> not be so good to have a house on a busy street next to a crack house... their are alott of people who wouldn't mind being walking distance to any of these. personally I would get much more enjoyment being a block from a bar/strip joint than a church, boutique, etc (oh wait, with the exception of my current house I have never lived more than 3 blocks from a bar.)
>McAfee may have deleted more files than all the viruses it has removed would have.
go figure, no big system admin has wanted automatic (witout testing) updates for some time, to their OS. I guess sys admins got lazy on testing virus scanner updates before rollouts.
I know I am not alone in turning off all runtime virus protection on my PC, because it has historically had more impact on system stabilty, and speed than most virii. (ok it seams the latest scanners on winXP may actually work...) Wouldn't save me from this problem, except my system scans only occur weekly, so may be luckly my weekly scan didn't occur (I do have nightly complete backups from backuppc.sourceforge.net ).
>there is no realistic way to ensure that the code published is the actual code run It would be realistic if you detected a problem, to be "validated ex post facto" go back and check the code running on the suspect machine(s).
Then again you would never detect a problem without the paper trail. So open source and a paper trail would be nice.
>why we don't use pen and paper and count by hand. well a search on google shows hand recount of paper is expected to be 0.83% error. computer scanning recount is down to 0.56% error.
so their trying to be cheaper faster, and fewer errors, all possible if done correctly.
this ruling seams odd to me also, from the Enron fiasco I recall, you are free to delete/destroy paper evidence until their is a legal order requesting information relating to a case be held. Theirfore either computer files are being treated as different from paper files, or the order from the company to return the computer was filed through legal counsel (article doesn't say.) Perhaps since enron shredding was covering up by current employees, they aren't related.
>I make a point never to buy anything that's got DRM from them, how? I looked for 15 minutes for a book from them that came in enough formats it had to be DRM free... wrong. at least 6 months ago if it was possible to find DRM free books their, it wasn't obvious.
I am not completly anti DRM, but I got a pocket PC app that plays many formats, I see the same format available at fictionwise, no go. I don't blame them, the formats need to have a seperate format name for DRM'd, and non-DRM content. The DRM as I saw it had nothing to do with not copying, it was about locking to a player. Some DRM mediaplayer crap I got did nothing to stop me from copying it from XP box to XP box, but it sure kept me from playing it on my otherwise compatible DVD player (well just the sound), and non XP computers. (same with the e-BOOKs.)
both have advantages, my understanding is that vonage calls always go through vonage. For instance I set up vonage line for the branch office I work at (actually recently switched to broadvoice) if the home office setup a vonage phone line, every time we call the main office, the call would start with my traffic going to vonage, and vonage sending traffic to the home office. voip provides for handing off the call, but because both of our contacts to vonage have to be through our firewalls, it will never fall back to our VPN network.
Skype is supposidly truly peer-to-peer, so when I am logged in inside the corporate network, I can stay within the corporate network talking without any interaction to skype's servers during the call. At the same time, I can, without reconfiguring do the vonage thing with skype, so I log in at home with skype, then it has to contact through the firewall, through skypes servers.
now the difference isn't so great because I am running a asterisk server, so I can log in to asterisk, and call/be called through that server, but I have to use a different profile in, and out of the corporate network.
The problems I have experienced are due to them selling the information in the first place, and sending out more junk than necissary trying to screw their customers in the first place.
I think the banks, etc like to complain about fraud, and want to use the excuse to get control of MORE information from the customers, so they can make more money, and still allow law enforcement to try and make up for their unwillingness to miss out any profit that might otherwise educate their customers in the first place.
specifically relating to credit card companys sending out cards, checks, solicitations via bulk USPS mail, and unsolicited, un-expected mailings.
I know what I want to do to solve this, but may not be legal, setup a junk mail selling station. IE I drop all my unsolicated mail in a "trash can" I get a reciept or cash. Anyone can buy a bin of this "trash", and that amount makes it back to the trash can location to share back to the orignator. Granted, I will eventually have to fight the illegal transactions done in my name without my autorization, but at least I got some money to do that with. Eventually every credit card offer, illicit offer they send out will cost them so much they'll have to stop. I am not willing to directly participate in commiting the fraud, but I am willing to be passive about it in the short term to try and fix the truly horrible part of the system.
