or like how no matter how many times you login, whenever you try to post a comment on something it says "You could login, if you were Registered".. how hard is it to remember logins from one reply to next, even/. can make that work most of the time.
Like he could actually tell the difference between windows 98 and xp with all the gui stuff turned off.. well he would notice it suddenly got more stable, but he wouldn't know it had xp instead of 98
if only there was a group similar in function to the aclu which people took seriously and didn't automatically think poorly of anything that mentions them.
Turn on the full headers, and look through the listing of all of the servers the mail has traversed through. The very first Received: from www.xxxx.com is the mail server that sent the original message. The to and from headers and several others can be made up, but not all of them. abuse.net and several other anti-spam sites have tutorials on how to track down the real sender.
Isn't this basically the same micro payment idea that gets suggested by about 100 people pretending to just come up with it on the fly everytime a story about spam prevention comes up on/. ? It is nice that IBM is behind it though, that might add some legitimacy to the plan and perhaps see it enacted instead of just mentioned weekly in the/. comments.
I think it would be a bad idea to rely on IDE drives as one's only source of backup. Especially if you aren't planning on using any stripping or parity. The large IDE drives are, the more prone to failure they appear to be. Ask anyone thats bought a 60-100 IBM deathstar drive lately. The added wear that would occur from joustling them around as you pull them in and out of the drive bays all the time seems like it would also make the time between failures greater. What is proposed in the story might work fairly well for a home user, but I think it would fall apart in a business setting.
Yet the dim bulb is calling a lawyer to file and civil lawsuit instead of a criminal one.
You've obviously never taken law 101 or the highschool equivilent. Otherwise, you'd realize that a private citizen can't just up and file a criminal lawsuit. Criminal cases involve individuals being prosecuted by the state. The very nature of his problem is that he wants relief from an individual so his recourse is to file a civil lawsuit or to complain to some state agency in the hopes that they will file a criminal lawsuit against the other people.
Secondly, this is not mail fraud at all seeing as no one has been defrauded of anything.
If we had no business mail (junk mail) at all I would absolutely hate to see the price we would have to pay to mail a letter. Business mail generates probably the largest source of revenue for the US Postal Service and thereby keeps your costs down.
I love how people keep perpetuating that myth. Do you honestly believe that if there were no business mail that our postage would go through the roof? Making a rough estimate that business mail is in the neighborhood of 90% of the mail that goes through the system, its pretty easy to see that the majority of the expensive infrastructure of the mail system is necessitated by the need to deliver business mail. With out all of the business mail, the mail system would get very little usage at all and require very little infrastructure to work.
Escaping the monthly fees of TiVo is a good motivation -- and the total cost here isn't bad either.
You don't have to pay the monthly fees with a tivo, you only have to if you expect the built in tv guide functions to work. The total cost of a tivo is bought on sale when they are clearancing the old units is around $100 or so.. the total cost of using an extra computer to do pvr stuff is significantly more.
Who is this article trying to win over? Its widely held by people who believe in evolution that life started underwater. The primordial soup references aren't just cute analogies. In my entire life, I've never come across any serious proposal that life developed in the air first.
Using IDE Raid is like using a winmodem. Unlike with modems, where everyone has one, RAID has a basic educational entry point. I seriously doubt IDE Raid will ever overtake SCSI in any area where knowledgeable people are doing the administration.
The class action Complaint was brought on behalf of all persons residing in the United States who have, while operating a computer, encountered an advertising banner like those illustrated on this website.
Whoa.. even at $500 a person.. that could effectively put bonzi buddy out of business if enough people jump on this. I personally hate bonzi buddy as I've had to spend literally hours cleaning up machines infected with their crap, often times having to reinstall windows and other software.
The interesting thing to me is that even though droves of Windows users would agree with this statement from the article: "Microsoft crams a bad system down peoples' throats. It's the evil empire, big brother, a monolithic corporation," they're still unwilling to explore other options.
