The new.net website actually has a special uninstaller you can get from a deeplink.. they usually furnish the link to it if you complain to them enough about not being able to uninstall it.. you can sometimes find the link to the uninstaller on forums... there is also a program called lspfix or something like that that will fix the stuff new.net messes up.
Not important? 14,000,000,000 human lives aren't important? Because that's how many additional people the planet could support if no one ate beef.
Haha.. Last I checked, we weren't running out of space on the earth due to eating beef or any other reason. The entire population of the earth could easily fit in an area the size of texas and oklamhoma with the entire rest of the earth left over to grow crops and beef.
Even if everyone in the united states stopped eating beef, this would have no effect on starving vegetarians on the otherside of the world. It's rather idiotic to assume that meat eating in prosperous countries is related to starvation in poor countries.
I'm not sure which is more accurate, but either way you're talking about 92% to 95% waste compared to consuming the soy directly.
Those kinds of statistics aren't really important though, the same way the fact that you need to eat a couple of pounds of food a day isn't. Any living thing over the course of it's life eats several times it weight in other things. Raising a plant requires several gallons of water, but you aren't going to see vegetarians complaining about the amount of water wasted to grow a plant.
again, read the article. they are talking about java code in which you dont have the source, but an easy to decompile class file.
even if you did have the code as with gpl software, it wouldn't be totally trivial to remove the watermark, because it wouldn't be immediately obvious which code contributed to the watermarking.
What would be the point in watermarking text? I take it (I haven't read the article but I don't reckon you have either) what is proposed is some way of coding so that a particular watermark structure has to get generated by the compiler and will appear in the executable binary. I have no clue whether this is possible or not, whether it would survive (say) an obfuscator program being run on the source or being compiled with a different compiler, or minor changes to the code, but imagine these would be pretty crucial features.
Read the article, or atleast the summary on the IEEE link. They specifically address these knee-jerk complaints.
This has no effect on GPL:ed code... The code is written, it can be copied, there is _NO WAY_ to watermark TEXT. Why is this news?
Either you are an idiot, or you just were in such a rush to make the 3rd post you forgot to read the article or even think about the concept of watermarking.
It would be trivial to put a watermark in sourcecode, you just have to develop the program so that the watermark was essential to the programs operation.
So what if they had a guarantee? Once the company is in bancruptcy all your guarantees go into the pile of claims against the debtor, and will probably end up being useless.
RTFA, the company didn't go bankrupt, they just shut the doors one day. Until they file some kind of bankrupcy protection, they can still be sued by the developers that they ripped off.
ugh.. as nice as it would be to say proprietary software is bad, these are the results. That just is not the case.
Proprietary software failed in this case because the people using it (stupidly) paid a lot of money for software that had no contingency plan or guarantee.
To use a popular/. analogy, when I buy a ford car, I have no guarantee that I'll be supported after ford goes out of business.
When you pay a lot of money for something with no service guarantee of any kind, stuff like this happens. Sure using OSS may have helped with this problem, but OSS has a whole slew of other problems.
If its merely a license key issue, I'm sure these "developers" could get around that. Judging by the number of keygen programs for other software packages that come out the same day a program is released, this is a non-issue.
As for crossing into the uncharted waters of adjusting Windows settings from within the AOL application, don't they do that already during setup to arrange dialup settings, etc.?
Exactly, if people are pissed off about ad blocking, which aol advertises as a feature, they ought to be really pissed off about the fact that aol deletes core systems files and replaces them with their own buggy dll files.
"internal Windows settings?" That's like calling daemons internal Unix settings. They are separate programs. Turning them on and off isn't even HARD.
Exactly. Changing from disabled to manual or automatic for the startup type is very easy. Easier than starting and stopping unix daemons. Just because the author wasn't immediately familiar with the process doesn't mean it's hard.
Uninstalling software is hard for people that don't know how to use their computers.
Are they actually doing this automatically, or only after you enable the popup blocking? AOL advertises that their service enables popup blocking technology, so its hard for me to see the complaint.
Just like how ad blocking services block useful popups used by webmail and similar systems, AOL's adblocking is blocking windows messenger service popups.
That's why I buy and sell my books on half.com and amazon. Not to mention, I never bought a book the last couple of years of college unless I was certain I needed it. You'd be amazed at how many books you really don't need to buy.
3. Worst case, hit the reset button, and hope for the best. Wait while CHKDSK scans my 8GB boot volume, hope for nothing wrong (however, usually there's a dangling link).
If you are waiting for scandisk to run, its your own fault for not installing your modern windows os with the default filesystem type of ntfs. Most linux installations will run fsck after you forcibly power them off, so I'm not sure what your complaint is there.
I for one am not keen on running the graphics driver within ring 0 (which Microsoft does in NT at least) to speed up video performance. If the video driver runs in ring 0, a problem with the video card can bring down the whole system.
So what, if the video driver has a problem you can't see the screen to anything anyway and will eventually have to restart. Sure you could ssh telnet etc etc ad naseum, but you are still going to have to restart to have your system be totally usable again.
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The new.net website actually has a special uninstaller you can get from a deeplink.. they usually furnish the link to it if you complain to them enough about not being able to uninstall it.. you can sometimes find the link to the uninstaller on forums... there is also a program called lspfix or something like that that will fix the stuff new.net messes up.
What the hell is a MacBeard?
I see no reason why any search engine or crawler should respect a robots.txt on any .gov site.
Not important? 14,000,000,000 human lives aren't important? Because that's how many additional people the planet could support if no one ate beef.
Haha.. Last I checked, we weren't running out of space on the earth due to eating beef or any other reason. The entire population of the earth could easily fit in an area the size of texas and oklamhoma with the entire rest of the earth left over to grow crops and beef.
