Personally, I have never found Firefox to be that much of a memory hog. Sure, I do eventually start having problems with it climbing up to half a gig and slowing down, but I have 4gb of memory, and I leave it running for weeks at a time on my machine without closing it. When it acts up I just close it and restart it and I am good to go. I also often find myself with 20+ tabs open.
I think the next stage in human evolution is human driven evolution. We are reached a point where we will soon be able to do a better job than natural evolution and I believe that is our destiny. If I were to choose to procreate, I would like to be able to design my kid from the ground up and make them into a superhuman. Wait, isn't this just a natural conclusion to what all good parents want? Their kids to be the best, brightest, and most successful?
I am absolutely one of those people. I hate the idea that everyone has the "right" to procreate. That would be true if their brood were kept away from actual people, but unfortunately they aren't they are "yanked up" in a ridiculous manner, and then set upon the rest of us. And the prison systems are full of them. As long as we continue to allow morons that shouldn't be licensed to drive to procreate, our society will continue to breed reality tv watching idiots.
As for who will take care of me later? When I am too old to take care of myself, I will die. And that will be the end of me. Few will remember me, and fewer will care. That is fine with me.
I would have agreed before Death Magnetic (dumb name), as everything since the black album has been trash and not worth listening to. But, their latest album is awesome, so all bets are off.
"Cultured reading material." Bores me to tears. I would rather read something fun, like John Scalzi's stuff. Oh and Alastair Reynolds. Stephen Baxter, Peter Hamilton, Steven Kent (a newcomer, wrote the military sci-fi books about the clone, Wayson Harris). Yea, give me some sci-fi over that old stuff any day.:)
No. I wish I could be more specific, but people in this country are generally pretty stupid. A fair number of them voted for Obama entirely based upon the color of his skin or because he was as far removed from George Bush as you could get in this election. Obama promised to prop up the people in this country who do not contribute their fair share, that just take and take, and don't even try to better themselves. He didn't promise to help them get trained, to get jobs. No, it was based upon such stupid ideas as stealing people's 401k assets, and making the people that already carry the lion's share of the burden in this country to do yet more. While the people who sit back and don't even try can get more for doing nothing.
The election of Obama is a tragedy. I guess the people spoke. The Republicans threw this election purposefully if you ask me.
He had something on the machine that phoned home with the current IP, I am sure. Plus, if you give the IP to the police there are a lot of hoops they have to jump through to do anything with it, and given the way the police work today, it would probably just die in paperwork. I think the guy addressed the problem nicely. Did the sleuth work that there is NO way the police would have done himself.
Uh modern notebooks don't have a simple button battery TO pop, plus most notebooks also store the password in non-volatile flash RAM so that wouldn't do you any good if you could do it.
Good find, that wiki article confirms it. That explains why the old computer wouldn't be protected. That HPA seems a bit of a security risk to me. If CompuTrace can store it's rootkit there, it seems any malware writer can as well.
Doh, it looks like I might have been partially wrong above, but it still can't store the entire program in the bios. I guess its possible it could store just enough to install a minimal rootkit that could connect to the internet and download the rest of the program when Windows is back up and running. I still don't believe they could do that on every BIOS, but I could be wrong of course.
According to the FAQ, you are wrong. They said if the HDD is removed and moved to a new system the new system will be protected but the old one will not be. So, it resides entirely on the hard drive and not the BIOS. Besides, writing to the BIOS by third parties is risky business. Not all BIOSes would be compatible with your software, there is NO way you could make it work with every one. Plus, not every BIOS would have spare data area for your program, that would vary. Some probably have no spare room. What if you overwrote important stuff? No, I highly doubt it messes with the BIOS at all.
I highly doubt that. After looking over the FAQ for a minute or so, its apparent that the program is just a rootkit. It might not be able to be removed, by a normal user, from within Windows, but there is no way it can survive a partition deletion, fixmbr, and reinstall of Windows. I will believe it when I see it, which at their price is never. Thats just marketing mumbo-jumbo.
if he could hammer an 8" spike through a board. Then he would have GF galore.
Not sure what that means, but I guarantee you that won't get you the kind of quantity and quality of cootch that millions of dollars of play money can. If that kid plays his cards right he could have said millions and will be drowning in top shelf snatch.
