That has been changed in Vista. Vista will not autorun anything without you saying so (it provides a dialog with options on what to do instead which includes the executable that autorun would have run without asking on XP)
Certainly this is how it should have always been... hard to imagine someone failed to see the security risk inherent in automatically running whatever the media asks to run. Maybe if it was a markup language or html document or some other sandboxed content, but an executable... on a system where everyone was running as admin. Hard to excuse. It's suprising that there were so *few* abuses of this (i.e. the majority of apps set autorun to run the installer which you could almost always cancel out of before it did anything potentially damaging)
Ever own wood-tone speakers? Ok, not today's hot item, but 'never seen brown succeed' is a bit strong. And everything old becomes new again every so often. I have no idea what will happen, but it will be interesting to see what spread of sales against colors ends up looking like.
Of course all they have to do is call it a 'monitor' and they no longer need to include the tuner (look at the fine print on most of the HDTVs sold today). Plenty of people have no need and will never have any need for an ATSC tuner in their TV simply because they have no antenna set up. Cable and Satellite do not require a tuner in the TV...
You DON'T have to reboot to disable UAC. You do have to log off and log back on because it fundamentally changes the security context that you are logged on with.
The "silly, fun, useless" Picasa and Google Earth were not developed in-house as part of the "pet project" system. Both of them were products build by other companies that were bought. Picasa was its own entity, Google Earth was build by Keyhole and had been available for several years before Google purchased it.
Umm, it's $50 less than it's nearest competitor. You can't talk about Wii being a 'deal because it's a bundle' then compare it to the 'bundle' premium xbox 360. Furthermore, a game that you may or may not want is not a hard drive that is useful to many games and other scenarios.
Sure would be interesting if xbox 360 lowered it's price from $299 to $249 just in time to match, I doubt that they will do that though.
But this the billion we're talking about when calculating this fine and when referring to the size of MS's warchest of an apparent '38 billion' is a million + three more zeros.
The error reports are logged in a database and the largest buckets get pushed out as bugs for devs to fix. If a fix is already availble you'll get pointed to it. It's up to you want you report but if you want the problems you are seeing to get fixed then reporting them is one way to help that happen.
Digital X-Rays involve several orders of magnitude less radiation exposure than film X-Rays. That, and the instant development allowing you to know right away if you need to take another shot, are what make digital X-Rays worthwhile. The resolution is more than adequate for either digital or film X-Rays.
Vonage shows your call info on their web site within a few minutes or less of the call taking place. There's no legal reason Verizon can't answer your questions, they just might not have sufficiently real-time enough data available to give you.
Microsoft already did some of this - it's called Portable Media Center. Unfortunately it's too expensive and doesn't play games... but with some work they could probably pull this off in the future.
Windows doesn't delete anything if an admin changes your password. You do, however, lose access to encrypted data. The reasons is this: The files are encrypted with a key based on your password (more specifically, the key used to encrypt your files is encrypted with a key based on your password). When you change your password you enter your old password and the actual key is decrypted and re-encrypted with the key based off the new password). Because passwords make for really crappy keys the password undergoes a very expensive (i.e. too expensive to brute force) hash/salt algorithm to produce the key.
Anyway, this is why you lose access to the files without knowing the original password. The original password is not stored anywhere (of course) so the user needs to enter it to patch up the encryption key storage.
I somehow doubt that the mechanism for activating windows is that simple to spoof. It is pretty trivial to devise a public/private key system where no server without the private key can activate your machine.
If you believe the original poster then the search engine should know that you only care about famous uses of the word and that smaller individual people and companies are not as important.
Honestly as long as the first few results as a set cover the most relevant sites I don't think that the order within those first 3-5 entries really matters - and it's highly subjective without having some per-user history to go on.
Perhaps search engines should make a distinction between when you are searching for 'big name' results versus 'harder to find' results - just like they do for commercial (shopping) search, image search, local search...
For YEARS Microsoft provided a componentized browser that 3rd parties could use when building their software while the competition (Netscape) did not. This is why AOL continued to use IE within their software even AFTER they bought Netscape. Netscape was never componentized the way IE was. I don't know about firefox, but the 3rd party dependencies on IE (like Quicken, to name another direct competitor to Microsoft) were created well before anyone else had the foresight to create a browser that could be embedded in any application.
The problem is this - when people do this (sell xbox 360s for $1000) on ebay everyone knows they are paying more than the 'normal' price to get it now. If Microsoft did this at retail (start at $1000, drop rapidly once supply catches up with demand) people would be genuinely pissed off at them for asking them to pay more than double for getting the box 6 months early - and not even letting them know that the price would drop.
Now, if they did this will full disclosure letting people know that in 6 months the price would be $300-$400 (or some disclosure that the price would drop a lot in a short time) then no reason to be pissed... but what kind of a 'launch' frenzy would that make for "come get your xbox on this date but only if you're willing to pay twice what you would pay if you waited"...
Furthermore, if they didn't tell everyone the price was going to drop no one would buy it because no one would believe that a console could succeed at $1000 (i.e. even if you'd buy it you know that not enough people will and therefore there won't be many games made for it)
If you are young enough that you can not afford a copy of windows (and you are reading slashdot taking you out the impoverished demographic) then you are not old enough to have bought windows 3.1.
I think that anything man can think of he should share with his fellow man. I should get paid for my service, and my labor, but I completely disapprove of people OWNING ideas.
