I had this happen to me. There's an article with a paragraph that's 100% wrong (as in it says the complete opposite of the truth). I corrected it, with *multiple* referenced sources (it covers a local news item that's only about 10 minutes walk from me so I *know* what happened as I was there, and the sources back me up). 20 minutes later an admin reverted it as 'spam'. Tried again. It was reverted again.
The article still has the wrong information to this day. Nowadays when I see stuff like that I just ignore it and remind myself it's just a wiki and is as likely to be wrong as right.
So it's OK to offer episode guides to Buffy, SG-1 and Star Trek but not 'Deal or no Deal' why exactly?
Seems a completely arbitrary line is being drawn.
And wikipedia *is* an indiscriminate collection of information. It's based around the principle of last editor wins.. not best information, best referenced or anything else. If the last editor is a 13 year old showing off his l33t sk1ll2 then that's what sticks - because the people with real information have better things to do with their lives and nothing to prove.. so they give up on it - I've seen it happen multiple times.
don't know any ISP that a single users issue can make it all the way to a network engineer for help.
You haven't used many ISPs then. My current ISP the first person who answers the phone is always clued up and network savvy.. they have a terminal in front of them and can run ping/traceroute and also see the state of the physical link in realtime. Each person who answers a call appears to be responsible for following it up and resolving it (you can see this directly online on your account status - who's dealing with it, what the status is, etc. along with their comments, sometimes quite amused or frustrated if the telco is giving them the runaround).
My previous ISP up until they were taken over by $HUGE_ISP and went to crap if you rung up late at night you'd often get the system admin himself, which was fun.
When an ISP gets so bad you have to go through monkeys who think that you're an alien if you're not running Windows XP then I leave.
They couldn't use a getout in the TOS to overturn the law - I would think it would be illegal in the US as well... they must have an equivalent of the computer misuse act.
The only clause that they could possibly try to use is the permission one (that's why windows update is still legal - you have to click a button to initiate it, thus giving microsoft software permission to install updates). In this case though you're not giving them permission to modify your computer as far as I can see so it'd be hard to make that stick.
Cisco don't seem to test against Windows - when they put the dhcp server into ios 12.something I was bitching it didn't work.. sent loads of packet dumps to cisco, and eventually they came back 'windows is using deprecated DHCP requests. not our problem.'
Eventually they fixed it when I pointed out that the Cisco IP phone I had on the desk was sending exactly the same 'deprecated' requests.
One thing worth noting is that Vista-running boxes don't have telepathic connections to the US DoD, Halliburton and all the others. They won't know that his machine runs Vista and to contact him unless they're told about it -- normally by an outgoing request.
Vista registers online automatically when you install it.. the IP of every vista machine could easily be collected. Wouldn't be very accurate with all the NAT and Dynamic addresses out there, but getting the list isn't hard.
Services For Unix even includes the GCC and the gnu toolchain bundled with it.
Actually it doesn't. Vista includes the basic core, but to get any actually commands you have to go to the interix site and download them one by one and it takes bloody ages as there's no installer.
I tried it for a little while and went straight back to cygwin, which installs in minutes, runs a better (SFU has some really wierd interactions with the command shell.. the shell returns immediately instead of waiting for the command, plus it has hopelessly broken cr/lf handling) and is better tested.
Done right, you'd get a performance boost to everything, by running absolutely everything (except legacy apps) in "kernel mode" / ring 0, and no more security risk than you had before.
Seriously dude, read a book on OS design and realize how utterly wrong that statement is.
To do that you'd have to have physical access to the mobile I'd expect. Bugging devices is not a new idea and is already controlled by various laws in most countries.
Me too.. I'm *extremely* easy to find out about - to the point where I broadcast my exact position over the internet (helps friends know where I am.. and anyone else that might be interested). We hide behind walls of fear all the time when privacy is a complete illusion outside your own home.
The one time in my life I was in that situation then yes if I'd seen the abuser at that time I'd happily have taken the jailtime for murder.. no kidding.
Nowadays I'd simply leave him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Luckily perhaps for both of us the likelyhood of me meeting him is very low.
So they received an SMS from someone they didn't know. Clicked on it and it said that it wanted to install something. They said yes.
It's very likely the app didn't have a legit certificate so the phone said 'this application is untrusted. continue anyway?' and they said yes.
The app then installed itself.. now it has to send data to the internet. because it doesn't have a proper certificate every time it starts up it'll say 'allow access to the internet?' and each time they're *still* clicking 'yes'!!!
