Also not quite as bad as the bug in one Firefox installer where if you installed it in c:\program files directly instead of c:\program files\Firefox, if you then uninstalled it it'd wipe out c:\program files
Although I bet more than just Firefox's installer would do that.
The Link's Awakening manual states in pretty much direct terms that after "fulfilling the prophesy" and destroying Ganon, there were still threats to be had. So, Link set out to gain wisdom and such, but ended up shipwrecked on the way home. It isn't completely slam-dunk that it has to follow LttP, though, as it's somewhat vague. It could fit in after just about any game in the series. Some even say it could have happened in between the major continents of Hyrule during Zelda II, but that doesn't really work. Only the original Legend of Zelda, oddly, really directly seems to imply that Ganon is truly destroyed, what with the ashes and talk about resurrection in Zelda II. I guess it's just thought that either those two games are chronologically the last, or eventually the bad guys did end up getting Ganon back. WW has you jamming the Master Sword into the guy's head, but he's survived worse...
Unfortunately, Legend of Zelda's timeline is a hideous mess that is terribly impractical to try to fit together. There are a few games that logically have to be some time after/before another, but there are plenty that could also fit just about anywhere. There are even at least two whole alternate timelines caused by OoT that have to be reconciled somehow in various games.
Seconded on this. I was having several people attempting to brute-force my root password over ssh (Which was futile anyway since I had root login disabled over ssh. But I digress). I switched the port and haven't had a single bad login attempt that wasn't from me fat-fingering in several months.
I'd looked into the RSA/DSA key thingy, but I'm often logging in from remote locations without necessarily being able to do that. So, I stick with passwords. It works.
I had a coworker of mine come to me about a car problem (I'm the office geek, but I tinker with cars too) and asked me to take a look at his car because it was running a little rough and a mechanic had told him he needed a new carburetor to the tune of $1000. I went down and took a look. It was a mid-late 90's Corolla. Now, I know darn well Toyota hasn't sold a carbed car in the US since the mid 80's, but just to make sure there hadn't been a bizarre engine swap I went ahead and popped the hood. Yep, big EFI plate on the intake, no carb(s) hanging off it.
So, just because a shop recommends carb work, doesn't mean it necessarily has one to replace;) In the end it ended up being a combination of essentially solid-with-dirt air filter and blocked cat.
My theory on that is it's because they assume it's broken and/or not working and go on with their lives. They know when they click website links, it goes to a new website. Pictures either show the picture in the browser, or launch something to show the pictures. Music probably plays the music. A program, however, takes some extra steps to do anything with. It's like someone who sticks money in a coke machine, pushes a button, and nothing happens. They know what it usually is supposed to do, and it didn't do it that time. They might kick it a couple times, fiddle with a button or two, but it wouldn't occur to most people that they might have to do something unusual to make it work like it normally does.
As far as being worried, the average number of viruses, worms, etc. on non-savvy user's computers should show peoples' lack of worry about that sort of thing. Computers have come a long way since the 80's, but they still have quite a ways to go before they're as idiot-proof and straightforward as a TV or even VCR.
I've been sitting with "average" users while they show me something or try something and you'd be surprised how many of them click on something that sounds neat that they want to try, it downloads, they close the download window, then say something like "Where'd it go? Oh well..." then move on to something else. This was partly the rational for Firefox's default to download straight to the desktop.
I'd bet some people are downloading the installer, lose it, and just never bother to find it.
It's possible to archive SMS messages with most phones (at least, Nokia's software lets you grab them, and BitPim for CDMA phones) but it's definitely not as easily done nor platform agnostic. With e-mail, even if you need to export/import across some program boundary that can't do it directly, there's always IMAP. With SMS, you'd be stuck keeping around several different programs to access them directly, or maybe just dealing with reading them in plain text.
