I buy a brand new domain. It should show up as a 404 error until it is setup on DNS servers. Register.com would take upto a week to one month to set you up yet they obviously did set it up instantly because you'd get redirected to the comming soon page. If they can point my domain to their ad server they can as easily point it to my webhost like I paid them to do.
Shuttle from day one was over complicated and tries to do to much. Payloads should be on one rocket and people on a second rocket. The abilty to leave earth orbit in a capsule ISN'T a plus. An apollo style capsule is good for getting to orbit and back to the ground safely. Let a bigger rocket push parts of a large ship up to the space station which then can be sent to the moon or mars.
I admit that I haven't read the article yet but I'll say this. Much of the voter fraud in paper ballots would stop if they simply counted the ballots at the polling place first, in public view, before they load them up and haul them to the court house. If the ballot box never leaves the sight of the public then it is much harder to mess with the vote. Any system can be fouled with but the more eyeballs on the event the harder it is to pull off.
I am not a programmer so I will never trust a computerised election. I personally have no ability to confirm what a select group of appointed overseers(programers) will tell me about the security, or lack of, the computerized or even mechanical election system.
All the machines and computers are just a shell game to steal elections. A paper and pencil and public counting and who the hell cares if it takes 10 hours to do it. They count paper ballots in Canada often in under 4 hours.
Our right to vote was stolen years ago. Elections are a sham and our last presidental election proved it. I'm a Bush supporter and even I think that he stole the election. Not that Gore didn't try. Bush was just better at it. Just like Clinton was better then Bush or Dole at it.
One of the issues with the current shuttle is that it tried to be the answer to everything. A ship that is designed from the start as only a cargo ship is much easier to build and maintain. Same goes for the human transport. One of the problems with the shuttle is that the miltary made requirements that foreced landings only in the northern hemisphere. This made the shuttle have much more heat and braking requirements that a less restricted ship would not have. Add that to the human requirments and to the payload requests make a ship that is almost impossible to design as something simple. The more complex the craft the more dangerous.
An app can't talk to the BIOS unless the OS lets it. If your OS doesn't provide an API that the app can use to get the DRM information, then the DRM feature of your BIOS is effectively disabled.
That is my thought as well. So what would be the point of DRM Bios that would cause the bootleg market of Windows 98 or Linux to skyrocket just to pirate stuff? Would not such a bios be designed to not boot up an OS unless it is DRM bios aware? If I was going to do this I would want that feature.
This is just FUD. The DRM features are not on by default and require a server to use it. This is for corporations that need secure documents and can't figure out(re: end users to lazy and stupid) how to use PGP.
Plus even PGP can't stop you from using the cleartext while this method can. Betcha some one cracks the cleartext. If it can be displayed on the screen in can be saved to disk.
This is one of few useful new features of Office System.
per se. We need a real goal! Putting men into space just to have them there is a great waste of money with little return. If we set our sights on Mars then we would have a workable goal. As it is now we just have a big pork barrel that we shove into space 6 times a year. What science was on that last shuttle mission that couldn't have been done on the space station?
"With the profits generated from receiving fair wages, coffee growers can invest in health, education, and environmental protection."
And do they? I ask because many of these programs are just feel good bullshit designed to take money away from people that want to do the right thing. I.E. a con job. ] Other then splitting the lower class in two groups what have you accomplished?
Well, getting even one half of the lowest class up to the next ladder is a good start. Secondly, encouraging people to buy Fair Trade products, hits the profit margins of the exploitative producers driving them either towards fair trade practises or out of business. If they try to treat the farmers even more brutally, they'll lose them to the fair trade programs and start to get even worse publicity.
True but you also risk starting a class war in those places as the companies try to keep their hold on the status quo. You can end up doing more harm then good. Don't know if that is the case here as I honestly don't know enough about it to judge.
In the countries these people live in it's just not possible to "do something else" and make a profit. They are not living in a free market because they cannot refuse to sell their product - even at a loss.
So by only buying "Fair Trade" coffee you elevate a handful of poor coffee growers into slightly less poor coffee growers. What I ask do they do with the extra money? Can you tell me that? Other then splitting the lower class in two groups what have you accomplished?
Internet, and we'd all be better off if some degree of diligence was mandated legally or as a term of service by each ISP before it became possible to connect a system to everybody else's.
