What is its nefarious and maligned function? Does it make your computer crash? Does it open up a fleet of popups upon login? Does it spread like the plague via any available means? Does it turn your machine into a wayward botnet zombie?
No? Then, please: Why is it malware? (And, no, "It's malware because I don't have a use for it" isn't good enough.)
If you want to carefully shepherd every bit of software which is installed on your computer, then don't use automatic updates. It's very simple. There is no available version of Windows which updates itself automatically by default -- the user must choose to allow them to happen.
That said: Windows Update often offers up new drivers for my video card, sound card, and various bits of hardware that are built into my motherboard, and none of these drivers are Microsoft products.
This is no greater sin, in my humble opinion, than Gentoo packing up Perl modules as part of Portage, and then updating them along with everything else once I've told it to do so.
I'm thinking that a plaster cast of Armstrong's, uh, boot would be one of the most meaningful things in human possession. I, for one, want as many lunar missions as necessary in order to ensure that a plaster cast of the item is successful, to preserve it for an eternity of gawkers and onlookers.
Great. More text like "See Amy throatfucked by this HUGE BLACK COCK!!!!!" when I try to enter a URL in front of a client.
Please, whether it's your favorite feature or not, tell me that there's a way to turn it off in Opera. (And, no, "stop looking at angry porn" isn't an option -- I'm not blind yet.)
Of course we (I think I can speak for drinkypoo here) think you're wrong.
My own opinion is that if we (the populace) had useful amounts of spectral bandwidth (note: this is not the same thing as "internet bandwidth," which is at best a misnomer anyway), in a useful spectral band, and were allowed to radiate reasonable amounts of radio energy within that spectrum, then mesh would work fine, at speeds far greater than 20Mbps. It's a theory, of course, and it's likely to stay that way for now because the stage is not set for such an endeavor at this time.
So, again: Would it really matter to you if your episodes of Heroes (???) were broadcast (or multicast, if you will) via mesh, or via a singular transmitter? At the end of a day, in a very practical sense: So long as you get your bread and circuses, it's all cool, right?
And then the video just sort of ends, without the computer having, um, computed anything. The whole thing is about as entertaining and instructive as watching the skimmer on my swimming pool (except the skimmer might actually be more interesting).
Does anyone have a better (or simply more-complete) moving-pictures demonstration of this remarkable machine?
Extended power outage, due to any number of different reasons.
The telco CO will have a huge array of batteries to supply -48VDC to all of their switching gear in a very uninterrupted fashion, and a diesel or natural gas generator which will start up shortly after the power goes out. It will probably also have redundant capacity for long-distance links, allowing them to reroute things in the event of a cable cut somewhere.
The cell tower may, in fact, have none of these. No or limited batteries, no generator, and no circuit redundancy. In a lot of cases, you'll just have to wait until Verizon (or whoever) rolls into town with generators.
Why would you care if your local news, weather, and free entertainment (like Heroes???) were delivered over a diverse and redundant mesh network, instead of a monotransmitter TV signal?
You don't need to install the latest-and-funkiest.NET shit. You just don't need to.
That most folks opt into using automatic updates (NO, it's not default -- the default is to annoy the shit out of you until you decide whether or not to schedule automatic updates), and blindly accept whatever comes down the chute, does not mean that they were left out of the decision-making process.
I'm sorry that you don't understand a modern computer any better than you do, AC, but ignorance is no excuse.
TFA, which almost nobody bothered to read, links to an MSDN blog (which even acknowledges and links to the previous Slashdot story), which absolutely nobody bothered to read. Because, if the submitter, or the editor, or anyone had bothered to do so, they'd realize what a total non-issue this is: It's already fixed, which is why it works fine for you, drinkypoo.
This blog states that the plugin was initially installed as a system-wide thing. And, with FF, users can't simply remove system-wide things by themselves. Which, of course, makes sense to anyone who has spent more than ten minutes working on a system with proper basic security. They detail a long-winded workaround.
Right. So. Then there's this:
Update (5/2009): We just release an update to.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 that makes the firefox plug in a per-user component. This makes uninstall a LOT cleaner.. none of the steps below are required once this update is installed.
I'd guess that you simply already have this newer version of the.NET package, which includes a Firefox plugin which is installed in a manner more in-keeping with what folks might normally expect, and accordingly can be uninstalled in a manner that folks might normally expect.
