I happen to be a network tech at a Danish ISP and have been doing so for 10 years. While we are required to log some stuff for minimum 1 year, none has ever expressed any interest in DNS logs, ever. The only authorities who can request any sort of information are Police and military, via a court order. They can by court order just get the interface of interest mirrored, so why should a understaffed and overworked Police care about what DNS you use? On that note, very few in the Danish government knows what DNS is. Your tinfoil hat may to be too tight, me thinks?
O ok.. sure and you're the senior tech at this ISP and have top level clearance then right? O and you have access to every room in the joint too I'm sure? Please tell us what do you log for one year? We'd all love to know. So no one has ever expressed any interest to you in DNS logs but then again who the hell are you? Police and military... who the hell else where we talking about again? So I also take it that the Police and/or government come to you with there high profile requests then?
How the hell do you know anything about what the people in the Danish government know? Are you a member of the Danish government or have you given them a pop-quiz?
Tinfoil hat.. o that's funny... sure I'm batshit crazy...
Yup I'm the one out in LA LA land... but hey maybe you think that this all is just a US problem. That's cool, just don't call me names when I just pulled three articles out of my ass in 10 seconds and all you have is your goldleef-hat and a box of Kleenex...
I do. Heck they don't even know what DNS is! The state secretary in question who started this admitted that she knows nothing about it! Besides that criminals will always find ways to circumvent those blocks, she knows that it's not perfect but should be good enough not to tempt the "casual [porn]" surfer" with childporn, and that she personally doesnt know anyone who could circumvent a internet block. Obviously that als means she doesnt know anyone who knows dirt about the internet and could have explained a few things to her. Some politicians even admitted that they're voting for that law against experts advice! (Read on heise.de, sorry can't find the article right now)
O my god, you really need to step back for a minute and get your ego under control. You are not the target audience for those comments so you can stop laughing now because the joke is on you. Politicians tell the majority exactly what they want to hear or what they are suppose to hear not the truth. You are not a member of the majority.
If she doesn't know what DNS is then how did this magical bad idea law come into being exactly? And how does she know criminals will know how to get around it if she knows nothing about it to begin with? And please note criminal = getting around it.
She knows people who can get around it. She has a staff of IT people she hands her computer to when she breaks it and she knows as stated above that there are ways around it and thus her IT people probably know how to get around it. She just lied to you and you totally believed her because you haven't learned that playing the fool is extremely useful in politics. You are probably too caught up playing the expert computer nerd to relise that playing dumb will get you more out of life with less work.
Expert advice... yes because the common foke really really look up to computer nerds! The same people who cost them shit tons of money with spyware and viruses because they have nothing better to do down in their mom's basement. That's how people see expert computer people just like how people see all lawyers as scum sucking lowlifes.
You think you are way smarter than you really are buddy. You need to start watching how politics work without jumping to the OMG they are so dumb. They have meetings you know? With other politicians, IT experts and lobbyist to hash out ways to get to a common set of goals without drawing attention to those goals. If you think it's just about getting re-elected then you are missing 90% of what it's all really about.
how about when people get the Stop page, so they know they hit a banned domain, they just use a web-based resolver to find out the ip address and add it to/etc/hosts. Eventually someone will post the full list so you can just copy it all and then there is no need to use the DNS.
There are lots of ways around this sort of filtering but that's not really the point here. The point is sooner or later it will be illegal to even try to get around the filters and you will become a criminal. That might sound cool right now but it's going to suck when some suits shows up at your door and takes everything you own and toss your ass in jail for being too smart for the good of the People's Republic of the UK.
Point in case, it is still rather disturbingly easy to find child pornography online if all you do is think "where would you not bother to look".. It would be easy for any authority to look there, find the problem and remove/trace it - but they don't... why?.. well because nobody in the media has highlighted the problem recently and therefore it isn't one they need to worry about.
It was never about the children. It's about chipping away at freedom while appearing to be trying to protect the children. This law will probably fail but sooner or later they will figure out how to do it legally. It might take the passage of 12 seemingly unrelated laws but that is how all government has always worked.
