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I use Firecrap for its stability at the moment, but I wish I had a browser that parsed HTML like IE does and functions like Firefox.
You should use Maxthon. The speed and better rendering and support of IE, with the tabbed browsing and middle-clicking etc of firefox (with the necessary extensions required to do it which make it buggy as hell i might add).
Errr... except how do you modify that registry key on everyones machine? A trojan horse or other exploit maybe?
Think about it. If you can run that shit on someones machine, whats the point in modifing registry keys so that at a later date it might be vulnerable to an exploit which allows you to run the shit you are already actually running.
Why bother? Just own the goddam machine if you can run that kinda crap on it in the first place.
If you want to own it at a later date too, just install a backdoor while you are there. Why put some key in there in the hopes that someday it wont be patched against some exploit that may or may not even surface.
It is only the non-technical people who pretend to be an admin that have problems with linux.
Exactly. Unless you have an tech-admin person around the house, Linux is not suitable at all. So many people claim Linux is ready for the desktop because their grandma can open Firefox and surf the net.
The trouble is, thats after someone has set the machine up for them. Or the default setup is adequate in their particular situation for the moment. There is a lot more to using a PC than just surfing the net on a default install. Some admin work is inevitable(sp) and its a hell of a lot easier under Windows than Linux to do stuff like add hardware, install new programs, change ISP settings etc.
Except that if you cant prove that you have the license to use it, then no, technically you dont have the right to use it.
You dont have the right to drive around when you have lost your drivers license and cant prove that you are licensed (ie have no ID they can look up in a database to see if you are).
Its very different if you can prove it, by a reciept or have registered online etc. But if you can't, why should they just assume you are licensed? When thats the only thing thats different between you and a 'criminal, you have a responsibility to make sure you can prove it.
You cant just draw $20 on a piece of paper and say you lost the original and use that to pay the bank.
The difference here is that the $20 is 'proof of purchase' in a way because it 'cant be counterfeited'. If you have proof of purcahse of the CD such as the hologram or a receipt or registered etc, then Im pretty sure MS will give you a new key.
A CD of WinXP_VOL_LICENSE.cracked.reloaded.iso is not proof of purchase. You cant just go and use some pirate key cause you lost your key.
If you lose your license, you can t just use a counterfeit license, you have to get a new one. And if you cant prove you are licensed, you will have to pay for a new license.
Wow genius. Except for one thing. Why put some "backdoor" license key which *might* be a backdoor later on *if* a new exploit surfaces when you can just go ahead and put a damn backdoor in because the worm can do whatever it wants on your machine. dumbass.
Well if you can provide a reciept, Im pretty sure MS will provide you with a key.
You can prove that youre still licensed to drive by simply showing some id and let them check up a databse. I guess thats one of the reasons for registering softare, so you can prove you do own it. If you dont do that, you have no proof, and frankly thats your problem.
You think people are going to switch to linux when the software isn't there, and *then* the software will come? Sorry but its a catch 22 and wont happen.
More likely, people will complain that their "OEM" dealers sold them a bunk copy of windows. Those dealers will get fucked. Price of OEM windows comes down as those dealers are forced to sell real copies. Normal users go about their business with legit OEM copies of Windows with their new PCs. In fact MS even had a deal where you could provide a receipt of a pirate copy of windows and get a legit version sent to you. Thats the majority of people.
Others who are intentionally pirating will know how to use a corp key and will go about their pirating.
Youve gotta be kidding. You are assuming that everyone who runs windows has bought a new OEM PC in the last couple of years from a legitimate seller. Thats the only way theyd have an *XP* license like that. Otherwise theyd have a win98 or 2k or no license.
And thats not even considering the millions of machines sold in asia with pirate windows installed, which is what this whole thing is really trying to stamp out. People who dont even realise they are running pirate copies, and can report the dealer to MS.
that MSFT can not detect because they do not have a master database of printed keys. that would be a farking nightmare
How so? The number has to be generated and printed right? Why not just record the number at that point of generation. Considering the amount of money involved if they could stamp out piracy, theyd invest the few minutes in adding a database to the computer printing the numbers.