Why should this burden be on the indivual users? A person can't get on the internet without the aid of an ISP so why doesn't ISPs work to filter out obvious viruses from all email and block unneeded port to the end user. Many viruses and other hack/cracks would be halted by this practice. If you have need for a port you can request that it be allowed.
**For the Windows users that are going to inevitably say "Well my XP box never crashed and I don't have to reboot for a week! I play mad gamez and it stays good! So it's stable, you are just a open source zealot!", just shut up. When the big kids talk about "stability", they mean that a server remains stable indefinately while performing multiple critical tasks.
Longhorn is a workstation or desktop product. Your complaints may be valid if this was a story on Windows Server 2003 or the next beta of the server line but this is the desktop product. For the desktop improving the GUI is always a legimate goal.
To me your post is a bit of a Troll. Let's slam Longhorn on its merits(or lack of) as a desktop workstation and not a fscking server ok?
Isn't about time that we put the blame where it really belongs? On the damn ISPs! If we had decent email scanning and blocking of useless ports this shit wouldn't happen so much. Why does joe six pack need a port 135 open anyway. If you need the port you should ask to have it open otherwise most ports should be filtered by ISPs by default. Do that and hold ISP responsable when obvious virues pass through the smtp server and we wouldn't have a damn virus/worm problem.
Personally I think Mac OS has very compelling reasons to switch. I own one. The reason they don't switch is because of expense and a perception that the Mac lacks software. If Mac OSX was on the market for PCs I think it would blow Windows off the Map.
If that was the case then Mac's would be leaping off the shelves. Most people don't understand what a virus IS let alone how a different OS would prevent it. Lindows is installing anti-virus on their distros because all the Winsheep out there don't understand or even believe that there are no real Linux viruses.
You've hit the mark. The only way people are going to dump Windows for Linux or any other OS is if that OS has a compelling difference that makes it worth the change. While one can argue that Linux or *BSD is more stable that is hard to demostrate without prolonged use and if the system is too close to Windows yet not quite there as is the case with KDE then users will be frustrated and leave it before the realize that it is more stable and more secure. The very things that make Linux the better OS are the hardest for end users to see.
Oh it can be done but it would be anoying and that would be a desireable goal. Also if the terrorists were very well organized they could take out backup links and plung an area into total power loss for quite some time. We don't have enough powerplants in the country or enough main distrubution lines to easily switch loads. This is going to happen again and again untill the American people quit being such energy users or quit being having the "not in my backyard" attitude about powerplants and the like.
This blackout was just a malfunction. Most of this problem was caused by overload because the grid couldn't handle the sudden loss of a plant. AC generators don't like sudden drastic changes in load so they tend to fail if that happends. So if that occures it takes time to fix the minor problem and restart. Time consuming but not a disater. But If someone drove a truck bomb upto just two key power plants and destroyed them then the blackouted area might be out for days if not weeks or even months as they would have to arrange for power to be supplied from other plants not connected to the affected grid.
You can use the GUI installer but you have to remove the logos and other RedHat trademarks. They get rather irked if you don't. This is why the distro Pink Tie exists which is Red Hat without all the trademarks.
I think that DNS lookups to windowsupdate.com are allready being sent to dev/null so I doubt that you or any other akamai client will be affected. Local ISP will have to discard the packets before they ever hit the backbone.
why we need voting machines at ALL! Be it open or close source.
Please explain how a voting machine which most of the public would be unable to understand is somehow harder to rig then a paper a pencil and a box. As long as you can hide anything there will be fraud. They cart off the ballot boxes in most states so you have no clue if the ballot box that arrives at the court house is the same one that left the polling place. "Open Source" might make the published code bug and tamper free but what stops someone from tampering with the voting machine and replacing the code? Are they going to let me debug the code or run somekind of checksum on it before I cast my vote?
There is no way I will ever trust a voting machine of any kind. Hell I don't trust the paper ballots we have now as I can't watch them be counted. They leave my sight and who knows what happends to them.
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Personally I think that this often done delibertly to test how popular the film will be. Throw it out on the net and see what comes up to grab it.
I buy a brand new domain. It should show up as a 404 error until it is setup on DNS servers. Register.com would take upto a week to one month to set you up yet they obviously did set it up instantly because you'd get redirected to the comming soon page. If they can point my domain to their ad server they can as easily point it to my webhost like I paid them to do.
