He doesn't have any performance concerns. He doesn't have any memory concerns. He has very few data integrity concerns (well, he might type a letter in one of his important numbers). In fact, Open Office provides a friendly interface with a whole bunch of convenient tools to analyze the data with.
If he is going to automate everything, a database probably does provide a more convenient interface for doing the updates, but you made a pretty blanket statement there.
It seems doubtful that the actual collusion was as interesting as you describe. It was probably to the tune of 10 or 20 percent, not the 100 percent in your post.
If it isn't possible to do a good job enforcing the regulations (which I believe to be true), then the distinction isn't worth much.
The #1 thing preventing the vast majority of adults from using powerful drugs is that they do not want to; in the face of that, I can't justify violent, expensive enforcement.
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I prefer to believe that the endless line of morons are the people who think that they can make money by becoming a spammer (or that is, purchasing spam runs from the real spammers).
Maybe there are hundreds of thousands of people who repeatedly try to purchase drugs and other crap from shady online retailers, but I don't really think so.
My current speculation is that most winrot is Windows falling back from DMA disk access to PIO (or simply to an older DMA standard). If things fall back to PIO, not only is disk access like molasses, all sorts of soft-hardware stops working because of the interrupts from the disk and the computer simply seems broken.
I don't know enough about it to have a worthwhile opinion, but it seems like the current generation of super-capacity drives may have a higher rate of issues per interface than Windows is made to handle gracefully, exacerbating the problem (the current behavior is to fall back on errors and never try to move up to a faster standard).
Anybody who owns an S&P 500 index fund or etf, and probably millions of other people who own various mutual funds. Also, there are probably lots of individual stockholders.
The Firefox team have done a good job of finding and closing a lot of the memory leaks that didn't used to exist, so memory problems really are increasing a result of extensions (that is, 'there aren't leaks' stopped being the party line many moons ago).
For people that use a lot of tabs, setting browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to something lower than the default (determined from the amount of RAM present, 3 is a sane value to change to, 5 for people who use back and forward a great deal) will also decrease memory consumption.
It does quarantine files. This involves copying the file to a special directory and removing the system copy. The problem is that the system copy is needed to boot.
If a user checks the scan report and restores the file from quarantine before rebooting, they will be fine. If they have the scanner set to trigger a reboot, they are screwed.
Imagine if the whitelist was a system feature under user control (it would be a pain in the ass in a lot of situations (parents, etc.), but it wouldn't be 'scary' the way you are talking about).
This is essentially what permissions on unix do by the way, the system looks if the file has been marked as executable before running it, rather than doing everything it can to execute the file when it is clickety-clicked.
The parent situation could be alleviated by subscribing them to a vendor whitelist, but it wouldn't need to be the only whitelist, there could be more than one.
AVG has stopped distributing the bad definition file, so if it isn't already on your computer, it shouldn't be coming in. I guess they could make the same mistake again, but there is at least some chance that having made the mistake will make the more careful for awhile.
Also, system files are protected differently in Vista, so it might not be a problem (It depends on how hard AVG works to overcome Windows):
Go to the install directory and rename "avgresf.dll" and "afgmwdef_us.mht" (adding a.bak or whatever should work fine). I did this a few days ago and the notification bar is no more, with no apparent problems.
Also, don't tell anyone, to prevent AVG from changing it.
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He doesn't have any performance concerns. He doesn't have any memory concerns. He has very few data integrity concerns (well, he might type a letter in one of his important numbers). In fact, Open Office provides a friendly interface with a whole bunch of convenient tools to analyze the data with.
If he is going to automate everything, a database probably does provide a more convenient interface for doing the updates, but you made a pretty blanket statement there.
It seems doubtful that the actual collusion was as interesting as you describe. It was probably to the tune of 10 or 20 percent, not the 100 percent in your post.
Of course, we are both speculating pointlessly.
There are only about 150 million taxpayers and their contributions are wildly disproportionate.
Don't forget to top off the lamps with some whale oil.
