How long until the support costs of spyware outweigh the partner benefit payments? Once this equation is clearly on the "right" side, Dell and other companies will get serious about anti-spyware legislation. Until then, they will continue to support half-ass measures like we've been seeing from Congress.
How many good observation locations are left to build large telescopes of this magnitute. Most places that might seem obvious can't work due to any number of locations. Sooner than later, we're going to have problems finding an available peak to plant one of these.
If I did something, than it's my fault. If I didn't do something, and didn't apply a patch that was available, than it's my fault. If I didn't do something and it happens automatically with default settings, it's Microsoft's fault.
Sick and tired of fixing spyware infested machines.
Look at the zippers. I've been through a number of laptop bags over the years and hands down the ones that last the longest have the heaviest zippers. Also look at the clasps, the last thing you want is to be out and about and have the clasp break on if your weighted down. I had that happen once with a work supply laptop bag, and had to get the LCD replaced on the laptop.
I would also up your price point at least a $100 additional and spend the money for a really good bag. You can spend a lot of money of cheap bags over the years, or relatively little by buying it right in the first place. Avoid anything that advertised for tourists, and avoid anything from a department store like a target. Targus has some worth considering, but you probably want to check out the likes of Gander Mountain instead.
Small external pockets for things like cell phones on the outside ave very convenient - for pickpockets, avoid them. Remember as well that any locks you buy will routinely be cut if you bag is searched in an airport or the like, so make sure you get cheap locks. Also, if you have a seperate partition for 8.5 by 11 or A4 paper, that would be nice for things like map printouts. If the document pouch is sealable against moisture, all the better.
Whatever you do though, don't do anything to it that would say "steal me". Avoid stickers for ostentatious toys you might have like an Ipod, for they will surely attract theives. If your concerned about theft recovery, dont buy black. Most airports wont even look for a stolen black laptop bag, their are too many to make such a search practical. Also, dont forget to have whatever bag you buy waterproofed on the outside AND inside.
It makes sense for any number of reasons, and could be quite potent. Manpower is taken care of simply by having a very large pool to drawn from with little or no opportunity elsewhere. It's amazing what hunger and desperation will inspire.
They also have government support. Look at hackers / crackers now and how much they can do on their own. Now imagine your a hacker and you have government blessing and resources available. Imagine that formal classes in the use of tools like packet sniffers are available? Imagine that you don't have to worry about offending anyone or breaking the law to learn your craft. You could very quickly get a situation where you have students teaching students with instructors providing structure to keep people on task.
I think this bears watching and scrutiny. Certainly the South Koreans have done quite a bit tech~wise. If they dont have the highest penetration of broadband of any nation, than they have to be close. They certainly have higher than the US.
You cant always do this you know. Here in my state of Minnesota (US) you cannot return a title that has been opened for a refund. Nor may you return it for exchange. You may return a title that has been opened for the exact same title only. This is by state law that the retailers refer to when shafting the customer. The retailers were the ones who bought the law in the first place of course.
Think of this vote as your right to bitch for the next four years. If you don't vote you have no right to complain, because you could have done something about it, and didn't.
Now if you do vote, than by all means, bitch and complain. Ever wonder why younger people always get shafted by congress and the elderly wield lots of power? One reason, and one reason only for this, young people don't vote and elderly people do.
500 some votes put W in power, (never mind contested stuff), so dont ever think your vote doesn't count.
I will check this out this weekend. Please bear in mind a clarification in a follow up comment that I am not strictly referring Heisenburgs uncertainty principal or quantum mechanics.
Interesting, I shall look into this to learn further upon this. I have always had a some interest in quantum mechanics. I will think on your coin flip idea. On your coin flip analogy I think you might find the following story over at NPR to be of some interest.
I have always thought quantum mechanics and physics were rather like micro and macro economics. Both are fundamentally correct within their own context. Both also happen to be largely mutually exclusive from the other. Have you ever heard a micro and macro economics duo get into a debate?
I thought I made it clear enough that I wasn't trying to apply what I said to quantam states. Apparently not clear enough. That being said, I was simply leaving the door open to new science on the matter. I am familiar with Heisenbergs uncertainty principal. Outside of quantum physics, I truely believe it can be argued that everything can ulitmately be predicted to a certain point.
