Why not? I have used IRC many times to solve Mission Critical problems as well. I ran a 19 tech PC repair shop with our own accounting/customer DB/rather large warehouse etc. Our e-mail went down. (Mission Critical) While I was waiting for Novell to get on the line I jumped on IRC and found someone to help fix it. (Groupwise) Same type of things have happened many times with the business' DB (Oracle). The general OS stuff I or someone else in the shop could fix mostly on our own. Try the vendor specific Tech support first as always you should, but while you wait jump on IRC and try. Just a thought really. It's just worked for me before on numerous occasions.
Why not? I have used IRC many times to solve Mission Critical problems as well. I ran a small PC repair shop. Our e-mail went down. I jumped on IRC and found someone to help fix it. (Groupwise) Same type of things have happened many times. Try the vendor specific Tech support first, but while you wait jump on IRC and try. Just a thought really. It's worked for me before.
All the security... is a waste of time and money...
I'll give you a personal example of why it works in their favor, and perhaps why they continue to put time and money into securing their product.
I used to support Windows 95/98/ME/2K and XP (after it came out) for Microsoft before they decided to move everything to India. (Right about that time I decided that if I didn't want to move to India to keep my job I had better make a few changes and have since left the IT industry) Right as XP was released they gave us all our own copy of XP Pro. I took mine home and installed it so I could actually use it at home while supporting it. (I think that was the whole reason that they gave it to us in the first place) Not too long after that, there was an "internal" release of the "devils own" version of XP. No Activation, No Calling Home, and no problems. I promplty thought, "I need this more than the legit version they gave me..." and installed it the same night that I got a copy of the CD from a coworker. I've been running the internal version of XP ever since and have to date installed many many programs and games and went on with life as usual. I was able to update to SP1 with no problem, and with a little tweaking (Information available online) able to upgrade to SP2. This last little upgrade that won't allow me to use Windows Update unless I'm "legit" happened to stop me from receiving the most recent security updates. I don't want to become part of some Zombie Network etc and know that constant updates help narrow the chance of those problems. Being unable to update my computers security vulnerability I finally threw my hands in the air and gave up. I ran a repair install and put my original product key in and now everything is just fine.
My point is just this. I had a fully usable copy of Windows XP that happened to be "hacked" for lack of better terms and was happy with that. In fact, I was almost proud that I was using the internal (illicit) version vs. the legit version that they had freely given me. Being unable to update from here on out just bothered me and I didn't want to waste a whole lot of time and effort to sidestep the new security that MS had added. I had to go throught he hassle of a recovery reinstall over my current install just to add the legit product key to allow me to update. Now I'm legit again and happy that I won't have to worry about circumventing the system anymore.
Point Being: Sometimes people get tired of bucking the system. (FYI, I have a dual boot setup with Linux on that PC and the same OS dual boot on all of my other computers in the house.) I still like to play games on Windows however and so XP is staying for the time being. I just got tired of having to work around Micrsoft's attempts to stop me from using their OS "illegally". Even though there are always going to be ways around the MS blockades, I don't want to fight it anymore and so have given in.
Microsoft must be thinking: "If you slow people down enough and enough times, some of them may end up just giving up."
When I have a problem with an Open source program that "breaks" I always head to IRC and jump into a room that has people talking about those type of things for help. When I was first getting into the Linux world I was in IRC constantly asking for help and trying to help others with the limited knowledge that I had at the time. Most people are very willing to help out if you can come up with a specific question or problem.
The majority of my time spent on/. is at work where we run WinXP. All my machines at home except one are dual booted Linux and Windows XP and run Linux 95% of the time. The other 5% is devoted to games, games, and more games.
I was never distracted by those in the class playing games. I was there to listen and when it came down to the final, you could always tell who was going to do well.
...I would prefer is a tool that uses the most common queries against your site to see if it can be google hacked.
Google is not doing the hacking. I'll give you a simple step by step example hack:
1) Let's say that you really like to use PHP on your site. Let's also say that PHP has a gaping security hole that will allow all sorts of "hacking" to take place. Lets just say that you don't know about this security hole just yet and so you don't know that it should be patched etc...
With the situation set up thusly I'll continue...
