Ok everyone! Time to freakout! Please ignore the fact that the majority of Africa has this under control, and the hardest hit areas are those with virtually no sanitation. This could be us!!! Did we mention Plagues are a harbinger of the apocalypse? Worry about your souls as well!
Syria?... nothing to see there, move along sheeple. Please remain distracted, it's for your own safety.
They can spin this any way they want, but the only explanation that makes sense is that they were hoping that this operation would at some point lead them to Assange (who had prior contacts with Sabu). Shame on them.
What's really astonishing is they needed to resort to this despite the billions they've sunk into the NSA and their obvious and complete disregard for even the fundamental principles of law and the constitution.
I'm sure many of you have had the experience of taking a five-year-old PC, wiping it clean, putting the exact same OS on as it had before, and the PC is reborn, running several times faster than it did before the wipe.
Are you running XP? Ever since Win7 I've not had this problem since I switched off XP. Learn to uninstall things and learn how to manage startup.
All you're fixing by reinstalling the OS are all the configuration mistakes you made over the years. Stop making mistakes, or learn how to correct them, and you don't need to reinstall.
You could also set a restore point just after instal and revert... Or reinstall the OS into the same directory it currently resides, having the same basic effect.
Your problem seems to be your lack of expertise in windows, not with the OS itself.
Also, I'm not a MS fanboy... hate em... but what you're talking about is not a windows problem. It's a user problem. I guess they should make it easier to deal with, but the fact of the matter its far easier to fix this in windows than Linux. And far easier to make linux unbootable via the same mistakes than windows.
I've been through these sales pitches before. Ok Intel, how much did it COST to install? Did you factor in that you sent in all of your Intel experts for free? And that you'll charge me $200 per hour just to ask them what kind of outlet to plug this into? What was the volume of that plant? Is it producing $10million in product? Or $300 million? Scale matters.
$9 million in savings in a large production plants is shit. They have single machines that cost more than that. To take a gamble on a large change like this, the savings need to be insane. Cut my costs in half and it might be worth the risk. Saving $9 million when my costs average $300 million and, yes... that's nice... but its not worth the risk of new tech.
Dear Government,
We are specifically seeking privacy from law enforcement. If you obeyed the constitution or your oath of office, this wouldn't be needed. But since you don't, tough luck.
Hundreds of Police Agencies Distributing Spyware and Keylogger
I guess you're just smarter than me... My warning is for all us dumb people, so we're not tricked into thinking this keylogger was targeted at us. I understand that you knew immediately what that meant, but those of us with IQ's bellow 200 might have gotten a tad confused.
Working with EMR systems for small clinics has shown me that unless fines are given out to these companies developing this software they will make it as difficult and expensive to exchange records with different systems as possible. It is far more profitable for them to make it hard to exchange and then make their clients convince other offices to use the same software if they want to make it easy.
That's not true at all. As the summary suggests, they just print and fax it over. Simple as that. I've done it... some of the more unfriendly places will charge between $5 and $20 for the effort. But that's not that big of a deal considering infrequently you switch HMOs
The reason it's hard is because all of these medical CRM systems are "in the cloud" If you're in Epics cloud it's easy to transfer data to another company in the same cloud. If they have a completely different system? LOL, good luck. Not only would it be a total pain to transfer the data, the security implications on medical data are insane.
I live in Madison, Right next to Epic actually. Pretty much all medical facilities in the area use them of course.
The problem is, every time I go into the doctor they tell me about how they can now pull in all my medical history from every other system. It's so great! Yay! The doctors are sooo giddy and I roll my eyes because I know what's coming...
So according to this you have Herpes... no? Strange... And multiphasic drug abuse? No? Open heart surgery? Really? No?
and on an on it goes. EVERY time I go in, all that stuff shows up under my name. No, I do not have a common name like John smith. My real name is very unique. Yet, records that have nothing to do with me get pulled in every time. But the only data transferred is the diagnoses. There is no info on where the data came from, when it happened... nothing. I'm pretty sure I'd remember heart surgery or herpes.
People lie about their names at hospitals all the time to avoid billing, law enforcement, etc... I suspect that's what happened to me. I had a rather unsavory roommate in college. But since the system lacks all detail of the event, I cannot even get it removed. This needs to die... and die theroughly. I should get to chose which records are kept about my health.
I got the impression the police were distributing this as some kind of internet filter, and secretly using it to monitor your computer. It's not. The are advertising it for what it is. A keylogger... so you can spy on your kids. It's a crappy piece of software, and the company that produced it made some disreputable marketing claims. The police are not using it to spy on you.
