You wouldn't pay $50 for Elton John, if you were a fan of him?
I wouldn't pay $50 to see Led Zeppelin, and IMO they're the best band ever to record an album.
Yes, a show is great promotion for an artist, record sales wise
Most artists, even the biggest name RIAA ones, make far more money touring than recording.
not to mention the fact that the number of expected sales (for an artist as Elton John, at least) has got to be a lot larger than the number of available seats at a show in a given area
I say "down with megastars". There is no room for the likes of them in the new economy. Musicians had to sing for their supper, not for millions, in times past. The 20th century was an anomaly.
The market for music will be entirely digital (as in, no physical medium) in a few years, except for a smaller market of hardcore enthusiasts who will buy vinyl or higher quality digital discs
That's the way it's going now, the majors are part of the reason, and they're just going to have to live with it. No matter how many laws you pass mandating it I'm still going to refuse to pay for air, unless it's superior or more convinient than the air I can get for free.
They will lose some sales to illegitimate copying
I don't believe they ever have and I don't believe they ever will. It's the LEGITIMATE copying that loses them sales - copying of their indie competetitors.
I'm not Bill Gates or a cocaine-soaked record company executive with more money than I know what to do with, and few are. I have a limited supply of cash. Say I have ten bucks to spend on music. Now, say I download every single song Led Zeppelin ever recorded, and don't pay a penny to do so. I still have that ten bucks for music that I can buy a CD or a concert ticket with. I'm still going to spend that ten. There are no sales lost.
But if I spend my ten on your competitor instead of you, because I DLed yours and his both and I deleted yours because it sucked, then you have indeed lost a sale.
Just because you have a box full of tools doesn't mean you have to use each and every one of them. You can use the backhoe or the garden spade, it's up to you. Use the right tool for the right job. Just because I only need a hammer today doesn't mean I should throw the screwdriver away.
fast and slow; but it's the same article! Yes, the K5 one has comments, but I think the example gets the point across anyway.
-mcgrew
PS- yes, I know there's a typo in the "back" link. I'm too lazy to fix it.
At the risk of sounding like the geezer that I actually am, they used to say "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." HTML is simple as dirt! If you can't code HTML you need a job at the McBurger Factory.
Since then, the web has grown from a document retrieval system into an application delivery system.
Someone's pants are on too tight. Application delivery, my ass.
If its value is 5, then the following HTML 5 rules apply. If it is 4 or if the attribute is missing, then the HTML 4 rules apply.
I use 1.1. Damned kids, make the <html> tag mandatory. If there's no tag, then everything is rendered as plain text.
There is only one scripting language allowed on a page
Yeah, dumb it down and take away my choices. Just because I don't see any reason for more than one scripting language per page doesn't mean nobody else has a valid reason.
No more framesets, frames, or iframes. The security properties of these were problematic. Instead we'll call them "modules". That will fix the security problems!
The default CSS content needs to be standardized
Yeah, good luck convincing Microsoft to follow standards. In case you haven't heard, there's this organization called the W3C that spells out CSS standards.
The only character encoding permitted in HTML 5 is UTF-8.
See "only one scripting language allowed".
Browsers should not perform heroics to try to make bad content displayable.
That has nothing to do with the server side, but the client side. You're not only going to have to convince Microsoft but everyone else making a browser. Good luck with that, kid.
<empty>? I'm gonna have to look that one up. Sounds like a joke!
Custom HTML tags have always been allowed in HTML. In HTML 5 they become first class.
This has to be the absolutely most retarded slashdot article I've read all month. Now I remember why we're not supposed to RTFA!
Kinder and gentler? Jesus, you kids today! We need an HTML that stinks like mace, has sharp barbs all over it, smokes, drinks, hires hookers, opens bottle caps with its teeth and beats the hell out of innocent policemen and then fries them with their own tasers.
With windows there's no need for the users to be idiots (not that I'm saying they're not). You can infect a Mac or Linux system with a trojan, but do you know anyone who has ever gotten a virus on a Mac or Linux system? I don't.
Trojans don't need insecurity. Here's a trojan in meatspace terms, works just as well on any platform:
"Knock knock"
"Who's there?"
"Burglar."
"Go away, we got burgled last week."
"Erm, um, no I mean I'm here to, um, read your water meter. Yeah, that's it, read your meter."
"OK, come on in."
