Were you downloading the network install, or the "fast" install one? Chances are, if you keep your machine reasonably up to date, the "fast" one would be a fair bit smaller.
Well, another screenshot shows a dialogue with the system asking you if you want to allow UT2k3 to connect to/receive conenctions from the net.
I'd assume, therefore, that it works like any other software firewall I've used - the default is to ask the user on first connection attempt, and subsequently, until they tell you to always do X.
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I'd say humans are the most important creatures on the most important planet in the universe
I have a daughter. She's four years old, and she's the prettiest, smartest little girl in the whole damn world. Just like every other father's little girl.
Same goes for us and our planet - we're the most important species on the most important planet; just like any other intelligent species on their planets will be to them, if they exist.
When dealing with distances on this scale, light years or parsecs (or multiples thereof) are used. I've never seen a single astro physics text use metres at that scale.
Generally, people write out all the zeroes when they want to impress on people just how big something is - 8.51x10^20 just doesn't look as big:-)
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Well, I run XP Pro at home and at work, and there most certianly are not updates "pretty much... every day". It's not even every week, and that's including the non-critical ones.
At some point you just have got to learn how to say "no".
Agreed; hence my comment about people who started taking the piss suddenly finding that I was too busy to help out (or possibly finding that I was telling them to stop taking the piss, depending on what I judged to be the appropriate response, of course)
It's called "being nice". I personally have no problem helping people out with PC problems from time to time. Sure, if it started getting to be too regular a thing, they'd probably start finding that suddenly I'm busy an awful lot. I can't imagine charging friends or family for that sort of thing, though, unless it was actually business-related (eg I was setting up a server or network, or writing some code, or something, for their business).
1) they're used to paying people to do that sort of thing, as it's been that way their whole lives 2) those things clearly take effort, whereas most PC problems are fixed sitting down
Given enough time, I think people will come to realise that actually, PC repair does take effort (mental, rather than physical), and that people do get paid to do it professionally.
The "in an effort to induce change" bit is key. If no-one knows that you're doing it, or at least why you're doing it, then how can you possibly induce change?
In this case, there are two possible reasons for ignoring copyright law:
1) you think that the current system is broken in some way, and needs to be changed 2) you just want stuff and don't want to have to pay for it
Unless you publicly stand up and announce that you are doing what you do because of 1), most people (who either don't realise or don't believe that there's a problem) are going to assume that it's all happening due to 2). The only change that that will effect is an increased clampdown and even tougher laws and penalties.
If you want the law to change, you have to convince enough of the public to agree with you that the legislators cannot afford to ignore the issue. As Richard_at_work says, you can't do that by breaking the law and hiding your activities.
Contrary to what certain software producers may want you to believe, the End User Licence Agreement is not a contract either.
In fact, I've just had a look in the Windows XP Professional EULA and the word "contract" does not appear anywhere in it (at least according to notepad's search function).
EULAs are not contracts, they're just licences. The GPL is an EULA; it's just a hell of a lot less restrictive than most.
Licenses give you permission to do something, that's it.
As do EULAs. Asinine I know, but copyright law actually forbids you from copying the software from the install media to your PC (eg by installing it), or from copying the installed copy (which you can't have made anyway) into RAM. That is why you need a licence to use the software - without one, you own a nice, shiny coaster.
I'm not buying screen savers and ringers that expire in 90 or 120 days
Your screensavers and tones expire?! I think I begin to see why Americans always seem to be so critical and sceptical of advances in mobile phone technology - expiring downloads, network-locked phones, etc; you guys are being screwed.
You're not paranoid enough. Sure, you've seen the source to every app you run, and compiled it yourself with a trusted compiler.
That's no good if the hardware is compromised though. If you run any software at all, you've already entrusted your computer to the company that made the hardware.
would still be profitable for the spammers as long as there are new marks willing to pay to send the spam in the first place.
But that's the point! If no-one ever responded to spam, then there wouldn't be anyone willing to pay to have it sent on their behalf!
People know how unpopular spam is, and they don't care, as long as it brings in extra money. When it stops, it will no longer be worth their time or money to send it, and so they'll stop paying for it.
Yes - to make intentionally submitting the email addresses of such people to spammers illegal. Hell, they can probably swing it as a terrorist act - interfering with the democratic process, distributed dos attack on their email, etc.
Like the laws that say you can't hit other vehicles on the road, those laws cover this inherently because if I am not paying attention and hit someone, I get in trouble
That's true - but these laws are designed to try to prevent you from increasing your risks of hitting someone unnecessarily.
Personally, I don't care if you're distrcted by your phone, or GPS unit, or whatever, lose control and wrap your car around a lampost. I do care if you hit someone else, injuring or killing them, though.
This sort of law isn't designed to protect unwise drivers from themselves, but to protect other road users from unwise drivers.