I have a 6yr old. The way I monitor his internet activity is simple. The computers in the living room right next to the couch. I can see everything he's doing, any time hes on it. I have the password so he can't log on without me entering it for him. Every game he plays or site he visits I go checkout myself. Btw, Adventure Time Battle party is his favorite and it's actually pretty fun for adults to.
The receiver is the only part of the gun controlled by the federal government. It's considered "The gun" for all intense and purposes.
All other parts can be ordered online and are exempt from firearms laws. So for those that think the federal government over-regulates firearms (myself included) making a tool that can cheaply produce a receiver is a big win. For years you could cast a receiver and then mill it out. But that required a lot of skill. With this, you can buy this CNC mill, order the cast block of aluminum... plug it in... viola, a receiver. You can mailorder the rest of the parts and you now have a fully legal, untraceable gun.
Even the people that want to restore the lake don't argue the benefits of redirecting the water. The problem is how it's been redirected. The soviets litterally dug trenches through sand to get it where they wanted. It's not in pipes, it's not through pumps. The water travels over sand through an open air canal in the desert. Estimates are that less than 15% of it actually gets to the farm fields. If they fixed the canals they could have both the farm land and the sea.
I can't believe the prius is #20. We've got those all over here... and if someone passes me doing 90 on the interstate it's usually a prius. Maybe the irony makes them stand out.
So he's either an idiot our up to something evil? It couldn't possibly be because he's older... was taught imperial when he was in school... and humans tend to go with what they know?
There's plenty of evil in the world, there's no need to manufacture new evil out of thin air.
The concept was a good one, but the major thing that kept bugging me was that I would log in after several weeks or months and my playlists kept shrinking. I don't even know which songs it was removing, but in a lot of cases it would remove some songs by an artist and leave others by the same one (or even the same album).
That would be them complying with DMCA requests in direct contradiction to what was found in this court ruling.
Yea... but how well can a little usb stick decode? I've got a dedicated media PC with an i5 processor and a $200 video card for hardware accelerated decoding just so I can watch 1080p mkv files. Even with all that, some of the more detailed nature stuff can get jittery.
Grooveshark is (was) awesome. This is an unfortunate turn of events. It's how music "Should" work. Had the studios worked with them on a the platform and a form of compensation I think it could have been the future of music.
That makes sense... I was starting to wonder... how would a Verizon customer use this to talk to an AT&T customer when they have entirely different Frequencies, Radios, Antennas, and protocol? The answers is, they wont. This will be a useless feature everyone will turn off or ignore. At best, you'll get in-network push to talk, everything else will be spam and ads. Lame.
I will say though, that I credit Australia for having some rational procedures regarding security.
This would have been rational had their security not be a complete failure in the first place. If you can "accidentally" stroll through their security checkpoint without even looking up, the entire premise of security is pretty much lost. It's pretty easy... each exit, 1 person wide with a guard standing there. Break away doors (like at the super market) in case there's an emergency like a fire, people can push them open.
The problem is the FAA(or Australian version of it in this case) think they can replace a $40k/yr employee with a $50k machine and $10k in process. Sorry, you can't.
When I was in Africa, they had a guy standing there. I couldn't read the language so I didn't realize I wasn't supposed to go that way. I walked up and he held up a finger and said "No." while shaking his head. Then pointed at the security check in... "Ah! thanks! I said" and he smiled. Amazing what real employees can do.
The rule isn't "practice 10,000hrs and you'll be successful" It's: "If you are successful, you probably practiced 10,000 hours"
Meaning, if you have the correct body shape, mental acuity, financial situation, then 10,000hrs of practice could give you the opportunity to be an outlier. Midgets can't be in the NBA just because they practiced a lot. I'm not going to win spelling bees just because I've spent 10k hours posting to slashdot. etc...
Which is what I said. You would watch the end of time behind you. To and outside observer time would stop for you. To you, the outside observer would age extremely fast.
The EU never made such a statement and never levies fines in such cases even if the action turns out to be illegal.
This is another case of breathless reporters doing their best to get clicks by accusing Apple of something, anything.
It clearly states in that article that they may very well find that Apple is altering prices in an illegal way and may get fined. It's just not as simple as the original article made it seem. And if you doubt at all that Apple is doing this, you're a tad naive. If they get caught at it or not is the only real question.
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Ok everyone! Time to freakout!
Please ignore the fact that the majority of Africa has this under control, and the hardest hit areas are those with virtually no sanitation. This could be us!!! Did we mention Plagues are a harbinger of the apocalypse? Worry about your souls as well!