A virus on the other hand sneaks in in the middle of the night, jimmys your door lock, sneaks in and takes your stuff. If your door lock is made of plastic like the ones in MS's OS it's not too hard to jimmy. It also doesn't hurt that most of the locks on most of the doors are all the same.
If I break your window it creates business for the glazier. Clearly if the glazier gets paid nobody has lost any money. So should I come to your house and break out all your windows?
-mcgrew
(look out kids, I was drinking last night with the friends I spoke of in my journal and I'm in advanced geezer mode today. Where's that damned coffeepot?)
"FBI" is singular, not plural. There is only one FBI. The FBI is shutting down the botnets, the People in the FBI are shutting down the botnets. Damn it, there was a story about this at slashdot just yesterday. And speaking of yesterday, is this story a dupe?
You people annoy me sometimes; "The FBI are purging all tha data that is...." AARGH!!!!! I need more coffee...
...teenager from New Zealand who was the ringleader of a hacking ring.
*sigh* "...hacking ring..." (grumble grumble damned kids grumble grumble) I used to ba a gay hacker until they changed the meaning of the words "gay" and "hacker". At least they never used "hacker" in a christmas carol.
Why, back in my day we used slide rules and pencils. And we LIKED it, damn it! We didn't need no stinkin' POCKET calculators, our pocket calculators took a THREE STORY BUILDING and an army of nerds to run them. And we LIKED it that way, by gum! Kids today (mutter mutter wheeze mutter)
What was I talking about agai.....ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
"Nice" has nothing to do with it either. People consider strings of bits to be worthless. A physical object has value. Only the stingiest (or poorest) act as you say.
I pity people with that attitude. Most people really ARE honest, at least with people who are honest with them. But if you make them think you're trying to get one over on them, look out! That's the biggest problem the record industry faces - they're thievs and scoundrels who think that everyone else is a thief and scoundrel.
There was a (fictional) wag in a Heinlien (IIRC) story, I don't remember what story, who held the "bunghole theory of child rearing." You keep the kid in a barrel and feed him through the bunghole. When he reaches 18 you put in the bung.
As far as Sony goes, I will never trust them enough to purchase an audio disc from them again.
I'll never trust them enough to buy ANYTHING form them again. One of the "features" of their trojan was degradation of other software; software I used for legal purposes. I ranted about it is quite some detail a couple of years back when my daughter, who worked in a record store at the time, played a Sony-BMG title in the computer.
If they would do that to a music CD, what would they do to a Sony laptop or a Sony TV set? How would you find hard malware?
CDs are still inferior to analog-mastered LPs in every respect except noise (yes, CDs have a larger dynamic range but those dynamics are almost never used). Raise the sampling rate 10x and sample it 64 bits rather than 16 and you will have some humongous files that actually WILL sound better than LPs played on a good turntable!
And even with having SHNs and FLACs, yuo still don't get the cover art, liner notes, or other things. The music industry is ironically showing no imagination whatever (funny that for a "creative" industry). There's no reason you couldn't get a concert ticket with your CD, except the greed that has the likes of Elton John, by himself, with a borrowed piano and no effects or other musicians, charging fifty bucks for a concert ticket! Nobody is worth that.
Humans are mostly packrats, collecting junk. Having a thing you can hold in your hands will always have value, while something like music will not. "Intellectual property" is neither intellectual nor property. A string of bits is inherently worthless.
Again, the record companies should go back to selling records. However, they should so what the indies do and realize that the cost of recording and duplication isn't what it once was and price accordingly. When I can get a CD from a local band that's professionally recorded, mastered, and duplicated, with cover art and the whole nine yards for five or ten bucks, I balk at paying thirty for a Metallica or Beatles album.
While it may seem cliche, the world has changed a lot since then
Not in any really signifigant ways. I wish I could find it, there's a rant by some geezer about the younger generation that could have been written yesterday, but was from someone in ancient Greece.
The world's changes have been mostly positive. We don't have to do duck-and-cover drills any more! In 2000 bc there were pedophiles, and far worse. I've been around long enough to see quite a few changes, and some are for the worst, of course; when I was a kid my mom was one of the very few who worked. But I didn't go to a day care center, my Grandmother mostly took care of us during the summer.
The biggest difference between when I was a young adult and now isn't that we have big flat screen TVs, computers, video games, microwave ovens, cell phones, or any of that. Not even the internet. The most important difference is that when I was 25 there were a plethora of birth control choices, and there were no incurable STDs. My generation was vastly different from my parents' in that respect, but things have gone full circle. My kids' generation is far more like my parents' than my own.
