Stop spreading FUD. MSAS clearly states that the app has legitimate uses. It only alerts the user to it's presence, in case they or their admin hasn't installed it.
Did you read the article I linked to?
According to Romanian anti-virus firm BitDefender, the first beta version of Microsoft's software wrongly detects a BitDefender ScanOnline object as being a piece of spyware called "Brilliant Digital".
It labels it as Brilliant Digital - a tracking cookie. MSAS does not state the app has legitimate uses.
Didn't the Pope tell Stephen Hawking not to investigate further back than the Big Bang because that was the moment of creation or something to that effect?
No. The pope told S. Hawking not to investigate the moment of the big bang.
(from A Brief History of Time)
"He [the pope] told us that it was all right to study the evolution of the universe after the big bang, but we should not inquire into the big bang itself because that was the moment of Creation and therefore the work of God. I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference - the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary, which means that it had no beginning, no moment of Creation. I had no desire to share the fate of Galileo, with whom I feel a strong sense of identity, partly because of the coincidence of having been born exactly 300 years after his death!"
Mildly interesting: this page disputes Hawking's account of the meeting - saying it was embellished.
*shrugs*
Re:Excited about KDE 3.4
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I'm looking forward to giving 3.4 a try. Why? Because on my modest hardware it seems like Qt has gotten faster over the past 2 years while GTK2 has gotten slower.
Why has this piece of flamebait been modded informative?
Try and say something about KDE 3.4, the story, or KDE's speed in general.
A post comparing old versions of KDE to old versions of GTK is a troll. A pathetic one at that.
Therefore, the profits of companies like BellSouth do directly and positively affect society, and are an important source of income for many millions of people.
God I am sick of this argument.
Just because a corporation has positive benefits to a small proportion of the public who are shareholders does not give them the right to trample everyone else.
Would you use your argument if a private hospital was suing the state for providing free health care for poor people?
Knoppix-STD or some other live disk is good for imaging and file recovery, but lacks real utility... like editing a windows 2000 registry, or doing vfat/ntfs hacking
Knoppix come with chntpwd - which includes a fully fledged registry editor.
It also comes with ntfs write capability via captive - something that gentoo live no longer does.
I have a Korean friend who realizes that Seoul would fall within the hour should ol' crazy Kim get a wild hair up his ass. Under those situations, anything that would slow him down or make it cost him too much is worth it. [emphasis mine]
Slow him down huh? Do you really think Kim is personally going to invade South Korea?
Anyway - what you're saying is that *anything* is justified to stop North Korea attacking the south?
Why stop at landmines in that case? How about proximity nukes? Why not just nuke the DMZ and turn it into a radioactive wasteland? After all that would slow him down wouldn't it?
Idiot.
Landmines always end up killing more civilians then combatents. I am sure you're Korean friend does not like the thought of them close to Seoul
....Korean DMZ, which is a very special case. The mines pose no dangers of the types the treaty is trying to prevent, as all are in a closed, guarded area and mapped.
Wrong.
Mines float after floods. Korea has plenty of stray mines:
wash mines from storage areas or fields into open civilian areas. Since the 1980s, only 10 percent of 1,430 washed away mines have been recovered."
Mines are evil, you can't control what happens to them after deployment. The US not signing the treaty (or even wanting a Korean exception to it is a bad thing).
As long as your source is 'closed', you shouldn't have much to worry about. Cause how is anybody supposed to know that you used a patented algorithm in your code unless they reverse engineered it--which is illegal according to the DMCA. Go nuts.
Hmmmmn,
1) Some algorithms are easy to spot - you don't need the code. 2) Some patents cover business methods & possibly looknfeel. 3) The DMCA does not make all reverse engineering illegal.
I think patents are definitely a problem for all small software shops - closed or open.
Slashdot Mirror
*sighs*
:-)
Yup. Karma in the true sense of the word
That'll teach me. (or not)
Honestly, I relaly don't see much of a difference.
I am going to presume you meant really, rather then relay.
How about the places menu, the MultiMedia Systems Selector, maybe the Device Manager or the Dictionay.
But honestly, this is an incremental release. What were you expecting? A complete revamp?
surely you mean a Van Allen Radiation Belt
You can turn a Van Allen Belt into a Van Halen belt with one of these
Did you read the article I linked to?
It labels it as Brilliant Digital - a tracking cookie. MSAS does not state the app has legitimate uses.
According to this story on the register, the MS anti spyware tool also labels Bitdefender (a romanian anti virus tool) as spyware.
You can see Suns influence on gnome here!
