That of course is a crime and the perp should be dealt with accordingly - but I'm so glad he did it. And it doesn't remove the problems exposed by these mails.
At my company now, they content-block us from accessing Gmail. I'll be that companies will start doing crap like blocking employees from even sending e-mail to Gmail now, the attack vector that allowed these e-mails to get leaked.
Interesting. Why did your company never view this 'vector' as a problem for sites such as Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail, which both launched as far back as 1996? The tools that GMail offers are not that much different, I'm sure the mass forwarding of mails to a web mailbox was possible B.G. (Before Google)
Have to agree, the future will be share parties where you bring a bottle and a media player, or laptop, or USB hard drive... everyone shares and there's nothing the likes of Media Defender and other companies with their dubious business model can do anything about it. Back to the old days of swapping cassettes.
Yes, casual users don't care for the technical details, so they want something usable and stylish. The fact that many of their friends have one too probably doesn't go amiss, since they'll no doubt need help with it or itunes now and again, and want to be confident that they own a machine that must be good because everyone else has one. Usability and marketing were the two edges that pushed the ipod ahead. Having said that there are many equally usable devices out there, but it's no coincidence that the ipod was and still is the most heavily marketed portable media player.
[A full refund] remedy is available when the goods have not been 'accepted'. Under the Sale of Goods Act, acceptance can take place in three ways: ...snip...
By acting in a way with the goods which is inconsistent with the seller's ownership. E.g. if you have altered the goods in any way or customised them then you would be deemed to have accepted them.
Could replacing the OS be viewed as "altering the goods"?
Many posters have already said this, but the true answer is to never buy goods from PC World, this kind of chicanery is how they keep their prices down. Their post-sales customer service is appalling.
Think about singles acts. There are absolutely loads of forgettable bands who give us one good hit but not much else. So you buy the album and it's all dross apart from that hit (normally track 1). Or you wouldn't even consider buying the album just for one song. In the 80s and 90s this used to apply 90% of the time.
It's hardly myth's fault if the SD guys demand the latest version. And yes, if you don't upgrade your box you'll miss out on new features - when has this never been the case? I'm sure the differences in interface and DB schema between your version and the latest make it an impossible task to support every single myth release in the last two years.
Just demonstrate that several unconnected sites that cover anti-scamming are down, and one site with 46k hits on Google is resolving to localhost. That ought to show what damage botnets can do. It cannot be a coincidence.
This is the best idea yet. Or it could even disable the machine in some way that doesn't shred their data but prevents access until they find out what's going on - combine with a small bit of PR and I'm sure the media in countries like mine would cover it, after all this summer they've been resorted to running stuff like "Facebook under threat in patent storm". A huge slice of the public losing their machines would be massive news.
It's time for the community to do something about botnets. Forget ethics, we use whatever means necessary. Government and law enforcement agencies appear unwilling or even technically unable to do anything about it (this is a very important point). What better people to sort out this mess than the community who thought up the IRC protocol and whatnot in the first place? It's time to find these machines, break into them and stop this madness. Will govt only do something when their sites get attacked? Can you say weakening Western-Russian relations?
Mod him up. Whilst I'm sure it's difficult to find out who's behind this, it can't be impossible. I'm tired of the whole 'meh' attitude to botnets. 50m compromised computers is a scandal.
Thankfully rebates are rare here in the UK and I'm glad we never took up such an unnecessary system. What really is the point? Just sell the product at a marginally lower price, you crooks.
Give em a break, it must be difficult to sever yourself from such delights as the "Bite Me" app and "You have been chopped by a Ninja!!" et-fucking-cetera
What you're saying is right, but it's still not basic enough. Have you dealt with many clueless users? Even the idea that a message can be plain text, and then with bold & italic, will be beyond many people, never mind what the implications for malware are. And, as someone below points out, you expect people to look this information up? No, they just ignore it and click Yes or Agree or OK, anything to get rid of that message which is stopping me working. How else do you think malware in the form of BHOs gets to infect so namy copies of IE? Sure, it flashes up a box with a long, dull message inside... I don't have time to read that... if I did read it I wouldn't know what it meant... Just Click Yes. The problem with uneducated users goes way beyond explaining the difference between a virus and a trojan. People are hardened to error messages and other such alerts now. They don't understand the link between blindly clicking an option one week and being infected with crap the next.
Compulsory training is a nice idea, but of course completely unrealistic, besides the difficulty of enforcing it you'd have ISPs, auction sites, hardware manufacturers up in arms because their business depends on having people use their services. They'd take a long time to return if you forced them to train first. As it stands, no-one's died from malware yet, thus trying to draw any car analogy is moot. (not that I'm saying you were, but it's the closest comparison I can think of)
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And I'm afraid there's your problem right there - the kind of error message which 80% of computer users, ie the naive ones, pay no attention to whatsoever. They either ignore it completely or try and understand what it means but give up. Average people don't know what HTML is, nor what effect an HTML message could have. It's this barrier of misunderstanding which good software needs to negotiate. I'm afraid that's a poor error message.
