It's still called CoolWebSearch or CoolWWWSearch and it is still a pain in the a$$ to remove and yes it is on at least 30% of US Homes.
IAAT also and I just recently cleaned a home system of a colleague of multiple spyware/adware/malware and it took 4+ hours to get it clean. CoolWebSearch was a big part of the length of cleaning time. I ran 3 or 4 different removal tools, did 2 manual removal procedures and had to literally tear a registry key out of the registry by force to get the thing clean. This key had all the rights stripped out of it so that no user could automatically remove it. I had to go in manually and add admin group w/ full privelage to it in order to delete it.
Anyone care to guess what OS this thing was running?
Choices:
1)windows 2000
2)windows xp home
3)windows xp pro
4)MacOSX
5)*nix
If you guessed #2, you are absolutely correct!..Big shock, I know....
"Isn't that "open it up to sell more" argument the one poor Ms. Rosen went down in flames fighting against?"
Yes! Exactly my thought when I read this quote...I could hardly believe my eyes...She who so steadfastly stood against this philosophy when in charge of the RIAA now is pushing it? My my my how the tables have turned...
"For Star Wars, let's consider the Death Star! Now, we know that the energy beam is NOT faster than light, as we see it and it's not that fast. So after destroying one planet, how is it possibly a threat to others? Don't tell me it can travel faster than light, either, because it doesn't bother to run away when it's attacked. Are we supposed to believe that all these planets are in the same star system? If so, why do all the stars move when you go through hyperspace from one planet to another?"
1st DS --> cocky, arrogant governor who thought they couldn't possibly lose.
2nd DS --> cocky, arrogant emperor who thought they couldn't possibly lose..plus still under construction...laser weapon was finished at highest priority...engines probably left for later.
There is no other possible way to travel between starsystems in that short amount of time w/o hyperdrive/warp/whatever you want to call it...and it was made clear that the 1st deathstar could travel between star systems...where the suspension of disbelief comes in is in how it was able to do said travelling...
"...how do you explain the numerous guilty verdicts that are overturned on appeal to a higher court."
Simple...corrupt/inept judicial system. Of course there is the occasional times that a jury gets it wrong but usually that is because of missing evidence or evidence that wasn't allowed to be presented to them.
On the topic of "alleged", once one is convicted of a crime, they are convicted. They may well have not commited the crime but they have been convicted. I believe this allows the alleged tag to be removed and at the very least, replaced with the convicted tag.
"There should be no assumption that a Wi-Fi node is not for public use as there is are lots of people who offer this service to be good citizens."
The man in this article CLEARLY did not want people parked in front of his house using his signal.
All technical arguments aside, This man pays for his bandwidth and has stated he doesn't want others using his bandwidth. Therefore, if others use it, they are stealing it from him. The cost may be negligible in terms of dollars and cents but in principle, it is still theft. The man in the van was using a service that did not belong to him. How can so many of you become so twisted as to not understand that it is wrong to use something that does not belong to you.
If you wish to let others use your bandwidth, that is your right but don't sit there and tell me that simply because bandwidth is not locked up that anyone is free to use it. That is as ridiculous as saying that because I leave my car unlocked, you have the right to joyride in it without asking me. You do not. It may be stupid of someone to leave their car unlocked but whether it is locked or not, if you joyride in it, you have stolen it.
"The school could have had just as good an effect by suspending those involved briefly"
You obviously haven't spent much time w/ teenagers. I work in a high school doing IT. There are, of course, many kids in high school who would be affected by a suspension but there are more who aren't. Many many teens see a suspension as a vacation. Many times they are left home by working parents and play video games all day during the suspension. Other times, fishing trips and other outings substitute. I speak from experience.
"billing their parents for the board tech's time required to re-image the ibooks"
Now if only school administrations only had the guts to do this. This is a MUCH better idea than a felony charge for these kids. However, I have found very few school administrations willing to follow up on consequences such as this. More than likely, the kids won't end up getting charged w/ a felony but end up w/ some kind of suspension.
-rilian
Sisko was given the rank of Captain when he was given command of the Starship USS Defiant. Therefore he held both the rank and title of Captain. Therefore you can compare him to Captains in the other ST shows...
Don't assume that everyone who claims to be a Christian supports the Patriot act. That is short sighted and frankly...bigotted. If you want to accuse a particular person who happens to claim to be a Christian of something, present your evidence and move on. Do not blame every one of us for that something simply because we claim a certain religious faith.
While we're at it...stop comparing Christianity to the 3rd Reich. Please realize that there is a vast difference between calling yourself Christian and actually being a Christian. Read the New Testament sometime...it will shock and amaze you at the amount of distortion there is out there of Christ's teachings. Compare Christ's teachings with Hitler's actions and you will see a vast difference. For example, Christ taught us to love those around us and to be forgiving. Hitler hated everyone who wasn't white.
