I can't really think of anything to say, so I'm going to do the green thing.
This comment is made of approximately 80% recycled material(s?).
From TFA:
In recent news, two bloggers were able to demonstrate the threat posed by the Vista's Windows User Accounts Control (UAC) feature. UAC, a feature that provides a prompt when users attempt to perform tasks such as installation of new programs or changes to settings, is meant to provide added security to the system. (Source: computerworld.com)
The same way you sheath other oddly shaped weapons.
One way is to roll it up in sturdy cloth (or carpet) and tie it off with cord. Another is a leather case that covers the blade and is secured with straps.
If it were in a geostationary orbit, yeah, you could just tell them that something on the opposite side of the planet got blown to smithereens, but... yeah. As it stands, you'd have to figure out where they can't see at all.
Although it may be healthy to project personalities onto things (I'm a little skeptical, though I could maybe be persuaded by somebody who doesn't go around making sweeping psychiatric diagnoses of people he's never met) that hardly justifies encoding those projections into names.
My printer wastes my time, money, and annoys the hell out of me without ever really doing any work - so I named it after my ex-girlfriend.
Wow, that's like... some Morpheus shit right there.
Like... if a troll posts on a forum and there's no one to read it, does he still masturbate furiously to Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Willow lesbian fanfic?
Keeping out Microsoft Updates isn't all that difficult, simply turn it off. It will show a warning in your systray, but that's it.
You can disable the Security Center service in Administrative Tools. You won't have to hear about any of that updates stuff, but you won't know if your antivirus or firewall have been disabled either (not a huge deal unless you use Windows Firewall).
Sadly, judging by the tone of your entry, I'm assuming you're one of those 'ms-anti-fanboys' who will complain about virtually ANYTHING Microsoft does, or doesn't do.
Nope! You're wrong there. Microsoft does do some smart stuff occasionally. Xbox Live is a well-designed system that is largely worth the $50 a year. Buying up Rare and Bungie can definitely be considered good purchases now a few years down the line. The thing is, more often than not they just are so behind with the times (see the recent DRM Zune debacle) and it's frustrating to see a company that used to actually do pretty well and come out with some pretty cool shit reduced to catering to special interests in their operating system. It's like a corrupt government except it's that much harder to have a revolution.
As such I expect the following scenario to happen : You'll switch off Automatic Updates,
Nope, it's still on.
your system won't get patched any more and you'll turn out to be vulnerable to, well, quite a lot of the nastiness out there.
My system could still be patched and there's probably a dozen vulnerabilities that have malware authors drooling. I'm safer than a good lot of Windows users because I don't employ shit that's popular and has huge, gaping exploitable holes like Outlook.
After a while your machine will slow down, you'll go digging and find out that your gaming machine spends half it's CPU time being part of a botnet.
Actually, my gaming machine (which is pretty much my only machine alongside a 500 MHz Celeron junker that I'm putting together for fun) runs fine. Some of my parts are breaking down though.
Not that I care, but by all means, don't come complaining then how "windows is so bloody easily hacked" and "that it's all MS's fault for not being able to write a proper OS".
It is, though. Vista was essentially promised to be a brand new OS, when of course it wasn't. It was just Windows 95 Service Pack 14 or whatever.
When Mac OSX came out, Apple bit the bullet and basically killed legacy apps by changing a lot of the core functionality of OSX. They made their OS more secure by sacrificing legacy support. MS certainly can afford to pay people to write a new OS from scratch and *secure* in a reasonable amount of time, yet they just keep rolling out shitty desktop gloss without any real security improvements. Well, there are security improvements, but it's not security for us - stupid shit like UAC, DRM, etc.
Sure, Windows *isn't* perfect, but I'm seeing just as much of security updates in Ubunto too, haven't heard too many complaints there yet.
Nope, it sure as hell isn't perfect. It just frustrates me to see someone so completely naive about Microsoft (referring to the grandparent post here). As business practices go this is par for the course for MS.
If you'd prefer things to be different then give up your job (or studies) and start your own company that will be the lighting example for the rest off the world. I'm sure the rest of the world will recognize your genius and follow your example and soon the whole of humanity will throw greed and selfness and stuff overboard and we'll all live happily ever-after...
Sorry, I don't have much of a response to the "Well, why don't you just do it yourself?" argument. My inability to write a secure OS in no way makes my criticisms of Microsoft's stupid/selfish/panders-to-huge-corporation busine
There's a comic called Joyce & Walky. 1/3 of the comics during the week can be seen by everyone, and 2/3 of the comics can only be seen by subscribers.
It's not really story-oriented so you don't miss a whole bunch. You can get a month's worth of subscriber comics at $2, and backorder at the same price. It's *reasonable* if you like the dude's work.
So yeah, everybody wins? The best scenario is one where there's free crap for everyone and some premium crap for the people who'd care to pay for it.
