Windows is, and has been for a long time, a generic word in the computer field.
Yes but "Windows defender" wasn't referring to the generic meaning, it was saying specifically that it's tool meant to defend Microsoft Windows. If it had been for example some X11 window manager under the same name the usage would be justified (well at least morally).
And every GSM customer in (almost all parts of the world) are required to be registered with the provider. It is illegal to provide anonymous cellphone subscriptions in this country and most others.
Is this another 'world==USA' post ? I live in middle of europe and in every european country i've been in, there is NO such restriction. You can buy prepaid kits and recharging coupons for them in normal stores and be totally anonymous if you wish (of course the phone provided still have unique IMEI code but it can't be linked to you, and even then you can just buy other phone). I am not aware of any EU or local laws which would ban anonymous cellphone service. If you live in country which requires you to ID and register with you GSM provider, well, you're screwed, but please don't assume that rest of the world is the same.
The site now reads: VERIO has been spooked by high traffic from/. We've disabled email entry and for today only, you can download a generic PDF of the book. Enjoy.
I knew that powers of slashdot userbase are great but to disable DRM just by clicking a link that is really neat. I only hope the link-clicking method won't be now banned under DMCA.
There's fundamental difference between syncing your time through NTP once in a while and running NTPd which first measures skew of your local clock and then constantly adjusts to it.
And everytime that happens, there is always someone whining about it and he gets modded up into oblivion too. The jokes (even 1000 times repeated) might be funny in the article context but this exactly same debate over and over certainly isn't.
Both Ad-aware and Spybot are popular and estabilished, which means that newer spyware/adware knows them, knows how to hide, avoid them or even completely disable them, even if they're frequently updated. So it isn't surprising that MS AntiSpyware performs better now, but that doesn't tell anything about how it will perform in few months from now.
Punkbuster is well estabilished anti-cheat software, it comes preinstalled with many games and it's backed by game publishers. The punkbuster webpage clearly states what it does:
* Real-time scanning of memory by PB Client on players' computers searching for known hacks/cheats
* Throttled two-tiered background auto-update system using multiple Internet Master Servers to provide end-user security ensuring that no false or corrupted updates can be installed on players' computers
* Frequent status reports (highly encrypted) are sent to the PB Server by all players and the PB Server raises a violation when necessary which causes the offending player to be removed from the game and all other players are informed of the violation
* PB Admins can also manually remove players from the game for a specified number of minutes or permanently ban if desired
* PB Servers can optionally be configured to randomly check player settings looking for known exploits of the game engine
* PB Admins can request actual screenshot samples from specific players and/or can configure the PB Server to randomly grab screenshot samples from players during gameplay
* An optional "bad name" facility is provided so that PB Admins can prevent players from using offensive player names containing unwanted profanity or racial slurs
* Search functions are provided for PB Admins who wish to search player's keybindings and scripts for anything that may be known to exploit the game
* The PunkBuster(TM) Player Power facility can be configured to allow players to self-administer game servers when the Server Administrator is not present entirely without the need for passwords
* PB Servers have an optional built-in mini http web server interface that allows the game server to be remotely administered via a web browser from anywhere over the Internet
So it's not spyware. Of course there's always problem with it being it closed-source, untrusted binary, but than you should worry about the game itself in the first place.
Please note that the page returned error about reaching set user limit. As of now, the page loads with full speed so i guess the limit was initially set low and was now raised by admin to compensate the/. effect.
From the EULA: IBM will have the right to transfer one or more of ownership, management, and control of the WCG to another entity. In that event, you agree that this agreement and its provisions will also apply to that other entity.
The possible transfer is mentioned like 3 times(!) in the (relatively short) client license. I wonder how serious is the IBM participation ?
i don't see that much of it when it comes to CD/DVDs. Data layer will degrade (or be physically damaged) long before the plastic side is scratched enough to give any read errors - and even then it could be still repaired (well sort of). It certainly has big potential but for optical discs there are more acute problems which should be solved first.
In the past, there was a spammer which used our domain's name as fake From: header to send some ammounts of spam - he was shutted down, but that fake mailadres remained in thousands computers. Then came the Sobig.F, digged for adresses, and now we're getting about 2000 hits per hour from various MXs trying to deliver Sobig to this adress. Few days ago i thought that spamfilters could be definitive solution to spam. Well, not really.
I find it disturbing that more people searched for the crack for Flash Mx than for tutorials on how to use it.
Well, it isn't disturbing. In fact, books are still preferred way to learn something, even for people which have 100% of pirated software. They think: The fact that someone published it must mean that it is really good tutorial.
It's the movie i'm paying for. Not the cover, not the case, not the DVD-R. It could be (legally) purchased and downloaded over internet without medium, without case and it would be the same movie, the same thing i'm paying for.
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Windows is, and has been for a long time, a generic word in the computer field.
Yes but "Windows defender" wasn't referring to the generic meaning, it was saying specifically that it's tool meant to defend Microsoft Windows. If it had been for example some X11 window manager under the same name the usage would be justified (well at least morally).
And every GSM customer in (almost all parts of the world) are required to be registered with the provider. It is illegal to provide anonymous cellphone subscriptions in this country and most others.
Is this another 'world==USA' post ? I live in middle of europe and in every european country i've been in, there is NO such restriction. You can buy prepaid kits and recharging coupons for them in normal stores and be totally anonymous if you wish (of course the phone provided still have unique IMEI code but it can't be linked to you, and even then you can just buy other phone). I am not aware of any EU or local laws which would ban anonymous cellphone service. If you live in country which requires you to ID and register with you GSM provider, well, you're screwed, but please don't assume that rest of the world is the same.
