It looks like the US shuttle on the outside, but inside it is totally different. Interestingly enough, in many ways it is superior to the US space shuttle - for example if could do everything automated - including the landing.
See, I believe that a human being is created as soon as an egg is fertilized, therefore, we must treat that fertilized egg (or embryo, human being, etc - they are all the same to me) as a person with rights. I believe that fertility treatments - where they create many fertilized eggs and hope some survive - is wrong. My wife and I are having trouble conceiving now, but we would *never* consider fertility treatments.
doctors use dead people in med school all the time
It doesn't matter to me if a doctor uses a dead body. Its just a body. What matters is a person's soul. A body is just a temporary holding place for the soul. When a soul inhabits a body - it is precious. When a body is devoid of a soul, it is just an accumulation or chemicals.
At work, I had to come up with some default computer configs so that we could get cheaper PCs by ordering in bulk. I quickly found out that while one person can do fine with an SATA drive, other people insist that they must have an IDE drive for some reason. I never could get the number of computer combinations down below about 15 - and that is just one company! Think about all the combinations that would be made for everyone in the world to buy a computer - it really is much simpler the way it is where you choose your hardware when you buy your computer.
In a virus infection like this, they should clean off each system, and then they should implement some real security measures - even free ones will do. Definitely sounds like people are in charge who shouldn't be. Here are some tips for them:
Use SUS to distribute patches - its free from Microsoft.
Use group policies to set security settings such as IE security settings, IPSec, firewall, and event logs.
Use VBScripts or Shell Scripts to deploy patches to apps.
Use pstools (pskill and psexec) from Sysinternals to stop a virus and push out quick virus fixes (mcafee stinger, or norton virus scanners) in an emergency.
Have you ever mass wiped hundreds of people's workstations? They aren't going to be too happy. People tend to want to back up their email, documents, and other data that they use to do their job.
No, in a virus infection like this, they should clean off each system, and then they should implement some real security measures - even free ones will do:
Use SUS to distribute patches - its free from Microsoft.
Use group policies to set security settings such as IE security settings, IPSec, firewall, and event logs.
Use VBScripts or Shell Scripts to deploy patches to apps.
Use pstools (pskill and psexec) from Sysinternals to stop a virus and push out quick virus fixes (mcafee stinger, or norton virus scanners) in an emergency.
The security enhancements that Microsoft adds in Windows XP don't in and of themselves make IE more secure - they only serve to educate the user better about what is good behavior and what is bad behavior on the Internet. The Information Bar and Pop-Up Blocker are the actual facilitators of this idea.
These enhancements are totally separate from security holes. Microsoft has committed to supporting Windows 2000 with hotfixes until 2010. Read it straight from Microsoft:
I'm not saying that Windows *should* ship with all services wide open, I'm simply saying that you can turn off those services in all Windows flavors and significantly increase your system's security. Personally, I think whoever decided to turn on IIS and messenger by default should be fired.
Read it straight from Microsoft. Windows 2000 is supported until 2010. This article from cnet only states that Windows 2000 will not receive a pop-up blocker or an add-on manager. Hotfixes will still be released as needed.
This statement is rather silly. NO group (OSS or for-profit) is going to support a software package forever. No one supports the Linux 1.X kernel anymore, and for good reason. There are newer, more powerful, and better technologies available.
Umm, you can turn off services to make a system more secure on any OS - XP, 2000, NT 4, NT 3.5, ME, 98, 95, 3.1. So, it is misleading to say that NT 4 with services disabled is more secure. You are basically turning it into a stand alone box with very little networking functionality - of course it will be more secure.
They do not mean that they are stopping support for Windows 2000 or IE under Windows 2000. They only mean that IE under Windows 2000 will not get a pop up blocker or an add-on manager.
Everyone is totally overreacting to this. Microsoft has basically said that Windows 2000 will not get a pop-up blocker or an Add-On Manager. Windows 2000 is still fully supported so if any security holes are found, microsoft will still patch them.
The article says that the new security enhancements for IE under Windows XP will not be ported back to Windows 2000. The article does not state anywhere that hotfixes are being discontinued for Windows 2000.
The article says that Windows XP SP2 enhancements will not be delivered to Windows 2000. This says nothing about security patches. This slashdot posting is FUD.
The budget for our space program is ridiculously low as it is. We spend $15 billion/year on it - do you realize that the military alone spends $300 billion/year and they aren't even our biggest spender??!! With almost no dedication from the public towards a goal of pure scientific exploration, we should focus on the commercialization of outer space - that is where future development lies.
I would agree that an abortion and stem cell research don't have a whole lot in common in and of themselves. However, the foundational idea does. I believe that stem cell research and an abortion do not respect the right for a person (including a fetus, fertilized egg, etc) to not be killed by someone else without due process of law. This ties them together so that the issues are one and the same.