You who call yourselves liberals and proclaim freedom for all religions, races and creeds, and you who say nothing should be censored and not to be biased against anyone...you show yourselves every day to be biased by your very words. If you really truly believe in that freedom, show it by your actions...stop hating people because of their faith. This does not mean you should stop speaking out against things you see as wrong in the government or elsewhere. What it DOES mean is that you should make your accusations against people, not against an entire religion.
You obviously haven't seen the DVD release of Episode 6. The gungans are in the revised fall of the empire celebration scene w/ one suspiciously familiar gungan yelling at the top of his lungs "Weesa free..."
IANAL but its not infringement unless the final for-sale version goes out w/ that icon and I have a feeling Longhorn is not going to be the final release name of this version of windows....The more important infringement that should be focused on is how much this looks like OSX. I'm getting an odd feeling of Deja-vu...m$ copying look and feel of Mac...hmmm...
And who sits in judgement of what speech is and isn't worthy of protection?
Apparently the Judicial system does...particularly the federal bench and US Supreme Court.
You must remember though that the so called speech of these bloggers who are revealing Apple's secrets are giving someone else's speech. Not their own. That information belongs to apple. It is up to Apple to release that information or not.
-Aaron
I've read the book and it is my opinion that violence will be the primary reason for the PG-13 rating. The tone is very dark w/ a lot of violence due to the war and due to Anakin's turn to the darkside.
They have no standing - only the copyright holders have this
According to this website, this guy is one of the copyright holders to the linux kernel. I thought Linus Torvalds was the sole copyright holder to the linux kernel....if this guy is one of the copyright holders to the kernel, that gives him plenty of standing..
The geologists knew what could happen, but either nobody listened or the scientists were dismissed as alarmists. People take them more seriously now.
This is a very accurate summary of what happened. The scientists involved in 1980 had a pretty good idea of what could happen and warned people about it but not everyone listened. There was a prevailing attitude that "Mt. St. Helens would not erupt on them" and "who were these alarmist scientists trying to fool" and "How dare they keep me away from my favorite campground". The eruption in 1980 was not a big surprise to the scientists at all...
...They'll give up based on what the Supreme Court says. There is no higher court in the US. And anything they say becomes law....
Does anyone have a constitutional problem with this statement? I for one am forced to agree with the poster that in fact the Supreme Court's decisions have, in effect (if not in practice also) basically made laws. However, the Constitution clearly grants the power to make laws to congress.
I am disturbed by the idea that judges base their decisions in a case, not on laws themselves but on other judges decisions! This then leads other judges to rule on a case stretching the meaning of the original law. This then repeats until the original law itself is irrelevant and only interpretations of that law or "precedent" is meaningful to any court.
Something is not "The law of the Land" simply because of a court ruling. I feel that the lines of separation of powers between the courts and congress have been eroded and that the courts in today's United States have the real power in government. The process of removing a corrupt judge is so difficult at most levels that it rarely happens and many judges that are elected run w/ no opposition so they cannot be removed by vote. Yet the court has the power to negate anything congress does on a whim and the courts use decisions to basically create laws or force a congress to do so. This to me is a complete overstepping of their original charter in the constitution.
The poster fails to realize that all biology texts already state the same thing on them on the inside.
The poster also fails to realize that the entire concept of "separation of church and state" isn't even written into the constitution. That phrase comes from 1 source...a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in response to a letter written to him by a pastor with concerns about the Bill of Rights in 1789. That pastor asked if the clause stating "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." The pastor was concerned that this clause could later be turned against religious people. Thomas Jefferson replied that he didn't feel that to be a problem since there was "...a wall of separation between church and state...". This separation existed to protect those who practice a religion from the government. Not to protect the government and any citizens from religion.
I feel that I would be remiss if I did not point this out. Go read the 2 letters, they are on historical record. Research the lives and backgrounds of the founding fathers. You'll be surprised at how high a percentage of them were religious.
This sticker thing is ridiculous. The article states that 2000 parents complained that evolution was being taught as fact to their students when there are obvious problems with the theory. Only 6 parents complained about the sticker and their wished overrode the wishes of 2000...Do the math folks...
Meanwhile, Microsoft Research is working on ways to reduce the cost of getting people in emerging nations hooked on the Internet. One idea: Mesh networks that will let several families share connections.
Try sharing your internet connection in the US w/ neighbors and splitting the cost and you will get nailed for violating your ISP's TOS...