Way back in the Mists of Time, I'd heard of Linux and decided to try one. I went to the "Budget CDROM" section of Microcenter, and they had a whole section of distros. I pretty much eenie-meenie-miny-moed it since at the time I wasn't really aware of the whole kernel/distro/etc thing. I ended up with Slackware 3.4. Now, it was a heck of a lot of work to get going, especially since I had a isapnp modem and sound card, and eventually a Voodoo Banshee vid card which wasn't supported directly at the time. However, it gave me pretty thorough knowledge and comfort with the command line, which some friends of mine who got into Linux later still can't do much with. So, there's something to be said for diving in head first and getting your hands dirty. Compared to the trials and tribulations I went through getting the original working, Gentoo has been a breeze:)
Let's say you're building up your small business building widgets, and decide to put up a small webpage. Things are going well, you're getting some interest in there. But then some major ISP sticks in inter-page advertising. Now, everywhere you have the word "widget", it has a popup contextual ad linking to "partner" provider's website selling widgets, with maybe a big flashing banner at the top. The surfer clicks out, and you've potentially lost a sale. A lot of people might not even know the difference, and others might think you're somehow related to the other site. Not only does this lead to general confusion, but can be a customer service nightmare for you when the widget bought from the other site burns down their house, and they come back to you wanting to know why you sent them there.
I played around a bit in Second Life and There, but got terribly bored with nothing much to do that wouldn't be better off done in First Life. I also play World of Warcraft, which is fun, but gets dull with nothing but combat and the same four or so quest types to do over and over. I always thought some combination of the two could be a lot of fun. Want a be a shopkeeper selling clothing designs? Do it. Find a nice safe city somewhere and have at it. Prefer battle? Defend the front. Maybe have a couple or three factions vying for territory and power. Want to make a lot of money? Make weaponry and set up shop in a frontier town where you risk getting overrun by the enemy every day. Want to rp a nice family life? Go to a nice safe capital and ignore the battles all you want. Diplomat? Join one of the governments. Police? Keep peace in one of the towns tracking down misbehavers. Seems like there'd be a lot of opportunity for gameplay types that aren't exploited by any current setup.
I agree, but it's not limited just to kids. I'm in my mid-20s, and I'd always been a happy worker bee type. I was good at taking specific instructions and making good things out of them. From there I could even take initiative and extend it. However, give me something vague or anything involving much leadership, and I froze up. I'd be tentative, cautious to the point of paralysis, and generally ineffective worrying I'd mess something up and let people down. Somewhere along the line my fiancee dragged me into WoW (sounds backwards, but that's how it went. She still plays lots more than me). At first that initial trait worked great. A party leader would mark targets, and I'd tank my warrior's little heart out, and generally did well at it. Did that all the way to 70 even. Then one day I ended up partied with some guild newbies on a first run of an instance I'd run several times, and suddenly they expected me to lead. Latter problem popped up. I wiped the group on the very first pull even. I made it, though, without too much further trouble. A little later, I led another group successfully. And on from there. Now, even in real life, I've found I'm better able to handle leadership initiative without freezing and have been doing a pretty good job of it so far. I just needed somewhere risk-free to have a chance to loosen up rather than somewhere where failure really would be a significant setback.
The question I've always had is more along the lines of the filing system - there are times that I can't remember any part of something until someone reminds me of some small part, and it all comes flooding back. That means it was all in there somewhere, I just couldn't find it. I'm wondering what might cause that, and what might be done to improve it. Or, as the article is saying, perhaps we're not meant to?
Not sure what kind of "supporting evidence" you might want, but I once bought a Radeon once to replace my aging Voodoo3. I forget the exact model number, but at the time it was about $175 or $200. In some games it was *slower* than the Voodoo3. I gave up and reinstalled Windows clean, but still had the same trouble. Took it back, got a GeForce 3 Ti 200 for about the same price, and it worked beautifully out of the box. Fast forward to several years later and I was looking to replace that card, and I got another Radeon. Installed the drivers, slapped in the new card - poof, blue screen on boot in the video drivers. Stuck the GF3 back in, removed it from the DevMan, and manually installed the VGA driver. Rebooted with the ATI, installed the drivers - back to Bluescreen on Boot. So, another clean install of Windows, and still got bluescreens on boot. Took that Radeon back and got a GF 6600GT again for about the same price, slapped it in, and it's worked ever since. I have a hard time believing I had other bad hardware in there to cause the troubles since in both cases the GeForces worked perfectly. Not to mention the GeForces worked much more nicey in Linux than the Radeons ever did. I genuinely gave ATI two tries now, and both times I was hit with troublesome drivers. I doubt I'll be buying another Radeon anytime soon.
