This family of infectors is probably, by far, the worst spyware/hijacking peice of junk I've ever seen. I can't help but feel that 400,000 isn't nearly the number that has actually been infected, simply because nobody I know actually uses MSRT, and I seriously doubt that any machine that gets infected with it could actually get back into the condition where it can download and/or install MSRT, or virtually any other software. It's just that bad.
I don't think paper as a news medium is non-sustainable... I just think that Newspapers as a 12-section behemoth advertising delivery vehicle is non-sustainable. The current amount of bloat is immense, and exists simply because the current model is to sell as many ads to as many clients as possible. This means a ton of cheap ads that take up a large percentage of space, and they won't cut down content until advertisers pull out completely.
Limiting it to fewer sections to at higher cost would probably keep more papers in business long term, but would cut a ton of the potential to make money if and when business gets good again. Like it or not, most newspapers would rather take that bet then downsize to a sure thing.... Otherwise, they open themselves up competition. Remember when markets had multiple newspapers competing with each other, "Extras!" on street corners? Neither do I, but that time did exist once, and probably will again.
I've done my share of programming under the GPL... and I've never liked it. I never implied that proprietary was better, rather I prefer software that is free in every way. If you have a BSD-licensed app and you want to use an awesome code snippet from a GPL piece of software, you can't. (At least, not without going back to the contributor and working out some sort of deal.)
I just wanted to ammend my post by saying that none of this is a good idea, but if the government was in the business of good ideas, it would be better to license rather than filter. The former at least has a shot of succeeding to some degree.
The real fix for the filtering problem is not to filter, but to license access to the internet. To be completely honest, just about everything done on any public utility has rules and regulations and forces people to obtain licenses to use them. Want to drive on the road? Get a license. Want to be an electrician? Get a license. Want to check out library books? Get a license. If you abuse the public's trust, you get your license revoked. Unlike, say, blocking IPs of the RBN, content filtering will never work, socially or technically, so waste our time trying.
I'm stuck on Sprint right now and probably the near future, unfortunately. As much as I'd love to develop for Android, Sprint has made it very clear that they don't value my business. CDMA keeps me from using this developer phone on Sprint. The only way I'll be able to switch is if I come across a magical pile of money that makes it all relatively painless.
"But the tens of thousands of smaller modules on CPAN are lagging, in many cases because of lack of access to a Windows environment for development and testing."
I was born on a day, but not yesterday. I must admit to not using perl for anything serious in a very long time, but as I recall, many smaller modules in CPAN didn't even work trouble free on an up-to-date linux machine because they were either badly coded or simply didn't run with newer versions of other dependencies. Maybe things have changed, but I doubt access to Windows machines is a real issue for anybody apart from a tiny handful of GNU diehards/blowhards.
As someone with a lower userid than you, I can attest to the fact that these devices were in no way patent worthy nor mind-bogglingly innovative. It's more like patenting a giant pilotable robot than can crush Tokyo and fight Godzilla... claiming that it is innovative and unique because obviously we don't yet have the technology that can do this.
"I can't recall ever watching a debate on the floor of either House of Congress that I found even remotely impressive -- until today. One Democrat after the next -- of all stripes -- delivered impassioned, defiant speeches in defense of the rule of law, oversight on presidential eavesdropping, and safeguards on government spying."
Really? Ever? Do you really think this is the first time that an executive branch was impassionately challenged by a House controlled by an opposing party. This is nothing new nor special. If anything, it's pathetic. There's no debate, no Democrat reps out there saying "You know, some wiretapping might be okay, and tapping international calls really shouldn't be classified as 'domestic surveillance'".
If anything, thanks to Obamamania, it's quaint to be naive and in awe of politics again.
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Can you co-opt the police and feds to conduct raids of private property on your behalf? No? The RIAA can and regularly does, confiscating anything that could conceivably be used to produce and distribute music, including vehicles and computers. It doesn't even matter if an organization, such as authorized mixtape producers, are acting within the law... their property is confiscated first and questions are asked later, usually past the point where a business can survive.
The RIAA are among the least of those who deserve to have their property rights defended.
Unless something has changed in the last two days, absolutely none of them are on the market. Can't buy them from the big box stores, amazon, or anywhere else.
That's not even a DTV converter, it's an HDTV tuner.