Too many times have people thought something was random only to later discover that it had a pattern as yet unknown.
Could be argued, for that matter the entire concept of "random" is truely just a human thought construct. Since crypto is heavily dependent upon the concept of random, this will become a bigger problem as time goes on.
It can well be argued that absolutely nothing is in fact random. From coin flips to roulette anything can eventually be learned and predicted on some level. The only point where I might even question this is with quantam states, and even there we really know precious little. It is simply too early to say one way or another on quantam.
I did credit before getting into IT. If collection companies do this they will run headlong into FDCPA problems. Attorney Generals love to stick it to collection companies (and they often deserve it), and won't hesitate to nail any collection company that does this to the wall.
Standards for honesty for any method of a collection company presenting itself are very strict. Wording of exactly what can be said is drilled into collectors. You can't claim to be an old college buddy, a cop, lawyer, or anything else to try to get someone on the phone. If you can't tell someone a lie like that, I don't see how telling a lie by caller ID would be any more allowed.
Someone please tell me why I should feel sorry for the poor "monkeys" that were helping him commit felonies? This isn't a digital rights issue, this isn't a case of big guy trampling little guy. They partook in organized crime and gave computer people a bad name, why should we care that they are left hanging?
I cant stand this administration either, and think Bush is a fool. I also think his anti-science policies are rubbish. But please don't let that cloud your judgement of our country. At most he can only be in office four more years, leaving him out of the picture long before this thing could ever be built and functional.
As for being anti-american at the same time as being American, it's not tough at all. We've always had the most vehement American haters home grown. Their are blacks that are racist against blacks, men sexist against men, and there are certainly Americans who are anti-US. Want to change international perception, than help encourage the US to build big science projects like this. The US needs to once more be the worlds top destination for scientists, and this is one of the ways of doing so.
Never before has a nation worked so hard to give away and abandon it's lead in technology.
Yeah, because you never know what kind of conspiracy theory can take root in a super collider run by an international team of scientists. I'm sure there is some way to make a conspiracy theory out of this. After all, we all know how electrons routinely bow down to US interests.
Damn intolerant fool, your anti-americanism is getting the better of you.
Bullshit all right, but it's your comment that's bullshit, not the one you responded to. Extremists groups like greenpeace are consistently the number one hinderance to having clean nuclear energy plants built today. If they really were interested they would try working in cooperation to solve these problems instead of doing everything they can to obstruct them. When is the last time you ever heard of greenpeace doing studies into the transportation and long term storage of nuclear waste? The answer is you haven't, because they have never tried to resolve the problem.
For decades the threat considered most viable in the transportation of nuclear waste has been the green movement, not handling accidents, not terrorists, not even traffic accidents. Understand that greenpeace is a hinderance to clean energy and perhaps you might start helping to resolve the problem. Coal plants put out more radiation every day than three mile island ever did. We have coal power plants because it isn't feasible to build nuclear power plants (no plant has been built in the US since three mile island).
The hard reality is greenpeace is opposed to nuclear energy because it puts a positive spin on the word "nuclear" and greenpeace is vehemently anti-military. They would rather seen tons of radiation pumped out worldwide from coal power plants than to allow the word nuclear to lose it's negative connotation. It's a power trip on the part of greenpeace, nothing more, nothing less.
Good comment, one of the most rational in this thread. One of your points got me to wondering though. You mention that the team won the safety award in the 2003 American Solar Challange. Now, I don't know if this was for safe practices, a safe vehicle, or combination of the two so keep that in mind. If the driver of the safest of these vehicles died in an accident with a mini-van, what does that portend to the safety designs of the rest of these prototypes?
This leads me to wonder, is the research on these ultralight vehicles being misdirected? If the goal is to make better vehicles for the general public, than why aren't they making protypes of vehicles for everyday use with real world safety standards? Sure, your spectacular headline making mpg ratings will drop, but the real world exploitability of the tech being developed will rise. Isn't that the point?
