The headline is "Russia, China World's Biggest Spammers". The text says "organised cirminal gangs in Russia are supplying U.S.- based spammers with details...". The SPAMMERS ARE AMERICAN. The spam is mostly from Americans, to Americans. The solution is in America. Don't fuck up the whole world's Internet because you can't work out how to stop the 100 guys in Boca Raton who send most of the spam.
PS "cirminal": Jesus, Timothy, you're actually paid to edit this?
like cheaper electronics, vehicles, white goods, clothing, etc
All of that stuff we can already get cheaper from Asia. Hardly any of these "American" branded products, except the cars, which you're welcome to, are actually manufactured there now. For instance there isn't a single Levi jeans factory in the US now. If you buy from a multi-national like that they ship it direct from their third world factory. US trade laws are irrelevant.
Labor opposes it, they will be criticized by the Government for being "anti-American again".
Sounds more like a vote-winner to me. Being pro-American just dragged us into Iraq, got us bombed in Bali and generally hated almost as much as the Yanks in the Muslim coiuntries in SE Asia. Does anyone remember Harold "All the way with LBJ" Holt as he led us into the Vietnam War on America's coattails.
Well except the computers take deskspace away from units that need repair, upgrades, or other duties that the IT staff has to perform. They can't blow away the disks in somebody's cubical.
Before you were talking about manhours. Now it's deskspace. And I don't see why you couldn't "blow it away" in someone's cubicle. Start it at the end of the week. Take it out Monday when you bring in the new one.
This gets outsourced for a reason
As mentioned earlier, you trust someone else to delete your data, you take your chances, that's what the story was about. Spend a minute per machine and do it right.
Well the problem is the process is NOT trivial. To do a multipass wipe that meets DOD or better standards is very time consuming. I DOD wiped my 40gb harddrive using Boot'N Nuke and it took 18 hours to complete....could mean hundreds of extra man-hours
Doesn't matter how much time it takes to complete. Only takes a man-minute per machine. Pop in a boot floppy or CD with the software of your choice, turn it on. Let it scrub away overnight (or for a week if you prefer). Come back the next day, eject the disk, send the PC on its way.
(Of course re-partitioning stands a good chance of bringing everything back
A Windows crash screwed up my partition table, eventually I found Testdisk, a marvellous free utility that analysed the disk for an hour then rewrote the tables, and brought it back to life with my data (unbacked) all there.
As for Microsoft, I find it hard to believe that its management gives a rat's ass about software; if they did, they wouldn't ship the crap that they do.
I recall the scene in Pirates of Silicon Valley:
Steve Jobs: 'Our product is better. We make better stuff.' Bill Gates: 'You don't get it, do you? It doesn't matter.'
>They have blocked OEMs from putting out useful products (e.g. dual-boot computers). You list this, I assume, as a bad thing. Selling dual-boot boxes is just silly and confusing. Back in the day, a cousin of mine was an OS/2 fanatic.
I think the post was referring more to the OEM who did create dual boot BeOS and Windows machines, but after MS haad a quiet word with them, removed all mention of it from the marketing so customers never even knew they had it. OS/2 was surely more stable than Windows, but not much of improvement for the average user; if BeOS had gotten exposure it really had a chance to win hearts and minds.
Maybe she's hoping that the publicity will encourage another lunat^H^H^H rower to do likewise. (or else she's on the SYN-ACK leg of her first attempt).
There's a bi-annual cross-Atlantic rowing race, here's a page on this year's event. They have teans of two, though a few times one member has been taken off to leave one to do most of the journey.
Perhaps more useful than yet another pointless scaremongering exercise would be for the company that now owns the drives to go back to the companies that they bought them off to find out how they were erased
From the wording of the story, it's not clear that the drives were erased at all -- it says 'all of had "supposedly" been "wiped-clean" or "re-formatted"', which makes it seem likely to me that this is not some high tech recovery from wiped space, but simply taking advantage of negligence. Other stories have highlighted this as a consequence of outsourcing of disposal to companies which are supposed to do this before selling them, but neglect to. A company shouldn't let a disk off the premises without wiping it themselves -- it's a trivial process, as many other posts are detailing their favorite methids I won't bother. The sad consequence is that many potentially useful machines will now be destroyed out of paranoia and cosntribute to computer waste
>Well, you need specialised graphic tools (like Adobe Illustrator), and/or the full version of Acrobat (not just the reader This is so not true. I generate pdfs all the time using dvipdfm.
The question wasn't generating but altering.
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>Well, you need specialised graphic tools (like Adobe Illustrator), and/or the full version of Acrobat (not just the reader
This is so not true. I generate pdfs all the time using dvipdfm.
The question wasn't generating but altering.
For instance, some sources say that the correct spellings are "honour" and "honorable"... note the dropped "u" when an ending is added. Yes, that was intentional on my part -- and a UK dictionary would insist on the "u."
If by sources, you mean actual books, in UK English (and most Commonwealth countries) it's honour, honorable; humour, humorous; labour, laborious, and a few others in that vein. Most spellcheckers, certainly MS's get this wrong, they assume all word forms follow the root.
but the reason that they're in this monopoly in the first place is they have made a VERY useful app.
