To call scientology a cult is OK, if you consider (as I do) all major religions "supercults". And yes, IMHO no difference except for size and date of founding.
I'm Croatian, and I'd take anything Davor Domazet-Loso says with a mountain of salt, him being a war criminal, right wing extremist and a crackpot. But don't take my word on it! I just want to say that he's a VERY unreliable source.
Crotian plane hijackers were not Muslims. There were two, one in 73 and one in 76. Don't know about the first one, but the second one was a Croatian separatist (from Yugoslavia) got released in 2008. and was welcomed in (now independent) Croatia as hero by many, mostly by (mid-to-far) right wing crowd, who are often seen carrying Ustashe (WW2 Nazi collaborationist movement) insignia. Irony was that since some modern history rewrites, they didn't know that these hijackers were actually the revolutionary forces with more of democratic left stance who fought the what they perceived the nationalist Serbian dominance in Yugoslavia. They were indeed a fraction in the Croatian independence movement, as many other were strict pro-ustashe. But, both were equally hunted down by Yugoslavian secret service (UDBA), moderates and extremist the same, and is today one of the (arguably overblown) reason Croats do not remember time in Yugoslavia fondly.
For years now, large part of my job is cleaning infected Windows machines in small companies my company has maintedance contracts with, and other customers. So, now to be legal and safe Windows user in small business, now you have only Windows to buy and use Security Essentials since AFAIK thats only legal free antivirus for business users. Bigger companies will need some centralized console but that's beside this point. For most of these people/companies, antivirus tax is something they can't afford now. They could be using that money to buy legal Windows and or increase wages (yeah, fat chance). This environment has few Windows 2000 left to now lot of Win 7 - some pirated some legal - some patched some not, some with 128 mb ram some with 8 gb, some with antivirus some without. For desktop/laptop, this is 98% Windows environment. Remaining 2% - I personally use Linux exclusively, couple of servers too, and couple of bigshots use MacOS X. Most of the machines we maintain share the same LAN. For those Windows machines, least infections by a wide margin, are on machines with legal OS and automatic updates ON, and any antivirus with definitions. These people mostly use free home versions AVG or Avast, even on machines used for business, but it still works for them (we keep telling them that that's illegal). Some use legal Trendmicro, Sophos or NOD. But for machines with low memory, any antivirus is a performance killer. In our experience hotfixes don't impact performance negatively. Other machines, jungle of all forms of malware. But no hotfixes or service packs is usually much worse than no antivirus, since most undetected malware that manages to execute itself due to ie network security flaw kills antivirus instantly. For those we usually use Autopatcher to bring them up to date, average once per year. When Conflicker arrived, we urgently patched almost all machines to latest service packs and Autopatcher collections, and the result was that there was when it came, it infected only few machines that were skipped for any reason. However, it's getting better since number of legal Windows installations has gone from 5% to around 50% and those machines got much easier to manage. IMHO, far far overdue. Windows costs good money here. If it were about the customers, Microsoft should just make very hard to disable automatic patches and antivirus. OR JUST HAVE A MAJOR REDESIGN WITH SECURITY IN MIND. Windows were designed VERY badly in this respect, and MS will not refund money for a bad/catastrophic product experience. And yeah, antivirus industry should die. They are making money for fixing the Microsoft's problem that should never have been there in the first place.
While it could be possible organizations such as Mossad could be behind this, from what I've read about modern espionage, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag sounds equally plausible. Could be even a rival to Siemens. Or good old Ruskys or Chinese or Saudis for some reason. Someone else who would profit from Iran-Israel war? Eskimos? Obama's evil twin? Bush's good twin? No way to know really - secret services & black ops people tend to be secretive an stirring that pot is certainly dangerous game. This could have been VERY DANGEROUS if those boards went into productions and caused an industrial accident or worse yet, an nuclear one.
First episode was great, second so-so. IMHO, humor quality dropped a bit (movies included), but I'm still watching it. Same with the Simpsons - many old school fans are dissapointed a lot. Thing is, their revolutionary format wore off a bit. Rest of the world followed, and cought on. But I'm still watching, albeit it just does not feel the same. Why? Because those were AWESOME shows, and are now still GOOD shows, still some hillarious gags all around. And I'm not one of those to say "Worst episode EVER!!" and then watch again next week. I'm perhaps a die hard fan, but waging wars over cartoons is plain stupid. Just stop watching if you don't like it.
