Transact it is. Oh and I forgot to mention I wasn't paying for the line. We are still waiting for TransACT to takee off and get enough customers that they can drop the prices. In hindsight I'd probably go with ADSL from one of the majour suppliers that aren't telstra.
TransACT are trying really hard to provide an alternative to Telstra. Their infrasturcture is amazing but they don't quite have the income to start offering more servies.
Believe me when I tell you Aus' Telstra sucks about as much as your Telecom.
We too have Download caps which we pay hundreds maybe thousands of (AU) dollars a year for. Trying to get unlimited here is scary and only really taken off in the last 2 or so years.
The line I'm on at the moment is a 512k/256 VDSL that has a 5gb cap. I don't download many tv shows on this connection.
I think what the grandparent was trying to say is that the AI in the nanobots is in fact a simulation of AI and they actually have real 'I'. The nanobots are so smart that they are simply trying to convince us that they have some form of AI (through the use of AAI) which will trick us into thinking that they lack the proper intelligence to take over the world.
These nanobots are dangerous. Once they realise we have been convinced they have no real intelliegence they will come back to earth and destroy us all!
It's beer-free because you are still allowed to have your copy of Nero for Win32 installed and functioning. You have your bought and paid for windows install plus your *free linux install at no extra cost!
It wouldn't be free if the license said that you had to uninstall your windows version before installing on linux.
It doesn't come with DeathMatch rules, only coop. We played a game of last man standing which was kinda interesting. LMS worked much better than the game of CTF, it was slow and boring. I think we might have to try king of the hill at somepoint.
"I doubt their effect is much worse than millions of cars anyway."
Is anyone else really sick of this argument? Just because thing X is worse than thing Y doesn't make thing Y any better. It's even worse when we have the bad stuff from X as well as the bad stuff from Y adding together to make a super bad.
Even though we have millions of cars polluting the skies it does not mean we should ignore the fact that SRBs are dirty polluters as well.
Installers wouldn't use their admin rights if windows didn't presume people would run as admin. It's a catch 22.
You are right about the forging which is a pain cos I can't think of a way to solve it.
I mean that it's too easy for a program too get/set the homepage/current page in IE. It's too easy to find out what was entered into html forms and so on. Only the broweser should have that kind of information.
I'm thinking file permissions that are set right by default. The hosts file is writable by any admin which is the user by default that's just the start. I'm still coming back to the fact that if the spyware can not get profitable information it wont be writen.
1. "an-administrator authorized account " - fix this bug 2. whenever something needs admin access pop up that little runas dialog. 3. don't allow programs to get information they don't need.
No third party app should need to know which website I'm at or what I just entered into that credit card feild.
Stoping spyware from being installed is one thing. Stoping spyware from being usefull is something completely different.
Making it so hard to get rid of is another thing MS should look at. Why is it so damn hard to delete files you KNOW you don't want on your machine?
True a lot of spyware is installed by the user but the OS makes it so easy to highjack this that and the other. The OS also makes it an absolute pain in the arse to get rid of spyware.
Software shouldn't be able to intergrate with my broweser without me knowing about it. Software shouldn't be able to startup a network connection without me knowing about it.
This situation is more similar to say all the fast food companies getting together and selling weight loss pills so they can continue to shove fatty food down our throughts.
You have got to be kidding me. Rather than make their OS and apps secure and PREVENT spyware... they would rather make money selling another product to CURE the spyware.
"Finally, if someone has a patent for something you've written, all you got to do is google for prior art. It's not hard, and trust me, once their laywers see that in fact you little programmer trying to make a living by yourself in your little town in the midwest could blow the lid off their patent, and as long as you don't threaten their business plans, they will leave you alone."
If you can blow the lid off a patent you should do so. Especially if the owner has deminstrated that it will sue over then it. It is your moral duty to do chalange their patent.
If you don't blow their patent what is stopping them from trying to sue the next programmer that comes along and makes something that is covered by the patent that you have already discovered to be invalid?
Remember when some lady called Necessity had a kid called Invention? Yeah... I think that might have something to do with people designing a system to automaticly do a job they couldn't do manually.
rofl. I'm willing to take a karma burn to say that is the funniest comment I have ever read on slashdot. Kudos to you.
Of course we have to realise that the US law is only applicable when and where the US says it is. They have enough 'power' to make everyone 'do as I say, not as I do' and it'll stay that way till the US crumbles in on itself.
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Transact it is. Oh and I forgot to mention I wasn't paying for the line. We are still waiting for TransACT to takee off and get enough customers that they can drop the prices. In hindsight I'd probably go with ADSL from one of the majour suppliers that aren't telstra.