Offtopic but i couldn't help:
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It's no different if I went out and bought a Microsoft program and started sharing it with everyone in my apartment. It's theft.
You know, it's ironic, when you actually buy something, share it with friend and it's considered theft by modern standards
Every time you operate quantum computer, Schrödinger kills a kitten. Please think of the kittens.
The site now reads: /. We've disabled email entry and for today only, you can download a generic PDF of the book. Enjoy.
VERIO has been spooked by high traffic from
I knew that powers of slashdot userbase are great but to disable DRM just by clicking a link that is really neat. I only hope the link-clicking method won't be now banned under DMCA.
There's fundamental difference between syncing your time through NTP once in a while and running NTPd which first measures skew of your local clock and then constantly adjusts to it.
And everytime that happens, there is always someone whining about it and he gets modded up into oblivion too. The jokes (even 1000 times repeated) might be funny in the article context but this exactly same debate over and over certainly isn't.
Mod parent up, from the sources files it's clear that it's BSD-style licence.
They plan on releasing a new version every second
would be more appropriate.
Both Ad-aware and Spybot are popular and estabilished, which means that newer spyware/adware knows them, knows how to hide, avoid them or even completely disable them, even if they're frequently updated. So it isn't surprising that MS AntiSpyware performs better now, but that doesn't tell anything about how it will perform in few months from now.
Punkbuster is well estabilished anti-cheat software, it comes preinstalled with many games and it's backed by game publishers. The punkbuster webpage clearly states what it does:
* Real-time scanning of memory by PB Client on players' computers searching for known hacks/cheats
* Throttled two-tiered background auto-update system using multiple Internet Master Servers to provide end-user security ensuring that no false or corrupted updates can be installed on players' computers
* Frequent status reports (highly encrypted) are sent to the PB Server by all players and the PB Server raises a violation when necessary which causes the offending player to be removed from the game and all other players are informed of the violation
* PB Admins can also manually remove players from the game for a specified number of minutes or permanently ban if desired
* PB Servers can optionally be configured to randomly check player settings looking for known exploits of the game engine
* PB Admins can request actual screenshot samples from specific players and/or can configure the PB Server to randomly grab screenshot samples from players during gameplay
* An optional "bad name" facility is provided so that PB Admins can prevent players from using offensive player names containing unwanted profanity or racial slurs
* Search functions are provided for PB Admins who wish to search player's keybindings and scripts for anything that may be known to exploit the game
* The PunkBuster(TM) Player Power facility can be configured to allow players to self-administer game servers when the Server Administrator is not present entirely without the need for passwords
* PB Servers have an optional built-in mini http web server interface that allows the game server to be remotely administered via a web browser from anywhere over the Internet
So it's not spyware. Of course there's always problem with it being it closed-source, untrusted binary, but than you should worry about the game itself in the first place.
Please note that the page returned error about reaching set user limit. As of now, the page loads with full speed so i guess the limit was initially set low and was now raised by admin to compensate the /. effect.
From the EULA:
IBM will have the right to transfer one or more of ownership, management, and control of the WCG to another entity. In that event, you agree that this agreement and its provisions will also apply to that other entity.
The possible transfer is mentioned like 3 times(!) in the (relatively short) client license. I wonder how serious is the IBM participation ?
i don't see that much of it when it comes to CD/DVDs. Data layer will degrade (or be physically damaged) long before the plastic side is scratched enough to give any read errors - and even then it could be still repaired (well sort of). It certainly has big potential but for optical discs there are more acute problems which should be solved first.
I guess 10 years and all the old wires are gonna start to be taken down.
As long as there are xDSLs, the wires remains where they are.
You feel like paying for delivery of thousands letters which get returned because of non-existent addresses ?
Well let's see what Quake manual says:
Knight
Canned meat. Open 'er up and see if it's still fresh.
In the past, there was a spammer which used our domain's name as fake From: header to send some ammounts of spam - he was shutted down, but that fake mailadres remained in thousands computers. Then came the Sobig.F, digged for adresses, and now we're getting about 2000 hits per hour from various MXs trying to deliver Sobig to this adress. Few days ago i thought that spamfilters could be definitive solution to spam. Well, not really.
At least the rifles aren't running Windows yet.
Oh ya ? OICW
Ok, that thing doesn't actually run win CE. Yet. But i now understand why is goverment so afraid of hackers. Ping flood, anyone ?
Hell, you can put entire computer in there! Why only fridges should be allowed to run Linux on them ?
how long it will last before it'll be stolen^H^H^H^H^H^Hadopted by MS for their newest DRM model ?
I find it disturbing that more people searched for the crack for Flash Mx than for tutorials on how to use it.
Well, it isn't disturbing. In fact, books are still preferred way to learn something, even for people which have 100% of pirated software. They think: The fact that someone published it must mean that it is really good tutorial.
It's the movie i'm paying for. Not the cover, not the case, not the DVD-R. It could be (legally) purchased and downloaded over internet without medium, without case and it would be the same movie, the same thing i'm paying for.
With images instead of passwords, the new Windows(TM)(R)(C) will now be fully average-monkey compatible.
...make car stealing available to techies. Just sit in, install new software w/ your own routes and THERE we go.