You can find child porn online because there is no reason for any government to get rid of it. In fact it makes for a great target when trying to pass internet censorship laws which helps groups like the MPAA/RIAA and also gives the government what it wants... more power... Politics's is a sick and twisted game of want's in it for me, fuck those pleebs I need a new $1000 golf club.
Yes, it is possible (even easily) for well informed people to bypass such censorships, but that is besides the point and contradicts what the internet is and should be all about.
People are getting use to breaking the law. They don't seem to understand that at some point someone is going to come for them for doing it.
Encryption without giving up your key's is illegal in the UK now. if the UK government logs all of your traffic for a year and then comes and demands the keys and you don't give them up you still are going to jail.
Just because you are smart doesn't mean you will not end up in jail. Honestly here in the US murder and rape get you a shorter sentence than a nerdy crime. So just keep thinking you are above all of this because you are smarter than they are. You're a 'hacker' after all and know how to use text commands and change your DNS settings.
When are we going to start countering the current trend?
Never expect the masses to wake up until it's too late... No one wants to risk loosing what they have and no one is really paying attention anyhow plus no one really know how far things have truely gone. BTW - In this case 130,000 people said no... but it happened anyhow...
I am very grateful that open-source products have taken off as much as they have. I would have never dreamed of it back 20 years ago but it has happened and it's a major threat to controlling the power of computers. Also all the Reverse engineering that has gone into things like the xbox, ps2, dvds, etc.. It's very impressive and very illegal under the DMCA (I don't wanna hear about how it's not, 1 lawsuit and you will being crying about your rights to the bankruptcy judge).
If you want to start doing something about things then start learning! learn as much as you can about whatever it is you enjoy. Stay away from wasting your time watching TV or playing computer games. Build computer games, make TV shows, crack software that you bought just for the challange. Bottom line is do something that lets you grow and learn because THAT is what will be needed once things have gone too far.
The mob will back you once things are really bad and they are truely unhappy but you have to prove to them you can win and to do that you have to know how to win. It only takes a rather small group of people who have the right skill sets to start a revealution but it almost always requires a blood sacrifice as well.
Well country X, Y and Z has it and it helps 'protect the children' and the nerds know how to get around it so what's the big deal right?
Well once all of the EU has the same filters what is the big deal moving it a little forward with more restrictive rulesets because what we have done isn't working well enough.
People really don't give politicians much credit. Everyone thinks they are totally dumb yet they sure do know how to stay in office term after term and most have went to very nice colleges.
And we all know it's never about doing what is right, just, good for the country, etc. It's always about doing what is best for that politician and what gets them more power. After all who wants to run for public office or for that mater be a cop? Mostly people who seek some level of control over others.
It's truely a sad state when people on/. think that they are protected from big brother because they know how to change their DNS servers. But then again I guess the whole world is in a pretty sad state when a handful of people can cause a global depression... BTW has anyone heard of any federal investigations going anywhere with these companies and their CEO's?
The dumber you think they are the less effort you put forth to get around there rules. If I could intercept and log all DNS traffic before it left my network on my old 486dx66Mhz Redhat 6.2 server many many years ago I think it's not too hard for them to do the same or at the very least drop the packets that aren't going to a approved DNS server.
After all who is going to goto the trouble of learning how to type in the two DNS servers into their computers? I mean after all only people who have something to hide would bother to do that... right???
My simple guess is any request with any destination is logged and then resolved at some later time. A database of people who use these other servers is maintained and flags are included such as "pedophile, hacker, warez, terrorist, etc". This list then is used to help law enforcement and or they will just come and round all of you up one day.
Fixed that for you
O... I thought we where just talking about Germany... The US logging is different...
zero-knowledge politicians telling some IT staff what to do
Ok, well I wouldn't know as I live in the US. Here, some brown nosing IT person would tell the politicians and get some super secret reward for helping put an end to terrorism and people who think 'wrong' things... Plus we have the FBI database thing, warrantless wiretaps and other more secret programs to protect our freedoms...
We've had that in Denmark for years now. OpenDNS should be the solution to all of your problems...
Do you really think that the government doesn't know about other DNS servers? I assure you there is some sort of plan and reason why they have not asked the ISP's to block or MASQ any request with a destination of 53.