No. A hardened service for their own software, AND anybody who has a much worse service (significant part of the world). I am in Europe outside EU, and I frankly do not trust my ISP more than Google. I use my ISP's DNS because I don't care, and is slightly faster.
Anything can be used for good and evil. Not to sound like a Google fanboy, but by setting default primary/secondary DNS to a hardened, cache poison (and other stuff) secured and properly maintained DNS service, their ChromeOS / Android / people-who-trust-them customers could be better off than relying on some unsecured local ISP DNS. If I was paranoid (or had a reason), I would trust Google more than my ISP - my ISP's DNS belongs to my ISP. Which is subject to my country's law. Google is not, and getting any info from them is at least bit harder than asking local company - who also does not have a clear policy on logging and sharing my data. And yes, in my case also its fast but not as local ISP DNS, but no big trade off since I use BIND to cache anyway. So primary and secondary are my ISP's, and tertiary and quadriary Google's. What I learned from all this is that second(ary) DNS IP your ISP gives you is sometimes bit (lot?) faster, and better used as Primary DNS under Windows.
Yes but this 0.7 version is just a repacked / modded FreeBSD 7.2, OS that's been in development since 1993 - and that itself was a fork of older projects. Much better than software embedded some hastily released commercial NAS.
Your argument is invalid. Yes, it might not be 100% draft compatible, but at least its SVG files are perfectly readable in all the software I ever tried... from Firefox, Opera, to Photoshop and whatnot. As far as I know, Word HTML is actually readable mostly in IE. It does so on purpose - 1. Get monopoly 2. Break standards 3. Get people to use your proprietary formats / equipment 4. Profit!
As a person who uses vector drawing programs from time to time, this program was a great find. Having pirated Corel Draw installed, mostly for rubbish reasons, was also bad - for bloat reasons, law reasons - and sanity reasons. I remember that Corel then (>5 years ago) had so much bugs, slow and unresponsible, bad support for local fonts, unstable. For all my purposes Inkscape is by far better program - compact, standards compliant, fully functional, and frankly I enjoy using it much better than Corel Draw. Couple bugs yes, but brilliantly reliable compared to horrible nightmare that is (was?) Corel Draw.
Yes - but this means they might want to make it ISO standard, which is ruled out if there is no alternative implementation. Once there is (not possible without opening up), there is nothing stopping them to push international standardization, to make EU (and other) shut up even more.
People who program different migration utilities benefit from this, and of course users of such tools. Even wild ideas like Fuse filesystem that mounts it as Maildir. So, converters, importers, exporters, indexing tools, repair/forensics, optimize/defragment/find duplicates tools, sort, grep. Also, if its a standard than it needs to be STANDARDIZED, so no special treatment for own products.
Step 1 in saving the environment in the short run should probably be spending money on reducing pollution where it also brings reasonable savings, as the effect on nature is cumulative on the world. And less coal used means less need to dig it out, which means less coal miners in the long run. "In [USA] 2006, 72 miners lost their lives at work, 47 in coal mining", "an average of 21,351 injuries per year between 1991 and 1999". Which means this actually saves lives, not to count expenses of compensations to those hurt or families of killed.
disclaimer: i am not a gamer. i personally know about 5 people that lost their girlfriend/boyfriend for being too hooked up to wow, and ~3 for fps games. since you cant (yet) make real babies inside a game, darwin wins!
Democratic regimes that see their own countries' intellectual elite as an enemy are not really democratic. If you're trying to make your own people dumber by average so you could rule them more easily.. that is base premise for any authoritarian / fascist / fanatic form of government. Not (true) democracy. Government in my (small European) country recently spent millions of euros for building number of sport arenas we don't need. Now, crisis is here, and they are "cutting corners" by stopping the free school book program for primary schools. Go taem!
"China has several gigabytes per second of traffic to deal with and has a lot more international businesses," he says. "They can't be as heavy-handed with their filtration. The Iranians aren't as concerned about that⦠so they get to use all these fancy toys that, if the Chinese used them, could cripple their economy."
I myself ordered Chinese products from sites using SSL. I don't think even they would be crazy enough to turn down money - but it seems Iran's leaders are. Are they going North Korea style? At least Chinese have a positive side to their repressive government. They have the money, they'll transform that to power and influence. Iran's policy is VERY bad for business - who seem to really WANT their people to be poor and unemployed. Which also leads to emigration of smart, competent and anybody willing to work. So yes, killing protesters and having a idiotic clerical fascistic system will make Iran poor and irrelevant in time. Countries with saner systems will benefit from importing their disgruntled intellectual elite - because smart people might be more tolerant by average, but also have lower tolerance for being served hypocritical crap.