No. The pope told S. Hawking not to investigate the moment of the big bang.
(from A Brief History of Time)
Mildly interesting: this page disputes Hawking's account of the meeting - saying it was embellished.
*shrugs*
I'm looking forward to giving 3.4 a try. Why? Because on my modest hardware it seems like Qt has gotten faster over the past 2 years while GTK2 has gotten slower.
Why has this piece of flamebait been modded informative?
Try and say something about KDE 3.4, the story, or KDE's speed in general.
A post comparing old versions of KDE to old versions of GTK is a troll. A pathetic one at that.
thats 932 056 788 miles
Therefore, the profits of companies like BellSouth do directly and positively affect society, and are an important source of income for many millions of people.
God I am sick of this argument.
Just because a corporation has positive benefits to a small proportion of the public who are shareholders does not give them the right to trample everyone else.
Would you use your argument if a private hospital was suing the state for providing free health care for poor people?
Knoppix-STD or some other live disk is good for imaging and file recovery, but lacks real utility... like editing a windows 2000 registry, or doing vfat/ntfs hacking
Knoppix come with chntpwd - which includes a fully fledged registry editor.
It also comes with ntfs write capability via captive - something that gentoo live no longer does.
In the case of this letter, there is more than enough corroborating information that's easily verifiable
Why didn't you just link to that then?
You linked to a scanned image on geocities?
And expected people to take you seriously?
A link to a site where anyone can place material is not a link worth having on wikipedia.
To prove my point - I can put a scanned image up on geocities purporting to be from you, saying you were wrong.
Would that prove anything? No - and nor does your link.
It can have legit uses too.
Don't blame the tool - blame the uses its put to.
(that said, I aint a bit sorry for the Xequte software.)
Weird.
The other developer obviously does not understand the GPL. Of course you can use the code, just as long as you preserved the copyright notice.
Use & share the code - thats the whole point of the GPL anyway.
A kid at my son's school collected and analyzied common RSS weather feeds [tech-recipes.com] for a science project.
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He collected the data and used it to judge how accurate the weatherman's predictions were.
Weather reports != Meteorologist predictions.
You would be amazed at how often and by how far the reports differ from what the meteorologists have predicted.
A bunch of random RSS feeds are going to tend to be inaccurate. Your kid confirmed that - kudos to him - sounds like a great project.
But hardly worth mentioning on
Just ask friendly ol' uncle Sam for the Echelon logs?
No need to duplicate!
Name two things (other than "oil" and "terror") that have been exported by the Muslim world in the past 50 - hell, the past 100 - years.
transistors, transport equipment, textiles, rice, leather goods, electrical appliances
That enough for ya? Plenty more in the cia world factbook if you're interested.
Current death toll from Amnesty International's actions in Nepal:9560
Do you have the slightest piece of evidence you'd like to back that up with?
Cowardly, Emotional Sigs devoid of any factual information really give me the shits.
Coward.
(Your actual post was pretty funny btw)
-tpgp
Tsk.
You should have linked to a google image search - after all, we just want to see pics.
Here's a link to the book cover
The US does not export land mines.
Who makes the mines that are in the Korean DMZ?
Perhaps you mean the US does not sell sell landmines overseas.
I have a Korean friend who realizes that Seoul would fall within the hour should ol' crazy Kim get a wild hair up his ass. Under those situations, anything that would slow him down or make it cost him too much is worth it. [emphasis mine]
Slow him down huh? Do you really think Kim is personally going to invade South Korea?
Anyway - what you're saying is that *anything* is justified to stop North Korea attacking the south?
Why stop at landmines in that case? How about proximity nukes? Why not just nuke the DMZ and turn it into a radioactive wasteland? After all that would slow him down wouldn't it?
Idiot.
Landmines always end up killing more civilians then combatents. I am sure you're Korean friend does not like the thought of them close to Seoul
Wrong.
Mines float after floods. Korea has plenty of stray mines:
From this page
Mines are evil, you can't control what happens to them after deployment. The US not signing the treaty (or even wanting a Korean exception to it is a bad thing).
I believe the grandparent is referring to this comment
As long as your source is 'closed', you shouldn't have much to worry about. Cause how is anybody supposed to know that you used a patented algorithm in your code unless they reverse engineered it--which is illegal according to the DMCA. Go nuts.
Hmmmmn,
1) Some algorithms are easy to spot - you don't need the code.
2) Some patents cover business methods & possibly looknfeel.
3) The DMCA does not make all reverse engineering illegal.
I think patents are definitely a problem for all small software shops - closed or open.