Syria? ... nothing to see there, move along sheeple. Please remain distracted, it's for your own safety.
They can spin this any way they want, but the only explanation that makes sense is that they were hoping that this operation would at some point lead them to Assange (who had prior contacts with Sabu). Shame on them.
What's really astonishing is they needed to resort to this despite the billions they've sunk into the NSA and their obvious and complete disregard for even the fundamental principles of law and the constitution.
Unfortunately, a person would need to drink 3,520 pints of beer a day to get a high enough dose of the chemical to boost their brain power.
Or 2 pints of Hopalicious
I'm sure many of you have had the experience of taking a five-year-old PC, wiping it clean, putting the exact same OS on as it had before, and the PC is reborn, running several times faster than it did before the wipe.
Are you running XP? Ever since Win7 I've not had this problem since I switched off XP. Learn to uninstall things and learn how to manage startup.
All you're fixing by reinstalling the OS are all the configuration mistakes you made over the years. Stop making mistakes, or learn how to correct them, and you don't need to reinstall.
You could also set a restore point just after instal and revert...
Or reinstall the OS into the same directory it currently resides, having the same basic effect.
Your problem seems to be your lack of expertise in windows, not with the OS itself.
Also, I'm not a MS fanboy... hate em... but what you're talking about is not a windows problem. It's a user problem. I guess they should make it easier to deal with, but the fact of the matter its far easier to fix this in windows than Linux. And far easier to make linux unbootable via the same mistakes than windows.
I've been through these sales pitches before.
Ok Intel, how much did it COST to install?
Did you factor in that you sent in all of your Intel experts for free? And that you'll charge me $200 per hour just to ask them what kind of outlet to plug this into?
What was the volume of that plant? Is it producing $10million in product? Or $300 million? Scale matters.
$9 million in savings in a large production plants is shit. They have single machines that cost more than that. To take a gamble on a large change like this, the savings need to be insane. Cut my costs in half and it might be worth the risk. Saving $9 million when my costs average $300 million and, yes... that's nice... but its not worth the risk of new tech.
Dear Government,
We are specifically seeking privacy from law enforcement. If you obeyed the constitution or your oath of office, this wouldn't be needed. But since you don't, tough luck.
The title of this article:
Hundreds of Police Agencies Distributing Spyware and Keylogger
I guess you're just smarter than me... My warning is for all us dumb people, so we're not tricked into thinking this keylogger was targeted at us. I understand that you knew immediately what that meant, but those of us with IQ's bellow 200 might have gotten a tad confused.
Working with EMR systems for small clinics has shown me that unless fines are given out to these companies developing this software they will make it as difficult and expensive to exchange records with different systems as possible. It is far more profitable for them to make it hard to exchange and then make their clients convince other offices to use the same software if they want to make it easy.
That's not true at all. As the summary suggests, they just print and fax it over. Simple as that. I've done it... some of the more unfriendly places will charge between $5 and $20 for the effort. But that's not that big of a deal considering infrequently you switch HMOs
The reason it's hard is because all of these medical CRM systems are "in the cloud" If you're in Epics cloud it's easy to transfer data to another company in the same cloud. If they have a completely different system? LOL, good luck. Not only would it be a total pain to transfer the data, the security implications on medical data are insane.
I live in Madison, Right next to Epic actually. Pretty much all medical facilities in the area use them of course.
The problem is, every time I go into the doctor they tell me about how they can now pull in all my medical history from every other system. It's so great! Yay! The doctors are sooo giddy and I roll my eyes because I know what's coming...
So according to this you have Herpes... no? Strange...
And multiphasic drug abuse? No?
Open heart surgery? Really? No?
and on an on it goes.
EVERY time I go in, all that stuff shows up under my name. No, I do not have a common name like John smith. My real name is very unique. Yet, records that have nothing to do with me get pulled in every time. But the only data transferred is the diagnoses. There is no info on where the data came from, when it happened... nothing. I'm pretty sure I'd remember heart surgery or herpes.
People lie about their names at hospitals all the time to avoid billing, law enforcement, etc... I suspect that's what happened to me. I had a rather unsavory roommate in college. But since the system lacks all detail of the event, I cannot even get it removed. This needs to die... and die theroughly. I should get to chose which records are kept about my health.
This is a misleading story and summary.
I got the impression the police were distributing this as some kind of internet filter, and secretly using it to monitor your computer.
It's not.
The are advertising it for what it is. A keylogger... so you can spy on your kids.
It's a crappy piece of software, and the company that produced it made some disreputable marketing claims.
The police are not using it to spy on you.