Feeling accused because their child was late interferes with them dealing with the actual issue of lateness.
Well, if the parents are that stupid, little Johnny isn't likely to be much smarter regardless of how good the teacher is. Out of any twenty kids you're going to have at least one like that. Of course, in the case of tardiness three days in a row it's quite likely that it is the parents' fault the kid's late. In that case it isn't surprisomg that they might feel threatened!
That's not to mention that I actually don't have any child's records unless I go to guidance and ask about them.
A parent wouldn't know this, and people are prone to make assumptions.
Anyway, I decided that I was going to be that one teacher who demonstrated to him that he didn't have to resort to rudeness, namecalling (of other students,) and stunts to get attention and now he's one of my best students in that class.
You sound like a good teacher, please don't let yourself get burned out on your profession! Because good teachers are really hard to come by. I was lucky to have had a few well placed ones (for instance, my first grade teacher was excellent) and my kids had some very good teachers as well, and were lucky that none of their teachers were as bad as some of my worst. By "bad" teacher I'm referring to one English teacher I had who failed me on a paper because she thought I made up the word "hierarchy", and a science teacher who gave me an "A" on a paper because he couldn't understand the paper! And none of my high school math teachers realized that they should NOT have been letting me use that slide rule. I don't think any of them had the faintest idea of what a slide rule did or how it worked.
I've always thought if we paid teachers better we might get better ones, although I'm by no means sure of this.
Well, yes you failed Fred, but come on now - nobody can succeed at everything all the time. Everyone has failures. Some tasks are set up for failure, no-win situations. I have failures in my job as well, although I don't believe my job is as important as yours.
Was it really that vague?
Yes, as vague as is I were talking about databases to you without defining terms.
It sounds like you and your kids had a generally negative experience of public schools
Yes, and they went to a different district than I did! But in their case (and likely mine as well) the failures were, I suspect, from the system itself, rather than the teachers. As I said, I was lucky enough to have a coupke of good teachers at the right time, and my kjids also had some good omnes. But in my and their cases, the bad outnimbered the good. It was especially exasperating with my youngest, who liked all her teachers and loved school, who was made to hate school by one bad administrator.
That's true. I would never ask my roommate's ex husband's (Now a former riimate after last night) grandma for parenting advice; he's going to prison (again) and both his brothers are in prison, one for murder and one for aggrivated battery (Amy's ex beat her so badly she had to get reconstructive surgery, this was ten years ago).
If your family is a mess, ask someone's grandma whose family is ok.
Yes, but the problem is that people trust the experts, even when the experts in a certain field are proven wrong over and over. If the parent had a way to judge the veracity of the experts' opinions they wouldn't need advice at all.
Getting parenting advice from a 30 year old is a bad idea, even if he does have a PhD in psychology. Ask your grandma, she has real-world experience.
A rootkit or adware would be obvious, but what of trojans? A trojan has to be explicitly installed by a user; there would be no way for the bot to tell if the suspected trojan was doing what it was advertised to do or not, even if it did something egregious. I mean, make a batch file with the single DOS command "deltree/y C:\*.*" named "NakedLady.jpg.BAT an you have a simple trojan that will delete every file and directory on a user's machine, provided the user leaves Microsoft's stupid default "hide extension" and wants to view a photo of a naked lady. How would a bot catch this? "Deltree" is a useful command, and batch files are also useful.
I doubt if there is any causation here, and the correlation probably has to do with money. I've noticed that kids who get anything they want handed to them on a platter usually become the egocentric, selfish, asinine brats that go on to become CEOs of large companies (or President of the US).
Too many searches I make (and Google isn;t the worst about this, in fact they are the least bad) had none of the search terms anywhere on the page that comes up in the search results. Someone (google?) needs a system like this. Hope it works and is implimented!
I can't argue with that. There was a ad on TV I saw yesterday that used "affect" as a noun! I also saw the phrase "the data is" in the local bewspaper. Literacy seems to be waning in our time.
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You wouldn't pay $50 for Elton John, if you were a fan of him?
I wouldn't pay $50 to see Led Zeppelin, and IMO they're the best band ever to record an album.
Yes, a show is great promotion for an artist, record sales wise
Most artists, even the biggest name RIAA ones, make far more money touring than recording.
not to mention the fact that the number of expected sales (for an artist as Elton John, at least) has got to be a lot larger than the number of available seats at a show in a given area
I say "down with megastars". There is no room for the likes of them in the new economy. Musicians had to sing for their supper, not for millions, in times past. The 20th century was an anomaly.
