It always seemed to me that measuring Human complexity based on the number of our genes is a little like judging a book by the number of words it contains. It completely ignores the fact that words have Meaning.
Yep. The most advanced animal possible has a gene sequence that represents but one solitary number: 42.
And I'm caught in the depressing dilemma of whether to help the only candidate with a realistic chance of offing Labour (Convervative) by voting for them, or voting for who I really want.
I'm jealous of you folks in the US, at least you've got a new government in 2 months time. We're stuck with the same leadership over here for likely another 18 months or so.
Yep. And, Labour wouldn't be in power under any kind of sane electoral system. And UKIP would have seats in parliament.
'course, it's more common now for the government to say that the law would only be used to its extreme 'in extreme circumstances', which makes it OK.
The logical conclusion of this argument is that any law covering government or police should be abolished, and only in extreme circumstances will they act in an illiberal manner.
I applied for one of them when I was about 18. The ONE time I needed to actually prove my age (I very rarely get asked for ID, I have some stubble now), the bouncer's answer: sorry, we don't accept them as proof of age. Driving licence or passport.
It seems like AVG has gone massively downhill lately.
Aren't they actually discontinuing the free version now, anyway? I looked around for version 8 free, couldn't see one. That's when I told my dad to uninstall AVG and just not be an idiot when using the computer (he has Sygate firewall on there anyway, which is remarkably good at killing off Windows OS backdoor attacks).
You're saying that AV software is worthless crap, and AV companies are irritating and generally refuse to improve their products, yet recommending that most people use it. Not trying to sound pedantic, just pointing out your message in a nutshell. It's ridiculous. You shouldn't be advising people to use this stuff. Personally, I'd just work on more end-user education, getting OSes more inherently secure, and dealing with the occasional system fuckup. Don't waste time with AV products.
Ah yes... Windows. The only system where I can be logged in as the super user only to be told I can't delete a file. Access Denied.
Generally you'll get that message because the OS is currently using the file (.sys driver) or it's barely a file at all (pagefile, created dynamically by the OS). How could it let you delete either of them without immediately crashing the system? I doubt Unix would either.
If you really want an actual pager, just try a popular search engine, you'll find plenty of stores that sell them.
Oh come on, that's not fair. You can't just give the obvious answer that any Joe Sixpack would think of first as the answer to an Ask Slashdot question. That's not the point!
It's like the popcorn sizes in the movies. Now they're called large, extra large and super size. Funny enough, they're just the same size the old small, medium and large sizes. Only the price changed.
Actually, I thought sizes WERE increasing, hence obesity problems.
Honestly, I support both opinions because I hate DRM. Even the cracked games still run the normal installers which still install SecuROM or SafeDisc or whatever they want to use at any given time.
I have a warezed version of Spore installed, and I don't see any of the SecuROM stuff (reg key, service, system32 file, etc)... so I'm not sure about that.
It allegedly disables a number of semi legitimate (Any DVD, Daemon tools)
What is 'semi legitimate' about AnyDVD or Daemon tools? As far as I'm aware, they allow you to perform acts that are completely legal, and really rather useful. They have as much potential to be used for illegal purposes as any other tool such as a hammer or screwdriver.
Someone in the chain always drops the ball. One of these days, we're going to have an accidental missile launch or a nuclear meltdown or some really bad accident directly linked to DST.
I agree that DST is worse than a permenant standard time, but an accidental missile launch or nuclear meltdown because of an hour's difference? If that happened, someone REALLY dropped the ball! The someone writing the software to control the nuclear plant, for instance.
One of the real lessons we should have learned from Y2K was that dealing with our insanely complex conventions for time and date are vastly expensive and the cause of chronic errors.
What I don't understand is how I run NO A/V software (no, really) - I just run Sygate, a software firewall - and I have not gotten any trojans or viruses in the last... 10 years? Yeah I guess I could have one and not know about it, but I doubt it, disk activity and network activity seems normal (except when Skype decides to route a call thru me, why can't people get their own IPv6 IPs damnit??), and I occasionally run a virus/rootkit scanner over my machine and they come up clean.
A/V is probably unnecessary, if you have a reasonably knowledge of how to use a computer. Yeah most don't, but you're posting Slashdot so you probably do. Why do you use one at all?
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I'm guessing they'll migrate to other countries, something many of them seem to have no problem with. A lot of Londoners are Balgladeshi.
It always seemed to me that measuring Human complexity based on the number of our genes is a little like judging a book by the number of words it contains. It completely ignores the fact that words have Meaning.
Yep. The most advanced animal possible has a gene sequence that represents but one solitary number: 42.
Thanks to virtualization, I spent 6 hours on the Internet in just the past 40 minutes!
Obligatory.
