Damn you, Spyware!

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Yahoo's Offers New Anti-Spyware Tool...
That Actually Finds Spyware

Yahoo's Offers New Anti-Spyware Tool...
That Actually Finds Spyware 08/05/2004 03:50 AM
It appears that Yahoo heard the backlash loud and clear a few months back when they released an anti-spyware tool that just so happened to skip over adware from Yahoo partners. The latest version, built on PestPatrol's technology will now default to notifying users of both "spyware" and what they consider to be "adware" and then give the user the choice of what to do. I haven't tested the product yet, but it sounds like they're moving in the right direction. It still makes you wonder what they were thinking in offering a purposely crippled offering. People know what spyware is, and telling them that spyware isn't spyware doesn't change how people feel about it. It also doesn't make them look kindly back at the company that provided them with the bogus anti-spyware tool in the first place.

AOL Offers Spyware Stopper... Just After
They Started Offering Spyware

AOL Offers Spyware Stopper... Just After
They Started Offering Spyware 04/22/2004 02:36 AM
Just a few weeks after saying that they're going to start bundling spyware/adware with their instant messenger product, AOL announces their latest anti-spyware application. While we've been complaining about anti-spyware from ISPs that just points out the spyware, AOL claims that this version will disable (though not delete) the spyware. I wonder if it will catch the spyware that AOL installs themselves.

Yahoo's Famed Anti-Spyware App Allows
Spyware From Partners

Yahoo's Famed Anti-Spyware App Allows
Spyware From Partners 06/02/2004 10:10 AM
We didn't write about Yahoo's new "anti-spyware" toolbar that they announced last week, because it seemed to receive plenty of hype, and there were no real reviews of how it worked. There are so many so-called anti-spyware applications out there that don't actually stop spyware and adware for fear of upsetting marketing companies or out of worries that actually stopping spyware may make some applications stop working (upsetting the user), that we figured Yahoo's anti-spyware app (hype and all) probably wouldn't be much to bother with. It certainly looks like that may be the case. eWeek is now reporting that Yahoo tries to dance the careful dance of not upsetting certain companies who threate n to sue people who call their application spyware. Of course, the situation is even more complex because Claria (who you probably know as Gator - despite their attempt to change their name to shake that spyware label) is also a partner of Yahoo. So, it's really not surprising that the default setting for Yahoo's anti-spyware app won't actually remove services like Gator or WhenU. Instead, Yahoo's spyware remover claims these programs are "adware" and will only remove them if you click and extra check box each time you run the program. In other words, once again, you can't trust a provider of anti-spyware software, because they're playing both sides of the fence: partnering with providers on the one hand, and then offering weak removal products on the other. If Yahoo were serious about removing spyware from the computers of users they would refuse to partner with companies that used surreptitious tactics to be installed on computers. Instead, they want to look good to users in the front, while letting in spyware/adware from partners through the backdoor.

Spyware Company Sues Utah Over
Anti-Spyware Law

Spyware Company Sues Utah Over
Anti-Spyware Law 04/13/2004 03:42 PM

Damn Right

Damn Right 07/30/2004 01:54 PM
Who's the teenage supersleuth with the superpowered cell phone who catches all the crooks? Ketai Deka.

Damn. Did it again.

Damn. Did it again. 11/06/2003 10:00 AM
Felt tired at 10pm last night. Laid down for a bit. Woke up at 5:30am today. So much for the stuff I planned to do last night. On the plus side, I'll be to work way early, so I can come home earlier than normal. Yeay!...

Damn.

Damn. 12/02/2003 01:51 AM

Want to see how much more information is stored in a photo taken with a 6+ megapixel digital SLR? I took a few test shots with my new Digital Rebel at the highest jpeg quality setting, which is about 3000x2000 images (not a RAW or TIFF image). Here's a shot of my cat sitting in the sun, downsized to 750x500. And here's a 750x500 chunk of the original photo. Notice there's nary a hint of pixelation anywhere. After years of using 1 megapixel cameras and more recently a 3 megapixel camera, the stuff coming out of the SLR is unbelieveable.

I haven't printed anything with this camera yet but I bet prints from inkjets or ofoto are going to look superb given all the detail in these images.

Damn you, where is my tabs?

Damn you, where is my tabs? 04/09/2004 04:03 PM
Google, what did you do to my tabs? We don’t appreciate drastic changes like this without being asked, damn it!...

Out out, damn shrub.

Out out, damn shrub. 09/08/2004 09:52 PM
World wants Bush out. "Only one in five want to see Bush re-elected," "Senator Kerry was particularly favoured in traditionally strong US allies." Should America take into consideration the international support of their presidential hopefuls, or can they really go it alone in today's global community?

Do your damn taxes

Do your damn taxes 04/05/2005 04:55 AM
Do Your Damn Taxes (flash video) is an amusing little movie about a dude and his 1040 form, getting ready for the big day. From the same guy that did merry christmas from james.

