Seeing as how you have an AMD I'm thinking your motherboard doesn't have buil-in protection against overheating. I'm not too familiar with hardware but isn't the chip the only thing that gets really hot? If so when the fan goes off either your chip should slow by its self or the motherboard should slow it down for you, in either case your chip shouldn't overheat.
As to the dust being a fire hazard and assuming it is still a risk at normal operating temperatures (which your box should not exceed by much for the previously stated reason), the only real solution would be to clean it out.
... Of course/. picks it up and adds a newsitem about it - complete with a link to the text. Is that publication? (or even defamation)
No, if your private web page actually holds up to the/. effect long enough for anyone to see it I think CowboyNeal rather than sueing you will give you an award!
Supposedly this is what meta-moderation does. I agree it's a problem (discounting the number of comments I've posted that have gone up to 5 then down to 2) with people going on moderation sprees when the story is off the page or near the bottom. In the case of a geniune troll the only solution I can think of is when a person gets enough bad meta-mods they lose their privaleges, perhaps the editors could do the blacklisting themselves, it should be a rare enough occurance. In this case I suspect that it was not an editor moderation because of the fact that they can really choose any group of high scoring ten questions so the precise ranking isn't really relevant.
Yeah, as opposed to all those other EULAs that you've "read". Don't think it will happen? Just wait until M$ decides to get a search engine... just thinking about it gives me nightmares.
Search: Linux
Linux is Communist Linux is unsecure If you use Linux you're supporting terrorism Why Linux will cause your computer to explore DRM, your hidden friend Why Linux should be illegal Linus is a big weanie ......
The very first time you visit a search engine you will have to sign an EULA that says (in 5000 words;) that you understand there are paid links and agree that they will be hidden. I'm sure the search engines won't mind...
Oh come on. I think it's pretty obvious by now that with OS X vs. anything OS X wins! Expect againt a nice Mutton, Letuce, and Tomato... When the Mutton is nice and lean... nothing beats that. But that's not the issue, we all know OS X is the ultimate OS, now just think to sit down in front of OS X with a MTL...
The site was discovered in 1994 by a state highway worker. It is scheduled to be demolished later this year in a road-widening project.
Hopefully now that this finding is out they'll be able to postpone the demolition. Wouldn't it be dissapointing to have a discovery of this magnitude and not be able to check it out to the full extent because you're rushing to beat the demolition crew?
Well this is another example of what happens when you an organization has a monopoly. Even a non-profit organization has fallen to collecting taxes and not accepting public input in the tradition of the benevolent dictator. The question is whether they will continue to grow in power or will the government step in or will some other group arise from the internet to try and wrestle control from icann.
basic ideals like free speech and the free exchange of ideas shouldn't be important to them? Really?
Basic ideals for who? I'll admit I don't know a ton about their cultures and I don't like the idea of them lacking these rights but they may not see it the same way. Maybe they consider it important that people aren't exposed to "corrupting" ideas, that their world would be a lot happier and more peaceful if everyone had the same basic beliefs. Those ideas may differ from our own and their motives may not be as alltrueistic as I've stated and yes I do believe that this story is a bad thing but I don't believe that's a fully valid assumption.
The Washington Post article didn't say anything about replacing ads and the slashdot link wasn't loading for me. From the sounds of it all gator is doing is when you do visit a specific site it launches a popup window displaying its own advertising. While this is highly unethical I'm not sure it would be illegal, I don't see any website that you visit having legal domain over your web browser and gator isn't altering the page itself, all gator is doing is poping up its own window or own link which you "agreed" to view when you clicked on the EULA. If gator actually closed the websites pop-up windows completely than they might have a case (though it could fall again to the EULA as having said the user wanted those windows to close). While I don't like seeing gator doing things like this I would worry about the implications of a victory on the grounds of defacing the sight or something like that. In a strictly legal sense Mozilla might actually be in danger as it allows you to stop the pop-up windows from opening at all (in many ways closer to altering the display of the website than adding more pop-ups).