I dont think the problem is they dont have this database. I wouldnt be surprised if in the future you do have to have a legit key. Even if its a corp key, it would have to have been issued and not randomly generated. They could then check ip ranges if they really wanted to for that key, but i doubt they would. They could quite readily fine the company that distributed that key however.
If you lost your key, thats the same as losing your wallet. You gotta go buy a new one. Why should MS have to support people to dumb to look after their belongings.
If you lose $20 you cant just walk up to a bank and demand it back.
Deviantart has had a similar idea in its mosaics category for quite some time. Being possibly the largest community art sites it has some nic emosaics in there.
So what? Did you look at the submitter? He probably submits a story every day about random crap. Who says he has to blog that he submitted a story to slashdot? His blog entries are probably automatically generated from other news feeds or something anyway. Its clearly a site in development, and hes just used his site to host the image.
Running spy sweeper afterwards and detecting traces of spyware still on the machine does not mean that you should assume that spy sweeper can detect all the stuff that MS anti-spyware has already detected and removed.
Youd be better off running the two products on identically infected machines and see which detects and removes the most etc. If you were to run spy sweeper first and then MS anti-spyware, youd probably see similar results. (ie, MS anti-spyware detecting stuff that spy sweeper missed).
Look at the CPU usage of each of those processes, chances are they are hovering about the 0% or so. Thats because they are all waiting on IO operations.
99% of the time, the slow down of applications isnt due to other threads taking up the CPU, but because the current thread cant process quick enough. Only if you have two or more threads regularly at ~100% CPU usage will you notice a speedup on a multi cpu machine. (ie a multi-threaded image rendering application etc).
You may notice more responsiveness however, (for example, being able to use another application while playing a high resolution movie etc). But you cannot expect your single threaded applications to run faster. In fact, they may even go slower with the overhead of more OS context swtiching management.
Its more to do with its crappy centralised nature which allowed for moderated content. Which was of course led to its own undoing. People flock to the content and speed, why do you think so many people use the spyware ridden kazza? (Kazzas undoing was the fake content, not the spyware).
The reality is, BT is not a good "warez" distribution mechanism, even though its worked up until now, its only because of suprnova, which was always going to be taken down eventually. Emule is far better for this, it has search and ratings etc built in, can let you share much more content, less centralized (especially with kademilla), has a credit system etc.
The only good "advantage" bit torrent has over the edonkey protocol is that it is centralized and therefore content can be moderated. Also, because people generally seed/share very few torrents at a time (in comparison to other p2p programs) its generally much faster. This is the only reason it is faster, if edonkey users only shared the latest releases it would be just as fast. And to boot, couldnt be taken down as easily as something like suprnova.
emule already has a rating system, and there are plenty of 'fake search' and "release" indexes around that give hashes of "real" releases. BT is great for web sites to release legitimate content, but in reality is a poor "warez" distribution method, which is what all this is really about. The breakdown of suprnova may hopefully boost the much better p2p protocols around.
Could you seriously tell the difference between one dolphin to the next? In fact a cloned one would look even less like the original because it would obviously be younger.
Given that a cloned animal is expected to have health problems and not live as long etc, I would pay less. Who cares that it doesnt have a spot in the exact same spot, Id rather have a healthy pet. People that want something that looks exactly the same may as well buy a stuffed animal, as they arent really buying the animal for the right reasons and would have to not care about its health etc.
One of the nicest features of Windows is the standardised use of COM throughout. Everything about the shell is done through COM, which allows progams to work in a consistant and predicatable manner. Cut'n'paste, shell extensions, drag and drop. namespace handlers, OLE embedding, scripting, automation etc is all possible and well supported by most programs because of this use of COM.
Unix may have some form of COM, but it is far from the kind of support that is available under Windows. It is the reason clipboard and document embedding is such a pain under Unix, and why the shell 'feels' clunky and basic operations such as drag and drop between applications isn't possible.
So bring in a standard COM system, and standardise the shell interfaces and you will have kde and gnome applications that can integrate with the shell without having to have separate progams.
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I use Firecrap for its stability at the moment, but I wish I had a browser that parsed HTML like IE does and functions like Firefox.
You should use Maxthon. The speed and better rendering and support of IE, with the tabbed browsing and middle-clicking etc of firefox (with the necessary extensions required to do it which make it buggy as hell i might add).