The market for music will be entirely digital (as in, no physical medium) in a few years, except for a smaller market of hardcore enthusiasts who will buy vinyl or higher quality digital discs
That's the way it's going now, the majors are part of the reason, and they're just going to have to live with it. No matter how many laws you pass mandating it I'm still going to refuse to pay for air, unless it's superior or more convinient than the air I can get for free.
They will lose some sales to illegitimate copying
I don't believe they ever have and I don't believe they ever will. It's the LEGITIMATE copying that loses them sales - copying of their indie competetitors.
I'm not Bill Gates or a cocaine-soaked record company executive with more money than I know what to do with, and few are. I have a limited supply of cash. Say I have ten bucks to spend on music. Now, say I download every single song Led Zeppelin ever recorded, and don't pay a penny to do so. I still have that ten bucks for music that I can buy a CD or a concert ticket with. I'm still going to spend that ten. There are no sales lost.
But if I spend my ten on your competitor instead of you, because I DLed yours and his both and I deleted yours because it sucked, then you have indeed lost a sale.
I don't get it, exactly what is it you're calling bullshit on? It sounds like you agree with me?
Thanks, it's been a really long time since I read that. Not sure if I even still have a copy.
Just because you have a box full of tools doesn't mean you have to use each and every one of them. You can use the backhoe or the garden spade, it's up to you. Use the right tool for the right job. Just because I only need a hammer today doesn't mean I should throw the screwdriver away.
fast and slow; but it's the same article! Yes, the K5 one has comments, but I think the example gets the point across anyway.
-mcgrew
PS- yes, I know there's a typo in the "back" link. I'm too lazy to fix it.
I RTFA. I was not impressed.
HTML needs fixing.
At the risk of sounding like the geezer that I actually am, they used to say "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." HTML is simple as dirt! If you can't code HTML you need a job at the McBurger Factory.
Since then, the web has grown from a document retrieval system into an application delivery system.
Someone's pants are on too tight. Application delivery, my ass.
If its value is 5, then the following HTML 5 rules apply. If it is 4 or if the attribute is missing, then the HTML 4 rules apply.
I use 1.1. Damned kids, make the <html> tag mandatory. If there's no tag, then everything is rendered as plain text.
There is only one scripting language allowed on a page
Yeah, dumb it down and take away my choices. Just because I don't see any reason for more than one scripting language per page doesn't mean nobody else has a valid reason.
No more framesets, frames, or iframes. The security properties of these were problematic. Instead we'll call them "modules". That will fix the security problems!
The default CSS content needs to be standardized
Yeah, good luck convincing Microsoft to follow standards. In case you haven't heard, there's this organization called the W3C that spells out CSS standards.
The only character encoding permitted in HTML 5 is UTF-8.
See "only one scripting language allowed".
Browsers should not perform heroics to try to make bad content displayable.
That has nothing to do with the server side, but the client side. You're not only going to have to convince Microsoft but everyone else making a browser. Good luck with that, kid.
<empty>? I'm gonna have to look that one up. Sounds like a joke!
Custom HTML tags have always been allowed in HTML. In HTML 5 they become first class.
This has to be the absolutely most retarded slashdot article I've read all month. Now I remember why we're not supposed to RTFA!
-mcgrew
Kinder and gentler? Jesus, you kids today! We need an HTML that stinks like mace, has sharp barbs all over it, smokes, drinks, hires hookers, opens bottle caps with its teeth and beats the hell out of innocent policemen and then fries them with their own tasers.
-mcgrew
With windows there's no need for the users to be idiots (not that I'm saying they're not). You can infect a Mac or Linux system with a trojan, but do you know anyone who has ever gotten a virus on a Mac or Linux system? I don't.
Trojans don't need insecurity. Here's a trojan in meatspace terms, works just as well on any platform:
"Knock knock"
"Who's there?"
"Burglar."
"Go away, we got burgled last week."
"Erm, um, no I mean I'm here to, um, read your water meter. Yeah, that's it, read your meter."
"OK, come on in."
A virus on the other hand sneaks in in the middle of the night, jimmys your door lock, sneaks in and takes your stuff. If your door lock is made of plastic like the ones in MS's OS it's not too hard to jimmy. It also doesn't hurt that most of the locks on most of the doors are all the same.
