that's correct. When I run a inactive apache (not many real hits, just a small domain name), I get tons of hits trying to load NT bugs, etc. It's kinda a shame that all that bandwidth is being wasted. Now that you mention it... there might even be more robots than actual traffic, and most of that crowd would be using winxp.
This is exactly what spamgourmet is useful for. Spamgourmet is free, and forwards messages to your "real" address, but only as many as are specified by the address. To use Spamgourmet, you first become a member with a single user address, however you can add "sub-addresses" in a similar way to subdomains, starting with just a lame label, then a number of MAX emails to be accepted at this alias, then the username.
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for example, if you wanted to get a confirmation from newegg.com, but didn't trust their mailing list... you could simple fill in newegg.3.joecool@spamgourmet.com. this would give them a max of 3 emails, 1 for billing, 1 for shipping, and 1 for whatever is bound to go wrong.
If you looked carefully at the site, you would have noticed that 4% of the browsers are reported as "other" that sure doesn't look good. It could even be that 3% of the other is Linux, thus giving linux a bigger market share than win95. But then what about BSD, Solaris... they couldn't possibly make up more than linux combined. (in the desktop area.)
Yeah, I think he went on a big rant about video games a while back... detailing how bad some games are in some scenes, of course it was totally unbalanced, so many parents got the impression "All video games are an abomination", but most of them are gone anyway. A much better Idea would have been to reccomend ccgr.org, a Christian games resource, and they're pretty practical, they gave UT 2003 a positive rating, so violence isn't really seen as bad, and that's A Good Thing.
I personally think as you call it "lock the kid in a box" is very dumb, not only because it's restricting, but most parents don't watch their kids close enough, so the kid is likely to rebel, and get into so pretty bad stuff.
I really don't think Microsoft will have a easy time with backward compatability from Xbox1 to Xbox2, if they make a xbox2.
Just judging by the pc history, there's a lot of apps, and games that don't run on current hardware, that have on older hardware, and of course M$ will be putting a bunch of DRM crap in any new xbox, meaning they will have to switch from the win2k api's to something like xp.
And remember, backward compatability is always harder when you are changing graphics chips also. Plus, Xbox has a real wacky configuration... A Nvidia nForce board, only with a PIII? why didn't they use a athlon, or why didn't they make the nForce for the pIII? Microsoft certainly didn't put out a machine comparable with current hardware when they made the xbox, and I dont think it will be any different in the future.
That's exaggerating, and it's stupid. It's also stupid for someone like me to have the only options of "business dsl" sdsl 128k for $80/month. Nothing else comes here. I'd in fact be very happy with 1mb uplink, 256k downlink for $50/month, even though I know between the isp, and the line provider, I'd be getting ripped off $25 or more.
The whole thing is actually a fake, not only are there rumors of sites running on other ips, the site is really just where it was before on http://66.201.243.170 and it's not just a fake, it's the real site. Either the DOJ is just a bunch of numb-skulled idiotic... or the whole thing wasn't done by the DOJ. From December to Feb 26 is a long time, and there is nothing on the DOJ site about David M. Rocci.
It's definatly not wrong. Why anyone can claim rights to a machine like this, and not allow modifications just because they say they're loosing money making them is a shame. The CDs/DVDs that are used in these machines are quite hard to replicate, and it is mainly for using games from another region, or using Linux or Netbsd.
The thing is, people who own Xbox's don't know anything about this either. If I walked up to any of my friends who own consoles, and asked them about a mod chip, they'd be clueless.
Perhaps that's true, that they didn't really want the economy to go down, but I really think it wouldn't have if they didn't report that it was out of thin air. The media has lied about things before, and they didn't have to say anything about future stocks going down.
I can't really say that the stock market crash would be responsible for AOL-TW losses, AOL-TW is just making way too many stupid choices to blame it on economics.
The Economy is bad because that's what the newspapers want. A month before Bush took office as President, news channels were telling of how aweful the world is getting, and economic plunges ahead. Result? Idiots (read: idiots) sell thier stock, and then there is a real drop in stock prices, so next week the lie they told is true. I think if we had a Media that would follow the current government, the current government would perform much better. And I dont just mean this one-sided either.
Yes, that's a good point, and I had heard from reviews that XP is generally very stable. However, in truth stability and security are very very close. While XP doesn't "Crash" I still consider it unstable because of all the Vulnerabilities, etc. My 98 box just went through installation because I actually got a virus without using email on it once (online gaming I am sure was the cause). However, it wasn't the virus that took it down, it was the anti-virus software. I was using Trend pc-cillin, but I haven't seen any better from Norton, at all.
