This makes no sense. How will AOL benefit if it can't install enough spyware and adware on your computer to bring it to a crawl?
I had to install the demon on my work computer, since AOL users were not able to keep sessions on our server due to its proxy farms.
It tries to run 4 background apps, one of which eats 11M of memory which claims to be a spyware blocker. Right. Due to the proxy farms browsing with AOL over DSL is like going back to 1994 over 14.4 dialup. It took 30 seconds to get pages which should have taken 5.
Then again, I wish them a hearty does of failure!
Not really surprising, as the PIII has been faster than the PIV for awhile. Curiously at the same time, people were also noticing that NT4 was faster than 2000 at server tasks, yet most who reported such at the time were gagged by the no-publishing-benchmarks EULA fine print...
Can't wait for file permission implementation by deathmatch... The system appears as a huge mecha and stomps you for trying to delete a file-- but if you manage to toast the kernel mech, maybe you get to delete the file anyway!
Are real systems any different? Not that much to crackers... Latest entry hack, latest rootkit, you're in. 15 mins for the hacker is 10 hours of cleanup. %$@#%!
Given that film-makers went all the way out to California to escape Edison's premeditated patent lock on film projectors and equipment, and DC-power-based Edison was running ads about "deadly AC power" showcasing electric chairs to fight Westinghouse (Tesla), I'd say he definitely possessed a Machiavellical sense of brutal realism...
True, maybe Edison was just floating through the gentler Platonic realms of patents, market monopolies and bullying competitors those competitors that he couldn't crush with legislation...
Actually, Tesla did license the patent to Westinghouse for the AC motor for decent royalties, but one night Westinghouse did an RIAA move and begged Tesla to revoke his royalties, saying that the financial obligation would crush the company! Tesla thought about it and signed it in engineering spirit, giving a way millions.
Suffice to say this cramped Tesla's research, invention, and partying capacities, and he
ended up dying in an NY apartment in the forties after having lived only on crackers and milk for many years and having some weird spiritual experience with a pigeon-- likely a virgin to boot (Not pulling your leg, from Tesla: Man out of Time).
I just hope the same happens to Britney Spears, NSync, etc.
RIAA:"Britney, Justin, your royalties are killing us. Just sign this form and we all might survive. Ignore the fine print selling us an option for your death by crackers and milk."
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This makes no sense. How will AOL benefit if it can't install enough spyware and adware on your computer to bring it to a crawl? I had to install the demon on my work computer, since AOL users were not able to keep sessions on our server due to its proxy farms. It tries to run 4 background apps, one of which eats 11M of memory which claims to be a spyware blocker. Right. Due to the proxy farms browsing with AOL over DSL is like going back to 1994 over 14.4 dialup. It took 30 seconds to get pages which should have taken 5. Then again, I wish them a hearty does of failure!
Not really surprising, as the PIII has been faster than the PIV for awhile. Curiously at the same time, people were also noticing that NT4 was faster than 2000 at server tasks, yet most who reported such at the time were gagged by the no-publishing-benchmarks EULA fine print...
Can't wait for file permission implementation by deathmatch... The system appears as a huge mecha and stomps you for trying to delete a file-- but if you manage to toast the kernel mech, maybe you get to delete the file anyway!
Are real systems any different? Not that much to crackers... Latest entry hack, latest rootkit, you're in. 15 mins for the hacker is 10 hours of cleanup. %$@#%!
Given that film-makers went all the way out to California to escape Edison's premeditated patent lock on film projectors and equipment, and DC-power-based Edison was running ads about "deadly AC power" showcasing electric chairs to fight Westinghouse (Tesla), I'd say he definitely possessed a Machiavellical sense of brutal realism...
True, maybe Edison was just floating through the gentler Platonic realms of patents, market monopolies and bullying competitors those competitors that he couldn't crush with legislation...
Actually, Tesla did license the patent to Westinghouse for the AC motor for decent royalties, but one night Westinghouse did an RIAA move and begged Tesla to revoke his royalties, saying that the financial obligation would crush the company! Tesla thought about it and signed it in engineering spirit, giving a way millions.
Suffice to say this cramped Tesla's research, invention, and partying capacities, and he ended up dying in an NY apartment in the forties after having lived only on crackers and milk for many years and having some weird spiritual experience with a pigeon-- likely a virgin to boot (Not pulling your leg, from Tesla: Man out of Time).
I just hope the same happens to Britney Spears, NSync, etc.
RIAA:"Britney, Justin, your royalties are killing us. Just sign this form and we all might survive. Ignore the fine print selling us an option for your death by crackers and milk."