Out of curiosity, what video driver are you using for X? At least in Linux, I found FF scrolling (and any scrolling at all really) to be very slow when using the VESA drivers. Might be related if you're using something similar. Not really FF's fault.
Caught me too at first. You're leaving it on the HTML Formatted posting method. You'll need the s in there for linebreaks, or switch it to Plain Old Text.
Ah, I see your point. I guess I tend to save a lot of money and not really buy a lot of frivolous things, especially things I see advertised, so I tend not to think in that way. Good point though.
I'm not so sure I completely agree with your last point. If I buy something of a type I've never bought before because of an advertisement, then I'm not taking market share away from anyone. Only if I switch from one type to another.
I do, however, agree that marketing is probably the most obnoxious influence:)
I've personally run into plenty of people running thoroughly unpatched systems that would probably still be vulnerable to this. I still get plenty of spams/scams trying to use it, so it must still have some traction out there.
In addition, I was helping a friend of mine a year or so ago who had had his website thoroughly hacked/taken over by a porn site/malware installer type scammer. It included a blurb on the front page that said something like "If you aren't able to view the free content, click on this and choose 'run'". It was a.reg file that re-enabled the foo:foo@domain option in IE. I guess they figured anyone who got that far would probably install stuff without any red flags.
I'm not much of an Opera user (tried Opera Mini on my old Nokia phone, wouldn't run well), nor do I have a Wii (yet!), so I mean this question genuinely. Is there any relation between the actual backend rendering engine in the Operas for the Desktop, Wii, and Mobile platforms? Or are they more like the IEs for Mac and Windows where they're roughly similar interfaces with completely different code behind them? If they're completely different, then there really wouldn't be much reason for people to switch based on that. Unless they just like the name.
I was in high school from 95-99, so the internet revolution/everybody having a computer thing went from just getting going to the beginnings of big time. Almost every single time I mentioned I was into computers to anyone, the first question was always "Are you a hacker?". Anytime I did anything other than load Word, Solitaire, or Netscape, someone would ask me "Are you hacking?". It all got old very quickly. I used to prefer an auto-hiding taskbar, and they almost permanently banned me from the library computers for "hacking" when I turned it on for the hour or so I had alloted to me at the time. As it was, I kept their computers running pretty much single-handedly (county IT dept was useless, and the only other student that was at all techy like me had already screwed up his chances by using his access to steal teacher/student private information) so I wasn't too worried about getting banned.
Incidentally, they were all Windows 95 boxes with some pretty bad security software on it. I found at least two ways through it - the fun one was they didn't lock down Winkey-F. Search on the program you wanted to run, and run it. Likewise, you could load an "approved" program, pull up the Open File dialog, and find the program in there and run it. The other way was Winkey-E. It would pop up a "You don't have permission to run this program" error. Hold it down and the screen filled with them very quickly. Eventually, Windows ran out of memory, Explorer crashed, and it would automatically repop without the security software there. Voila.
So, I guess I was kind of a hacker. Oh well:)
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My problem is I tend to be a wanderer. I might be surfing the web in my computer room, boot up the laptop and go sit on the couch for awhile and surf while watching the news or something, then go into the bedroom and play a few webgames while my fiancee works on homework, then maybe go sit on the back deck in the evening and get a little extra work done. Short of really long cables, or lots of plugging/unplugging, going wired isn't really practical. Of course, I guess that's what WPA and other better wireless security setups are for, although ideally I'd set up my DD-WRT with the wireless on a different segment. I'll get to it sooner or later. I've mostly made do with frequently rotated and never repeated wep keys, although that was going on the assumption of needing to capture tons of packets to crack it. This new thing throws that a bit out of whack...
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Also not quite as bad as the bug in one Firefox installer where if you installed it in c:\program files directly instead of c:\program files\Firefox, if you then uninstalled it it'd wipe out c:\program files
Although I bet more than just Firefox's installer would do that.