> no way that IBM can convert to Linux until it has ported Lotus Notes.
Web Client! I have seen the notes web client grow to look almost exactly like the desktop app, only feature I see missing is archiving. With the company I work for, in their Sarbanes-Oxley related transisition, their already trying to downplay the use of email archives as acceptable. So I look for it to be banned at my company within a year, removing the need for supporting that PC app all-together. The other obvious missing ingrediant is offline email composing, and hanheld synch. The first, the notes client isn't especially good at anyway. the second is taken care of by 3rd party apps today.
you redefine what you really meant when you look at what you accomplished in 6 months. better could be database size, it could be speed of execusion, it could be lower % add buffer. whatever 1 (or more) area(s) msn excells at over google, will be defined as proof of better.
>it should be clear from a distant that your bike will be a pain to steal... > The same goes for house doors, cars, etc
well, my trick with all 3, is leave them with a (seamingly) better target. doesn't work against the guy with a big truck, and steals the whole bunch...
With my house, the trick is, have a well insured car with the keys in the ignition, door unlocked (car, not truck.) and plenty to steal on the back porch, so they got their hands full before looking inside.
well also directions to my house are, turn down the dirt road, take it 2 miles tell it ends, turn right, take that road tell it ends, and turn right, then take that road to its dead end, and your their.
(sorta the same as the joke with 2 guys running from the bear, one asks do you think we can out run the bear, the other says I just want to outrun you.)
> If they followed me back to and into my house to make sure I hadn't hidden anything in my coat, then it'd be more on par with the comparison you were looking for.
I should explain, I agree with you, and most consumers the current music/DVD DRM is a big negative, and RIAA is evil. However the RIAA/Itunes are not evil for selling DRM laced music that they told the buyers up-front about. RIAA is evil for many other reason combined.
ITunes selling DRM music to me is not calling me a thief. It says to me we got a great service, we want you to buy OUR hardware, we don't want to sell/support/deal with anyone else. I personally don't own/want a ipod, and thats the only reason I don't use ITunes.
As others point out, you can jump through hoopes, and use ITunes elsewhere, but thats still catering to IPod owners, wanting more, not them wanting to include non ipod owners.
now when they start going after the customers who use someone elses tool to make it more useable, thats calling them a thief. but selling you something, and telling you it is only fit for one purpose, and letting you try and use it however you want, is just picking who you want for a customer.
I recall apple threatening to break some tools, etc, etc. I don't recall them followin through. that would be mean, but not equivilent to placing blame.
> An election has to be fair, it has to be so without any posibility of error. nice ideal, would be good to have no errors, would be much better to be fair, but thats not realistic.
The goal of voting in the US has always been acceptable error. No recount of any size has ever come out exact, if I did, it would raise serious questions. hand recount of paper is expected to be 0.83% error. computer scanning recount is down to 0.56% error. That is acceptable error, that does not qualify as "no error". (numbers found from google searches)
now if acceptable error = fair, then ok were done, US elections are OK. but fair would imply equal chances, equal opportunities given to all candidates, again a nice ideal, a practical impossibility.
I didn't see any numbers in that report (well except the 70,000 errors) that might indicate the machines were worse than any other ballot machines, yet.
> "We do not trust you, we consider you a thief, but we'll take your money anyway". I do not, and will not, accept that from any company.
isn't that every retailer now? that is for sure every credit card company.
So no stores with those scanners after the checkout, guess your getting close to online sales only.
Does that apply to CreditCard verification, you know the Address/zipcode, and 3 digit verification code?
I know I feal when I am ID'd to buy beer (would apply to tobacco, lottery, spray paint, etc) that they are looking at me, and saying they dont trust me.