And I'm caught in the depressing dilemma of whether to help the only candidate with a realistic chance of offing Labour (Convervative) by voting for them, or voting for who I really want.
I'm jealous of you folks in the US, at least you've got a new government in 2 months time. We're stuck with the same leadership over here for likely another 18 months or so.
Yep. And, Labour wouldn't be in power under any kind of sane electoral system. And UKIP would have seats in parliament.
Ah yes, the good old, internet enabled, Universal Democracy. Otherwise know as the democracy of young, well off, white people.
It's not, but if it were, I'd take that over 'everyone in society' any day.
'course, it's more common now for the government to say that the law would only be used to its extreme 'in extreme circumstances', which makes it OK.
The logical conclusion of this argument is that any law covering government or police should be abolished, and only in extreme circumstances will they act in an illiberal manner.
I applied for one of them when I was about 18. The ONE time I needed to actually prove my age (I very rarely get asked for ID, I have some stubble now), the bouncer's answer: sorry, we don't accept them as proof of age. Driving licence or passport.
It seems like AVG has gone massively downhill lately.
Aren't they actually discontinuing the free version now, anyway? I looked around for version 8 free, couldn't see one. That's when I told my dad to uninstall AVG and just not be an idiot when using the computer (he has Sygate firewall on there anyway, which is remarkably good at killing off Windows OS backdoor attacks).
You're saying that AV software is worthless crap, and AV companies are irritating and generally refuse to improve their products, yet recommending that most people use it. Not trying to sound pedantic, just pointing out your message in a nutshell. It's ridiculous. You shouldn't be advising people to use this stuff. Personally, I'd just work on more end-user education, getting OSes more inherently secure, and dealing with the occasional system fuckup. Don't waste time with AV products.
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Ah yes... Windows. The only system where I can be logged in as the super user only to be told I can't delete a file. Access Denied.
Generally you'll get that message because the OS is currently using the file (.sys driver) or it's barely a file at all (pagefile, created dynamically by the OS). How could it let you delete either of them without immediately crashing the system? I doubt Unix would either.
If you really want an actual pager, just try a popular search engine, you'll find plenty of stores that sell them.
Oh come on, that's not fair. You can't just give the obvious answer that any Joe Sixpack would think of first as the answer to an Ask Slashdot question. That's not the point!
easier: /(a)/
You think THAT'S cool? I've seen CMDRTACO posting! Now that was a sight to behold. Actually I think I even saw a -1 once, which was his mom.
Are you in Quebec?
It's like the popcorn sizes in the movies. Now they're called large, extra large and super size. Funny enough, they're just the same size the old small, medium and large sizes. Only the price changed.
Actually, I thought sizes WERE increasing, hence obesity problems.
MGM studios will soon be the first major movie studio to post a complete feature-length film on YouTube
And the picture quality is still better than the DVD release (for God's sake, don't waste money on The Outer Limits. They should be ashamed.)
Does 'girlintraining' mean you're a guy who's waiting for a sex change op? If so, good luck with your life post-Slashdot.
Honestly, I support both opinions because I hate DRM. Even the cracked games still run the normal installers which still install SecuROM or SafeDisc or whatever they want to use at any given time.
I have a warezed version of Spore installed, and I don't see any of the SecuROM stuff (reg key, service, system32 file, etc)... so I'm not sure about that.
It allegedly disables a number of semi legitimate (Any DVD, Daemon tools)
What is 'semi legitimate' about AnyDVD or Daemon tools? As far as I'm aware, they allow you to perform acts that are completely legal, and really rather useful. They have as much potential to be used for illegal purposes as any other tool such as a hammer or screwdriver.
Someone in the chain always drops the ball. One of these days, we're going to have an accidental missile launch or a nuclear meltdown or some really bad accident directly linked to DST.
I agree that DST is worse than a permenant standard time, but an accidental missile launch or nuclear meltdown because of an hour's difference? If that happened, someone REALLY dropped the ball! The someone writing the software to control the nuclear plant, for instance.
One of the real lessons we should have learned from Y2K was that dealing with our insanely complex conventions for time and date are vastly expensive and the cause of chronic errors.
I agree.
- Jez, stardate 15892.3.
If their election website survived election day with flying colours, I doubt a minor Slashdotting will be a problem.
What I don't understand is how I run NO A/V software (no, really) - I just run Sygate, a software firewall - and I have not gotten any trojans or viruses in the last... 10 years? Yeah I guess I could have one and not know about it, but I doubt it, disk activity and network activity seems normal (except when Skype decides to route a call thru me, why can't people get their own IPv6 IPs damnit??), and I occasionally run a virus/rootkit scanner over my machine and they come up clean.
A/V is probably unnecessary, if you have a reasonably knowledge of how to use a computer. Yeah most don't, but you're posting Slashdot so you probably do. Why do you use one at all?
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
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