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The Link's Awakening manual states in pretty much direct terms that after "fulfilling the prophesy" and destroying Ganon, there were still threats to be had. So, Link set out to gain wisdom and such, but ended up shipwrecked on the way home. It isn't completely slam-dunk that it has to follow LttP, though, as it's somewhat vague. It could fit in after just about any game in the series. Some even say it could have happened in between the major continents of Hyrule during Zelda II, but that doesn't really work. Only the original Legend of Zelda, oddly, really directly seems to imply that Ganon is truly destroyed, what with the ashes and talk about resurrection in Zelda II. I guess it's just thought that either those two games are chronologically the last, or eventually the bad guys did end up getting Ganon back. WW has you jamming the Master Sword into the guy's head, but he's survived worse...
Unfortunately, Legend of Zelda's timeline is a hideous mess that is terribly impractical to try to fit together. There are a few games that logically have to be some time after/before another, but there are plenty that could also fit just about anywhere. There are even at least two whole alternate timelines caused by OoT that have to be reconciled somehow in various games.
Seconded on this. I was having several people attempting to brute-force my root password over ssh (Which was futile anyway since I had root login disabled over ssh. But I digress). I switched the port and haven't had a single bad login attempt that wasn't from me fat-fingering in several months.
I'd looked into the RSA/DSA key thingy, but I'm often logging in from remote locations without necessarily being able to do that. So, I stick with passwords. It works.
I had a coworker of mine come to me about a car problem (I'm the office geek, but I tinker with cars too) and asked me to take a look at his car because it was running a little rough and a mechanic had told him he needed a new carburetor to the tune of $1000. I went down and took a look. It was a mid-late 90's Corolla. Now, I know darn well Toyota hasn't sold a carbed car in the US since the mid 80's, but just to make sure there hadn't been a bizarre engine swap I went ahead and popped the hood. Yep, big EFI plate on the intake, no carb(s) hanging off it.
;) In the end it ended up being a combination of essentially solid-with-dirt air filter and blocked cat.
So, just because a shop recommends carb work, doesn't mean it necessarily has one to replace
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Yeah, off-topic, but still the most memorable part of that game
Considering it was done for the original cartoon, should be possible: Action Force Intro
My theory on that is it's because they assume it's broken and/or not working and go on with their lives. They know when they click website links, it goes to a new website. Pictures either show the picture in the browser, or launch something to show the pictures. Music probably plays the music. A program, however, takes some extra steps to do anything with. It's like someone who sticks money in a coke machine, pushes a button, and nothing happens. They know what it usually is supposed to do, and it didn't do it that time. They might kick it a couple times, fiddle with a button or two, but it wouldn't occur to most people that they might have to do something unusual to make it work like it normally does.
As far as being worried, the average number of viruses, worms, etc. on non-savvy user's computers should show peoples' lack of worry about that sort of thing. Computers have come a long way since the 80's, but they still have quite a ways to go before they're as idiot-proof and straightforward as a TV or even VCR.
I've been sitting with "average" users while they show me something or try something and you'd be surprised how many of them click on something that sounds neat that they want to try, it downloads, they close the download window, then say something like "Where'd it go? Oh well..." then move on to something else. This was partly the rational for Firefox's default to download straight to the desktop.
I'd bet some people are downloading the installer, lose it, and just never bother to find it.
It's possible to archive SMS messages with most phones (at least, Nokia's software lets you grab them, and BitPim for CDMA phones) but it's definitely not as easily done nor platform agnostic. With e-mail, even if you need to export/import across some program boundary that can't do it directly, there's always IMAP. With SMS, you'd be stuck keeping around several different programs to access them directly, or maybe just dealing with reading them in plain text.