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They get a license to use your work as they choose, but it's non-exclusive and you retain copyright. There's nothing there which permits use of your clip by any entity other than YT (and its affiliates). It goes on to say YT users are granted a license to stream the video but only from YT themselves.
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If they have any sense - debatable - they'll be meeting face-to-face only.
That of course is a crime and the perp should be dealt with accordingly - but I'm so glad he did it. And it doesn't remove the problems exposed by these mails.
Have to agree, the future will be share parties where you bring a bottle and a media player, or laptop, or USB hard drive... everyone shares and there's nothing the likes of Media Defender and other companies with their dubious business model can do anything about it. Back to the old days of swapping cassettes.
Thank you. *clicks Back*
Yes, casual users don't care for the technical details, so they want something usable and stylish. The fact that many of their friends have one too probably doesn't go amiss, since they'll no doubt need help with it or itunes now and again, and want to be confident that they own a machine that must be good because everyone else has one. Usability and marketing were the two edges that pushed the ipod ahead. Having said that there are many equally usable devices out there, but it's no coincidence that the ipod was and still is the most heavily marketed portable media player.
Many posters have already said this, but the true answer is to never buy goods from PC World, this kind of chicanery is how they keep their prices down. Their post-sales customer service is appalling.
Think about singles acts. There are absolutely loads of forgettable bands who give us one good hit but not much else. So you buy the album and it's all dross apart from that hit (normally track 1). Or you wouldn't even consider buying the album just for one song. In the 80s and 90s this used to apply 90% of the time.
It's hardly myth's fault if the SD guys demand the latest version. And yes, if you don't upgrade your box you'll miss out on new features - when has this never been the case? I'm sure the differences in interface and DB schema between your version and the latest make it an impossible task to support every single myth release in the last two years.
Advertising is the art of convincing people to buy things they didn't know they wanted.
Just demonstrate that several unconnected sites that cover anti-scamming are down, and one site with 46k hits on Google is resolving to localhost. That ought to show what damage botnets can do. It cannot be a coincidence.
This is the best idea yet. Or it could even disable the machine in some way that doesn't shred their data but prevents access until they find out what's going on - combine with a small bit of PR and I'm sure the media in countries like mine would cover it, after all this summer they've been resorted to running stuff like "Facebook under threat in patent storm". A huge slice of the public losing their machines would be massive news.
It's time for the community to do something about botnets. Forget ethics, we use whatever means necessary. Government and law enforcement agencies appear unwilling or even technically unable to do anything about it (this is a very important point). What better people to sort out this mess than the community who thought up the IRC protocol and whatnot in the first place? It's time to find these machines, break into them and stop this madness. Will govt only do something when their sites get attacked? Can you say weakening Western-Russian relations?
Mod him up. Whilst I'm sure it's difficult to find out who's behind this, it can't be impossible. I'm tired of the whole 'meh' attitude to botnets. 50m compromised computers is a scandal.
Thankfully rebates are rare here in the UK and I'm glad we never took up such an unnecessary system. What really is the point? Just sell the product at a marginally lower price, you crooks.
Give em a break, it must be difficult to sever yourself from such delights as the "Bite Me" app and "You have been chopped by a Ninja!!" et-fucking-cetera
He introduced artists who won't be to everyone's taste, but who did sell millions of records.
Now, can anyone tell me how to fly a plane?
To assume he's on *nix is indeed a leap of faith. I think Windows is the answer, thus the reason for much flapping about.
What you're saying is right, but it's still not basic enough. Have you dealt with many clueless users? Even the idea that a message can be plain text, and then with bold & italic, will be beyond many people, never mind what the implications for malware are. And, as someone below points out, you expect people to look this information up? No, they just ignore it and click Yes or Agree or OK, anything to get rid of that message which is stopping me working. How else do you think malware in the form of BHOs gets to infect so namy copies of IE? Sure, it flashes up a box with a long, dull message inside... I don't have time to read that... if I did read it I wouldn't know what it meant... Just Click Yes. The problem with uneducated users goes way beyond explaining the difference between a virus and a trojan. People are hardened to error messages and other such alerts now. They don't understand the link between blindly clicking an option one week and being infected with crap the next.
Compulsory training is a nice idea, but of course completely unrealistic, besides the difficulty of enforcing it you'd have ISPs, auction sites, hardware manufacturers up in arms because their business depends on having people use their services. They'd take a long time to return if you forced them to train first. As it stands, no-one's died from malware yet, thus trying to draw any car analogy is moot. (not that I'm saying you were, but it's the closest comparison I can think of)
Perhaps, but the use still has to be in connection with YT's site or business. As far as I can tell the VH1 show wasn't promoting YT.
... 1GB
*agog*
And you need 7GB of disk space? Are you sure this is just a service pack? Bloat!!