Please note that I *did* say that it is not possible to do a good job enforcing the regulations.
It is perfectly possible to disagree, as it isn't possible to prove either position.
If it isn't possible to do a good job enforcing the regulations (which I believe to be true), then the distinction isn't worth much.
The #1 thing preventing the vast majority of adults from using powerful drugs is that they do not want to; in the face of that, I can't justify violent, expensive enforcement.
Poorly?
I prefer to believe that the endless line of morons are the people who think that they can make money by becoming a spammer (or that is, purchasing spam runs from the real spammers).
Maybe there are hundreds of thousands of people who repeatedly try to purchase drugs and other crap from shady online retailers, but I don't really think so.
My current speculation is that most winrot is Windows falling back from DMA disk access to PIO (or simply to an older DMA standard). If things fall back to PIO, not only is disk access like molasses, all sorts of soft-hardware stops working because of the interrupts from the disk and the computer simply seems broken.
I don't know enough about it to have a worthwhile opinion, but it seems like the current generation of super-capacity drives may have a higher rate of issues per interface than Windows is made to handle gracefully, exacerbating the problem (the current behavior is to fall back on errors and never try to move up to a faster standard).
Your effort to stay within the 'boring' guideline is commendable.
What's wrong with sniffing your traffic with Wireshark and downloading the mp3's directly?
There might be some sort of issue with an ampersand though.
You are making a presumption about the old presumption.
Anybody who owns an S&P 500 index fund or etf, and probably millions of other people who own various mutual funds. Also, there are probably lots of individual stockholders.
The Firefox team have done a good job of finding and closing a lot of the memory leaks that didn't used to exist, so memory problems really are increasing a result of extensions (that is, 'there aren't leaks' stopped being the party line many moons ago).
For people that use a lot of tabs, setting browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to something lower than the default (determined from the amount of RAM present, 3 is a sane value to change to, 5 for people who use back and forward a great deal) will also decrease memory consumption.
Mostly as a result of them starting there.
My retail box come with a boot cd.
I'm supposed to download the update and make my own though (but I haven't had any problems, so I haven't done it).
There are small time human trafficking rings broken up all the time, including some in the United States and Europe.
A typical person off the street may be quite unlikely to take the job of slave trader, but there are apparently plenty of people willing to do it.
It does quarantine files. This involves copying the file to a special directory and removing the system copy. The problem is that the system copy is needed to boot.
If a user checks the scan report and restores the file from quarantine before rebooting, they will be fine. If they have the scanner set to trigger a reboot, they are screwed.
Sure. I was posting to alleviate your concerns, not to stick up for AVG.
Imagine if the whitelist was a system feature under user control (it would be a pain in the ass in a lot of situations (parents, etc.), but it wouldn't be 'scary' the way you are talking about).
This is essentially what permissions on unix do by the way, the system looks if the file has been marked as executable before running it, rather than doing everything it can to execute the file when it is clickety-clicked.
The parent situation could be alleviated by subscribing them to a vendor whitelist, but it wouldn't need to be the only whitelist, there could be more than one.
AVG has stopped distributing the bad definition file, so if it isn't already on your computer, it shouldn't be coming in. I guess they could make the same mistake again, but there is at least some chance that having made the mistake will make the more careful for awhile.
Also, system files are protected differently in Vista, so it might not be a problem (It depends on how hard AVG works to overcome Windows):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Resource_Protection
Would storing it in a password protected zip file be less hassle?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=avg8+disable+notification
and then:
http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/08/03/remove-avg-8-notification-area/
Go to the install directory and rename "avgresf.dll" and "afgmwdef_us.mht" (adding a .bak or whatever should work fine). I did this a few days ago and the notification bar is no more, with no apparent problems.
Also, don't tell anyone, to prevent AVG from changing it.
The majority of student seats in the U.S. are in the $2-3k per semester range (community colleges and smaller state schools).
People often have hang ups about attending them, but they are an option pretty much everywhere.