The Samsung DTB-H260F is not an appropriate DTV converter unless you have component input or HDMI. Without it, you will not get on-screen menus, nor will aspect ratio stuff be friendly. The s-video and composite out is really for VCR recordings, not TV viewing.
I don't. To get the services I would want, I'm looking at a minimum of $80/month on cable, and even a basic rate is wasteful compared to other thing I could buy.
Silly, you can't add $40 to a product that doesn't exist. FCC approved converters in the big box stores can not be found, and I doubt they'll be in stores for at least a few months.
It's the executive branch's job to uphold the law... but as it is right now, there's no shortage of laws that pay lip service to the need of ISPs and such to keep private e-mail private, while another batch of laws circumvent this in a wide array of circumstances both dealing with national security and private matter. Say, a publicly traded company can't exactly keep e-mail secure if there potential for insider trading.
Not that the public really has a clue, though... Sadly, we've learned that our local public schools will gladly hand over authority to the federal government in exchange for a few measly dollars, so any presidential candidate could make a promise dealing with a matter that he/she officially has no role in, and you can be that laws will be passed and departments created that make it their role.
The Hidden Fortress angle in Episode 4 revolved around the fact that everybody was either a pawn or appeared to be a pawn, in service of either the empire or the rebellion. In truth, Chewbacca was as close to being the supreme commander of the rebellion's forces and R2D2 was the greatest champion, but rather than build on these angles, Luke was the gifted chosen one, and the focus on the little people were lost, replaced by war scenes featuring literal little people in the form of Ewoks.
It's as if a series of movies about a WWII fighter squadron quickly expanded into a series that focused on a war of words between Hitler and Roosevelt. It just wouldn't make for an entertaining story.
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That advice works wonders when the file won't delete while it's in use and the registy entries rewrite themselves after you delete them.
This family of infectors is probably, by far, the worst spyware/hijacking peice of junk I've ever seen. I can't help but feel that 400,000 isn't nearly the number that has actually been infected, simply because nobody I know actually uses MSRT, and I seriously doubt that any machine that gets infected with it could actually get back into the condition where it can download and/or install MSRT, or virtually any other software. It's just that bad.
I don't think paper as a news medium is non-sustainable... I just think that Newspapers as a 12-section behemoth advertising delivery vehicle is non-sustainable. The current amount of bloat is immense, and exists simply because the current model is to sell as many ads to as many clients as possible. This means a ton of cheap ads that take up a large percentage of space, and they won't cut down content until advertisers pull out completely.
Limiting it to fewer sections to at higher cost would probably keep more papers in business long term, but would cut a ton of the potential to make money if and when business gets good again. Like it or not, most newspapers would rather take that bet then downsize to a sure thing.... Otherwise, they open themselves up competition. Remember when markets had multiple newspapers competing with each other, "Extras!" on street corners? Neither do I, but that time did exist once, and probably will again.
I've done my share of programming under the GPL... and I've never liked it. I never implied that proprietary was better, rather I prefer software that is free in every way. If you have a BSD-licensed app and you want to use an awesome code snippet from a GPL piece of software, you can't. (At least, not without going back to the contributor and working out some sort of deal.)
Obviously, the best model is to stay away from GPL.
I just wanted to ammend my post by saying that none of this is a good idea, but if the government was in the business of good ideas, it would be better to license rather than filter. The former at least has a shot of succeeding to some degree.
The real fix for the filtering problem is not to filter, but to license access to the internet. To be completely honest, just about everything done on any public utility has rules and regulations and forces people to obtain licenses to use them. Want to drive on the road? Get a license. Want to be an electrician? Get a license. Want to check out library books? Get a license. If you abuse the public's trust, you get your license revoked. Unlike, say, blocking IPs of the RBN, content filtering will never work, socially or technically, so waste our time trying.
Sprint is CDMA, not GSM. The "G1" phone doesn't do CDMA. What you want isn't possible.
I'm stuck on Sprint right now and probably the near future, unfortunately. As much as I'd love to develop for Android, Sprint has made it very clear that they don't value my business. CDMA keeps me from using this developer phone on Sprint. The only way I'll be able to switch is if I come across a magical pile of money that makes it all relatively painless.
"But the tens of thousands of smaller modules on CPAN are lagging, in many cases because of lack of access to a Windows environment for development and testing."
