Thank you, yes it's all Malware and the creators should all be tied to trees upside down and fed exlax for a month. Then they will be covered in what they are trying to dump on us.
Lawyers in Illinois filed a class action lawsuit against 180 last month. Check out the article at ZDnet http://blogs.zdnet.com/Spyware/?p=655
Now we just need the same thing to happen in 49 other states, the legal fees alone should bankrupt the company! Just make sure it stays separate suits and is not allowed to merge into one big one.
I tell my customers (white box store) when they are coughing up $50 -$150 for a spyware, virus, trojan cleanup, that ALL pop-ups are EVIL, click on one and you WILL have spyware. ALL toolbars are evil, (I know, Yawhore, and googoo are supposidly safe, but they are just fluff with no purpose), go back to simplicity. Update and run the Ad-Aware and Spybot I put on at least weekly.
Because of a few morons all ads get tarred with the same brush.
I almost got a marketing degree before I realized that I wasn't qualified, I have a conscience.
NAV is the worst excuse for an AV product on the market. If you install their System works on a box it will slow things to a crawl. The overhead is huge even on the AV. I have removed all Norton products from a dozen machines in the last month, at the request of the customers.
Of course the M$ solution will be as well written as the cause of the problem (Windows) and will be worse. I have no faith in M$ to do anything right, based on history, why would anyone?
Has been doing the job shop thing since 91. He has worked 12 of the 14 years and made better money than he did as a salaryed Engineer (EE) for Hughes Aircraft. He can do it all, hardware or software, but prefers programming. He took early retirement in 91 and gets the GM retirees discount on all vehicle purchases, plus his full pension. Right now he is in Phoenix with Honeywell for the fourth time, 60+ hours a week for hourly wages over $40/hr, thats over $100K/year. He spent 3 years in Syracuse, NY and did the QA on every line of code in the fire control computer for the Seawolf Submarine. Also was in Austin, TX and did the Y2K thing for MCI for 2 years. When his curent job ends he will be "really" retired, so he says, because he hit 71 in May. His retirement will be like the other two and last until he gets bored or offered enough to come back. Then again he might just take his 24 foot boat and go fishing wherever he and his wife feel like. I know that they will be here at either Thanksgiving or Christmas, last year they were in California with their 4 sons and families. It can be a great way to do things. Dave has met some people that take short jobs and go where they want to do things. Spend a summer fishing in MN after work and winter in TX for deer season.
I ordered it Friday (free shipping) and wasn't given a choice. I really don't know if it's a DVD or a pile of CD's. Don't see any comment on Novell's site either. I'll find out when it gets here. DVD would be very nice for the stated reasons.
Tried M$ anti-spy for about 2 months, since I'm a tech at a white box store I'm always looking for better tools. It's junk that I now remove from customers computers, Ad-Aware and Spybot are still better. As for M$ products being memory hogs, I didn't know that anyone in Redmond could even spell memory management, much less do something about it. Hell 90% of all Windows crashes from 3.0 - 98 can be traced to the never fixed, sub-moronic 1MB memory limit in DOS.
At that speed you better not be shooting over 100 yards. Any further and you will be lobbing it in like an artillery round. Accuracy comes with a flat trajectory.
The Navy SEAL snipers that use the Barrett routinly take head shots at 2000 yards. That is some fancy country shootin! Those guys can shoot 2 inch groups at 2000 yards. Most shooters are happy with that group at 500. Go to a range and try it at 100, 200, and 500 just to see how hard it can be. My best ever was 5 shoots in a.38 inch group at 200, 7mm Mauser 150 gr Nosler partition 24 inch barrel. With that rifle I could lob one in like artillery at 2000 but thats it. All ammo is hand loaded and each powder charge is weighed to the tenth of a grain. Shooting is a skill and an art at the same time, practice helps.