My simple guess is any request with a destination of 53 is logged and then resolved at some later time. A database of people who use these other servers is maintained and flags are included such as "pedophile, hacker, warez, terrorist, etc". This list then is used to help law enforcement and or they will just come and round all of you up one day.
What's going to end up happening is someone is going to have to run a hacked all the hell bind server that takes encrypted requests on port 80 and replies back with your request which will then need to be cached locally so as not to totally hose your browsing. Then the government is going to start banning those server's IP addresses and someone is going to have to make a DNS resolver that runs in a distributed manner. Then the government will do something else, probably make it a huge crime to use any of this stuff and we will all be basically where we are now with copyright infringement which is to say that people don't respect that law and so all law becomes less respected. This is all the same as what happened in the 1930's US Prohibition of booze.
"All of this has happened before, and it will happen again..."
Getting one, not to hard, proving you're the person who's record it is, a bit harder... That level of identity theft requires a lot of validated personal tidbits, not the least of which includes having a copy of a utility bill in that name that was mailed to the address you're trying to get a drivers license for, and also ensuring the insurance card and vehicle redistration also reflect the same...
Honestly... it's not hard, if your a criminal... you simply ask the botnet lord to ask the pleebs to give all their information to the fake; paypal, ebay, or bank site and then they sell it to you and other criminals for profit...
But regardless of that the machines needed to print all that junk on is available to buy or lease online and you can send it to a P.O. box or one of the millions of empty foreclosed homes we have in the US. A few years ago I had a rather geeky friend who loved making fake driver licenses for barely legal girls so they could go out and get wasted. They often times didn't have much in the way of cash but they did have breasts and other things nerds crave. Strangely and to my udder-madness he was never arrested although his home got searched once. Note: never do illegal things in your own home, never talk about where you do illegal things, ie the storage shed down the road in the name of one of those pleebs, and children, always where protection if the girl looks like she might have something unless she's just going down on you... that makes everything ok.
You can make the most secure or all that is secure paper/plastic document but that really just creates a new profit stream for the 'Chinese Hackers' (tm). What do they care? Their government gives them a job if they fuck with America well enough.
And all the time he is wasting on laughing at us we will be hacking his networks, launching 500 Megaton nukes, charging our rail guns and unleashing our terrible hoards of nanobot assassins....
Looks are meaningless, it's what inside that kills.
I understand they're more reliable than mechanical latches, but given the need, wouldn't a solenoid operated latch have been better?
That depends on if you want to be pretty damn sure it's going to open. The vast temperature differences tends to mock up most other methods. I think they where more worried about the thing not opening rather than some slight smear that might happen in bazzaro world which if it did occur could still be corrected for in software unlike the hatch being stuck shut forever.
Wouldn't most people sign up for 1 month, download everything they want, and then cancel? Or are they really going to make it cheap enough, and adding new (good) content frequently enough, to make the whole thing worth it? I have my doubts.
Good question. I would guess that they would do a contract term with the service. I'd guess 12 or even 24 months, and the requisite early termination fee.
Or more likely all of the above and 'all you can eat' really means 'all we allow you to eat'.
Sorry, but it's hard not to be cynical about astrophysics. Dark matter sounds like something invented by a writer for Sailor Moon the Japanese cartoon series, and the scientific explanation sounds about as likely to be true.
Apollo 1 burned up during testing due to pure O2 being used instead of a mixed gas environment. Apollo 13 started out well, broke down in route to the moon but everyone made it back to earth safe...
Honestly, I just want to be able to uninstall IE, outlook express and anything else that comes preloaded on the OS via the add/remove programs icon and it really go away and not just pretend to and once that is done I don't want to hear anything more about it from windows update...
That really isn't hard but Microsoft would rather try and make this into a all or nothing type thing when it's totally clear it doesn't have to be.
I will agree that the EU needs money and Microsoft has lots of that. Welcome to the depression boys!
Anyway, who's going to buy Windows 7? Everyone is broke and is still using WinXP and will be for the next 40 years because normal people don't care about new features as long as they can download their porn...
