I think it has more do with MS wanting to send e-mails to Windows users about security updates, without people finding creative ways of suing them over it.
I doubt that my suggestion will go very far here because everybody knows MS's real intent is to be the primary service provider to people who want to work from home or desire longer penises.
"I bet everyone is very corteous, civilized and good-manered. Nobody says "fuck you" or tells you you're a "dumbass" while hiding under a table. No asbestos suits are used or otherwise present. They all shake hands in the end and promise to send postcards."
I hope that G. Oatse dude doesn't show up. The only think likable about him is you can call him a 'big asshole' without being modded down!
Doesn't the new shuttle look a lot sturdier? Seems like it could handle atmospheric maneuvering a lot easier.
I'm curious what changes will be made to this design as a result of the Columbia tragedy.
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""We ask that you help us to protect our brand by deleting the definition of "google" found at wordspy.com or revising it to take into account the trademark status of Google." (emphasize mine)."
Google isn't being unreasonable here. Look up 'kleenex' at dictionary.com and you get (trademark) added to it. Check it out:
"How is it that reporters never get nailed for criminal trespass?"
A precedent was established quite a few years ago when they failed to convict a well known reporter. Whenever witnesses went down the lineup, they were never able to positively I.D. Mr. Kent because he kept taking his glasses off.
"Shouldn't the code be more solid than requiring monthly patches."
Who says it's necessarily the quality of the code? The real problem here is that new features get added, and gee surprise surprise, people find creative ways of being annoying with them. Take the saran wrap on the toilet seat example. Toilet seats have a flawed design when it comes to recognizing a well placed piece of plastic intended to give you a pressed fruit bowl. Is the toilet badly designed? Are we accpeting horrible quality?
Lock down a computer to where all that stuff is 'safe', and where are you then? You've got a computer that is rather inflexible.
"That is just bullshit, pure and simple. Outlook Express does that, Outlook does not."
My company runs mostly Outlook 2000, they have since it came out. About that time I took over as sysadmin and it was my job to keep the machines going.
Only one virus ever got through, but it wasn't through an Outlook vulnerability. The subject said "FBI Photos" and it had an executable or something with it. The email pretended to originate from somebody we've worked with before that actually had dealings with gov't agencies. It was a virus that relied on social engineering, and it picked a lucky winner that time. heh.
I wouldn't go as far as to say that Outlook 2000 is virus proof, but I can tell you that my mailbox gets a number of virus attempts every day. None of them have gotten through. I'd say Outlook's default settings are working pretty well.
Unfortunately, 2002 is a little too solid. It blocks all.EXE files. Which I guess is fine, but the option to turn that off is a registry hack. Thanks MS! I didn't want to spend any time making a decision on that!
So yeah, we're still OL2000. Quite happy with it, though.
Makes ya curious why anyone should care about what he says, duddn't it?
I'd rather hear about what people can do than hear people complain about what they can't do. Why? Because you buy hardware to suit your needs, not suit your needs to your hardware.
...all they'd have to do is have a series of Linus editorials about how he hates Intel, Microsoft, *AA, Blizzard, and spam. It's easy money that lotsa ppl will show up to post their.. uh.. thoughtful comments and cycle the ads!
"The ordering is: byte, kilybyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte. After yottabyte comes 'ohmygodijustcameabyte'."
I'm so close to making a Doctor Evil joke here, gimmme a minute.....
Damn, I can only think of how they'd react.
"A mega-byte? Hahahahaahahahhahahahahahaha. That wouldn't even fit in your evil lair! hahahahahaah"
"It's stilly for a game to have its own OS because then you have to reboot to play the OS... "
More importantly, do you really want to go back to the days when games had their own sound/video drivers? No, you don't. Let NVidia make their cards work, let the game makers make the game.
That was one of the things I absolutely loved about moving to Win95 many many moons ago. I didn't have to go through the process of "Uhh I have this brand of Sound Blaster, and here's the IRQ and DMA setting I hope hasn't cahnged." Going back to that makes me shudder.