I think you are hitting on why they said "5.4 billion last year due to piracy." and not due to Copyright infringement. They consider any manner of watching a movie other than as intended as piracy, and that piracy removed a opertunity cost whos value is = to that of a sale. Becasue of the lack of a legal definition of piracy, this is valid in thier eyes. Since they don't care for replay TV, DVD rental, Tivo, etc, etc. they must claim all use of these devices as piracy.
I do the same as the G.P. with tivo on pay per view, and mencoder on rental DVD's. In that I save a "portion" of the movie rental until I am done enjoying the movie. The movie studios clearly call that piracy, because you get most of the benefits of owning, without a full purchase price. I violated no law that I know of, and their is no clear copyright violation, but this failure of DRM to stop me cost them a sale opertunity ie "Piracy"
> 17" Powerbook expensive. And yes, they actually need the big screens
They probably shouldn't throw away their 20"+ monitors in the lab, leave them open for the laptops to connect to, heck leave the keyboards, mice, and printers their as well. I know the U I went to back in 1994 had Autocad, and other Graphics hogs of their day running off network drives, and a license server allowed them to run on the local CPU (Better hope you could get to the newest workstation) I would hope this Maya program would allow installs like that (maybe even a loaner USB harddisk, assuming a licesnse server.)
I would assume the main purpose of the student laptops wouldn't be to completly replace the Workstations for the highest-end stuff, it would get the students off of the servers when they need to do reports, and email, chat, etc, etc.
As far as the locked down PC's as others have said, be a bad taste of what working for a company will be like.:(
I guess I would be surprised if their was a U left that wasn't going to have to support access from the outside anyway.
> producing spatialised sound through eyebud headphones is not realistic. I guess I am curious, my reciever converts 5.1 surround into Left and Right out for it's headphone jack, supposed to be surround sound for headphones. I know while gameing, with the senheiser headphones connected, I pretty much know if the noise is comming from in front, or behind me (with no visual clues) actually better than the 5 speaker arrangement (in too small of a room).
Is that because the headsets are better than earbuds for this, or is this something the reciever has trained me to listen for?
> money to stage, mostly for the host country that has to build the facilities to house the games and the athletes. Corporate sponsorship is one way to defray such costs
Are you saying that any money that was garnered from selling the TV rights in the US, and logos by the IOC went to the host country, I don't think that is the case.
Your point is true of many sponsorings, directly paying for training of athletes... but I think the host country is own their own, to pay up to the IOC, as well as making all their money from the short term, and long term benefits of increased tourism.
> 15 HP, and 15 pound-feet of torque should be 20 pound-feet, according to my calcs, thats 6% increase in power 9% increase in toruqe, 9% increase in weight.
says they then decreased the weight "lightweight aluminum hood and bumper beams (front and rear), along with a magnesium engine head cover and dual-stage intake manifold."
so basically the hybrid part was a net loss in acceleration performance (fuel economy performace plus though) that they made up for with other more pricey weight saving parts.
> The Accord Hybrid is faster AND more fuel efficient than its non-hybrid ****V6**** counterpart. That's huge.
The hybrid is running the same V6, and adds a overall 15 HP, and 15 pound-feet of torque, also adds 285 pounds of weight.
http://world.honda.com/news/2004/4040917.html Acceleration performance from 0-60 miles per hour and from 50-70mph is reduced by one half second compared with the already powerful and sporty Accord V-6 Sedan.
> If use of this app is against policy why did IT leave it on the image? depending on the job of the person, it could be nearly impossible to lock down solitary, and still leave the computer useable for the intended task.
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> not be so good to have a house on a busy street next to a crack house...
their are alott of people who wouldn't mind being walking distance to any of these.
personally I would get much more enjoyment being a block from a bar/strip joint than a church, boutique, etc (oh wait, with the exception of my current house I have never lived more than 3 blocks from a bar.)
>McAfee may have deleted more files
than all the viruses it has removed would have.
go figure, no big system admin has wanted automatic (witout testing) updates for some time, to their OS. I guess sys admins got lazy on testing virus scanner updates before rollouts.