I started out in 1982 or 1983 w/ a TI-994A. It could play games through cartridges and had a very simplistic TI-basic language as part of the bootup if you wanted to use it. We added a 5.25" floppy drive to the thing at a later date and used floppys on it to run programs and play games. At the same time at school, I had Apple II and Apple IIe computers in our elementary school. They also had a simplistic BASIC interpreter and I got my first introduction to LOGO. I learned BASIC and logo pretty well for what little it was worth to an elementary/Jr. High kid and went on too study BASIC in more depth in my sr. year of high school. I wish they would have been able to teach us Pascal as planned that year but due to a room assignment screw up, the programming class got the Apple 2gs lab which only supported BASIC at that time. I went on to major in Computer Science in college and got my first real exposure to PCs. I got a Packard Bell 486-SX 20 for my HS grad present and got my first exposure to MS-DOS and windows 3.1. I didn't mind DOS so much but Win 3.1 and 3.11 were sluggish on my PC. I didn't use them unless I absdolutely had to.
So...to answer the question, I would start kids w/ something simple...something educational but it has to be fun or they lose interest. Introducing upper-elementary school kids to linux also wouldn't hurt if they seem to be the techno-saavy type. Gives some cmd-line experience...
my 2
While you may think $40 for an entire season or two of a TV show is ludicrous, I find this perfectly acceptable.
So would I but the fact is that most boxed sets for a single season are more like $60 to $70 per season.
I don't download tv episodes but I also don't buy many box sets since they usually are pretty spendy...
Slashdot Mirror
I posted a link to this story several months ago and was rejected w/ no reason given. What gives?
It's still called CoolWebSearch or CoolWWWSearch and it is still a pain in the a$$ to remove and yes it is on at least 30% of US Homes.
IAAT also and I just recently cleaned a home system of a colleague of multiple spyware/adware/malware and it took 4+ hours to get it clean. CoolWebSearch was a big part of the length of cleaning time. I ran 3 or 4 different removal tools, did 2 manual removal procedures and had to literally tear a registry key out of the registry by force to get the thing clean. This key had all the rights stripped out of it so that no user could automatically remove it. I had to go in manually and add admin group w/ full privelage to it in order to delete it.
Anyone care to guess what OS this thing was running?
Choices:
1)windows 2000
2)windows xp home
3)windows xp pro
4)MacOSX
5)*nix
If you guessed #2, you are absolutely correct!..Big shock, I know....
-rilian
"Isn't that "open it up to sell more" argument the one poor Ms. Rosen went down in flames fighting against?"
Yes! Exactly my thought when I read this quote...I could hardly believe my eyes...She who so steadfastly stood against this philosophy when in charge of the RIAA now is pushing it? My my my how the tables have turned...
2nd DS --> cocky, arrogant emperor who thought they couldn't possibly lose..plus still under construction...laser weapon was finished at highest priority...engines probably left for later.
There is no other possible way to travel between starsystems in that short amount of time w/o hyperdrive/warp/whatever you want to call it...and it was made clear that the 1st deathstar could travel between star systems...where the suspension of disbelief comes in is in how it was able to do said travelling...
rilian
On the topic of "alleged", once one is convicted of a crime, they are convicted. They may well have not commited the crime but they have been convicted. I believe this allows the alleged tag to be removed and at the very least, replaced with the convicted tag.
(Disclaimer: IANAL)
All technical arguments aside, This man pays for his bandwidth and has stated he doesn't want others using his bandwidth. Therefore, if others use it, they are stealing it from him. The cost may be negligible in terms of dollars and cents but in principle, it is still theft. The man in the van was using a service that did not belong to him. How can so many of you become so twisted as to not understand that it is wrong to use something that does not belong to you.
If you wish to let others use your bandwidth, that is your right but don't sit there and tell me that simply because bandwidth is not locked up that anyone is free to use it. That is as ridiculous as saying that because I leave my car unlocked, you have the right to joyride in it without asking me. You do not. It may be stupid of someone to leave their car unlocked but whether it is locked or not, if you joyride in it, you have stolen it.
-rilian
Sisko was given the rank of Captain when he was given command of the Starship USS Defiant. Therefore he held both the rank and title of Captain. Therefore you can compare him to Captains in the other ST shows...
Don't assume that everyone who claims to be a Christian supports the Patriot act. That is short sighted and frankly...bigotted. If you want to accuse a particular person who happens to claim to be a Christian of something, present your evidence and move on. Do not blame every one of us for that something simply because we claim a certain religious faith.
While we're at it...stop comparing Christianity to the 3rd Reich. Please realize that there is a vast difference between calling yourself Christian and actually being a Christian. Read the New Testament sometime...it will shock and amaze you at the amount of distortion there is out there of Christ's teachings. Compare Christ's teachings with Hitler's actions and you will see a vast difference. For example, Christ taught us to love those around us and to be forgiving. Hitler hated everyone who wasn't white.