I find unclear in the article if it would allow DoS attacks, His bill would allow copyright holders to set up decoy files and use other techno-tricks like file-blocking and redirection to throw P2P pirates off the trail, but it would forbid those holders from employing tactics that would damage or destroy pirates' own computer systems.
However if this law is passed and does allow things like DoS attacks I would think it would be very prone to abuse. Are they going to have to get a court order to launch an attack? Sounds very cumbersome the alternative would be to leave it largely at the discretion of the RIAA which could mean just randomly attacking any files that look suspicious or that they just plain don't like. Perhaps a recording of a band that label has a beef , a news story that they don't want getting out or maybe just someone they don't like. I would think it could be pretty hard to prove that your site was clean and didn't warrent an attack. I don't see a way this law could be effective without being a license to kill for the RIAA.
Seems that MS is trying to make it by heaping on the features. Not that this is a bad thing in itself but when you do so you have to make sure you don't lose direction.
The product is controversial in part because it creates a conflict within the machine: will the game slow down so that the hard drive can record "BattleBots"? Balancing the needs of gamers and general users will not be easy.
Why not throw in some word processing capabilities for another couple hundred? Add a CD-R and printer so you can printout docs and scoresheets and copy saved games (of course a DRM drive). MS has too be careful they don't start to lose direction and the XBox no longer becomes a gaming console and starts to lose its user freindliness (never used one so I don't know what the environment is like). Perhaps the console market will turn out to be a market where feature bloat isn't as nearly a good thing.
You're of course assuming that all the software included with the CD is GPL'ed. Perhaps they just take a few BSD programs, work them heavily into the system and relicence them. You can't redistribute this program and it's heavily integrated into the OS (maybe even like IE) and while it acn be removed it is such a pain and a legal problem seperating the GPL'ed components that it cannot be easily redistributed.
Yup a few times! They always seem to come after I've drunken large quantities of whiskey in a remote place in the wilderness. In fact it seems that the both the frequency of the sightings and the degree of the encounter are directly proportional to the amount of alcohol I've consumed I wonder why...
Ah! the aliens must be studying complex carbon chain based beverages.
Microsoft is also publishing the system's source code. "We are trying to be transparent in all this," says Allchin.
Uhhhh, did everybody else read that the same way I read it? I mean I know they arn't hostile to BSD style licences (heck they use BSD programs) but given the way they push security through obscurity using an open source model for this is like a glaring admission that closed source has some serious flaws.
Because Id software happens to have at least one programmer who is quite influential and loves Linux. In fact if I remember from the readme from the Linux version of quake it went something like
the only reason we do a Linux port is because Linux gives me a hard-on. We make absolutly no money on this version and please don't send us bug reports because it costs us money and I get ragged on for doing Linux ports anyways
please don't take this as being even close to the origional wording but I believe that I've transmitted the idea pretty well. Suffice it to say the wonderful people at Id are the exception and as a result they arn't the best example.
Boss: Ahh, the time is at hand. We have but a few minutes while the satellites are perfectly alinged with the moon to form our Death Ray. Alert our forces and the send the fire command!!
Henchman: Sir, we can't access the central server!
Boss: What has happened? Did a government spy infiltrate us and take our the control room?
Henchman: I don't think so sir...
Boss: Was our facility taken over by a crack military team that has cut power to the mainframe?
Henchman: Uhhh.. Not exactly
Boss: Did a team of elite crackers break in at the last minute and upload a virus?
Henchman: Closer...
Boss: Well what is it?
Henchman: It's the slashdot effect! All our communications have ground to a halt, our enviromental controls are turning our headquarters into an inferno and our satellites are going to crash into our island!
Boss: Arrghh!! Foiled Again! Escape to our nuclear submarine!
Henchman: Um sir.. remember a few months ago how you wanted us to installed Windows on the sub...