I know I am not alone in turning off all runtime virus protection on my PC, because it has historically had more impact on system stabilty, and speed than most virii. (ok it seams the latest scanners on winXP may actually work...) Wouldn't save me from this problem, except my system scans only occur weekly, so may be luckly my weekly scan didn't occur (I do have nightly complete backups from backuppc.sourceforge.net ).
>there is no realistic way to ensure that the code published is the actual code run
It would be realistic if you detected a problem, to be "validated ex post facto" go back and check the code running on the suspect machine(s).
Then again you would never detect a problem without the paper trail. So open source and a paper trail would be nice.
>why we don't use pen and paper and count by hand.
well a search on google shows hand recount of paper is expected to be 0.83% error. computer scanning recount is down to 0.56% error.
so their trying to be cheaper faster, and fewer errors, all possible if done correctly.
this ruling seams odd to me also,
from the Enron fiasco I recall, you are free to delete/destroy paper evidence until their is a legal order requesting information relating to a case be held. Theirfore either computer files are being treated as different from paper files, or the order from the company to return the computer was filed through legal counsel (article doesn't say.)
Perhaps since enron shredding was covering up by current employees, they aren't related.
>I make a point never to buy anything that's got DRM from them,
how? I looked for 15 minutes for a book from them that came in enough formats it had to be DRM free... wrong. at least 6 months ago if it was possible to find DRM free books their, it wasn't obvious.
I am not completly anti DRM, but I got a pocket PC app that plays many formats, I see the same format available at fictionwise, no go. I don't blame them, the formats need to have a seperate format name for DRM'd, and non-DRM content. The DRM as I saw it had nothing to do with not copying, it was about locking to a player. Some DRM mediaplayer crap I got did nothing to stop me from copying it from XP box to XP box, but it sure kept me from playing it on my otherwise compatible DVD player (well just the sound), and non XP computers. (same with the e-BOOKs.)
both have advantages, my understanding is that vonage calls always go through vonage. For instance I set up vonage line for the branch office I work at (actually recently switched to broadvoice) if the home office setup a vonage phone line, every time we call the main office, the call would start with my traffic going to vonage, and vonage sending traffic to the home office. voip provides for handing off the call, but because both of our contacts to vonage have to be through our firewalls, it will never fall back to our VPN network.
Skype is supposidly truly peer-to-peer, so when I am logged in inside the corporate network, I can stay within the corporate network talking without any interaction to skype's servers during the call. At the same time, I can, without reconfiguring do the vonage thing with skype, so I log in at home with skype, then it has to contact through the firewall, through skypes servers.
now the difference isn't so great because I am running a asterisk server, so I can log in to asterisk, and call/be called through that server, but I have to use a different profile in, and out of the corporate network.
The problems I have experienced are due to them selling the information in the first place, and sending out more junk than necissary trying to screw their customers in the first place.
I think the banks, etc like to complain about fraud, and want to use the excuse to get control of MORE information from the customers, so they can make more money, and still allow law enforcement to try and make up for their unwillingness to miss out any profit that might otherwise educate their customers in the first place.
specifically relating to credit card companys sending out cards, checks, solicitations via bulk USPS mail, and unsolicited, un-expected mailings.
I know what I want to do to solve this, but may not be legal, setup a junk mail selling station. IE I drop all my unsolicated mail in a "trash can" I get a reciept or cash. Anyone can buy a bin of this "trash", and that amount makes it back to the trash can location to share back to the orignator. Granted, I will eventually have to fight the illegal transactions done in my name without my autorization, but at least I got some money to do that with. Eventually every credit card offer, illicit offer they send out will cost them so much they'll have to stop. I am not willing to directly participate in commiting the fraud, but I am willing to be passive about it in the short term to try and fix the truly horrible part of the system.
> no way that IBM can convert to Linux until it has ported Lotus Notes.
Web Client!