Its not that they are unwilling to explore other options, its that the other options aren't any better and generally are less usable for the things people want to get done.
There is no way a non-tech person could Install NT. I have no experience of installing more recent versions of Windows. It was such a bad experience, I would avoid it at all costs.
NT was not designed for non-tech people to install, there is no way a non-tech person could install freebsd either. Recent versions of Windows (nt 4.0 is far from recent) are extremely easy to install and anyone who can click next can have a recent version of windows up and running in about an hour.
Let me ask you a hypothetical question, then... say I'm running windows 2000. Fresh installation, no weird third-party software installed. I pop open Task Manager and ponder a number of mysteriously-named standard system processes, call them foo32 and bar1337. Where do I go to read about these? How do I un-confuse myself, iow. On any decent unix, I have apropos and man... what is the equivalent on windows?
The services control panel under administrative tools gives a fairly decent description for every service.
MS-DOS used a temp file written to the current drive which broke with R/O media. Things like,
A:\> type readme.1st | more
wouldn't work if the disk is R/O. Brilliant.
Bullshit. You have obviously never used ms-dos or you have a faulty memory.
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but at the moment, Visa and MasterCard are demanding that if a store accepts their credit cards, it must accept their debit cards, too.
Its not a demanding thing, if you have a debit card with a visa or mc logo, the merchant's machine can't tell the difference between that and a cc. If you accept cc's then you automatically accept debit cards.
Why do you do those horrible tv commercials? Are the royalties from the many movies you've done that bad?
You seem like you must not take yourself too seriously to be able to satire yourself. Do you agree, and do you feel this is a quality more people should have?
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or like how no matter how many times you login, whenever you try to post a comment on something it says "You could login, if you were Registered".. how hard is it to remember logins from one reply to next, even /. can make that work most of the time.
I always buy CD's after downloading and listening to mp3's.
Blank CD's.
Like he could actually tell the difference between windows 98 and xp with all the gui stuff turned off.. well he would notice it suddenly got more stable, but he wouldn't know it had xp instead of 98
if only there was a group similar in function to the aclu which people took seriously and didn't automatically think poorly of anything that mentions them.
Turn on the full headers, and look through the listing of all of the servers the mail has traversed through. The very first Received: from www.xxxx.com is the mail server that sent the original message. The to and from headers and several others can be made up, but not all of them. abuse.net and several other anti-spam sites have tutorials on how to track down the real sender.
Isn't this basically the same micro payment idea that gets suggested by about 100 people pretending to just come up with it on the fly everytime a story about spam prevention comes up on /. ? It is nice that IBM is behind it though, that might add some legitimacy to the plan and perhaps see it enacted instead of just mentioned weekly in the /. comments.
I think it would be a bad idea to rely on IDE drives as one's only source of backup. Especially if you aren't planning on using any stripping or parity. The large IDE drives are, the more prone to failure they appear to be. Ask anyone thats bought a 60-100 IBM deathstar drive lately. The added wear that would occur from joustling them around as you pull them in and out of the drive bays all the time seems like it would also make the time between failures greater. What is proposed in the story might work fairly well for a home user, but I think it would fall apart in a business setting.
Working with software that has the wrong licensing terms can be very harmful. The KDE project found this out the hard way.
How so?
Do you ever get the feeling that the news at msnbc is more for making microsoft look good and less for providing unbiased information to the public?
I hope the debian team gets Klaus Knopper to help work on the new debian installer. The hardware detection he made for the knoppix live cd's is great.
Yet the dim bulb is calling a lawyer to file and civil lawsuit instead of a criminal one.
You've obviously never taken law 101 or the highschool equivilent. Otherwise, you'd realize that a private citizen can't just up and file a criminal lawsuit. Criminal cases involve individuals being prosecuted by the state. The very nature of his problem is that he wants relief from an individual so his recourse is to file a civil lawsuit or to complain to some state agency in the hopes that they will file a criminal lawsuit against the other people.