Way back in the Mists of Time, I'd heard of Linux and decided to try one. I went to the "Budget CDROM" section of Microcenter, and they had a whole section of distros. I pretty much eenie-meenie-miny-moed it since at the time I wasn't really aware of the whole kernel/distro/etc thing. I ended up with Slackware 3.4. Now, it was a heck of a lot of work to get going, especially since I had a isapnp modem and sound card, and eventually a Voodoo Banshee vid card which wasn't supported directly at the time. However, it gave me pretty thorough knowledge and comfort with the command line, which some friends of mine who got into Linux later still can't do much with. So, there's something to be said for diving in head first and getting your hands dirty. Compared to the trials and tribulations I went through getting the original working, Gentoo has been a breeze :)
Let's say you're building up your small business building widgets, and decide to put up a small webpage. Things are going well, you're getting some interest in there. But then some major ISP sticks in inter-page advertising. Now, everywhere you have the word "widget", it has a popup contextual ad linking to "partner" provider's website selling widgets, with maybe a big flashing banner at the top. The surfer clicks out, and you've potentially lost a sale. A lot of people might not even know the difference, and others might think you're somehow related to the other site. Not only does this lead to general confusion, but can be a customer service nightmare for you when the widget bought from the other site burns down their house, and they come back to you wanting to know why you sent them there.
I played around a bit in Second Life and There, but got terribly bored with nothing much to do that wouldn't be better off done in First Life. I also play World of Warcraft, which is fun, but gets dull with nothing but combat and the same four or so quest types to do over and over. I always thought some combination of the two could be a lot of fun. Want a be a shopkeeper selling clothing designs? Do it. Find a nice safe city somewhere and have at it. Prefer battle? Defend the front. Maybe have a couple or three factions vying for territory and power. Want to make a lot of money? Make weaponry and set up shop in a frontier town where you risk getting overrun by the enemy every day. Want to rp a nice family life? Go to a nice safe capital and ignore the battles all you want. Diplomat? Join one of the governments. Police? Keep peace in one of the towns tracking down misbehavers. Seems like there'd be a lot of opportunity for gameplay types that aren't exploited by any current setup.
I agree, but it's not limited just to kids. I'm in my mid-20s, and I'd always been a happy worker bee type. I was good at taking specific instructions and making good things out of them. From there I could even take initiative and extend it. However, give me something vague or anything involving much leadership, and I froze up. I'd be tentative, cautious to the point of paralysis, and generally ineffective worrying I'd mess something up and let people down. Somewhere along the line my fiancee dragged me into WoW (sounds backwards, but that's how it went. She still plays lots more than me). At first that initial trait worked great. A party leader would mark targets, and I'd tank my warrior's little heart out, and generally did well at it. Did that all the way to 70 even. Then one day I ended up partied with some guild newbies on a first run of an instance I'd run several times, and suddenly they expected me to lead. Latter problem popped up. I wiped the group on the very first pull even. I made it, though, without too much further trouble. A little later, I led another group successfully. And on from there. Now, even in real life, I've found I'm better able to handle leadership initiative without freezing and have been doing a pretty good job of it so far. I just needed somewhere risk-free to have a chance to loosen up rather than somewhere where failure really would be a significant setback.
The question I've always had is more along the lines of the filing system - there are times that I can't remember any part of something until someone reminds me of some small part, and it all comes flooding back. That means it was all in there somewhere, I just couldn't find it. I'm wondering what might cause that, and what might be done to improve it. Or, as the article is saying, perhaps we're not meant to?
Not sure what kind of "supporting evidence" you might want, but I once bought a Radeon once to replace my aging Voodoo3. I forget the exact model number, but at the time it was about $175 or $200. In some games it was *slower* than the Voodoo3. I gave up and reinstalled Windows clean, but still had the same trouble. Took it back, got a GeForce 3 Ti 200 for about the same price, and it worked beautifully out of the box. Fast forward to several years later and I was looking to replace that card, and I got another Radeon. Installed the drivers, slapped in the new card - poof, blue screen on boot in the video drivers. Stuck the GF3 back in, removed it from the DevMan, and manually installed the VGA driver. Rebooted with the ATI, installed the drivers - back to Bluescreen on Boot. So, another clean install of Windows, and still got bluescreens on boot. Took that Radeon back and got a GF 6600GT again for about the same price, slapped it in, and it's worked ever since. I have a hard time believing I had other bad hardware in there to cause the troubles since in both cases the GeForces worked perfectly. Not to mention the GeForces worked much more nicey in Linux than the Radeons ever did. I genuinely gave ATI two tries now, and both times I was hit with troublesome drivers. I doubt I'll be buying another Radeon anytime soon.
