I'm not sure if you knew this, but a lot of the companies doing the medical research are either Universities, or receive significant incentives in the form of tax breaks or outright grants to do the research.
Ahem....
Disable the network cards in Windows and you won't have to worry about it being online when you boot into it.
Not to mention you're unlikely to actually get a virus/malware/keylogger without actually browsing the web.
Parent is being sarcastic, but he's right on. If you don't want to contribute, don't be expected to take part in pretty much every medical discovery since the early 1900's.
i.e. No Polio vaccine for you. No Tetanus shots. No Tuberculosis vaccines. Hell, no Tylenol/Aspirin. Also, don't drive on our highway, or try and send your kids to our schools. And certainly, don't plan on investing any of your money in our Federally-backed banking institutions.
In many states, the onramp is about twenty feet long after a sharp righthand turn near the end. It may be intended to be an acceleration lane, but in practice, it rarely works. (I live in Pennsylvania and this could be a symptom of poor road design)
I'm not a lawyer, or a store manager, but something seems not quite right about people being allowed to return a used air conditioner after it gets cooler, and then that return being taken off your commission.
Do you want to pay a thousand dollars for the photographer or would you rather pay per photo printed?
If you go this route, the photographer is going to price their time such that they're assuming that you're going to make a whole lot of copies.
I wasn't going to reply, but I kept seeing more and more of the same posts as I was reading through.
Try a test. Connect a simple out-of-the-box router to a DSL/Cable connection with default settings. Connect an unpatched Windows XP SP0 machine to the router and make sure it has web access. Don't use that computer. See how long it takes to get rooted/malware.
Answer? It NEVER will. Because the router blocks all unsolicited incoming traffic, unless you've monkeyed with the config to change this. The only way a computer can get rooted/malwared through a default-settings router is by stupid user tricks, or by another already infected machine on the NATed network.... which would have got infected by stupid user tricks.
The problem is, they want to sell it as a good AND a service.
They want you to buy the media and its contents, and lock that down to a particular user/console. They consider this a license to use the media.
But if you lose the media, or it's destroyed, they're extremely reluctant to offer up a replacement media for the 'license' you've already purchased. They want you to pay full price, again.
What we want is a clear distinction. If I'm buying a license for the CONTENT, I should be able to use it in whatever format I choose. If I'm buying the physical MEDIA (product), I should be able to use it in whatever player I choose, or sell it secondhand if I want (right of first sale).
Programs which require Admin can be fixed with a quick round of cacls to fix write permissions to the install directory in question (if it's Program Files) and to the appropriate Registry keys, without opening you up to full-write to program files, system32 and the registry.
Learn some basic sysadmin skills and you don't have to worry about programs not running more than once. The other, lazy option is to just create a shortcut with the Run As.... property. Give it an admin account and password and save it for that program. Everything else runs as standard user this way.
If the electric goes out and it's out for 3-4 hours, chances are you should probably be worrying about the milk in the fridge going rotten before continuing your game.
Thing is, they already pay their providers.
In its simplest terms, suppose Google has a business connection to Verizon through which it serves out its pages.
Comcast wants to get paid to serve Google's content to Comcast customers.
I'd just like to add that I happened to be browsing through TVs at Sears yesterday and noticed quite a few 32" LCD TVs with HDMI interfaces in the sub-$700 range. Even the 40"+ ones are under $2000. Think about how much use you'd get out of a TV and then think about how much you spend on booze in a year.
So someone in marketing sends out one mail to a million people who have this spamassassin addon? They each download 500kb from the URL in the email and probably have a machine seize up and saturate a connection for a day or so while 500gb of data is pushed out.
Oops, bad move.
That someone in marketing sends that email 50 times in a day, every day, they're spamming. That's where this comes into the picture. You don't download a huge chunk from each email. You download a little chunk from each email. If you're getting the same email a dozen times a day, sent to 200 million people, you pretty quickly kick them offline.
Hell, build this addon to be usable by the Sendmail/Exchange server and your admins can install it for hundreds of users.
Thing is, there's a difference between being public record and being out there on the web, for anyone to see.
Generally if they're available at a courthouse, there's some oversight into who's accessing the information and why they're doing it, while on the web, you get none of that.
IMO, pull it. It can be public info without being blasted all over the internet.
My contract with Verizon says: I get 1.0Mbps inbound and 384Kbps outbound, 24/7/365. I pay them $35 each month.
If they didn't like that, they shouldn't have made that agreement.
Does the average person really know every nuance of copyright law?
If I had an iPod that I wanted to get rid of, and I were a Joe Six-pack, familiar with eBay, I'd probably just list my iPod for sale, and if it sold, ship the thing, and be damned what was on it. I may not necessarily have the inclination to say "Oh, I need to erase all the crap on this thing first."
You bring in more revenue long-term by offering a reasonable service at a reasonable price, not by bitch-slapping your customers.
But I guess that's the problem, Shareholders don't care about long term. They only care about 1Q right now.
WRONG
XP Corporate is simply the slang term for a volume-license agreement with microsoft to install XP Professional in this case. The reason it's called Corporate is because it accepts a different series of keys meant to be installed on multiple systems (i.e. one key for a hundred systems) and includes media which doesn't require product activation after installation.
What happens when a virus or spyware cripples your ability to launch the service via the web? What happens when you want to boot into a safe, standalone environment (no web access) and scan?
Mastercard at least, has a solution for this, even if it's a little bit of a hassle.
You create throw-away card numbers that are only valid for a certain amount and expire after a month or two. It's all about minimalizing your exposure to fraud.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not sure if you knew this, but a lot of the companies doing the medical research are either Universities, or receive significant incentives in the form of tax breaks or outright grants to do the research.
