No where does it say: "SpyBan has no spyware".
Unless it doesn't specifically say it doesn't have spyware, I assume that anything downloaded for free from the Internet actually does have spyware.
Three good free programs I've found are:
1. Ad Aware
2. Spybot search and destroy
2. AVG Anti virus free edition
We lose 35 HUNDRED Americans so the Govt. now has the right to spy on and remove the liberties of the remaining 300 MILLION!
You obviously don't GET IT so let me EXPLAIN IT TO YOU:
The terrorists failed. They KNOW they failed. What terrorism attempts to do is demoralize and frighten the people being terrorized. They FAILED to do that with Amreica! Just like the japanese terrorists of Pearl Harbor, all they managed to do was stregnthen America's resolve!
We don't NEED Bush and his cronies spying on us.
First off do you really believe that the 9/11 terrorists would possibly be able to get away with it now? If they tried, they would likely wound have been mummified by duct tape and thrown out the back door of the plane!
Pre 9/11 there was a different attitude towards airplane terrorism. No Government official considered that airplanes culd be used as bombs (though a few sic-fi and game makers knew it all along). NOW that would not happen simply because the pilots would never leave the cockpit!
Get real, what Bush et al are doing is using 9/11 as a reason to lock the barn door after the cow has escaped...and take a few hundred rights away from 300 million people in the process!
Thomas Jefferson said that those who would give up freedom for security deserve neither! The residents of Iraq were safe before we Americans came. Now they're not. Yet, you who derided me for questioning my president taking away my freedom believes that it's ok for him to make it LESS SAFE in Iraq so they can have more liberty!
Sorry guy, you can't have it both ways. Time eo choose!
Well, you know they had to do something with the people they reassigned because their pure incompetance caused the Columbia tragedy. Instead, they put them on this new project!
Northwest said it did not inform any passengers that it shared data with NASA. It also said it did not believe that the data sharing violated its privacy policy.
"Our privacy policy commits Northwest not to sell passenger information to third parties for marketing purposes," the company said in its statement Friday . "This situation was entirely different, as we were providing the data to a government agency to conduct scientific research related to aviation security and we were confident that the privacy of passenger information would be maintained."
The carrier tells passengers visiting its Web site that "when you reserve or purchase travel services through Northwest Airlines nwa.com Reservations, we provide only the relevant information required by the car rental agency, hotel, or other involved third party to ensure the successful fulfillment of your travel arrangements."
Not only are these guys absolute liars, but they don't have a shread of remorse FOR LYING!
Our Govt. these days reeks of Hitlerism where people try to justify things by claiming they were "only following orders".
But then again, when you have a lying sack of shit for a President, you should expect HIS diharrea to flow downhill!
SHAME ON YOU!!!
There is such a thing as constitutionally protected speech. ANYONE in this country can (indeed, under certain situations they have a requirement to!) reject the U.S. as a whole. The best example I can give is when one burns a United States flag. This is CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED FREE SPEECH!! It has even been declared so by the Supreme Court! You and your ilk would have this expression ILLEGAL! This makes YOU the terrorists, NOT HIM! People like you frankly scare me. You THINK you know what you are taking about, yet your ignorance of BOTH YOU OWN ANY MY rights precedes you! It's the poorly informed like YOU that the homeland Nazi Dept. are counting on to roll over while they trample MY rights (OUR RIGHTS!) right into the ground!!
Here's an alternative: A nonprofit loosely organized nationwide free WIFI network. It would be simple to do too. Everyone that wants to join would simply put stars ** on each side of their SSID name. This would indicate that it's owner is part of the network and others have his permission to borrow his connection. For example: My SSID says: "No Trespassing" (it's a joke). If I wanted to participate in the the open WIFI initiative, I'd simply leave my network open and change my SSID to: "*No Trespassing*".
Router manufacturers could even code this into their firmware with a bullseye that could be selected to enable this option. If Linksys did this for example, their unabled SSID would still be Linksys. Enable the bullseye and then your SSID would change to *Linksys*.
Basically, they've received a patent for the hard drive. Hard drives have always been able to read and write at the same time. In a Tivo (or any other device like it) the video is converted to DATA and stored on an IDE hard drive. Data is data. Period. To have granted this patent in the first place is ridiculous. All this is is a data recorder (read:computer) that has video inputs and outputs.