Shuttle from day one was over complicated and tries to do to much. Payloads should be on one rocket and people on a second rocket. The abilty to leave earth orbit in a capsule ISN'T a plus. An apollo style capsule is good for getting to orbit and back to the ground safely. Let a bigger rocket push parts of a large ship up to the space station which then can be sent to the moon or mars.
I admit that I haven't read the article yet but I'll say this. Much of the voter fraud in paper ballots would stop if they simply counted the ballots at the polling place first, in public view, before they load them up and haul them to the court house. If the ballot box never leaves the sight of the public then it is much harder to mess with the vote. Any system can be fouled with but the more eyeballs on the event the harder it is to pull off.
I am not a programmer so I will never trust a computerised election. I personally have no ability to confirm what a select group of appointed overseers(programers) will tell me about the security, or lack of, the computerized or even mechanical election system.
All the machines and computers are just a shell game to steal elections. A paper and pencil and public counting and who the hell cares if it takes 10 hours to do it. They count paper ballots in Canada often in under 4 hours.
Our right to vote was stolen years ago. Elections are a sham and our last presidental election proved it. I'm a Bush supporter and even I think that he stole the election. Not that Gore didn't try. Bush was just better at it. Just like Clinton was better then Bush or Dole at it.
One of the issues with the current shuttle is that it tried to be the answer to everything. A ship that is designed from the start as only a cargo ship is much easier to build and maintain. Same goes for the human transport. One of the problems with the shuttle is that the miltary made requirements that foreced landings only in the northern hemisphere. This made the shuttle have much more heat and braking requirements that a less restricted ship would not have. Add that to the human requirments and to the payload requests make a ship that is almost impossible to design as something simple. The more complex the craft the more dangerous.
An app can't talk to the BIOS unless the OS lets it. If your OS doesn't provide an API that the app can use to get the DRM information, then the DRM feature of your BIOS is effectively disabled.
That is my thought as well. So what would be the point of DRM Bios that would cause the bootleg market of Windows 98 or Linux to skyrocket just to pirate stuff? Would not such a bios be designed to not boot up an OS unless it is DRM bios aware? If I was going to do this I would want that feature.
Could this kill Linux or even Windows XP if it doesn't have the ability to work with the bios?
One day I will learn how to proof read...*sigh*
This is just FUD. The DRM features are not on by default and require a server to use it. This is for corporations that need secure documents and can't figure out(re: end users to lazy and stupid) how to use PGP.
Plus even PGP can't stop you from using the cleartext while this method can. Betcha some one cracks the cleartext. If it can be displayed on the screen in can be saved to disk.
This is one of few useful new features of Office System.
per se. We need a real goal! Putting men into space just to have them there is a great waste of money with little return. If we set our sights on Mars then we would have a workable goal. As it is now we just have a big pork barrel that we shove into space 6 times a year. What science was on that last shuttle mission that couldn't have been done on the space station?
"With the profits generated from receiving fair wages, coffee growers can invest in health, education, and environmental protection."
And do they? I ask because many of these programs are just feel good bullshit designed to take money away from people that want to do the right thing. I.E. a con job.
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Other then splitting the lower class in two groups what have you accomplished?
Well, getting even one half of the lowest class up to the next ladder is a good start. Secondly, encouraging people to buy Fair Trade products, hits the profit margins of the exploitative producers driving them either towards fair trade practises or out of business. If they try to treat the farmers even more brutally, they'll lose them to the fair trade programs and start to get even worse publicity.
True but you also risk starting a class war in those places as the companies try to keep their hold on the status quo. You can end up doing more harm then good. Don't know if that is the case here as I honestly don't know enough about it to judge.
In the countries these people live in it's just not possible to "do something else" and make a profit. They are not living in a free market because they cannot refuse to sell their product - even at a loss.
So by only buying "Fair Trade" coffee you elevate a handful of poor coffee growers into slightly less poor coffee growers. What I ask do they do with the extra money? Can you tell me that? Other then splitting the lower class in two groups what have you accomplished?
Internet, and we'd all be better off if some degree of diligence was mandated legally or as a term of service by each ISP before it became possible to connect a system to everybody else's.
