Feeling safer depends what you're running. I use XP and Linux, feel a fair bit safer when using Linux.
What the applications may be doing in the background when using Windows is another matter. Connect to get an update of a package, and oh by the way, lets send some encrypted "anon" user data, or you need to enable a feature for the package you paid for, and the only way to do it is to do it online - and who knows what that sends about your system (enabling some CODEC'S in Adobe Premier Elements springs to my mind).
Windows has it's browser hooked into the system core, how anyone would feel safe with that when using IE!?! With the recent fuss over Skype, do they still think they are "safe"?
In the, pay (just for ADSL) about £25 ($50US) a month for 20GB/month download / unlimited upload, pay £1 ($2) per extra GB you might over. You have a choice of if you want to pay to use your connection of you go over your allocated limit, or stay disconnected until the end of the month when your new months allowance starts.
It is more expensive then some providers by a few pounds/dollars, but compared to my previous ISP, I have reliability, Usenet, and I am not port throttled on any port. The last bit is super important, because how do you know which application you want to run - tough on you if you want to use something in the ISP's throttling time frame. The previous ISP saw people leave (as I did) when they decided to port throttle, which was enabled 24/7, and favouring certain traffic it was pushing over rival products.
You can get broadband for less, but you get what you pay for (considering the UK rips you off for EVERYTHING).
# to perform research about the music industry (how best to litigate) # to monitor and review relevant laws (get laws passed to ease litigate), regulations (for litigation) and policies (how to litigate everyone except Harvard law students).
So Yahoo! don't like the thought of having "Ask Steve" for their search engine? Ask the wrong thing, get a flying chair animation for your search terms.
Will the regulators let this happen?
If MS buys Yahoo, the top 5 search engines will becomes the top 4. Microsoft a top search engine. Hmmmm, if you say so;-).
It's the same situation in the UK, the little guys get screwed over software licenses that for example, may have expired and nobody keeping an eye on things, whilst the big companies have big lawyers to get away with it.
Should make Linux a bit more of an interesting proposition.
Having tried this firewall for myself when I eventually got XP (before going on to Linux), is that their new firewall was the fastest way to get my brand new clean install of WinXP on a dual core computer to it's knees in it's speed of use. I did another clean install just to get the speed of a dual core machine back, the computer ran like it was on a 486 with that firewall. Wasted my money.
Email bloat, what about when someone emails you from MegCorp with a one line reply, but then has a 40 line legal disclaimer underneath (longest one I ever got). If you want to display company policy, give a web link for anyone that gives a damn, stop making the email so damn long.
Suppose you have a super-fast boot time, and suppose you had a boot sector virus in Windows, no virus scanner will be able to check the boot sector fast enough for this quick boot - so then what happens, your system has been comprehensively shafted because you had to skip a few steps just to boot faster?
So far as I am aware that information is handled in accordance with the UK rules governing the collection and maintenance of peoples records...
The UK government has only one rule, to sell your personal data to anyone willing to buy it to make the government a quick buck. Just look at the driver records sold to any any criminal posing as a legit car parking enforcement company, look at the DNA data taken - sold to any company wanting the information (for now mostly life assurance companies), the local voting register - sold to any junk mailing company willing to buy the list with lovely names and addresses, passenger data if you fly - along with credit card details and if you are a vegetarian, email address, when you last went to the toilet..
Forget about any bogus safeguards for this new data grab, what about the data already being sold / given away now?
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Feeling safer depends what you're running. I use XP and Linux, feel a fair bit safer when using Linux.
What the applications may be doing in the background when using Windows is another matter. Connect to get an update of a package, and oh by the way, lets send some encrypted "anon" user data, or you need to enable a feature for the package you paid for, and the only way to do it is to do it online - and who knows what that sends about your system (enabling some CODEC'S in Adobe Premier Elements springs to my mind).
Windows has it's browser hooked into the system core, how anyone would feel safe with that when using IE!?! With the recent fuss over Skype, do they still think they are "safe"?
