You obviously don't live in Virginia. Virginian residents caught speeding can be fine $350 for three years (or something to that effect). I've heard the law is being fought in court as unconstitutional since it doesn't apply to out of state drivers.
Actually, I think I have a way to combat the problem:
Have mandatory 'securing your computer' classes at the high school and college levels. In these classes one would learn about viruses, various malware, spam, social engineering, etc. as well as ways to combat/prevent them from infecting your machine. At least it'll improve awareness (let's not dodge the bullet here, at least 90% of high school students - from my experiences in the past 4 years going to a high school which hands out Inspirion 600m laptops to students - are still clueless as to how their computer actually works).
I know it may not be the best option, but a little mandatory education never hurt anyone, did it?
I agree - out of IBM/Lenovo, Apple, HP, and Symantec (both sales and technical support) - Symantec had the worst support I had ever encountered.
I work helpdesk at an IT consulting firm and I had to wait for 3 months (in addition to holding for at least 30 minutes each time I called them - 5 times, i think) for Symantec tech support to email me back about a problem I had with Ghost 10 and restoring a HP Compaq nc6400 notebook. Once the Ghost image was applied, the notebook didn't see the HD, Windows XP Pro SP2 install disk didn't see it, nor did the Ubuntu live CD. Of course by that time I already moved on to another application that worked - Acromis True Image (and saved $20). While I applaud Symantec for trying - it's much too little, too late.
Now where's that Intern... one of our Lenovos just got a (accidental) blank screen. (No, Beatrice I have no idea how all those screws got all over the table - what do you mean the keyboard isn't in there and the... I left it right... KENNY!!!)
I don't think it was necessary for them to completely render the hardware useless (well, the advanced features like EAX, etc), but I do like the application-specific volume control as well.
I'm not trying to be a troll or flamebait here (although I'm already starting to sweat from all the heat) but I feel this needs to be said:
What printer actually *has* drivers for XP-64? Although I see the advantages of going w/ 64-bit OSes, the hardware/software support just isn't there yet - although it should be. And it is not MS's fault. 64-bit windows has been around for a few years now (also, nearly any computer bought today has a 64-bit supporting processor) and the driver/application developers knew that a 64-bit Vista was coming. MS even gave out public betas of Vista for people to test and for manufacturers to develop updated drivers for the new OS... and what did we get - Symantec complaining that Vista's improved, more secure kernel (which is debatable, however I wont go there) locked out their virus scanning applications and buggy drivers (nvidia/ATI - I'm looking at you!).
I don't like MS anymore than 95% of slashdot does, but still... the parent is right - its the device manufacturers that are the main problem, not MS (at least at the hardware driver level). But one thing MS *did* mess up was hardware based audio./rant
The time to be up in arms is when the systems are abused. Then, you should take whatever action is appropriate to have the situation remedied and to prevent re-occurrence. By the time the system is abused, chances are that the arms (guns, etc.) would already have been taken away from the citizens. Thus, leaving no way to fight back against said governmental abuse.
Just put folding@home on the machines, make it run as background on startup and then when they come complaining about how slow it is, explain that its Office 2007.
Sure, it may be underhanded and cruel... but it probably will work.
Just set up a triple truecrypt partition and in the middle one put some cheap porn files. The real stuff goes in the third one. I have a few suggestions for the really cheap porn section:
-- goatse -- tubgirl -- lemonparty -- (rinse and repeat with your favorites)
Mod parent up! I'm a recovering fundamentalist and he's absolutely right!!!
Truth be told, I think that parents should have the responsiblity of taking care of their own kids. What needs to be done is educating kids to not give out their personal infromation online on myspace, facebook, etc. It's a shame that some parents these days depend on the government to keep their kid safe. I mean, why stop at Internet filtering when you can just take the children away from their parents and put them in a 'safe, secure environment' which the government would use to "protect the children" from Mike Hunt down the street.
By agreeing to the purchase and install of Trojan-o-Matic, hereby called the 'Software', you agree to host 'x' amount of porn or phishing sites. The amount is determined by the Software according to its use and the creator of the software. At any time, you submit your computer to be a host server for the Software Creator's Nigerian email server. That is all.... oh, and your bank account is empty.
And before I get any MS fanboy (if there is such a thing) flames Believe me, they exist. My dad is one. He doesn't like Vista that much because of the GUI changes (he bought a new laptop), however he thinks that Microsoft shouldn't have been sued by Netscape or the DOJ (because Bill Gates saved us all from DOS and expensive PCs and thus deserves monopoly kingpin status). He also thinks Firefox and pretty much all other OSS are crap quality because they're free.
When I talked to him about trying Ubuntu he's saying he doesn't want to learn anything new... but he's using Vista. Go figure.
Okay, maybe I exaggerated a little bit. But it's true. HE does exist.
...am glad that AMD is investing money in Transmeta. Transmeta had some interesting concepts that if applied correctly (without the x86 emulation) would probably revolutionize processors where mobility and power savings count a lot more than all out performance like pocket PCs and really small laptops. I'd bet that it'll work even better on mobile graphics though. Dedicated video cards suck up battery life like a sponge, if the power consumption on those can be greatly reduced when not running visually intense programs... ah the possibilities.
And you thought I'd make one of those overlord comments.
I saw in some thread somewhere that one guy got around shrinkwrap "licenses" by having his dog have its way with the box until it was opened. Eww.... wouldn't that be kind of messy?
