We should care about this because this directly shows end users that many/. readers such as myself support exactly why a weak password such as "happiness" is an inherently bad thing.
The more hits Slashdot gets, the more bandwidth they're using and the more money they're spending for that bandwidth. Increased bandwidth by bots that will never click on the adverts on the page means lots of resources wasted for absolutely no gain. It is indeed slimey and the guys running Slashdot have every right to be upset with AVG because of this.
I distinctly remember watching an episode of Mr. Wizard when I was about 5 years old. He was showing the power of centripetal force; took a bucket full of water and made a quick vertical circle with it. All the water stayed in the bucket of course. To my 5 year old mind, that totally blew me away. Ever since then I was hooked on science. Thanks for showing me the light Mr. Wizard.
Sounds like the FBI needs to invest in tracking software such as Computrace: http://www.absolute.com/
We use this software at my job and have used it to successfully track and recover stolen laptops several times already. Many laptops from manufacturers such as Lenovo, Dell, Gateway and several others actually can store the tracking agent within the BIOS itself so that it cannot be removed (unless you change out the motherboard). If a new hard drive is installed into the laptop, the agent will reinstall itself onto the hard drive from the BIOS. It also has the ability to wipe the hard drive clean remotely if the laptop is found to be stolen.
With the most recent software update for the DirecTV HR20 HDDVR many people are seeing improvements in reliability and performance. Just for the sake of counterpoint, my HR20 has been running very well for the past 5 months.
From what I have been reading in the forums, they are planning on doing some interesting stuff with the ethernet connectivity.
* VOD via Internet (handy since it's pretty hard to implement through Sats) * There is PC integration planned with Windows Media Center and Vista * There is a content sharing schema in the works. It's called the HMC (Home Media Center). It will consist of a server device which is connected to the phone line. All of the receiver nodes will communicate with the server to access stored content. All the receivers will also only need 1 coax connection to the server.
I'm sure there are plenty that were in my situation. Large organization, many Dell Latitude laptops, and many users that probably won't check the part # on their batteries to see if it's included in the recall. I included the following lines to an inventory script we run on all the computers on our Windows domain to collect hardware information which is stored in a SQL database. It is able to get the battery manufacturer and part # from the BIOS. Here's the code for all who are interested:
Well now I know this is BS, because whenever I am speaking to a Canadian they mispell common words like color and flavor! For some reason they put a u in between the o and the r. It must be some new l33t speak or something...
Even if they wanted to continue supporting it, the amount of time and money needed to throw at the latest security flaw to be found in the OS is no where near the benefit. They'd need to keep a staff of programmers on the payroll that is familiar with the older code, and I'm sure the 98 code is a nightmare to look at right now. To MS it doesn't make any sense at all to continue supporting an OS that's nearly 10 years old. In a couple of years MS will stop support on Windows 2000 as well.
If you don't feel like paying $20 for decent phone service you don't have to. Yes, many households have broadband connections now. Yes, many still retain their regular POTS lines through their phone company. Yes, certain people may only break even in phone bill comparisons from their POTS line + broadband as opposed to their Vonage line + broadband, but that isn't eveyone. When you start factoring in cheaper long distance calls or all the extras like voicemail, callerid, 3-way calling, and numerous other features included in the Vonage service at no additional costs then things start to look better. Bitch about it all you want, but their service provides more than just "a handset".
By now everyone should be wise enough not to post every single piece of information about them anywhere online, let alone in one place. Parents should be more diligent not with monitoring every single thing their kids do on the computer, but educating them what's ok and not ok to do on the Internet. Am I the only one getting tired of all this MySpace business? On the bright side I was amused reading TFA and seeing how these people were done in by their own sheer stupidity.
Clever idea. Here's something a bit more advanced, but it costs money ofcourse. It's called Computrace and it's available on just about any laptop (they even have an OS X version). Their tracking agent attempts to make a call out to their servers every 24 hours. If it doesn't have an active internet connection, it will attempt to dial out through the modem if a phone line is connected. Newer Dells and IBMs actually store the tracking agent in the systems BIOS, so unless they plan on changing the motherboard out they're out of luck. We use this at my workplace quite extensively now, and have even used it to track "missing" laptops successfully. Check out their website for more info: http://www.absolute.com/
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"UNTAME became self-aware at 2:14am EDT August 29, 2017" I'm sure I'm not the only one who had something like that come to mind.
We should care about this because this directly shows end users that many /. readers such as myself support exactly why a weak password such as "happiness" is an inherently bad thing.
I think this is the same protein used in Glofish:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GloFish
Got some here in our tank at work, they're pretty cool to look at.