2) Let's say that an Evil H4x0r discovers this problem with PHP and decides he'd like to exploit it for his evil benefit. (Zombie Networks, SPAM, or maybe to stash his Kiddie Pr0n) All the H4x0r would need to do is go to Google.com and run a search for say "install/install.php"... What this would tell our evil H4x0r is just what sites that are running our favorite PHP program. Google.com would then return a list of all sites that happen to have that listing. Evil H4x0r then has a great list of exploitable sites listed before him on the google.com search page.
3) Evil H4x0r starts his dirty work H4x0r1nG the sites with his Mighty Tools of DOOM! Thus taking control, sending SPAM, or stashing Kiddie Pr0n at his will.
By now you should be able to see the use for this "Google Hack"... Google is not doing the hacking, just making the "Recon" or discovery work all that much easier. You need to ensure that your PC's are not vulnerable to attack by keeping things up to date and locking them down as best you can.
On to the Honeypot...
Google has appearantly set up a computer that looks like it's just ripe for the picking. (What that means is that no matter what vulnerability our Evil H4x0r is looking for he'll find it in this machine) What happens next is they put it online and add the URL's from the Honeypot to the search index, and probably make them come up failry high in the search results so they make sure that our Evil H4x0r finds them first and tries to Exploit them. Then our Evil H4x0r friend sees the link, tries his mighty H4x0r1nG on the page, the Honeypot records all of his "moves" and "attacks", and he gets bored and leaves. This then helps by allowing officials to know how people are breaking into these machines and come up with ways to stop it or prevent further attacks.
If that doens't make sense then it never will and you should go back to doing whatever it was before you began reading my post. Thank you and have a great day!:)
GecKo213
Disclaimer:By refering to our Evil H4x0r friend as a HE I in no way meant to infer that it specifically meant it was a Male. My reason for using "HE" is simply to avoid excessive keystrokes while I told my story.
If you have any comments, negative or other, please direct them to dev/null.
When I was young I had a friend that had a pet bird. The birds cage was in the sunlight for a couple hours one morning while we were playing together. His mother was cleaning behind the cage and happened to slide it into a bright part of the room. As we were leaving the house to go ride our bikes or something (I don't remember exactly what we were doing) my friend somehow had decided that the bird was hot and needed a chill down and went back inside as I stepped outside getting ready to go.
We went out and were gone for maybe 30 minutes. When we got back to his house his mother had a very somber look on her face and sat us down and began to tell us that the bird must have escaped while she was cleaning and we were out playing, and that she was really sorry and on and on. My friend jumped up and said "He's not gone! He's in the freezer!..."
His mother jumped up almost coming out of her skin and ran for the kitchen before he could finish his thought. She flung the freezer door open and there was the little bird. Still alive, but freezing cold and moving very slowly. She put the bird back in the cage and we watched it for a few minutes and it seemed ok.
Well, we started to play again and he went to the kitchen to get a drink or something... Or so I thought. Feeling bad for what he had done, he had left the room to take the bird and put it in the microwave to warm up! I came out of the room shortly after he had been gone a minute or two. There was the birdie spinning round and round inside of the microwave doing about 20 minutes. His mother walked by just at the moment I got there and again jumped and shreeked in surprise. She Flung Microwave door open and reached in to get the bird. He was very warm now and a little dizzy it seemed. She put the bird in the cage and within a few short hours tweety was dead.
I'm not exactly sure what the temperature of the bird was, or how it's eyes were functioning at the time, but it most certainly was not a happy bird in the last few hours. It staggered around it's cage and tried to chirp, but it sounded more like a buzz than a chirp. Oh yeah, and the bird smelled slightly like cooked chicken as it came out of the microwave.
The Moral of this story is... Don't put cold house pets in the microwave.
Once a friend/roomate and I attatched an old record (It was an old Monkeys album), that we bought at a pawn shop for this very experiment, to a Dremel. We lived on a second floor of a three story apartment complex and had a balcony. We thought it a good idea to extend the dremel/record combo out over the balcony and make sure that the record was spinning in a parallel direction to our bodies to keep personal bodily harm to a minimum. We flipped it on one setting at a time slowly clicking to the next speed. She started spinning rather nicely. I don't remember where the setting was on the dremel when the record finally flew apart, but it sure came apart with a magnificent Cr-Cr-Cr-CRACK! Vinyl shrapnel went flying everywhere! We found broken pieces of the record near the swimming pool which happened to be about 150 yards away. It was an interesting experiment. We repeated with AOL discs and a few other CD's that came in the mail, but nothing was quite as spectacular as the record. It also turned out that a few of the pieces that struck the ground directly underneath our experiment had lodged themselves into the ground pretty well. Some pieces almost a full inch. Kind dangerous I guess looking back on it, but fun all the same.
