AntiVir gave me WAY TOO MANY false positives. It detects many security tools as malware. It was unusable for me for that reason alone.
For parent's or girlfriend's machines, I'd say that it's a good product because it's very sensitive but for a geek, I can't imagine wanting to add every file in your security toolkit to the exception list.
Then why aren't there *any* photos of someone with the fibers emerging from their skin? If so many people supposedly have them, why are the only photos of sores with no fibers, or a clump of fibers completely detached from a person? Occam's Razor.
As I said, I'm an openminded skeptic about this, but the point that you just raised is the biggest obstacle to me believing it. If there is a quiet epidemic of this disease, why wouldn't any of the people publish photos of the fibers AS THEY EMERGE from their skin?
I know I sure would. Over the years, I've been witness to some things that are decidedly less difficult to believe than this and yet I still thought "Maybe I should gather some evidence to prove my story" whenever possible.
I think that the only thing that Moby Dick beats is grievous physical injury or sexual assault.
I'd rather spend half an hour playing with a marble, a string and a helium filled balloon than read Moby Dick.
Seriously. If we're going to bemoan the fact that kids generally tend to prefer leisure activities to poring over the great classics of Western literature, we could at least pick something that most kids might actually enjoy reading, like Shakespeare (Serial regi-patri-fratricide? Poison-tipped swords? Mass slaughter? Hot chicks? Rawk!)
I could never get past the thick language enough to enjoy Shakespear.
I switched to AVG because it found many objects that NAV did not. These objects were a year or more old.
My girlfriend's computer was infested because of all of the bullshit games that her kids were downloading and playing. AVG found them and cleaned them, while Norton missed them completely.
My switch to Avast was prompted by this incident. I checked for def updates at least once per day, often more than that. I had my computer do a scheduled scan two hours after it checks for def updates. My defs were up to date and something slipped through. I'm not blaming Grisoft, it's a cool thing for them to make a free virus scanner. I think that they have a good product, but this one failure was enough for me to look into something new. If and when Avast fails to find a virus, I'll give something else a try. Maybe AVG again.
I was using AVG and my system had been very sluggish. After several spyware scans with Spybot S&D, Ad Aware and Windows Guardian I was comfortable that I had no spyware or adware on my system. So, I decided to try a different virus scanner. I tried Avast first, it located one infected file that AVG did not.
I removed the file and my system immediately began to run faster. I wondered if AVG missed something, could Avast miss something, so I downloaded and installed AntiVir. AntiVir drove me crazy with all kinds of false positives. AntiVir picked up many security audit tools that I was evaluating as trojans. I'd never be able to use my system if I left it installed. I went back to Avast. For the time being, Avast is my personal virus scanner of choice. Apparently no false positives and it found a virus that AVG did not.
I use Windows Defender on XP. I also use Spybot S& D, Ad Aware Personal, Spyware Guard and Spyware Blaster. Their problem is that, in the home user market, there are so many good free tools that the marketplace is shrinking for "for profit" spyware elimination.
They'll be able to insure a place in the "business" market by producing a product that is superior to Microsoft's.
I mean, with the demise of Netscape we got much BETTER browsers, in the way of Mozilla and Firefox and Camino. An MPL'd spyware scanner for windows? I dont think it will have that wide of appeal though...
That leaves the obvious question though of what innovation would Netscape have brought to the market if they hadn't been crushed?
Ok, but if this disobedience isn't performed by the first humans (a notion that doesn't make sense from an evolutionary viewpoint) then they may well not have been ancestors of mine (or yours) and their sin wouldn't have passed to me or you.
Who says that it has?
It's really a stretch in my opinion to say I'm responsible for my ancestor's sins in the first place, let alone those I'm not even related to.
I never said that you were. There are so many interpretations of original sin, that the fact that you feel the need to defend yourself against the allegation tells me that you are only familiar with certain Christian ones. There are views of original sin in Judaism and Islam, both of which see it differently than the Catholic/Orthodox version.
If we are just the product of random evolutionary processes there is no source for original sin. We didn't evolve for one purpose and then choose to go a different way. We just are the way we evolved. There isn't any point in the evolutionary cycle where a fall from grace happens.
The first occurence of disobedience to God would be the source of original sin, it matters little how humanity came into being.
The only people who think christian mythology and evolution are compatible are those who have not thought very hard about either.
You're trying to pick a fight with the wrong person. I'm not a christian.
If evolution is his thing than we can't be at the center of any master plan.
Why not? If God exists, we'd have no way of knowing his motives or methods.
Evolution certainly isn't going to stop with us.
It's ongoing right now. Over time those with genetically undesireable traits get selected against. Women choose mates based upon what they find to be beneficial, be it height, muscularity, intelligence or financial resources. Those traits get passed on and the men who can't get mates get selected against.