1100 fps is slow. Army snipers are using 300 Win Mags at 2800+ fps with a 200 gr bullet. Then think about the Barrett 50 shooting a 400 gr slug at 3500+ fps. That gives you enough time to duck out of sight on a 1000+ yd shot. The idea of the sniper round is extreme accuracy and a flat trajectory. This is only obtained by speed and bullet design. 1100 fps is a 12 ga shotgun with target loads, (Win AA 1 oz #9 shot). I reload my 357 Mag with 140 gr hollow points at 850 fps.
Suppresors only work on subsonic rounds otherwise you can hear the bullet go buy when it breaks the sound barrier, thats the crack like the snapping of fingers. If you have ever heard that, you were in the wrong place, or serving in combat.
Beware of cold war vintage sub sailors, we are a devious, sneaky bunch. And proud of it.
My only concern would be if she agreed with most of M$'s ideas for software and the computer world. In that case I wouldn't want her to make any ruling on any computer related case. Just think, she could rule that the slimy liability waiver that passes for most EULA's is good. History shows that not one liability waiver has EVER stood up in court. They always get treated as what they are: a sleezy attempt to avoid responsiblity. This is something that should not change.
The real purpose of a liability waiver is to intimidate about 90% of the people into thinking they can't sue, the other 10% can be bought.
Thats not a prepaid envelope, it's metered, they only pay for the ones that are mailed. I once had a friendly postmaster that let me tape bricks to them and send them back. They are billed by weight. One time ten friends and I went through the neighborhood and collected all the credit card ads for a week. We sent over 200 bricks out at once. No credit card ads came to that zip code for over a year. Unfortunately the DMA got the Post Office to outlaw that particular response. I had friends and relatives all over the country doing it for about six months, it was fun while it lasted.
The whole idea of Mutually Assured Destruction has always been insane. You had the U.S., England, France, USSR, and China with nukes and the fate of the world rested in the hands of the least stable leader. Somehow we have survived for close to fifty years like that.
Now, with the launch codes and proceedures that have been in place during that time it has always been possible for the President to launch a pre-emptive strike. In a nuclear situation it was never considered possible for Congress to declare war, the birds would fly then, if anyone survived, Congress would be informed. This is just window dressing.
Yes, I served on a Nuclear Submarine in the late Seventies, I am a cold warrior.
Gambling at a casino is regulated by the state it is in. There is no regulation of on-linf gambling. Therefore I consider it all rigged and a scam.
For 30 years I have always won at real slots, yes every time I play I come out ahead. I don't know why but it always works. Then of course I give it back at the Blackjack table. I have never beat any form of computer game that resembled gambling. Plain enough?
That's the reason I never played either. If I'm in Vegas I will try the slots and spend some time at the Blackjack table and normally loose some, why play against an imaginary opponent?
We all really want the same thing, that "dream job" that really just boils down to more money and fewer hours. I was looking for that when I was a mechanic, retail management, and now as a tech/programmer. I doubt it exists but I will never quit looking.
Kind of like the "dream wife", you know, the nymphomaniac who's Dad owns a liquor store!
Since Alexa is removed by both Ad-Aware and Spybot I wonder how accurate there info really is? The only people who have Alexa on their systems are the ones who take things exactly as M$ gives it to them. Those boxes are mostly zombies now.
What happens to the majority of DSL subscribers that have dynamic IP's? They do change and are not assigned like a static one. How do they make a case on that?
It's a major engineering challenge. Since most of us nerds have engineering skills at some level this does apply.
1. Communications-create more reliable system. Will benefit everyone in any disater. 2. Flood control-make any flood prone area safer(don't give me the move it troll, it's our biggest seaport). 3. Evacuation planning-how to move a large population to safety from any kind of disaster.
I think that is enough to interest most nerds I know!
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The US invented it and has always had control. Say what you want about censoship, corruption and the rest but the UN will be 100 times worse.
Thank you, yes it's all Malware and the creators should all be tied to trees upside down and fed exlax for a month. Then they will be covered in what they are trying to dump on us.