It's a nice dream. But what strikes me as bit weird - is that there are AFAIK huge natural resources on the moon. It's basically a goldmine! So what is stopping today's multinational super-corporations from exploiting it? No natives to subdue? And lets be realistic - only way human race is getting to moon again is commercialization.
Trolls and cheaters in online games are kinda what made me quit. And yes, from people threatening to find and kill me FOR NO REASON, flying immortal enemies with all the best weapons... Since I stopped, I've made something out of my life - finished college, got a decent job, great girlfriend, and lost those extra ponds. I thank those jerks every day! But then, what works for me, might not work for you. You might not NEED a life!
This is great for business mail too... small company where I work was literally BURIED with spam until we moved to gmail. Since their mail addresses were "in the open" on our website for years, some of them get 200+ spams a day. Now, if 1 in 1000 passes, it's a bad day.
Also, in my private inbox, I had an VERY old mail address still redirected to gmail address... turned out that was the source of 1/2 spams (100+ / day). But those were filtered too without problem.
So far so good... not a single false detection for ham. Nothing but praise so far.
Disclaimer: I do not work for gmail. I am the genuine satisfied customer with smile on my face, from "after" picture, as seen on TV!
Nothing like good ol' time vendor lock-in! Now let me just replace my dying generic proprietary hardware stuff by paying my vendor outrageous sums of money!
Whoops. Seems like company moved to a place called Narnia and accepts only calls made though their proprietary DRM enabled inter dimensional subconscious interface.
I work at a small company ( 200 workers) and there is always a box with bunch of working mobile phones with dead chargers. Or working chargers from long dead mobile phones - all being kept for "pairing" - so until a match pops up, it's a box full of junk. If this was mandatory 10 years ago, we would have definitely saved some money. And have -1 box of junk.
Oh and standard batteries would also rock. Of course, at least 3-4 standard types would be necessary due to different phone forms, but still much better than this proprietary mess.
And that's just the financial/practical side. Don't get me started on the ecological side:)
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To call scientology a cult is OK, if you consider (as I do) all major religions "supercults". And yes, IMHO no difference except for size and date of founding.
I'm Croatian, and I'd take anything Davor Domazet-Loso says with a mountain of salt, him being a war criminal, right wing extremist and a crackpot. But don't take my word on it! I just want to say that he's a VERY unreliable source.
Crotian plane hijackers were not Muslims. There were two, one in 73 and one in 76. Don't know about the first one, but the second one was a Croatian separatist (from Yugoslavia) got released in 2008. and was welcomed in (now independent) Croatia as hero by many, mostly by (mid-to-far) right wing crowd, who are often seen carrying Ustashe (WW2 Nazi collaborationist movement) insignia. Irony was that since some modern history rewrites, they didn't know that these hijackers were actually the revolutionary forces with more of democratic left stance who fought the what they perceived the nationalist Serbian dominance in Yugoslavia.
They were indeed a fraction in the Croatian independence movement, as many other were strict pro-ustashe. But, both were equally hunted down by Yugoslavian secret service (UDBA), moderates and extremist the same, and is today one of the (arguably overblown) reason Croats do not remember time in Yugoslavia fondly.
From their site: Go-oo has been made obsolete by the exciting new LibreOffice project.
Being stoned to death as a result of a killing joke. Add some very spoiled food and you have a proper Monty Phyton way to die.
For years now, large part of my job is cleaning infected Windows machines in small companies my company has maintedance contracts with, and other customers.
So, now to be legal and safe Windows user in small business, now you have only Windows to buy and use Security Essentials since AFAIK thats only legal free antivirus for business users. Bigger companies will need some centralized console but that's beside this point.
For most of these people/companies, antivirus tax is something they can't afford now. They could be using that money to buy legal Windows and or increase wages (yeah, fat chance).
This environment has few Windows 2000 left to now lot of Win 7 - some pirated some legal - some patched some not, some with 128 mb ram some with 8 gb, some with antivirus some without. For desktop/laptop, this is 98% Windows environment. Remaining 2% - I personally use Linux exclusively, couple of servers too, and couple of bigshots use MacOS X. Most of the machines we maintain share the same LAN.
For those Windows machines, least infections by a wide margin, are on machines with legal OS and automatic updates ON, and any antivirus with definitions. These people mostly use free home versions AVG or Avast, even on machines used for business, but it still works for them (we keep telling them that that's illegal). Some use legal Trendmicro, Sophos or NOD.