...a hack allows you to read obsolete media of one type with obsolete hardware of another type
Myself, as a DJ in my spare time, I don't really think you appreciate the turntable. They are not obsolete. Have you been to a club, bar, or party recently? (I apologize to all/. shut-ins, I'm an insensitive clod!) The turntable is much alive and well. They allow you to feel your music. When you get up in front of a crowd, put the needle on the record, and start spinning the music there's something magical about it. The ability to push and pull the music, stop and start on a dime, and totally have control it allows a freedom of expression that you can't really get out of CD turntables. Yes I've used both and I've found no real advantages to using a dual CD deck to mix with. You have some on the fly effects and such, even the ability to scratch, pause, and use finger pressure to slow the music down etc. but nothing can compare as far as I'm concerned to two turntables and a mixer sitting between them.
Besides the ladies seem to like to see you flipping records back and forth and not CD's for some reason. It's an artform. Freedom of expression is a beautiful thing.
I remember not too long ago Microsoft was offering countries like India the opportunity to then purchase a legitimate license to their software for only $1.00. Do you think those who have been "pirating" Microsoft's OS in the states or elsewhere will be shown the same leniency?
There is a buzz that you've all no doubt heard that she will run for president. This to me seems just like a jumping off point for a campaign. You've got to pick a target and shoot before you're able to profess to the nation "See how much good and improvement I've done for this country so far?". Can you imagine how much more stuff they'll be able to steal from the whitehouse and airforce one this time? And how funny would it be for Bill Clinton to be the first president to be impeached , AND also to become the first "lady"... Err, Uhh, Man, yeah. He would have to learn to be a gracious host and throw cocktail parties for the president and her entourage. Just some food for thought.
The reason it seems more intuitive is that your eye naturally starts at the top left hand corner of the page and sweeps down and to the right. You finish your "journey" as it were at the bottom right hand side of the page. If you notice, most professional websites if not all have their logo and the most pertinent info in the upper left hand side. Then all of the copyright, contact us links, and buttons on forms etc tend to be in the lower right quadrant. If you go to a few different pages for instance www.intel.com, www.novell.com, www.cnn.com, slashdot.org... etc you'll see that. While browsing around the web notice where your eye wants to move comfortably to as the page loads. Or better yet, go to Google and type in some search words and click "I'm feeling Lucky". Then close your eyes as the page loads, give it ample time to load, and then open your eyes. See how many times your eyes will drift to the top right portion of the page first.
One of two things may have happened.
1) Yahoo doesn't understand the "comfort" or "intuitive" nature of humans with upper right corner of webpages, or
2) They have a left handed web designer.
I believe that's what they call follow the leader. They usually say if you can't lead, get out of the way, but there are usually a bunch of people chasing the leader and then there are some that fall by the way. You see it everywhere in the world today. They're just trying to keep up and not get dropped along the way.
I've had nothing but trouble with this particular toolbar in the past. Every machine at my house that it's been installed on seems to all of a sudden have resource issues. These are not slow machines either. The slowest is an AMD 1.5 GHZ with 1 GIG Ram. I remove it and the machine is right back up to *snuff* as it were. The last time it made it onto one of my machines was inside the Macromedia Shockwave install. I've since banned it's use in my home. Has anyone else had this type of problem with this toolbar?
Yet more sad evidence that the government is more concerned with corporate interests than those of the people.
Corporations file taxes 4 times a year compared to the average person filing just once a year. Corporations keep money moving in the economy and into the governemnt coffers. This isn't a bad thing. Without corporations, or business, you wouldn't have your computer, car, house, shoes, shirts, clothing... and on and on. Small businesses become large businesses and then in turn become corporations in order to benefit from laws, tax advantages, benefits etc. Corporations are what make the world go around. Business owner wants financial gain, create a product or service to sell, advertise it and then reap the profits when we all buy what they're selling. The only corporations that around day to day and longterm are the ones that are providing a product or service to someone who is willing to pay. I don't know about any of you, but I'm not going to learn, to say, manufacture steel products to give away for the good of the world. I want to be rewarded for my hard work. Cash, check, or charge work just great for me.