I was born on a day, but not yesterday. I must admit to not using perl for anything serious in a very long time, but as I recall, many smaller modules in CPAN didn't even work trouble free on an up-to-date linux machine because they were either badly coded or simply didn't run with newer versions of other dependencies. Maybe things have changed, but I doubt access to Windows machines is a real issue for anybody apart from a tiny handful of GNU diehards/blowhards.
Are we really that messed up as a society?
If I type "Reboot" and the device actually reboots, doesn't that mean it's working?
There's all sorts of low pressure work to do at Morgan Stanley... For example:
* Schmooze with Paulson and Bernanke.
* Knock the ball into the cup.
* Read twitters from your best buds at Goldman Sachs
It used to be busier before they had to remove a few items from that list like...
* Play with Credit Default Swaps
* Short Sell
As someone with a lower userid than you, I can attest to the fact that these devices were in no way patent worthy nor mind-bogglingly innovative. It's more like patenting a giant pilotable robot than can crush Tokyo and fight Godzilla... claiming that it is innovative and unique because obviously we don't yet have the technology that can do this.
Doubling the price through inflation isn't a problem as long as they outsource to America for half the price. Wonders of the weak dollar.
"I can't recall ever watching a debate on the floor of either House of Congress that I found even remotely impressive -- until today. One Democrat after the next -- of all stripes -- delivered impassioned, defiant speeches in defense of the rule of law, oversight on presidential eavesdropping, and safeguards on government spying."
Really? Ever? Do you really think this is the first time that an executive branch was impassionately challenged by a House controlled by an opposing party. This is nothing new nor special. If anything, it's pathetic. There's no debate, no Democrat reps out there saying "You know, some wiretapping might be okay, and tapping international calls really shouldn't be classified as 'domestic surveillance'".
If anything, thanks to Obamamania, it's quaint to be naive and in awe of politics again.
Can you co-opt the police and feds to conduct raids of private property on your behalf? No? The RIAA can and regularly does, confiscating anything that could conceivably be used to produce and distribute music, including vehicles and computers. It doesn't even matter if an organization, such as authorized mixtape producers, are acting within the law... their property is confiscated first and questions are asked later, usually past the point where a business can survive.
The RIAA are among the least of those who deserve to have their property rights defended.
S-video will be allowed, but probably found only on pricier models.
Unless something has changed in the last two days, absolutely none of them are on the market. Can't buy them from the big box stores, amazon, or anywhere else.
Only the DTB-H260F is that expensive, and that's an HDTV tuner, not a DTV converter.
These devices will have to meet government requirements, like no HD output. I'm expecting the better ones to cost maybe $80.
It's not about picture quality. It's about the government selling spectrum for billions and spending a couple million on the public to make it happen.
That's not even a DTV converter, it's an HDTV tuner.
The Samsung DTB-H260F is not an appropriate DTV converter unless you have component input or HDMI. Without it, you will not get on-screen menus, nor will aspect ratio stuff be friendly. The s-video and composite out is really for VCR recordings, not TV viewing.
I don't. To get the services I would want, I'm looking at a minimum of $80/month on cable, and even a basic rate is wasteful compared to other thing I could buy.
Silly, you can't add $40 to a product that doesn't exist. FCC approved converters in the big box stores can not be found, and I doubt they'll be in stores for at least a few months.
It's the executive branch's job to uphold the law... but as it is right now, there's no shortage of laws that pay lip service to the need of ISPs and such to keep private e-mail private, while another batch of laws circumvent this in a wide array of circumstances both dealing with national security and private matter. Say, a publicly traded company can't exactly keep e-mail secure if there potential for insider trading.
Not that the public really has a clue, though... Sadly, we've learned that our local public schools will gladly hand over authority to the federal government in exchange for a few measly dollars, so any presidential candidate could make a promise dealing with a matter that he/she officially has no role in, and you can be that laws will be passed and departments created that make it their role.
The Hidden Fortress angle in Episode 4 revolved around the fact that everybody was either a pawn or appeared to be a pawn, in service of either the empire or the rebellion. In truth, Chewbacca was as close to being the supreme commander of the rebellion's forces and R2D2 was the greatest champion, but rather than build on these angles, Luke was the gifted chosen one, and the focus on the little people were lost, replaced by war scenes featuring literal little people in the form of Ewoks.
It's as if a series of movies about a WWII fighter squadron quickly expanded into a series that focused on a war of words between Hitler and Roosevelt. It just wouldn't make for an entertaining story.