What version are you running? I have the free version of AVG installed at home (version 6.0.742) on 2 machines with XP installed patched to SP2, and the security centre detects it just fine, including whether or not the virus definition is up to date.
Security Center considers having Automatic Updates set to "Ask Before Installing" a security risk
That's because it is. In the time between the user realising that there's an update ready to be installed (or choosing to install it) and it being installed, there is a window of opportunity for the machine to be compromised. Having them installed automatically reduces that window. There are very good reasons for not necessarily installing all updates automatically, but it most certianly is a trade-off in terms of security.
I can have automatic updates download and install updates on a scheduled basis, and I can't remember the last *system*-level update that required a reboot under XP, barring SP2 itself, let alone application updates.
It's hardly obnoxious (although that's subjective, I guess), and (presumably) you can elect to hide it, like any other "status notification icon", if for whatever reason you want to ignore the warning.
It may not be inflammatory exactly, but it's certainly dishonest. The title implies that they were sued because they were music lovers, or perhaps despite being music lovers. It seeks to evoke feelings of pity and empathy - "Hey, I love music too!".
In reality, they were sued for copyright infringement. Whether or not they truly loved the stuff they shared is irrelevant.
More likely he - or an advisor - got confused as to what peta- and tera- mean as prefixes. Hell, even as a physics undergrad, I'd have to stop and think to sort out nano-, femto-, atto-, etc, simply because I didn't use them as often as other prefixes.
Oh, and incidently - most people *wouldn't* notice. Never forget that slashdot readers and like-minded people make up a tiny fraction of the total population.
Of course the media spin is to make it look like its more than it really is.
Not spin as such - they are correct in that 40TB is roughly equivalent to 10,000,000 songs *in size terms*. Nowhere did I see them use the word "unique". All they're doing is trying to give the non-techy readers a feel for how big 40TB really is.
True, a lot of people will read it as meaning 10,000,000 unique songs, but really it doesn't matter. Whether they're unique, ro 10,000,000 copies of the same song, that's still (potentially) 10,000,000 instances of copyright infringement.
Who gets hurt if you go 50 in a 35 with no one else around you? If people pull out in front of you suddenly, that's their fault.
Speed limits are based on the road and surrounding conditions, in order to provide a safe stopping distance should you need to stop suddenly.
In your example, if you're doing 50 in a 35 area and a kid runs out in front of you, damn right it's your fault. If you'd been going at the speed limit, you might've been able to stop in time, or at least the injuries caused would've been reduced.
To my mind speeding, especially in a bult-up area, is reckless (or at least negligent) driving. You're knowingly reducing your chances of successfully reacting to a problem, and therefore potentially putting others in danger, for purely selfish reasons.
No one loses anything when someone makes a copy.
Well, the person who originally created the work loses the opportunity to attempt to earn money from their labours. Musicians can tour and sell merchandise, and I guess at least some programmers can offer support services or do purely bespoke work, but what of authors? If books can be freely copied, what can authors do to earn (enough) money? Or do you suggest that the majority of "content" be produced by people in their spare time, or the extremely lucky few who are able to gain some form of patronage?
The server does not actually have any files; they come from the clients.
I've not used DC very much, but as I understood it that's not necessarily true. The server doesn't *have* to have any files on it, but most likely *will*. Unless it's changed since I used it (which is a couple of years, admittedly) the DC app was both client and server. It's analogous to a p2p client that allows you to connect to a given portion of the network (the hub), rather than the network as a whole.
Of course, I could well be wrong. But even if I am, then the servers could presumably be siezed as evidence so the authorities can go through any connection logs that may exist, looking for the IP addresses of the people connecting to it and doing the actual sharing...
These numbers are ether TOTALLY WRONG AND FASLEIFIED or they busted some kind of massively well funded organization?
Or perhaps, just perhaps, some non-technical journalist, copy writer or similar mixed up petabytes and terabytes, and all your figures are therefore a factor of 1000 out.
That gives you a figure of around 140 300GB drives; as the files available on a dc hub are all those being shared by everyone connecting, you could easily be looking at the 100GB drives of a couple of thousand people sharing a couple of dozen gigs each.
They have silly surface gravities, too, something in the 300G range.
Well, assuming a mass of around that of Sol (2E30), at a distance of 4 million miles, I get an acceleration due to the star's gravity of around 3m/(s*s).
(Hey, slashdot, how come no sup tag?)
That's from g = GM/(r*r), and converting r to metres.