This has been one of my strongest complaints for a long time. It's one thing to shoot a wall with a rifle/machine gun/pistol etc and have it leave a little black mark, but once a rocket is fired at a brick wall, car, business etc in games nothing but a large black mark.
I was In Awe when I first played Red Faction with it's environment damage. If you set off a bomb or fired a rocket it would blow a hole in the ground. Hiding places didn't exist much after you've blown them away. Campers aren't able to camp as well because you can destroy their hiding places.
What I think should happen is take city mapping from "The Getaway", environment interaction from "Red Faction", and the deapth of the "Grand Theft Auto" series. Now that would be a killer game!
Ok, but what if someone was to Install some spyware or a virus on your pc. Better yet maybe they want to stash their collection of child pr0n on your computer and then rat you out to the feds? Bet you'd be singing a different tune then wouldn't you.
The reason that the Check Engine Light comes on is purely because Nissans (Like many vehicles now days) use a pressurized Fuel Delivery System. The seal not being completely sealed won't allow for the proper fuel system pressure. Although the car will run just fine, the fuel system is suffering from lack of pressure. Gas flow more or less switches to a suck rather than the blow to feed the engine. Low fuel pressure makes the onbaord computer think that there is a problem in there somewhere and turns the light on. Simple really.
No Squirrels were harmed durring the posting of this comment or durring any part of the original research involved to produce these findings.
I find it interesting that a Company who's largest focus is in the OS market is getting so freaked out about a search engine. Google is neither making an OS to compete with MSFT, nor are they trying to compete with any other software MSFT produces. (Games, Office Products, etc...)
Google is a quick, concise, search engine. MSFT's MSN/MSNBC was never anything more than a page to browse news quickly to me. It won't be able to compete with google's clean looking, concise, easy to use, intuative, no popup window search engine.
Go ahead MSFT, *pat pat* You'll catch 'em some day. Just remember the little engine that could.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm waiting for the day that they want to start charging us for humming or singing a song that we happen to have heard enough to have it memorized.
Why not? I have used IRC many times to solve Mission Critical problems as well. I ran a 19 tech PC repair shop with our own accounting/customer DB/rather large warehouse etc. Our e-mail went down. (Mission Critical) While I was waiting for Novell to get on the line I jumped on IRC and found someone to help fix it. (Groupwise) Same type of things have happened many times with the business' DB (Oracle). The general OS stuff I or someone else in the shop could fix mostly on our own. Try the vendor specific Tech support first as always you should, but while you wait jump on IRC and try. Just a thought really. It's just worked for me before on numerous occasions.
Why not? I have used IRC many times to solve Mission Critical problems as well. I ran a small PC repair shop. Our e-mail went down. I jumped on IRC and found someone to help fix it. (Groupwise) Same type of things have happened many times. Try the vendor specific Tech support first, but while you wait jump on IRC and try. Just a thought really. It's worked for me before.
I'll give you a personal example of why it works in their favor, and perhaps why they continue to put time and money into securing their product.
I used to support Windows 95/98/ME/2K and XP (after it came out) for Microsoft before they decided to move everything to India. (Right about that time I decided that if I didn't want to move to India to keep my job I had better make a few changes and have since left the IT industry) Right as XP was released they gave us all our own copy of XP Pro. I took mine home and installed it so I could actually use it at home while supporting it. (I think that was the whole reason that they gave it to us in the first place) Not too long after that, there was an "internal" release of the "devils own" version of XP. No Activation, No Calling Home, and no problems. I promplty thought, "I need this more than the legit version they gave me..." and installed it the same night that I got a copy of the CD from a coworker. I've been running the internal version of XP ever since and have to date installed many many programs and games and went on with life as usual. I was able to update to SP1 with no problem, and with a little tweaking (Information available online) able to upgrade to SP2. This last little upgrade that won't allow me to use Windows Update unless I'm "legit" happened to stop me from receiving the most recent security updates. I don't want to become part of some Zombie Network etc and know that constant updates help narrow the chance of those problems. Being unable to update my computers security vulnerability I finally threw my hands in the air and gave up. I ran a repair install and put my original product key in and now everything is just fine.
