While I think it's atrocious that Windows has to have a third-party layer
They don't. I have been using MS Security Essentials for a year now...
I guess it's technically not a third-party solution, but it still has to be installed like one. That's what is truly a shame. Why couldn't they have just made it secure to begin with! Then we wouldn't have to worry about this shit in the first place. So you'll have to pardon me for not having much faith in it now.
I guess it all depends on what you expect an "anti-virus" program to do. I'm only concerned with Avast looking for viruses and none of the other things listed in the link you posted. ESET detected 183 viruses vs. 182 by Avast, which is virtually identical. Kapersky only detected 105, which makes Avast better in my mind.
I pretty much gave up on NOD32 on my work system when it got hit with Winfixer and ESET missed it. Spybot had no problems with it though and also detected several hundred other trojans that NOD32 missed.
In regards to worms, I rely on Zone Alarm and a hardware firewall.
I guess the difference is that I am not looking for a all encompassing security solution as IME there really isn't one short of turning off all network connectivity.
And I totally agree with you that it's ridiculous that all of this third party software is needed just to keep a Windows system functional.
Whenever it updates itself, it plays a recording of a voice saying "virus database updated". So we'll just be sitting there and hear that. Since a well-functioning anti-virus just does its thing without bugging the user for the most part, the ones that are for profit have to make themselves loudly obvious and play up the threat level (not to imply there isn't one of course).
As other said, it sounds like Avast, and is a easy enough default to change. BTW, while they do sell it, there is also a free version for non-commercial users. Frankly the free version of Avast seems to do a better job than Norton and McAfee by far and IME better than NOD32 and Kaspersky.
Sorry, my bad. I did say I was pretty sure, not that I was positive. Wait a minute, what in the hell does the frame surrounding Tetris have to do with anything?
Of course, this does you no good, because once you are inside the event horizon you cannot exert a great enough force to prevent yourself from falling deeper until the forces ARE great enough to rip you apart.
I'm pretty sure if you reroute the warp drive through the Heisenberg compensator and then create a tachyon stream through the main deflector it's possible. Failing that you can always eject the warp core, blow it up and ride the shock wave out.
OK, let's keep things in perspective: When did BP or GM ever get anyone laid?
I don't know about BP, but GM I'm going to have to give some credit to. I was a gear head in my youth and I distinctly recall girls we referred to as "motor whores".
still large portion of airplane crashes is due to human error; some are even because humans tried to "fight" the machine, essentialy.
That's because Airbus believes that it's safer for the fly-by-wire system to override the pilot when they try to do something they typically shouldn't. Which works great, except for when it doesn't. From what I understand, from pilots that fly Airbus planes, there is the possibility to override the computer. I guess when we hear about it, it's because pilots got in a situation that requires them to disable this feature but forgot. Then instinctively expected the plane to fly they way they think it should have.
As for actually navigating an asteroid field, Pioneer 10, 11, Voyager 1 & 2, Galileo, Cassini, and New Horizons had no problems:)
Obviously physics have changed a little from what they were a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Or the next 26,040 space probes are in deep shit.
Show me a car that can win the Indy 500 and is the most fuel efficient of all cars.
While your analogy is silly I'll point you to the Consulier GTP was getting 21/27 mpg in the 1990 version and was banned from most if not all racing circuits it was in because it always won. Not being "pretty" enough was it's downfall.
Some of the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies have powerful jets blasting from their poles, and others have weak jets, but many don't have jets at all.
Some black holes are in a bigger hurry than others, hence bigger jets. While the ones that don't have jets are more concerned about the environment and galactic warming so they use public transportation.
Yup. More like a 1-pin dot matrix printer. But oh-so-wonderful!
Except that dot matrix printers still have some use today as they can be used with multiple copy (carbonless) forms. Obviously this printer will not work this way, but it's still cool.
I was wondering the same, as well as if they would be a predictive as the current ones. My 6 YO enjoys seeing them so we check the schedule at heavens-above.com regularly for bright ones at "reasonable" times.
I got curious as to how Foxconn's suicide rate compared to other groups. The United States' suicide rate is 11.1 per 100,000 people. Foxconn employs somewhere around 800,000 people(!) which means by the end of the year, you'd expect a death count by suicide of around 90 people.
If the current rates holds, there'll be 50 more Foxconn employees alive at year's end than there will be Americans from a comparably sized city.
Dammit, and here I was all excited that I could get a 20% raise if I could convince 13 coworkers to kill themselves.
Its a good point, but, ever since Galileo observed that there were sunspots, scientists have observed the sun to be on a fairly regular 11 year cycle of maxima and minima.
I realize that's all the data we have and all but isn't it a little arrogant of us to think that an observation period that is less than a ten-millionth of the suns, currently believed, existence is an accurate sampling; not to mention being a little short sighted?
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While I think it's atrocious that Windows has to have a third-party layer
They don't. I have been using MS Security Essentials for a year now...
I guess it's technically not a third-party solution, but it still has to be installed like one. That's what is truly a shame. Why couldn't they have just made it secure to begin with! Then we wouldn't have to worry about this shit in the first place. So you'll have to pardon me for not having much faith in it now.
I guess it all depends on what you expect an "anti-virus" program to do. I'm only concerned with Avast looking for viruses and none of the other things listed in the link you posted. ESET detected 183 viruses vs. 182 by Avast, which is virtually identical. Kapersky only detected 105, which makes Avast better in my mind.