It's a bit like hybrid motors in economy class cars, if you really want to be more enviormentally friendly you'll start putting hybrid motors, regenerative braking systems and the like in those giant SUV's. Please bear in mind that I support the research that is being done and think the drivers death was not in vain.
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How long will it take people to realize that spyware is just another form of a virus? I remember when people used to argue trojans weren't viruses and now people have finally come to accept them as just another form of a virus.
Look, I have worked on systems that have had hundreds of infections, from viruses and spyware. I routinely subject a drive from a machine with spyware to the same checks and controls I do with viruses. I start by removing the victim drive and putting it in a secondary control system. Only then can I properly remove the hooks installed to prevent you from really removing things.
I've seen everything from DLL hooks to putting itself into the system restore file or hidden OEM restore partitions. This way windows itself will *fix* your removal. I've seen where they try to emulate legitimate hotpacks and patches. It's pretty simple really, if a program installs surreptitiously, disguises itself, and takes steps to prevent it's removal - than it is a virus.
I'm all for this idea provided that it usage or data can never be used to incfluence insurance premiums or acceptance. If there is an accident, than it should be available, and only then. Unfortunately this is highly unlikely to ever be accepted by the insurance companies. What they want is the ability to monitor you very carefully so as to provide rate increases on the fly. And to a certain extent in some parts of the world, they already are.
Offtopic ~ If health insurance companies really consider your life to be worth a million dollars, why don't they provide life insurance?
I have often wondered how much of such technology is developed from self fulfilling prophecies. Science fiction writers look at present technology and wonder what it could be. Years later people influenced by said science fiction writings eventually go through school and get jobs designing such technology and wonder how they could make it work in the real world. It's a loop of sorts, creating ever higher expectations.
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How long until the support costs of spyware outweigh the partner benefit payments? Once this equation is clearly on the "right" side, Dell and other companies will get serious about anti-spyware legislation. Until then, they will continue to support half-ass measures like we've been seeing from Congress.
Just a thought
Sick and tired of fixing spyware infested machines.
I would also up your price point at least a $100 additional and spend the money for a really good bag. You can spend a lot of money of cheap bags over the years, or relatively little by buying it right in the first place. Avoid anything that advertised for tourists, and avoid anything from a department store like a target. Targus has some worth considering, but you probably want to check out the likes of Gander Mountain instead.
Small external pockets for things like cell phones on the outside ave very convenient - for pickpockets, avoid them. Remember as well that any locks you buy will routinely be cut if you bag is searched in an airport or the like, so make sure you get cheap locks. Also, if you have a seperate partition for 8.5 by 11 or A4 paper, that would be nice for things like map printouts. If the document pouch is sealable against moisture, all the better.
Whatever you do though, don't do anything to it that would say "steal me". Avoid stickers for ostentatious toys you might have like an Ipod, for they will surely attract theives. If your concerned about theft recovery, dont buy black. Most airports wont even look for a stolen black laptop bag, their are too many to make such a search practical. Also, dont forget to have whatever bag you buy waterproofed on the outside AND inside.
They also have government support. Look at hackers / crackers now and how much they can do on their own. Now imagine your a hacker and you have government blessing and resources available. Imagine that formal classes in the use of tools like packet sniffers are available? Imagine that you don't have to worry about offending anyone or breaking the law to learn your craft. You could very quickly get a situation where you have students teaching students with instructors providing structure to keep people on task.
I think this bears watching and scrutiny. Certainly the South Koreans have done quite a bit tech~wise. If they dont have the highest penetration of broadband of any nation, than they have to be close. They certainly have higher than the US.
You cant always do this you know. Here in my state of Minnesota (US) you cannot return a title that has been opened for a refund. Nor may you return it for exchange. You may return a title that has been opened for the exact same title only. This is by state law that the retailers refer to when shafting the customer. The retailers were the ones who bought the law in the first place of course.
Now if you do vote, than by all means, bitch and complain. Ever wonder why younger people always get shafted by congress and the elderly wield lots of power? One reason, and one reason only for this, young people don't vote and elderly people do.
500 some votes put W in power, (never mind contested stuff), so dont ever think your vote doesn't count.
Just what we need, hi-def home made pornos released to the public. Don't you love technology? Where's Paris?