Seriously dude, what the heck are you talking about? Do you actually think the rest of the world is lightyears ahead of us in technology? I mean, if there were all these magical things Japan and Europe invented don't you think they would be making a killing selling them to us? Come on.
Uhhh... You mean like the Honda Insight? Or maybe a playstation, or nintendo?
There are societal/economical reasons why things like maglev trains don't work as well here. Things like wanting the freedom of your own house and wanting to drive where you want to when you want to. So if you take the train you don't own your own house and it's faster to drive during rushhour then take a train that quickly goes to your destination or drive a small very fuel-efficient smart car? Lightyears ahead in technology? Not really. Infastructure? Yes. The fact is that the extreme wealth of the American consumer has lead to extreme excess. What possible use to 90% of the people who buy SUVs have for them? Have you seen a commercial for the Swiffer? One of the premier messages in the advertisement is the fact that you get to throw away things! It's is just like in the 19th century when smoke billowing out from factories was equated with progress. How far ahead some aspects of the technology in Europe is ahead is debatable but the difference is that it is being utilized. True this is due largely to the dense population of Europe but the fact remains that it leads to a difference in mindset. It's american nationalism and tastes that keeps these technologies out of the US. How many high speed trains are there in the US, I'm not sure because I'm in Canada but I'm sure that a network of high speed trains connecting major cities would be very advantageous to buisness (comparable to aircraft in speed and much more reliable and convenient).
The Treasury and Federal Reserve now changes the design of the currency every seven to 10 years to try to deter counterfeiters.
I would think that a number of different designs circulating for a single denomination of currency would infact make it easier to get away with counterfeiting. People would be less familiar with the design of the bill and be more likely to discount inconsistencies in the design by the fact that it is a different circulation.
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Seeing as how you have an AMD I'm thinking your motherboard doesn't have buil-in protection against overheating. I'm not too familiar with hardware but isn't the chip the only thing that gets really hot? If so when the fan goes off either your chip should slow by its self or the motherboard should slow it down for you, in either case your chip shouldn't overheat.
As to the dust being a fire hazard and assuming it is still a risk at normal operating temperatures (which your box should not exceed by much for the previously stated reason), the only real solution would be to clean it out.
No, if your private web page actually holds up to the
focus on individuals who supply the biggest amounts of music...
The suits could set the company against many users of its own America Online Internet service.
I don't think AOL users have the bandwidth to download MP3s let alone be the major uploaders!
Is there a way to prevent this?
Supposedly this is what meta-moderation does. I agree it's a problem (discounting the number of comments I've posted that have gone up to 5 then down to 2) with people going on moderation sprees when the story is off the page or near the bottom. In the case of a geniune troll the only solution I can think of is when a person gets enough bad meta-mods they lose their privaleges, perhaps the editors could do the blacklisting themselves, it should be a rare enough occurance. In this case I suspect that it was not an editor moderation because of the fact that they can really choose any group of high scoring ten questions so the precise ranking isn't really relevant.
Yeah, as opposed to all those other EULAs that you've "read". Don't think it will happen? Just wait until M$ decides to get a search engine... just thinking about it gives me nightmares.
Search: Linux
Linux is Communist
Linux is unsecure
If you use Linux you're supporting terrorism
Why Linux will cause your computer to explore
DRM, your hidden friend
Why Linux should be illegal
Linus is a big weanie
......
the horror... the horror
The very first time you visit a search engine you will have to sign an EULA that says (in 5000 words;) that you understand there are paid links and agree that they will be hidden. I'm sure the search engines won't mind...
Oh come on. I think it's pretty obvious by now that with OS X vs. anything OS X wins! Expect againt a nice Mutton, Letuce, and Tomato... When the Mutton is nice and lean... nothing beats that. But that's not the issue, we all know OS X is the ultimate OS, now just think to sit down in front of OS X with a MTL...