Getting rid of those damn bars

Getting rid of those damn bars 03/28/2005 01:38 PM
For months and months I've been ignoring the ugly horizontal bars that show up in the box at the top of my archive pages. One crosses out "An Entry from the Archives" and the other runs underneath that text. They don't show up in Microsoft IE but they do in Firefox and Safari. Generous reader Miles of TinyApps, a site I never tire of recommending to y'all, scouted out the html code and found the offending lines. Apparently the Style property "text-decoration: none;" renders as blue underlines in Firefox and Safari, although I'm sure it will turn out to have...

No, It's Not Our Own Damn Fault

No, It's Not Our Own Damn Fault 09/07/2004 01:04 AM

In response to my rant about integrated library system vendors, Peter Rukavina says that it's our own damn fault.

"When you outsource the administration of your data to someone else (whether it's an OPAC vendor or a university computing department or some guy down the street), you're also outsourcing any chance you have at retaining ultimate control over that data.

When you buy a 'one size fits all' technology solution -- an OPAC that's designed for, say, 'any public library' -- you're buying a commodity, not a solution.

And you should expect to be treated as an insignificant cog by your vendor: that's what you are. By absolving yourself of personal responsibility over your data management in the first place, you've already said 'we don't care enough about this to do it ourselves, so you take care of it for us.' Is it any wonder they treat you like they do?"

While I understand the spirit of his response and I wish that we did have some of our best and brightest programmers devoted to creating the one true catalog (rather than working on it as time permits at their real job or doing it at home on their own time), nonprofit libraries just don't have the option for which Peter advocates.

I bought a new car this year because I was unhappy with some of the things about my old car. Using Peter's logic, I shouldn't have outsourced my new vehicle to a car manufacturer, but I did. I just didn't have the time, money, or other resources to build one myself.

Yeah, it's over the top, but you get my point. Ambulance drivers don't make the ambulances, doctors don't make the defibrillators, lawyers don't make the Lexis-Nexis database, and programmers use operating systems developed by someone else (even if it's Linux).

You can't outsource everything, and libraries have to prioritize what to expend their limited amounts of resources on. Can they build their own cars? No, but they can certainly switch to one made by another manufacturer.

Damn social Web!

Damn social Web! 01/07/2004 02:04 PM
I sent an email to a friend this morning asking for help thinking of technology people who meet a particular parameter, you know, along the lines of "Do you know any techies who ____?" Unfortunately, my friend forwarded my hastily written mail to about 20 people who might also be able to fill in the blank. One of those twenty mentioned Metcalfe's Law in her reply. Someone else talked about the need to supplement that law in order to understand a different aspect of social dynamics. Someone else commented, contradicted, expanded... Now those 20 people — strangers — are...

the damn thing

the damn thing 06/07/2004 04:11 AM
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Damn spammers!

Damn spammers! 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Those spammers have really sunk to new lows now! They're now posting spams to my blog! So I've had to...

Hot Damn Brotha

Hot Damn Brotha 06/11/2004 02:41 PM
newer ships being added.

Damn those loggers

Damn those loggers 06/17/2004 01:21 PM

I have to say that I agree Dave Winer in this AP article:

"This thing has been blown so far out of proportion," he said. "It's just unbelievable to me."

While I think Dave should have posted a warning ahead of time to users and can take steps to get the sites back online sooner, making this front page news at Yahoo.com (screenshot) is insane, not to mention the ridiculous headline.

Damn the debt

Damn the debt 09/21/2004 10:31 AM
globetechnology.com Sep 21 2004 1:56PM GMT

Damn, I miss New York sometimes

Damn, I miss New York sometimes 12/19/2004 02:57 PM
How can you not?...

Damn Germans and their marbles.

Damn Germans and their marbles. 07/23/2004 11:33 PM
Slick Ball (shockwave) — Fun little German Marble Madness-type game.

Damn bl0g spammers! (again)

Damn bl0g spammers! (again) 09/24/2004 12:01 PM
I'm turning off HTML in comments for a while as some others are doing. I'd hate to turn off comments...

Damn you Japanese politicians!

Damn you Japanese politicians! 05/08/2004 07:53 AM

I rarely say "fuck" on my blog, but "Fuck you Japanese politicians!" (Lucky the FCC doesn't control my blog... yet.) I've paid about 1/2 of all of my life earnings in tax to the Japanese government and have paid my premiums to the national pension system even though studies that I worked on at the Association of Corporate Executives showed that I would most likely not benefit from these pensions. Now it turns out many Japanese politicians don't pay their national pension premiums. Actually, a third of the cabinet members haven't paid their pension premiums. The "Vice President" of Japan, Yasuo Fukuda just resigned for not paying his premiums. This is all amid a move by the government to increase premiums and lower pay-outs. The study we did showed that unless you were about retirement age today, would would most likely receive "0" from the pension system.

What's worse is that they use strong arm tactics like using the agricultural union (which hires retired bureaucrats and takes a commission) and other semi-public organizations to collect premiums from average citizens.

This is totally disgusting and I really wonder why I live and pay taxes in such a corrupt country.

Sorry I don't have links and references. This is a spur of the moment emotional post based on newspapers and radio that I skimmed today while I was trying to relax.

How Do You Work This Damn Gadget?