"I haven't been following this closely, but why would NASA want the public to believe in a non-foam-related cause, rather than a foam-related one? "
That explanation doesn't fit all the data they have. They haven't ruled it out yet, which is good because it means they're receptive to other ideas as well.
Personally, I appreciate this method of investigation. Instead of finding a suspect and trying to find evidence that supports it, they're looking at the evidence and trying to find a suspect. The difference here could mean lives down the road.
"Australia is notoriously regulation happy (yesterday sent off $100 fine for NOT voting in the election - that's how regulated we are.)"
What I'm about to ask is really off-topic, but I don't get much opporunity to learn about how other countries work. Registerred voters were fined for not voting? Are they allowed to vote 'none of the above'?
Just curious. There's a subtle difference between not voting and voting for niether.
"Correct, for the acroymn - WRONG subject. Get into computers terminologies. Hints: It's not Fantasy Players Gaming Association. It stands for "Field Programmable Gate Array"."
Man, Commander Data would have gotten that joke. Heh.
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"Does Microsoft send out a lot of spam?"
I think it has more do with MS wanting to send e-mails to Windows users about security updates, without people finding creative ways of suing them over it.
I doubt that my suggestion will go very far here because everybody knows MS's real intent is to be the primary service provider to people who want to work from home or desire longer penises.
"I bet everyone is very corteous, civilized and good-manered. Nobody says "fuck you" or tells you you're a "dumbass" while hiding under a table. No asbestos suits are used or otherwise present. They all shake hands in the end and promise to send postcards."
I hope that G. Oatse dude doesn't show up. The only think likable about him is you can call him a 'big asshole' without being modded down!
Doesn't the new shuttle look a lot sturdier? Seems like it could handle atmospheric maneuvering a lot easier.
I'm curious what changes will be made to this design as a result of the Columbia tragedy.
""We ask that you help us to protect our brand by deleting the definition of "google" found at wordspy.com or revising it to take into account the trademark status of Google." (emphasize mine)."
Google isn't being unreasonable here. Look up 'kleenex' at dictionary.com and you get (trademark) added to it. Check it out:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=kleenex
I haven't skimmed the comments yet, but those of you who have your pitchforks raised can lower them.
I'm not saying you're wrong, nor am I arguing with ya. I can show you, though, why I took the route that I did:
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb
It would have been nice if they had just said "use this feature" because messing with the registry is a pain sometimes. Heh.
Thanks, I saved your info here because it may help me down the road.
"How is it that reporters never get nailed for criminal trespass?"
A precedent was established quite a few years ago when they failed to convict a well known reporter. Whenever witnesses went down the lineup, they were never able to positively I.D. Mr. Kent because he kept taking his glasses off.
"Outlook's three-vertical-pane interface is now the default."
Boy am I glad about that! Improper defaults suck ass. Slashdot's the only site I can visit at 640 by 480!
"I rotated the XBOX decal on the top so it now says XOBX."
Oh I got a mod that you'd be interested in: Flip it up on it's side and XOBX becomes |. Cool. eh?
"If I ever made a XBox mod, I'd probably end up making something really unique, like making it look like a toaster."
Ooo when can I get the AMD mod kit?
"Shouldn't the code be more solid than requiring monthly patches."
Who says it's necessarily the quality of the code? The real problem here is that new features get added, and gee surprise surprise, people find creative ways of being annoying with them. Take the saran wrap on the toilet seat example. Toilet seats have a flawed design when it comes to recognizing a well placed piece of plastic intended to give you a pressed fruit bowl. Is the toilet badly designed? Are we accpeting horrible quality?
Lock down a computer to where all that stuff is 'safe', and where are you then? You've got a computer that is rather inflexible.
"That is just bullshit, pure and simple. Outlook Express does that, Outlook does not."
.EXE files. Which I guess is fine, but the option to turn that off is a registry hack. Thanks MS! I didn't want to spend any time making a decision on that!
My company runs mostly Outlook 2000, they have since it came out. About that time I took over as sysadmin and it was my job to keep the machines going.
