Ever since Win2k, the response to that message was to right-click the installer, choose "Run As..." and enter the credentials of an administrative account.
If you can deal with using sudo on a Linux box, you can deal with runas under Windows.
Well, it's still protected from those of us that do know how to circumvent CSS - it's just that the protection is utterly inadequate. That doesn't matter from the point of view of the DMCA though. As CDs generally aren't protected (and I'm not entirely sure that some autorun crap would really count), they wouldn't be covered by the DMCA.
The quote is from fremen, the submittor. While it implies that the article says that (or something like it), he's not actually claiming to be quoting the article itself.
And the poor chap goes out and buys a UPS. Never a chance to even imagine that ext3 rarely loses files even during a power shutdown.
I've never had NTFS lose a file either, and haven't seen that error message since my Win98 days (now long behind me, thankfully). Anyone who is still using Win98, well, they get what they deserve if you ask me.
That's all well and good, but why Ask Slashdot? What's wrong with YRO (which is where almost every other law-related story goes, whether relevant or not)? What's wrong with just leaving it in the default category?
This is not an Ask Slashdot. If it is, then every story can be made into one, just by ending the submission with "So, what do you all think?" or "Pretty cool, huh?".
The DM might lean a bit too far to the right but its a healthy counterpoint to the Stalin worshipping rags such as the Morning Star and its ilk.
No, it's an unhealthy counterpoint. Just because the Morning Star leans too far left doesn't mean it's ok for the Daily Hate to lean so far right. This isn't a balancing act; people actually believe the bilge these papers and others like them print.
nobody ever runs Oracle on Windows in a production environment (is it even possible?)
Of course it is, why wouldn't it be? I'd be very, very surprised if anyone did, as using Windows Server would seem to imply using SQL Server for the db, but I'm not aware of any technical reasons why it wouldn't work. I certainly know people who run Oracle on Windows in non-production environments.
but ever since Windows 95 those thins are supposed to be in My Documents
It's been a long time since I last used Win95 (thankfully), but I believe that "My Documents" was introduced in Windows 2000 (although an equivalent, differently named system was used in NT, of course).
Other than that, I agree - applications shouldn't be spraying user-specific files all over the filesystem.
This tech will be really exciting when the stiffening material can leave creased joints for flexibility as the material stiffens.
Unless you're being hit by multiple impacts in quick succession, that shouldn't be necessary - the material doesn't stay stiff for long, just long enough to absorb the impact. It's the imparted momentum that causes the stiffness - think of silly putty (or US equivalent). Squeeze it and it deforms, hit it with a hammer and the hammer bounces off.
I don't remember her skateboard gear, but I do remember the motorcycle clothing Hiro wore stiffening to protect him from bullets when he fled after beheading the guy in the bar in the bubble dome.
...but I know from first-hand experience that a few cans of an ethanol solution at around 5% by volume will power me through a night's clubbing for a good 7 or 8 hours.
It's about 4x as expensive as petrol though (but it tastes a whole lot better)
But could we tone down the flamebait in the submissions a notch?
People volunteer for medical testing all the time. Most of the time, nothing (serious) goes wrong. Yes, this time, something fucked up big time; a regrettable tragedy, and certainly cause to examine the rules and regulations surrounding testing on humans. But the reason it was such big news is that it's such a rare occurence. If it happened all the time, it wouldn't have been headline news.
I refuse to believe that this was the best submission on the subject. The submittor is entitled to his opinions, of course, but the place for those opinions is down here with the rest of us, not on the front page.
Still, got to keep those ad impressions coming somehow, I guess.
The OP's point was that the article assumes that the one doing the oversight is the mother. Why should us fathers be excluded from taking an active part in our child's upbringing?
It's actually alluded to on the page that you linked to, but it bears spelling out explicitly:
The repair install option returns Windows to the state it is in when freshly installed from the CD used
In other words, while you keep all your settings, files, etc, it wipes out any drivers, service packs or other updates that you have installed since installing from the CD. An XP SP1 install CD used to repair an up-to-date XP install is going to wipe out SP2, and a whole host of other updates.
That's why you had to reinstall the drivers - they weren't on the CD so they were nuked.
Both online (although I tend to only play FPSs online) and in single player games.
I'm not trying to get free stuff, or explore gender roles, or anything like that.
I do it because it's a game - a work of fantasy. In real life, I'm a human male computer programmer. If, in the game, I'm changing my job and quite possibly my species, why not change my gender as well?
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Ever since Win2k, the response to that message was to right-click the installer, choose "Run As..." and enter the credentials of an administrative account.
If you can deal with using sudo on a Linux box, you can deal with runas under Windows.
No, it got bought out, and the new owners changed the licence to prevent further redistribution.
So now it takes 2 minutes of googling to find it, rather than 30 seconds...
Well, it's still protected from those of us that do know how to circumvent CSS - it's just that the protection is utterly inadequate. That doesn't matter from the point of view of the DMCA though. As CDs generally aren't protected (and I'm not entirely sure that some autorun crap would really count), they wouldn't be covered by the DMCA.
The quote is from fremen, the submittor. While it implies that the article says that (or something like it), he's not actually claiming to be quoting the article itself.