The more hits Slashdot gets, the more bandwidth they're using and the more money they're spending for that bandwidth. Increased bandwidth by bots that will never click on the adverts on the page means lots of resources wasted for absolutely no gain. It is indeed slimey and the guys running Slashdot have every right to be upset with AVG because of this.
I think Futurama has a slightly larger audience than MST3K ever did... so I'm not all that worried ;)
Now I am extremely happy that I went with their paperless billing option when I signed up for my iPhone.
Um no, badgers are not man-eaters. According to http://www.whatbadgerseat.com/:
"Badgers subsist primarily on a diet of stoats, voles, and marmots. In a pinch, badgers have been known to eat woodpeckers."
No Zelda you say?
e ss/dp/B000FQBPCQ/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-5942051-98758 16?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1185121721&sr=8-1/
http://www.amazon.com/Legend-Zelda-Twilight-Princ
I distinctly remember watching an episode of Mr. Wizard when I was about 5 years old. He was showing the power of centripetal force; took a bucket full of water and made a quick vertical circle with it. All the water stayed in the bucket of course. To my 5 year old mind, that totally blew me away. Ever since then I was hooked on science. Thanks for showing me the light Mr. Wizard.
Sounds like the FBI needs to invest in tracking software such as Computrace: http://www.absolute.com/
We use this software at my job and have used it to successfully track and recover stolen laptops several times already. Many laptops from manufacturers such as Lenovo, Dell, Gateway and several others actually can store the tracking agent within the BIOS itself so that it cannot be removed (unless you change out the motherboard). If a new hard drive is installed into the laptop, the agent will reinstall itself onto the hard drive from the BIOS. It also has the ability to wipe the hard drive clean remotely if the laptop is found to be stolen.
With the most recent software update for the DirecTV HR20 HDDVR many people are seeing improvements in reliability and performance. Just for the sake of counterpoint, my HR20 has been running very well for the past 5 months.
Better software!
From what I have been reading in the forums, they are planning on doing some interesting stuff with the ethernet connectivity.
* VOD via Internet (handy since it's pretty hard to implement through Sats)
* There is PC integration planned with Windows Media Center and Vista
* There is a content sharing schema in the works. It's called the HMC (Home Media Center). It will consist of a server device which is connected to the phone line. All of the receiver nodes will communicate with the server to access stored content. All the receivers will also only need 1 coax connection to the server.
apparently you don't understand "American" sarcasm either :P
Ironic that I misspelt misspell isn't it?
Well now I know this is BS, because whenever I am speaking to a Canadian they mispell common words like color and flavor! For some reason they put a u in between the o and the r. It must be some new l33t speak or something...
Even if they wanted to continue supporting it, the amount of time and money needed to throw at the latest security flaw to be found in the OS is no where near the benefit. They'd need to keep a staff of programmers on the payroll that is familiar with the older code, and I'm sure the 98 code is a nightmare to look at right now. To MS it doesn't make any sense at all to continue supporting an OS that's nearly 10 years old. In a couple of years MS will stop support on Windows 2000 as well.
Yeah, shoulda previewed it more closely :P
"If all goes well with the experimental reactor, officials hope to set up a demonstration power plant at Cadarache by 2040"
Guess the traditional "40 years away" is now 36 years?
If you don't feel like paying $20 for decent phone service you don't have to. Yes, many households have broadband connections now. Yes, many still retain their regular POTS lines through their phone company. Yes, certain people may only break even in phone bill comparisons from their POTS line + broadband as opposed to their Vonage line + broadband, but that isn't eveyone. When you start factoring in cheaper long distance calls or all the extras like voicemail, callerid, 3-way calling, and numerous other features included in the Vonage service at no additional costs then things start to look better. Bitch about it all you want, but their service provides more than just "a handset".
Google video link, other one seems to be pretty slow:
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-50155465
My favorite use of this sound was in a Simpsons episode. Video here:
d y--DIVX
http://media.putfile.com/The--Simpsons--THX--Paro
By now everyone should be wise enough not to post every single piece of information about them anywhere online, let alone in one place. Parents should be more diligent not with monitoring every single thing their kids do on the computer, but educating them what's ok and not ok to do on the Internet. Am I the only one getting tired of all this MySpace business? On the bright side I was amused reading TFA and seeing how these people were done in by their own sheer stupidity.
Clever idea. Here's something a bit more advanced, but it costs money ofcourse. It's called Computrace and it's available on just about any laptop (they even have an OS X version). Their tracking agent attempts to make a call out to their servers every 24 hours. If it doesn't have an active internet connection, it will attempt to dial out through the modem if a phone line is connected. Newer Dells and IBMs actually store the tracking agent in the systems BIOS, so unless they plan on changing the motherboard out they're out of luck. We use this at my workplace quite extensively now, and have even used it to track "missing" laptops successfully. Check out their website for more info: http://www.absolute.com/