(examples taken from symbian.. messages on Windows mobile are probably different)
Privacy in a public space was always a bit of an illusion - the authorities can work out your position from the cell towers anyway, and how many people walk past you in a day, or follow you in their car for a few minutes? You could be being watched every minute of the day right now and you wouldn't know it.
I went the other way. Downloaded bliin and have it on when I'm out of the house. Wanna spy on me? I'm telling everyone where I am... but is anyone going to bother? Probably not.
Nearly all contracts contain wording to the effect of 'We reserve the right to make changes to this contract at any time' so yes they can make it apply retroactively.
Lithion Ion batteries lose capacity at a rate which is proportional to how charged they are. Leave a laptop plugged into the wall and running for 2 years with its battery pack in, and you will end up with a throughly dead battery pack.
No modern charger works like this. They all switch off when the battery is full. Hell, even the cheap taiwanese charger I have for my mobile phone does that.
Your stereo is full of copper which can corrode equally well.
If you're running your hifi on a yacht, then it matters, otherwise all the gold stuff is pure snake oil - in fact it makes things worse, introducing resistance between the connections on the stereo.
It actually adds a lot of hiss - the IRENE versions of the songs sounds *much* worse than the originals because the occasional crackle is replaced by a high level of background hiss - in the second sample almost drowning out the recording.
Interesting experiment but until they can produce a recording at least as good as a standard (or laser) player then it's not a useful technique.
Vista is designed to use the hard drive all the time - MS have some marketing name for it but basically it scans the hard drive constantly for files both indexing them and working out whether you might want to load them in the future and squeezing them into the remaining RAM (paradoxically causing the machine to swap more frequently, sigh..)
Sucks for laptops, but you can switch it off.. there's two or three services you have to disable to remove the thrashing completely.
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I'd be far more inclined to believe EB in this case - they say that such things exist.. they've clearly taken the time to research and find them.
Presumably they cite examples which can be verified also.
I had this happen to me. There's an article with a paragraph that's 100% wrong (as in it says the complete opposite of the truth). I corrected it, with *multiple* referenced sources (it covers a local news item that's only about 10 minutes walk from me so I *know* what happened as I was there, and the sources back me up). 20 minutes later an admin reverted it as 'spam'. Tried again. It was reverted again.
The article still has the wrong information to this day. Nowadays when I see stuff like that I just ignore it and remind myself it's just a wiki and is as likely to be wrong as right.
So it's OK to offer episode guides to Buffy, SG-1 and Star Trek but not 'Deal or no Deal' why exactly?
Seems a completely arbitrary line is being drawn.
And wikipedia *is* an indiscriminate collection of information. It's based around the principle of last editor wins.. not best information, best referenced or anything else. If the last editor is a 13 year old showing off his l33t sk1ll2 then that's what sticks - because the people with real information have better things to do with their lives and nothing to prove.. so they give up on it - I've seen it happen multiple times.
don't know any ISP that a single users issue can make it all the way to a network engineer for help.
You haven't used many ISPs then. My current ISP the first person who answers the phone is always clued up and network savvy.. they have a terminal in front of them and can run ping/traceroute and also see the state of the physical link in realtime. Each person who answers a call appears to be responsible for following it up and resolving it (you can see this directly online on your account status - who's dealing with it, what the status is, etc. along with their comments, sometimes quite amused or frustrated if the telco is giving them the runaround).
My previous ISP up until they were taken over by $HUGE_ISP and went to crap if you rung up late at night you'd often get the system admin himself, which was fun.
When an ISP gets so bad you have to go through monkeys who think that you're an alien if you're not running Windows XP then I leave.
Won't work if they reroute requests over port 6667.
Work around that and the next step is BGP poisoning.
They couldn't use a getout in the TOS to overturn the law - I would think it would be illegal in the US as well... they must have an equivalent of the computer misuse act.
The only clause that they could possibly try to use is the permission one (that's why windows update is still legal - you have to click a button to initiate it, thus giving microsoft software permission to install updates). In this case though you're not giving them permission to modify your computer as far as I can see so it'd be hard to make that stick.
Cisco don't seem to test against Windows - when they put the dhcp server into ios 12.something I was bitching it didn't work.. sent loads of packet dumps to cisco, and eventually they came back 'windows is using deprecated DHCP requests. not our problem.'
Eventually they fixed it when I pointed out that the Cisco IP phone I had on the desk was sending exactly the same 'deprecated' requests.
One thing worth noting is that Vista-running boxes don't have telepathic connections to the US DoD, Halliburton and all the others. They won't know that his machine runs Vista and to contact him unless they're told about it -- normally by an outgoing request.
