Opera is probably the wisest browser choice for Win2K.
Which is my default browser. . But some sites just don't work and the I resort to Firefox.
Then again, using an OS that stopped getting security updates more than 2 years ago on an Internet-connected computer implies you don't care much about making wise choices.
Or it shows that I don't trust the OS whether updated or not and have a hardware firewall and third party security software. And use a version of Windows that doesn't try to call home or have IE embedded so deeply in it.
Maybe having been online for over 20 years and never having a malware infection implies I actually have a clue. (Or maybe I'm just too dumb to realise how much malware is on my PC, feel free to believe that if it helps you to feel superior.)
I run Win2k and Flash can't be upgraded any more anyway. And I use Acrobat 4. I don't want any later version. I don't want to be nagged to upgrade things. I know what I have and I know what I need.
Have fun with your back to back life sentences for trying to kill 300 people, jackass.
After you've shown that there was an actual risk of killing anyone at all. This is just the same as the "liquid bomb". A "movie threat" that never would work in the real world yet the bureaucrats are compelled to take action to cover their asses.
if you are paying for the shipping, I'm willing to bet almost everything you are shipping is not worth the cost to ship it.
Basically, if you're sending freight, there will be a large fixed cost (for "handling" and port fees, documents, etc.) and then a per cubic foot cost. So you end up paying about the same even if you cut the volume by half for a small "domestic" shipment.
Obviously back up your hard drives. I'd take them out and take them in personal luggage. May not be safer, but then you won't have to wait weeks to get access to them.
Why would I want to google "70% off" every day when I can have the information pushed to me?
Because I buy such stuff once a year or so, and don't want to think about it the other 364. When I need something, I will look for it. I know when I want something. Advertisers know when they want to sell me something -- every fucking minute of every fucking day if I let them.
Since Microsoft has announced that IE10 will lie about whether the user has made that decision
As opposed to the advertiser-approved default of lying that the user has agreed to be tracked?
There are a million fucking settings in IE. All of them important to someone. They all have defaults, so you can just click "Whatever" and get to work. If you had to actively choose one option or another before proceeding, it would take hours to install.
What Microsoft has done is not consistent with the idea that they are trying to serve the interests of consumers
It's perfectly consistent. It puts the user's interests above the advertisers'.
Re:The Forever War.... didn't make that list but it shows up in IMDB as being available in 2013.
Meaningless. IMDB will list any proposed film any idiot submits. You can find sequels for any film you imagine there, adaptations for every cult novel, they just move the "release date" forward every year so it's always "next year".
For those wondering, the Ender's Game adaptation is not supposed to be doing so hot according to outsiders that have seen it in production.
No one could give a meaningful opinion until the film is complete. Especially an SF film where they're acting in front of a green screen half the film. We know there is a good story so they're ahead of 90% of big budget films already.
It's not supposed to be a big surprising revelation for the reader
I guess you're talking about the fact that it's not a simulation. That's not a spoiler for the movie as they reveal that early on There is another "twist": after the war, when Ender visits the alien's planet and finds the egg. That started off the whole bunch of sequels, which I found frankly boring and sanctimonious.
BTW by Muslim rules he's doubly Muslim, son of a Muslim and repeated the call to prayer.
That's about as silly as Mormons baptising their ancestors retrospectively so they can get into heaven.
Obama has been attending church and declared himself a Christian all his adult life.
A person's religion is what they believe. No other criterion is acceptable. This is just a sleazy political attack and you know it.
Car companies don't make cars. They just rearrange molecules until they are formed into a car shape.
Nobody was rearranging protons and neutrons to form gold nuclei. Which is what "making gold" (or any other element) entails. They were just refining it.
There was a bit about pissing on Leo's wife prior to killing him. That's fairly direct.
It was a threat. It's not violence. he never pissed on anyone. He never killed anyone. He was trying to scare them, and succeeded, It was just a game to him.
If you've been online for more than a couple of weeks you get that and worse at the drop of a hat. I've had a few threats of violence here. The Fuckwad theory is pretty well founded. But fuckwads are just hot air. if you treat the words the same as the act, what do you do with people who actually do commit violence? Straight to the electric chair?
People have seen so many slasher movies that they think the world is full of psychopaths -- it is, but not violent ones. Plenty like this kid though. He was roleplaying. He should be punished, but for what he actually did.
