Ya that clears a lot of it up. I can actually see the side of this company because it damages their reputation beyond repair if they are linked to spyware. The thing that puts it up in the air is if one of those products is spyware then its no longer false and its the TRUTH and therefore they lose all legal backing. This is what I'm getting from it. My guess is that it probably is spyware if a bunch of security websites are claiming it is. It will make for interesting battles and it would seem this company is in self denial (at least with what they display publically).
I'm confused. So does this mean that anyone who insults another company's product is liable to be sued? Can Microsoft sue people because they call Windows bloated or insecure and Microsoft doesn't think thats the case? I'm failing to see the difference here or the argument that iDownload is trying to make. Even if their product is legitimate what kind of laws are these websties breaking? Enlighten me someone if you know more about this sort of thing.
Thats why I didn't say all of them. I'm a PHP programmer as well. I can't really diss on PHP programmers and it shouldn't be insulting if some of them simply lack knowledge of other languages. Simply put people who know things like Python are more likely going to know other languages over people who know PHP. This doesn't mean everyone, there isn't any labeling here. This is a general sense so don't take offesnse:-)
My guess is that a lot of them are people who got into PHP because they ran a simple static site so they went to PHP to make it dynamic and they don't know what programming is. Thats my take but I wouldn't expect the php community (at least not the development part of it) to know what true programming is like. Well at least not a majority of it for sure.
Exactly. For a good example, take spreadfirefox.com for instance. Currently there is an article about cnet's take on IE 7 and Firefox and Asa asks people to state their opinions for the media or others who might be reading this to get an idea about what the Mozilla Community is like. Well I was reading most the comments and every single one had a HUGE grammatical mistake. Now in most situations I don't proof read my comments such as a case like this but when someone tells me my comments will be read by a great number of people and influence the way Firefox looks to others then I would be a little bit more serious.
Neways ya PHP is nothing like Java. I've been using it for 7 years and if they mean by OOP that its more like java then they aren't too clever because PHP isn't making OOP the required way of programming or anything. They are simply providing people with more options to program and they still allow people to choose what they want. People still find OOP scary it would seem and although there are arguments for an against it, I think its up to the individual if they want to use it and that seems to be the way the PHP development is taking it.
Thats exactly what I was thinking. Some would respond to this with a claim that its then easier to manipulate the car to spit out lower mileage but then my reply would be simply that you can cheat on a test quite easily but there is still a risk to getting caught. It doesn't mean the solution should be for schools to install cameras watching you at all times... So to me it seems the GPS is a hidden package for monitoring. There is no valid reason that GPS is needed so why are they considering that with this new law? The law might work if it wasn't for privacy being shot to crap in this one regard.
Even if they did put this copy protection on all the DVDs they sold it wouldn't work. The MPAA has no idea how there movies get on the internet it would seem. Its not as if some tech geek rents a DVD and rips it onto his computer then distributing it by himself to a P2P network. Maybe they think that but that isn't he way it works. In reality movies are stolen from reels or from a computer by employees of the industry. They copy it to hidden servers outside of the US which then silently distribute it to a huge underground that the MPAA can't touch. They are starting to figure this out but in reality who the hell cares about copy protection on DVDs? Most people who download illegal movies aren't even getting it from them.
I think this translates to do better intial research before spending more money on research that will essentially be deemed useless.
There is a huge difference between mafia hits and telling someone you are going to fire 800 people. I don't think trying to put Microsoft at a level of the mafia is reasonable and I think that just shows you are childish and a follower of the anti-microsoft crowd. Trying to say something you think is clever and will be accepted because people here aren't fans of Microsoft. Now I don't like Microsoft either but I don't go around making unreasonable claims about what they might or have done...
No thats bullshit. He only does that because hes under pressure. How much was his original donation? Even if he did why the hell is it not anywhere where I can find it? MSNBC, CNN, here... I don't see this article and if it didn't happen they obviously didn't cover it. We aren't talking about what Bush is doing, we are talking about what the american media is doing and its not covering things that matter to me and if my post was flamebait I'm proud to be producing flames!