No problem, it's nice to discuss such things and have people go after the arguement and not the person :)
I will check this out this weekend. Please bear in mind a clarification in a follow up comment that I am not strictly referring Heisenburgs uncertainty principal or quantum mechanics.
I have always thought quantum mechanics and physics were rather like micro and macro economics. Both are fundamentally correct within their own context. Both also happen to be largely mutually exclusive from the other. Have you ever heard a micro and macro economics duo get into a debate?
Too many times have people thought something was random only to later discover that it had a pattern as yet unknown.
It can well be argued that absolutely nothing is in fact random. From coin flips to roulette anything can eventually be learned and predicted on some level. The only point where I might even question this is with quantam states, and even there we really know precious little. It is simply too early to say one way or another on quantam.
Standards for honesty for any method of a collection company presenting itself are very strict. Wording of exactly what can be said is drilled into collectors. You can't claim to be an old college buddy, a cop, lawyer, or anything else to try to get someone on the phone. If you can't tell someone a lie like that, I don't see how telling a lie by caller ID would be any more allowed.
Someone please tell me why I should feel sorry for the poor "monkeys" that were helping him commit felonies? This isn't a digital rights issue, this isn't a case of big guy trampling little guy. They partook in organized crime and gave computer people a bad name, why should we care that they are left hanging?
Does anyone recall what percent of slashdot page views are ie?
As for being anti-american at the same time as being American, it's not tough at all. We've always had the most vehement American haters home grown. Their are blacks that are racist against blacks, men sexist against men, and there are certainly Americans who are anti-US. Want to change international perception, than help encourage the US to build big science projects like this. The US needs to once more be the worlds top destination for scientists, and this is one of the ways of doing so.
Never before has a nation worked so hard to give away and abandon it's lead in technology.
Damn intolerant fool, your anti-americanism is getting the better of you.
For decades the threat considered most viable in the transportation of nuclear waste has been the green movement, not handling accidents, not terrorists, not even traffic accidents. Understand that greenpeace is a hinderance to clean energy and perhaps you might start helping to resolve the problem. Coal plants put out more radiation every day than three mile island ever did. We have coal power plants because it isn't feasible to build nuclear power plants (no plant has been built in the US since three mile island).
The hard reality is greenpeace is opposed to nuclear energy because it puts a positive spin on the word "nuclear" and greenpeace is vehemently anti-military. They would rather seen tons of radiation pumped out worldwide from coal power plants than to allow the word nuclear to lose it's negative connotation. It's a power trip on the part of greenpeace, nothing more, nothing less.
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This leads me to wonder, is the research on these ultralight vehicles being misdirected? If the goal is to make better vehicles for the general public, than why aren't they making protypes of vehicles for everyday use with real world safety standards? Sure, your spectacular headline making mpg ratings will drop, but the real world exploitability of the tech being developed will rise. Isn't that the point?
It's a bit like hybrid motors in economy class cars, if you really want to be more enviormentally friendly you'll start putting hybrid motors, regenerative braking systems and the like in those giant SUV's. Please bear in mind that I support the research that is being done and think the drivers death was not in vain.
Look, I have worked on systems that have had hundreds of infections, from viruses and spyware. I routinely subject a drive from a machine with spyware to the same checks and controls I do with viruses. I start by removing the victim drive and putting it in a secondary control system. Only then can I properly remove the hooks installed to prevent you from really removing things.
I've seen everything from DLL hooks to putting itself into the system restore file or hidden OEM restore partitions. This way windows itself will *fix* your removal. I've seen where they try to emulate legitimate hotpacks and patches. It's pretty simple really, if a program installs surreptitiously, disguises itself, and takes steps to prevent it's removal - than it is a virus.
Offtopic ~ If health insurance companies really consider your life to be worth a million dollars, why don't they provide life insurance?
I have often wondered how much of such technology is developed from self fulfilling prophecies. Science fiction writers look at present technology and wonder what it could be. Years later people influenced by said science fiction writings eventually go through school and get jobs designing such technology and wonder how they could make it work in the real world. It's a loop of sorts, creating ever higher expectations.