Apparently teenaged boys don't need to practice drawing their nudes when they can just download them off the web.
So anyone who uses a web browser is now a power user working with "sophisticated graphics software"?
The summary may be wacko, but the real article refers to things like Adobe Creative Suite 2, rather than web browsers, as the sophicticated graphics software.
it's the one day of the year that the Slashdot editors can get away with posting incoherent and/or unsubstantiated rubbish bearing little -- if any -- resemblance to the truth
It's one day a year - if you really can't go that long without your slashdot fix and really can't take a joke, then maybe you have larger problems than "OMG!!! PONIES!!!"
Just take a breath and go do something else like read a book or play an RPG...
If there was no poverty what would be the incentive to work?
Whaaa? I don't think that the GP was talking about taking lazy poor people and puting them up in mansions; i think he was talking more about making sure that people dont sleep on the streets at night
There is a bit more happening in my brain than in a marmoset's.
Maybe theres more going on in your brain, but I didn't get the impression that thats really a factor here. It doesn't seem to be the amount of activity thats in question, but rather the ways in which animal brains works.
Would you say that your brain is so different from the brains of other animals that they don't share basic characteristics?
How often do you hear about experiments done on mice; do you stop and point out that mice are nothing like people each time?
Thats my point though. If everyone suddenly switched from windows to OS X, then you're going to have some of the same problems. You may not have worms cloging the internet like you do now, but chances are you'll still have to routinely clean up your neighbours/friends/relatives computers because of the nasty stuff that came in through the front door.
How hard would it be to convince some average uses that the worm/virus/trojan that they're downloading is actually an amazing tool to "tweak" some aspect of their computer's performance (internet/speed/ram/etc...)?
Any such program could say that it just needs you to enter your password so that it can perform its miracles on your system, and let you have a faster compurer without paying for it.
Everyone wants something for free, and there are enough average users that don't know any better.
The social engineering snake-oil approach that will get people if the security hole doesn't
Perhaps this is because it is designed to look rather generic/clean/sterile out of the box so that it fits in nicely in any home or buisness environment. If you want something more exciting or personalized, there is absolutely no one stopping you from taking five minutes and visiting places like art.gnome.org or www.gnome-look.org
Personally, I don't care for the default look, but some of the fun was in customizing the appearance and making it my own.
That being said, it would be interesting to see something like Tango! gain more widespread use.
AVG may run fast, but I've found that its not quite as good as other (non-free) products at catching viruses
Virus Bulletin (BugMeNot Required) does tests of about 30 different antivirus programmes on various versions of windows from NT4 to Server 2003.
They set up computers with the various AV software, and infect the computers with currently common viruses and see which ones catch them. The resuls of 44 of these tests since 1998 for some of the major AV programmes are as follows;
and the one that I used to use when I ran windows (partly as a result of these tests) Eset passed 36, failed 3, 5 N/A
AVG is improving, but it still fails these tests periodicly. A few years ago, I would have called recommending AVG downright irresponsible, it had only passed 1 out of 20 tests by Feb 2003
Its disappointing to see that they managed to review a whole 4 clients.
I wish that they had discovered that there were a few more than that; ABC, BitCommet, BitTornado, etc... Especially since clients like BitCommet and BitTorrent have some features not posesses by the ones covered there.
This could be a really neat way to model how real human viruses spread through casual contact. Create a file that reports back to a central tracking station and watch it go.
I hope Microsoft will continue to supply security patches, otherwise there is a danger that every Mac on the internet with IE will become less secure over time as exploits are found.
Unless thats what they want to happen.
Would it be so bad for MS if the public perception of os x as more secure than windows was damaged a little?
Just keep in mind that theres a bit of a difference between casually observing a public environment with a camera, and trackinging you in particular where ever you go by turning your cell phone into a 24/7 tracking device.
My question is, will cellphones start to not turn off when the cell phone is "off". Will "off" now mean "really low power mode" - just enough to keep transmitting?
At the risk of getting a "you must be new here" comment, RTFA
"Heating the air within the wall using a temporary heat source such as steam starts the vortex. The heat to sustain the vortex once established is provided in cooling tower bays located outside of the cylindrical wall and upstream of the deflectors. The continuous heat source for the peripheral heat exchanger can be waste industrial heat or warm seawater."
It looks like they're trying to recycle energy that has bled off as heat and move it back into a usable form.
Holy crap, there is a lot of porn at Google Base! Looks like, just like Google Images, Google Base could become a huge source of porn, and eventually a place where porn will be sold.
No-one with a life cares about their PC being zombified - why should they? ...
It's not up to everyone else to help you protect yourself by employing paranoid and unnecessary levels of security.
No, it shouldn't be up to the user. Why ask members of the online community to be good citizens? Seriously, some of the wacko security measures that some people claim should be implemented are just plain goofy. A "Firewall"? How fire will keep everyone safe is beyond me
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Apparently teenaged boys don't need to practice drawing their nudes when they can just download them off the web.
So anyone who uses a web browser is now a power user working with "sophisticated graphics software"?
The summary may be wacko, but the real article refers to things like Adobe Creative Suite 2, rather than web browsers, as the sophicticated graphics software.
Re:Enough with the April Fool's Crap (Score:2)
by CRC'99 (96526) on Saturday April 01, @05:03PM (#15043301)
I think its neat how you replied to this article before it was posted.
Besides, they're clearly flogging dead ponies, not horses
it's the one day of the year that the Slashdot editors can get away with posting incoherent and/or unsubstantiated rubbish bearing little -- if any -- resemblance to the truth
You must be new here...
Oi! Settle down!
It's one day a year - if you really can't go that long without your slashdot fix and really can't take a joke, then maybe you have larger problems than "OMG!!! PONIES!!!"