TransACT are trying really hard to provide an alternative to Telstra. Their infrasturcture is amazing but they don't quite have the income to start offering more servies.
Believe me when I tell you Aus' Telstra sucks about as much as your Telecom.
We too have Download caps which we pay hundreds maybe thousands of (AU) dollars a year for. Trying to get unlimited here is scary and only really taken off in the last 2 or so years.
The line I'm on at the moment is a 512k/256 VDSL that has a 5gb cap. I don't download many tv shows on this connection.
These nanobots are dangerous. Once they realise we have been convinced they have no real intelliegence they will come back to earth and destroy us all!
It's beer-free because you are still allowed to have your copy of Nero for Win32 installed and functioning. You have your bought and paid for windows install plus your *free linux install at no extra cost!
It wouldn't be free if the license said that you had to uninstall your windows version before installing on linux.
*for some definitions of free.
It doesn't come with DeathMatch rules, only coop. We played a game of last man standing which was kinda interesting. LMS worked much better than the game of CTF, it was slow and boring. I think we might have to try king of the hill at somepoint.
The game does come with a chainsaw and it has an awesome attack where you take a swing at all opposing creatures occupying surrounding squares.
head over to LJ/~lj_nifty read through the memories. I'm sure someone has made a tool to put all your friend's entries into an RSS feed.
"I doubt their effect is much worse than millions of cars anyway."
Is anyone else really sick of this argument? Just because thing X is worse than thing Y doesn't make thing Y any better. It's even worse when we have the bad stuff from X as well as the bad stuff from Y adding together to make a super bad.
Even though we have millions of cars polluting the skies it does not mean we should ignore the fact that SRBs are dirty polluters as well.
Installers wouldn't use their admin rights if windows didn't presume people would run as admin. It's a catch 22.
You are right about the forging which is a pain cos I can't think of a way to solve it.
I mean that it's too easy for a program too get/set the homepage/current page in IE. It's too easy to find out what was entered into html forms and so on. Only the broweser should have that kind of information.
I'm thinking file permissions that are set right by default. The hosts file is writable by any admin which is the user by default that's just the start. I'm still coming back to the fact that if the spyware can not get profitable information it wont be writen.
1. "an-administrator authorized account " - fix this bug
2. whenever something needs admin access pop up that little runas dialog.
3. don't allow programs to get information they don't need.
No third party app should need to know which website I'm at or what I just entered into that credit card feild.
Stoping spyware from being installed is one thing. Stoping spyware from being usefull is something completely different.
Making it so hard to get rid of is another thing MS should look at. Why is it so damn hard to delete files you KNOW you don't want on your machine?
Okay so MS decides to bundle. Two words (or is it one?) anti-competative
But spyware is useless if it can't get private information out of secure programs.
True a lot of spyware is installed by the user but the OS makes it so easy to highjack this that and the other. The OS also makes it an absolute pain in the arse to get rid of spyware.
Software shouldn't be able to intergrate with my broweser without me knowing about it. Software shouldn't be able to startup a network connection without me knowing about it.
This situation is more similar to say all the fast food companies getting together and selling weight loss pills so they can continue to shove fatty food down our throughts.
You have got to be kidding me. Rather than make their OS and apps secure and PREVENT spyware... they would rather make money selling another product to CURE the spyware.
How can this be a good thing?
Prevention is always better than cure.
Never fear! My Dingos will take care of the parent's attempts at making child pornos.
a periscope would work...
or... if you got the OTHER cut.
"I aint that remake..."
doesn't quite work does it?
If you don't blow their patent what is stopping them from trying to sue the next programmer that comes along and makes something that is covered by the patent that you have already discovered to be invalid?
Is there some place this modified tracker can be downloaded?
system("attrib -r %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\Hosts" ); // BAM script just screwed ya.
Any script that can modify the hosts file probably has access to the shell.
(+r adds readonly -r removes it)
Nope you're not alone, I remember the grandparent too.
If it's an article you've seen before then its must be the editors fault for missing another dupe.
Remember when some lady called Necessity had a kid called Invention? Yeah... I think that might have something to do with people designing a system to automaticly do a job they couldn't do manually.
rofl. I'm willing to take a karma burn to say that is the funniest comment I have ever read on slashdot. Kudos to you.
Of course we have to realise that the US law is only applicable when and where the US says it is. They have enough 'power' to make everyone 'do as I say, not as I do' and it'll stay that way till the US crumbles in on itself.