Many, myself among them, would say that it's more to do with bundling and intimidation of OEMs who offered alternatives. Certainly MS Office does the job, but given an hour to get used to it, WordPerfect's suite, IBM's SmartSuite, or several other lesser-known ones would satisfy the vast majority of users. If you've ever been in a real office and watched people using it, most never stray from: enter text, style by clicking on the formatting bar, print/save/send.
(I hear that it's difficult to alter a PDF, is this true?)
Well, you need specialised graphic tools (like Adobe Illustrator), and/or the full version of Acrobat (not just the reader). Also, you can "lock" them; Elcomsoft's utility (Free Sklyarov!) could easily unlock old versions but I don't know if newer formats have been cracked yet.
The main reason i like -'ise' is the whole consistency thing.
Personally, as an Australian, I prefer British usage, and given any choice use "ise" over "ize". I was just quoting the Oxford view as a point of information; I don't agree with everything in the OED, especially as they recently have started to be very lax in accepting informal usages.
I am aware of this. The point was to just send native OO.o files. Not some old or half asses fileformat developed for a different purpose.
Those formats were all designed for interchange. Both doc and oo.o files were designed primarily to be used with their respective Wordprocessors. It's following MS's paradigm to send wordprocessing files when a much simpler format does the job without a special plugin.
The Oxford English Dictionary argues that words which carry the sound iz whether from the Greek ending -izein or the Latin ending -izare should hold to the spelling with a z, there being no compelling reason to change.
Fowler notes that the following words need to be spelled with -ise: advertise, apprise, chastise, circumcise, comprise, compromise, demise, despise, devise, disenfranchise, disguise, enfranchise, enterprise, excise, exercise, improvise, incise, premise, supervise, surmise, surprise.
One place I worked it was routine to file a copy of the cheque along with the invoice it paid. If it was paid in cash, we copied the cash... (B/w though, so that is apparently not a capital crime.)
The software doesn't come with source and is thus incompatible practically all oss licenses.
The FA mentions the fact early deduced, that these work by detecting a pattern of 5 small circles. So exactly how this is implemented isn't important or necessary to keep secret. More important from the bank's point of view is that OSS can simply be compiled from source with this code omitted (similar example is the code blocking printing of PDFs in Ghostscript, easily commented out).
Re:Swap caps lock and control
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I've never understood what the moron's were thinking who moved the standard control key location under the shift.
The (conspiracy) theory I've heard is that both Gates and Jobs were trying to kill off all the old DOS wordprocessors that used control keys extensively in the late 80s, particularly WordStar. So hardly any control keys were used in early Windows apps (mostly ALTs if anything), and Gates "encouraged" keyboard manufacturers to follow his layout that made Control less convenient. After the DOS apps were well and truly dead he allowed control keys to be used more. Perosonally I have CAPSLOCK and CONTROL swapped.
Ctrl-Z/X/C/V for Undo/Cut/Copy/Paste did not exist in the x86 world
until IBM moved Ctrl out of the home row and Microsoft started moving
its Mac applications to Windows. Through version 2.03, the applications
bundled with Windows used Del for Cut, Ins for Paste, and F2 for Copy.
Alt worked as it does today, and Ctrl sat there dead as a doornail.
Check out
Windows: the official guide to Microsoft's operating
environment copyright 1986 by Nancy Andrews (Microsoft Press, ISBN
0-914845-70-5). It wasn't enough to have a (minimally) consistent
interface; just like Jobs's (minimally) consistent interface, it had to
be as inconsistent as possible with any other system folks might come
across.
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PS "cirminal": Jesus, Timothy, you're actually paid to edit this?
All of that stuff we can already get cheaper from Asia. Hardly any of these "American" branded products, except the cars, which you're welcome to, are actually manufactured there now. For instance there isn't a single Levi jeans factory in the US now. If you buy from a multi-national like that they ship it direct from their third world factory. US trade laws are irrelevant.
following up myself -- and after the Liberals got us into the Vietname war, the massive opposition to it was a big factor in Labor's win in 1972.
Sounds more like a vote-winner to me. Being pro-American just dragged us into Iraq, got us bombed in Bali and generally hated almost as much as the Yanks in the Muslim coiuntries in SE Asia. Does anyone remember Harold "All the way with LBJ" Holt as he led us into the Vietnam War on America's coattails.
Before you were talking about manhours. Now it's deskspace. And I don't see why you couldn't "blow it away" in someone's cubicle. Start it at the end of the week. Take it out Monday when you bring in the new one.
This gets outsourced for a reason
As mentioned earlier, you trust someone else to delete your data, you take your chances, that's what the story was about. Spend a minute per machine and do it right.
But it's your job, you choose.
Doesn't matter how much time it takes to complete. Only takes a man-minute per machine. Pop in a boot floppy or CD with the software of your choice, turn it on. Let it scrub away overnight (or for a week if you prefer). Come back the next day, eject the disk, send the PC on its way.
A Windows crash screwed up my partition table, eventually I found Testdisk, a marvellous free utility that analysed the disk for an hour then rewrote the tables, and brought it back to life with my data (unbacked) all there.