I would have probably bought XP by now if it wasn't for the activation scheme. I'd rather the Phonedroids at M$ didn't know anything about my boxes, thank you. And I really can't complain that much about IE, when Mozilla 1.2.1 keeps crashing on stuff, and bugs remain unresolved for literally months, and they still haven't really thought about adding bzip2 handling in the mozilla file reader.
It is for the idiots you rightly refur to that I make the distinction between infringement and piracy. The fact still remains, that in times of high infringement, music sells more, and the RIAA makes more money.
I find it odd that you would dispute my zealotry, while ignoring the facts I listed. I think many people in the fair use group are just against the RIAA, and hey, why shouldn't they be? It's not only their (the riaa) attempts to stop infringement, but some CDs distributed normally are actually copy-protected, and if you remember correctly, copy-protected CDs are not possible to play in home computers, and cause a system crash.
Not only this, but it's ironically illegal to sell copy protected CDs with the Phillips registered Compact Disc logo, however it's still used. The marker fix helps, but many people don't know about it, and it's a pain.
CDs do in fact cost too much, $16-$18 is too much, especially when you hate the guts of the people at the RIAA, and you know they will be getting a fair (or unfair as the case may be) amount of that, and the way they put together CDs, it's definatly not worth it.
DRM music services have so far horribly failed. If I'm going to pay for digital music, it better be easier to use, and a better overall service than Kazzaa. I haven't tried any DRM service, but from the reviews it seems this is not the case.
So far, microsoft hasn't even tried to add any multi-platform filesystem support, much less operating systems. Besides, what would a windows user want to run? Unix is so standardized, and the only real draw is a good stable os (please, dont try to tell me XP is stable), not the apps. MacOS would be a challege to run, because it's a whole different arcitecture, and Apple will raise a stink if M$ tries that.
Get a life, and stop calling copywrite infringement "Piracy". You need to look at the flip-side of this, which is, it's not piracy, unless the original copy is gone. Like if I stole your newspaper, that would be piracy. However, the RIAA is not going after people for "piracy" (again, it's copywrite infringement), because they loose money this way, quite the opposite. They are merely trying to keep their current monopoly on music, and if possible extend it. So far they are doing quite well, and have already passed the DMCA, and there have been so many other attempts in this direction.
If you wouldn't use a apostrophe for a regular phrase, why should you use it for a acronym? For example, you wouldn't think about saying Cetral Processing Unit's. Besides, by this point CPUs are just as common as CDs, and so we might as well use them the same in acronyms.
Yes, Cyrix once stood actually ahead of AMD, and for about 1 month between the p200, and the ppro200, the 6x86 PR200+ (dumb name) was the fastest on the market, well, for business apps.
But it wasn't really meant to be, when mmx stuff came out cyrix was the last to join in, and then they were too slow. Sure, the 6x86mx 233 was FASTER than the PII 233, but people weren't buying the pII 233, they were buying at 300mhz.
Now Cyrix has been sold to VIA, and they are using it as a budget, low power cpu. It's just on the wrong socket. I probably would have bought a VIA system at one time, but I can't afford INTEL upgrades, and you can't get a VIA for a athlon MB.
They also donate to organisations who have 1 goal. Kill unborn children. How bad can you get? Really, Microsoft does donate to good organisations, but they donate to practically everyone, so there's really no point. Should have just come out with better products/ cheaper products.
Well, up to the point of thousands of testers, windows has a better market, but it's only because windows is so popular, not because it's a closed source project. Back when linux 2.4 was being worked on, there were literally thousands of people testing it, including people with skills. Probably over half of microsoft's "beta testers" were just in there to get a cheaper copy of the full version.
And, as far as users go, it's even worse. With so many people just using MS Word, Outlook, IE... Oh wait, Microsoft STILL hasn't got any of those programs secure.:-)
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Hey, the US army just started this recently. In the case of "Americas Army", it's a solid game (based on UT2003), and I think it will eventually catch on. This could turn out good, at least in a few cases, but it might just die out like free ISPs did back a few years ago.
Oh, they certainly can, even though a closed source model is much harder to be secure, given the smaller test, and development base. The problem is, it's simply not a high ENOUGH priority at most businesses. And why should it be, when people buy for marketing schemes, pretty graphics, and "but I just want my $10 modem to work" stuff.
Security isn't just a unix/windows war though, Solaris has had big trouble with security in the past, and so has IRIX. I haven't heard much about AIX, or HP-UX, but likely those machines wont be used for external servers anyway, so it's not QUITE as big a issue.
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that's correct. When I run a inactive apache (not many real hits, just a small domain name), I get tons of hits trying to load NT bugs, etc. It's kinda a shame that all that bandwidth is being wasted. Now that you mention it... there might even be more robots than actual traffic, and most of that crowd would be using winxp.
