Selling virus checkers for a platform with no verified viruses is perhaps a little premature, though what happens when the first appears if no-one's written a checker or has one installed? After all, people know what's possible in principle...
Anyway. Get hit by one, _then_ say that. Someone at my office managed to sneak Klez round the side of a virus checker and we were cleaning that up for a good little while. Not only did it kill our AV software but it blocked it from being reinstalled. Nasty. Not that bright, either - far more sensible to let it get installed but transparently cripple it, so the user thinks they're fine...
Or the time when my Dad got hit by Kak, and the fun we had ripping that out of the registry manually because it had mucked up Norton. Or the many non-PC literate subscribers on a mailinglist I like who get hit by viruses and inadvertently post them to the list every few months on average.
Getting the average user educated about viruses and certain that they need good, up-to-date protection is essential. OK, so _we_ don't often come across them - but we know that some e-mails are intrinsically dodgy (well, many of us don't run Outlook in the first place;-) and that we don't just download from some random warez site. OK, maybe worrying end users about Code Red isn't the best policy, but they needed to know about SirCam, for example.
I honestly don't see a problem with the current level of virus news and would suggest that CNN's Kristie Lu Stout doesn't know what she's talking about and has never personally got a virus.
Not only do we regularly burn discs containing our software to send out to clients, but several of our suppliers only ever send out CD-Rs. I'm not talking demos or betas here, I'm talking final versions in proper, printed boxes and sleeves, where the disc sent out is a CD-R, presumably because economies of scale work better that way.
Blizzard don't necessarily have to provide an authentication service. If they can sniff the packets to work out the protocols, then unless the keys are stupidly massive, the coders can use the CD keys they posess from the legal copies they bought to sniff packets from and as many testers as are willing to find, submit these to the server and spot patterns.
I mean, you're normally talking mod-7 or mod-11 checksum digits, at which point you just have to work out what key blocks are valid and what aren't. Should be possible to predict after a while what keys are going to come up and what aren't...
Yes, this will generate false positives and no, I don't think the lack of CD key protection is a legitimate defence from Vivendi, but this is likely possible...
Actually, I'm a trackpad user (reduced shoulder pains), I just find that I'm faster when I can focus my input on a single device rather than have to continually switch and reorient my inputs. Hence I learn keyboard shortcuts and instintively penalise any app which requires me to use keyboard and mouse simultaneously - well, except FPS games;-)
So are mine - but when comments are scored equally, the secondary sort index is time, oldest first. This means that the first to hit +5 will get displayed first - and it's far faster to hit +5 with a joke than an insightful post.
The turds tend to be pretty easy to spot and filter, IME. Heck, I just press 'space' and I move down a page.
The significant problem with Slashdot's moderation is that, because it can only take three moderators liking a comment to list it as high as it can go and comments are then sorted oldest first, the comments that float to the top of the pile tend to be _short_. Hence we get lots of jokes and simple arguments and tend not to see the more detailed, complex arguments. Rob moaned a while back taht he was annoyed how many comments got to the top on 'Funny' mods - well, that's because you can normally write a joke quicker than an insightful, well-argued post and the first posted wins.
Slashdot is still a nice site which I enjoy browing and posting to - but we could have some better discussions with a K5-style moderation system because it allows greater precision of ranking and doesn't force the comments to display oldest first.
I'm demonstrably not participating in the blackout - but that doesn't mean I don't think there are things around here that need changing, and moderation is definitely one of them.
OK... When at the last general election they merely recommended that the Conservatives didn't look worthy of holding office, that's a recommendation for the LibDems? Wish they were (spot the LibDem:-) but no, they're nothing like that.
Besides, that isn't compatible with your earlier statement. So, again, I call you a troll, and note your Flamebait moderations. The system can work after all...
I'm not fishing for Karma at all because I've been at the cap for ages, but which bright spark moderator decided this was overrated at 2? Talking about another application of the same tech that people seem to agree is possible and desirable.
Right now, we have speed cameras all over the UK. These assign an arbitrary speed limit and photograph anyone who breaks this and declare them dangerous. Now, I'm not opposed to speed limits, but any sane person recognises they're arbitrary and so not ideally suited to automatic enforcement.
We have a binch of traffic light cameras but they're less common. Irritating because you're clearly in danger territory then.
Why not apply this techology to dangerous driving, though? Look out for people swerving between lanes, tailgating, cutting other drivers up and so on. If it spots some, video it and notify the police. If someone's being a consistent problem, ticket them.