The site was discovered in 1994 by a state highway worker. It is scheduled to be demolished later this year in a road-widening project.
Hopefully now that this finding is out they'll be able to postpone the demolition. Wouldn't it be dissapointing to have a discovery of this magnitude and not be able to check it out to the full extent because you're rushing to beat the demolition crew?
Well this is another example of what happens when you an organization has a monopoly. Even a non-profit organization has fallen to collecting taxes and not accepting public input in the tradition of the benevolent dictator. The question is whether they will continue to grow in power or will the government step in or will some other group arise from the internet to try and wrestle control from icann.
basic ideals like free speech and the free exchange of ideas shouldn't be important to them? Really?
Basic ideals for who? I'll admit I don't know a ton about their cultures and I don't like the idea of them lacking these rights but they may not see it the same way. Maybe they consider it important that people aren't exposed to "corrupting" ideas, that their world would be a lot happier and more peaceful if everyone had the same basic beliefs. Those ideas may differ from our own and their motives may not be as alltrueistic as I've stated and yes I do believe that this story is a bad thing but I don't believe that's a fully valid assumption.
The Washington Post article didn't say anything about replacing ads and the slashdot link wasn't loading for me. From the sounds of it all gator is doing is when you do visit a specific site it launches a popup window displaying its own advertising. While this is highly unethical I'm not sure it would be illegal, I don't see any website that you visit having legal domain over your web browser and gator isn't altering the page itself, all gator is doing is poping up its own window or own link which you "agreed" to view when you clicked on the EULA. If gator actually closed the websites pop-up windows completely than they might have a case (though it could fall again to the EULA as having said the user wanted those windows to close). While I don't like seeing gator doing things like this I would worry about the implications of a victory on the grounds of defacing the sight or something like that. In a strictly legal sense Mozilla might actually be in danger as it allows you to stop the pop-up windows from opening at all (in many ways closer to altering the display of the website than adding more pop-ups).
I find unclear in the article if it would allow DoS attacks,
His bill would allow copyright holders to set up decoy files and use other techno-tricks like file-blocking and redirection to throw P2P pirates off the trail, but it would forbid those holders from employing tactics that would damage or destroy pirates' own computer systems.
However if this law is passed and does allow things like DoS attacks I would think it would be very prone to abuse. Are they going to have to get a court order to launch an attack? Sounds very cumbersome the alternative would be to leave it largely at the discretion of the RIAA which could mean just randomly attacking any files that look suspicious or that they just plain don't like. Perhaps a recording of a band that label has a beef , a news story that they don't want getting out or maybe just someone they don't like. I would think it could be pretty hard to prove that your site was clean and didn't warrent an attack. I don't see a way this law could be effective without being a license to kill for the RIAA.
As can be expected, the RIAA is in favor of the proposed legislation.
Should read,
As can be expected, the RIAA proposed the legislation.
;)
There weren't any real good comments in the story in the science section to rip off and pass off as my own!
Seems that MS is trying to make it by heaping on the features. Not that this is a bad thing in itself but when you do so you have to make sure you don't lose direction.
The product is controversial in part because it creates a conflict within the machine: will the game slow down so that the hard drive can record "BattleBots"? Balancing the needs of gamers and general users will not be easy.
Why not throw in some word processing capabilities for another couple hundred? Add a CD-R and printer so you can printout docs and scoresheets and copy saved games (of course a DRM drive). MS has too be careful they don't start to lose direction and the XBox no longer becomes a gaming console and starts to lose its user freindliness (never used one so I don't know what the environment is like). Perhaps the console market will turn out to be a market where feature bloat isn't as nearly a good thing.
Simple
You have no privacy, get over it.
You're of course assuming that all the software included with the CD is GPL'ed. Perhaps they just take a few BSD programs, work them heavily into the system and relicence them. You can't redistribute this program and it's heavily integrated into the OS (maybe even like IE) and while it acn be removed it is such a pain and a legal problem seperating the GPL'ed components that it cannot be easily redistributed.
