Use what works... quit complaining about M$.... IF it does the trick - then use it. If for some wierd out of this world reason you HAVE to use linux on your home PC... well.. good for you - it doesn't make you any better, and personally, i'm bloody sick of these articles submitted by linux geeks (i'm one, so if you take this personal, go fsck yourself) dogging windows all the time.
Its a dog eat dog world - look at the most powerful gov in the world and if you can't see that, then you need new spectacles or your lasik redone.
We've had holes in our OS's since... umm... always - I think when we used paper we didn't have holes... except for when we were using the paper made for 3 ring binders.
So what are we left with - just another hole (heh, thats a name of a piercing shop where I live) that exploiters will try to exploit. And then what? The AV companies will do their best (like they always have or haven't) done. OS's have holes, software has holes, so in this case, do what is smart. Throw up a firewall running a 5 meg version of linux on a 386 box:)
I mean, we've had that pesky ozone layer for so long... I want to be able to walk outside for 15 minutes and have had a full cancer causing tanning bed experience!!
Consider RAID-10... fast and VERY redundant... You can have multiple drives fail out and its fast.
However, you will need to have at least 6 disks, and you do loose space... so i'd probably go with raid-5, and although SAS drives would be nice... well... can you say expensive? Consider an MD1000 from dell - just buy one with 3 hard drives and pick up your own that are preferably the same brand. And the basic support is worth it if you are handling more than 5 hard drives as hard drives like to fail.
I hate to say it like that - but, yes, for the average user, it does everything they need.
I only use windows at work and, like I said - it works. I dont see the need for a change, and since this licence key for windows XP is probably around 4 years old, its (probably) been well worth what my employer paid for it.
And when I get home, I want to doink a couple people in the head with my M95 sniper rifle, so I click the power button on my PC, wait, then click the icon for BF2, and i'm in the game.
people like new things... and since the other "new things" require other "new things" (ie - HDTV's), and with the wii being quite a bit cheaper, it makes sense. Nintendo strikes gold again.
exactly...
we can't have these countries with huge uranium deposits just letting them sit there and spawn huge radioactive cochroaches.... I for one welcome our large invertebrea overlords.
the core fo the earth was a huge liquid uranium sphere...
hopefully the people behind these "findings" aren't related to the fossil fuel industry in any way... or to any alternative power... in other words.. FUD (?)
So you don't want your ISP knowing that you are posting on an 'odd' forum or something to the effect that you are eating your snot?
I completely understand the right to privacy, however, if you are talking about being 'private' so that your ISP does not give your searching behaviors to the government, then that is a completely different story.
And forgive my misunderstanding of your 4th example, but I fail to see how it pertains to browsing the internet anonymously.
and the only time the average user would need to surf anonymous is when he/she knows he is doing something wrong. I mean, i'm not trying to start anything here, but rather understand WHY you would need to do this. Obviously we have 'pr0n viewing' at work, and stalking ex's and whathave you...
So... what legitamate uses can it have? And if you say "I just want to do it so that I can be tracked by flashing ads, you better have epilepsy.
well... not entirely, but you can do a scan of your face with the live camera and it creates a VERY close representation of what you really look like (face at least)
Makes you wonder what (if intelligent is here) creatures 50,000,000 years from now will gain from our existence. Perhaps lots of iron ore from landfills, and most likely a shit load of gold from fort knox.... maybe they will think that is where we buried our pharaohs;P
I mean come on... so they have a nuke (or claim to), why overkill? But, on the conspiracy side of things, they could have some super bug that the public won't be told about, and use that as some sort of leverage. God knows that science in the US has been declining. (I gotta wonder if god will give me brownie points for that statement)
I've undergone pegaylated interferon treatment twice now... didn't work for me, however did for my brother, and you have to have AWESOME insurance to cover this stuff. I doubt the side effects (which are 11 months of hell) are any different, but if it was cheaper, and for the people who relapse when the drug does keep the virus in check, but comes back, this would be great. After the treatment I felt so good for the couple of months that the viral levels were low... I've been hoping for a prophylactic kind of treatment for a long time... I really hope the pharmco's aren't assholes about something like this.
right, because if life forms did exist outside of earth, they would want us just to dismiss them in disinterest of science and stick with cross burning and voodoo.
While I agree investigating every UFO sighting out there is a little ridiculous, something of this nature to be ignored is just ignorance. That or the gov knows about aliens, and doesn't tell us, or they don't know and the aliens are just messing with our heads.
Or it could be a very anomalous cloud that 10 people all happened to see.
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Hahahaha... fantastic!!!
The worst thing is when you die floating down the river at the end.
I thought dysentery was caused by drinking bad water.....
Use what works... quit complaining about M$.... IF it does the trick - then use it. If for some wierd out of this world reason you HAVE to use linux on your home PC... well.. good for you - it doesn't make you any better, and personally, i'm bloody sick of these articles submitted by linux geeks (i'm one, so if you take this personal, go fsck yourself) dogging windows all the time.