I do believe that removing unneeded hassles, people will be more inclined to do something. In countries where cycling is common (Denmark, the Netherlands, Japan) people regard riding a bicycle as common as taking a walk. Would you walk as much if you had to wear a helmet?
The main hassles of cycling are 1) the threat of death from cars, trucks and buses 2) having your bike stolen. Not cycling per se. To ameliorate these slightly I wear a helmet and lock my bike.
Since when I ride a bike in the city I have to have a serious chain and lock, when I park I just pass the chain through through a vent in the helmet as well as the bike frame. Takes no more time than just locking the bike after you've got the hang of it.
I know all about this "helmets stop cycling" argument. Yeah, you may be healthier if you ride with a helmet than if you drive. But you are at less risk if you wear a helmet as well. That's why I have for 30 years.
does it make more sense to assume these motorists are simply used to having cyclists on the road? And if they can become used to it, why couldn't people in other countries as well?
Well, I for one don't feel like being Mahatma Gandhi and letting myself be beaten up (or run down and concussed) to try to educate American drivers. You go first, I'm not venturing onto a road without a helmet in the present climate. I'll wait a few years and see if they learn.
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Opera is probably the wisest browser choice for Win2K.
Which is my default browser. . But some sites just don't work and the I resort to Firefox.
Then again, using an OS that stopped getting security updates more than 2 years ago on an Internet-connected computer implies you don't care much about making wise choices.
Or it shows that I don't trust the OS whether updated or not and have a hardware firewall and third party security software. And use a version of Windows that doesn't try to call home or have IE embedded so deeply in it.
Maybe having been online for over 20 years and never having a malware infection implies I actually have a clue. (Or maybe I'm just too dumb to realise how much malware is on my PC, feel free to believe that if it helps you to feel superior.)
I run Win2k and Flash can't be upgraded any more anyway. And I use Acrobat 4. I don't want any later version. I don't want to be nagged to upgrade things. I know what I have and I know what I need.
carrying loose drives on board an airplane is far more likely to get them seized for analysis at customs.
Where, for instance? Are you speaking form experience or just making it up? You can put 64 GB on a tiny flash drive, and who ever seizes those?
Anyway, not in your hand carry, but in the checked in luggage.
Have fun with your back to back life sentences for trying to kill 300 people, jackass.
After you've shown that there was an actual risk of killing anyone at all. This is just the same as the "liquid bomb". A "movie threat" that never would work in the real world yet the bureaucrats are compelled to take action to cover their asses.
if you are paying for the shipping, I'm willing to bet almost everything you are shipping is not worth the cost to ship it.
Basically, if you're sending freight, there will be a large fixed cost (for "handling" and port fees, documents, etc.) and then a per cubic foot cost. So you end up paying about the same even if you cut the volume by half for a small "domestic" shipment.
Obviously back up your hard drives. I'd take them out and take them in personal luggage. May not be safer, but then you won't have to wait weeks to get access to them.
these guys must be morons if they think that they can keep 100 people quiet about anything
Timothy Olyphant's character worked that out with his scheme in Die Hard 4.
1) Hire 100 hackers
2) use their code to crack every bank and utility at once
3) kill the hackers.
4) profit!
Killing all his staff did leave him vulnerable to being tracked by Kevin Smith and taken down by a plucky former LAPD cop though.
See this news item: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhpqqNZMx50
Why would I want to google "70% off" every day when I can have the information pushed to me?
Because I buy such stuff once a year or so, and don't want to think about it the other 364. When I need something, I will look for it. I know when I want something. Advertisers know when they want to sell me something -- every fucking minute of every fucking day if I let them.
Tell it to the Muslim world. If Obama was living in Pakistan they would have already executed him.
I can't understand what your point is, except perhaps you hate Muslims.
Since Microsoft has announced that IE10 will lie about whether the user has made that decision
As opposed to the advertiser-approved default of lying that the user has agreed to be tracked?
There are a million fucking settings in IE. All of them important to someone. They all have defaults, so you can just click "Whatever" and get to work. If you had to actively choose one option or another before proceeding, it would take hours to install.
What Microsoft has done is not consistent with the idea that they are trying to serve the interests of consumers
It's perfectly consistent. It puts the user's interests above the advertisers'.
Are you stupid, or can you just not read?