If mankind exists in 200,000 years, they could very well think of themselves as "human" even if they're completely different than us.
Hopefully they won't until after the source code audit is complete. Something like losing even a medium sized OEM is just the kind of thing that Microsoft would need to prompt them bring their full weight upon ReactOS.
Maybe we did evolve from monkeys, why would that preclude creation?
It doesn't.
I too believe in a creator who started in motion the processes that lead to our evolution as a part of creation. It's a belief. It can't be proven one way of the other.
Hardline creationists make the mistake of believing that none of it can be proven and that we shouldn't even try.
Hardline evolutionists make the mistake of trying to answer questions that can't be.
Sure, maybe we did evolve from lower primates. So what? Where did they come from? Even lower primates. If you follow that chain back to the earlies single celled organism that ever existed, where did it come from? We'll never know.
If I've incriminating documents in a safe, the police are going to ask for the key. If they don't get it, they're going to break in, and I'll be arrested for obstruction of justice. I don't recall everyone being up in arms about the police, having obtained the proper warrants, coming into my house and breaking into my safe.
It requires time and effort to break into your safe. It takes time and effort to break encryption. I don't think people would care if the government were to break all of your crypto when you're accused of a crime. The problem is the threat of jail if you don't allow the government to penetrate your crypto at will, even if you're not accused of any crime.
BTW, I don't know about laws in the UK but in the US you can't obstruct justice passively. You have to do something.
It's not a fair comparison. The NES launched in limited release in 1985. When it was released nationally in 1986, the price had dropped below the $200 mark.
As a former Mac user, I hate Apple as much as anyone. But this guy was trying to steal their property. They were completely justified in wrestling him to the ground.
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AntiVir gave me WAY TOO MANY false positives. It detects many security tools as malware. It was unusable for me for that reason alone.
For parent's or girlfriend's machines, I'd say that it's a good product because it's very sensitive but for a geek, I can't imagine wanting to add every file in your security toolkit to the exception list.
LK
On the other hand, the free version does not seem to have a scheduled scan feature, not that I've noticed.
I was thinking about using a scheduled task to run a full system scan via the command line interface every couple of days.
LK
Way to miss the point! We're talking about FREE (Beer) software.
LK
Then why aren't there *any* photos of someone with the fibers emerging from their skin? If so many people supposedly have them, why are the only photos of sores with no fibers, or a clump of fibers completely detached from a person? Occam's Razor.
As I said, I'm an openminded skeptic about this, but the point that you just raised is the biggest obstacle to me believing it. If there is a quiet epidemic of this disease, why wouldn't any of the people publish photos of the fibers AS THEY EMERGE from their skin?
I know I sure would. Over the years, I've been witness to some things that are decidedly less difficult to believe than this and yet I still thought "Maybe I should gather some evidence to prove my story" whenever possible.
LK
I think that the only thing that Moby Dick beats is grievous physical injury or sexual assault.
I'd rather spend half an hour playing with a marble, a string and a helium filled balloon than read Moby Dick.
Seriously. If we're going to bemoan the fact that kids generally tend to prefer leisure activities to poring over the great classics of Western literature, we could at least pick something that most kids might actually enjoy reading, like Shakespeare (Serial regi-patri-fratricide? Poison-tipped swords? Mass slaughter? Hot chicks? Rawk!)
I could never get past the thick language enough to enjoy Shakespear.
LK
I switched to AVG because it found many objects that NAV did not. These objects were a year or more old.
My girlfriend's computer was infested because of all of the bullshit games that her kids were downloading and playing. AVG found them and cleaned them, while Norton missed them completely.
My switch to Avast was prompted by this incident. I checked for def updates at least once per day, often more than that. I had my computer do a scheduled scan two hours after it checks for def updates. My defs were up to date and something slipped through. I'm not blaming Grisoft, it's a cool thing for them to make a free virus scanner. I think that they have a good product, but this one failure was enough for me to look into something new. If and when Avast fails to find a virus, I'll give something else a try. Maybe AVG again.
LK
"Hi, I'm Chris Matthews from Dateline NBC. The police are right outside of your front door."
LK
I was using AVG and my system had been very sluggish. After several spyware scans with Spybot S&D, Ad Aware and Windows Guardian I was comfortable that I had no spyware or adware on my system. So, I decided to try a different virus scanner. I tried Avast first, it located one infected file that AVG did not.
I removed the file and my system immediately began to run faster. I wondered if AVG missed something, could Avast miss something, so I downloaded and installed AntiVir. AntiVir drove me crazy with all kinds of false positives. AntiVir picked up many security audit tools that I was evaluating as trojans. I'd never be able to use my system if I left it installed. I went back to Avast. For the time being, Avast is my personal virus scanner of choice. Apparently no false positives and it found a virus that AVG did not.