And the poor chap goes out and buys a UPS. Never a chance to even imagine that ext3 rarely loses files even during a power shutdown.
I've never had NTFS lose a file either, and haven't seen that error message since my Win98 days (now long behind me, thankfully). Anyone who is still using Win98, well, they get what they deserve if you ask me.
(What, you don't have any old computer parts in their original anti-static bags?!? That's it, no /. for you! ;) )
No, of course I don't - I have old computer parts in the anti-static bags of the new parts that replaced them!
Congratulations on getting (at time of writing) 100% Insightful moderations.
Mods, please either wake up, or go get some fresh air or something.
That's all well and good, but why Ask Slashdot? What's wrong with YRO (which is where almost every other law-related story goes, whether relevant or not)? What's wrong with just leaving it in the default category?
This is not an Ask Slashdot. If it is, then every story can be made into one, just by ending the submission with "So, what do you all think?" or "Pretty cool, huh?".
The DM might lean a bit too far to the right but its a healthy counterpoint to
the Stalin worshipping rags such as the Morning Star and its ilk.
No, it's an unhealthy counterpoint. Just because the Morning Star leans too far left doesn't mean it's ok for the Daily Hate to lean so far right. This isn't a balancing act; people actually believe the bilge these papers and others like them print.
Spain has a LOT of blood on its hands.
Name one developed (or even semi-developed) country that doesn't.
nobody ever runs Oracle on Windows in a production environment (is it even possible?)
Of course it is, why wouldn't it be? I'd be very, very surprised if anyone did, as using Windows Server would seem to imply using SQL Server for the db, but I'm not aware of any technical reasons why it wouldn't work. I certainly know people who run Oracle on Windows in non-production environments.
It's the same door, it's just different people walking through it.
Your analogy would be closer if the music industry had litigated to keep people using cassettes, rather than moving to CDs.
So don't run as an administrator unless you really have to, don't use IE, and don't download and install random crap from the internet.
My Windows machine has been stable and spyware free for years by applying a little common sense; something anyone here should be able to do.
but ever since Windows 95 those thins are supposed to be in My Documents
It's been a long time since I last used Win95 (thankfully), but I believe that "My Documents" was introduced in Windows 2000 (although an equivalent, differently named system was used in NT, of course).
Other than that, I agree - applications shouldn't be spraying user-specific files all over the filesystem.
This tech will be really exciting when the stiffening material can leave creased joints for flexibility as the material stiffens.
Unless you're being hit by multiple impacts in quick succession, that shouldn't be necessary - the material doesn't stay stiff for long, just long enough to absorb the impact. It's the imparted momentum that causes the stiffness - think of silly putty (or US equivalent). Squeeze it and it deforms, hit it with a hammer and the hammer bounces off.
the type that is inflated and goes inside another tire (what do you call that?)
Here in the UK, we'd call it an inner tube
I don't remember her skateboard gear, but I do remember the motorcycle clothing Hiro wore stiffening to protect him from bullets when he fled after beheading the guy in the bar in the bubble dome.
Yes; bullet proof and knife proof jackets are quite different, and are not interchangeable. This just makes it even more obvious.
Surely you mean "phone-powered bar code scanning", ie using the phone to scan bar codes, not powering the phone by scanning bar codes...
...but I know from first-hand experience that a few cans of an ethanol solution at around 5% by volume will power me through a night's clubbing for a good 7 or 8 hours.
It's about 4x as expensive as petrol though (but it tastes a whole lot better)
But could we tone down the flamebait in the submissions a notch?
People volunteer for medical testing all the time. Most of the time, nothing (serious) goes wrong. Yes, this time, something fucked up big time; a regrettable tragedy, and certainly cause to examine the rules and regulations surrounding testing on humans. But the reason it was such big news is that it's such a rare occurence. If it happened all the time, it wouldn't have been headline news.
I refuse to believe that this was the best submission on the subject. The submittor is entitled to his opinions, of course, but the place for those opinions is down here with the rest of us, not on the front page.
Still, got to keep those ad impressions coming somehow, I guess.
Biometrics? Lying?
The OP's point was that the article assumes that the one doing the oversight is the mother. Why should us fathers be excluded from taking an active part in our child's upbringing?
Not an MS one, but in the same vein...
Gates Foundation Cures Cancer, AIDS, World Hunger
-becomes-
Gates Causes Population Crisis, Dooms World
a number of drivers did require reinstall
It's actually alluded to on the page that you linked to, but it bears spelling out explicitly:
The repair install option returns Windows to the state it is in when freshly installed from the CD used
In other words, while you keep all your settings, files, etc, it wipes out any drivers, service packs or other updates that you have installed since installing from the CD. An XP SP1 install CD used to repair an up-to-date XP install is going to wipe out SP2, and a whole host of other updates.
That's why you had to reinstall the drivers - they weren't on the CD so they were nuked.
Both online (although I tend to only play FPSs online) and in single player games.
I'm not trying to get free stuff, or explore gender roles, or anything like that.
I do it because it's a game - a work of fantasy. In real life, I'm a human male computer programmer. If, in the game, I'm changing my job and quite possibly my species, why not change my gender as well?