In my humble opinion, Kevin Trudeau is not a snake oil salesman right now.
I have tried one of his remedies, hot peppers to boost your metabolism, and it worked. I only got fat again because I couldn't take the heat.
He has also spoken with Dr. Robert Barefoot, a good doctor who deals with calcium deficiencies and discovered a connection between acidic pH and bad health.
Case in point: Barefoot ran the pH test on patients in a hospital. It was a sickly yellow color, and he believed the test failed. As it turns out, he was in the terminal cancer ward, so his test was right on the mark.
I don't know Trudeau personally, however, I doubt that Barefoot would be associating with him if he were even half the charlatan that the Big-Pharma-Ad-Dollar-Funded media makes him out to be.
The fact that you have a keylogger installed in the first place strongly suggests that your difficulties are political in nature. Especially if it's a machine locked down so tight that a LiveCD isn't possible.
My advice for you is to either:
1. Find a cyber cafe or other computer to use 2. Count your blessings and be grateful you can access SOME things
Case in point: I know someone who I chat with over IRC, who has recently been VERY absent because he has to stay with his uncle, and his uncle is no less than the head of network security at a major Fortune 500 company. He absolutely cannot chat over IRC there, and only by using MSN (which his uncle doesn't know about) is he even able to maintain a presence.
He can't use proxies, he already removed a keylogger, and there is a router that logs EVERYTHING that goes in and out of the box he uses.
The only privacy he gets is when he uses a cyber-cafe, and that requires non-home usage.
PS:
Dear brother post:
Don't be such a hardass. This specific "ask slashdot" is a very good, albeit primitive, specific case of what generally fills the YRO section.
When we hear so much about China, China, China and RIAA, RIAA, RIAA, it's nice and refreshing to hear a reality check in the form of problems right at home.
Loading and unloading kernel modules, enabling and disabling big subsystems, and other such heavyweight operations may need to lock out the rest of the kernel completely.
I propose that the BKL be strictly audited from this point forward, much like softirq's are. Softirq's are a strictly limited resource, and the BKL has huge latency problems if misused.
The BKL is a nice thing to have for when nothing else will work. However, it should be used strictly on an as needed basis only.
It happens to be one thing that will work if nothing else will. So, it's good as a lock of last-resort, but should be avoided at all costs if there's anything better.
Technical difficulties, as in "We wrote it for the apple, so if you wanna go mucking around trying to install it on something else, more power to you but consider your warranty voided", are WAY different than legal difficulties of "we forbid you to install it on a dell, or any other non-apple machine."
Making contrived legal prohibitions crosses into antitrust law if it constitutes a tying arrangement.
IIRC, Microsoft sorta recently got into trouble for exactly that. There's a whole section about it in my textbook for EC202.
And the whole thing about "the customer knew the terms before they bought it" is bullshit. That's simply ass-covering versus FRAUD charges or the like. It's still illegal to engage in monopoly-maintaining business practices whether you are up front with it or not.
Full disclosure only protects you against fraud and misrepresentation. It is NOT a defense in an antitrust/monopoly case. Having the gusto to spew out "it's our terms, take them or leave them" may even backfire by providing evidence of an illegal tie.
Yes it's wrong to buck the system and cause trouble for other people.
However, I advocate cooperation simply because conniption causes more porblems than it solves. I would protest this however I could, legally, by picketing or voting or radio station callins.
Just because it's wrong to buck a system doesn't make the system right.
We have a bill of rights for a reason, and getting all panicky and security crazed is just going to let someone powerful step in and take over.
If you give up your freedom, you invite a tyrant. Trusting the government to do everything right only works with saints, which humans most definitely aren't. It's why we have checks and balances.
I find the above insightful, because you quoted something that touches on what it actually means to be a word.
ALL words start out in usage, and gradually get popular enough to be in the dictionary.
Like "blankie" and "cyberspace". They were "de facto" words, and then the dictionary people over at Webster made them words "per se" due to popular use.
It's just like an ISO standard, more or less. If the ISO (webster) publishes a standard, it is a standard "per se", whereas a "de facto" standard is simply one the world uses.
It's "de facto" if it's popular, and it's "per se" if some authoritative body says it is.
It's quite a valid "pot calling the kettle black" argument, and I'm so peeved at this bad moderation that I'm not even going to bother ticking "anonymous" to protect my karma.
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I agree with brother post. This is humor.
Never drink and moderate.
Surely you could have done better about doing a Hans Reiser plug?
Since you're mentioning MSFT "blocking companies from making deals with OEMs", I propose that NeXT's real troubles are getting strongarmed by MSFT.
Sounds more like a cruel exertion of monopoly power by MSFT against NeXT rahter than NeXT failing int he market.
I think MSFT was indicted for stuff like this...
I move that "Duke Nukem Forever" be Godwinized.
hard...floppy..3.5 inch...
:)
this can be taken in SOOO many ways
In my humble opinion, Kevin Trudeau is not a snake oil salesman right now.
I have tried one of his remedies, hot peppers to boost your metabolism, and it worked. I only got fat again because I couldn't take the heat.
He has also spoken with Dr. Robert Barefoot, a good doctor who deals with calcium deficiencies and discovered a connection between acidic pH and bad health.
Case in point: Barefoot ran the pH test on patients in a hospital. It was a sickly yellow color, and he believed the test failed. As it turns out, he was in the terminal cancer ward, so his test was right on the mark.