Secondly, this is not mail fraud at all seeing as no one has been defrauded of anything.
If we had no business mail (junk mail) at all I would absolutely hate to see the price we would have to pay to mail a letter. Business mail generates probably the largest source of revenue for the US Postal Service and thereby keeps your costs down.
I love how people keep perpetuating that myth. Do you honestly believe that if there were no business mail that our postage would go through the roof? Making a rough estimate that business mail is in the neighborhood of 90% of the mail that goes through the system, its pretty easy to see that the majority of the expensive infrastructure of the mail system is necessitated by the need to deliver business mail. With out all of the business mail, the mail system would get very little usage at all and require very little infrastructure to work.
Escaping the monthly fees of TiVo is a good motivation -- and the total cost here isn't bad either.
You don't have to pay the monthly fees with a tivo, you only have to if you expect the built in tv guide functions to work. The total cost of a tivo is bought on sale when they are clearancing the old units is around $100 or so.. the total cost of using an extra computer to do pvr stuff is significantly more.
Who is this article trying to win over? Its widely held by people who believe in evolution that life started underwater. The primordial soup references aren't just cute analogies. In my entire life, I've never come across any serious proposal that life developed in the air first.
Using IDE Raid is like using a winmodem. Unlike with modems, where everyone has one, RAID has a basic educational entry point. I seriously doubt IDE Raid will ever overtake SCSI in any area where knowledgeable people are doing the administration.
I love the image in section 4.8 of the complaint. "Cannot delete KERNEL32. The specified file is being used by windows"
The class action Complaint was brought on behalf of all persons residing in the United States who have, while operating a computer, encountered an advertising banner like those illustrated on this website.
Whoa.. even at $500 a person.. that could effectively put bonzi buddy out of business if enough people jump on this. I personally hate bonzi buddy as I've had to spend literally hours cleaning up machines infected with their crap, often times having to reinstall windows and other software.
The interesting thing to me is that even though droves of Windows users would agree with this statement from the article: "Microsoft crams a bad system down peoples' throats. It's the evil empire, big brother, a monolithic corporation," they're still unwilling to explore other options.
Its not that they are unwilling to explore other options, its that the other options aren't any better and generally are less usable for the things people want to get done.
Mac users hate microsoft until the need to browse the web, read email, open a doc file, or do just about anything else.
There is no way a non-tech person could Install NT. I have no experience of installing more recent versions of Windows. It was such a bad experience, I would avoid it at all costs.
NT was not designed for non-tech people to install, there is no way a non-tech person could install freebsd either. Recent versions of Windows (nt 4.0 is far from recent) are extremely easy to install and anyone who can click next can have a recent version of windows up and running in about an hour.
Let me ask you a hypothetical question, then ... say I'm running windows 2000. Fresh installation, no weird third-party software installed. I pop open Task Manager and ponder a number of mysteriously-named standard system processes, call them foo32 and bar1337. Where do I go to read about these? How do I un-confuse myself, iow. On any decent unix, I have apropos and man ... what is the equivalent on windows?
The services control panel under administrative tools gives a fairly decent description for every service.
It doesn't.. don't believe everything you read on /. Some people have been microsoft bashing so long, they don't even know when they are lying anymore.
MS-DOS used a temp file written to the current
drive which broke with R/O media. Things like,
A:\> type readme.1st | more
wouldn't work if the disk is R/O. Brilliant.
Bullshit. You have obviously never used ms-dos or you have a faulty memory.
but at the moment, Visa and MasterCard are demanding that if a store accepts their credit cards, it must accept their debit cards, too.
Its not a demanding thing, if you have a debit card with a visa or mc logo, the merchant's machine can't tell the difference between that and a cc. If you accept cc's then you automatically accept debit cards.
Why do you do those horrible tv commercials? Are the royalties from the many movies you've done that bad?
You seem like you must not take yourself too seriously to be able to satire yourself. Do you agree, and do you feel this is a quality more people should have?