Only one virus ever got through, but it wasn't through an Outlook vulnerability. The subject said "FBI Photos" and it had an executable or something with it. The email pretended to originate from somebody we've worked with before that actually had dealings with gov't agencies.
It was a virus that relied on social engineering, and it picked a lucky winner that time. heh.
I wouldn't go as far as to say that Outlook 2000 is virus proof, but I can tell you that my mailbox gets a number of virus attempts every day. None of them have gotten through. I'd say Outlook's default settings are working pretty well.
Unfortunately, 2002 is a little too solid. It blocks all
So yeah, we're still OL2000. Quite happy with it, though.
AMD Was recently considering leaving the CPU business altogether."
Um when was that? The only thing I recall was a Slashdot article with a misleading headline...
"Did anybody notice a 2X performance boost moving from Windows 3.1 on 16bit MS-DOS to a nominally 32bit Windows 95 OS?"
I did. There was so much less time in between crashes that I learned to move quickly!
Well, that fud filled anti-MS joke should earn me a Karma point or two.
"I don't care what Linus says about it."
Makes ya curious why anyone should care about what he says, duddn't it?
I'd rather hear about what people can do than hear people complain about what they can't do. Why? Because you buy hardware to suit your needs, not suit your needs to your hardware.
...all they'd have to do is have a series of Linus editorials about how he hates Intel, Microsoft, *AA, Blizzard, and spam. It's easy money that lotsa ppl will show up to post their .. uh.. thoughtful comments and cycle the ads!
(it's a joke, smile.)
" For those who are stuck in states which either have worthless (or near-worthless) anti-spam legislation..."
Uh.. what? What states don't fall in that category?
Seriously, is there a state that's got the problem under control?
"The ordering is: byte, kilybyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte. After yottabyte comes 'ohmygodijustcameabyte'."
....
I'm so close to making a Doctor Evil joke here, gimmme a minute.
Damn, I can only think of how they'd react.
"A mega-byte? Hahahahaahahahhahahahahahaha. That wouldn't even fit in your evil lair! hahahahahaah"
"It's stilly for a game to have its own OS because then you have to reboot to play the OS...
"
More importantly, do you really want to go back to the days when games had their own sound/video drivers? No, you don't. Let NVidia make their cards work, let the game makers make the game.
That was one of the things I absolutely loved about moving to Win95 many many moons ago. I didn't have to go through the process of "Uhh I have this brand of Sound Blaster, and here's the IRQ and DMA setting I hope hasn't cahnged." Going back to that makes me shudder.
"It describes how its customers and parners are reacting to its heavy-handed tactics..."
So.. what'd they do? Research gunpowder? Build more villagers?
"In other words, more than my main desktop computer cost."
pFff. Like your eMachines can even play music. Heh.
" That is a flawed business model."
Out of curiosity, is there something that print magazines do that web sites don't that they might be able to adapt?
"Yeah let's see them terrorists blow up the sun. The jokes on them though even if they do, they'll just kill themselves too. HA!"
Not if they go at night.
"I haven't been following this closely, but why would NASA want the public to believe in a non-foam-related cause, rather than a foam-related one? "
That explanation doesn't fit all the data they have. They haven't ruled it out yet, which is good because it means they're receptive to other ideas as well.
Personally, I appreciate this method of investigation. Instead of finding a suspect and trying to find evidence that supports it, they're looking at the evidence and trying to find a suspect. The difference here could mean lives down the road.
"Australia is notoriously regulation happy (yesterday sent off $100 fine for NOT voting in the election - that's how regulated we are.)"
What I'm about to ask is really off-topic, but I don't get much opporunity to learn about how other countries work. Registerred voters were fined for not voting? Are they allowed to vote 'none of the above'?
Just curious. There's a subtle difference between not voting and voting for niether.
"Correct, for the acroymn - WRONG subject. Get into computers terminologies. Hints: It's not Fantasy Players Gaming Association. It stands for "Field Programmable Gate Array"."
Man, Commander Data would have gotten that joke. Heh.