How Do You Work This Damn Gadget? 01/26/2004 04:41 AM
I have a very nice digital camera that I got about a year ago that has all sorts of funky features - most of which I will never figure out. It came with something like four different instruction books, and I never was quite sure which one I was supposed to read for what. Eventually, I figured out how to (a) take pictures and (b) get pictures off the camera, and have been mostly happy with it since then. However, the thousands of fancy features I'm sure the camera has will likely continue to go unused. It seems I'm not the only person to be befuddled by the late st in gadget complexity. Many more gadgets are coming with more features - but that feature creep is leading to increasingly more complex user interfaces that are becoming much more of a pain to figure out than useful. It sounds like there's a growing backlash against such overly complex gadgets. The gadget makers don't seem to have caught on to this year - but many people claim they're putting off (or giving up altogether) certain purchases due to fears of the difficulty in using the devices. That should set of alarm bells for gadget makers, but most seem to have not received the message.

Damn Small Linux 0.8

Damn Small Linux 0.8 08/27/2004 05:42 PM
A 50 MB live CD with a functional desktop.

Damn Small Linux 0.6

Damn Small Linux 0.6 02/17/2004 05:39 AM
A 50 MB live CD with a functional desktop.

Designing Like They Give a Damn

Designing Like They Give a Damn 08/03/2004 05:26 AM
A Web-based architectural competition fuses online networking and social activism to tackle South Africa's AIDS crisis -- with a little help from mobile technology. Xeni Jardin talks to Architecture for Humanity founder Cameron Sinclair.

Damn Small Linux 0.6.3

Damn Small Linux 0.6.3 04/14/2004 10:37 PM
A 50 MB live CD with a functional desktop.

Damn Small Linux 0.7.3

Damn Small Linux 0.7.3 07/28/2004 09:11 AM

Damn Small Linux 0.7.2

Damn Small Linux 0.7.2 07/09/2004 12:07 AM
A 50 MB live CD with a functional desktop.

Damn it Jim, I'm an Accountant Not a
Cook

Damn it Jim, I'm an Accountant Not a
Cook 06/29/2004 12:41 AM
America' s Black Budget - the Manipulation of Mortgage and Financial Markets Investors benefit from understanding the federal budget, credit policies and covert intervention that drive markets -- often overriding fundamental economics. How has the US governmental apparatus become so powerful in the marketplace and what does it mean to the health of our economy? How unstable is the mortgage bubble and where are the opportunities for investors if the bubble bursts?

Damn hard quiz.

Damn hard quiz. 01/02/2004 08:23 AM
King William's College annual quiz. Every year the students of King William's College on the Isle of Man are quizzed before xmas. The average score is apparently 2/180. The kids are then supposed to come back with all the answers after the holiday. Try it - it's pretty hard. (You'll have to wait another couple of weeks for the answers I'm afraid)

Damn the doctors, get me a Bible!

Damn the doctors, get me a Bible! 03/29/2005 06:02 PM
Get Me a Faith Healer, STAT!
Marvin Andrews, a Trinidadian and Tobagoan defender with the Glasgow Rangers, sustained damage to his knee that team doctors say requires surgery to repair. He's decided that God will repair him and says that he will continue practicing and playing. This is on the heels of a recent faith-healed groin injury.
The question is this, if a professional athlete refuses to take the advice of the team's doctors and continues to play with an injury, is his team still responsible for his health and well-being? What about paying out his contract if the injury progresses to the point where he can no longer play?

Damn Small Linux 0.7

Damn Small Linux 0.7 05/13/2004 05:05 AM
A 50 MB live CD with a functional desktop.

Damn, she's good!

Damn, she's good! 03/19/2003 10:27 PM
My.day.has.been.made. Robyn honestly rocks my socks. She knows how to make me feel better in like 2 seconds. I am...

Damn Small Linux 0.5.1

Damn Small Linux 0.5.1 12/09/2003 07:32 PM
A 50 MB live CD with a functional desktop.

Damn you, Monty Hall!

Damn you, Monty Hall! 04/09/2005 06:16 PM
My son and I spent a little time this afternoon on the Monty Hall paradox, a topic we'd discussed a couple of years ago. Unfortunately, it takes me 20 minutes to understand the explanation, and I only understand it for 4 continuous seconds. Here's the situation. You are asked to pick one of three doors. Donkeys are behind two of them, and a new car is behind another. After you choose your door, but before it's revealed to you, Monty Hall (the emcee) opens one of the doors you didn't choose and reveals a donkey. He then asks if you'd...

Bout damn time!!!

Bout damn time!!! 03/14/2003 02:20 PM
Last year when we were all at Gnomedex Mike was there with his newly pregnant beautiful wife. She spent...

Damn punk kids

Damn punk kids 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Electronic Gaming Monthly rounded up a bunch of kids, and had them play classic video games. It's one of the...

DeLay: Out, out, damn spot!

DeLay: Out, out, damn spot! 01/04/2005 01:45 PM
It looks like Tom DeLay's ham sandwich defense didn't quite work out after all. The New York Times reports that after months of fierce criticism, the House Majority Leader and his cadre of Republican allies have bailed out on a proposed ethics rule-change that would protect DeLay by keeping him in power even if he were to come under indictment.
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