OMG! This DRM will kill us EVERYYTHING! THINK O F THE CHILDREN! Compisite 1938-era NTSC 4all!!!! FTW! Ethernet??? NEVER!! And so on!
(The sooner you either die or get back to steering plows and shucking corn on your Mennonite commune, the sooner the rest of us can get on with our progress. Thanks, in advance, for your cooperation!)
Cum-guzzling stool pigeon. Rot in hell. Go become a professional zoophile or something if your boss can't bear the thought of the word "whore" showing up in the logs.
In fact, tell the boss to get bent if he's even looking for the word "whore" in logs. Have him get doubly-bent if such logs are even existent.
All of these "legacy-free" laptops should have simply included DVI from the start. In doing so, they'd support DVI monitors, HDMI monitors, and VGA monitors (DVI can carry analog video). All this, with one little DVI port and two small adapters (which will be lost or thrown away by those who don't care, and cherished by those who do...).
My Asus 24" desktop LCD has VGA, DVI, and HDMI inputs. It also includes a couple of audio outputs, to get the sound from the HDMI input.
At work, we've sold a couple of 52" Panasonic professional plama displays which have an HDMI input in one of their modular bays. They aren't TVs, either - they have no facility to have an internal tuner.
My dad has no useful fingerprints on his hand. His skin is so dry on his hands that the entire gripping surface is more like one giant callus, worn smooth from manual labor, than actual living skin cells. I've seen him use his bare hands to sand a piece of wood.
That fingerprints are useful and unique, does not make them universal.:)
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Is it malware?
What is its nefarious and maligned function? Does it make your computer crash? Does it open up a fleet of popups upon login? Does it spread like the plague via any available means? Does it turn your machine into a wayward botnet zombie?
No? Then, please: Why is it malware? (And, no, "It's malware because I don't have a use for it" isn't good enough.)
If you want to carefully shepherd every bit of software which is installed on your computer, then don't use automatic updates. It's very simple. There is no available version of Windows which updates itself automatically by default -- the user must choose to allow them to happen.
That said: Windows Update often offers up new drivers for my video card, sound card, and various bits of hardware that are built into my motherboard, and none of these drivers are Microsoft products.
This is no greater sin, in my humble opinion, than Gentoo packing up Perl modules as part of Portage, and then updating them along with everything else once I've told it to do so.
Double nothin's still nothin.
You're doing it all wrong. The beer goes on the back of her head.
But if it wasn't....
I'm thinking that a plaster cast of Armstrong's, uh, boot would be one of the most meaningful things in human possession. I, for one, want as many lunar missions as necessary in order to ensure that a plaster cast of the item is successful, to preserve it for an eternity of gawkers and onlookers.
Unless, of course, he declines to be enshrined, in which case the whole point is moot anyway.
Great. More text like "See Amy throatfucked by this HUGE BLACK COCK!!!!!" when I try to enter a URL in front of a client.
Please, whether it's your favorite feature or not, tell me that there's a way to turn it off in Opera. (And, no, "stop looking at angry porn" isn't an option -- I'm not blind yet.)
Good. Wake me up when it starts actually, you know, happening -- almost none of the towers I see around town have generators.
*sigh*
Of course we (I think I can speak for drinkypoo here) think you're wrong.
My own opinion is that if we (the populace) had useful amounts of spectral bandwidth (note: this is not the same thing as "internet bandwidth," which is at best a misnomer anyway), in a useful spectral band, and were allowed to radiate reasonable amounts of radio energy within that spectrum, then mesh would work fine, at speeds far greater than 20Mbps. It's a theory, of course, and it's likely to stay that way for now because the stage is not set for such an endeavor at this time.
With regards to expense, it's already expensive to watch TV.
So, again: Would it really matter to you if your episodes of Heroes (???) were broadcast (or multicast, if you will) via mesh, or via a singular transmitter? At the end of a day, in a very practical sense: So long as you get your bread and circuses, it's all cool, right?
And then the video just sort of ends, without the computer having, um, computed anything. The whole thing is about as entertaining and instructive as watching the skimmer on my swimming pool (except the skimmer might actually be more interesting).
Does anyone have a better (or simply more-complete) moving-pictures demonstration of this remarkable machine?
Extended power outage, due to any number of different reasons.