Why should this burden be on the indivual users? A person can't get on the internet without the aid of an ISP so why doesn't ISPs work to filter out obvious viruses from all email and block unneeded port to the end user. Many viruses and other hack/cracks would be halted by this practice. If you have need for a port you can request that it be allowed.
Ok am I the only one who things this is a TROLL?
**For the Windows users that are going to inevitably say "Well my XP box never crashed and I don't have to reboot for a week! I play mad gamez and it stays good! So it's stable, you are just a open source zealot!", just shut up. When the big kids talk about "stability", they mean that a server remains stable indefinately while performing multiple critical tasks.
Longhorn is a workstation or desktop product. Your complaints may be valid if this was a story on Windows Server 2003 or the next beta of the server line but this is the desktop product. For the desktop improving the GUI is always a legimate goal.
To me your post is a bit of a Troll. Let's slam Longhorn on its merits(or lack of) as a desktop workstation and not a fscking server ok?
Isn't about time that we put the blame where it really belongs? On the damn ISPs! If we had decent email scanning and blocking of useless ports this shit wouldn't happen so much. Why does joe six pack need a port 135 open anyway. If you need the port you should ask to have it open otherwise most ports should be filtered by ISPs by default. Do that and hold ISP responsable when obvious virues pass through the smtp server and we wouldn't have a damn virus/worm problem.
Yeah but they push the GEOS patch back until 2004. I was so hopping I'd get new fonts for my old Star dot matrix printer.
Personally I think Mac OS has very compelling reasons to switch. I own one. The reason they don't switch is because of expense and a perception that the Mac lacks software. If Mac OSX was on the market for PCs I think it would blow Windows off the Map.
If that was the case then Mac's would be leaping off the shelves. Most people don't understand what a virus IS let alone how a different OS would prevent it. Lindows is installing anti-virus on their distros because all the Winsheep out there don't understand or even believe that there are no real Linux viruses.
Yes, you'll still need to generate the hydrogen - but show me how you can get a cascade failure with that!
Simple. One nitwit that can't read a sign. One backhoe.
You've hit the mark. The only way people are going to dump Windows for Linux or any other OS is if that OS has a compelling difference that makes it worth the change. While one can argue that Linux or *BSD is more stable that is hard to demostrate without prolonged use and if the system is too close to Windows yet not quite there as is the case with KDE then users will be frustrated and leave it before the realize that it is more stable and more secure. The very things that make Linux the better OS are the hardest for end users to see.
Oh it can be done but it would be anoying and that would be a desireable goal. Also if the terrorists were very well organized they could take out backup links and plung an area into total power loss for quite some time. We don't have enough powerplants in the country or enough main distrubution lines to easily switch loads. This is going to happen again and again untill the American people quit being such energy users or quit being having the "not in my backyard" attitude about powerplants and the like.
This blackout was just a malfunction. Most of this problem was caused by overload because the grid couldn't handle the sudden loss of a plant. AC generators don't like sudden drastic changes in load so they tend to fail if that happends. So if that occures it takes time to fix the minor problem and restart. Time consuming but not a disater. But If someone drove a truck bomb upto just two key power plants and destroyed them then the blackouted area might be out for days if not weeks or even months as they would have to arrange for power to be supplied from other plants not connected to the affected grid.
You can use the GUI installer but you have to remove the logos and other RedHat trademarks. They get rather irked if you don't. This is why the distro Pink Tie exists which is Red Hat without all the trademarks.
I think that DNS lookups to windowsupdate.com are allready being sent to dev/null so I doubt that you or any other akamai client will be affected. Local ISP will have to discard the packets before they ever hit the backbone.
why we need voting machines at ALL! Be it open or close source.
Please explain how a voting machine which most of the public would be unable to understand is somehow harder to rig then a paper a pencil and a box. As long as you can hide anything there will be fraud. They cart off the ballot boxes in most states so you have no clue if the ballot box that arrives at the court house is the same one that left the polling place. "Open Source" might make the published code bug and tamper free but what stops someone from tampering with the voting machine and replacing the code? Are they going to let me debug the code or run somekind of checksum on it before I cast my vote?
There is no way I will ever trust a voting machine of any kind. Hell I don't trust the paper ballots we have now as I can't watch them be counted. They leave my sight and who knows what happends to them.