See, to me (and to a large number of other people), there is a huge overlap and not just political grandstanding.
I believe that it is impossible to segregate the scientific goals of the candidates from other goals. They are speaking about issues such as stem cell research and terrorism. They also speak about creating jobs using science or making America more powerful relative to the rest of the world. So, people need to not look at this as a stand-alone issue, but rather as science being an integral part of every other issue - economic, morality, military, terrorism, education, environment, etc.
I've been running this version on a box for a few days now and haven't seen any performance issues or outstanding bugs, so I would really recommend everyone upgraded asap.
Dude, your friends computer was loaded with spyware. Don't blame the windows xp firewall.
If he had kazaa installed, then that's where the popups were coming from. The windows xp built-in firewall can stop messenger ads just fine. You should have told him to download spybot, adaware, and spywareblaster.
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I still only use Hotmail for signing up for forms where I *know* they will be spamming whatever account I give them.
Hotmail is just too little too late for me to take it seriously.
It looks like the US shuttle on the outside, but inside it is totally different. Interestingly enough, in many ways it is superior to the US space shuttle - for example if could do everything automated - including the landing.
doctors use dead people in med school all the time
It doesn't matter to me if a doctor uses a dead body. Its just a body. What matters is a person's soul. A body is just a temporary holding place for the soul. When a soul inhabits a body - it is precious. When a body is devoid of a soul, it is just an accumulation or chemicals.
At work, I had to come up with some default computer configs so that we could get cheaper PCs by ordering in bulk. I quickly found out that while one person can do fine with an SATA drive, other people insist that they must have an IDE drive for some reason. I never could get the number of computer combinations down below about 15 - and that is just one company! Think about all the combinations that would be made for everyone in the world to buy a computer - it really is much simpler the way it is where you choose your hardware when you buy your computer.
No, in a virus infection like this, they should clean off each system, and then they should implement some real security measures - even free ones will do:
These enhancements are totally separate from security holes. Microsoft has committed to supporting Windows 2000 with hotfixes until 2010. Read it straight from Microsoft:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh; [ln];LifeWin
I'm not saying that Windows *should* ship with all services wide open, I'm simply saying that you can turn off those services in all Windows flavors and significantly increase your system's security. Personally, I think whoever decided to turn on IIS and messenger by default should be fired.
Read it straight from Microsoft. Windows 2000 is supported until 2010. This article from cnet only states that Windows 2000 will not receive a pop-up blocker or an add-on manager. Hotfixes will still be released as needed.
This statement is rather silly. NO group (OSS or for-profit) is going to support a software package forever. No one supports the Linux 1.X kernel anymore, and for good reason. There are newer, more powerful, and better technologies available.
Umm, you can turn off services to make a system more secure on any OS - XP, 2000, NT 4, NT 3.5, ME, 98, 95, 3.1. So, it is misleading to say that NT 4 with services disabled is more secure. You are basically turning it into a stand alone box with very little networking functionality - of course it will be more secure.
Microsoft is already committed to supported Windows 2000 until **** 2010 ****.
All this article says is that Windows 2000 will not get a pop-up blocker and an add-on manager.
They do not mean that they are stopping support for Windows 2000 or IE under Windows 2000. They only mean that IE under Windows 2000 will not get a pop up blocker or an add-on manager.
Everyone is totally overreacting to this. Microsoft has basically said that Windows 2000 will not get a pop-up blocker or an Add-On Manager. Windows 2000 is still fully supported so if any security holes are found, microsoft will still patch them.
The article says that the new security enhancements for IE under Windows XP will not be ported back to Windows 2000. The article does not state anywhere that hotfixes are being discontinued for Windows 2000.
The article says that Windows XP SP2 enhancements will not be delivered to Windows 2000. This says nothing about security patches. This slashdot posting is FUD.
The budget for our space program is ridiculously low as it is. We spend $15 billion/year on it - do you realize that the military alone spends $300 billion/year and they aren't even our biggest spender??!! With almost no dedication from the public towards a goal of pure scientific exploration, we should focus on the commercialization of outer space - that is where future development lies.
See, to me (and to a large number of other people), there is a huge overlap and not just political grandstanding.
I believe that it is impossible to segregate the scientific goals of the candidates from other goals. They are speaking about issues such as stem cell research and terrorism. They also speak about creating jobs using science or making America more powerful relative to the rest of the world. So, people need to not look at this as a stand-alone issue, but rather as science being an integral part of every other issue - economic, morality, military, terrorism, education, environment, etc.
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If he had kazaa installed, then that's where the popups were coming from. The windows xp built-in firewall can stop messenger ads just fine. You should have told him to download spybot, adaware, and spywareblaster.