Out of curiosity, what video driver are you using for X? At least in Linux, I found FF scrolling (and any scrolling at all really) to be very slow when using the VESA drivers. Might be related if you're using something similar. Not really FF's fault.
Caught me too at first. You're leaving it on the HTML Formatted posting method. You'll need the
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s in there for linebreaks, or switch it to Plain Old Text.
It's a very literal website
Remember this is Sony. They're holding up the aperture grill. No one will notice in normal use. Really. They mean it.
Ah, I see your point. I guess I tend to save a lot of money and not really buy a lot of frivolous things, especially things I see advertised, so I tend not to think in that way. Good point though.
I'm not so sure I completely agree with your last point. If I buy something of a type I've never bought before because of an advertisement, then I'm not taking market share away from anyone. Only if I switch from one type to another.
:)
I do, however, agree that marketing is probably the most obnoxious influence
I've personally run into plenty of people running thoroughly unpatched systems that would probably still be vulnerable to this. I still get plenty of spams/scams trying to use it, so it must still have some traction out there.
.reg file that re-enabled the foo:foo@domain option in IE. I guess they figured anyone who got that far would probably install stuff without any red flags.
In addition, I was helping a friend of mine a year or so ago who had had his website thoroughly hacked/taken over by a porn site/malware installer type scammer. It included a blurb on the front page that said something like "If you aren't able to view the free content, click on this and choose 'run'". It was a
I'm not much of an Opera user (tried Opera Mini on my old Nokia phone, wouldn't run well), nor do I have a Wii (yet!), so I mean this question genuinely. Is there any relation between the actual backend rendering engine in the Operas for the Desktop, Wii, and Mobile platforms? Or are they more like the IEs for Mac and Windows where they're roughly similar interfaces with completely different code behind them? If they're completely different, then there really wouldn't be much reason for people to switch based on that. Unless they just like the name.
I was in high school from 95-99, so the internet revolution/everybody having a computer thing went from just getting going to the beginnings of big time. Almost every single time I mentioned I was into computers to anyone, the first question was always "Are you a hacker?". Anytime I did anything other than load Word, Solitaire, or Netscape, someone would ask me "Are you hacking?". It all got old very quickly. I used to prefer an auto-hiding taskbar, and they almost permanently banned me from the library computers for "hacking" when I turned it on for the hour or so I had alloted to me at the time. As it was, I kept their computers running pretty much single-handedly (county IT dept was useless, and the only other student that was at all techy like me had already screwed up his chances by using his access to steal teacher/student private information) so I wasn't too worried about getting banned.
:)
Incidentally, they were all Windows 95 boxes with some pretty bad security software on it. I found at least two ways through it - the fun one was they didn't lock down Winkey-F. Search on the program you wanted to run, and run it. Likewise, you could load an "approved" program, pull up the Open File dialog, and find the program in there and run it. The other way was Winkey-E. It would pop up a "You don't have permission to run this program" error. Hold it down and the screen filled with them very quickly. Eventually, Windows ran out of memory, Explorer crashed, and it would automatically repop without the security software there. Voila.
So, I guess I was kind of a hacker. Oh well
My problem is I tend to be a wanderer. I might be surfing the web in my computer room, boot up the laptop and go sit on the couch for awhile and surf while watching the news or something, then go into the bedroom and play a few webgames while my fiancee works on homework, then maybe go sit on the back deck in the evening and get a little extra work done. Short of really long cables, or lots of plugging/unplugging, going wired isn't really practical. Of course, I guess that's what WPA and other better wireless security setups are for, although ideally I'd set up my DD-WRT with the wireless on a different segment. I'll get to it sooner or later. I've mostly made do with frequently rotated and never repeated wep keys, although that was going on the assumption of needing to capture tons of packets to crack it. This new thing throws that a bit out of whack...