Yup a few times! They always seem to come after I've drunken large quantities of whiskey in a remote place in the wilderness. In fact it seems that the both the frequency of the sightings and the degree of the encounter are directly proportional to the amount of alcohol I've consumed I wonder why...
Ah! the aliens must be studying complex carbon chain based beverages.
Microsoft is also publishing the system's source code. "We are trying to be transparent in all this," says Allchin.
Uhhhh, did everybody else read that the same way I read it? I mean I know they arn't hostile to BSD style licences (heck they use BSD programs) but given the way they push security through obscurity using an open source model for this is like a glaring admission that closed source has some serious flaws.
Because Id software happens to have at least one programmer who is quite influential and loves Linux. In fact if I remember from the readme from the Linux version of quake it went something like
the only reason we do a Linux port is because Linux gives me a hard-on. We make absolutly no money on this version and please don't send us bug reports because it costs us money and I get ragged on for doing Linux ports anyways
please don't take this as being even close to the origional wording but I believe that I've transmitted the idea pretty well. Suffice it to say the wonderful people at Id are the exception and as a result they arn't the best example.
Boss: Ahh, the time is at hand. We have but a few minutes while the satellites are perfectly alinged with the moon to form our Death Ray. Alert our forces and the send the fire command!!
Henchman: Sir, we can't access the central server!
Boss: What has happened? Did a government spy infiltrate us and take our the control room?
Henchman: I don't think so sir...
Boss: Was our facility taken over by a crack military team that has cut power to the mainframe?
Henchman: Uhhh.. Not exactly
Boss: Did a team of elite crackers break in at the last minute and upload a virus?
Henchman: Closer...
Boss: Well what is it?
Henchman: It's the slashdot effect! All our communications have ground to a halt, our enviromental controls are turning our headquarters into an inferno and our satellites are going to crash into our island!
Boss: Arrghh!! Foiled Again! Escape to our nuclear submarine!
Henchman: Um sir.. remember a few months ago how you wanted us to installed Windows on the sub...
BOOM!!!
Seriously dude, what the heck are you talking about? Do you actually think the rest of the world is lightyears ahead of us in technology? I mean, if there were all these magical things Japan and Europe invented don't you think they would be making a killing selling them to us? Come on.
Uhhh... You mean like the Honda Insight? Or maybe a playstation, or nintendo?
There are societal/economical reasons why things like maglev trains don't work as well here. Things like wanting the freedom of your own house and wanting to drive where you want to when you want to.
So if you take the train you don't own your own house and it's faster to drive during rushhour then take a train that quickly goes to your destination or drive a small very fuel-efficient smart car? Lightyears ahead in technology? Not really. Infastructure? Yes. The fact is that the extreme wealth of the American consumer has lead to extreme excess. What possible use to 90% of the people who buy SUVs have for them? Have you seen a commercial for the Swiffer? One of the premier messages in the advertisement is the fact that you get to throw away things! It's is just like in the 19th century when smoke billowing out from factories was equated with progress. How far ahead some aspects of the technology in Europe is ahead is debatable but the difference is that it is being utilized. True this is due largely to the dense population of Europe but the fact remains that it leads to a difference in mindset. It's american nationalism and tastes that keeps these technologies out of the US. How many high speed trains are there in the US, I'm not sure because I'm in Canada but I'm sure that a network of high speed trains connecting major cities would be very advantageous to buisness (comparable to aircraft in speed and much more reliable and convenient).
The Treasury and Federal Reserve now changes the design of the currency every seven to 10 years to try to deter counterfeiters.
I would think that a number of different designs circulating for a single denomination of currency would infact make it easier to get away with counterfeiting. People would be less familiar with the design of the bill and be more likely to discount inconsistencies in the design by the fact that it is a different circulation.
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Anyone else find it mildly disturbing that 1998 is considered to be distant history?