I donno but honestly think of the lawyers! If there wasn't all this ramped piracy going on they would be out of work and all their children would have to goto public school and not get a proper education. The horror!
I also question who exactly is loosing an American job because the factory in china only has to make X units instead of X+Y units. And I also wonder how the companies are still afloat if they are loosing billions of dollars. Humm something is oddly wrong here.
Also how can anyone applaud a case that has been shown to have been wildly mishandled? I guess as long as the outcome is to your advantage then it doesn't mater... I'll be sure to lie next time in court since it's ok as long as I'm right and everyone else is wrong.
There are lots of antivirus programs for linux and a few for MAC'nix. Here is the F-prot version for linux but there are lots of stuff out there just to scan 'das mail system' so as to protect the Windows lusers. I suggest you try google next time mmm-k?
I don't seem to grasp that black holes can become mobile.
I'm not a scientist but I was abducted by aliens once.
As far as I'm aware a black hole isn't any different than anything else except that it's got mad gravity. Our sun has lots of mass and gravity but it still orbits our milky way galaxy and our galaxy is moving in relation to everything else in the universe which as a whole is expanding outward from a big bang'ish point of origin. Black holes get formed from really big stars so if it that star was moving to begin with than it probably will still be moving after becoming a black hole.
Plus while black holes have massive gravity it's not as massive as a galaxy and so they can still get thrown around just like everything else in the universe.
Black holes are pretty normal until you cross the event horizon. Just think of a black hole as our sun. Stuff orbits it, gets sucked in, ejected, etc.
darn... this is exactly why I've yet to get my propagandist license but I blame it all on my education under our public school system which is why I'm calling for education to be abolished. I mean think of the children, if they can't get a good education then they shouldn't get any education because they might become terrorist or worse.. voters...
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I happen to be a network tech at a Danish ISP and have been doing so for 10 years.
While we are required to log some stuff for minimum 1 year,
none has ever expressed any interest in DNS logs, ever.
The only authorities who can request any sort of information are Police and military, via a court order.
They can by court order just get the interface of interest mirrored, so why should a understaffed and overworked Police care about what DNS you use?
On that note, very few in the Danish government knows what DNS is.
Your tinfoil hat may to be too tight, me thinks?
O ok.. sure and you're the senior tech at this ISP and have top level clearance then right?
O and you have access to every room in the joint too I'm sure?
Please tell us what do you log for one year? We'd all love to know.
So no one has ever expressed any interest to you in DNS logs but then again who the hell are you?
Police and military... who the hell else where we talking about again?
So I also take it that the Police and/or government come to you with there high profile requests then?
How the hell do you know anything about what the people in the Danish government know? Are you a member of the Danish government or have you given them a pop-quiz?
Tinfoil hat.. o that's funny... sure I'm batshit crazy...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/washington/09fbi.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_controversy
Yup I'm the one out in LA LA land... but hey maybe you think that this all is just a US problem. That's cool, just don't call me names when I just pulled three articles out of my ass in 10 seconds and all you have is your goldleef-hat and a box of Kleenex...
I do.
Heck they don't even know what DNS is!
The state secretary in question who started this admitted that she knows nothing about it! Besides that criminals will always find ways to circumvent those blocks, she knows that it's not perfect but should be good enough not to tempt the "casual [porn]" surfer" with childporn, and that she personally doesnt know anyone who could circumvent a internet block. Obviously that als means she doesnt know anyone who knows dirt about the internet and could have explained a few things to her.
Some politicians even admitted that they're voting for that law against experts advice! (Read on heise.de, sorry can't find the article right now)
O my god, you really need to step back for a minute and get your ego under control. You are not the target audience for those comments so you can stop laughing now because the joke is on you. Politicians tell the majority exactly what they want to hear or what they are suppose to hear not the truth. You are not a member of the majority.
If she doesn't know what DNS is then how did this magical bad idea law come into being exactly? And how does she know criminals will know how to get around it if she knows nothing about it to begin with? And please note criminal = getting around it.