If I break your window it creates business for the glazier. Clearly if the glazier gets paid nobody has lost any money. So should I come to your house and break out all your windows?
-mcgrew
(look out kids, I was drinking last night with the friends I spoke of in my journal and I'm in advanced geezer mode today. Where's that damned coffeepot?)
The FBI are shutting down...
"FBI" is singular, not plural. There is only one FBI. The FBI is shutting down the botnets, the People in the FBI are shutting down the botnets. Damn it, there was a story about this at slashdot just yesterday. And speaking of yesterday, is this story a dupe?
You people annoy me sometimes; "The FBI are purging all tha data that is...." AARGH!!!!! I need more coffee...
...teenager from New Zealand who was the ringleader of a hacking ring.
*sigh* "...hacking ring..." (grumble grumble damned kids grumble grumble) I used to ba a gay hacker until they changed the meaning of the words "gay" and "hacker". At least they never used "hacker" in a christmas carol.
Why, back in my day we used slide rules and pencils. And we LIKED it, damn it! We didn't need no stinkin' POCKET calculators, our pocket calculators took a THREE STORY BUILDING and an army of nerds to run them. And we LIKED it that way, by gum! Kids today (mutter mutter wheeze mutter)
What was I talking about agai.....ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
-mcgrew
"Nice" has nothing to do with it either. People consider strings of bits to be worthless. A physical object has value. Only the stingiest (or poorest) act as you say.
I pity people with that attitude. Most people really ARE honest, at least with people who are honest with them. But if you make them think you're trying to get one over on them, look out! That's the biggest problem the record industry faces - they're thievs and scoundrels who think that everyone else is a thief and scoundrel.
There was a (fictional) wag in a Heinlien (IIRC) story, I don't remember what story, who held the "bunghole theory of child rearing." You keep the kid in a barrel and feed him through the bunghole. When he reaches 18 you put in the bung.
As far as Sony goes, I will never trust them enough to purchase an audio disc from them again.
I'll never trust them enough to buy ANYTHING form them again. One of the "features" of their trojan was degradation of other software; software I used for legal purposes. I ranted about it is quite some detail a couple of years back when my daughter, who worked in a record store at the time, played a Sony-BMG title in the computer.
If they would do that to a music CD, what would they do to a Sony laptop or a Sony TV set? How would you find hard malware?
You do realise that the "B" is right smack dab next to the "N" key, don't you? If I'd said "Your an idiot" you would have had a point.
CDs are still inferior to analog-mastered LPs in every respect except noise (yes, CDs have a larger dynamic range but those dynamics are almost never used). Raise the sampling rate 10x and sample it 64 bits rather than 16 and you will have some humongous files that actually WILL sound better than LPs played on a good turntable!
And even with having SHNs and FLACs, yuo still don't get the cover art, liner notes, or other things. The music industry is ironically showing no imagination whatever (funny that for a "creative" industry). There's no reason you couldn't get a concert ticket with your CD, except the greed that has the likes of Elton John, by himself, with a borrowed piano and no effects or other musicians, charging fifty bucks for a concert ticket! Nobody is worth that.
Humans are mostly packrats, collecting junk. Having a thing you can hold in your hands will always have value, while something like music will not. "Intellectual property" is neither intellectual nor property. A string of bits is inherently worthless.
Again, the record companies should go back to selling records. However, they should so what the indies do and realize that the cost of recording and duplication isn't what it once was and price accordingly. When I can get a CD from a local band that's professionally recorded, mastered, and duplicated, with cover art and the whole nine yards for five or ten bucks, I balk at paying thirty for a Metallica or Beatles album.
While it may seem cliche, the world has changed a lot since then
Not in any really signifigant ways. I wish I could find it, there's a rant by some geezer about the younger generation that could have been written yesterday, but was from someone in ancient Greece.
The world's changes have been mostly positive. We don't have to do duck-and-cover drills any more! In 2000 bc there were pedophiles, and far worse. I've been around long enough to see quite a few changes, and some are for the worst, of course; when I was a kid my mom was one of the very few who worked. But I didn't go to a day care center, my Grandmother mostly took care of us during the summer.
The biggest difference between when I was a young adult and now isn't that we have big flat screen TVs, computers, video games, microwave ovens, cell phones, or any of that. Not even the internet. The most important difference is that when I was 25 there were a plethora of birth control choices, and there were no incurable STDs. My generation was vastly different from my parents' in that respect, but things have gone full circle. My kids' generation is far more like my parents' than my own.
