While I would have preferred them to find long data retention unconstitutional in general, I can live with that. I'm opening a bottle of champagne.
And a really huge thanks to Prof. Papier, the Chief Justice, who will retire soon. Thank you, man. That guy has been one of the few people in our republic who constantly held up civil liberties.
The real risk does not come from pop-up ads, a changed browser or porn links on a desktop. Nor does it come from formatting harddisks or constantly rebooting. The dangerous thing would be rootkits that hide, remain unseen, log your keystrokes, log your internet traffic etc. and send them to a business rival. They could be buried deep in network traffic, for instance in DNS requests. In contrast to the usual "open some ad windows on the users screen" malware, in this case remaining unseen is crucial.
Police cars are also sometimes allowed to ignore red lights, use one-way streets in the wrong direction and ignore speed limits, in case of emergency. That, however, does not mean that we should teach every person to ignore red lights responsibly.
While I believe that your argument is valid in some other, not traffic-related cases (e.g. I believe that teaching young people how to drink responsibly is better than deterring them from drinking, but that is a different thing), I believe it is not valid in this case. When driving, have one hand at the steering wheel and occasionally one at the gearshift. That's it.
Auto-delete cookies when closing the browser. It's not that complicated, and while it costs you some extra time (logging on etc.), it might be less than you thought it would. I've been doing it for 5 years now.
...and I still have my doubts that they've become extinct at all. When I look around me, I can't help but come to the conclusion that they still live among us.
Although, to be precise, the MI6 is nowadays called Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) and in contrast to the FBI, the MI5 does not have police-like powers like arresting etc.
Well, to be precise: Vista was NT 6.0, 7 is NT 6.1... The last Windows x.y was Windows ME (4.9, no idea where the 9 comes from, as there is no 8,7,6...)
Except if somebody completely different is behind all that. Somebody who wants exactly that to happen.
Disclaimer: No, I don't believe that this is the case. It was just an idea...
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I had a remis :-/
BROADCAST MESSAGE FROM USER root: The system will be shot down now!
Prepare to stay for another thousand years.
Alright Comic Sans, do you see this knife?
You mean like this?
Relax, this is idle.slashdot.org. Oh wait, it isn't?
"faster, desktop-like performance..." - Google will love this...
Bill Gates is Mr. Burns 2.0! Excellent...
While I would have preferred them to find long data retention unconstitutional in general, I can live with that. I'm opening a bottle of champagne.
And a really huge thanks to Prof. Papier, the Chief Justice, who will retire soon. Thank you, man. That guy has been one of the few people in our republic who constantly held up civil liberties.
Exactly, and the home of the grave, in this case.
One of these guys managed to turn water into wine 2000 years ago...
is it even malware? What would it be doing?
The real risk does not come from pop-up ads, a changed browser or porn links on a desktop. Nor does it come from formatting harddisks or constantly rebooting. The dangerous thing would be rootkits that hide, remain unseen, log your keystrokes, log your internet traffic etc. and send them to a business rival. They could be buried deep in network traffic, for instance in DNS requests. In contrast to the usual "open some ad windows on the users screen" malware, in this case remaining unseen is crucial.
Police cars are also sometimes allowed to ignore red lights, use one-way streets in the wrong direction and ignore speed limits, in case of emergency. That, however, does not mean that we should teach every person to ignore red lights responsibly.
While I believe that your argument is valid in some other, not traffic-related cases (e.g. I believe that teaching young people how to drink responsibly is better than deterring them from drinking, but that is a different thing), I believe it is not valid in this case. When driving, have one hand at the steering wheel and occasionally one at the gearshift. That's it.
Auto-delete cookies when closing the browser. It's not that complicated, and while it costs you some extra time (logging on etc.), it might be less than you thought it would. I've been doing it for 5 years now.
They did horrible things, e.g. killing the electric car, Sgt Pepper, ...
I thought he had been hung, drawn and quartered. Oh wait, nevermind, that was William Wallace.
...and I still have my doubts that they've become extinct at all. When I look around me, I can't help but come to the conclusion that they still live among us.
Although, to be precise, the MI6 is nowadays called Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) and in contrast to the FBI, the MI5 does not have police-like powers like arresting etc.
I just had this image of Stallman and Ballmer in a room together.
Uhm, the chairs would propably get caught in Stallman's beard.
If you're being pedantic, do it right.
Touche. Got me. :-)
Sorry guys, but Centrino is not a processor. It is a platform, specifying a certain processor, graphics chipset etc..
In case you were wondering, 6.0 was Vista.
Well, to be precise: Vista was NT 6.0, 7 is NT 6.1... The last Windows x.y was Windows ME (4.9, no idea where the 9 comes from, as there is no 8,7,6...)
Or that one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_R8#R8_TDI_diesel
When I first met her, she was in her 60's and had an ass like a drum.
Daddy, is that you?
Except if somebody completely different is behind all that. Somebody who wants exactly that to happen.
Disclaimer: No, I don't believe that this is the case. It was just an idea...