What I use Mozilla, once in a while I get a 'VERIFIER BUG' virus, that I have to actually go into the sub/java directory to delete. This never happens with IE.
See, our well intentioned but clueless lawmakers truly believe that they can establish a law to deal with every possible circumstance. Got a problem? Pass a law. Find another variation of the same problem? No sweat, pass another law!
If I recall, even GOD only had TEN of them for us to follow. These clowns likely pass fifty times that amount every hour of every day!
Look, there are certain things that can't be legislated only LEARNED.
For one, you can't legislate morality.
Nor can you legislate common sense, nor basic safety.
Our government treats too many problems like crimes without even trying to really find the reason. For example, suicide is a crime. If you survive, they have no problem with arresting you and putting you in jail, even though 9999 times out of 10,000 there's an underlying reason. same thing with drug use. For some reason, we seem to always want the 'quick fix' and that means passing another law or rule. In a way, it's too bad that not having common sense isn't a crime; most of our lawmakers would wind up going to jail!
It's okay to digitally 're-publish' pictures (photographs) from an analog medium (paper) without paying copyright, yet at the same time it's NOT okay to 're-publish' sound (recordings or radio broadcasts) from an analog medium (a radio station) without paying copyright (TWICE!).
If I recall, isn't this a 100% opposite decision from what the Copyright Tribunal ruled with regards to radio stations streaming on the web?
You know - the decision that took 95% of them off the web a couple of years ago?
Thuis sounds (pardon the pun) like one hand doesn't know what the other is doing, copyright wise.
Boston is unique compared to every other large American city. First off, Boston is right on the coast, so it simply can not be approached from the east (except by boat, of course). Unfortunately, their airport is in EAST Boston, across the harbor from downtown. This means that basically three highways bring all the major traffic into and through Boston. It also meant that primary access to Logan Airport (one of the world's top 10 busiest) was through 2 two lane tunnels under Boston harbor, one in each direction. Since it's not possible to complete the interstate highway 'ring' that encircles most large cities, effectively shunting a lot of traffic around them, all traffic must come through downtown Boston. The two main highways (Interstate 93, which runs N-S and Interstate 90, which runs West) literally meet right at downtown. Their connection was two lanes wide in each direction. Try to imagine what putting over 100,000 cars a day on two lanes
looks like (for comparison, the four lane I-405 ringing Los Angeles carries about 80,000 cars a day and traffic jams on it can go for 15-20 miles).
Some have been using the public transportation mantra. Fact is, back in the 70's and 80's, Boston spent billions on improving public transit, forgoing interstate highways in the process. Boston's subway and commuter rail system not only carries hundreds of thousands of workers every day, it does so in safe, clean, graffiti-less trains. The MBTA system has a customer approval rating approaching 95%!
Problem is, traffic must also travel THROUGH Boston, which means that even if 100% of commuters took the train, there'd still be plenty of traffic downtown!
Finally, unlike any other major city, Boston is
made up of many neighborhoods, tied together by small, winding streets. The surface street system that serves so many other cities (such as Los Angeles) well, simply does not exist in Boston. A city the size of Boston simply NEEDED the Big Dig for its very survival.
Bill Gate$ has likely already made a $1 million dollar contribution to some republican PAC somewhere to make sure that Microsoft is all they get in Iraq.
The distributor probably will be Hallburton!
Roland should be forced to give a LARGE contribution to the EFF for bringing out this "fishing expedition" attacking innocent users!
Behavior such as theirs deserves punishment. Maybe, just maybe, if a few companies got punished for harassment, it might make others think twice before doing so.
Jeff Pulver sells a WIFI VOIP telephone that comes programmed for Free World Dialup. In theory, it should gbe easy to program it to any SIP format VOIP provider.
I live in Santa Monica, and have no trouble finding Internet wherever I go in L.A. I have a Belkin USB wireless adaptor for my IBM Thinkpad and use WinC. All I have to do is put the Belkin up on the dash and slowly drive down most any street. Within a minute there's a usable open 'net. connection. It comes in real handy when you're out shopping/looking for houses. Go onto Mapquest and get driving directions to the next one you want to find. I even bought a power inverter to run the laptop off the car.
I leave my DSL open too, though it's run through a separate router so any visitor doesn't have access to my network.
"The general argument against the levy is that it subsidizes the Canadian music industry by treating anyone who buys blank recording media as a potential music pirate, when in fact these same products can be used to store computer files, backup data, software and self-created music and video content.