-mcgrew
A few links:
Growing Up With Computers
Useful Dead Technologies
Good Riddance to Bad Tech
Birth of a label-sanctioned pirate radio station
Feeling accused because their child was late interferes with them dealing with the actual issue of lateness.
Well, if the parents are that stupid, little Johnny isn't likely to be much smarter regardless of how good the teacher is. Out of any twenty kids you're going to have at least one like that. Of course, in the case of tardiness three days in a row it's quite likely that it is the parents' fault the kid's late. In that case it isn't surprisomg that they might feel threatened!
That's not to mention that I actually don't have any child's records unless I go to guidance and ask about them.
A parent wouldn't know this, and people are prone to make assumptions.
Anyway, I decided that I was going to be that one teacher who demonstrated to him that he didn't have to resort to rudeness, namecalling (of other students,) and stunts to get attention and now he's one of my best students in that class.
You sound like a good teacher, please don't let yourself get burned out on your profession! Because good teachers are really hard to come by. I was lucky to have had a few well placed ones (for instance, my first grade teacher was excellent) and my kids had some very good teachers as well, and were lucky that none of their teachers were as bad as some of my worst. By "bad" teacher I'm referring to one English teacher I had who failed me on a paper because she thought I made up the word "hierarchy", and a science teacher who gave me an "A" on a paper because he couldn't understand the paper! And none of my high school math teachers realized that they should NOT have been letting me use that slide rule. I don't think any of them had the faintest idea of what a slide rule did or how it worked.
I've always thought if we paid teachers better we might get better ones, although I'm by no means sure of this.
Well, yes you failed Fred, but come on now - nobody can succeed at everything all the time. Everyone has failures. Some tasks are set up for failure, no-win situations. I have failures in my job as well, although I don't believe my job is as important as yours.
Was it really that vague?
Yes, as vague as is I were talking about databases to you without defining terms.
It sounds like you and your kids had a generally negative experience of public schools
Yes, and they went to a different district than I did! But in their case (and likely mine as well) the failures were, I suspect, from the system itself, rather than the teachers. As I said, I was lucky enough to have a coupke of good teachers at the right time, and my kjids also had some good omnes. But in my and their cases, the bad outnimbered the good. It was especially exasperating with my youngest, who liked all her teachers and loved school, who was made to hate school by one bad administrator.
That's true. I would never ask my roommate's ex husband's (Now a former riimate after last night) grandma for parenting advice; he's going to prison (again) and both his brothers are in prison, one for murder and one for aggrivated battery (Amy's ex beat her so badly she had to get reconstructive surgery, this was ten years ago).
If your family is a mess, ask someone's grandma whose family is ok.
Yes, but the problem is that people trust the experts, even when the experts in a certain field are proven wrong over and over. If the parent had a way to judge the veracity of the experts' opinions they wouldn't need advice at all.
Getting parenting advice from a 30 year old is a bad idea, even if he does have a PhD in psychology. Ask your grandma, she has real-world experience.
It is hard to put down, though.
Yes, playing music is incredibly addictive. Clearly the Partnership for a Drug Free America should lobby to outlaw music!
A rootkit or adware would be obvious, but what of trojans? A trojan has to be explicitly installed by a user; there would be no way for the bot to tell if the suspected trojan was doing what it was advertised to do or not, even if it did something egregious. I mean, make a batch file with the single DOS command "deltree /y C:\*.*" named "NakedLady.jpg.BAT an you have a simple trojan that will delete every file and directory on a user's machine, provided the user leaves Microsoft's stupid default "hide extension" and wants to view a photo of a naked lady. How would a bot catch this? "Deltree" is a useful command, and batch files are also useful.
I doubt if there is any causation here, and the correlation probably has to do with money. I've noticed that kids who get anything they want handed to them on a platter usually become the egocentric, selfish, asinine brats that go on to become CEOs of large companies (or President of the US).
Too many searches I make (and Google isn;t the worst about this, in fact they are the least bad) had none of the search terms anywhere on the page that comes up in the search results. Someone (google?) needs a system like this. Hope it works and is implimented!
I can't argue with that. There was a ad on TV I saw yesterday that used "affect" as a noun! I also saw the phrase "the data is" in the local bewspaper. Literacy seems to be waning in our time.
putting your mind to it, you can achieve more than that piece of paper with your IQ says you should be able to achieve.
I agree with that completely.