I have seen the notes web client grow to look almost exactly like the desktop app, only feature I see missing is archiving. With the company I work for, in their Sarbanes-Oxley related transisition, their already trying to downplay the use of email archives as acceptable. So I look for it to be banned at my company within a year, removing the need for supporting that PC app all-together.
The other obvious missing ingrediant is offline email composing, and hanheld synch. The first, the notes client isn't especially good at anyway. the second is taken care of by 3rd party apps today.
> this spoofing only gives those fraudsters another tool to use when defrauding people of money.
what about those teen age girls who need caller id from a friends house so they can call home from their boyfriends appartment?
>how can microsoft say that they will be better than google in 6 months
j html?articleID=17500979
same way they can say "Spam Will Be 'Solved' In 2 Years"
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.
you redefine what you really meant when you look at what you accomplished in 6 months. better could be database size, it could be speed of execusion, it could be lower % add buffer. whatever 1 (or more) area(s) msn excells at over google, will be defined as proof of better.
>it should be clear from a distant that your bike will be a pain to steal ...
> The same goes for house doors, cars, etc
well, my trick with all 3, is leave them with a (seamingly) better target. doesn't work against the guy with a big truck, and steals the whole bunch...
With my house, the trick is, have a well insured car with the keys in the ignition, door unlocked (car, not truck.) and plenty to steal on the back porch, so they got their hands full before looking inside.
well also directions to my house are, turn down the dirt road, take it 2 miles tell it ends, turn right, take that road tell it ends, and turn right, then take that road to its dead end, and your their.
(sorta the same as the joke with 2 guys running from the bear, one asks do you think we can out run the bear, the other says I just want to outrun you.)
>I'm betting he just uses the handle null
I would have choosen the handle null to ensure I never got any email, cause I don't want to pay for any...
I am guessing that was the intent, go figure spamme might have served better, live and learn.
> If they followed me back to and into my house to make sure I hadn't hidden anything in my coat, then it'd be more on par with the comparison you were looking for.
I should explain, I agree with you, and most consumers the current music/DVD DRM is a big negative, and RIAA is evil.
However the RIAA/Itunes are not evil for selling DRM laced music that they told the buyers up-front about. RIAA is evil for many other reason combined.
ITunes selling DRM music to me is not calling me a thief. It says to me we got a great service, we want you to buy OUR hardware, we don't want to sell/support/deal with anyone else. I personally don't own/want a ipod, and thats the only reason I don't use ITunes.
As others point out, you can jump through hoopes, and use ITunes elsewhere, but thats still catering to IPod owners, wanting more, not them wanting to include non ipod owners.
now when they start going after the customers who use someone elses tool to make it more useable, thats calling them a thief. but selling you something, and telling you it is only fit for one purpose, and letting you try and use it however you want, is just picking who you want for a customer.
I recall apple threatening to break some tools, etc, etc. I don't recall them followin through. that would be mean, but not equivilent to placing blame.
> An election has to be fair, it has to be so without any posibility of error.
nice ideal, would be good to have no errors, would be much better to be fair, but thats not realistic.
The goal of voting in the US has always been acceptable error. No recount of any size has ever come out exact, if I did, it would raise serious questions.
hand recount of paper is expected to be 0.83% error. computer scanning recount is down to 0.56% error. That is acceptable error, that does not qualify as "no error". (numbers found from google searches)
now if acceptable error = fair, then ok were done, US elections are OK.
but fair would imply equal chances, equal opportunities given to all candidates, again a nice ideal, a practical impossibility.
I didn't see any numbers in that report (well except the 70,000 errors) that might indicate the machines were worse than any other ballot machines, yet.
> "We do not trust you, we consider you a thief, but we'll take your money anyway". I do not, and will not, accept that from any company.
isn't that every retailer now? that is for sure every credit card company.
So no stores with those scanners after the checkout, guess your getting close to online sales only.
Does that apply to CreditCard verification, you know the Address/zipcode, and 3 digit verification code?
I know I feal when I am ID'd to buy beer (would apply to tobacco, lottery, spray paint, etc) that they are looking at me, and saying they dont trust me.