What you've got here is a levy that does not sufficiently target its purpose," said Geist.
So, what we'e got here is a system that presumes everyone is guilty, and punishes everyone, knowing that if they punish everyone, they'll also be punishing the guilty ones by default.
This method has been used throughout history...such as when Hitler shot Jews en masse because if you kill them all, they'll be none to fight you.
In the U.S. we still pay a levy on every blank cassette sold. I wonder how many blank cassettes have music recorded on them these days?
This is Government at its worst...bought and paid for by big companies..
Hmmm...maybe we should assume that all Govt. officials are corrupt, and then put them all in jail! That way we'd definitely be getting the bad guys!
People writing mails offline, people sending out christmas letters, people that send out small newsletters (there are 1000's of them!) all will be considered spammers under this policy.
This policy is not unreasonable, it's downright tyrannical!
Water is the best example I can think of. It's available out of the tap for virtually free, and the free stuff quenches your thirst just fine! Yet, the bottled water industry is worth BILLIONS! Why? Several factors.
One is convenience. Bottled water can be taken along, easily refrigerated, etc.
Second is taste. Whether it be true or not, the PERCEPTION is that if you pay for water it must taste BETTER!!
Third is purity. Though city water must meet strict purity standards, people believe that bottled water is better, even when it's tap water that's simply been filtered again.
Fourth is flavor. Though people can put their own lemon juice into tap water for a nickel, they still happily pay over a buck for a quart of water with: 'essence of lemon'.
Fifth is style. People perceive certain bottled waters with 'cool'. Look at Perrier. Or Pellegrino. It sells for three bucks a quart bottle. Tap water is for mixing with scotch. Perrier and lime are for drinking INSTEAD of scotch!
The reason water makes so much money is because the bottled water industry created the need and then fufilled it. They didn't do it by calling their customers idiots for drinking tap water, They did it by telling their potential customers that drinking bottled water is the SMART, COOL thing to do! They created PERCEIVED VALUE for their product.
The RIAA does just the opposite. They call their customers crooks and swindlers. They foist crap music upon them. The container they put their product into hasn't changed in a quarter century even though there's a HUGE demand for a smaller, more convenient one. Then they wonder why people are drinking 'tap water' from kazaa.
There's no reason why the bottled water example can't be used for selling music.
The record companies just need to buy a clue...and a big bottle of Perrier to drink it down with!
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Thanks for clarifying that...I should have put commercial in there.
No where does it say: "SpyBan has no spyware". Unless it doesn't specifically say it doesn't have spyware, I assume that anything downloaded for free from the Internet actually does have spyware. Three good free programs I've found are: 1. Ad Aware 2. Spybot search and destroy 2. AVG Anti virus free edition
Hmmm... seems to me that Microsoft got off cheap-a few trinkets for his name! Now just watch - they'll send him a refurbished Xbox!
We lose 35 HUNDRED Americans so the Govt. now has the right to spy on and remove the liberties of the remaining 300 MILLION! You obviously don't GET IT so let me EXPLAIN IT TO YOU: The terrorists failed. They KNOW they failed. What terrorism attempts to do is demoralize and frighten the people being terrorized. They FAILED to do that with Amreica! Just like the japanese terrorists of Pearl Harbor, all they managed to do was stregnthen America's resolve! We don't NEED Bush and his cronies spying on us. First off do you really believe that the 9/11 terrorists would possibly be able to get away with it now? If they tried, they would likely wound have been mummified by duct tape and thrown out the back door of the plane! Pre 9/11 there was a different attitude towards airplane terrorism. No Government official considered that airplanes culd be used as bombs (though a few sic-fi and game makers knew it all along). NOW that would not happen simply because the pilots would never leave the cockpit! Get real, what Bush et al are doing is using 9/11 as a reason to lock the barn door after the cow has escaped...and take a few hundred rights away from 300 million people in the process! Thomas Jefferson said that those who would give up freedom for security deserve neither! The residents of Iraq were safe before we Americans came. Now they're not. Yet, you who derided me for questioning my president taking away my freedom believes that it's ok for him to make it LESS SAFE in Iraq so they can have more liberty! Sorry guy, you can't have it both ways. Time eo choose!
Well, you know they had to do something with the people they reassigned because their pure incompetance caused the Columbia tragedy. Instead, they put them on this new project!