I don't know Trudeau personally, however, I doubt that Barefoot would be associating with him if he were even half the charlatan that the Big-Pharma-Ad-Dollar-Funded media makes him out to be.
Polar bear fur absorbs UV, not IR.
They have black skin. The fur acts as a light pipe, sorta like fiber optic.
You've hit it on the head.
All people in this world care about is Number One.
I agree with you in principle, however, the chances of MS adopting a GPL based kernel are slim to none.
Would you catch Coke using a Pepsi factory?
To mod: this wasn't a troll. At worst, it was a misguided attempt at insightful.
The fact that you have a keylogger installed in the first place strongly suggests that your difficulties are political in nature. Especially if it's a machine locked down so tight that a LiveCD isn't possible.
My advice for you is to either:
1. Find a cyber cafe or other computer to use
2. Count your blessings and be grateful you can access SOME things
Case in point: I know someone who I chat with over IRC, who has recently been VERY absent because he has to stay with his uncle, and his uncle is no less than the head of network security at a major Fortune 500 company. He absolutely cannot chat over IRC there, and only by using MSN (which his uncle doesn't know about) is he even able to maintain a presence.
He can't use proxies, he already removed a keylogger, and there is a router that logs EVERYTHING that goes in and out of the box he uses.
The only privacy he gets is when he uses a cyber-cafe, and that requires non-home usage.
PS:
Dear brother post:
Don't be such a hardass. This specific "ask slashdot" is a very good, albeit primitive, specific case of what generally fills the YRO section.
When we hear so much about China, China, China and RIAA, RIAA, RIAA, it's nice and refreshing to hear a reality check in the form of problems right at home.
Loading and unloading kernel modules, enabling and disabling big subsystems, and other such heavyweight operations may need to lock out the rest of the kernel completely.
I propose that the BKL be strictly audited from this point forward, much like softirq's are. Softirq's are a strictly limited resource, and the BKL has huge latency problems if misused.
The BKL is a nice thing to have for when nothing else will work. However, it should be used strictly on an as needed basis only.
It happens to be one thing that will work if nothing else will. So, it's good as a lock of last-resort, but should be avoided at all costs if there's anything better.
But no, it should not be completely removed.
You mean may not be used on a Dell, I suppose.
Technical difficulties, as in "We wrote it for the apple, so if you wanna go mucking around trying to install it on something else, more power to you but consider your warranty voided", are WAY different than legal difficulties of "we forbid you to install it on a dell, or any other non-apple machine."
Making contrived legal prohibitions crosses into antitrust law if it constitutes a tying arrangement.
IIRC, Microsoft sorta recently got into trouble for exactly that. There's a whole section about it in my textbook for EC202.
And the whole thing about "the customer knew the terms before they bought it" is bullshit. That's simply ass-covering versus FRAUD charges or the like. It's still illegal to engage in monopoly-maintaining business practices whether you are up front with it or not.
Full disclosure only protects you against fraud and misrepresentation. It is NOT a defense in an antitrust/monopoly case. Having the gusto to spew out "it's our terms, take them or leave them" may even backfire by providing evidence of an illegal tie.
In other words, a small judge brings himself in line with a bigger judge.
Sounds like old-fashioned hierarchial acquiescence to me.
Do we really need to start pissing off Europe when we're already in deep doodoo with the middle east?
Yes it's wrong to buck the system and cause trouble for other people.
However, I advocate cooperation simply because conniption causes more porblems than it solves. I would protest this however I could, legally, by picketing or voting or radio station callins.
Just because it's wrong to buck a system doesn't make the system right.
We have a bill of rights for a reason, and getting all panicky and security crazed is just going to let someone powerful step in and take over.
If you give up your freedom, you invite a tyrant. Trusting the government to do everything right only works with saints, which humans most definitely aren't. It's why we have checks and balances.
I wonder what the RIAA will say...
If the ISP sends the RST to the other guy...doesn't the connection still get ripped to shreds?
For some reason that sounds like an illegal tie-in, sorta like GE saying "no lightbulbs unless you buy our toasters".
Which would have been a good technical defense, HAD the spammers bothered to show up in court to defend themselves.
Perhaps they figured it was cheaper to eat a default judgement rather than expose yourself to bad publicity.
...isn't that what we call it when someone doesn't show up for court?
Well, now at least we *sorta* have something to balance out e390 v. Spamhaus
I find the above insightful, because you quoted something that touches on what it actually means to be a word.
ALL words start out in usage, and gradually get popular enough to be in the dictionary.
Like "blankie" and "cyberspace". They were "de facto" words, and then the dictionary people over at Webster made them words "per se" due to popular use.
It's just like an ISO standard, more or less. If the ISO (webster) publishes a standard, it is a standard "per se", whereas a "de facto" standard is simply one the world uses.
It's "de facto" if it's popular, and it's "per se" if some authoritative body says it is.
What crazy mod modded this down for troll?
Mentioning Guantanamo is a quite valid rebuttal.
It's quite a valid "pot calling the kettle black" argument, and I'm so peeved at this bad moderation that I'm not even going to bother ticking "anonymous" to protect my karma.
Firefox...Sulphur... ...Yup, this release is going to bomb
I dunno either.
Barring an exploit, a mode ?00 on a file owned by root will stop you just as thoroughly as any SELinux policy.
Would both of you take your little flamewar to Usenet where it belongs?