Posts by Nick Thompson 66 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jan 2008
It probably wont send it as a message, afterall if you cannot login then you cannot see the message. More likely when you try to log into hotmail it will tell you that the account is suspended and that you need to do x, y and z to reenable it. This might involve phoning up MS for example, something which is not likely to be cost effective for spammers who will find another compromised account instead.
Normal rockets want to get up into space as quickly as possible where the air resistance is lower. This space plane will want to stay as low initially so that it can continue to use the oxygen in the atmosphere. When it gets fast enough the air resistance will be high enough that it is more efficient to get out of the atmosphere and use internal oxygen. At this point it will want to climb rapidly. So the trajectory in the video is probably right.
If I'd been drinking tea at the time I'd have spat it all over the keyboard when I read about database connection strings stored in the view state. Seriously, wtf? That sort of stuff doesn't go anywhere near the browser, unless I'm completely misunderstanding what you mean by "viewstate page".
One possibility is it was actually someone else that had both you and the other people the spam was sent to on their contact list. The spam emails would then be sent to all that person's contacts randomly picking your email address as the source.
This happens all the time because sender and from email addresses are not validated and is one of the tricks they use to make it harder to track down who has actually had their account compromised and warn them.
"... - suffered from nanny Microsoft sizing them up for a premature kill. But I digress.".
These applications are performing long running process on the thread which should be used for handing Windows messages, a big no no. This isn't Windows fault, it is the fault of the people writing the application for not doing the work in a background thread.
Long story short, if your application stops talking to Windows, Windows will want to kill it.
There seems to be a lot of people with very short memories. When IE6 was released all browsers were crap at following web standards, frequently because those standards were either too limited or too vague and not really well understood. At that time the innovation was being driven by the browser makers, MS included (AJAX anyone?). Just because the standards have mostly caught up, and the newer upstarts (hello Firefox, Chrome etc) have started off with something decent to code to doesn't mean you should heap blame on IE6. The only reason it is the only really 'rubbish' browser around is that all the others from the same time period got killed off.
I use IE8 on a day to day basis and rarely see anything wrong with any of the sites I visit and with the web development I've done recently anything I've done has ended up pretty much exactly the same in all the major browsers with only the occasional hacking needed to get IE6 to look right.
The only real problem was when MS decided to not bother with anything internet related for a number of years, which is the main reason IE6 is still in widespread use. Other than that everything seems fine to me, IE8 is a lot better than IE7, which is a lot better than IE6. So stop complaining ffs.
Civ 4 works fine for me in Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Same for all my friends, both steam and non-steam versions.
I've got Warlords and BTS installed, although it definately worked before installing BTS. And I can run 'original' Civ 4 rather than Warlords and that works too.
I've tried about 100 games so far in Win 7 and only a couple of them have still refused to run acceptably after a bit of poking.
Using word 2007 here I can go to Insert -> Picture, select 4 pictures and press ok. Voila, 4 pictures in my document.
Are you refering to some other method of inserting pictures?
Place bets on how long before this thread turns into a ribbon flamewar? (Like the first poster I also like the ribbon, so there).
"The amount of software that has irrelevant toolbars thrown in these days is appalling. It makes me want to go all open-source and grow a beard"
My experience is that open source software seems to be more likely to try and install toolbars. Case in point, yesterday pdfcreator (the one from sourceforge) wanted to install Yahoo toolbar.
Poker websites make their huge amount of money from the rake and tounrnament entry fees. It doesn't matter to them who wins or loses. All that is important is that they maintain their reputation, otherwise they lose players and money. For that reason any reputable poker site is very careful with security to the extent that their staff are not even allowed to play on the website.
Any poker software that was sending player's hole cards to the client must have been written by a complete moron and I fail to see how it could last several years without becoming public knowledge.
To be honest I cant say I'm suprised at the level of ignorance on here.
Oh and anonymous coward: If you can't tell if you're playing bots or humans you deserve to lose all your money. Also they are all regulated by independant companies whose only job is to make sure the system is secure and the cards are random.
But that is beside the point, the thing to remember is that it is in the poker website's best interest for everything to be as fair and secure as possible.
Here's a thought:
Older people are on the whole more set in their ways and less likely to try something new (Say for example, install firefox when IE has been fine for them).
Older people are more likely to live with other old people (husband/wife, care home etc?)
Older people are more likely to have cancer.
When you think about it it's pretty damn obvious.
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