My point is just this. I had a fully usable copy of Windows XP that happened to be "hacked" for lack of better terms and was happy with that. In fact, I was almost proud that I was using the internal (illicit) version vs. the legit version that they had freely given me. Being unable to update from here on out just bothered me and I didn't want to waste a whole lot of time and effort to sidestep the new security that MS had added. I had to go throught he hassle of a recovery reinstall over my current install just to add the legit product key to allow me to update. Now I'm legit again and happy that I won't have to worry about circumventing the system anymore.
Point Being: Sometimes people get tired of bucking the system. (FYI, I have a dual boot setup with Linux on that PC and the same OS dual boot on all of my other computers in the house.) I still like to play games on Windows however and so XP is staying for the time being. I just got tired of having to work around Micrsoft's attempts to stop me from using their OS "illegally". Even though there are always going to be ways around the MS blockades, I don't want to fight it anymore and so have given in.
Microsoft must be thinking: "If you slow people down enough and enough times, some of them may end up just giving up."
When I have a problem with an Open source program that "breaks" I always head to IRC and jump into a room that has people talking about those type of things for help. When I was first getting into the Linux world I was in IRC constantly asking for help and trying to help others with the limited knowledge that I had at the time. Most people are very willing to help out if you can come up with a specific question or problem.
The majority of my time spent on /. is at work where we run WinXP. All my machines at home except one are dual booted Linux and Windows XP and run Linux 95% of the time. The other 5% is devoted to games, games, and more games.
I was never distracted by those in the class playing games. I was there to listen and when it came down to the final, you could always tell who was going to do well.
...I would prefer is a tool that uses the most common queries against your site to see if it can be google hacked.
:)
Google is not doing the hacking. I'll give you a simple step by step example hack:
1) Let's say that you really like to use PHP on your site. Let's also say that PHP has a gaping security hole that will allow all sorts of "hacking" to take place. Lets just say that you don't know about this security hole just yet and so you don't know that it should be patched etc...
With the situation set up thusly I'll continue...
2) Let's say that an Evil H4x0r discovers this problem with PHP and decides he'd like to exploit it for his evil benefit. (Zombie Networks, SPAM, or maybe to stash his Kiddie Pr0n) All the H4x0r would need to do is go to Google.com and run a search for say "install/install.php"... What this would tell our evil H4x0r is just what sites that are running our favorite PHP program. Google.com would then return a list of all sites that happen to have that listing. Evil H4x0r then has a great list of exploitable sites listed before him on the google.com search page.
3) Evil H4x0r starts his dirty work H4x0r1nG the sites with his Mighty Tools of DOOM! Thus taking control, sending SPAM, or stashing Kiddie Pr0n at his will.
By now you should be able to see the use for this "Google Hack"... Google is not doing the hacking, just making the "Recon" or discovery work all that much easier. You need to ensure that your PC's are not vulnerable to attack by keeping things up to date and locking them down as best you can.
On to the Honeypot...
Google has appearantly set up a computer that looks like it's just ripe for the picking. (What that means is that no matter what vulnerability our Evil H4x0r is looking for he'll find it in this machine) What happens next is they put it online and add the URL's from the Honeypot to the search index, and probably make them come up failry high in the search results so they make sure that our Evil H4x0r finds them first and tries to Exploit them. Then our Evil H4x0r friend sees the link, tries his mighty H4x0r1nG on the page, the Honeypot records all of his "moves" and "attacks", and he gets bored and leaves. This then helps by allowing officials to know how people are breaking into these machines and come up with ways to stop it or prevent further attacks.
If that doens't make sense then it never will and you should go back to doing whatever it was before you began reading my post. Thank you and have a great day!
GecKo213
Disclaimer: By refering to our Evil H4x0r friend as a HE I in no way meant to infer that it specifically meant it was a Male. My reason for using "HE" is simply to avoid excessive keystrokes while I told my story.
If you have any comments, negative or other, please direct them to dev/null.
Just give them some lead underwear and call it a day! 3 - 2 - 1 - LIFTOFF! Red Planet here we come!
When I was young I had a friend that had a pet bird. The birds cage was in the sunlight for a couple hours one morning while we were playing together. His mother was cleaning behind the cage and happened to slide it into a bright part of the room. As we were leaving the house to go ride our bikes or something (I don't remember exactly what we were doing) my friend somehow had decided that the bird was hot and needed a chill down and went back inside as I stepped outside getting ready to go.