Yeah...equal rights for the TOP TWO PERCENT of wealthy people
The rest of you can go live under an underpass...Not only are these guys absolute liars, but they don't have a shread of remorse FOR LYING!
Our Govt. these days reeks of Hitlerism where people try to justify things by claiming they were "only following orders". But then again, when you have a lying sack of shit for a President, you should expect HIS diharrea to flow downhill!
It's "mispeaking yourself" Understand the difference?
SHAME ON YOU!!! There is such a thing as constitutionally protected speech. ANYONE in this country can (indeed, under certain situations they have a requirement to!) reject the U.S. as a whole. The best example I can give is when one burns a United States flag. This is CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED FREE SPEECH!! It has even been declared so by the Supreme Court! You and your ilk would have this expression ILLEGAL! This makes YOU the terrorists, NOT HIM! People like you frankly scare me. You THINK you know what you are taking about, yet your ignorance of BOTH YOU OWN ANY MY rights precedes you! It's the poorly informed like YOU that the homeland Nazi Dept. are counting on to roll over while they trample MY rights (OUR RIGHTS!) right into the ground!!
Here's an alternative: A nonprofit loosely organized nationwide free WIFI network. It would be simple to do too. Everyone that wants to join would simply put stars ** on each side of their SSID name. This would indicate that it's owner is part of the network and others have his permission to borrow his connection. For example: My SSID says: "No Trespassing" (it's a joke). If I wanted to participate in the the open WIFI initiative, I'd simply leave my network open and change my SSID to: "*No Trespassing*".
Router manufacturers could even code this into their firmware with a bullseye that could be selected to enable this option. If Linksys did this for example, their unabled SSID would still be Linksys. Enable the bullseye and then your SSID would change to *Linksys*.
Seems simple enough to me.....*anyway*
It also simultaneously emails the FBI so they can come and question you.... Vee have Vays of makking eue Taulk!
Basically, they've received a patent for the hard drive. Hard drives have always been able to read and write at the same time. In a Tivo (or any other device like it) the video is converted to DATA and stored on an IDE hard drive. Data is data. Period. To have granted this patent in the first place is ridiculous. All this is is a data recorder (read:computer) that has video inputs and outputs.
What I use Mozilla, once in a while I get a 'VERIFIER BUG' virus, that I have to actually go into the sub/java directory to delete. This never happens with IE.
See, our well intentioned but clueless lawmakers truly believe that they can establish a law to deal with every possible circumstance. Got a problem? Pass a law. Find another variation of the same problem? No sweat, pass another law! If I recall, even GOD only had TEN of them for us to follow. These clowns likely pass fifty times that amount every hour of every day! Look, there are certain things that can't be legislated only LEARNED. For one, you can't legislate morality. Nor can you legislate common sense, nor basic safety. Our government treats too many problems like crimes without even trying to really find the reason. For example, suicide is a crime. If you survive, they have no problem with arresting you and putting you in jail, even though 9999 times out of 10,000 there's an underlying reason. same thing with drug use. For some reason, we seem to always want the 'quick fix' and that means passing another law or rule. In a way, it's too bad that not having common sense isn't a crime; most of our lawmakers would wind up going to jail!
It's okay to digitally 're-publish' pictures (photographs) from an analog medium (paper) without paying copyright, yet at the same time it's NOT okay to 're-publish' sound (recordings or radio broadcasts) from an analog medium (a radio station) without paying copyright (TWICE!). If I recall, isn't this a 100% opposite decision from what the Copyright Tribunal ruled with regards to radio stations streaming on the web? You know - the decision that took 95% of them off the web a couple of years ago? Thuis sounds (pardon the pun) like one hand doesn't know what the other is doing, copyright wise.
It's tentative name is: Bassett.