Ahem.... Disable the network cards in Windows and you won't have to worry about it being online when you boot into it. Not to mention you're unlikely to actually get a virus/malware/keylogger without actually browsing the web.
PS2 games load just fine off of a harddrive. Almost no loading time.
Parent is being sarcastic, but he's right on. If you don't want to contribute, don't be expected to take part in pretty much every medical discovery since the early 1900's. i.e. No Polio vaccine for you. No Tetanus shots. No Tuberculosis vaccines. Hell, no Tylenol/Aspirin. Also, don't drive on our highway, or try and send your kids to our schools. And certainly, don't plan on investing any of your money in our Federally-backed banking institutions.
In many states, the onramp is about twenty feet long after a sharp righthand turn near the end. It may be intended to be an acceleration lane, but in practice, it rarely works. (I live in Pennsylvania and this could be a symptom of poor road design)
I'm not a lawyer, or a store manager, but something seems not quite right about people being allowed to return a used air conditioner after it gets cooler, and then that return being taken off your commission.
Do you want to pay a thousand dollars for the photographer or would you rather pay per photo printed? If you go this route, the photographer is going to price their time such that they're assuming that you're going to make a whole lot of copies.
I wasn't going to reply, but I kept seeing more and more of the same posts as I was reading through. Try a test. Connect a simple out-of-the-box router to a DSL/Cable connection with default settings. Connect an unpatched Windows XP SP0 machine to the router and make sure it has web access. Don't use that computer. See how long it takes to get rooted/malware. Answer? It NEVER will. Because the router blocks all unsolicited incoming traffic, unless you've monkeyed with the config to change this. The only way a computer can get rooted/malwared through a default-settings router is by stupid user tricks, or by another already infected machine on the NATed network.... which would have got infected by stupid user tricks.
Don't you usually pay less for a Sony Competitor's comparable product?
The problem is, they want to sell it as a good AND a service. They want you to buy the media and its contents, and lock that down to a particular user/console. They consider this a license to use the media. But if you lose the media, or it's destroyed, they're extremely reluctant to offer up a replacement media for the 'license' you've already purchased. They want you to pay full price, again. What we want is a clear distinction. If I'm buying a license for the CONTENT, I should be able to use it in whatever format I choose. If I'm buying the physical MEDIA (product), I should be able to use it in whatever player I choose, or sell it secondhand if I want (right of first sale).
Programs which require Admin can be fixed with a quick round of cacls to fix write permissions to the install directory in question (if it's Program Files) and to the appropriate Registry keys, without opening you up to full-write to program files, system32 and the registry.
Learn some basic sysadmin skills and you don't have to worry about programs not running more than once. The other, lazy option is to just create a shortcut with the Run As.... property. Give it an admin account and password and save it for that program. Everything else runs as standard user this way.
If the electric goes out and it's out for 3-4 hours, chances are you should probably be worrying about the milk in the fridge going rotten before continuing your game.
Thing is, they already pay their providers. In its simplest terms, suppose Google has a business connection to Verizon through which it serves out its pages. Comcast wants to get paid to serve Google's content to Comcast customers.
I'd just like to add that I happened to be browsing through TVs at Sears yesterday and noticed quite a few 32" LCD TVs with HDMI interfaces in the sub-$700 range. Even the 40"+ ones are under $2000. Think about how much use you'd get out of a TV and then think about how much you spend on booze in a year.
So someone in marketing sends out one mail to a million people who have this spamassassin addon? They each download 500kb from the URL in the email and probably have a machine seize up and saturate a connection for a day or so while 500gb of data is pushed out. Oops, bad move. That someone in marketing sends that email 50 times in a day, every day, they're spamming. That's where this comes into the picture. You don't download a huge chunk from each email. You download a little chunk from each email. If you're getting the same email a dozen times a day, sent to 200 million people, you pretty quickly kick them offline. Hell, build this addon to be usable by the Sendmail/Exchange server and your admins can install it for hundreds of users.
You could always use WAV files. I hear they don't lose anything in the conversion.
Thing is, there's a difference between being public record and being out there on the web, for anyone to see.
Generally if they're available at a courthouse, there's some oversight into who's accessing the information and why they're doing it, while on the web, you get none of that.
IMO, pull it. It can be public info without being blasted all over the internet.
My contract with Verizon says: I get 1.0Mbps inbound and 384Kbps outbound, 24/7/365. I pay them $35 each month. If they didn't like that, they shouldn't have made that agreement.
Does the average person really know every nuance of copyright law? If I had an iPod that I wanted to get rid of, and I were a Joe Six-pack, familiar with eBay, I'd probably just list my iPod for sale, and if it sold, ship the thing, and be damned what was on it. I may not necessarily have the inclination to say "Oh, I need to erase all the crap on this thing first."
You bring in more revenue long-term by offering a reasonable service at a reasonable price, not by bitch-slapping your customers. But I guess that's the problem, Shareholders don't care about long term. They only care about 1Q right now.
This doesn't matter. The patent expires in four years.
WRONG XP Corporate is simply the slang term for a volume-license agreement with microsoft to install XP Professional in this case. The reason it's called Corporate is because it accepts a different series of keys meant to be installed on multiple systems (i.e. one key for a hundred systems) and includes media which doesn't require product activation after installation.
You could, y'know, pay your parking fines. Or just park somewhere where you won't get fined.
What happens when a virus or spyware cripples your ability to launch the service via the web? What happens when you want to boot into a safe, standalone environment (no web access) and scan?
Mastercard at least, has a solution for this, even if it's a little bit of a hassle. You create throw-away card numbers that are only valid for a certain amount and expire after a month or two. It's all about minimalizing your exposure to fraud.