It's also for those of us who do have the technical expertise, but frankly have better things to do with their free time than build something if a perfectly acceptable off-the-shelf product exists.
That said, whilst reading the article, I was mulling over how to go about building one myself, and what chance I'd have of convincing my girlfriend that while yes, we do have 3 PCs between 3 of us, another one *would* be a good idea...
Then you shouldn't be doing anything that takes your attention away from the road - watching TV, consulting a map/navigation computer, changing the channel on the radio, using a phone, anything.
That said, the linked text specifically exempts global positioning, mapping, vehicle information and vision enhancement displays. I would imagine that GPS units that include games would be covered, as long as you're not playing the game. Let's try to exercise some common sense, shall we?
Perhaps it too is worthy of modding up? I know that most posts of that sort are essentially contentless, but I've seen some that add more details, provide supporting links, etc.
Of course not. That's almost forgivable, though - everyone says dumb stuff occasionally. Gotta wonder at the mods that sent it to +5, though:
a) the problem isn't that you can use VB to control it, it's that it exposes a programmable interface; the language used is irrelevant b) as you've pointed out, the claims made about Messenger being the only IM client to have been hit by a worm are simply false.
But hey, let's not let the facts get in the way of a good MS-bash, eh?
That's very strange. I have Outlook installed at work (we are *required* to use the Exchange calendar, and I have yet to find an email client that isn't dog slow working with Exchange), and it has no such requirement. We're running a reasonably old version, though (2000 SP3), so it probably predates that particular "feature".
All I know is that on the four XP machines (three Pro, one Home) that I have use of, Messenger did what it was told for all users (myself on all four machines, my gf and daughter on various of them).
Not only that, but the last time I started Outlook Express it helpfully launched Messenger for me.
(I don't remember why I launched OE, but there you go...)
Apart from that, though, I've not been bothered by Messneger *at all*. On first login to a new system, I merely tell it (in the preferences controls) to go away and never bother me again, and that's exactly what it does.
But I guess it will have to wait for their grandchildren to learn of it
While I may well have grandchildren in 2031 - mydaughter will be 32 (and don't think that doesn't scare the shit out of me!), I'd likle to think that I'll still be here to see it. I'm only 29 now, after all, so I think I can expect to live that long...
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Were you downloading the network install, or the "fast" install one? Chances are, if you keep your machine reasonably up to date, the "fast" one would be a fair bit smaller.
Well, another screenshot shows a dialogue with the system asking you if you want to allow UT2k3 to connect to/receive conenctions from the net.
I'd assume, therefore, that it works like any other software firewall I've used - the default is to ask the user on first connection attempt, and subsequently, until they tell you to always do X.
I'd say humans are the most important creatures on the most important planet in the universe
I have a daughter. She's four years old, and she's the prettiest, smartest little girl in the whole damn world. Just like every other father's little girl.
Same goes for us and our planet - we're the most important species on the most important planet; just like any other intelligent species on their planets will be to them, if they exist.
When dealing with distances on this scale, light years or parsecs (or multiples thereof) are used. I've never seen a single astro physics text use metres at that scale.
:-)
Generally, people write out all the zeroes when they want to impress on people just how big something is - 8.51x10^20 just doesn't look as big
At least you have some fun while you're waiting
There is pretty much a new MS update every day.
Well, I run XP Pro at home and at work, and there most certianly are not updates "pretty much... every day". It's not even every week, and that's including the non-critical ones.
At some point you just have got to learn how to say "no".
Agreed; hence my comment about people who started taking the piss suddenly finding that I was too busy to help out (or possibly finding that I was telling them to stop taking the piss, depending on what I judged to be the appropriate response, of course)
It's called "being nice". I personally have no problem helping people out with PC problems from time to time. Sure, if it started getting to be too regular a thing, they'd probably start finding that suddenly I'm busy an awful lot. I can't imagine charging friends or family for that sort of thing, though, unless it was actually business-related (eg I was setting up a server or network, or writing some code, or something, for their business).
I suspect the reason for that is twofold:
1) they're used to paying people to do that sort of thing, as it's been that way their whole lives
2) those things clearly take effort, whereas most PC problems are fixed sitting down
Given enough time, I think people will come to realise that actually, PC repair does take effort (mental, rather than physical), and that people do get paid to do it professionally.
The "in an effort to induce change" bit is key. If no-one knows that you're doing it, or at least why you're doing it, then how can you possibly induce change?
In this case, there are two possible reasons for ignoring copyright law:
1) you think that the current system is broken in some way, and needs to be changed
2) you just want stuff and don't want to have to pay for it
Unless you publicly stand up and announce that you are doing what you do because of 1), most people (who either don't realise or don't believe that there's a problem) are going to assume that it's all happening due to 2). The only change that that will effect is an increased clampdown and even tougher laws and penalties.
If you want the law to change, you have to convince enough of the public to agree with you that the legislators cannot afford to ignore the issue. As Richard_at_work says, you can't do that by breaking the law and hiding your activities.