But for machines with low memory, any antivirus is a performance killer. In our experience hotfixes don't impact performance negatively.
Other machines, jungle of all forms of malware. But no hotfixes or service packs is usually much worse than no antivirus, since most undetected malware that manages to execute itself due to ie network security flaw kills antivirus instantly. For those we usually use Autopatcher to bring them up to date, average once per year. When Conflicker arrived, we urgently patched almost all machines to latest service packs and Autopatcher collections, and the result was that there was when it came, it infected only few machines that were skipped for any reason. However, it's getting better since number of legal Windows installations has gone from 5% to around 50% and those machines got much easier to manage.
IMHO, far far overdue. Windows costs good money here. If it were about the customers, Microsoft should just make very hard to disable automatic patches and antivirus. OR JUST HAVE A MAJOR REDESIGN WITH SECURITY IN MIND. Windows were designed VERY badly in this respect, and MS will not refund money for a bad/catastrophic product experience.
And yeah, antivirus industry should die. They are making money for fixing the Microsoft's problem that should never have been there in the first place.
While it could be possible organizations such as Mossad could be behind this, from what I've read about modern espionage, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag sounds equally plausible. Could be even a rival to Siemens. Or good old Ruskys or Chinese or Saudis for some reason. Someone else who would profit from Iran-Israel war? Eskimos? Obama's evil twin? Bush's good twin?
No way to know really - secret services & black ops people tend to be secretive an stirring that pot is certainly dangerous game.
This could have been VERY DANGEROUS if those boards went into productions and caused an industrial accident or worse yet, an nuclear one.
Try building home made furniture from discarded logs!
First episode was great, second so-so. IMHO, humor quality dropped a bit (movies included), but I'm still watching it. Same with the Simpsons - many old school fans are dissapointed a lot. Thing is, their revolutionary format wore off a bit. Rest of the world followed, and cought on. But I'm still watching, albeit it just does not feel the same. Why? Because those were AWESOME shows, and are now still GOOD shows, still some hillarious gags all around. And I'm not one of those to say "Worst episode EVER!!" and then watch again next week. I'm perhaps a die hard fan, but waging wars over cartoons is plain stupid. Just stop watching if you don't like it.
No. A hardened service for their own software, AND anybody who has a much worse service (significant part of the world). I am in Europe outside EU, and I frankly do not trust my ISP more than Google. I use my ISP's DNS because I don't care, and is slightly faster.
Anything can be used for good and evil. Not to sound like a Google fanboy, but by setting default primary/secondary DNS to a hardened, cache poison (and other stuff) secured and properly maintained DNS service, their ChromeOS / Android / people-who-trust-them customers could be better off than relying on some unsecured local ISP DNS.
If I was paranoid (or had a reason), I would trust Google more than my ISP - my ISP's DNS belongs to my ISP. Which is subject to my country's law. Google is not, and getting any info from them is at least bit harder than asking local company - who also does not have a clear policy on logging and sharing my data.
And yes, in my case also its fast but not as local ISP DNS, but no big trade off since I use BIND to cache anyway. So primary and secondary are my ISP's, and tertiary and quadriary Google's.
What I learned from all this is that second(ary) DNS IP your ISP gives you is sometimes bit (lot?) faster, and better used as Primary DNS under Windows.
Yes but this 0.7 version is just a repacked / modded FreeBSD 7.2, OS that's been in development since 1993 - and that itself was a fork of older projects. Much better than software embedded some hastily released commercial NAS.
Your argument is invalid. Yes, it might not be 100% draft compatible, but at least its SVG files are perfectly readable in all the software I ever tried... from Firefox, Opera, to Photoshop and whatnot. As far as I know, Word HTML is actually readable mostly in IE. It does so on purpose - 1. Get monopoly 2. Break standards 3. Get people to use your proprietary formats / equipment 4. Profit!
As a person who uses vector drawing programs from time to time, this program was a great find. Having pirated Corel Draw installed, mostly for rubbish reasons, was also bad - for bloat reasons, law reasons - and sanity reasons. I remember that Corel then (>5 years ago) had so much bugs, slow and unresponsible, bad support for local fonts, unstable. For all my purposes Inkscape is by far better program - compact, standards compliant, fully functional, and frankly I enjoy using it much better than Corel Draw. Couple bugs yes, but brilliantly reliable compared to horrible nightmare that is (was?) Corel Draw.
