Captain Kirk - Slashdot User

Sign up for the Slashdot newsletter! OR check out the new Slashdot job board to browse remote jobs or jobs in your area

Do you develop on GitHub? You can keep using GitHub but automatically sync your GitHub releases to SourceForge quickly and easily with this tool so your projects have a backup location, and get your project in front of SourceForge's nearly 20 million monthly users. It takes less than a minute. Get new users downloading your project releases today!

380855 submission

Submission + - World of Warcraft uses a new Rootkit

Submitted by Captain Kirk on Thursday November 15, 2007 @12:05PM

Captain Kirk writes: We all know that World of Warcraft has checked for hacks to ensure a safe game environment for all players.

The latest version of these checks goes beyond anything seen so far in that what is being checked is now completely encrypted. Obviously this hits bot writers as can be seen from these complaints: http://onwarden.blogspot.com/2007/11/storm-is-brewing.html

But it also strikes at the privacy of all users. Now Blizzard has a tool that is encrypted and can run any type of scan, transfer any file or edit any document on your computer. That can't be right.

2263861 comment

Comment Weasel words (Score 2, Interesting) 149

by Captain Kirk on Friday December 08, 2006 @03:55PM (#17166020) Attached to: Google Responds to AdWords Accusations

From TFA "As does any advertiser, we aim to give our campaigns a budget"

Come on, what you are doing is bidding whatever it takes to get the sport you want.

That pushes up the price for everyone else. Good for you but bad for your customers.

There is never a case where you lie awake at night worrying if you have bid too much.

"Do no evil" is a great motto and Google is a great company. I feel that they have not considered this from the point of view of Adwords buyers. I'd be surprised if they are still doing it in 12 months. Google would no longer be the Google we love if they are.

1507549 journal

Journal Journal: What? I have a journal?

Journal by Captain Kirk on Thursday June 26, 2003 @07:03PM

Well my view is that young Robbie Malda wouldn't have given this journal to me unless he felt there were more people out there interested in me than in Star Wars Prequels.

I'm the documentation project leader for the gnutella developers forum. Why the Star Wars Prequel title - well - the saddo's who set this up forgot to put Star Trek as an option.

Now this is where I write something interesting. Be right back...

Slashdot Top Deals