She knows people who can get around it. She has a staff of IT people she hands her computer to when she breaks it and she knows as stated above that there are ways around it and thus her IT people probably know how to get around it. She just lied to you and you totally believed her because you haven't learned that playing the fool is extremely useful in politics. You are probably too caught up playing the expert computer nerd to relise that playing dumb will get you more out of life with less work.
Expert advice... yes because the common foke really really look up to computer nerds! The same people who cost them shit tons of money with spyware and viruses because they have nothing better to do down in their mom's basement. That's how people see expert computer people just like how people see all lawyers as scum sucking lowlifes.
You think you are way smarter than you really are buddy. You need to start watching how politics work without jumping to the OMG they are so dumb. They have meetings you know? With other politicians, IT experts and lobbyist to hash out ways to get to a common set of goals without drawing attention to those goals. If you think it's just about getting re-elected then you are missing 90% of what it's all really about.
Power and Money...
how about when people get the Stop page, so they know they hit a banned domain, they just use a web-based resolver to find out the ip address and add it to /etc/hosts. Eventually someone will post the full list so you can just copy it all and then there is no need to use the DNS.
There are lots of ways around this sort of filtering but that's not really the point here. The point is sooner or later it will be illegal to even try to get around the filters and you will become a criminal. That might sound cool right now but it's going to suck when some suits shows up at your door and takes everything you own and toss your ass in jail for being too smart for the good of the People's Republic of the UK.
I feel bad for the people in Germany, but I'm glad its not me.
Don't worry, you're on the list... they will get to you soon enough...
Point in case, it is still rather disturbingly easy to find child pornography online if all you do is think "where would you not bother to look".. It would be easy for any authority to look there, find the problem and remove/trace it - but they don't... why?.. well because nobody in the media has highlighted the problem recently and therefore it isn't one they need to worry about.
It was never about the children. It's about chipping away at freedom while appearing to be trying to protect the children. This law will probably fail but sooner or later they will figure out how to do it legally. It might take the passage of 12 seemingly unrelated laws but that is how all government has always worked.
You can find child porn online because there is no reason for any government to get rid of it. In fact it makes for a great target when trying to pass internet censorship laws which helps groups like the MPAA/RIAA and also gives the government what it wants... more power... Politics's is a sick and twisted game of want's in it for me, fuck those pleebs I need a new $1000 golf club.
Yes, it is possible (even easily) for well informed people to bypass such censorships, but that is besides the point and contradicts what the internet is and should be all about.
People are getting use to breaking the law. They don't seem to understand that at some point someone is going to come for them for doing it.
Encryption without giving up your key's is illegal in the UK now. if the UK government logs all of your traffic for a year and then comes and demands the keys and you don't give them up you still are going to jail.
Just because you are smart doesn't mean you will not end up in jail. Honestly here in the US murder and rape get you a shorter sentence than a nerdy crime. So just keep thinking you are above all of this because you are smarter than they are. You're a 'hacker' after all and know how to use text commands and change your DNS settings.
When are we going to start countering the current trend?
Never expect the masses to wake up until it's too late... No one wants to risk loosing what they have and no one is really paying attention anyhow plus no one really know how far things have truely gone. BTW - In this case 130,000 people said no... but it happened anyhow...
I am very grateful that open-source products have taken off as much as they have. I would have never dreamed of it back 20 years ago but it has happened and it's a major threat to controlling the power of computers. Also all the Reverse engineering that has gone into things like the xbox, ps2, dvds, etc.. It's very impressive and very illegal under the DMCA (I don't wanna hear about how it's not, 1 lawsuit and you will being crying about your rights to the bankruptcy judge).
If you want to start doing something about things then start learning! learn as much as you can about whatever it is you enjoy. Stay away from wasting your time watching TV or playing computer games. Build computer games, make TV shows, crack software that you bought just for the challange. Bottom line is do something that lets you grow and learn because THAT is what will be needed once things have gone too far.
The mob will back you once things are really bad and they are truely unhappy but you have to prove to them you can win and to do that you have to know how to win. It only takes a rather small group of people who have the right skill sets to start a revealution but it almost always requires a blood sacrifice as well.
expect it to spread to other countries, too
Well country X, Y and Z has it and it helps 'protect the children' and the nerds know how to get around it so what's the big deal right?