Contrary to what certain software producers may want you to believe, the End User Licence Agreement is not a contract either.
In fact, I've just had a look in the Windows XP Professional EULA and the word "contract" does not appear anywhere in it (at least according to notepad's search function).
EULAs are not contracts, they're just licences. The GPL is an EULA; it's just a hell of a lot less restrictive than most.
Licenses give you permission to do something, that's it.
As do EULAs. Asinine I know, but copyright law actually forbids you from copying the software from the install media to your PC (eg by installing it), or from copying the installed copy (which you can't have made anyway) into RAM. That is why you need a licence to use the software - without one, you own a nice, shiny coaster.
I'm not buying screen savers and ringers that expire in 90 or 120 days
Your screensavers and tones expire?! I think I begin to see why Americans always seem to be so critical and sceptical of advances in mobile phone technology - expiring downloads, network-locked phones, etc; you guys are being screwed.
Well, a "couple of trillion" is about 2 trillion, which is 4 times 500 billion - in other words, they'd be blocking 25% of all spam.
That sounds like a worthy goal to me.
And by the same token, AOL are well within their rights to refuse your mail, unless it comes from a machine on a list of approved sources.
That would suck for everyone else, but that's life.
You're not paranoid enough. Sure, you've seen the source to every app you run, and compiled it yourself with a trusted compiler.
That's no good if the hardware is compromised though. If you run any software at all, you've already entrusted your computer to the company that made the hardware.
would still be profitable for the spammers as long as there are new marks willing to pay to send the spam in the first place.
But that's the point! If no-one ever responded to spam, then there wouldn't be anyone willing to pay to have it sent on their behalf!
People know how unpopular spam is, and they don't care, as long as it brings in extra money. When it stops, it will no longer be worth their time or money to send it, and so they'll stop paying for it.
We'll soon see a change in the law.
Yes - to make intentionally submitting the email addresses of such people to spammers illegal. Hell, they can probably swing it as a terrorist act - interfering with the democratic process, distributed dos attack on their email, etc.
Like the laws that say you can't hit other vehicles on the road, those laws cover this inherently because if I am not paying attention and hit someone, I get in trouble
That's true - but these laws are designed to try to prevent you from increasing your risks of hitting someone unnecessarily.
Personally, I don't care if you're distrcted by your phone, or GPS unit, or whatever, lose control and wrap your car around a lampost. I do care if you hit someone else, injuring or killing them, though.
This sort of law isn't designed to protect unwise drivers from themselves, but to protect other road users from unwise drivers.
It's also for those of us who do have the technical expertise, but frankly have better things to do with their free time than build something if a perfectly acceptable off-the-shelf product exists.
That said, whilst reading the article, I was mulling over how to go about building one myself, and what chance I'd have of convincing my girlfriend that while yes, we do have 3 PCs between 3 of us, another one *would* be a good idea...
Then you shouldn't be doing anything that takes your attention away from the road - watching TV, consulting a map/navigation computer, changing the channel on the radio, using a phone, anything.
That said, the linked text specifically exempts global positioning, mapping, vehicle information and vision enhancement displays. I would imagine that GPS units that include games would be covered, as long as you're not playing the game. Let's try to exercise some common sense, shall we?
Perhaps it too is worthy of modding up? I know that most posts of that sort are essentially contentless, but I've seen some that add more details, provide supporting links, etc.
Did you actually check before making that claim?
Of course not. That's almost forgivable, though - everyone says dumb stuff occasionally. Gotta wonder at the mods that sent it to +5, though:
a) the problem isn't that you can use VB to control it, it's that it exposes a programmable interface; the language used is irrelevant
b) as you've pointed out, the claims made about Messenger being the only IM client to have been hit by a worm are simply false.
But hey, let's not let the facts get in the way of a good MS-bash, eh?
That's very strange. I have Outlook installed at work (we are *required* to use the Exchange calendar, and I have yet to find an email client that isn't dog slow working with Exchange), and it has no such requirement. We're running a reasonably old version, though (2000 SP3), so it probably predates that particular "feature".
All I know is that on the four XP machines (three Pro, one Home) that I have use of, Messenger did what it was told for all users (myself on all four machines, my gf and daughter on various of them).
Not only that, but the last time I started Outlook Express it helpfully launched Messenger for me.
(I don't remember why I launched OE, but there you go...)
Apart from that, though, I've not been bothered by Messneger *at all*. On first login to a new system, I merely tell it (in the preferences controls) to go away and never bother me again, and that's exactly what it does.
But I guess it will have to wait for their grandchildren to learn of it
While I may well have grandchildren in 2031 - mydaughter will be 32 (and don't think that doesn't scare the shit out of me!), I'd likle to think that I'll still be here to see it. I'm only 29 now, after all, so I think I can expect to live that long...