I have a 6yr old. The way I monitor his internet activity is simple. The computers in the living room right next to the couch. I can see everything he's doing, any time hes on it. I have the password so he can't log on without me entering it for him. Every game he plays or site he visits I go checkout myself. Btw, Adventure Time Battle party is his favorite and it's actually pretty fun for adults to.
The receiver is the only part of the gun controlled by the federal government. It's considered "The gun" for all intense and purposes.
All other parts can be ordered online and are exempt from firearms laws. So for those that think the federal government over-regulates firearms (myself included) making a tool that can cheaply produce a receiver is a big win. For years you could cast a receiver and then mill it out. But that required a lot of skill. With this, you can buy this CNC mill, order the cast block of aluminum... plug it in... viola, a receiver. You can mailorder the rest of the parts and you now have a fully legal, untraceable gun.
Even the people that want to restore the lake don't argue the benefits of redirecting the water. The problem is how it's been redirected. The soviets litterally dug trenches through sand to get it where they wanted. It's not in pipes, it's not through pumps. The water travels over sand through an open air canal in the desert. Estimates are that less than 15% of it actually gets to the farm fields. If they fixed the canals they could have both the farm land and the sea.
I can't believe the prius is #20. We've got those all over here... and if someone passes me doing 90 on the interstate it's usually a prius. Maybe the irony makes them stand out.
Sounds like an episode of SouthPark or Regular show.
First Battleship, now this.
Hey, what ever happened to that Asteroids movie that they were supposed to be making?
The director didn't lead the target and by the time the movie arrived the public's interest was elsewhere.
So he's either an idiot our up to something evil? It couldn't possibly be because he's older... was taught imperial when he was in school... and humans tend to go with what they know?
There's plenty of evil in the world, there's no need to manufacture new evil out of thin air.
The concept was a good one, but the major thing that kept bugging me was that I would log in after several weeks or months and my playlists kept shrinking. I don't even know which songs it was removing, but in a lot of cases it would remove some songs by an artist and leave others by the same one (or even the same album).
That would be them complying with DMCA requests in direct contradiction to what was found in this court ruling.
Yea... but how well can a little usb stick decode? I've got a dedicated media PC with an i5 processor and a $200 video card for hardware accelerated decoding just so I can watch 1080p mkv files. Even with all that, some of the more detailed nature stuff can get jittery.
Grooveshark is (was) awesome. This is an unfortunate turn of events. It's how music "Should" work. Had the studios worked with them on a the platform and a form of compensation I think it could have been the future of music.
That makes sense... I was starting to wonder... how would a Verizon customer use this to talk to an AT&T customer when they have entirely different Frequencies, Radios, Antennas, and protocol? The answers is, they wont. This will be a useless feature everyone will turn off or ignore. At best, you'll get in-network push to talk, everything else will be spam and ads. Lame.
I will say though, that I credit Australia for having some rational procedures regarding security.
This would have been rational had their security not be a complete failure in the first place. If you can "accidentally" stroll through their security checkpoint without even looking up, the entire premise of security is pretty much lost. It's pretty easy... each exit, 1 person wide with a guard standing there. Break away doors (like at the super market) in case there's an emergency like a fire, people can push them open.
The problem is the FAA(or Australian version of it in this case) think they can replace a $40k/yr employee with a $50k machine and $10k in process. Sorry, you can't.
When I was in Africa, they had a guy standing there. I couldn't read the language so I didn't realize I wasn't supposed to go that way. I walked up and he held up a finger and said "No." while shaking his head. Then pointed at the security check in... "Ah! thanks! I said" and he smiled. Amazing what real employees can do.
WTF?
The rule isn't "practice 10,000hrs and you'll be successful"
It's: "If you are successful, you probably practiced 10,000 hours"
Meaning, if you have the correct body shape, mental acuity, financial situation, then 10,000hrs of practice could give you the opportunity to be an outlier. Midgets can't be in the NBA just because they practiced a lot. I'm not going to win spelling bees just because I've spent 10k hours posting to slashdot. etc...
Which is what I said. You would watch the end of time behind you. To and outside observer time would stop for you. To you, the outside observer would age extremely fast.
The EU never made such a statement and never levies fines in such cases even if the action turns out to be illegal.
This is another case of breathless reporters doing their best to get clicks by accusing Apple of something, anything.
It clearly states in that article that they may very well find that Apple is altering prices in an illegal way and may get fined. It's just not as simple as the original article made it seem. And if you doubt at all that Apple is doing this, you're a tad naive. If they get caught at it or not is the only real question.