You who call yourselves liberals and proclaim freedom for all religions, races and creeds, and you who say nothing should be censored and not to be biased against anyone...you show yourselves every day to be biased by your very words. If you really truly believe in that freedom, show it by your actions...stop hating people because of their faith. This does not mean you should stop speaking out against things you see as wrong in the government or elsewhere. What it DOES mean is that you should make your accusations against people, not against an entire religion.
You obviously haven't seen the DVD release of Episode 6. The gungans are in the revised fall of the empire celebration scene w/ one suspiciously familiar gungan yelling at the top of his lungs "Weesa free..."
IANAL but its not infringement unless the final for-sale version goes out w/ that icon and I have a feeling Longhorn is not going to be the final release name of this version of windows....The more important infringement that should be focused on is how much this looks like OSX. I'm getting an odd feeling of Deja-vu...m$ copying look and feel of Mac...hmmm...
I've read the book and it is my opinion that violence will be the primary reason for the PG-13 rating. The tone is very dark w/ a lot of violence due to the war and due to Anakin's turn to the darkside.
Slight correction. The ancient Egyptian city was also spelled 'Memphis'. some references to back this up:
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/
http://www.memphis.edu/egypt/main.html>
Do tell why a 1280x1024 resolution is considered an atrocity?
I will *NEVER* use DRM in any form for music under any circumstance. I'd rather have no music than be forced to use DRM.
I am disturbed by the idea that judges base their decisions in a case, not on laws themselves but on other judges decisions! This then leads other judges to rule on a case stretching the meaning of the original law. This then repeats until the original law itself is irrelevant and only interpretations of that law or "precedent" is meaningful to any court. Something is not "The law of the Land" simply because of a court ruling. I feel that the lines of separation of powers between the courts and congress have been eroded and that the courts in today's United States have the real power in government. The process of removing a corrupt judge is so difficult at most levels that it rarely happens and many judges that are elected run w/ no opposition so they cannot be removed by vote. Yet the court has the power to negate anything congress does on a whim and the courts use decisions to basically create laws or force a congress to do so. This to me is a complete overstepping of their original charter in the constitution.
The poster fails to realize that all biology texts already state the same thing on them on the inside.
The poster also fails to realize that the entire concept of "separation of church and state" isn't even written into the constitution. That phrase comes from 1 source...a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in response to a letter written to him by a pastor with concerns about the Bill of Rights in 1789. That pastor asked if the clause stating "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." The pastor was concerned that this clause could later be turned against religious people. Thomas Jefferson replied that he didn't feel that to be a problem since there was "...a wall of separation between church and state...". This separation existed to protect those who practice a religion from the government. Not to protect the government and any citizens from religion.
I feel that I would be remiss if I did not point this out. Go read the 2 letters, they are on historical record. Research the lives and backgrounds of the founding fathers. You'll be surprised at how high a percentage of them were religious.
This sticker thing is ridiculous. The article states that 2000 parents complained that evolution was being taught as fact to their students when there are obvious problems with the theory. Only 6 parents complained about the sticker and their wished overrode the wishes of 2000...Do the math folks...
I was wondering this myself. I read this story someplace back on Monday I think...
I started out in 1982 or 1983 w/ a TI-994A. It could play games through cartridges and had a very simplistic TI-basic language as part of the bootup if you wanted to use it. We added a 5.25" floppy drive to the thing at a later date and used floppys on it to run programs and play games. At the same time at school, I had Apple II and Apple IIe computers in our elementary school. They also had a simplistic BASIC interpreter and I got my first introduction to LOGO. I learned BASIC and logo pretty well for what little it was worth to an elementary/Jr. High kid and went on too study BASIC in more depth in my sr. year of high school. I wish they would have been able to teach us Pascal as planned that year but due to a room assignment screw up, the programming class got the Apple 2gs lab which only supported BASIC at that time. I went on to major in Computer Science in college and got my first real exposure to PCs. I got a Packard Bell 486-SX 20 for my HS grad present and got my first exposure to MS-DOS and windows 3.1. I didn't mind DOS so much but Win 3.1 and 3.11 were sluggish on my PC. I didn't use them unless I absdolutely had to. So...to answer the question, I would start kids w/ something simple...something educational but it has to be fun or they lose interest. Introducing upper-elementary school kids to linux also wouldn't hurt if they seem to be the techno-saavy type. Gives some cmd-line experience... my 2
I don't download tv episodes but I also don't buy many box sets since they usually are pretty spendy...