Vista registers online automatically when you install it.. the IP of every vista machine could easily be collected. Wouldn't be very accurate with all the NAT and Dynamic addresses out there, but getting the list isn't hard.
Services For Unix even includes the GCC and the gnu toolchain bundled with it.
Actually it doesn't. Vista includes the basic core, but to get any actually commands you have to go to the interix site and download them one by one and it takes bloody ages as there's no installer.
I tried it for a little while and went straight back to cygwin, which installs in minutes, runs a better (SFU has some really wierd interactions with the command shell.. the shell returns immediately instead of waiting for the command, plus it has hopelessly broken cr/lf handling) and is better tested.
Done right, you'd get a performance boost to everything, by running absolutely everything (except legacy apps) in "kernel mode" / ring 0, and no more security risk than you had before.
Seriously dude, read a book on OS design and realize how utterly wrong that statement is.
USB drivers for example. There's no reason for anything using USB to be in kernel space - it just doesn't need the performance.
Ditto for filesystem drivers, although performance matters there - you'd have to design the driver API to minimise context switching.
I don't think anyone's expecting userspace IDE or graphics drivers.
To do that you'd have to have physical access to the mobile I'd expect. Bugging devices is not a new idea and is already controlled by various laws in most countries.
The location of the phone is known by triangulation to within a few metres anyway.
It's not down to the OS it's down to the design of the network. If that bothers you switch the mobile off and throw it in a river or something.
Me too.. I'm *extremely* easy to find out about - to the point where I broadcast my exact position over the internet (helps friends know where I am.. and anyone else that might be interested). We hide behind walls of fear all the time when privacy is a complete illusion outside your own home.
The one time in my life I was in that situation then yes if I'd seen the abuser at that time I'd happily have taken the jailtime for murder.. no kidding.
Nowadays I'd simply leave him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Luckily perhaps for both of us the likelyhood of me meeting him is very low.
So they received an SMS from someone they didn't know. Clicked on it and it said that it wanted to install something. They said yes.
It's very likely the app didn't have a legit certificate so the phone said 'this application is untrusted. continue anyway?' and they said yes.
The app then installed itself.. now it has to send data to the internet. because it doesn't have a proper certificate every time it starts up it'll say 'allow access to the internet?' and each time they're *still* clicking 'yes'!!!
(examples taken from symbian.. messages on Windows mobile are probably different)
This isn't snoopware it's bloody stupidware.
lol.
Privacy in a public space was always a bit of an illusion - the authorities can work out your position from the cell towers anyway, and how many people walk past you in a day, or follow you in their car for a few minutes? You could be being watched every minute of the day right now and you wouldn't know it.
I went the other way. Downloaded bliin and have it on when I'm out of the house. Wanna spy on me? I'm telling everyone where I am... but is anyone going to bother? Probably not.
Nearly all contracts contain wording to the effect of 'We reserve the right to make changes to this contract at any time' so yes they can make it apply retroactively.
Lithion Ion batteries lose capacity at a rate which is proportional to how charged they are. Leave a laptop plugged into the wall and running for 2 years with its battery pack in, and you will end up with a throughly dead battery pack.
No modern charger works like this. They all switch off when the battery is full. Hell, even the cheap taiwanese charger I have for my mobile phone does that.
Yeah like they do now for XHTML and HTML4.
Oh, wait. They don't.
Your stereo is full of copper which can corrode equally well.
If you're running your hifi on a yacht, then it matters, otherwise all the gold stuff is pure snake oil - in fact it makes things worse, introducing resistance between the connections on the stereo.
It actually adds a lot of hiss - the IRENE versions of the songs sounds *much* worse than the originals because the occasional crackle is replaced by a high level of background hiss - in the second sample almost drowning out the recording.
Interesting experiment but until they can produce a recording at least as good as a standard (or laser) player then it's not a useful technique.
There is one commercially, but don't expect them to be available in walmart any time soon...
http://www.laserturntable.com/main.html
$10,000 a pop. And that's the 'sale price'.
Vista is designed to use the hard drive all the time - MS have some marketing name for it but basically it scans the hard drive constantly for files both indexing them and working out whether you might want to load them in the future and squeezing them into the remaining RAM (paradoxically causing the machine to swap more frequently, sigh..)
Sucks for laptops, but you can switch it off.. there's two or three services you have to disable to remove the thrashing completely.
It's valid if you treat the apostrophe with its traditional meaning here as 'belonging to'. it's does not always mean 'it is', just sometimes.
Maybe the rules in american are different but in english it's valid to do that.