Boston is unique compared to every other large American city. First off, Boston is right on the coast, so it simply can not be approached from the east (except by boat, of course). Unfortunately, their airport is in EAST Boston, across the harbor from downtown. This means that basically three highways bring all the major traffic into and through Boston. It also meant that primary access to Logan Airport (one of the world's top 10 busiest) was through 2 two lane tunnels under Boston harbor, one in each direction. Since it's not possible to complete the interstate highway 'ring' that encircles most large cities, effectively shunting a lot of traffic around them, all traffic must come through downtown Boston. The two main highways (Interstate 93, which runs N-S and Interstate 90, which runs West) literally meet right at downtown. Their connection was two lanes wide in each direction. Try to imagine what putting over 100,000 cars a day on two lanes looks like (for comparison, the four lane I-405 ringing Los Angeles carries about 80,000 cars a day and traffic jams on it can go for 15-20 miles). Some have been using the public transportation mantra. Fact is, back in the 70's and 80's, Boston spent billions on improving public transit, forgoing interstate highways in the process. Boston's subway and commuter rail system not only carries hundreds of thousands of workers every day, it does so in safe, clean, graffiti-less trains. The MBTA system has a customer approval rating approaching 95%! Problem is, traffic must also travel THROUGH Boston, which means that even if 100% of commuters took the train, there'd still be plenty of traffic downtown! Finally, unlike any other major city, Boston is made up of many neighborhoods, tied together by small, winding streets. The surface street system that serves so many other cities (such as Los Angeles) well, simply does not exist in Boston. A city the size of Boston simply NEEDED the Big Dig for its very survival.
Bill Gate$ has likely already made a $1 million dollar contribution to some republican PAC somewhere to make sure that Microsoft is all they get in Iraq. The distributor probably will be Hallburton!
Roland should be forced to give a LARGE contribution to the EFF for bringing out this "fishing expedition" attacking innocent users! Behavior such as theirs deserves punishment. Maybe, just maybe, if a few companies got punished for harassment, it might make others think twice before doing so.
Jeff Pulver sells a WIFI VOIP telephone that comes programmed for Free World Dialup. In theory, it should gbe easy to program it to any SIP format VOIP provider.
I live in Santa Monica, and have no trouble finding Internet wherever I go in L.A. I have a Belkin USB wireless adaptor for my IBM Thinkpad and use WinC. All I have to do is put the Belkin up on the dash and slowly drive down most any street. Within a minute there's a usable open 'net. connection. It comes in real handy when you're out shopping/looking for houses. Go onto Mapquest and get driving directions to the next one you want to find. I even bought a power inverter to run the laptop off the car. I leave my DSL open too, though it's run through a separate router so any visitor doesn't have access to my network.
So, what we'e got here is a system that presumes everyone is guilty, and punishes everyone, knowing that if they punish everyone, they'll also be punishing the guilty ones by default.
This method has been used throughout history...such as when Hitler shot Jews en masse because if you kill them all, they'll be none to fight you.
In the U.S. we still pay a levy on every blank cassette sold. I wonder how many blank cassettes have music recorded on them these days?
This is Government at its worst...bought and paid for by big companies..Hmmm...maybe we should assume that all Govt. officials are corrupt, and then put them all in jail! That way we'd definitely be getting the bad guys!
People writing mails offline, people sending out christmas letters, people that send out small newsletters (there are 1000's of them!) all will be considered spammers under this policy. This policy is not unreasonable, it's downright tyrannical!
Water is the best example I can think of. It's available out of the tap for virtually free, and the free stuff quenches your thirst just fine! Yet, the bottled water industry is worth BILLIONS! Why? Several factors. One is convenience. Bottled water can be taken along, easily refrigerated, etc. Second is taste. Whether it be true or not, the PERCEPTION is that if you pay for water it must taste BETTER!! Third is purity. Though city water must meet strict purity standards, people believe that bottled water is better, even when it's tap water that's simply been filtered again. Fourth is flavor. Though people can put their own lemon juice into tap water for a nickel, they still happily pay over a buck for a quart of water with: 'essence of lemon'. Fifth is style. People perceive certain bottled waters with 'cool'. Look at Perrier. Or Pellegrino. It sells for three bucks a quart bottle. Tap water is for mixing with scotch. Perrier and lime are for drinking INSTEAD of scotch! The reason water makes so much money is because the bottled water industry created the need and then fufilled it. They didn't do it by calling their customers idiots for drinking tap water, They did it by telling their potential customers that drinking bottled water is the SMART, COOL thing to do! They created PERCEIVED VALUE for their product. The RIAA does just the opposite. They call their customers crooks and swindlers. They foist crap music upon them. The container they put their product into hasn't changed in a quarter century even though there's a HUGE demand for a smaller, more convenient one. Then they wonder why people are drinking 'tap water' from kazaa. There's no reason why the bottled water example can't be used for selling music. The record companies just need to buy a clue...and a big bottle of Perrier to drink it down with!
Try cleaning marijuana on a CD jewel box. Impossible!