I think you are hitting on why they said "5.4 billion last year due to piracy." and not due to Copyright infringement. They consider any manner of watching a movie other than as intended as piracy, and that piracy removed a opertunity cost whos value is = to that of a sale. Becasue of the lack of a legal definition of piracy, this is valid in thier eyes.
Since they don't care for replay TV, DVD rental, Tivo, etc, etc. they must claim all use of these devices as piracy.
I do the same as the G.P. with tivo on pay per view, and mencoder on rental DVD's. In that I save a "portion" of the movie rental until I am done enjoying the movie. The movie studios clearly call that piracy, because you get most of the benefits of owning, without a full purchase price. I violated no law that I know of, and their is no clear copyright violation, but this failure of DRM to stop me cost them a sale opertunity ie "Piracy"
> 17" Powerbook expensive. And yes, they actually need the big screens
:(
They probably shouldn't throw away their 20"+ monitors in the lab, leave them open for the laptops to connect to, heck leave the keyboards, mice, and printers their as well. I know the U I went to back in 1994 had Autocad, and other Graphics hogs of their day running off network drives, and a license server allowed them to run on the local CPU (Better hope you could get to the newest workstation) I would hope this Maya program would allow installs like that (maybe even a loaner USB harddisk, assuming a licesnse server.)
I would assume the main purpose of the student laptops wouldn't be to completly replace the Workstations for the highest-end stuff, it would get the students off of the servers when they need to do reports, and email, chat, etc, etc.
As far as the locked down PC's as others have said, be a bad taste of what working for a company will be like.
I guess I would be surprised if their was a U left that wasn't going to have to support access from the outside anyway.
> The M5 has breasts?
carful, installation is free but....
maintenance can be expensive.
I cant emphasise this enough,
if you sign a maintenance contract, DO NOT UPGRADE to a later version!!!
> producing spatialised sound through eyebud headphones is not realistic.
I guess I am curious, my reciever converts 5.1 surround into Left and Right out for it's headphone jack, supposed to be surround sound for headphones.
I know while gameing, with the senheiser headphones connected, I pretty much know if the noise is comming from in front, or behind me (with no visual clues) actually better than the 5 speaker arrangement (in too small of a room).
Is that because the headsets are better than earbuds for this, or is this something the reciever has trained me to listen for?
> money to stage, mostly for the host country that has to build the facilities to house the games and the athletes. Corporate sponsorship is one way to defray such costs
Are you saying that any money that was garnered from selling the TV rights in the US, and logos by the IOC went to the host country, I don't think that is the case.
Your point is true of many sponsorings, directly paying for training of athletes...
but I think the host country is own their own, to pay up to the IOC, as well as making all their money from the short term, and long term benefits of increased tourism.
> 15 HP, and 15 pound-feet of torque
should be 20 pound-feet, according to my calcs, thats 6% increase in power 9% increase in toruqe, 9% increase in weight.
says they then decreased the weight "lightweight aluminum hood and bumper beams (front and rear), along with a magnesium engine head cover and dual-stage intake manifold."
so basically the hybrid part was a net loss in acceleration performance (fuel economy performace plus though) that they made up for with other more pricey weight saving parts.
> The Accord Hybrid is faster AND more fuel efficient than its non-hybrid ****V6**** counterpart. That's huge.
The hybrid is running the same V6, and adds a overall 15 HP, and 15 pound-feet of torque, also adds 285 pounds of weight.
http://world.honda.com/news/2004/4040917.html
Acceleration performance from 0-60 miles per hour and from 50-70mph is reduced by one half second compared with the already powerful and sporty Accord V-6 Sedan.
>write a search and destroy program to find sol.exe.
.COM .SCR, .PIF, .BAT don't forget the xml, and java versions.
and every other filename ending with
> If use of this app is against policy why did IT leave it on the image?
depending on the job of the person, it could be nearly impossible to lock down solitary, and still leave the computer useable for the intended task.