Google is a poor indication of os domination. Many Linux installations never connect to google. On top of that, Google has never had a connection from more than 1 of my pcs thanks to ssh. I also have a dual boot win98 pc that's only used for games. I'm sure others fall into that group as well.
This could come in handy. Make up a story based on a product you're interested in and see what happens. Tech support from a salesman could sway me toward a product that I was feeling uncertain about. If I liked the answers I got.
Better late post then never but who pays for unsolicted traffic? I get almost 10,000 packets an hour dropped by my nat/router. This is based on almost 700 hours of statistics. Being conservative this is easily gigabytes a month, even more when I have any port forwarding in use.
I don't see how an isp could seriously do this without a major crack down on security and unfortunately, drops in usability for end users.
A little side note. I'm waiting for the day when companies and home users alike have a classification for how much bandwidth can be allotted to them.
Besides the fact this was pointed out a number of times in a preavious story. Did you ever bother to read the page you're quoting from? Those are "featured sites". This is from msn's explination of featured sites... "Featured Sites are links that MSN Search editors believe are likely to be particularly relevant and useful. These sites are chosen from ones published by MSN affiliates, partners, sponsors, and advertisers, as well as other sites proven to be especially popular among our users."`
It appears that you should fault the editors at search.msn.com. The first web directory link (albeit the 7th link down) is to www.linux.org. I'm sure their search engine has faults just like google but this isn't one of them.
I'm just curious because... What if there is room to screw Microsoft by including IE but not using it or deligating it to a trivial roll while using gecko for their browsing engine of choice? Just think of all the laughs that would induce.
It seems pretty trivial to me. A blind person gets a link to an audio file. The audio file contains instructions or a question. Now lets see a bot use simple human reasoning to figure out the registration password...
"Tom seems to be blocking referrals from slashdot" This seems like a pretty childish thing to me, blocking referrals. Does this really do any good? Perhaps it stops the lazy but I thought hits=$$$. Still I have to wonder, did they ask/. not link to them directly? I'm surprised someone doesn't defeated this in a similar childish approach. Does anyone else think this says/.'ers not welcome?
I would suggest watching it on dvd or something. Even if you have a method around the never ending bowflex commercials, it's still far more enjoyable to watch a series in a time frame that you choose. I know from experience, it's the only way I'd watch any Babylon 5 again and how I plan to watch Farscape again.
I also wonder about defects in general. If OLED's will be better then 99.99% defect free LCD's(which would be pretty good if we weren't talking about millions of pixels).
I don't k now about the free file but I imagine they also get this warning from the irs. "By linking to this private business, the IRS is not endorsing its products, services, or privacy or security policies. We recommend you review the business's information collection policy or terms and conditions to fully understand what information is collected by this private business." Until the irs wants to take responcibility for who they link to for doing taxes online, I'll stick with paper. BTW, I did look at some tax sites and one of them listed looked very shady. No contact info (phone numbers, mailing address, email) was available at the site. The site also didn't have any signs of belonging to the BBB or any online privacy groups like TRUST. If someone gets screwed over by one of these companies, I think they'll blame, the IRS. Since they're making this push, I would agree with them.
"Finally, add all your favourite sites to the "Trusted Sites" zone." IE Zones are great in theory but do you really trust that they can't be exploited? IMO, all zones except restricted should be treated as the internet zone. And if you must absolutely have a trusted zone, add it by putting in a new zone with Regedit. Just search for "Your computer" to find where they're located.
FM is ad-ware like everything else that's crap. What's
worse still, is they are the same stupid advertisements occupying 25%
(generally) of the time you listen to radio. In fact, if it weren't for Loveline (Adam rocks!)
and Leykis101, I would not listen to
any radio. So please people, quit saying this stuff is free, it's not by a
long shot.
Any other dream host users want to provide a link to their rewards account "in conjunction with your regular postings". FYI is this url that explains their referral system. https://panel.dreamhost.com/kbase/?area=888 I like the bit that sounds like a pyramid scheme.
"Maybe he learned something from Bill Gates, who did a fabulous job during this legal battles to convince the judge that he could not remember a single thing." Maybe Bill Gates does have a memory problem. This might explain some things about windows.
Not to be completely offtopic... I'm glad to read this because so many tech news stories make me feel like the industry is going to hell. Score one for the good guys!
At times I also think the problem is the programmers don't care. These days I'm getting quite put off by PC games because most of the time they seem like they get dumped into the market before they are finished. I'll use Alpha Centauri as an example of that. I assume the game did so poorly that they had to drop support for the one expansion pack(which is another cheap tactic these days) Then once out there, any features that don't directly affect pvp(player vs player) gets ignored. I'll use Starcraft as an example since I'm very familiar with it. The ai's still have a number of bugs. The zerg custom ai at times does nothing but mine. Also there's the situation where the zerg ai loses all it's over lords because it won't build more despite being able to. There's also the problem where if an ai loses a building, it usually won't build something else in that spot and thus running out of perceived space. The map editor is also a big problem, if you'ver never played any of the use map settings type maps, you'd see there were a lot of great features that map hacker programs were needed to implement. In fact, I'm some what surprised vivendi hasn't taken time to harass them like they did with bnetd. So for the time being, I've dropped my support for almost all pc based games.
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Google is a poor indication of os domination. Many Linux installations never connect to google. On top of that, Google has never had a connection from more than 1 of my pcs thanks to ssh. I also have a dual boot win98 pc that's only used for games. I'm sure others fall into that group as well.
This could come in handy. Make up a story based on a product you're interested in and see what happens. Tech support from a salesman could sway me toward a product that I was feeling uncertain about. If I liked the answers I got.