Well once all of the EU has the same filters what is the big deal moving it a little forward with more restrictive rulesets because what we have done isn't working well enough.
People really don't give politicians much credit. Everyone thinks they are totally dumb yet they sure do know how to stay in office term after term and most have went to very nice colleges.
And we all know it's never about doing what is right, just, good for the country, etc. It's always about doing what is best for that politician and what gets them more power. After all who wants to run for public office or for that mater be a cop? Mostly people who seek some level of control over others.
It's truely a sad state when people on /. think that they are protected from big brother because they know how to change their DNS servers. But then again I guess the whole world is in a pretty sad state when a handful of people can cause a global depression... BTW has anyone heard of any federal investigations going anywhere with these companies and their CEO's?
Proxy, Tunnel, SSH
Well yeah that is kind of the point isn't it?
The dumber you think they are the less effort you put forth to get around there rules. If I could intercept and log all DNS traffic before it left my network on my old 486dx66Mhz Redhat 6.2 server many many years ago I think it's not too hard for them to do the same or at the very least drop the packets that aren't going to a approved DNS server.
After all who is going to goto the trouble of learning how to type in the two DNS servers into their computers? I mean after all only people who have something to hide would bother to do that... right???
My simple guess is any request with any destination is logged and then resolved at some later time. A database of people who use these other servers is maintained and flags are included such as "pedophile, hacker, warez, terrorist, etc". This list then is used to help law enforcement and or they will just come and round all of you up one day.
Fixed that for you
O... I thought we where just talking about Germany... The US logging is different...
zero-knowledge politicians telling some IT staff what to do
Ok, well I wouldn't know as I live in the US. Here, some brown nosing IT person would tell the politicians and get some super secret reward for helping put an end to terrorism and people who think 'wrong' things... Plus we have the FBI database thing, warrantless wiretaps and other more secret programs to protect our freedoms...
We've had that in Denmark for years now. OpenDNS should be the solution to all of your problems...
Do you really think that the government doesn't know about other DNS servers? I assure you there is some sort of plan and reason why they have not asked the ISP's to block or MASQ any request with a destination of 53.
My simple guess is any request with a destination of 53 is logged and then resolved at some later time. A database of people who use these other servers is maintained and flags are included such as "pedophile, hacker, warez, terrorist, etc". This list then is used to help law enforcement and or they will just come and round all of you up one day.
What's going to end up happening is someone is going to have to run a hacked all the hell bind server that takes encrypted requests on port 80 and replies back with your request which will then need to be cached locally so as not to totally hose your browsing. Then the government is going to start banning those server's IP addresses and someone is going to have to make a DNS resolver that runs in a distributed manner. Then the government will do something else, probably make it a huge crime to use any of this stuff and we will all be basically where we are now with copyright infringement which is to say that people don't respect that law and so all law becomes less respected. This is all the same as what happened in the 1930's US Prohibition of booze.
"All of this has happened before, and it will happen again..."
Getting one, not to hard, proving you're the person who's record it is, a bit harder... That level of identity theft requires a lot of validated personal tidbits, not the least of which includes having a copy of a utility bill in that name that was mailed to the address you're trying to get a drivers license for, and also ensuring the insurance card and vehicle redistration also reflect the same...
Honestly... it's not hard, if your a criminal... you simply ask the botnet lord to ask the pleebs to give all their information to the fake; paypal, ebay, or bank site and then they sell it to you and other criminals for profit...
But regardless of that the machines needed to print all that junk on is available to buy or lease online and you can send it to a P.O. box or one of the millions of empty foreclosed homes we have in the US. A few years ago I had a rather geeky friend who loved making fake driver licenses for barely legal girls so they could go out and get wasted. They often times didn't have much in the way of cash but they did have breasts and other things nerds crave. Strangely and to my udder-madness he was never arrested although his home got searched once. Note: never do illegal things in your own home, never talk about where you do illegal things, ie the storage shed down the road in the name of one of those pleebs, and children, always where protection if the girl looks like she might have something unless she's just going down on you... that makes everything ok.