Naw I wasn't trying to create a flamebait. I was simply trying to figure out why it is that the American Media was such a short attention span for things that should be of bigger concern. I would rather help starving people in India over killing people in the Middle East. Ya I guess thats flamebait. I hope this follow up doesn't qualify...
Still its hard to compete with $0 dollars cause you just have to download OpenOffice. Its not like a word processor requires any support. I've never seen one fail and they aren't complicated to use. So what does microsoft have to offer with a payed product?
I will never take part in a service that uses DRM not so much because of the fact that it is protecting files from piracy but because of the fact that microsoft has been using DRM in all sorts of random programs just to keep Sun Microsystems and other companys from reverse engineering their software. So remember you are supporting complete bullshit if you use this Napster because its this same technology thats being used on these Mp3s. You wouldn't be a very good supporter of Open Source at least.
It would seem other nations do still care for the tragedy that happened to this world. I hope that they do because the attention span of some countries is really short and if you don't keep the Tsunami in the news it means decreased donations to help the victims. I hope the UK is doing a better job with this. All I know is that American media is so worked up about Iran, Iraq, and North Korea right now that the Tsunami was so last week...
I bought this book a few months ago and its quite nice. It goes through all the system calls and libraries that most Linux Programmers use or will ever need to use. Networking, Processes, Files, the works. Definitely a good resource if you need to reference things as well later on.
Well this is not reasonable for most people but the way I did it is just by having two systems with one running Windows and the other Linux. Then I just use Windwos for games. I'm hoping someday that game studios will stop this kind of situation but until then I have a monitor switch and two systems.
Yep regardless of what they do they will fail because you never start out by buying out other companies. Once they go that path theres no turning back as far as trying to play it off as yours.
It seems like over the past few days attacks have begun on the Mozilla browser... I'm confused why these are happening. Cause the numbers slowed down on spreadfirefox.com? So now that gives people the right to attack Firefox's security and other things. It seems odd to me that people are already attacking Firefox when this stuff hasn't happened. I hate forcasters who predict negative things. What are they bringing this world? Why can't they just sit and see if Firefox has a spyware problem or see if it can't be distributed using word of mouth. You know before we had this great mediasphere, we had communication through physical interaction and thats how messages were passed. Do people truly believe we need to have tons of money and 200 TV ads just to get people to use something? Apparently this isn't working for George Foreman because people still don't buy his grill in large numbers.
They are both systems that are closed source (Well Solaris is now debatable) and both are managed by corporations. We all know how that affects security.
I want to mention that it seems nobody has mentioned any tools for tasks that aren't involved with networks. Such as reverse engineering, encryption breaking, etc.
Because with cyber-crime a person is usually acting alone so letting them go can defeat the entire purpose. There is no head in cyber attacks because anyone can do it. Anyone can write a virus obviously. You call yourself a slashdotter?:-P
I'm wondering this because to the best of my knowledge they were trying to patent the ability to display IPs on a map or something. With this little addition about maps something tells me they are up to something. Maybe they are adding some sort of mapping system to their Anti-Virus like other companies have done? It would appear if thats the case that somehow they want to take over the Anti-Virus market by patenting little things that will screw people over later.
We do this all the time with computers. Economic policies on this planet allow situations where its cheaper to somehow buy everything new then to repair.
It would be more like Cigarette companies claiming that natural cigarettes aren't worth your time because they put in a bunch of chemicals that others don't know about.
I've learned that email addresses on webpages ranked around a 3 by google which is generally a small personal site will generate around 100 spam messages a day! If you have a mailto link of your email address on a major site thats 9 or 10 then its increases to around 150. This is just what I noticed and this is highly inaccurate but the obvious fact is you don't put your email address on websites... If you do then for godsakes use anti-spambot techniques.