As for Microsoft, I find it hard to believe that its management gives a rat's ass about software; if they did, they wouldn't ship the crap that they do.
I recall the scene in Pirates of Silicon Valley:
Steve Jobs: 'Our product is better. We make better stuff.'
Bill Gates: 'You don't get it, do you? It doesn't matter.'
>They have blocked OEMs from putting out useful products (e.g. dual-boot computers).
You list this, I assume, as a bad thing. Selling dual-boot boxes is just silly and confusing. Back in the day, a cousin of mine was an OS/2 fanatic.
I think the post was referring more to the OEM who did create dual boot BeOS and Windows machines, but after MS haad a quiet word with them, removed all mention of it from the marketing so customers never even knew they had it. OS/2 was surely more stable than Windows, but not much of improvement for the average user; if BeOS had gotten exposure it really had a chance to win hearts and minds.
There's a bi-annual cross-Atlantic rowing race, here's a page on this year's event. They have teans of two, though a few times one member has been taken off to leave one to do most of the journey.
From the wording of the story, it's not clear that the drives were erased at all -- it says 'all of had "supposedly" been "wiped-clean" or "re-formatted"', which makes it seem likely to me that this is not some high tech recovery from wiped space, but simply taking advantage of negligence. Other stories have highlighted this as a consequence of outsourcing of disposal to companies which are supposed to do this before selling them, but neglect to. A company shouldn't let a disk off the premises without wiping it themselves -- it's a trivial process, as many other posts are detailing their favorite methids I won't bother. The sad consequence is that many potentially useful machines will now be destroyed out of paranoia and cosntribute to computer waste
>Well, you need specialised graphic tools (like Adobe Illustrator), and/or the full version of Acrobat (not just the reader
This is so not true. I generate pdfs all the time using dvipdfm.
The question wasn't generating but altering.
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>Well, you need specialised graphic tools (like Adobe Illustrator), and/or the full version of Acrobat (not just the reader This is so not true. I generate pdfs all the time using dvipdfm. The question wasn't generating but altering.
If by sources, you mean actual books, in UK English (and most Commonwealth countries) it's honour, honorable; humour, humorous; labour, laborious, and a few others in that vein. Most spellcheckers, certainly MS's get this wrong, they assume all word forms follow the root.
Many, myself among them, would say that it's more to do with bundling and intimidation of OEMs who offered alternatives. Certainly MS Office does the job, but given an hour to get used to it, WordPerfect's suite, IBM's SmartSuite, or several other lesser-known ones would satisfy the vast majority of users. If you've ever been in a real office and watched people using it, most never stray from: enter text, style by clicking on the formatting bar, print/save/send.
Well, you need specialised graphic tools (like Adobe Illustrator), and/or the full version of Acrobat (not just the reader). Also, you can "lock" them; Elcomsoft's utility (Free Sklyarov!) could easily unlock old versions but I don't know if newer formats have been cracked yet.
Personally, as an Australian, I prefer British usage, and given any choice use "ise" over "ize". I was just quoting the Oxford view as a point of information; I don't agree with everything in the OED, especially as they recently have started to be very lax in accepting informal usages.
Because as an educational institution they get Star Office for cost of media. (RTFA).
Those formats were all designed for interchange. Both doc and oo.o files were designed primarily to be used with their respective Wordprocessors. It's following MS's paradigm to send wordprocessing files when a much simpler format does the job without a special plugin.
Coincidentally, even some British schools of grammar continue to use -'ize'. (Oxford, for example -- the traitors.)
ize
The Oxford English Dictionary argues that words which carry the sound iz whether from the Greek ending -izein or the Latin ending -izare should hold to the spelling with a z, there being no compelling reason to change.
Fowler notes that the following words need to be spelled with -ise:
advertise, apprise, chastise, circumcise, comprise, compromise, demise, despise, devise, disenfranchise, disguise, enfranchise, enterprise, excise, exercise, improvise, incise, premise, supervise, surmise, surprise.
It's ZDnet, for God's sake. That can stand anything we throw at it. Save your mirrors for Geocities pages.
One place I worked it was routine to file a copy of the cheque along with the invoice it paid. If it was paid in cash, we copied the cash... (B/w though, so that is apparently not a capital crime.)
The FA mentions the fact early deduced, that these work by detecting a pattern of 5 small circles. So exactly how this is implemented isn't important or necessary to keep secret. More important from the bank's point of view is that OSS can simply be compiled from source with this code omitted (similar example is the code blocking printing of PDFs in Ghostscript, easily commented out).
The (conspiracy) theory I've heard is that both Gates and Jobs were trying to kill off all the old DOS wordprocessors that used control keys extensively in the late 80s, particularly WordStar. So hardly any control keys were used in early Windows apps (mostly ALTs if anything), and Gates "encouraged" keyboard manufacturers to follow his layout that made Control less convenient. After the DOS apps were well and truly dead he allowed control keys to be used more. Perosonally I have CAPSLOCK and CONTROL swapped.
Here's an interesting article excerpt: