Firstly, get Thunderbird and use its rather excellent spam filter.
It also allows you to very easily to filter out email you really want to keep so you can set up a whitelist of addresses you're happy to receive email from.
Secondly, yes you can use Firefox instead of IE to avoid those IE-targetted malicious websites snaring you.
Thirdly, get some anti-virus software and adware-killer software (Adaware and Spybot Search & Destroy together will do a lot) and you'll massively reduce the chances of infection.
You can get free anti-virus software from Grisoft here.
No that's probably not the best anti-virus protection around but it does mean anyone can get some level of protection and not just those who can afford Norton et al.
Fourthly, get a firewall like Zone Alarm or just turn on the one that comes with Windows XP SP2.
With a point in the right direction it becomes a load easier to manage everything.
A collection of untestable observations - like...? Genetic mutation? Well we can test for that - oh heck looks like that one happens. Speciation of animals? Looks like we can test for that - oh and it looks like that one happens. The tricky bit is the origins of life.
Total nonsense. We can observe evolution on both a small scale and a large scale. Now, it is the creation of life itself we can't go back and test. We can run scientific experiments to see if we can replicate those conditions in laboratories though and people over many years have done just that. There is not much we can do to replicate an intelligent creator of the universe in a lab....
Be that as it may, creationists are the nearest thing to flat earth types we have in this modern day and age. Ignorant, poorly-argued and downright sad science passionately pursued by those only with a religious agenda, or some perverse hatred of mainstream science. Creation "science" is the Lyndon La Rouche of the science world.
Thunderbird is faster than Moz Mail. I use a PIII 500 and thus see the difference more readily. I still use Mozilla for browsing because it runs at an acceptable speed and I've got 768MB of RAM.:) I'm not moving to Firefox until there is a compelling reason to do so. This could be in the form of some neat feature Moz doesn't have or Moz just not working nicely anymore on my hardware.
What appears to be coming is an "iceburg". Perhaps the Slashdot editors meant an 'icy town' in which case call out the gritters and get to work with the shovels!
That's the kicker. Analogue tape can produce a certain sound which producers sometimes love. It's not about the accuracy. Having said this it can't be long before some manufacturer brings out a piece of software that can mimic the sound of analogue tape...
Chewbacca did not live on Endor. This is the kind of bollocks the Intelligent Design crowd propogate constantly. You will be telling me next he is still alive and did not die, crushed under a moon. When will you realise you are smothering the boundary between truth and faith YET AGAIN? Give it up! Admit that science has already determined you are wrong about Chewbacca.
Evolutionary scientists are just as much scientists as biologists - given they ARE biologists! Now if you want "scientists" just look at psychologists....
We have no evidence of clocks evolving. I am glad you thought I made some good points because they neatly rebut yours. We do however have evidence of animals evolving, and we can understand the very small scale processes that go on in cells regarding genetic mutation.
It is sad that some people put religious faith before science and then declare good science to be somehow wrong, and simultaneously try and teach faith-based "science" as fact. Very sad indeed. Please please please give up on the idea that intelligent design is science. It is not. It is faith-based. It is founded in religious faith. That's fine. I don't mind. You're free to believe this and I have no quarrel with religion, I merely have a problem with basing "science" on faith.
Freaky. We observe gradual change from fossil records, we observe speciation in current times, we observe genetic mutation between generations as a result of the way living things reproduce and this isn't evidence enough to convince someone there might be something in it? Intelligent Design is not based around intelligent theorizing. So yes it is a theory but it's a stunningly shit one. I see a clock - it's so complex! Someone must have made it. Well I guess they did yes. I see a PC - someone must have made that! Those microprocessors are seriously complicated! I see the eye - someone must have made that! Unless it has independently evolved multiple times. You could argue someone influenced the design but when there is a reasonable plausible theory to explain origins that does not involve an intelligent creator, we should automatically choose it over one that does. At least without reasonable evidence of the creator having done it.
As a student you're not acting like a consumer, you're there to learn. If you don't learn, how can you expect to pass? One hopes that Dan Bernstein is not going to fail those who clearly show signs of understanding of the subject but who have failed to find a security hole in software.
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Firstly, get Thunderbird and use its rather excellent spam filter.
It also allows you to very easily to filter out email you really want to keep so you can set up a whitelist of addresses you're happy to receive email from.
Secondly, yes you can use Firefox instead of IE to avoid those IE-targetted malicious websites snaring you.
Thirdly, get some anti-virus software and adware-killer software (Adaware and Spybot Search & Destroy together will do a lot) and you'll massively reduce the chances of infection. You can get free anti-virus software from Grisoft here.
No that's probably not the best anti-virus protection around but it does mean anyone can get some level of protection and not just those who can afford Norton et al.