Damn I despise "fixed that for you" posts. Almost as much as "first post!" posts. Then you get really stupid ones like this, which should result in a 30 day restriction from posting on forums.
Let ME get this straight. You are saying that a creationist should be allowed to teach creationism, a thing for which there is absolutely zero proof in the world, in a class where the object is to teach the students to use scientific methodology to come up with a hypothesis, find PPRRROOOOFFFFF to support it, and develop it into a full fledged theory? A scientific theory mind you, not a hypothesis, which is what all religion and creationism is. You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. Maybe this analogy is accurate, I don't know. If you ran a business and found out that one of your delivery drivers was scooting around in your company truck doing all kinds of crazy stuff, would you fire him? This guy was scooting around and trying to teach baseless religion in a science class.
I have no problem with him teaching creationism. IN a religion class. NOT in science class. It is... not... science. Thus it belongs not in a science class. Why don't we teach culinary arts in science class? Or comparative literature. Are you getting the idea yet?
I initially decided to post a snappy comeback, but I sat there with a blank reply for a few seconds before I realized I didn't have one. What is there to say when people jump right to the "dictator" comment? I hope you were just being facetious and don't literally think there are no other options, like, I dunno, having educated and vetted representatives hired to do the heavy lifting that the average American is generally not educated enough to do themselves. Just stabbing in the dark here, we could hire them for a limited duration, and rehire them if they keep doing a good job. Ideally we would be smart enough to put limits on them, and keep an eye on them to make sure they aren't doing things they shouldn't, like getting blow jobs in the oval office, passing laws that blatantly violate our constitutional rights (PATRIOT act anyone?), having gay affairs with interns (just a little stab at the republicans there, the gay part isn't bad unless you publicly denounce them and hypocritically do it in private), stuff like that. We would keep the power and make sure we execute it when appropriate to bring the mighty hammer of the governed down upon their heads when they screw up.
You lost me at "Why should EA...". I refuse to allow EA to have even a tiny bit of control over how I use the product I bought from them. If they can find a way to prevent me from giving a copy of their game to someone without IN ANY WAY intruding upon my use of the game, completely transparently, then I will be fine with that. Anything else is completely and utterly unacceptable.
I exercise my right to damage them by refusing to buy anything they touch. I understand that it is a laughable concept, as if they care one iota that they lose my measly one sale. Unless the majority of people out there refuse to take this crap, they will keep heaping it on. Since most people out there are clueless and will just bend over and take it, this is the way its gonna go.
Steam is just more of the same. You are STILL buying a game that you can only play if Valve decides to let you. If they decide for some reason that they don't like you ("terms of use" violation, or whatever) or if they go out of business (don't laugh, it happens all the time in todays rapid fire economy) then you will be done. I refuse to buy a game that I can't install and play 10 years from now if I have the system to support it and decide to. Once in a while I fire up Quake 2 for old times sake. Granted, ID is still around, but was no guarantee that would be the case.
From the post: "Hopefully, if the piracy rate for the game is low, perhaps EA will get comfortable enough to ship with even less DRM in the future."
So, we are down to HOPING that the publishers will allow us to install the product we paid good money for as many times as we want on our own PC? EA can eat a flaming sack of dog shit, I will never purchase another single product that they are even remotely involved in.
I second that, I have no idea what a "Stephen King troll" is. I guess I don't keep up with the fun and games on the interwebs nearly enough these days.
So, you honestly want to take the decision of WHAT to fund out of the hands of the politicians, which at first sounds like a great idea, since they are all greedy and in it for their own pocket and not what is right for their constituents, and put it square in the hands of the unwashed masses who can barely balance their checkbooks, watch reality television all day, and what, 80% of them believe some old guy with a beard lived 900 years, built an ark because some voice in the sky told them to and loaded 2 of every animal on it for 40 days and 40 nights and somehow still had room to feed them and kept the lions from eating the deer? Oh, I know! It was an ark holding. Please, the general populace is ill equipped to decide what to eat for dinner, they certainly don't need to be making REAL decisions. Whats why we hire the representatives to do it for us. We being the aggregate, I include myself in this group out of necessity, not desire. I don't think half the people out there should be breeding, I certainly wouldn't trust them with this kind of decision.
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Personally, I have never found Firefox to be that much of a memory hog. Sure, I do eventually start having problems with it climbing up to half a gig and slowing down, but I have 4gb of memory, and I leave it running for weeks at a time on my machine without closing it. When it acts up I just close it and restart it and I am good to go. I also often find myself with 20+ tabs open.