Are you a troll, or just a cunt?
It'll be ignored because if the majority of people fall into the category of benefiting from tracking
Since that isn't true, the rest does not follow.
For once I agree with Microsoft that WE DO NOT BENEFIT FROM TRACKING.
Put it on the moon, buried in Tycho crater with a magnetic bullseye to direct future travellers to it.
Re:The Forever War.... didn't make that list but it shows up in IMDB as being available in 2013.
Meaningless. IMDB will list any proposed film any idiot submits. You can find sequels for any film you imagine there, adaptations for every cult novel, they just move the "release date" forward every year so it's always "next year".
For those wondering, the Ender's Game adaptation is not supposed to be doing so hot according to outsiders that have seen it in production.
No one could give a meaningful opinion until the film is complete. Especially an SF film where they're acting in front of a green screen half the film. We know there is a good story so they're ahead of 90% of big budget films already.
It's not supposed to be a big surprising revelation for the reader
I guess you're talking about the fact that it's not a simulation. That's not a spoiler for the movie as they reveal that early on There is another "twist": after the war, when Ender visits the alien's planet and finds the egg. That started off the whole bunch of sequels, which I found frankly boring and sanctimonious.
it's important to the program that constructs the hardware identifier. I'd imagine that the end result would just be a hash value.
If the program that does the verification is on the client, then it's liable to be compromised. Or just replaced by a keygen.
Illiteracy still rules at Slashdot under new management.
What if your network is lagging? Satellite connection? You have to have a fall back to more traditional verification.
BTW by Muslim rules he's doubly Muslim, son of a Muslim and repeated the call to prayer.
That's about as silly as Mormons baptising their ancestors retrospectively so they can get into heaven.
Obama has been attending church and declared himself a Christian all his adult life. A person's religion is what they believe. No other criterion is acceptable. This is just a sleazy political attack and you know it.
You thought they'd found bacteria that can do nuclear fusion maybe?
I thought maybe Pons and Fleischmann had claimed to, anyway.
Car companies don't make cars. They just rearrange molecules until they are formed into a car shape.
Nobody was rearranging protons and neutrons to form gold nuclei. Which is what "making gold" (or any other element) entails. They were just refining it.
There was a bit about pissing on Leo's wife prior to killing him. That's fairly direct.
It was a threat. It's not violence. he never pissed on anyone. He never killed anyone. He was trying to scare them, and succeeded, It was just a game to him.
If you've been online for more than a couple of weeks you get that and worse at the drop of a hat. I've had a few threats of violence here. The Fuckwad theory is pretty well founded. But fuckwads are just hot air. if you treat the words the same as the act, what do you do with people who actually do commit violence? Straight to the electric chair?
People have seen so many slasher movies that they think the world is full of psychopaths -- it is, but not violent ones. Plenty like this kid though. He was roleplaying. He should be punished, but for what he actually did.
The kid had the 'guilty mind' and the will to commit a violent act.
No. He never committed any violence. It was all symbolic.
Also, Traynor knew his family, so if the kid ha a history of real violence he would have known.
The kid was acted despicably, needing to be socialised and taught that what he did was wrong, but that's all.
I do believe that removing unneeded hassles, people will be more inclined to do something. In countries where cycling is common (Denmark, the Netherlands, Japan) people regard riding a bicycle as common as taking a walk. Would you walk as much if you had to wear a helmet?
The main hassles of cycling are 1) the threat of death from cars, trucks and buses 2) having your bike stolen. Not cycling per se. To ameliorate these slightly I wear a helmet and lock my bike.
Since when I ride a bike in the city I have to have a serious chain and lock, when I park I just pass the chain through through a vent in the helmet as well as the bike frame. Takes no more time than just locking the bike after you've got the hang of it.
I know all about this "helmets stop cycling" argument. Yeah, you may be healthier if you ride with a helmet than if you drive. But you are at less risk if you wear a helmet as well. That's why I have for 30 years.
does it make more sense to assume these motorists are simply used to having cyclists on the road? And if they can become used to it, why couldn't people in other countries as well?
Well, I for one don't feel like being Mahatma Gandhi and letting myself be beaten up (or run down and concussed) to try to educate American drivers. You go first, I'm not venturing onto a road without a helmet in the present climate. I'll wait a few years and see if they learn.