How about this one: Ok Microsoft, you are making automatic changes to software written by other companies without permission or request of the user. I don't care if you say it's just an extension, you didn't ask me! My trust just went right down the toilet.
You trust Microsoft? You're either very generous or incredibly ignorant of their business practices as a whole.
I checked through my plugins and extensions, and while I don't have this one in there - yet -I apparently have something called Microsoft DRM Netscape Network Object. This is just stuff for Windows Media Player.
The only reason - the ONLY reason - I used Windows XP is because I play a lot of games on the PC. Yes, you can get games to work on Linux, and Mac has *some* games, but the majority of them are on the WIndows platform.
When you have three or four games, no big deal right? Dual boot or whatever. But when you have over a hundred of them (most of which won't work on Mac), you're already heavily invested in Windows.
I wish there was an Adblock for Windows that kept out stupid Microsoft updates. How long before we see the a WPA Kill style tool to get rid of this?
Man, that sounds like a Chuck Norris joke in the making.
Of the European nations involved in WW2 only three managed to survive the war without having their capital occupied by the enemy: the UK, the Soviet Union, and Chuck Norris.
RE: the below posts about they can't drop the case - yes, I know. The point I'm making is for other cases, this might establish a precedent where the defense lawyer can automatically bring this up as a defense tactic. It's practically undefeatable.
Question for Mr. Beckerman: I'm pretty sure precedents are related to district/jurisdiction, so a precedent set in the 1st circuit wouldn't apply to any of the other circuits. If this goes through, will it only stand in that particular circuit or could it be used (and cited as precedent) in any court nationwide?
Considering the popularity of this case and the argument the judge has made, couldn't pretty much any other defense lawyer in any other case make the same request? RIAA wants to educate the public, so why not?
The RIAA either accepts it and goes through with the case, or they drop the case altogether. It's win-win. It's like we have the plans to the Death Star!
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I can't really think of anything to say, so I'm going to do the green thing.
This comment is made of approximately 80% recycled material(s?).
From TFA:
In other words, it's a dup of the recent disussion about the Security Hole In Windows 7 UAC.
Recycle your old comments here.
Keep it up woz, never change.
Woz is a revolutionary. One of his little known projects was a stint working in speeding up waste management.
Samuel Jackson Fiber! It'll get you online! Pick a fight with a troll or two. You'll be fucking fat girls in no time!
The same way you sheath other oddly shaped weapons.
One way is to roll it up in sturdy cloth (or carpet) and tie it off with cord. Another is a leather case that covers the blade and is secured with straps.
Catholic Alcoholic Mailman.
It'd be interesting to see how this would be abused. Like, what? PETA would give cows thumbs and hand out machine guns to bovinity?
Cue "Cows With Guns".
Incidentally, my ex-girlfriend's name was Lexmark, so it all works out!
Couldn't they just, like, look out the window?
If it were in a geostationary orbit, yeah, you could just tell them that something on the opposite side of the planet got blown to smithereens, but... yeah. As it stands, you'd have to figure out where they can't see at all.
Because the people who generally like it enough to pay for it aren't the kind of assholes who would do that.
Disclaimer: I don't subscribe, because I haven't even read through the free archives yet.
Well, our politicians were always the best at putting out hot air, so it's logical that we would eventually overtake other countries on wind as well.
Really?
Although it may be healthy to project personalities onto things (I'm a little skeptical, though I could maybe be persuaded by somebody who doesn't go around making sweeping psychiatric diagnoses of people he's never met) that hardly justifies encoding those projections into names.
My printer wastes my time, money, and annoys the hell out of me without ever really doing any work - so I named it after my ex-girlfriend.
+1 Henry Ford reference.
Wow, that's like... some Morpheus shit right there.
Like... if a troll posts on a forum and there's no one to read it, does he still masturbate furiously to Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Willow lesbian fanfic?
Keeping out Microsoft Updates isn't all that difficult, simply turn it off. It will show a warning in your systray, but that's it.
You can disable the Security Center service in Administrative Tools. You won't have to hear about any of that updates stuff, but you won't know if your antivirus or firewall have been disabled either (not a huge deal unless you use Windows Firewall).
Sadly, judging by the tone of your entry, I'm assuming you're one of those 'ms-anti-fanboys' who will complain about virtually ANYTHING Microsoft does, or doesn't do.
Nope! You're wrong there. Microsoft does do some smart stuff occasionally. Xbox Live is a well-designed system that is largely worth the $50 a year. Buying up Rare and Bungie can definitely be considered good purchases now a few years down the line. The thing is, more often than not they just are so behind with the times (see the recent DRM Zune debacle) and it's frustrating to see a company that used to actually do pretty well and come out with some pretty cool shit reduced to catering to special interests in their operating system. It's like a corrupt government except it's that much harder to have a revolution.
As such I expect the following scenario to happen : You'll switch off Automatic Updates,
Nope, it's still on.
your system won't get patched any more and you'll turn out to be vulnerable to, well, quite a lot of the nastiness out there.
