...how they even *found* numbers in the Antarctic. It's not like you can set up a phone line down there, and I can't imagine many people would have occasion to call the Antarctic.
Well crap, man. It reminds me about the absolute key catch that all those food companies intentionally keep quiet about where they will keep you fed as long as you pay them money by buying their food and eating it.
When you are caught in it, it's the perfect extortion trap: Stop giving us money, and you DIE!
Yeah, it's like every single other industry or vaccine—you pay them for it, and they feed you or keep you from getting a certain disease. That's just how these things work.
There isn't unlimited supply, though, due to a fairly high barrier for entry.
Your average indie game developer doesn't have the several million dollars it takes to make the next CoD4, nor does the indie record company have the multi-million-dollar recording studio, hundreds over and highly-paid audio engineers that help crank out the next big musical hit. And neither of them can afford a multi-million-dollar ad campaign to make it popular. It's all economies of scale—not everyone can just go out and make something that will sell millions of copies.
If you root the VM, you should just be able to get through to the host, though.
If it's set up well that won't happen, but I don't see how someone with root on the VM would be unable to touch the host.
I don't see a reason why Microsoft should be let off the hook because the EU has trouble getting its bookkeeping right.
I don't think he's suggesting that MS be let off, merely that the EU should get their act together with their bookkeeping.
After all, $1.337 billion is a very non-trivial amount of money, and it should be handled appropriately by the aforementioned bookkeepers.
Even if it sucks, are you telling me you carry around a big, bulky camera to take the one picture a week that you decide you want to take randomly?
Of course you don't. If you have the phone though, you can at least get the picture, though. The LG VX8300, as an example (also not nearly a smartphone), can take pretty nice 1024x768 images assuming the area is well-lit. Yes, obviously my big SLR would take a much nicer picture. But without the phone I wouldn't have the picture at all.
Comcast has taken action against a number of suspected trojan/botnet victims.
Unfortunately they'd actually been victimized by the infamous Apache Web Server, OpenSSH server, and FTPd server trojan (AKA no trojan at all, just a standard server setup), but it does show that ISPs are trying.
Windows isn't the only OS with headaches. Linux has major headaches when setting it up (I have yet to have any *NIX or BSD get my monitor settings right on the first try, while Windows either gets it right on the first try or with an update that it provides easily). Linux, while it can be secured more, doesn't have the easy setup that Windows does. As for DRM, if you can't play it on Windows without DRM, you can't do it on Linux either, so I'm not actually sure how that makes Windows bad.
I think it was slashdotted pretty much immediately.
Their ping time is fine, yet the webpage isn't loading at all, which makes me think they probably have a bit too much scripting for what I assume is mostly static content.
In the first case, I would attempt to retrieve the current key from their system using any of several freely available tools, then reinstall with any OEM disk (I believe this works). For the second, the disk is easily retrievable by placing a phone call to the manufacturer (I know Dell works like this, I assume others do as well).
What I often do is just reinstall the OEM copy, *without* all the extra garbage frequently bundled with it. That way I get a free, legal copy of windows that doesn't have all kinds of OEM headaches.
True, but isn't this intended more for off-campus work? Of course the campus computers will work better than a budget laptop, but I had always thought of them as being more for when you're not on campus.
Just the fact that a couple of young kids can change a mobo in a laptop, something that most adults (or even many of the computer literate) are either unable to do or shy away from doing, is something to be said for this project.
I've never had XP go into a full-blown crash except for driver problems or buggy software.
Admittedly I have encountered massive memory leaks, but I have a strong suspicion that's from a combination of OEM software (a lot of which, perplexingly, does not work at all) and Cygwin.
Yes, Windows used to be terrible about crashing. Used to be.
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...how they even *found* numbers in the Antarctic. It's not like you can set up a phone line down there, and I can't imagine many people would have occasion to call the Antarctic.
Well crap, man. It reminds me about the absolute key catch that all those food companies intentionally keep quiet about where they will keep you fed as long as you pay them money by buying their food and eating it.
When you are caught in it, it's the perfect extortion trap: Stop giving us money, and you DIE!
Yeah, it's like every single other industry or vaccine—you pay them for it, and they feed you or keep you from getting a certain disease. That's just how these things work.
There isn't unlimited supply, though, due to a fairly high barrier for entry. Your average indie game developer doesn't have the several million dollars it takes to make the next CoD4, nor does the indie record company have the multi-million-dollar recording studio, hundreds over and highly-paid audio engineers that help crank out the next big musical hit. And neither of them can afford a multi-million-dollar ad campaign to make it popular. It's all economies of scale—not everyone can just go out and make something that will sell millions of copies.
If you root the VM, you should just be able to get through to the host, though.
If it's set up well that won't happen, but I don't see how someone with root on the VM would be unable to touch the host.
Funny doesn't increase karma, so whoever did it is...just kinda weird.
Yeah, attacking a company for not making a pretty logo is...downright silly.
Even if it sucks, are you telling me you carry around a big, bulky camera to take the one picture a week that you decide you want to take randomly?
Of course you don't. If you have the phone though, you can at least get the picture, though. The LG VX8300, as an example (also not nearly a smartphone), can take pretty nice 1024x768 images assuming the area is well-lit. Yes, obviously my big SLR would take a much nicer picture. But without the phone I wouldn't have the picture at all.
What firewall is this? I'd like to give that a try.
Comcast has taken action against a number of suspected trojan/botnet victims. Unfortunately they'd actually been victimized by the infamous Apache Web Server, OpenSSH server, and FTPd server trojan (AKA no trojan at all, just a standard server setup), but it does show that ISPs are trying.
Sorry, but I fail to see how watching porn is materialistic. You don't get anything concrete from it, therefore it isn't materialistic.
Windows isn't the only OS with headaches. Linux has major headaches when setting it up (I have yet to have any *NIX or BSD get my monitor settings right on the first try, while Windows either gets it right on the first try or with an update that it provides easily). Linux, while it can be secured more, doesn't have the easy setup that Windows does. As for DRM, if you can't play it on Windows without DRM, you can't do it on Linux either, so I'm not actually sure how that makes Windows bad.
I think it was slashdotted pretty much immediately. Their ping time is fine, yet the webpage isn't loading at all, which makes me think they probably have a bit too much scripting for what I assume is mostly static content.
In the first case, I would attempt to retrieve the current key from their system using any of several freely available tools, then reinstall with any OEM disk (I believe this works). For the second, the disk is easily retrievable by placing a phone call to the manufacturer (I know Dell works like this, I assume others do as well).
What I often do is just reinstall the OEM copy, *without* all the extra garbage frequently bundled with it. That way I get a free, legal copy of windows that doesn't have all kinds of OEM headaches.
True, but isn't this intended more for off-campus work? Of course the campus computers will work better than a budget laptop, but I had always thought of them as being more for when you're not on campus.
Just the fact that a couple of young kids can change a mobo in a laptop, something that most adults (or even many of the computer literate) are either unable to do or shy away from doing, is something to be said for this project.
I've never had XP go into a full-blown crash except for driver problems or buggy software. Admittedly I have encountered massive memory leaks, but I have a strong suspicion that's from a combination of OEM software (a lot of which, perplexingly, does not work at all) and Cygwin. Yes, Windows used to be terrible about crashing. Used to be.