LK
I use Windows Defender on XP. I also use Spybot S& D, Ad Aware Personal, Spyware Guard and Spyware Blaster. Their problem is that, in the home user market, there are so many good free tools that the marketplace is shrinking for "for profit" spyware elimination.
They'll be able to insure a place in the "business" market by producing a product that is superior to Microsoft's.
LK
I mean, with the demise of Netscape we got much BETTER browsers, in the way of Mozilla and Firefox and Camino. An MPL'd spyware scanner for windows? I dont think it will have that wide of appeal though...
That leaves the obvious question though of what innovation would Netscape have brought to the market if they hadn't been crushed?
LK
The artist formerly known as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince", but now called Prince again?
LK
Did you get past page 2 of the pictures?
While I agree that most of the pictures seem to be household lint, there are some pictures that do appear to be of organic matter.
I'm an open-mided skeptic about this. Maybe it's real but until I see some proof, I'm unconvinced.
LK
Ok, but if this disobedience isn't performed by the first humans (a notion that doesn't make sense from an evolutionary viewpoint) then they may well not have been ancestors of mine (or yours) and their sin wouldn't have passed to me or you.
Who says that it has?
It's really a stretch in my opinion to say I'm responsible for my ancestor's sins in the first place, let alone those I'm not even related to.
I never said that you were. There are so many interpretations of original sin, that the fact that you feel the need to defend yourself against the allegation tells me that you are only familiar with certain Christian ones. There are views of original sin in Judaism and Islam, both of which see it differently than the Catholic/Orthodox version.
LK
If we are just the product of random evolutionary processes there is no source for original sin. We didn't evolve for one purpose and then choose to go a different way. We just are the way we evolved. There isn't any point in the evolutionary cycle where a fall from grace happens.
The first occurence of disobedience to God would be the source of original sin, it matters little how humanity came into being.
The only people who think christian mythology and evolution are compatible are those who have not thought very hard about either.
You're trying to pick a fight with the wrong person. I'm not a christian.
LK
If evolution is his thing than we can't be at the center of any master plan.
Why not? If God exists, we'd have no way of knowing his motives or methods.
Evolution certainly isn't going to stop with us.
It's ongoing right now. Over time those with genetically undesireable traits get selected against. Women choose mates based upon what they find to be beneficial, be it height, muscularity, intelligence or financial resources. Those traits get passed on and the men who can't get mates get selected against.
If mankind exists in 200,000 years, they could very well think of themselves as "human" even if they're completely different than us.
LK
Somebody company will eventually try it.
Hopefully they won't until after the source code audit is complete. Something like losing even a medium sized OEM is just the kind of thing that Microsoft would need to prompt them bring their full weight upon ReactOS.
LK
When Dell takes Intel's dick out of its mouth.
LK
The "Get Ready" page doesn't render properly in Opera. Coincidence? I think not.
LK
Maybe we did evolve from monkeys, why would that preclude creation?
It doesn't.
I too believe in a creator who started in motion the processes that lead to our evolution as a part of creation. It's a belief. It can't be proven one way of the other.
Hardline creationists make the mistake of believing that none of it can be proven and that we shouldn't even try.
Hardline evolutionists make the mistake of trying to answer questions that can't be.
Sure, maybe we did evolve from lower primates. So what? Where did they come from? Even lower primates. If you follow that chain back to the earlies single celled organism that ever existed, where did it come from? We'll never know.
LK
If I've incriminating documents in a safe, the police are going to ask for the key. If they don't get it, they're going to break in, and I'll be arrested for obstruction of justice. I don't recall everyone being up in arms about the police, having obtained the proper warrants, coming into my house and breaking into my safe.
It requires time and effort to break into your safe. It takes time and effort to break encryption. I don't think people would care if the government were to break all of your crypto when you're accused of a crime. The problem is the threat of jail if you don't allow the government to penetrate your crypto at will, even if you're not accused of any crime.
BTW, I don't know about laws in the UK but in the US you can't obstruct justice passively. You have to do something.
LK
Physically grabbing someone else's property and trying to run away is about as close to the textbook definition of theft as we can get.
LK
It's not a fair comparison. The NES launched in limited release in 1985. When it was released nationally in 1986, the price had dropped below the $200 mark.
It lists the NES at $200. I got mine the year it was introduced as a Christmas present, it was $80.
LK
As a former Mac user, I hate Apple as much as anyone. But this guy was trying to steal their property. They were completely justified in wrestling him to the ground.
LK
Are you from dahn tahn or E'Slibberty?
Djeet Djet or do you need to go to Gian Iggle?
LK