We went out and were gone for maybe 30 minutes. When we got back to his house his mother had a very somber look on her face and sat us down and began to tell us that the bird must have escaped while she was cleaning and we were out playing, and that she was really sorry and on and on. My friend jumped up and said "He's not gone! He's in the freezer!..."
His mother jumped up almost coming out of her skin and ran for the kitchen before he could finish his thought. She flung the freezer door open and there was the little bird. Still alive, but freezing cold and moving very slowly. She put the bird back in the cage and we watched it for a few minutes and it seemed ok.
Well, we started to play again and he went to the kitchen to get a drink or something... Or so I thought. Feeling bad for what he had done, he had left the room to take the bird and put it in the microwave to warm up! I came out of the room shortly after he had been gone a minute or two. There was the birdie spinning round and round inside of the microwave doing about 20 minutes. His mother walked by just at the moment I got there and again jumped and shreeked in surprise. She Flung Microwave door open and reached in to get the bird. He was very warm now and a little dizzy it seemed. She put the bird in the cage and within a few short hours tweety was dead.
I'm not exactly sure what the temperature of the bird was, or how it's eyes were functioning at the time, but it most certainly was not a happy bird in the last few hours. It staggered around it's cage and tried to chirp, but it sounded more like a buzz than a chirp. Oh yeah, and the bird smelled slightly like cooked chicken as it came out of the microwave.
The Moral of this story is... Don't put cold house pets in the microwave.
Once a friend/roomate and I attatched an old record (It was an old Monkeys album), that we bought at a pawn shop for this very experiment, to a Dremel. We lived on a second floor of a three story apartment complex and had a balcony. We thought it a good idea to extend the dremel/record combo out over the balcony and make sure that the record was spinning in a parallel direction to our bodies to keep personal bodily harm to a minimum. We flipped it on one setting at a time slowly clicking to the next speed. She started spinning rather nicely. I don't remember where the setting was on the dremel when the record finally flew apart, but it sure came apart with a magnificent Cr-Cr-Cr-CRACK! Vinyl shrapnel went flying everywhere! We found broken pieces of the record near the swimming pool which happened to be about 150 yards away. It was an interesting experiment. We repeated with AOL discs and a few other CD's that came in the mail, but nothing was quite as spectacular as the record. It also turned out that a few of the pieces that struck the ground directly underneath our experiment had lodged themselves into the ground pretty well. Some pieces almost a full inch. Kind dangerous I guess looking back on it, but fun all the same.
Myself, as a DJ in my spare time, I don't really think you appreciate the turntable. They are not obsolete. Have you been to a club, bar, or party recently? (I apologize to all /. shut-ins, I'm an insensitive clod!) The turntable is much alive and well. They allow you to feel your music. When you get up in front of a crowd, put the needle on the record, and start spinning the music there's something magical about it. The ability to push and pull the music, stop and start on a dime, and totally have control it allows a freedom of expression that you can't really get out of CD turntables. Yes I've used both and I've found no real advantages to using a dual CD deck to mix with. You have some on the fly effects and such, even the ability to scratch, pause, and use finger pressure to slow the music down etc. but nothing can compare as far as I'm concerned to two turntables and a mixer sitting between them.
Besides the ladies seem to like to see you flipping records back and forth and not CD's for some reason. It's an artform. Freedom of expression is a beautiful thing.
I remember not too long ago Microsoft was offering countries like India the opportunity to then purchase a legitimate license to their software for only $1.00. Do you think those who have been "pirating" Microsoft's OS in the states or elsewhere will be shown the same leniency?
There is a buzz that you've all no doubt heard that she will run for president. This to me seems just like a jumping off point for a campaign. You've got to pick a target and shoot before you're able to profess to the nation "See how much good and improvement I've done for this country so far?". Can you imagine how much more stuff they'll be able to steal from the whitehouse and airforce one this time? And how funny would it be for Bill Clinton to be the first president to be impeached , AND also to become the first "lady"... Err, Uhh, Man, yeah. He would have to learn to be a gracious host and throw cocktail parties for the president and her entourage.
Just some food for thought.
The reason it seems more intuitive is that your eye naturally starts at the top left hand corner of the page and sweeps down and to the right. You finish your "journey" as it were at the bottom right hand side of the page. If you notice, most professional websites if not all have their logo and the most pertinent info in the upper left hand side. Then all of the copyright, contact us links, and buttons on forms etc tend to be in the lower right quadrant. If you go to a few different pages for instance www.intel.com, www.novell.com, www.cnn.com, slashdot.org... etc you'll see that. While browsing around the web notice where your eye wants to move comfortably to as the page loads. Or better yet, go to Google and type in some search words and click "I'm feeling Lucky". Then close your eyes as the page loads, give it ample time to load, and then open your eyes. See how many times your eyes will drift to the top right portion of the page first.