I did three science A Levels (maths, physics, chemistry) and a physics degree, and yet I still can't quite shake the habit of weighing myself in stones and pounds. I can convert it to kg if necessary, but I don't know it off the top of my head. Same for my height, actually; feet and inches, but I can convert to m/cm if necessary.
I seem to remember just having read something about companies being sued for making 'unlicensed' DVD players...
Yes; two chip manufacturers are being sued for breach of contract because they have done something that their contract specifically forbids. In this case, it's supplying chips used to unencrypt DVD data encrypted with CSS to manufacturers for use in players with analogue connectors that don't have Macrovision applied to their output.
That is in direct contravention of their contracts, and so they're being sued for breach of those contracts.
While that may or may not be the case, it certainly wouldn't make me feel any better about being sued by someone. I can't see myself thinking "Well, at least they do do real research" while trying to work out whether or not I can afford to fight the case, or will just have to give in and take it.
The same can be said of any large company. None are immune to changes in fortune. IBM, for example, iirc holds more software patents than any other company in the world.
Sure, they're "on our side" now, but in the future, who knows? They may revert to their bad old ways if given sufficient incentive/reason.
While that's true, I suspect it went more like this:
Group A at MS joins the W3C, with official blessing, as a representative of MS.
Group B, meanwhile, applies for a patent that covers (doubtless amongst other things) CSS.
At some point, either Group A, their sponsor, or someone of a similar ilk discovers this, decides that there's a conflict of interest (or that there could be perceived to be one), and decides to leave/orders Group A to leave the W3C.
Sure, it sucks, but never forget that MS, like any large company, has a lot of different divisions and groups working largely in isolation from one another. It's entirely possible that this is more down to coincidence than actual malice.
And what are you putting that php script in? Or do you have tags (or the php equivalent - I do Java/JSP) for every single HTML element, and all their possible attribtues? (In which case, you're essentially writing raw HTML with extra characters in it)
Eh, they're probably British. Gas by the Litre, speed limits in MPH, beer by the pint, and weight by the stone.
But temperatures in celsius... (mostly) oh, and these days, you tend to buy weighed goods by the kg, although yeah, we still weigh ourselves in stones and pounds.
. Otherwise, its much cheaper, and not that much harder, to just keep it in the fridge.
Well, that really depends - if I'm out and about, I can't carry a fridge with me. I might, however, be able to carry a couple of these cans around, and not have to worry about them warming up while I'm out.
Well, if that's truly all it is, then it's useless. All the spammers have to do is modify their mass-mailing software to do the same, which will happen approximately 5 minutes after they hear of this.
Graham claims that terser languages are more powerful, because studies have shown that coders churn out a pretty constant number of lines per day, regardless of the programming language. Java is anything but terse.
So, use a decent IDE, one that features code completion - type the first few characters of the name, hit ctrl-space (or whatever, as appropriate) and it completes the symbol for you. Meanwhile, having more descriptive names improves code readability (and thus maintainability).
Unfortunatley, auto updates only gets critical updates. That's fine if that's all you want, but there are a number of useful updates that aren't critical that you'll miss out on if you never visit windows update yourself.
I used to get that all the time; it was funny at first ("Hey! Slashdot doesn't render in Moz! lolololzzz"), then simply irritating, then bloody annoying.
Fortunately, I've not seen it in a while; maybe it's fixed in more recent Mozs (I'm running 1.7 here)
Windows is single user? Sure, the 9x line, but that's essentially dead now. NT (and so 2k and XP) has been multi-user right from the start.
There should be no reason for profiles in a browser. A user logs into the computer, and the runs whatever applications in a protected space, with all data stored in the user directory.
Which is *exactly* the way it works on my XP machines at home, with a default install of Mozilla. I did *nothing* but click "next" a few times, and yet each user account has its own settings, history, temp files, etc (all stored in the appropriate part of the user's Documents and Settings folder)
Currently development goes something like this: User: I have a problem. Can you solve it for me? Developer goes off into a room for a few weeks.
There's your problem right there - at what point did the developer ask the user for their input?
We can't give you what you want unless you tell us, get involved and take responsibility.
And they won't do that unless you tell them that it's necessary. As the developers, it's our job to know how to develop software, not the user's. They don't know what information we need - we do, so we have to tell them.
As much as they have to work with us, we have to work with them.