Even if everyone in the united states stopped eating beef, this would have no effect on starving vegetarians on the otherside of the world. It's rather idiotic to assume that meat eating in prosperous countries is related to starvation in poor countries.
The XFree86 project has pushed away more developers than most projects ever have - is this the beginning of the end for XFree86?
One can only hope.
I'm not sure which is more accurate, but either way you're talking about 92% to 95% waste compared to consuming the soy directly.
Those kinds of statistics aren't really important though, the same way the fact that you need to eat a couple of pounds of food a day isn't. Any living thing over the course of it's life eats several times it weight in other things. Raising a plant requires several gallons of water, but you aren't going to see vegetarians complaining about the amount of water wasted to grow a plant.
again, read the article. they are talking about java code in which you dont have the source, but an easy to decompile class file.
even if you did have the code as with gpl software, it wouldn't be totally trivial to remove the watermark, because it wouldn't be immediately obvious which code contributed to the watermarking.
What would be the point in watermarking text? I take it (I haven't read the article but I don't reckon you have either) what is proposed is some way of coding so that a particular watermark structure has to get generated by the compiler and will appear in the executable binary. I have no clue whether this is possible or not, whether it would survive (say) an obfuscator program being run on the source or being compiled with a different compiler, or minor changes to the code, but imagine these would be pretty crucial features.
Read the article, or atleast the summary on the IEEE link. They specifically address these knee-jerk complaints.
This has no effect on GPL:ed code... The code is written, it can be copied, there is _NO WAY_ to watermark TEXT. Why is this news?
Either you are an idiot, or you just were in such a rush to make the 3rd post you forgot to read the article or even think about the concept of watermarking.
It would be trivial to put a watermark in sourcecode, you just have to develop the program so that the watermark was essential to the programs operation.
Untrue.
At least in the United States, car companies are required to support their vehicles for 7 years after the sale.
Care to back that up somehow?
So what if they had a guarantee? Once the company is in bancruptcy all your guarantees go into the pile of claims against the debtor, and will probably end up being useless.
RTFA, the company didn't go bankrupt, they just shut the doors one day. Until they file some kind of bankrupcy protection, they can still be sued by the developers that they ripped off.
Are LG Cdroms made by the same people who make the knock off cellphones aka qualcomm?
ugh.. as nice as it would be to say proprietary software is bad, these are the results. That just is not the case.
/. analogy, when I buy a ford car, I have no guarantee that I'll be supported after ford goes out of business.
Proprietary software failed in this case because the people using it (stupidly) paid a lot of money for software that had no contingency plan or guarantee.
To use a popular
When you pay a lot of money for something with no service guarantee of any kind, stuff like this happens. Sure using OSS may have helped with this problem, but OSS has a whole slew of other problems.
If its merely a license key issue, I'm sure these "developers" could get around that. Judging by the number of keygen programs for other software packages that come out the same day a program is released, this is a non-issue.
As for crossing into the uncharted waters of adjusting Windows settings from within the AOL application, don't they do that already during setup to arrange dialup settings, etc.?
Exactly, if people are pissed off about ad blocking, which aol advertises as a feature, they ought to be really pissed off about the fact that aol deletes core systems files and replaces them with their own buggy dll files.
"internal Windows settings?" That's like calling daemons internal Unix settings. They are separate programs. Turning them on and off isn't even HARD.
Exactly. Changing from disabled to manual or automatic for the startup type is very easy. Easier than starting and stopping unix daemons. Just because the author wasn't immediately familiar with the process doesn't mean it's hard.
Uninstalling software is hard for people that don't know how to use their computers.
Are they actually doing this automatically, or only after you enable the popup blocking? AOL advertises that their service enables popup blocking technology, so its hard for me to see the complaint.
Just like how ad blocking services block useful popups used by webmail and similar systems, AOL's adblocking is blocking windows messenger service popups.
I remember when the Americans invested over a billion dollars into researching a pen that would work in space.
Considering that is just a myth, it'd be a hard thing to remember.
NASA spent millions of pounds and many man years developing a pen that writes in space. The Russians took a pencil :)
Except that's not true.. It always fun to make fun of Americans even if you have to make up stories though I guess.
Now, what should I do? Organize a posse?"
Why not? Worked for Andre the Giant.
That's why I buy and sell my books on half.com and amazon. Not to mention, I never bought a book the last couple of years of college unless I was certain I needed it. You'd be amazed at how many books you really don't need to buy.
like how I should go about receiving a signal when my house is surrounded by lots of fairly tall trees?"
I'd guess you'd put up a huge antenna on top of your house, or on a big telephone pole or tower out in your yard.
It just so happened that after the split, Microsoft decided that the video performance was not up to par, and put the video driver in ring 0.
Judging by the number of computers bought solely/primarily for gaming , I'd say microsoft made the right decision.
3. Worst case, hit the reset button, and hope for the best. Wait while CHKDSK scans my 8GB boot volume, hope for nothing wrong (however, usually there's a dangling link).
If you are waiting for scandisk to run, its your own fault for not installing your modern windows os with the default filesystem type of ntfs. Most linux installations will run fsck after you forcibly power them off, so I'm not sure what your complaint is there.
Isn't maps.yahoo.com powered by mapquest?
I for one am not keen on running the graphics driver within ring 0 (which Microsoft does in NT at least) to speed up video performance. If the video driver runs in ring 0, a problem with the video card can bring down the whole system.
So what, if the video driver has a problem you can't see the screen to anything anyway and will eventually have to restart. Sure you could ssh telnet etc etc ad naseum, but you are still going to have to restart to have your system be totally usable again.