That was awesome, I so heard his voice in my head as I read that too.
Whoa, whoa now. You leave Michael Weston out of this. That is a freaking great show!
I think the next stage in human evolution is human driven evolution. We are reached a point where we will soon be able to do a better job than natural evolution and I believe that is our destiny. If I were to choose to procreate, I would like to be able to design my kid from the ground up and make them into a superhuman. Wait, isn't this just a natural conclusion to what all good parents want? Their kids to be the best, brightest, and most successful?
I am absolutely one of those people. I hate the idea that everyone has the "right" to procreate. That would be true if their brood were kept away from actual people, but unfortunately they aren't they are "yanked up" in a ridiculous manner, and then set upon the rest of us. And the prison systems are full of them. As long as we continue to allow morons that shouldn't be licensed to drive to procreate, our society will continue to breed reality tv watching idiots.
As for who will take care of me later? When I am too old to take care of myself, I will die. And that will be the end of me. Few will remember me, and fewer will care. That is fine with me.
I would have agreed before Death Magnetic (dumb name), as everything since the black album has been trash and not worth listening to. But, their latest album is awesome, so all bets are off.
"Cultured reading material." Bores me to tears. I would rather read something fun, like John Scalzi's stuff. Oh and Alastair Reynolds. Stephen Baxter, Peter Hamilton, Steven Kent (a newcomer, wrote the military sci-fi books about the clone, Wayson Harris). Yea, give me some sci-fi over that old stuff any day. :)
No. I wish I could be more specific, but people in this country are generally pretty stupid. A fair number of them voted for Obama entirely based upon the color of his skin or because he was as far removed from George Bush as you could get in this election. Obama promised to prop up the people in this country who do not contribute their fair share, that just take and take, and don't even try to better themselves. He didn't promise to help them get trained, to get jobs. No, it was based upon such stupid ideas as stealing people's 401k assets, and making the people that already carry the lion's share of the burden in this country to do yet more. While the people who sit back and don't even try can get more for doing nothing.
The election of Obama is a tragedy. I guess the people spoke. The Republicans threw this election purposefully if you ask me.
He had something on the machine that phoned home with the current IP, I am sure. Plus, if you give the IP to the police there are a lot of hoops they have to jump through to do anything with it, and given the way the police work today, it would probably just die in paperwork. I think the guy addressed the problem nicely. Did the sleuth work that there is NO way the police would have done himself.
Uh modern notebooks don't have a simple button battery TO pop, plus most notebooks also store the password in non-volatile flash RAM so that wouldn't do you any good if you could do it.
Good find, that wiki article confirms it. That explains why the old computer wouldn't be protected. That HPA seems a bit of a security risk to me. If CompuTrace can store it's rootkit there, it seems any malware writer can as well.
Doh, it looks like I might have been partially wrong above, but it still can't store the entire program in the bios. I guess its possible it could store just enough to install a minimal rootkit that could connect to the internet and download the rest of the program when Windows is back up and running. I still don't believe they could do that on every BIOS, but I could be wrong of course.
According to the FAQ, you are wrong. They said if the HDD is removed and moved to a new system the new system will be protected but the old one will not be. So, it resides entirely on the hard drive and not the BIOS. Besides, writing to the BIOS by third parties is risky business. Not all BIOSes would be compatible with your software, there is NO way you could make it work with every one. Plus, not every BIOS would have spare data area for your program, that would vary. Some probably have no spare room. What if you overwrote important stuff? No, I highly doubt it messes with the BIOS at all.
I highly doubt that. After looking over the FAQ for a minute or so, its apparent that the program is just a rootkit. It might not be able to be removed, by a normal user, from within Windows, but there is no way it can survive a partition deletion, fixmbr, and reinstall of Windows. I will believe it when I see it, which at their price is never. Thats just marketing mumbo-jumbo.
if he could hammer an 8" spike through a board. Then he would have GF galore.
Not sure what that means, but I guarantee you that won't get you the kind of quantity and quality of cootch that millions of dollars of play money can. If that kid plays his cards right he could have said millions and will be drowning in top shelf snatch.
I'm 23 and play Pokemon you insensitive clod.
Yea, how dare he make fun of the mentally challenged like that???