The telco CO will have a huge array of batteries to supply -48VDC to all of their switching gear in a very uninterrupted fashion, and a diesel or natural gas generator which will start up shortly after the power goes out. It will probably also have redundant capacity for long-distance links, allowing them to reroute things in the event of a cable cut somewhere.
The cell tower may, in fact, have none of these. No or limited batteries, no generator, and no circuit redundancy. In a lot of cases, you'll just have to wait until Verizon (or whoever) rolls into town with generators.
Others have chimed in here, but... What about us unintentional breeders?
Why would you care if your local news, weather, and free entertainment (like Heroes???) were delivered over a diverse and redundant mesh network, instead of a monotransmitter TV signal?
Do you mean this, or something else?
You don't need to install the latest-and-funkiest .NET shit. You just don't need to.
That most folks opt into using automatic updates (NO, it's not default -- the default is to annoy the shit out of you until you decide whether or not to schedule automatic updates), and blindly accept whatever comes down the chute, does not mean that they were left out of the decision-making process.
I'm sorry that you don't understand a modern computer any better than you do, AC, but ignorance is no excuse.
So, that is what's wrong with Jersey.
Thanks for the tip!
TFA, which almost nobody bothered to read, links to an MSDN blog (which even acknowledges and links to the previous Slashdot story), which absolutely nobody bothered to read. Because, if the submitter, or the editor, or anyone had bothered to do so, they'd realize what a total non-issue this is: It's already fixed, which is why it works fine for you, drinkypoo.
This blog states that the plugin was initially installed as a system-wide thing. And, with FF, users can't simply remove system-wide things by themselves. Which, of course, makes sense to anyone who has spent more than ten minutes working on a system with proper basic security. They detail a long-winded workaround.
Right. So. Then there's this:
Update (5/2009): We just release an update to .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 that makes the firefox plug in a per-user component. This makes uninstall a LOT cleaner.. none of the steps below are required once this update is installed.
I'd guess that you simply already have this newer version of the .NET package, which includes a Firefox plugin which is installed in a manner more in-keeping with what folks might normally expect, and accordingly can be uninstalled in a manner that folks might normally expect.
OMG! This DRM will kill us EVERYYTHING! THINK O F THE CHILDREN! Compisite 1938-era NTSC 4all!!!! FTW! Ethernet??? NEVER!! And so on!
(The sooner you either die or get back to steering plows and shucking corn on your Mennonite commune, the sooner the rest of us can get on with our progress. Thanks, in advance, for your cooperation!)
Hey, fractoid:
Fuck you, and your sanitized, "SFW" web.
Cum-guzzling stool pigeon. Rot in hell. Go become a professional zoophile or something if your boss can't bear the thought of the word "whore" showing up in the logs.
In fact, tell the boss to get bent if he's even looking for the word "whore" in logs. Have him get doubly-bent if such logs are even existent.
All of these "legacy-free" laptops should have simply included DVI from the start. In doing so, they'd support DVI monitors, HDMI monitors, and VGA monitors (DVI can carry analog video). All this, with one little DVI port and two small adapters (which will be lost or thrown away by those who don't care, and cherished by those who do...).
Cheaper than $1.94?
My Asus 24" desktop LCD has VGA, DVI, and HDMI inputs. It also includes a couple of audio outputs, to get the sound from the HDMI input.
At work, we've sold a couple of 52" Panasonic professional plama displays which have an HDMI input in one of their modular bays. They aren't TVs, either - they have no facility to have an internal tuner.
My dad has no useful fingerprints on his hand. His skin is so dry on his hands that the entire gripping surface is more like one giant callus, worn smooth from manual labor, than actual living skin cells. I've seen him use his bare hands to sand a piece of wood.
That fingerprints are useful and unique, does not make them universal. :)
It all depends. Is there oil there?
I've seen a crew repaving a section of I-75, working continuously in a chain as follows:
At the front, machines were grinding up the old road and sending it away on an endless line dump trucks.
Behind that, a few of the typical large rotating brushes were cleaning off the debris.
Behind that, came the spraying-of-new-black-stuff operation.
Behind that, was an asphalt paving machine, fed with another endless line of dump trucks.
Behind that, was a fleet of steamrollers, smoothing out and compressing the new road surface.
And behind that, was a rolling barrier to keep traffic (which was maintained in one lane) out of the construction lane.
One could drive on this new road surface within an hour or so of the old one being removed.
Ever since I've seen this operation in process, I've wondered why repaving major highways isn't done that way more often.