Fourthly, get a firewall like Zone Alarm or just turn on the one that comes with Windows XP SP2.
With a point in the right direction it becomes a load easier to manage everything.
Yes it has been observed. Either go check your facts or stop contributing.
A collection of untestable observations - like...?
Genetic mutation? Well we can test for that - oh heck looks like that one happens.
Speciation of animals? Looks like we can test for that - oh and it looks like that one happens.
The tricky bit is the origins of life.
Total nonsense. We can observe evolution on both a small scale and a large scale. Now, it is the creation of life itself we can't go back and test. We can run scientific experiments to see if we can replicate those conditions in laboratories though and people over many years have done just that.
There is not much we can do to replicate an intelligent creator of the universe in a lab....
Be that as it may, creationists are the nearest thing to flat earth types we have in this modern day and age.
Ignorant, poorly-argued and downright sad science passionately pursued by those only with a religious agenda, or some perverse hatred of mainstream science.
Creation "science" is the Lyndon La Rouche of the science world.
Thunderbird is faster than Moz Mail. I use a PIII 500 and thus see the difference more readily. :)
I still use Mozilla for browsing because it runs at an acceptable speed and I've got 768MB of RAM.
I'm not moving to Firefox until there is a compelling reason to do so. This could be in the form of some neat feature Moz doesn't have or Moz just not working nicely anymore on my hardware.
What appears to be coming is an "iceburg". Perhaps the Slashdot editors meant an 'icy town' in which case call out the gritters and get to work with the shovels!
So it whirrs in the key of A?
That's the kicker. Analogue tape can produce a certain sound which producers sometimes love. It's not about the accuracy.
Having said this it can't be long before some manufacturer brings out a piece of software that can mimic the sound of analogue tape...
Honorary knighthoods are just that. He'll have to become a UK citizen, not just come here.
Yes. Obviously I was referring to the remote likelihood that some of these people have had parents.
Most will have been hatched of course.
Yes.
That is precisely what they would othewise be and exactly what I was getting at.
After seeing this I feel physically revolted.
Every one of those people could well be someone's brother or sister, or parent....or child....
Cancer? Are you referring to depleted uranium?
If so, have you forgotten that it is toxic, not that it is radioactive?
The moral of that particular story is "Don't read The Register" - which comes with a whole host of other benefits too.
"Are we all going to die from a super-volcano?"
"Our initial assessment is they will all die...oops sorry force of habit!"
Chewbacca did not live on Endor. This is the kind of bollocks the Intelligent Design crowd propogate constantly. You will be telling me next he is still alive and did not die, crushed under a moon.
When will you realise you are smothering the boundary between truth and faith YET AGAIN?
Give it up! Admit that science has already determined you are wrong about Chewbacca.
Evolutionary scientists are just as much scientists as biologists - given they ARE biologists!
Now if you want "scientists" just look at psychologists....
Given out ancestors are dead already I doubt we can affect whether they get to live in Heaven or Hell now.
We have no evidence of clocks evolving. I am glad you thought I made some good points because they neatly rebut yours. We do however have evidence of animals evolving, and we can understand the very small scale processes that go on in cells regarding genetic mutation.
It is sad that some people put religious faith before science and then declare good science to be somehow wrong, and simultaneously try and teach faith-based "science" as fact.
Very sad indeed.
Please please please give up on the idea that intelligent design is science. It is not. It is faith-based. It is founded in religious faith. That's fine. I don't mind. You're free to believe this and I have no quarrel with religion, I merely have a problem with basing "science" on faith.
No, why should I find that funny?
Oh I get it...God copyrighted something! But he's God! HAHAH! That's *SO* funny! No, really it is.
Freaky. We observe gradual change from fossil records, we observe speciation in current times, we observe genetic mutation between generations as a result of the way living things reproduce and this isn't evidence enough to convince someone there might be something in it?
Intelligent Design is not based around intelligent theorizing. So yes it is a theory but it's a stunningly shit one. I see a clock - it's so complex! Someone must have made it. Well I guess they did yes.
I see a PC - someone must have made that! Those microprocessors are seriously complicated!
I see the eye - someone must have made that! Unless it has independently evolved multiple times. You could argue someone influenced the design but when there is a reasonable plausible theory to explain origins that does not involve an intelligent creator, we should automatically choose it over one that does.
At least without reasonable evidence of the creator having done it.
Hebrew has no vowels, I get it...
As a student you're not acting like a consumer, you're there to learn. If you don't learn, how can you expect to pass?
One hopes that Dan Bernstein is not going to fail those who clearly show signs of understanding of the subject but who have failed to find a security hole in software.
Instructers are not always 100% clued up on everything...
Was it then given to Natalie Portman?