Seems worth a try to me, plus it would help get people out of the 'I'm going under the limit so I _must_ be safe mentality.
The Independent is by no means the UK's tabloid rubbish. We've got plenty of them - the Sun and Daily Mail spring instantly to mind:-)
The Independent is a respected, pretty objective high-quality broadsheet. It's not politically aligned at all (hence the name) which I suppose might mean some doubt its accuracy because it's not just following the normal right-wing bias (see, UK media's overwhelmingly right wing, it's not just you in the US who have that problem!) but really, let's be honest. You may not like it but it's straight.
Yes, but he wrote the original short 'Minority Report' which was cool so I'm looking forward to seeing a film of it. Didn't know that was coming, so yay! I mean, if you adapt Dickens for the screen you wouldn't remove all mention of him from the credits just because he's dead, would you?
Ahh, no, you've just used the system menu (the one which comes from the icon in the top left of the window) and you've also just moved not minimised:-)
Alt-space-R - restores (unmaximises) Alt-space-M - moves (use the cursor keys or mouse, enter or click to confirm) Alt-space-S - sizes (cursor to grab edge, scroll in and out, enter to confirm) Alt-space-X - maximises Alt-space-C - closes. Yes, that's a destrictive shortcut next to another key, not bright...
This is saying there's a bunch of other keyboard shortcuts triggered by the Windows key. Off the top of my head:
Windows M - minimises all active windows. Windows D - shows the desktop. Toggles. Windows E - open windows explorer Windows F - open Find Files Windows R - open Run dialog Windows Pause Break - opens System Properties Windows F1 - opens Windows help.
There's probably more, they're just the ones I know:-)
Having said that, weren't the EU threatening to make all unauthorised copying explicitly illegal, including caches of any description thanks to some bright drafting?
If we have to counterbalance it, wouldn't the simple solution be to make the counterbalance a second read head and quadruple the speed for a given RPM, albeit needing rather more powerful motors.
Personally I think this is all rather silly given how little RAM cost now. It would seem more sensible to stick 700MB of consumer DRAM in the drive and cache to it if you need the speed that badly. Cacheing time of 2-3 mins maximum and then many thousand times the original speed with lower power requirements, wear and tear on the disc and drive and noise and vibration levels.
;-) and given that I'm posting from work in the UK, well, what do I know about that?:-( Leaving in a mo, honest...
Anyway. Can't remember the chemistry of it all, but light (just UV?) fades colours, especially in some plastics. So if you leave it in sight of any windows and maybe some light bulbs with a specific pattern in front of it (such as your keyboard, CD rack, whatever) it'll ultimately discolour the plastic in a rather interesting fashion which highlights the previous presence of an object. But, the point I was _really_ making was that when you've got 5 cases which started off the same colour a few years back and have since been used, they've not got a whole lot of hope of still being the same colour. Making it all a little redundant...
OTOH, computer users tend to get accused of being vampires for closing all blinds and relying on flourescent lights - maybe it's really so that our cases still colourmatch?;-)
Whatever colour gets picked will fade with time, making this all rather pointless...
Black will go grey, white will go grey or yellow. Beige gets lighter in patches depending on what's covering it. Given enough time in the sun, nothing matches.
Me, I want unpainted metal:-)
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A4000 was a nice pure white but made of cheap plastic and faded to a less pleasant yellow over time...
The A4000T is the case you're thinking of, though, and I agree it looks seriously cool:-)
Sorry, but we know roughly how search engines work by now, Google in particular.
Think about it. How many people have any reason whatsoever to post a page in support of this wonderful DMCA and encouraging the world about it? _Some_ companies maybe, but I'd suggest few or no home users.
So, considering that most of the internet (if not most of the content used on the net) is input by home users sounding off for their own entertainment, why's that even remotely surprising?
May have been added in _a_ rerelease, but I clearly remember seeing the Episode IV marking on a showing on a UK satellite film channel in the early 90s. Don't think I'd seen any of them at that point (I was only 11, we hadn't had a VCR at home for long) so it confused me somewhat, but it was definitely there.
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Erm, think you might mean 1 rev not one rpm...
;-)
I mean, 1/60 Hz cycle speed for the RAM? Don't want to play with that computer
Selling virus checkers for a platform with no verified viruses is perhaps a little premature, though what happens when the first appears if no-one's written a checker or has one installed? After all, people know what's possible in principle...