I am glad my boss wasn't here when I read that, I laughed my ass off. He would have known I was screwing off.
Damn I despise "fixed that for you" posts. Almost as much as "first post!" posts. Then you get really stupid ones like this, which should result in a 30 day restriction from posting on forums.
Let ME get this straight. You are saying that a creationist should be allowed to teach creationism, a thing for which there is absolutely zero proof in the world, in a class where the object is to teach the students to use scientific methodology to come up with a hypothesis, find PPRRROOOOFFFFF to support it, and develop it into a full fledged theory? A scientific theory mind you, not a hypothesis, which is what all religion and creationism is. You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. Maybe this analogy is accurate, I don't know. If you ran a business and found out that one of your delivery drivers was scooting around in your company truck doing all kinds of crazy stuff, would you fire him? This guy was scooting around and trying to teach baseless religion in a science class.
I have no problem with him teaching creationism. IN a religion class. NOT in science class. It is... not... science. Thus it belongs not in a science class. Why don't we teach culinary arts in science class? Or comparative literature. Are you getting the idea yet?
I initially decided to post a snappy comeback, but I sat there with a blank reply for a few seconds before I realized I didn't have one. What is there to say when people jump right to the "dictator" comment? I hope you were just being facetious and don't literally think there are no other options, like, I dunno, having educated and vetted representatives hired to do the heavy lifting that the average American is generally not educated enough to do themselves. Just stabbing in the dark here, we could hire them for a limited duration, and rehire them if they keep doing a good job. Ideally we would be smart enough to put limits on them, and keep an eye on them to make sure they aren't doing things they shouldn't, like getting blow jobs in the oval office, passing laws that blatantly violate our constitutional rights (PATRIOT act anyone?), having gay affairs with interns (just a little stab at the republicans there, the gay part isn't bad unless you publicly denounce them and hypocritically do it in private), stuff like that. We would keep the power and make sure we execute it when appropriate to bring the mighty hammer of the governed down upon their heads when they screw up.
Oh well, it looked good on paper.
You lost me at "Why should EA...". I refuse to allow EA to have even a tiny bit of control over how I use the product I bought from them. If they can find a way to prevent me from giving a copy of their game to someone without IN ANY WAY intruding upon my use of the game, completely transparently, then I will be fine with that. Anything else is completely and utterly unacceptable.
I exercise my right to damage them by refusing to buy anything they touch. I understand that it is a laughable concept, as if they care one iota that they lose my measly one sale. Unless the majority of people out there refuse to take this crap, they will keep heaping it on. Since most people out there are clueless and will just bend over and take it, this is the way its gonna go.
Steam is just more of the same. You are STILL buying a game that you can only play if Valve decides to let you. If they decide for some reason that they don't like you ("terms of use" violation, or whatever) or if they go out of business (don't laugh, it happens all the time in todays rapid fire economy) then you will be done. I refuse to buy a game that I can't install and play 10 years from now if I have the system to support it and decide to. Once in a while I fire up Quake 2 for old times sake. Granted, ID is still around, but was no guarantee that would be the case.
From the post: "Hopefully, if the piracy rate for the game is low, perhaps EA will get comfortable enough to ship with even less DRM in the future."
So, we are down to HOPING that the publishers will allow us to install the product we paid good money for as many times as we want on our own PC? EA can eat a flaming sack of dog shit, I will never purchase another single product that they are even remotely involved in.
I second that, I have no idea what a "Stephen King troll" is. I guess I don't keep up with the fun and games on the interwebs nearly enough these days.
So, you honestly want to take the decision of WHAT to fund out of the hands of the politicians, which at first sounds like a great idea, since they are all greedy and in it for their own pocket and not what is right for their constituents, and put it square in the hands of the unwashed masses who can barely balance their checkbooks, watch reality television all day, and what, 80% of them believe some old guy with a beard lived 900 years, built an ark because some voice in the sky told them to and loaded 2 of every animal on it for 40 days and 40 nights and somehow still had room to feed them and kept the lions from eating the deer? Oh, I know! It was an ark holding. Please, the general populace is ill equipped to decide what to eat for dinner, they certainly don't need to be making REAL decisions. Whats why we hire the representatives to do it for us. We being the aggregate, I include myself in this group out of necessity, not desire. I don't think half the people out there should be breeding, I certainly wouldn't trust them with this kind of decision.