Just take a breath and go do something else like read a book or play an RPG...
More importantly, could a Jedi make a light sabre so hot that he himself could not wield it?
You gawl-dern kids these days are too lazy to even go and do a google search for OMG PONIES!!!.
If you did, you'd see that the first result is to a page with OMG PONIES!!!
And they have such wonderful hair - i wonder where they go to get it done...
If there was no poverty what would be the incentive to work?
Whaaa? I don't think that the GP was talking about taking lazy poor people and puting them up in mansions; i think he was talking more about making sure that people dont sleep on the streets at night
Maybe thats what apple is trying to do; force the other companies to R&D even more accessories for the ipod.
Get some profits from an existing market without any heavy R&D, while at the same time forcing your new competitors to help sell your other products.
There is a bit more happening in my brain than in a marmoset's.
Maybe theres more going on in your brain, but I didn't get the impression that thats really a factor here. It doesn't seem to be the amount of activity thats in question, but rather the ways in which animal brains works.
Would you say that your brain is so different from the brains of other animals that they don't share basic characteristics?
How often do you hear about experiments done on mice; do you stop and point out that mice are nothing like people each time?
Thats my point though. If everyone suddenly switched from windows to OS X, then you're going to have some of the same problems. You may not have worms cloging the internet like you do now, but chances are you'll still have to routinely clean up your neighbours/friends/relatives computers because of the nasty stuff that came in through the front door.
How hard would it be to convince some average uses that the worm/virus/trojan that they're downloading is actually an amazing tool to "tweak" some aspect of their computer's performance (internet/speed/ram/etc...)?
Any such program could say that it just needs you to enter your password so that it can perform its miracles on your system, and let you have a faster compurer without paying for it.
Everyone wants something for free, and there are enough average users that don't know any better.
The social engineering snake-oil approach that will get people if the security hole doesn't
How can they talk about graphics advances without screenshots? I believe the term used these days is "TTIWWP".
They can get away with not giving you screen shots because they give you movies
Boooooorrriiiiiiiing...
Perhaps this is because it is designed to look rather generic/clean/sterile out of the box so that it fits in nicely in any home or buisness environment. If you want something more exciting or personalized, there is absolutely no one stopping you from taking five minutes and visiting places like art.gnome.org or www.gnome-look.org
Personally, I don't care for the default look, but some of the fun was in customizing the appearance and making it my own.
That being said, it would be interesting to see something like Tango! gain more widespread use.
AVG may run fast, but I've found that its not quite as good as other (non-free) products at catching viruses
Virus Bulletin (BugMeNot Required) does tests of about 30 different antivirus programmes on various versions of windows from NT4 to Server 2003.
They set up computers with the various AV software, and infect the computers with currently common viruses and see which ones catch them. The resuls of 44 of these tests since 1998 for some of the major AV programmes are as follows;
Passed/Failed/NA
Symantec 30/7/7
McAfee 24/18/2
F-Secure 21/12/11
AVG 11/21/12
and the one that I used to use when I ran windows (partly as a result of these tests)
Eset passed 36, failed 3, 5 N/A
AVG is improving, but it still fails these tests periodicly. A few years ago, I would have called recommending AVG downright irresponsible, it had only passed 1 out of 20 tests by Feb 2003
Nope, just like the deluge of Atari games back in the 80's didn't manage to teach them the same lesson.
If they spend less money developing a poor quality game, then they have to trick fewer people into buying it in order to make a profit.
Its disappointing to see that they managed to review a whole 4 clients.
I wish that they had discovered that there were a few more than that; ABC, BitCommet, BitTornado, etc... Especially since clients like BitCommet and BitTorrent have some features not posesses by the ones covered there.
Now that you've figured it out, send me your new computer, and I'll buy you a new keyboard and an old 486
This has been in Thunderbird since at least 1.0
View > Layout > Vertical View
This could be a really neat way to model how real human viruses spread through casual contact. Create a file that reports back to a central tracking station and watch it go.
If its built into an mp3 phone you could even track its location, since the CDC already wants your cell phone number and cell phones are now being used to track you
I hope Microsoft will continue to supply security patches, otherwise there is a danger that every Mac on the internet with IE will become less secure over time as exploits are found.
Unless thats what they want to happen.
Would it be so bad for MS if the public perception of os x as more secure than windows was damaged a little?
Just keep in mind that theres a bit of a difference between casually observing a public environment with a camera, and trackinging you in particular where ever you go by turning your cell phone into a 24/7 tracking device.
My question is, will cellphones start to not turn off when the cell phone is "off". Will "off" now mean "really low power mode" - just enough to keep transmitting?
At the risk of getting a "you must be new here" comment, RTFA
"Heating the air within the wall using a temporary heat source such as steam starts the vortex. The heat to sustain the vortex once established is provided in cooling tower bays located outside of the cylindrical wall and upstream of the deflectors. The continuous heat source for the peripheral heat exchanger can be waste industrial heat or warm seawater. "
It looks like they're trying to recycle energy that has bled off as heat and move it back into a usable form.
Holy crap, there is a lot of porn at Google Base! Looks like, just like Google Images, Google Base could become a huge source of porn, and eventually a place where porn will be sold.
What? no link?
No-one with a life cares about their PC being zombified - why should they?
...
It's not up to everyone else to help you protect yourself by employing paranoid and unnecessary levels of security.
No, it shouldn't be up to the user. Why ask members of the online community to be good citizens?
Seriously, some of the wacko security measures that some people claim should be implemented are just plain goofy. A "Firewall"? How fire will keep everyone safe is beyond me
This sounds suspiciously like the person who comes in last at golf joking about "Algiiight! I got the highest score! that means I win! right?"