;-) and that we don't just download from some random warez site. OK, maybe worrying end users about Code Red isn't the best policy, but they needed to know about SirCam, for example.
Anyway. Get hit by one, _then_ say that. Someone at my office managed to sneak Klez round the side of a virus checker and we were cleaning that up for a good little while. Not only did it kill our AV software but it blocked it from being reinstalled. Nasty. Not that bright, either - far more sensible to let it get installed but transparently cripple it, so the user thinks they're fine...
Or the time when my Dad got hit by Kak, and the fun we had ripping that out of the registry manually because it had mucked up Norton. Or the many non-PC literate subscribers on a mailinglist I like who get hit by viruses and inadvertently post them to the list every few months on average.
Getting the average user educated about viruses and certain that they need good, up-to-date protection is essential. OK, so _we_ don't often come across them - but we know that some e-mails are intrinsically dodgy (well, many of us don't run Outlook in the first place
I honestly don't see a problem with the current level of virus news and would suggest that CNN's Kristie Lu Stout doesn't know what she's talking about and has never personally got a virus.
Not only do we regularly burn discs containing our software to send out to clients, but several of our suppliers only ever send out CD-Rs. I'm not talking demos or betas here, I'm talking final versions in proper, printed boxes and sleeves, where the disc sent out is a CD-R, presumably because economies of scale work better that way.
Blizzard don't necessarily have to provide an authentication service. If they can sniff the packets to work out the protocols, then unless the keys are stupidly massive, the coders can use the CD keys they posess from the legal copies they bought to sniff packets from and as many testers as are willing to find, submit these to the server and spot patterns.
I mean, you're normally talking mod-7 or mod-11 checksum digits, at which point you just have to work out what key blocks are valid and what aren't. Should be possible to predict after a while what keys are going to come up and what aren't...
Yes, this will generate false positives and no, I don't think the lack of CD key protection is a legitimate defence from Vivendi, but this is likely possible...
10 years ago, 1992, so WfW 3.11?
Same core as Windows XP? _Really_?
My computer doesn't have one ;-)
;-)
Actually, I'm a trackpad user (reduced shoulder pains), I just find that I'm faster when I can focus my input on a single device rather than have to continually switch and reorient my inputs. Hence I learn keyboard shortcuts and instintively penalise any app which requires me to use keyboard and mouse simultaneously - well, except FPS games
So are mine - but when comments are scored equally, the secondary sort index is time, oldest first. This means that the first to hit +5 will get displayed first - and it's far faster to hit +5 with a joke than an insightful post.
Hence the problem
It helps, but...
The turds tend to be pretty easy to spot and filter, IME. Heck, I just press 'space' and I move down a page.
The significant problem with Slashdot's moderation is that, because it can only take three moderators liking a comment to list it as high as it can go and comments are then sorted oldest first, the comments that float to the top of the pile tend to be _short_. Hence we get lots of jokes and simple arguments and tend not to see the more detailed, complex arguments. Rob moaned a while back taht he was annoyed how many comments got to the top on 'Funny' mods - well, that's because you can normally write a joke quicker than an insightful, well-argued post and the first posted wins.
Slashdot is still a nice site which I enjoy browing and posting to - but we could have some better discussions with a K5-style moderation system because it allows greater precision of ranking and doesn't force the comments to display oldest first.
I'm demonstrably not participating in the blackout - but that doesn't mean I don't think there are things around here that need changing, and moderation is definitely one of them.
!!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!
:-) but no, they're nothing like that.
OK... When at the last general election they merely recommended that the Conservatives didn't look worthy of holding office, that's a recommendation for the LibDems? Wish they were (spot the LibDem
Besides, that isn't compatible with your earlier statement. So, again, I call you a troll, and note your Flamebait moderations. The system can work after all...
OK, I'm now in a mood.
I'm not fishing for Karma at all because I've been at the cap for ages, but which bright spark moderator decided this was overrated at 2? Talking about another application of the same tech that people seem to agree is possible and desirable.
Really...
Preview, preview, preview...
:-)
We have a bunch of cameras, not a binch (whatever that is)...
Sorry
Right now, we have speed cameras all over the UK. These assign an arbitrary speed limit and photograph anyone who breaks this and declare them dangerous. Now, I'm not opposed to speed limits, but any sane person recognises they're arbitrary and so not ideally suited to automatic enforcement.
We have a binch of traffic light cameras but they're less common. Irritating because you're clearly in danger territory then.