Lawyers in Illinois filed a class action lawsuit against 180 last month. Check out the article at ZDnet
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Spyware/?p=655
Now we just need the same thing to happen in 49 other states, the legal fees alone should bankrupt the company! Just make sure it stays separate suits and is not allowed to merge into one big one.
I tell my customers (white box store) when they are coughing up $50 -$150 for a spyware, virus, trojan cleanup, that ALL pop-ups are EVIL, click on one and you WILL have spyware. ALL toolbars are evil, (I know, Yawhore, and googoo are supposidly safe, but they are just fluff with no purpose), go back to simplicity. Update and run the Ad-Aware and Spybot I put on at least weekly.
Because of a few morons all ads get tarred with the same brush.
I almost got a marketing degree before I realized that I wasn't qualified, I have a conscience.
NAV is the worst excuse for an AV product on the market. If you install their System works on a box it will slow things to a crawl. The overhead is huge even on the AV. I have removed all Norton products from a dozen machines in the last month, at the request of the customers.
Of course the M$ solution will be as well written as the cause of the problem (Windows) and will be worse. I have no faith in M$ to do anything right, based on history, why would anyone?
Has been doing the job shop thing since 91. He has worked 12 of the 14 years and made better money than he did as a salaryed Engineer (EE) for Hughes Aircraft. He can do it all, hardware or software, but prefers programming. He took early retirement in 91 and gets the GM retirees discount on all vehicle purchases, plus his full pension. Right now he is in Phoenix with Honeywell for the fourth time, 60+ hours a week for hourly wages over $40/hr, thats over $100K/year. He spent 3 years in Syracuse, NY and did the QA on every line of code in the fire control computer for the Seawolf Submarine. Also was in Austin, TX and did the Y2K thing for MCI for 2 years. When his curent job ends he will be "really" retired, so he says, because he hit 71 in May. His retirement will be like the other two and last until he gets bored or offered enough to come back. Then again he might just take his 24 foot boat and go fishing wherever he and his wife feel like. I know that they will be here at either Thanksgiving or Christmas, last year they were in California with their 4 sons and families. It can be a great way to do things. Dave has met some people that take short jobs and go where they want to do things. Spend a summer fishing in MN after work and winter in TX for deer season.
I ordered it Friday (free shipping) and wasn't given a choice. I really don't know if it's a DVD or a pile of CD's. Don't see any comment on Novell's site either. I'll find out when it gets here. DVD would be very nice for the stated reasons.
You mean that Windows isn't malware?
Tried M$ anti-spy for about 2 months, since I'm a tech at a white box store I'm always looking for better tools. It's junk that I now remove from customers computers, Ad-Aware and Spybot are still better. As for M$ products being memory hogs, I didn't know that anyone in Redmond could even spell memory management, much less do something about it. Hell 90% of all Windows crashes from 3.0 - 98 can be traced to the never fixed, sub-moronic 1MB memory limit in DOS.
At that speed you better not be shooting over 100 yards. Any further and you will be lobbing it in like an artillery round. Accuracy comes with a flat trajectory.
The Navy SEAL snipers that use the Barrett routinly take head shots at 2000 yards. That is some fancy country shootin! Those guys can shoot 2 inch groups at 2000 yards. Most shooters are happy with that group at 500. Go to a range and try it at 100, 200, and 500 just to see how hard it can be. My best ever was 5 shoots in a .38 inch group at 200, 7mm Mauser 150 gr Nosler partition 24 inch barrel. With that rifle I could lob one in like artillery at 2000 but thats it. All ammo is hand loaded and each powder charge is weighed to the tenth of a grain. Shooting is a skill and an art at the same time, practice helps.
