, you can hook one of these to the computer and program it to swing hard into the monitor. This is just sickening.