Better late post then never but who pays for unsolicted traffic? I get almost 10,000 packets an hour dropped by my nat/router. This is based on almost 700 hours of statistics. Being conservative this is easily gigabytes a month, even more when I have any port forwarding in use.
I don't see how an isp could seriously do this without a major crack down on security and unfortunately, drops in usability for end users.
A little side note. I'm waiting for the day when companies and home users alike have a classification for how much bandwidth can be allotted to them.
I give it 6 hours before other mirrors will be wildly distributing these iso's to nonmembers legally.
I went there just to help skew their browser statistics toward linux and mozilla. :)
Besides the fact this was pointed out a number of times in a preavious story. Did you ever bother to read the page you're quoting from? Those are "featured sites". This is from msn's explination of featured sites... "Featured Sites are links that MSN Search editors believe are likely to be particularly relevant and useful. These sites are chosen from ones published by MSN affiliates, partners, sponsors, and advertisers, as well as other sites proven to be especially popular among our users."`
It appears that you should fault the editors at search.msn.com. The first web directory link (albeit the 7th link down) is to www.linux.org. I'm sure their search engine has faults just like google but this isn't one of them.
I'm just curious because... What if there is room to screw Microsoft by including IE but not using it or deligating it to a trivial roll while using gecko for their browsing engine of choice? Just think of all the laughs that would induce.
Obviously all they need to do to catch this rogue baloon is a balloon that appears to look just like the moon. It'll never see it comming.
It seems pretty trivial to me. A blind person gets a link to an audio file. The audio file contains instructions or a question. Now lets see a bot use simple human reasoning to figure out the registration password...
FarCraft - Like a regular RTS, but it'll take 3 and a half days to cross the map.
.... but watch out, Microsoft owns the rights to that and I'm sure they wouldn't hesitate to sue.
I've played that, it's called Age of
A law like this seems too easy to abuse. Couldn't my reply be the LOC or something else just as huge and amounts to nothing?
Sorry, you have to wait until "the return of the ibm" in episode 6.
"Tom seems to be blocking referrals from slashdot" /. not link to them directly? I'm surprised someone doesn't defeated this in a similar childish approach. Does anyone else think this says /.'ers not welcome?
This seems like a pretty childish thing to me, blocking referrals. Does this really do any good? Perhaps it stops the lazy but I thought hits=$$$. Still I have to wonder, did they ask
Let's hope their space elevator can support more users then the web site.
Oh my god!
They killed Kenny!
You bastards!
I would suggest watching it on dvd or something. Even if you have a method around the never ending bowflex commercials, it's still far more enjoyable to watch a series in a time frame that you choose. I know from experience, it's the only way I'd watch any Babylon 5 again and how I plan to watch Farscape again.
I also wonder about defects in general. If OLED's will be better then 99.99% defect free LCD's(which would be pretty good if we weren't talking about millions of pixels).
Too many people think something is going to go wrong. As long as it's not done on windows, fine by me. Though it would take BSOD to a new level.
I don't k now about the free file but I imagine they also get this warning from the irs. "By linking to this private business, the IRS is not endorsing its products, services, or privacy or security policies. We recommend you review the business's information collection policy or terms and conditions to fully understand what information is collected by this private business."
Until the irs wants to take responcibility for who they link to for doing taxes online, I'll stick with paper.
BTW, I did look at some tax sites and one of them listed looked very shady. No contact info (phone numbers, mailing address, email) was available at the site. The site also didn't have any signs of belonging to the BBB or any online privacy groups like TRUST.
If someone gets screwed over by one of these companies, I think they'll blame, the IRS. Since they're making this push, I would agree with them.
"Finally, add all your favourite sites to the "Trusted Sites" zone."
IE Zones are great in theory but do you really trust that they can't be exploited? IMO, all zones except restricted should be treated as the internet zone. And if you must absolutely have a trusted zone, add it by putting in a new zone with Regedit. Just search for "Your computer" to find where they're located.
FM is ad-ware like everything else that's crap. What's worse still, is they are the same stupid advertisements occupying 25% (generally) of the time you listen to radio. In fact, if it weren't for Loveline (Adam rocks!) and Leykis101, I would not listen to any radio. So please people, quit saying this stuff is free, it's not by a long shot.
Any other dream host users want to provide a link to their rewards account "in conjunction with your regular postings". FYI is this url that explains their referral system. https://panel.dreamhost.com/kbase/?area=888
I like the bit that sounds like a pyramid scheme.
"Maybe he learned something from Bill Gates, who did a fabulous job during this legal battles to convince the judge that he could not remember a single thing." Maybe Bill Gates does have a memory problem. This might explain some things about windows.
Not to be completely offtopic... I'm glad to read this because so many tech news stories make me feel like the industry is going to hell. Score one for the good guys!
"That's heavy, doc" Michael J. Fox
At times I also think the problem is the programmers don't care. These days I'm getting quite put off by PC games because most of the time they seem like they get dumped into the market before they are finished. I'll use Alpha Centauri as an example of that. I assume the game did so poorly that they had to drop support for the one expansion pack(which is another cheap tactic these days) Then once out there, any features that don't directly affect pvp(player vs player) gets ignored. I'll use Starcraft as an example since I'm very familiar with it. The ai's still have a number of bugs. The zerg custom ai at times does nothing but mine. Also there's the situation where the zerg ai loses all it's over lords because it won't build more despite being able to. There's also the problem where if an ai loses a building, it usually won't build something else in that spot and thus running out of perceived space. The map editor is also a big problem, if you'ver never played any of the use map settings type maps, you'd see there were a lot of great features that map hacker programs were needed to implement. In fact, I'm some what surprised vivendi hasn't taken time to harass them like they did with bnetd. So for the time being, I've dropped my support for almost all pc based games.