You can make the most secure or all that is secure paper/plastic document but that really just creates a new profit stream for the 'Chinese Hackers' (tm). What do they care? Their government gives them a job if they fuck with America well enough.
At birth you will be infected with government approved nanomites to help regulate your body.
But will these future nanomite overloads run Linux?
Doesn't "all you can eat" really mean "all you can stomach"?
The Roman's didn't think so... But that's old news.
And all the time he is wasting on laughing at us we will be hacking his networks, launching 500 Megaton nukes, charging our rail guns and unleashing our terrible hoards of nanobot assassins....
Looks are meaningless, it's what inside that kills.
I understand they're more reliable than mechanical latches, but given the need, wouldn't a solenoid operated latch have been better?
That depends on if you want to be pretty damn sure it's going to open. The vast temperature differences tends to mock up most other methods. I think they where more worried about the thing not opening rather than some slight smear that might happen in bazzaro world which if it did occur could still be corrected for in software unlike the hatch being stuck shut forever.
Wouldn't most people sign up for 1 month, download everything they want, and then cancel? Or are they really going to make it cheap enough, and adding new (good) content frequently enough, to make the whole thing worth it? I have my doubts.
Good question. I would guess that they would do a contract term with the service. I'd guess 12 or even 24 months, and the requisite early termination fee.
Or more likely all of the above and 'all you can eat' really means 'all we allow you to eat'.
Sorry, but it's hard not to be cynical about astrophysics. Dark matter sounds like something invented by a writer for Sailor Moon the Japanese cartoon series, and the scientific explanation sounds about as likely to be true.
Fixed it for you...
Apollo 1 burned up during testing due to pure O2 being used instead of a mixed gas environment. Apollo 13 started out well, broke down in route to the moon but everyone made it back to earth safe...
So really always avoid Version 1.0
Honestly, I just want to be able to uninstall IE, outlook express and anything else that comes preloaded on the OS via the add/remove programs icon and it really go away and not just pretend to and once that is done I don't want to hear anything more about it from windows update...
That really isn't hard but Microsoft would rather try and make this into a all or nothing type thing when it's totally clear it doesn't have to be.
I will agree that the EU needs money and Microsoft has lots of that. Welcome to the depression boys!
Anyway, who's going to buy Windows 7? Everyone is broke and is still using WinXP and will be for the next 40 years because normal people don't care about new features as long as they can download their porn...
I donno but honestly think of the lawyers!
If there wasn't all this ramped piracy going on they would be out of work and all their children would have to goto public school and not get a proper education. The horror!
I also question who exactly is loosing an American job because the factory in china only has to make X units instead of X+Y units. And I also wonder how the companies are still afloat if they are loosing billions of dollars. Humm something is oddly wrong here.
Also how can anyone applaud a case that has been shown to have been wildly mishandled? I guess as long as the outcome is to your advantage then it doesn't mater... I'll be sure to lie next time in court since it's ok as long as I'm right and everyone else is wrong.
There are lots of antivirus programs for linux and a few for MAC'nix. Here is the F-prot version for linux but there are lots of stuff out there just to scan 'das mail system' so as to protect the Windows lusers. I suggest you try google next time mmm-k?
http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/linux/
I don't seem to grasp that black holes can become mobile.
I'm not a scientist but I was abducted by aliens once.
As far as I'm aware a black hole isn't any different than anything else except that it's got mad gravity. Our sun has lots of mass and gravity but it still orbits our milky way galaxy and our galaxy is moving in relation to everything else in the universe which as a whole is expanding outward from a big bang'ish point of origin. Black holes get formed from really big stars so if it that star was moving to begin with than it probably will still be moving after becoming a black hole.
Plus while black holes have massive gravity it's not as massive as a galaxy and so they can still get thrown around just like everything else in the universe.
Black holes are pretty normal until you cross the event horizon. Just think of a black hole as our sun. Stuff orbits it, gets sucked in, ejected, etc.
You forgot, "think of the children".
darn... this is exactly why I've yet to get my propagandist license but I blame it all on my education under our public school system which is why I'm calling for education to be abolished. I mean think of the children, if they can't get a good education then they shouldn't get any education because they might become terrorist or worse.. voters...