My system could still be patched and there's probably a dozen vulnerabilities that have malware authors drooling. I'm safer than a good lot of Windows users because I don't employ shit that's popular and has huge, gaping exploitable holes like Outlook.
After a while your machine will slow down, you'll go digging and find out that your gaming machine spends half it's CPU time being part of a botnet.
Actually, my gaming machine (which is pretty much my only machine alongside a 500 MHz Celeron junker that I'm putting together for fun) runs fine. Some of my parts are breaking down though.
Not that I care, but by all means, don't come complaining then how "windows is so bloody easily hacked" and "that it's all MS's fault for not being able to write a proper OS".
It is, though. Vista was essentially promised to be a brand new OS, when of course it wasn't. It was just Windows 95 Service Pack 14 or whatever.
When Mac OSX came out, Apple bit the bullet and basically killed legacy apps by changing a lot of the core functionality of OSX. They made their OS more secure by sacrificing legacy support. MS certainly can afford to pay people to write a new OS from scratch and *secure* in a reasonable amount of time, yet they just keep rolling out shitty desktop gloss without any real security improvements. Well, there are security improvements, but it's not security for us - stupid shit like UAC, DRM, etc.
Sure, Windows *isn't* perfect, but I'm seeing just as much of security updates in Ubunto too, haven't heard too many complaints there yet.
Nope, it sure as hell isn't perfect. It just frustrates me to see someone so completely naive about Microsoft (referring to the grandparent post here). As business practices go this is par for the course for MS.
If you'd prefer things to be different then give up your job (or studies) and start your own company that will be the lighting example for the rest off the world. I'm sure the rest of the world will recognize your genius and follow your example and soon the whole of humanity will throw greed and selfness and stuff overboard and we'll all live happily ever-after...
Sorry, I don't have much of a response to the "Well, why don't you just do it yourself?" argument. My inability to write a secure OS in no way makes my criticisms of Microsoft's stupid/selfish/panders-to-huge-corporation busine
Thankfully for $149.99 you can buy the iReflect peripheral that will make your current iPhone compatable with video calls.
There's a comic called Joyce & Walky. 1/3 of the comics during the week can be seen by everyone, and 2/3 of the comics can only be seen by subscribers.
It's not really story-oriented so you don't miss a whole bunch. You can get a month's worth of subscriber comics at $2, and backorder at the same price. It's *reasonable* if you like the dude's work.
So yeah, everybody wins? The best scenario is one where there's free crap for everyone and some premium crap for the people who'd care to pay for it.
You'd be modded Flamebait if any Aussies could actually get through their Internet filter to Slashdot.
That sounds like an awesome name for a new Davinci's Notebook album.
How about this one: Ok Microsoft, you are making automatic changes to software written by other companies without permission or request of the user. I don't care if you say it's just an extension, you didn't ask me! My trust just went right down the toilet.
You trust Microsoft? You're either very generous or incredibly ignorant of their business practices as a whole.
I checked through my plugins and extensions, and while I don't have this one in there - yet -I apparently have something called Microsoft DRM Netscape Network Object. This is just stuff for Windows Media Player.
The only reason - the ONLY reason - I used Windows XP is because I play a lot of games on the PC. Yes, you can get games to work on Linux, and Mac has *some* games, but the majority of them are on the WIndows platform.
When you have three or four games, no big deal right? Dual boot or whatever. But when you have over a hundred of them (most of which won't work on Mac), you're already heavily invested in Windows.
I wish there was an Adblock for Windows that kept out stupid Microsoft updates. How long before we see the a WPA Kill style tool to get rid of this?
OR dealers scrapping for turf.
There's no turf to scrap for when drugs are legal.
Legal = probably cheaper, and if not more likely to be safe.
If a dime bag costs $15 legit and $10 from a dealer, where would you buy it? I'd buy it from the safer place.
Man, that sounds like a Chuck Norris joke in the making.
Of the European nations involved in WW2 only three managed to survive the war without having their capital occupied by the enemy: the UK, the Soviet Union, and Chuck Norris.
RE: the below posts about they can't drop the case - yes, I know. The point I'm making is for other cases, this might establish a precedent where the defense lawyer can automatically bring this up as a defense tactic. It's practically undefeatable.
Question for Mr. Beckerman: I'm pretty sure precedents are related to district/jurisdiction, so a precedent set in the 1st circuit wouldn't apply to any of the other circuits. If this goes through, will it only stand in that particular circuit or could it be used (and cited as precedent) in any court nationwide?
Aren't parent companies like families? Because Thanksgiving always goes off without a hitch back home...
Considering the popularity of this case and the argument the judge has made, couldn't pretty much any other defense lawyer in any other case make the same request? RIAA wants to educate the public, so why not?
The RIAA either accepts it and goes through with the case, or they drop the case altogether. It's win-win. It's like we have the plans to the Death Star!