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AVG Antivirus is not detected by Security Center
What version are you running? I have the free version of AVG installed at home (version 6.0.742) on 2 machines with XP installed patched to SP2, and the security centre detects it just fine, including whether or not the virus definition is up to date.
Security Center considers having Automatic Updates set to "Ask Before Installing" a security risk
That's because it is. In the time between the user realising that there's an update ready to be installed (or choosing to install it) and it being installed, there is a window of opportunity for the machine to be compromised. Having them installed automatically reduces that window. There are very good reasons for not necessarily installing all updates automatically, but it most certianly is a trade-off in terms of security.
I can have automatic updates download and install updates on a scheduled basis, and I can't remember the last *system*-level update that required a reboot under XP, barring SP2 itself, let alone application updates.
It's hardly obnoxious (although that's subjective, I guess), and (presumably) you can elect to hide it, like any other "status notification icon", if for whatever reason you want to ignore the warning.
It may not be inflammatory exactly, but it's certainly dishonest. The title implies that they were sued because they were music lovers, or perhaps despite being music lovers. It seeks to evoke feelings of pity and empathy - "Hey, I love music too!".
In reality, they were sued for copyright infringement. Whether or not they truly loved the stuff they shared is irrelevant.
More likely he - or an advisor - got confused as to what peta- and tera- mean as prefixes. Hell, even as a physics undergrad, I'd have to stop and think to sort out nano-, femto-, atto-, etc, simply because I didn't use them as often as other prefixes.
Oh, and incidently - most people *wouldn't* notice. Never forget that slashdot readers and like-minded people make up a tiny fraction of the total population.
Of course the media spin is to make it look like its more than it really is.
Not spin as such - they are correct in that 40TB is roughly equivalent to 10,000,000 songs *in size terms*. Nowhere did I see them use the word "unique". All they're doing is trying to give the non-techy readers a feel for how big 40TB really is.
True, a lot of people will read it as meaning 10,000,000 unique songs, but really it doesn't matter. Whether they're unique, ro 10,000,000 copies of the same song, that's still (potentially) 10,000,000 instances of copyright infringement.
Who gets hurt if you go 50 in a 35 with no one else around you? If people pull out in front of you suddenly, that's their fault.
Speed limits are based on the road and surrounding conditions, in order to provide a safe stopping distance should you need to stop suddenly.
In your example, if you're doing 50 in a 35 area and a kid runs out in front of you, damn right it's your fault. If you'd been going at the speed limit, you might've been able to stop in time, or at least the injuries caused would've been reduced.
To my mind speeding, especially in a bult-up area, is reckless (or at least negligent) driving. You're knowingly reducing your chances of successfully reacting to a problem, and therefore potentially putting others in danger, for purely selfish reasons.
No one loses anything when someone makes a copy.
Well, the person who originally created the work loses the opportunity to attempt to earn money from their labours. Musicians can tour and sell merchandise, and I guess at least some programmers can offer support services or do purely bespoke work, but what of authors? If books can be freely copied, what can authors do to earn (enough) money? Or do you suggest that the majority of "content" be produced by people in their spare time, or the extremely lucky few who are able to gain some form of patronage?
The server does not actually have any files; they come from the clients.
I've not used DC very much, but as I understood it that's not necessarily true. The server doesn't *have* to have any files on it, but most likely *will*. Unless it's changed since I used it (which is a couple of years, admittedly) the DC app was both client and server. It's analogous to a p2p client that allows you to connect to a given portion of the network (the hub), rather than the network as a whole.
Of course, I could well be wrong. But even if I am, then the servers could presumably be siezed as evidence so the authorities can go through any connection logs that may exist, looking for the IP addresses of the people connecting to it and doing the actual sharing...
These numbers are ether TOTALLY WRONG AND FASLEIFIED or they busted some kind of massively well funded organization?
Or perhaps, just perhaps, some non-technical journalist, copy writer or similar mixed up petabytes and terabytes, and all your figures are therefore a factor of 1000 out.
That gives you a figure of around 140 300GB drives; as the files available on a dc hub are all those being shared by everyone connecting, you could easily be looking at the 100GB drives of a couple of thousand people sharing a couple of dozen gigs each.
They have silly surface gravities, too, something in the 300G range.
Well, assuming a mass of around that of Sol (2E30), at a distance of 4 million miles, I get an acceleration due to the star's gravity of around 3m/(s*s).
(Hey, slashdot, how come no sup tag?)
That's from g = GM/(r*r), and converting r to metres.