1100 fps is slow. Army snipers are using 300 Win Mags at 2800+ fps with a 200 gr bullet. Then think about the Barrett 50 shooting a 400 gr slug at 3500+ fps. That gives you enough time to duck out of sight on a 1000+ yd shot. The idea of the sniper round is extreme accuracy and a flat trajectory. This is only obtained by speed and bullet design. 1100 fps is a 12 ga shotgun with target loads, (Win AA 1 oz #9 shot). I reload my 357 Mag with 140 gr hollow points at 850 fps.
Suppresors only work on subsonic rounds otherwise you can hear the bullet go buy when it breaks the sound barrier, thats the crack like the snapping of fingers. If you have ever heard that, you were in the wrong place, or serving in combat.
Beware of cold war vintage sub sailors, we are a devious, sneaky bunch. And proud of it.
My only concern would be if she agreed with most of M$'s ideas for software and the computer world. In that case I wouldn't want her to make any ruling on any computer related case. Just think, she could rule that the slimy liability waiver that passes for most EULA's is good. History shows that not one liability waiver has EVER stood up in court. They always get treated as what they are: a sleezy attempt to avoid responsiblity. This is something that should not change.
The real purpose of a liability waiver is to intimidate about 90% of the people into thinking they can't sue, the other 10% can be bought.
Thats not a prepaid envelope, it's metered, they only pay for the ones that are mailed. I once had a friendly postmaster that let me tape bricks to them and send them back. They are billed by weight. One time ten friends and I went through the neighborhood and collected all the credit card ads for a week. We sent over 200 bricks out at once. No credit card ads came to that zip code for over a year. Unfortunately the DMA got the Post Office to outlaw that particular response. I had friends and relatives all over the country doing it for about six months, it was fun while it lasted.
The proof of your "none" is the over 50% of businesses that never bought into XP and are still running 2000 in one form or another.
God I hope so!
The whole idea of Mutually Assured Destruction has always been insane. You had the U.S., England, France, USSR, and China with nukes and the fate of the world rested in the hands of the least stable leader. Somehow we have survived for close to fifty years like that.
Now, with the launch codes and proceedures that have been in place during that time it has always been possible for the President to launch a pre-emptive strike. In a nuclear situation it was never considered possible for Congress to declare war, the birds would fly then, if anyone survived, Congress would be informed. This is just window dressing.
Yes, I served on a Nuclear Submarine in the late Seventies, I am a cold warrior.
I think MA has been around almost 400 years. Remember the Pilgrims, Plymouth, in 1620? They have already been around longer tham M$ will ever be.
Gambling at a casino is regulated by the state it is in. There is no regulation of on-linf gambling. Therefore I consider it all rigged and a scam.
For 30 years I have always won at real slots, yes every time I play I come out ahead. I don't know why but it always works. Then of course I give it back at the Blackjack table. I have never beat any form of computer game that resembled gambling. Plain enough?
That's the reason I never played either. If I'm in Vegas I will try the slots and spend some time at the Blackjack table and normally loose some, why play against an imaginary opponent?
We all really want the same thing, that "dream job" that really just boils down to more money and fewer hours. I was looking for that when I was a mechanic, retail management, and now as a tech/programmer. I doubt it exists but I will never quit looking.
Kind of like the "dream wife", you know, the nymphomaniac who's Dad owns a liquor store!
Since Alexa is removed by both Ad-Aware and Spybot I wonder how accurate there info really is? The only people who have Alexa on their systems are the ones who take things exactly as M$ gives it to them. Those boxes are mostly zombies now.
Wouldn't someone have to use M$ search?
My start up page, at home or work, Windows or Linux, is always Google. On Firefox.
What happens to the majority of DSL subscribers that have dynamic IP's? They do change and are not assigned like a static one. How do they make a case on that?
It's a major engineering challenge. Since most of us nerds have engineering skills at some level this does apply.
1. Communications-create more reliable system. Will benefit everyone in any disater.
2. Flood control-make any flood prone area safer(don't give me the move it troll, it's our biggest seaport).
3. Evacuation planning-how to move a large population to safety from any kind of disaster.
I think that is enough to interest most nerds I know!