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Ya that clears a lot of it up. I can actually see the side of this company because it damages their reputation beyond repair if they are linked to spyware. The thing that puts it up in the air is if one of those products is spyware then its no longer false and its the TRUTH and therefore they lose all legal backing. This is what I'm getting from it. My guess is that it probably is spyware if a bunch of security websites are claiming it is. It will make for interesting battles and it would seem this company is in self denial (at least with what they display publically).
I'm confused. So does this mean that anyone who insults another company's product is liable to be sued? Can Microsoft sue people because they call Windows bloated or insecure and Microsoft doesn't think thats the case? I'm failing to see the difference here or the argument that iDownload is trying to make. Even if their product is legitimate what kind of laws are these websties breaking? Enlighten me someone if you know more about this sort of thing.
Thats why I didn't say all of them. I'm a PHP programmer as well. I can't really diss on PHP programmers and it shouldn't be insulting if some of them simply lack knowledge of other languages. Simply put people who know things like Python are more likely going to know other languages over people who know PHP. This doesn't mean everyone, there isn't any labeling here. This is a general sense so don't take offesnse :-)
My guess is that a lot of them are people who got into PHP because they ran a simple static site so they went to PHP to make it dynamic and they don't know what programming is. Thats my take but I wouldn't expect the php community (at least not the development part of it) to know what true programming is like. Well at least not a majority of it for sure.
Exactly. For a good example, take spreadfirefox.com for instance. Currently there is an article about cnet's take on IE 7 and Firefox and Asa asks people to state their opinions for the media or others who might be reading this to get an idea about what the Mozilla Community is like. Well I was reading most the comments and every single one had a HUGE grammatical mistake. Now in most situations I don't proof read my comments such as a case like this but when someone tells me my comments will be read by a great number of people and influence the way Firefox looks to others then I would be a little bit more serious.
Neways ya PHP is nothing like Java. I've been using it for 7 years and if they mean by OOP that its more like java then they aren't too clever because PHP isn't making OOP the required way of programming or anything. They are simply providing people with more options to program and they still allow people to choose what they want. People still find OOP scary it would seem and although there are arguments for an against it, I think its up to the individual if they want to use it and that seems to be the way the PHP development is taking it.
Thats exactly what I was thinking. Some would respond to this with a claim that its then easier to manipulate the car to spit out lower mileage but then my reply would be simply that you can cheat on a test quite easily but there is still a risk to getting caught. It doesn't mean the solution should be for schools to install cameras watching you at all times... So to me it seems the GPS is a hidden package for monitoring. There is no valid reason that GPS is needed so why are they considering that with this new law? The law might work if it wasn't for privacy being shot to crap in this one regard.
Even if they did put this copy protection on all the DVDs they sold it wouldn't work. The MPAA has no idea how there movies get on the internet it would seem. Its not as if some tech geek rents a DVD and rips it onto his computer then distributing it by himself to a P2P network. Maybe they think that but that isn't he way it works. In reality movies are stolen from reels or from a computer by employees of the industry. They copy it to hidden servers outside of the US which then silently distribute it to a huge underground that the MPAA can't touch. They are starting to figure this out but in reality who the hell cares about copy protection on DVDs? Most people who download illegal movies aren't even getting it from them. I think this translates to do better intial research before spending more money on research that will essentially be deemed useless.
There is a huge difference between mafia hits and telling someone you are going to fire 800 people. I don't think trying to put Microsoft at a level of the mafia is reasonable and I think that just shows you are childish and a follower of the anti-microsoft crowd. Trying to say something you think is clever and will be accepted because people here aren't fans of Microsoft. Now I don't like Microsoft either but I don't go around making unreasonable claims about what they might or have done...
No thats bullshit. He only does that because hes under pressure. How much was his original donation? Even if he did why the hell is it not anywhere where I can find it? MSNBC, CNN, here... I don't see this article and if it didn't happen they obviously didn't cover it. We aren't talking about what Bush is doing, we are talking about what the american media is doing and its not covering things that matter to me and if my post was flamebait I'm proud to be producing flames!