Look, IPv6 is all well and good, but apart from typing 1:: for localhost, how am I going remember my outside IP?
Oh, and the line "There's no place like 1::" just don't sound right. http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/generic/5d6a/
As a comparison for US readers.
In the, pay (just for ADSL) about £25 ($50US) a month for 20GB/month download / unlimited upload, pay £1 ($2) per extra GB you might over. You have a choice of if you want to pay to use your connection of you go over your allocated limit, or stay disconnected until the end of the month when your new months allowance starts.
It is more expensive then some providers by a few pounds/dollars, but compared to my previous ISP, I have reliability, Usenet, and I am not port throttled on any port. The last bit is super important, because how do you know which application you want to run - tough on you if you want to use something in the ISP's throttling time frame. The previous ISP saw people leave (as I did) when they decided to port throttle, which was enabled 24/7, and favouring certain traffic it was pushing over rival products.
You can get broadband for less, but you get what you pay for (considering the UK rips you off for EVERYTHING).
Amended...
# to perform research about the music industry (how best to litigate)
# to monitor and review relevant laws (get laws passed to ease litigate), regulations (for litigation) and policies (how to litigate everyone except Harvard law students).
If only Microsoft concentrated so much on fixing their software as they do in trying to force standards (or with the web - break standards).
I have a patent on innovation :-).
So Yahoo! don't like the thought of having "Ask Steve" for their search engine? Ask the wrong thing, get a flying chair animation for your search terms.
The best candidate is...
Let's see, eni meeni mini mo...
If MS buys Yahoo, the top 5 search engines will becomes the top 4. Microsoft a top search engine. Hmmmm, if you say so
Let's google for the answer.
Here's a link to the documents the government prefer you not to know about.
http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/National_Identity_Scheme_Options_Analysis_Outcome
Error 404: Please pay Amazon 2 cents to see what caused the error.
It's the same situation in the UK, the little guys get screwed over software licenses that for example, may have expired and nobody keeping an eye on things, whilst the big companies have big lawyers to get away with it.
Should make Linux a bit more of an interesting proposition.
This looks like a very illuminating flash light.
Having tried this firewall for myself when I eventually got XP (before going on to Linux), is that their new firewall was the fastest way to get my brand new clean install of WinXP on a dual core computer to it's knees in it's speed of use. I did another clean install just to get the speed of a dual core machine back, the computer ran like it was on a 486 with that firewall. Wasted my money.
Thus, this ruling proves that judges should only rule on such matters if they are qualified in IT/engineering (and not Latin or history).
As it is, many UK judges are WELL past their time, which is why you get these idiotic judgements.
If anything goes wrong with the project, they could always say it's General Protection's Fault.
If KDE runs on Windows, why would Windows users want to switch to Linux?
Email bloat, what about when someone emails you from MegCorp with a one line reply, but then has a 40 line legal disclaimer underneath (longest one I ever got). If you want to display company policy, give a web link for anyone that gives a damn, stop making the email so damn long.
Suppose you have a super-fast boot time, and suppose you had a boot sector virus in Windows, no virus scanner will be able to check the boot sector fast enough for this quick boot - so then what happens, your system has been comprehensively shafted because you had to skip a few steps just to boot faster?
The UK government has only one rule, to sell your personal data to anyone willing to buy it to make the government a quick buck. Just look at the driver records sold to any any criminal posing as a legit car parking enforcement company, look at the DNA data taken - sold to any company wanting the information (for now mostly life assurance companies), the local voting register - sold to any junk mailing company willing to buy the list with lovely names and addresses, passenger data if you fly - along with credit card details and if you are a vegetarian, email address, when you last went to the toilet..
Forget about any bogus safeguards for this new data grab, what about the data already being sold / given away now?Microsoft running cars electronics, already happening... (I shudder at the thought)...
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/55980
or for more PR
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/dec06/12-11FIAPR.mspx
So what we're saying is that for the first time ever, it might be necessary to delete an element out of the periodic table?
Does the technology work on stone-cold b*tches that dump you?