This is exactly what spamgourmet is useful for. Spamgourmet is free, and forwards messages to your "real" address, but only as many as are specified by the address. To use Spamgourmet, you first become a member with a single user address, however you can add "sub-addresses" in a similar way to subdomains, starting with just a lame label, then a number of MAX emails to be accepted at this alias, then the username.
,br> for example, if you wanted to get a confirmation from newegg.com, but didn't trust their mailing list... you could simple fill in newegg.3.joecool@spamgourmet.com. this would give them a max of 3 emails, 1 for billing, 1 for shipping, and 1 for whatever is bound to go wrong.
Try it out today at spamourmet.com
Well, of course, your right to rip off a bunch of 10 yo's with overstock copies of dakatana.
If you looked carefully at the site, you would have noticed that 4% of the browsers are reported as "other" that sure doesn't look good. It could even be that 3% of the other is Linux, thus giving linux a bigger market share than win95. But then what about BSD, Solaris... they couldn't possibly make up more than linux combined. (in the desktop area.)
that is.. unless your oppenent is a [oxy]moron.
Yeah, I think he went on a big rant about video games a while back... detailing how bad some games are in some scenes, of course it was totally unbalanced, so many parents got the impression "All video games are an abomination", but most of them are gone anyway. A much better Idea would have been to reccomend ccgr.org, a Christian games resource, and they're pretty practical, they gave UT 2003 a positive rating, so violence isn't really seen as bad, and that's A Good Thing.
I personally think as you call it "lock the kid in a box" is very dumb, not only because it's restricting, but most parents don't watch their kids close enough, so the kid is likely to rebel, and get into so pretty bad stuff.
I really don't think Microsoft will have a easy time with backward compatability from Xbox1 to Xbox2, if they make a xbox2.
Just judging by the pc history, there's a lot of apps, and games that don't run on current hardware, that have on older hardware, and of course M$ will be putting a bunch of DRM crap in any new xbox, meaning they will have to switch from the win2k api's to something like xp.
And remember, backward compatability is always harder when you are changing graphics chips also. Plus, Xbox has a real wacky configuration... A Nvidia nForce board, only with a PIII? why didn't they use a athlon, or why didn't they make the nForce for the pIII? Microsoft certainly didn't put out a machine comparable with current hardware when they made the xbox, and I dont think it will be any different in the future.
Actually, he's a big big radio preacher. so, to answer your question, LOTS of people will trust him, and lots will be disappointed.
It's not the first time he's been wrong, but he's not all that bad either. He just didn't research this one very well.
Yeah, and aparently gangsters aren't too good at math either! October November December January Febuary... Five months, not three.
That's exaggerating, and it's stupid. It's also stupid for someone like me to have the only options of "business dsl" sdsl 128k for $80/month. Nothing else comes here. I'd in fact be very happy with 1mb uplink, 256k downlink for $50/month, even though I know between the isp, and the line provider, I'd be getting ripped off $25 or more.
The whole thing is actually a fake, not only are there rumors of sites running on other ips, the site is really just where it was before on http://66.201.243.170 and it's not just a fake, it's the real site. Either the DOJ is just a bunch of numb-skulled idiotic... or the whole thing wasn't done by the DOJ. From December to Feb 26 is a long time, and there is nothing on the DOJ site about David M. Rocci.
It's definatly not wrong. Why anyone can claim rights to a machine like this, and not allow modifications just because they say they're loosing money making them is a shame. The CDs/DVDs that are used in these machines are quite hard to replicate, and it is mainly for using games from another region, or using Linux or Netbsd.
The thing is, people who own Xbox's don't know anything about this either. If I walked up to any of my friends who own consoles, and asked them about a mod chip, they'd be clueless.
Perhaps that's true, that they didn't really want the economy to go down, but I really think it wouldn't have if they didn't report that it was out of thin air. The media has lied about things before, and they didn't have to say anything about future stocks going down.
I can't really say that the stock market crash would be responsible for AOL-TW losses, AOL-TW is just making way too many stupid choices to blame it on economics.
The Economy is bad because that's what the newspapers want. A month before Bush took office as President, news channels were telling of how aweful the world is getting, and economic plunges ahead. Result? Idiots (read: idiots) sell thier stock, and then there is a real drop in stock prices, so next week the lie they told is true. I think if we had a Media that would follow the current government, the current government would perform much better. And I dont just mean this one-sided either.
Enough about the Economy, it's making me sick.