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You obviously don't live in Virginia. Virginian residents caught speeding can be fine $350 for three years (or something to that effect). I've heard the law is being fought in court as unconstitutional since it doesn't apply to out of state drivers.
Actually, I think I have a way to combat the problem:
Have mandatory 'securing your computer' classes at the high school and college levels. In these classes one would learn about viruses, various malware, spam, social engineering, etc. as well as ways to combat/prevent them from infecting your machine. At least it'll improve awareness (let's not dodge the bullet here, at least 90% of high school students - from my experiences in the past 4 years going to a high school which hands out Inspirion 600m laptops to students - are still clueless as to how their computer actually works).
I know it may not be the best option, but a little mandatory education never hurt anyone, did it?
I agree - out of IBM/Lenovo, Apple, HP, and Symantec (both sales and technical support) - Symantec had the worst support I had ever encountered.
I work helpdesk at an IT consulting firm and I had to wait for 3 months (in addition to holding for at least 30 minutes each time I called them - 5 times, i think) for Symantec tech support to email me back about a problem I had with Ghost 10 and restoring a HP Compaq nc6400 notebook. Once the Ghost image was applied, the notebook didn't see the HD, Windows XP Pro SP2 install disk didn't see it, nor did the Ubuntu live CD. Of course by that time I already moved on to another application that worked - Acromis True Image (and saved $20). While I applaud Symantec for trying - it's much too little, too late.
Now where's that Intern... one of our Lenovos just got a (accidental) blank screen. (No, Beatrice I have no idea how all those screws got all over the table - what do you mean the keyboard isn't in there and the... I left it right... KENNY!!!)
Red rover, red rover send Gary McKinnon on over! Ah, its so nice to see our two governments playing along so nicely, don't you think?
plug the keyboard, mouse, and monitor into the CPU Goat-cpu. *shudders*
I don't think it was necessary for them to completely render the hardware useless (well, the advanced features like EAX, etc), but I do like the application-specific volume control as well.
I'm not trying to be a troll or flamebait here (although I'm already starting to sweat from all the heat) but I feel this needs to be said:
/rant
What printer actually *has* drivers for XP-64? Although I see the advantages of going w/ 64-bit OSes, the hardware/software support just isn't there yet - although it should be. And it is not MS's fault. 64-bit windows has been around for a few years now (also, nearly any computer bought today has a 64-bit supporting processor) and the driver/application developers knew that a 64-bit Vista was coming. MS even gave out public betas of Vista for people to test and for manufacturers to develop updated drivers for the new OS... and what did we get - Symantec complaining that Vista's improved, more secure kernel (which is debatable, however I wont go there) locked out their virus scanning applications and buggy drivers (nvidia/ATI - I'm looking at you!).
I don't like MS anymore than 95% of slashdot does, but still... the parent is right - its the device manufacturers that are the main problem, not MS (at least at the hardware driver level). But one thing MS *did* mess up was hardware based audio.
I just destroyed mine... so make that 252 consoles.
A week or two later: "Campus police officers charged with sexual assault and battery involving raid on shower singers."
But the question remains: How do we network them together - Jumper cables? (Inquiring minds want to know)
Well, if we're lucky they'll use a non-MS kernel (say BSD, for example) and hopefully that'll prevent a total system lockup.
...transmogrifying your loan into tentacles and then proceeding to rape you with them.Is that how they produce that new car smell? Smells fishy doesn't it? Well, the more you know...
I dont see how Quick Time has anything to do with this.
Just put folding@home on the machines, make it run as background on startup and then when they come complaining about how slow it is, explain that its Office 2007.
Sure, it may be underhanded and cruel... but it probably will work.
-- goatse
-- tubgirl
-- lemonparty
-- (rinse and repeat with your favorites)
Yeah, Yeah, mod me down... you know you'd do it.
I believe you have my stapler.
... making a Beowulf cluster with these?
(I'm sorry... I just had to!)
Mod parent up! I'm a recovering fundamentalist and he's absolutely right!!!
Truth be told, I think that parents should have the responsiblity of taking care of their own kids. What needs to be done is educating kids to not give out their personal infromation online on myspace, facebook, etc. It's a shame that some parents these days depend on the government to keep their kid safe. I mean, why stop at Internet filtering when you can just take the children away from their parents and put them in a 'safe, secure environment' which the government would use to "protect the children" from Mike Hunt down the street.
EULA
By agreeing to the purchase and install of Trojan-o-Matic, hereby called the 'Software', you agree to host 'x' amount of porn or phishing sites. The amount is determined by the Software according to its use and the creator of the software. At any time, you submit your computer to be a host server for the Software Creator's Nigerian email server. That is all.... oh, and your bank account is empty.
They're using Vista Basic for these desktops. It's already stripped down by default; Vista's most enticing feature (Aero) isn't even on it.
Forget about browsers... what about users of the JavaOS?
I'd venture to say that most likely all versions of the JRE and JDK are vulnerable.
When I talked to him about trying Ubuntu he's saying he doesn't want to learn anything new... but he's using Vista. Go figure.
Okay, maybe I exaggerated a little bit. But it's true. HE does exist.
...am glad that AMD is investing money in Transmeta. Transmeta had some interesting concepts that if applied correctly (without the x86 emulation) would probably revolutionize processors where mobility and power savings count a lot more than all out performance like pocket PCs and really small laptops. I'd bet that it'll work even better on mobile graphics though. Dedicated video cards suck up battery life like a sponge, if the power consumption on those can be greatly reduced when not running visually intense programs... ah the possibilities.
And you thought I'd make one of those overlord comments.