I did three science A Levels (maths, physics, chemistry) and a physics degree, and yet I still can't quite shake the habit of weighing myself in stones and pounds. I can convert it to kg if necessary, but I don't know it off the top of my head. Same for my height, actually; feet and inches, but I can convert to m/cm if necessary.
I seem to remember just having read something about companies being sued for making 'unlicensed' DVD players...
Yes; two chip manufacturers are being sued for breach of contract because they have done something that their contract specifically forbids. In this case, it's supplying chips used to unencrypt DVD data encrypted with CSS to manufacturers for use in players with analogue connectors that don't have Macrovision applied to their output.
That is in direct contravention of their contracts, and so they're being sued for breach of those contracts.
While that may or may not be the case, it certainly wouldn't make me feel any better about being sued by someone. I can't see myself thinking "Well, at least they do do real research" while trying to work out whether or not I can afford to fight the case, or will just have to give in and take it.
The same can be said of any large company. None are immune to changes in fortune. IBM, for example, iirc holds more software patents than any other company in the world.
Sure, they're "on our side" now, but in the future, who knows? They may revert to their bad old ways if given sufficient incentive/reason.
While that's true, I suspect it went more like this:
Group A at MS joins the W3C, with official blessing, as a representative of MS.
Group B, meanwhile, applies for a patent that covers (doubtless amongst other things) CSS.
At some point, either Group A, their sponsor, or someone of a similar ilk discovers this, decides that there's a conflict of interest (or that there could be perceived to be one), and decides to leave/orders Group A to leave the W3C.
Sure, it sucks, but never forget that MS, like any large company, has a lot of different divisions and groups working largely in isolation from one another. It's entirely possible that this is more down to coincidence than actual malice.
I can live without Word's quote-unquote grammar checker. :)
:-)
You actually *wrote* "quote-unquote"?!
And what are you putting that php script in? Or do you have tags (or the php equivalent - I do Java/JSP) for every single HTML element, and all their possible attribtues? (In which case, you're essentially writing raw HTML with extra characters in it)
Eh, they're probably British. Gas by the Litre, speed limits in MPH, beer by the pint, and weight by the stone.
But temperatures in celsius... (mostly) oh, and these days, you tend to buy weighed goods by the kg, although yeah, we still weigh ourselves in stones and pounds.
. Otherwise, its much cheaper, and not that much harder, to just keep it in the fridge.
Well, that really depends - if I'm out and about, I can't carry a fridge with me. I might, however, be able to carry a couple of these cans around, and not have to worry about them warming up while I'm out.
Well, if that's truly all it is, then it's useless. All the spammers have to do is modify their mass-mailing software to do the same, which will happen approximately 5 minutes after they hear of this.
Graham claims that terser languages are more powerful, because studies have shown that coders churn out a pretty constant number of lines per day, regardless of the programming language. Java is anything but terse.
So, use a decent IDE, one that features code completion - type the first few characters of the name, hit ctrl-space (or whatever, as appropriate) and it completes the symbol for you. Meanwhile, having more descriptive names improves code readability (and thus maintainability).
Next argument agaisnt Java, please.
Unfortunatley, auto updates only gets critical updates. That's fine if that's all you want, but there are a number of useful updates that aren't critical that you'll miss out on if you never visit windows update yourself.
I used to get that all the time; it was funny at first ("Hey! Slashdot doesn't render in Moz! lolololzzz"), then simply irritating, then bloody annoying.
Fortunately, I've not seen it in a while; maybe it's fixed in more recent Mozs (I'm running 1.7 here)
the single user nature of MS Windows
Windows is single user? Sure, the 9x line, but that's essentially dead now. NT (and so 2k and XP) has been multi-user right from the start.
There should be no reason for profiles in a browser. A user logs into the computer, and the runs whatever applications in a protected space, with all data stored in the user directory.
Which is *exactly* the way it works on my XP machines at home, with a default install of Mozilla. I did *nothing* but click "next" a few times, and yet each user account has its own settings, history, temp files, etc (all stored in the appropriate part of the user's Documents and Settings folder)
Currently development goes something like this:
User: I have a problem. Can you solve it for me?
Developer goes off into a room for a few weeks.
There's your problem right there - at what point did the developer ask the user for their input?
We can't give you what you want unless you tell us, get involved and take responsibility.
And they won't do that unless you tell them that it's necessary. As the developers, it's our job to know how to develop software, not the user's. They don't know what information we need - we do, so we have to tell them.
As much as they have to work with us, we have to work with them.