Errr... except how do you modify that registry key on everyones machine? A trojan horse or other exploit maybe?
Think about it. If you can run that shit on someones machine, whats the point in modifing registry keys so that at a later date it might be vulnerable to an exploit which allows you to run the shit you are already actually running.
Why bother? Just own the goddam machine if you can run that kinda crap on it in the first place.
If you want to own it at a later date too, just install a backdoor while you are there. Why put some key in there in the hopes that someday it wont be patched against some exploit that may or may not even surface.
who the hell modded this up?
It is only the non-technical people who pretend to be an admin that have problems with linux.
Exactly. Unless you have an tech-admin person around the house, Linux is not suitable at all. So many people claim Linux is ready for the desktop because their grandma can open Firefox and surf the net.
The trouble is, thats after someone has set the machine up for them. Or the default setup is adequate in their particular situation for the moment. There is a lot more to using a PC than just surfing the net on a default install. Some admin work is inevitable(sp) and its a hell of a lot easier under Windows than Linux to do stuff like add hardware, install new programs, change ISP settings etc.
Except that if you cant prove that you have the license to use it, then no, technically you dont have the right to use it.
You dont have the right to drive around when you have lost your drivers license and cant prove that you are licensed (ie have no ID they can look up in a database to see if you are).
Its very different if you can prove it, by a reciept or have registered online etc. But if you can't, why should they just assume you are licensed? When thats the only thing thats different between you and a 'criminal, you have a responsibility to make sure you can prove it.
You cant just draw $20 on a piece of paper and say you lost the original and use that to pay the bank.
The difference here is that the $20 is 'proof of purchase' in a way because it 'cant be counterfeited'. If you have proof of purcahse of the CD such as the hologram or a receipt or registered etc, then Im pretty sure MS will give you a new key.
A CD of WinXP_VOL_LICENSE.cracked.reloaded.iso is not proof of purchase. You cant just go and use some pirate key cause you lost your key.
If you lose your license, you can t just use a counterfeit license, you have to get a new one. And if you cant prove you are licensed, you will have to pay for a new license.
Wow genius. Except for one thing. Why put some "backdoor" license key which *might* be a backdoor later on *if* a new exploit surfaces when you can just go ahead and put a damn backdoor in because the worm can do whatever it wants on your machine. dumbass.
Well if you can provide a reciept, Im pretty sure MS will provide you with a key.
You can prove that youre still licensed to drive by simply showing some id and let them check up a databse. I guess thats one of the reasons for registering softare, so you can prove you do own it. If you dont do that, you have no proof, and frankly thats your problem.
You think people are going to switch to linux when the software isn't there, and *then* the software will come? Sorry but its a catch 22 and wont happen.
More likely, people will complain that their "OEM" dealers sold them a bunk copy of windows. Those dealers will get fucked. Price of OEM windows comes down as those dealers are forced to sell real copies. Normal users go about their business with legit OEM copies of Windows with their new PCs. In fact MS even had a deal where you could provide a receipt of a pirate copy of windows and get a legit version sent to you. Thats the majority of people.
Others who are intentionally pirating will know how to use a corp key and will go about their pirating.
Youve gotta be kidding. You are assuming that everyone who runs windows has bought a new OEM PC in the last couple of years from a legitimate seller. Thats the only way theyd have an *XP* license like that. Otherwise theyd have a win98 or 2k or no license.
And thats not even considering the millions of machines sold in asia with pirate windows installed, which is what this whole thing is really trying to stamp out. People who dont even realise they are running pirate copies, and can report the dealer to MS.
that MSFT can not detect because they do not have a master database of printed keys. that would be a farking nightmare
How so? The number has to be generated and printed right? Why not just record the number at that point of generation. Considering the amount of money involved if they could stamp out piracy, theyd invest the few minutes in adding a database to the computer printing the numbers. I dont think the problem is they dont have this database. I wouldnt be surprised if in the future you do have to have a legit key. Even if its a corp key, it would have to have been issued and not randomly generated. They could then check ip ranges if they really wanted to for that key, but i doubt they would. They could quite readily fine the company that distributed that key however.
Wow patch distribution via SMS, thatd be rather slow. I think you may mean SUS.