Why not apply this techology to dangerous driving, though? Look out for people swerving between lanes, tailgating, cutting other drivers up and so on. If it spots some, video it and notify the police. If someone's being a consistent problem, ticket them.
Seems worth a try to me, plus it would help get people out of the 'I'm going under the limit so I _must_ be safe mentality.
Sir, I call you a troll.
:-)
The Independent is by no means the UK's tabloid rubbish. We've got plenty of them - the Sun and Daily Mail spring instantly to mind
The Independent is a respected, pretty objective high-quality broadsheet. It's not politically aligned at all (hence the name) which I suppose might mean some doubt its accuracy because it's not just following the normal right-wing bias (see, UK media's overwhelmingly right wing, it's not just you in the US who have that problem!) but really, let's be honest. You may not like it but it's straight.
News on philipKdick.com
Ahh, no, you've just used the system menu (the one which comes from the icon in the top left of the window) and you've also just moved not minimised :-)
:-)
Alt-space-R - restores (unmaximises)
Alt-space-M - moves (use the cursor keys or mouse, enter or click to confirm)
Alt-space-S - sizes (cursor to grab edge, scroll in and out, enter to confirm)
Alt-space-X - maximises
Alt-space-C - closes. Yes, that's a destrictive shortcut next to another key, not bright...
This is saying there's a bunch of other keyboard shortcuts triggered by the Windows key. Off the top of my head:
Windows M - minimises all active windows.
Windows D - shows the desktop. Toggles.
Windows E - open windows explorer
Windows F - open Find Files
Windows R - open Run dialog
Windows Pause Break - opens System Properties
Windows F1 - opens Windows help.
There's probably more, they're just the ones I know
No, I'm British, hence the .uk addresses ;-)
Having said that, weren't the EU threatening to make all unauthorised copying explicitly illegal, including caches of any description thanks to some bright drafting?
Oh goody...
If we have to counterbalance it, wouldn't the simple solution be to make the counterbalance a second read head and quadruple the speed for a given RPM, albeit needing rather more powerful motors.
Personally I think this is all rather silly given how little RAM cost now. It would seem more sensible to stick 700MB of consumer DRAM in the drive and cache to it if you need the speed that badly. Cacheing time of 2-3 mins maximum and then many thousand times the original speed with lower power requirements, wear and tear on the disc and drive and noise and vibration levels.
;-) and given that I'm posting from work in the UK, well, what do I know about that? :-( Leaving in a mo, honest...
;-)
Anyway. Can't remember the chemistry of it all, but light (just UV?) fades colours, especially in some plastics. So if you leave it in sight of any windows and maybe some light bulbs with a specific pattern in front of it (such as your keyboard, CD rack, whatever) it'll ultimately discolour the plastic in a rather interesting fashion which highlights the previous presence of an object. But, the point I was _really_ making was that when you've got 5 cases which started off the same colour a few years back and have since been used, they've not got a whole lot of hope of still being the same colour. Making it all a little redundant...
OTOH, computer users tend to get accused of being vampires for closing all blinds and relying on flourescent lights - maybe it's really so that our cases still colourmatch?
Whatever colour gets picked will fade with time, making this all rather pointless...
:-)
Black will go grey, white will go grey or yellow. Beige gets lighter in patches depending on what's covering it. Given enough time in the sun, nothing matches.
Me, I want unpainted metal
A4000 was a nice pure white but made of cheap plastic and faded to a less pleasant yellow over time...
:-)
The A4000T is the case you're thinking of, though, and I agree it looks seriously cool
No, POHM - Prisoner of His / Her (delete as then applicable, can't remember when we did Transportation) Majesty.
(Moderate: -1, Obvious)
Sorry, but we know roughly how search engines work by now, Google in particular.
Think about it. How many people have any reason whatsoever to post a page in support of this wonderful DMCA and encouraging the world about it? _Some_ companies maybe, but I'd suggest few or no home users.
So, considering that most of the internet (if not most of the content used on the net) is input by home users sounding off for their own entertainment, why's that even remotely surprising?
Ahh, yes, sorry, missed that point :-)
Oh well, I was trying to help, really...
May have been added in _a_ rerelease, but I clearly remember seeing the Episode IV marking on a showing on a UK satellite film channel in the early 90s. Don't think I'd seen any of them at that point (I was only 11, we hadn't had a VCR at home for long) so it confused me somewhat, but it was definitely there.
The long word filter has started deleting letters to put in its spaces, rather than just inserting spaces.
Not bright (especially not on a tech site), and it bit me a few days ago.