Its a dog eat dog world - look at the most powerful gov in the world and if you can't see that, then you need new spectacles or your lasik redone.
We've had holes in our OS's since... umm... always - I think when we used paper we didn't have holes... except for when we were using the paper made for 3 ring binders.
:)
So what are we left with - just another hole (heh, thats a name of a piercing shop where I live) that exploiters will try to exploit. And then what? The AV companies will do their best (like they always have or haven't) done.
OS's have holes, software has holes, so in this case, do what is smart. Throw up a firewall running a 5 meg version of linux on a 386 box
I mean, we've had that pesky ozone layer for so long... I want to be able to walk outside for 15 minutes and have had a full cancer causing tanning bed experience!!
Consider RAID-10... fast and VERY redundant... You can have multiple drives fail out and its fast.
However, you will need to have at least 6 disks, and you do loose space... so i'd probably go with raid-5, and although SAS drives would be nice... well... can you say expensive? Consider an MD1000 from dell - just buy one with 3 hard drives and pick up your own that are preferably the same brand. And the basic support is worth it if you are handling more than 5 hard drives as hard drives like to fail.
I hate to say it like that - but, yes, for the average user, it does everything they need.
I only use windows at work and, like I said - it works. I dont see the need for a change, and since this licence key for windows XP is probably around 4 years old, its (probably) been well worth what my employer paid for it.
And when I get home, I want to doink a couple people in the head with my M95 sniper rifle, so I click the power button on my PC, wait, then click the icon for BF2, and i'm in the game.
Now I can finally know what a tree sounds like when it falls and no one is around.
too many of us playing BF2 and tribes.
people like new things... and since the other "new things" require other "new things" (ie - HDTV's), and with the wii being quite a bit cheaper, it makes sense. Nintendo strikes gold again.
exactly... we can't have these countries with huge uranium deposits just letting them sit there and spawn huge radioactive cochroaches.... I for one welcome our large invertebrea overlords.
the core fo the earth was a huge liquid uranium sphere...
hopefully the people behind these "findings" aren't related to the fossil fuel industry in any way... or to any alternative power... in other words.. FUD (?)
like the millions of cell phones that millions of people base their lives on? Its times like these I really appriciate my little black PAPER book.
So you don't want your ISP knowing that you are posting on an 'odd' forum or something to the effect that you are eating your snot?
I completely understand the right to privacy, however, if you are talking about being 'private' so that your ISP does not give your searching behaviors to the government, then that is a completely different story.
And forgive my misunderstanding of your 4th example, but I fail to see how it pertains to browsing the internet anonymously.
and the only time the average user would need to surf anonymous is when he/she knows he is doing something wrong. I mean, i'm not trying to start anything here, but rather understand WHY you would need to do this. Obviously we have 'pr0n viewing' at work, and stalking ex's and whathave you...
So... what legitamate uses can it have? And if you say "I just want to do it so that I can be tracked by flashing ads, you better have epilepsy.
well... not entirely, but you can do a scan of your face with the live camera and it creates a VERY close representation of what you really look like (face at least)
but this is also the sort of story that we tend to never see a followup on.
i'm not trying to be negative, but perhaps a motivator of sorts.
to send him to space. I'm sure each of us could come up with 10 bucks.... we'd only need 2,500 /.'ers
Makes you wonder what (if intelligent is here) creatures 50,000,000 years from now will gain from our existence. Perhaps lots of iron ore from landfills, and most likely a shit load of gold from fort knox.... maybe they will think that is where we buried our pharaohs ;P
there is no such thing as global warming!!! Its just El Nino!!!
A quick check of the serial number (note to cyber-criminals: don't post those) showed that it was the exact device that had been stolen."
/. is full of criminals???
Because
I mean come on... so they have a nuke (or claim to), why overkill? But, on the conspiracy side of things, they could have some super bug that the public won't be told about, and use that as some sort of leverage. God knows that science in the US has been declining. (I gotta wonder if god will give me brownie points for that statement)
yah... no doubt.... I got mine through a blood transfusion - nothing I could help in the least bit.
I've undergone pegaylated interferon treatment twice now... didn't work for me, however did for my brother, and you have to have AWESOME insurance to cover this stuff. I doubt the side effects (which are 11 months of hell) are any different, but if it was cheaper, and for the people who relapse when the drug does keep the virus in check, but comes back, this would be great. After the treatment I felt so good for the couple of months that the viral levels were low... I've been hoping for a prophylactic kind of treatment for a long time... I really hope the pharmco's aren't assholes about something like this.
While I agree investigating every UFO sighting out there is a little ridiculous, something of this nature to be ignored is just ignorance. That or the gov knows about aliens, and doesn't tell us, or they don't know and the aliens are just messing with our heads.
Or it could be a very anomalous cloud that 10 people all happened to see.