I pretty much gave up on NOD32 on my work system when it got hit with Winfixer and ESET missed it. Spybot had no problems with it though and also detected several hundred other trojans that NOD32 missed.
In regards to worms, I rely on Zone Alarm and a hardware firewall.
I guess the difference is that I am not looking for a all encompassing security solution as IME there really isn't one short of turning off all network connectivity.
And I totally agree with you that it's ridiculous that all of this third party software is needed just to keep a Windows system functional.
Whenever it updates itself, it plays a recording of a voice saying "virus database updated". So we'll just be sitting there and hear that. Since a well-functioning anti-virus just does its thing without bugging the user for the most part, the ones that are for profit have to make themselves loudly obvious and play up the threat level (not to imply there isn't one of course).
As other said, it sounds like Avast, and is a easy enough default to change. BTW, while they do sell it, there is also a free version for non-commercial users. Frankly the free version of Avast seems to do a better job than Norton and McAfee by far and IME better than NOD32 and Kaspersky.
Sorry, my bad. I did say I was pretty sure, not that I was positive. Wait a minute, what in the hell does the frame surrounding Tetris have to do with anything?
Of course, this does you no good, because once you are inside the event horizon you cannot exert a great enough force to prevent yourself from falling deeper until the forces ARE great enough to rip you apart.
I'm pretty sure if you reroute the warp drive through the Heisenberg compensator and then create a tachyon stream through the main deflector it's possible. Failing that you can always eject the warp core, blow it up and ride the shock wave out.
OK, let's keep things in perspective: When did BP or GM ever get anyone laid?
I don't know about BP, but GM I'm going to have to give some credit to. I was a gear head in my youth and I distinctly recall girls we referred to as "motor whores".
still large portion of airplane crashes is due to human error; some are even because humans tried to "fight" the machine, essentialy.
That's because Airbus believes that it's safer for the fly-by-wire system to override the pilot when they try to do something they typically shouldn't. Which works great, except for when it doesn't. From what I understand, from pilots that fly Airbus planes, there is the possibility to override the computer. I guess when we hear about it, it's because pilots got in a situation that requires them to disable this feature but forgot. Then instinctively expected the plane to fly they way they think it should have.
I'm hoping the film will bring you to an understanding of why patents on software are a massive tax on and retardant of innovation in the US.
Me too!
As for actually navigating an asteroid field, Pioneer 10, 11, Voyager 1 & 2, Galileo, Cassini, and New Horizons had no problems :)
Obviously physics have changed a little from what they were a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Or the next 26,040 space probes are in deep shit.
You are soooo full of crap, I'm not even going to lower myself to respond to such idiotic nonsense....
Too late. ;-)
Show me a car that can win the Indy 500 and is the most fuel efficient of all cars.
While your analogy is silly I'll point you to the Consulier GTP was getting 21/27 mpg in the 1990 version and was banned from most if not all racing circuits it was in because it always won. Not being "pretty" enough was it's downfall.
http://www.allpar.com/cars/adopted/consulier-gtp.html
http://fueleconomydb.com/specs/1990/CONSULIER/CONSULIER%2520GTP
How would you go about prosecuting a DDoS attacker?
Nuke them from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Some of the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies have powerful jets blasting from their poles, and others have weak jets, but many don't have jets at all.
Some black holes are in a bigger hurry than others, hence bigger jets. While the ones that don't have jets are more concerned about the environment and galactic warming so they use public transportation.
Streak is a sharp-looking device with a black front and candy-apple red back that unfortunately shows fingerprints easily.
Well at least it's name is somewhat descriptive.
When teachers didn't want to be tested as they claimed that testing was a poor indicator of someone ability. Go Figure.
Yup. More like a 1-pin dot matrix printer. But oh-so-wonderful!
Except that dot matrix printers still have some use today as they can be used with multiple copy (carbonless) forms. Obviously this printer will not work this way, but it's still cool.
I was wondering the same, as well as if they would be a predictive as the current ones. My 6 YO enjoys seeing them so we check the schedule at heavens-above.com regularly for bright ones at "reasonable" times.
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Never mind.
Maybe they heard about the situation at Foxxcon and thought they'd take it to the next level.
We need a term to describe things which appear to be science but in fact which are not.
I vote "Scientology".
I got curious as to how Foxconn's suicide rate compared to other groups. The United States' suicide rate is 11.1 per 100,000 people. Foxconn employs somewhere around 800,000 people(!) which means by the end of the year, you'd expect a death count by suicide of around 90 people.
If the current rates holds, there'll be 50 more Foxconn employees alive at year's end than there will be Americans from a comparably sized city.
Dammit, and here I was all excited that I could get a 20% raise if I could convince 13 coworkers to kill themselves.
It's a shit test, and measures nothing.
You could show a little more empathy for the people who made the test you insensitive piece of shit.
You could show a little more empathy for the grandparent who made that post you insensitive piece of shit.
Its a good point, but, ever since Galileo observed that there were sunspots, scientists have observed the sun to be on a fairly regular 11 year cycle of maxima and minima.
I realize that's all the data we have and all but isn't it a little arrogant of us to think that an observation period that is less than a ten-millionth of the suns, currently believed, existence is an accurate sampling; not to mention being a little short sighted?
OMG! How does it became tagged Informative?!
I don't suppose you can tell us where it keeps going then, Mr. Know-It-All?