Yes, that's a good point, and I had heard from reviews that XP is generally very stable. However, in truth stability and security are very very close. While XP doesn't "Crash" I still consider it unstable because of all the Vulnerabilities, etc. My 98 box just went through installation because I actually got a virus without using email on it once (online gaming I am sure was the cause). However, it wasn't the virus that took it down, it was the anti-virus software. I was using Trend pc-cillin, but I haven't seen any better from Norton, at all. I would have probably bought XP by now if it wasn't for the activation scheme. I'd rather the Phonedroids at M$ didn't know anything about my boxes, thank you. And I really can't complain that much about IE, when Mozilla 1.2.1 keeps crashing on stuff, and bugs remain unresolved for literally months, and they still haven't really thought about adding bzip2 handling in the mozilla file reader.
It is for the idiots you rightly refur to that I make the distinction between infringement and piracy. The fact still remains, that in times of high infringement, music sells more, and the RIAA makes more money.
I find it odd that you would dispute my zealotry, while ignoring the facts I listed. I think many people in the fair use group are just against the RIAA, and hey, why shouldn't they be? It's not only their (the riaa) attempts to stop infringement, but some CDs distributed normally are actually copy-protected, and if you remember correctly, copy-protected CDs are not possible to play in home computers, and cause a system crash.
Not only this, but it's ironically illegal to sell copy protected CDs with the Phillips registered Compact Disc logo, however it's still used. The marker fix helps, but many people don't know about it, and it's a pain.
CDs do in fact cost too much, $16-$18 is too much, especially when you hate the guts of the people at the RIAA, and you know they will be getting a fair (or unfair as the case may be) amount of that, and the way they put together CDs, it's definatly not worth it.
DRM music services have so far horribly failed. If I'm going to pay for digital music, it better be easier to use, and a better overall service than Kazzaa. I haven't tried any DRM service, but from the reviews it seems this is not the case.
So far, microsoft hasn't even tried to add any multi-platform filesystem support, much less operating systems. Besides, what would a windows user want to run? Unix is so standardized, and the only real draw is a good stable os (please, dont try to tell me XP is stable), not the apps. MacOS would be a challege to run, because it's a whole different arcitecture, and Apple will raise a stink if M$ tries that.
Get a life, and stop calling copywrite infringement "Piracy". You need to look at the flip-side of this, which is, it's not piracy, unless the original copy is gone. Like if I stole your newspaper, that would be piracy. However, the RIAA is not going after people for "piracy" (again, it's copywrite infringement), because they loose money this way, quite the opposite. They are merely trying to keep their current monopoly on music, and if possible extend it. So far they are doing quite well, and have already passed the DMCA, and there have been so many other attempts in this direction.
If you wouldn't use a apostrophe for a regular phrase, why should you use it for a acronym? For example, you wouldn't think about saying Cetral Processing Unit's. Besides, by this point CPUs are just as common as CDs, and so we might as well use them the same in acronyms.
Yes, Cyrix once stood actually ahead of AMD, and for about 1 month between the p200, and the ppro200, the 6x86 PR200+ (dumb name) was the fastest on the market, well, for business apps.
But it wasn't really meant to be, when mmx stuff came out cyrix was the last to join in, and then they were too slow. Sure, the 6x86mx 233 was FASTER than the PII 233, but people weren't buying the pII 233, they were buying at 300mhz.
Now Cyrix has been sold to VIA, and they are using it as a budget, low power cpu. It's just on the wrong socket. I probably would have bought a VIA system at one time, but I can't afford INTEL upgrades, and you can't get a VIA for a athlon MB.
Oh, but this is a witty way to fix the $3 trillion dollar deficit everyone is talking about! Support your country! report telemarketers.
They also donate to organisations who have 1 goal. Kill unborn children. How bad can you get? Really, Microsoft does donate to good organisations, but they donate to practically everyone, so there's really no point. Should have just come out with better products/ cheaper products.
Well, up to the point of thousands of testers, windows has a better market, but it's only because windows is so popular, not because it's a closed source project. Back when linux 2.4 was being worked on, there were literally thousands of people testing it, including people with skills. Probably over half of microsoft's "beta testers" were just in there to get a cheaper copy of the full version.
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And, as far as users go, it's even worse. With so many people just using MS Word, Outlook, IE... Oh wait, Microsoft STILL hasn't got any of those programs secure.
Hey, the US army just started this recently. In the case of "Americas Army", it's a solid game (based on UT2003), and I think it will eventually catch on. This could turn out good, at least in a few cases, but it might just die out like free ISPs did back a few years ago.
Oh, they certainly can, even though a closed source model is much harder to be secure, given the smaller test, and development base. The problem is, it's simply not a high ENOUGH priority at most businesses. And why should it be, when people buy for marketing schemes, pretty graphics, and "but I just want my $10 modem to work" stuff.
Security isn't just a unix/windows war though, Solaris has had big trouble with security in the past, and so has IRIX. I haven't heard much about AIX, or HP-UX, but likely those machines wont be used for external servers anyway, so it's not QUITE as big a issue.