One of two things may have happened.
1) Yahoo doesn't understand the "comfort" or "intuitive" nature of humans with upper right corner of webpages, or
2) They have a left handed web designer.
You decide.
But Corporation == Business.
I believe that's what they call follow the leader. They usually say if you can't lead, get out of the way, but there are usually a bunch of people chasing the leader and then there are some that fall by the way. You see it everywhere in the world today. They're just trying to keep up and not get dropped along the way.
I've had nothing but trouble with this particular toolbar in the past. Every machine at my house that it's been installed on seems to all of a sudden have resource issues. These are not slow machines either. The slowest is an AMD 1.5 GHZ with 1 GIG Ram. I remove it and the machine is right back up to *snuff* as it were. The last time it made it onto one of my machines was inside the Macromedia Shockwave install. I've since banned it's use in my home. Has anyone else had this type of problem with this toolbar?
Corporations file taxes 4 times a year compared to the average person filing just once a year. Corporations keep money moving in the economy and into the governemnt coffers. This isn't a bad thing. Without corporations, or business, you wouldn't have your computer, car, house, shoes, shirts, clothing... and on and on. Small businesses become large businesses and then in turn become corporations in order to benefit from laws, tax advantages, benefits etc. Corporations are what make the world go around. Business owner wants financial gain, create a product or service to sell, advertise it and then reap the profits when we all buy what they're selling. The only corporations that around day to day and longterm are the ones that are providing a product or service to someone who is willing to pay. I don't know about any of you, but I'm not going to learn, to say, manufacture steel products to give away for the good of the world. I want to be rewarded for my hard work. Cash, check, or charge work just great for me.
This has been one of my strongest complaints for a long time. It's one thing to shoot a wall with a rifle/machine gun/pistol etc and have it leave a little black mark, but once a rocket is fired at a brick wall, car, business etc in games nothing but a large black mark.
I was In Awe when I first played Red Faction with it's environment damage. If you set off a bomb or fired a rocket it would blow a hole in the ground. Hiding places didn't exist much after you've blown them away. Campers aren't able to camp as well because you can destroy their hiding places.
What I think should happen is take city mapping from "The Getaway", environment interaction from "Red Faction", and the deapth of the "Grand Theft Auto" series. Now that would be a killer game!
Is that really a problem?
Ok, but what if someone was to Install some spyware or a virus on your pc. Better yet maybe they want to stash their collection of child pr0n on your computer and then rat you out to the feds? Bet you'd be singing a different tune then wouldn't you.
think their launch window broke
Yeah, wasn't it the launch window that caused the original concern with it falling and hitting the tail of the shuttle?
The reason that the Check Engine Light comes on is purely because Nissans (Like many vehicles now days) use a pressurized Fuel Delivery System. The seal not being completely sealed won't allow for the proper fuel system pressure. Although the car will run just fine, the fuel system is suffering from lack of pressure. Gas flow more or less switches to a suck rather than the blow to feed the engine. Low fuel pressure makes the onbaord computer think that there is a problem in there somewhere and turns the light on. Simple really.
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I find it interesting that a Company who's largest focus is in the OS market is getting so freaked out about a search engine. Google is neither making an OS to compete with MSFT, nor are they trying to compete with any other software MSFT produces. (Games, Office Products, etc...)
Google is a quick, concise, search engine. MSFT's MSN/MSNBC was never anything more than a page to browse news quickly to me. It won't be able to compete with google's clean looking, concise, easy to use, intuative, no popup window search engine.
Go ahead MSFT, *pat pat* You'll catch 'em some day. Just remember the little engine that could.
Proudly admiring their work setting up the Pakistany Internet Infrastructure.
Guy1: "Don't you think we should have more than one pipe into the country?"
Guy2: "Nah, there's not enough people using the internet over here, and besides, what's going to happen here!?"
Guy1: "Yeah, I guess you're right."
Not too much later... *Cowering in the shadows*Guy2: "Ummm, how far do you think we can get before anyone relizes what happened?