If you lost your key, thats the same as losing your wallet. You gotta go buy a new one. Why should MS have to support people to dumb to look after their belongings.
If you lose $20 you cant just walk up to a bank and demand it back.
Id say she sounds a little turned on by that fact.
How the hell do you know how she sounds? I think she is just saying that people are free to use Linux, even if the switch to linux didnt take.
a link to the mosaic section because it is rather hard to find on their un-navigatable and unsearchable site.
Deviantart has had a similar idea in its mosaics category for quite some time. Being possibly the largest community art sites it has some nic emosaics in there.
Do you have the magic cookie? Are you in the correct subnet? Did you read the previous google story?
They quite often test new stuff on particular IP ranges. I think it was exodus or something that got "tested" on more often than others.
So what? Did you look at the submitter? He probably submits a story every day about random crap. Who says he has to blog that he submitted a story to slashdot? His blog entries are probably automatically generated from other news feeds or something anyway. Its clearly a site in development, and hes just used his site to host the image.
Running spy sweeper afterwards and detecting traces of spyware still on the machine does not mean that you should assume that spy sweeper can detect all the stuff that MS anti-spyware has already detected and removed.
Youd be better off running the two products on identically infected machines and see which detects and removes the most etc. If you were to run spy sweeper first and then MS anti-spyware, youd probably see similar results. (ie, MS anti-spyware detecting stuff that spy sweeper missed).
Look at the CPU usage of each of those processes, chances are they are hovering about the 0% or so. Thats because they are all waiting on IO operations. 99% of the time, the slow down of applications isnt due to other threads taking up the CPU, but because the current thread cant process quick enough. Only if you have two or more threads regularly at ~100% CPU usage will you notice a speedup on a multi cpu machine. (ie a multi-threaded image rendering application etc). You may notice more responsiveness however, (for example, being able to use another application while playing a high resolution movie etc). But you cannot expect your single threaded applications to run faster. In fact, they may even go slower with the overhead of more OS context swtiching management.
When a company doesnt bother to look at its competitors, it must be bad.
Its more to do with its crappy centralised nature which allowed for moderated content. Which was of course led to its own undoing. People flock to the content and speed, why do you think so many people use the spyware ridden kazza? (Kazzas undoing was the fake content, not the spyware).
The reality is, BT is not a good "warez" distribution mechanism, even though its worked up until now, its only because of suprnova, which was always going to be taken down eventually. Emule is far better for this, it has search and ratings etc built in, can let you share much more content, less centralized (especially with kademilla), has a credit system etc.
The only good "advantage" bit torrent has over the edonkey protocol is that it is centralized and therefore content can be moderated. Also, because people generally seed/share very few torrents at a time (in comparison to other p2p programs) its generally much faster. This is the only reason it is faster, if edonkey users only shared the latest releases it would be just as fast. And to boot, couldnt be taken down as easily as something like suprnova.
emule already has a rating system, and there are plenty of 'fake search' and "release" indexes around that give hashes of "real" releases. BT is great for web sites to release legitimate content, but in reality is a poor "warez" distribution method, which is what all this is really about. The breakdown of suprnova may hopefully boost the much better p2p protocols around.
Could you seriously tell the difference between one dolphin to the next? In fact a cloned one would look even less like the original because it would obviously be younger.
Given that a cloned animal is expected to have health problems and not live as long etc, I would pay less. Who cares that it doesnt have a spot in the exact same spot, Id rather have a healthy pet. People that want something that looks exactly the same may as well buy a stuffed animal, as they arent really buying the animal for the right reasons and would have to not care about its health etc.
One of the nicest features of Windows is the standardised use of COM throughout. Everything about the shell is done through COM, which allows progams to work in a consistant and predicatable manner. Cut'n'paste, shell extensions, drag and drop. namespace handlers, OLE embedding, scripting, automation etc is all possible and well supported by most programs because of this use of COM.
Unix may have some form of COM, but it is far from the kind of support that is available under Windows. It is the reason clipboard and document embedding is such a pain under Unix, and why the shell 'feels' clunky and basic operations such as drag and drop between applications isn't possible.
So bring in a standard COM system, and standardise the shell interfaces and you will have kde and gnome applications that can integrate with the shell without having to have separate progams.