Yes - but this means they might want to make it ISO standard, which is ruled out if there is no alternative implementation. Once there is (not possible without opening up), there is nothing stopping them to push international standardization, to make EU (and other) shut up even more.
People who program different migration utilities benefit from this, and of course users of such tools. Even wild ideas like Fuse filesystem that mounts it as Maildir.
So, converters, importers, exporters, indexing tools, repair/forensics, optimize/defragment/find duplicates tools, sort, grep.
Also, if its a standard than it needs to be STANDARDIZED, so no special treatment for own products.
Step 1 in saving the environment in the short run should probably be spending money on reducing pollution where it also brings reasonable savings, as the effect on nature is cumulative on the world.
And less coal used means less need to dig it out, which means less coal miners in the long run. "In [USA] 2006, 72 miners lost their lives at work, 47 in coal mining", "an average of 21,351 injuries per year between 1991 and 1999". Which means this actually saves lives, not to count expenses of compensations to those hurt or families of killed.
disclaimer: i am not a gamer.
i personally know about 5 people that lost their girlfriend/boyfriend for being too hooked up to wow, and ~3 for fps games.
since you cant (yet) make real babies inside a game, darwin wins!
Democratic regimes that see their own countries' intellectual elite as an enemy are not really democratic. If you're trying to make your own people dumber by average so you could rule them more easily .. that is base premise for any authoritarian / fascist / fanatic form of government. Not (true) democracy.
Government in my (small European) country recently spent millions of euros for building number of sport arenas we don't need. Now, crisis is here, and they are "cutting corners" by stopping the free school book program for primary schools. Go taem!
"China has several gigabytes per second of traffic to deal with and has a lot more international businesses," he says. "They can't be as heavy-handed with their filtration. The Iranians aren't as concerned about that⦠so they get to use all these fancy toys that, if the Chinese used them, could cripple their economy."
I myself ordered Chinese products from sites using SSL. I don't think even they would be crazy enough to turn down money - but it seems Iran's leaders are. Are they going North Korea style? At least Chinese have a positive side to their repressive government. They have the money, they'll transform that to power and influence. Iran's policy is VERY bad for business - who seem to really WANT their people to be poor and unemployed. Which also leads to emigration of smart, competent and anybody willing to work. So yes, killing protesters and having a idiotic clerical fascistic system will make Iran poor and irrelevant in time. Countries with saner systems will benefit from importing their disgruntled intellectual elite - because smart people might be more tolerant by average, but also have lower tolerance for being served hypocritical crap.
It's a nice dream. But what strikes me as bit weird - is that there are AFAIK huge natural resources on the moon. It's basically a goldmine! So what is stopping today's multinational super-corporations from exploiting it? No natives to subdue?
And lets be realistic - only way human race is getting to moon again is commercialization.
Trolls and cheaters in online games are kinda what made me quit. And yes, from people threatening to find and kill me FOR NO REASON, flying immortal enemies with all the best weapons...
Since I stopped, I've made something out of my life - finished college, got a decent job, great girlfriend, and lost those extra ponds. I thank those jerks every day!
But then, what works for me, might not work for you. You might not NEED a life!
This is great for business mail too... small company where I work was literally BURIED with spam until we moved to gmail. Since their mail addresses were "in the open" on our website for years, some of them get 200+ spams a day. Now, if 1 in 1000 passes, it's a bad day. Also, in my private inbox, I had an VERY old mail address still redirected to gmail address... turned out that was the source of 1/2 spams (100+ / day). But those were filtered too without problem. So far so good... not a single false detection for ham. Nothing but praise so far. Disclaimer: I do not work for gmail. I am the genuine satisfied customer with smile on my face, from "after" picture, as seen on TV!
Nothing like good ol' time vendor lock-in! Now let me just replace my dying generic proprietary hardware stuff by paying my vendor outrageous sums of money! Whoops. Seems like company moved to a place called Narnia and accepts only calls made though their proprietary DRM enabled inter dimensional subconscious interface.
I work at a small company ( 200 workers) and there is always a box with bunch of working mobile phones with dead chargers. Or working chargers from long dead mobile phones - all being kept for "pairing" - so until a match pops up, it's a box full of junk. If this was mandatory 10 years ago, we would have definitely saved some money. And have -1 box of junk. Oh and standard batteries would also rock. Of course, at least 3-4 standard types would be necessary due to different phone forms, but still much better than this proprietary mess. And that's just the financial/practical side. Don't get me started on the ecological side :)