Naw I wasn't trying to create a flamebait. I was simply trying to figure out why it is that the American Media was such a short attention span for things that should be of bigger concern. I would rather help starving people in India over killing people in the Middle East. Ya I guess thats flamebait. I hope this follow up doesn't qualify...
Still its hard to compete with $0 dollars cause you just have to download OpenOffice. Its not like a word processor requires any support. I've never seen one fail and they aren't complicated to use. So what does microsoft have to offer with a payed product?
I will never take part in a service that uses DRM not so much because of the fact that it is protecting files from piracy but because of the fact that microsoft has been using DRM in all sorts of random programs just to keep Sun Microsystems and other companys from reverse engineering their software. So remember you are supporting complete bullshit if you use this Napster because its this same technology thats being used on these Mp3s. You wouldn't be a very good supporter of Open Source at least.
It would seem other nations do still care for the tragedy that happened to this world. I hope that they do because the attention span of some countries is really short and if you don't keep the Tsunami in the news it means decreased donations to help the victims. I hope the UK is doing a better job with this. All I know is that American media is so worked up about Iran, Iraq, and North Korea right now that the Tsunami was so last week...
I bought this book a few months ago and its quite nice. It goes through all the system calls and libraries that most Linux Programmers use or will ever need to use. Networking, Processes, Files, the works. Definitely a good resource if you need to reference things as well later on.
Well this is not reasonable for most people but the way I did it is just by having two systems with one running Windows and the other Linux. Then I just use Windwos for games. I'm hoping someday that game studios will stop this kind of situation but until then I have a monitor switch and two systems.
Yep regardless of what they do they will fail because you never start out by buying out other companies. Once they go that path theres no turning back as far as trying to play it off as yours.
It seems like over the past few days attacks have begun on the Mozilla browser... I'm confused why these are happening. Cause the numbers slowed down on spreadfirefox.com? So now that gives people the right to attack Firefox's security and other things. It seems odd to me that people are already attacking Firefox when this stuff hasn't happened. I hate forcasters who predict negative things. What are they bringing this world? Why can't they just sit and see if Firefox has a spyware problem or see if it can't be distributed using word of mouth. You know before we had this great mediasphere, we had communication through physical interaction and thats how messages were passed. Do people truly believe we need to have tons of money and 200 TV ads just to get people to use something? Apparently this isn't working for George Foreman because people still don't buy his grill in large numbers.
They are both systems that are closed source (Well Solaris is now debatable) and both are managed by corporations. We all know how that affects security.
I want to mention that it seems nobody has mentioned any tools for tasks that aren't involved with networks. Such as reverse engineering, encryption breaking, etc.
MM it was a joke but then again I'm not the one who has to be the coward either ;-)
Because with cyber-crime a person is usually acting alone so letting them go can defeat the entire purpose. There is no head in cyber attacks because anyone can do it. Anyone can write a virus obviously. You call yourself a slashdotter? :-P
I'm wondering this because to the best of my knowledge they were trying to patent the ability to display IPs on a map or something. With this little addition about maps something tells me they are up to something. Maybe they are adding some sort of mapping system to their Anti-Virus like other companies have done? It would appear if thats the case that somehow they want to take over the Anti-Virus market by patenting little things that will screw people over later.
We do this all the time with computers. Economic policies on this planet allow situations where its cheaper to somehow buy everything new then to repair.
It would be more like Cigarette companies claiming that natural cigarettes aren't worth your time because they put in a bunch of chemicals that others don't know about.
I've learned that email addresses on webpages ranked around a 3 by google which is generally a small personal site will generate around 100 spam messages a day! If you have a mailto link of your email address on a major site thats 9 or 10 then its increases to around 150. This is just what I noticed and this is highly inaccurate but the obvious fact is you don't put your email address on websites... If you do then for godsakes use anti-spambot techniques.