So if he can't own his ideas and therefore sell them or the right to use them - who exactly is going to 'pay him for his labor'? Who determines how much he deserves for his labor? Shouldn't how much he gets for his labor be a function of how much / how many people WANT the results of his labor? Should one get paid the same amount for resaerching the behavior of magic the gathering players as one gets paid for curing aids? Capitalism is a system of determining value based on how much other people value what you did... it has it's problems, but your post provides absolutely no alternative system... what, is some governing body going to determine what is worth paying for and what is not and then take money from the populace to make these payments? We already do this to some extent (government grants for all types of things) and the value of that may or may not be good - but as an absolute system for creating all intellectual property - there are many many things of value to many people that would never have been created if not for the fact that our government enforecs the validity of intellectual property - often to a fault, but some form of ownership of your creations and ideas is vital to the functioniong of an intellectual and creative society.
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That has been changed in Vista. Vista will not autorun anything without you saying so (it provides a dialog with options on what to do instead which includes the executable that autorun would have run without asking on XP)
... hard to imagine someone failed to see the security risk inherent in automatically running whatever the media asks to run. Maybe if it was a markup language or html document or some other sandboxed content, but an executable ... on a system where everyone was running as admin. Hard to excuse. It's suprising that there were so *few* abuses of this (i.e. the majority of apps set autorun to run the installer which you could almost always cancel out of before it did anything potentially damaging)
Certainly this is how it should have always been
Ever own wood-tone speakers? Ok, not today's hot item, but 'never seen brown succeed' is a bit strong. And everything old becomes new again every so often. I have no idea what will happen, but it will be interesting to see what spread of sales against colors ends up looking like.
Of course all they have to do is call it a 'monitor' and they no longer need to include the tuner (look at the fine print on most of the HDTVs sold today). Plenty of people have no need and will never have any need for an ATSC tuner in their TV simply because they have no antenna set up. Cable and Satellite do not require a tuner in the TV ...
You DON'T have to reboot to disable UAC. You do have to log off and log back on because it fundamentally changes the security context that you are logged on with.
The "silly, fun, useless" Picasa and Google Earth were not developed in-house as part of the "pet project" system. Both of them were products build by other companies that were bought. Picasa was its own entity, Google Earth was build by Keyhole and had been available for several years before Google purchased it.
Umm, it's $50 less than it's nearest competitor. You can't talk about Wii being a 'deal because it's a bundle' then compare it to the 'bundle' premium xbox 360. Furthermore, a game that you may or may not want is not a hard drive that is useful to many games and other scenarios.
Sure would be interesting if xbox 360 lowered it's price from $299 to $249 just in time to match, I doubt that they will do that though.
If all you have is a hammer ...
My brother made construction blueprints for an addition to his house using powerpoint.
Ok, ok, didn't know that :)
But this the billion we're talking about when calculating this fine and when referring to the size of MS's warchest of an apparent '38 billion' is a million + three more zeros.
Flamebait? It's meant to be funny. A billion is a thousand million not a million million.
Please go back and repeat 5th grade.
The error reports are logged in a database and the largest buckets get pushed out as bugs for devs to fix. If a fix is already availble you'll get pointed to it. It's up to you want you report but if you want the problems you are seeing to get fixed then reporting them is one way to help that happen.
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Digital X-Rays involve several orders of magnitude less radiation exposure than film X-Rays. That, and the instant development allowing you to know right away if you need to take another shot, are what make digital X-Rays worthwhile. The resolution is more than adequate for either digital or film X-Rays.
Vonage shows your call info on their web site within a few minutes or less of the call taking place. There's no legal reason Verizon can't answer your questions, they just might not have sufficiently real-time enough data available to give you.
What are you talking about? The list price for the two versions of the 360 is and was always $299 and $399 (US Dollars)
Microsoft already did some of this - it's called Portable Media Center. Unfortunately it's too expensive and doesn't play games ... but with some work they could probably pull this off in the future.
Windows doesn't delete anything if an admin changes your password. You do, however, lose access to encrypted data. The reasons is this: The files are encrypted with a key based on your password (more specifically, the key used to encrypt your files is encrypted with a key based on your password). When you change your password you enter your old password and the actual key is decrypted and re-encrypted with the key based off the new password). Because passwords make for really crappy keys the password undergoes a very expensive (i.e. too expensive to brute force) hash/salt algorithm to produce the key.
Anyway, this is why you lose access to the files without knowing the original password. The original password is not stored anywhere (of course) so the user needs to enter it to patch up the encryption key storage.
I somehow doubt that the mechanism for activating windows is that simple to spoof. It is pretty trivial to devise a public/private key system where no server without the private key can activate your machine.
Why would Microsoft want Vista to not work on a Mac? They don't sell PCs ... the more different PCs Vista works on, the better.
Kind of like Microsoft does.
If you believe the original poster then the search engine should know that you only care about famous uses of the word and that smaller individual people and companies are not as important.
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Honestly as long as the first few results as a set cover the most relevant sites I don't think that the order within those first 3-5 entries really matters - and it's highly subjective without having some per-user history to go on.
Perhaps search engines should make a distinction between when you are searching for 'big name' results versus 'harder to find' results - just like they do for commercial (shopping) search, image search, local search
For YEARS Microsoft provided a componentized browser that 3rd parties could use when building their software while the competition (Netscape) did not. This is why AOL continued to use IE within their software even AFTER they bought Netscape. Netscape was never componentized the way IE was. I don't know about firefox, but the 3rd party dependencies on IE (like Quicken, to name another direct competitor to Microsoft) were created well before anyone else had the foresight to create a browser that could be embedded in any application.
The problem is this - when people do this (sell xbox 360s for $1000) on ebay everyone knows they are paying more than the 'normal' price to get it now. If Microsoft did this at retail (start at $1000, drop rapidly once supply catches up with demand) people would be genuinely pissed off at them for asking them to pay more than double for getting the box 6 months early - and not even letting them know that the price would drop.
... but what kind of a 'launch' frenzy would that make for "come get your xbox on this date but only if you're willing to pay twice what you would pay if you waited" ...
Now, if they did this will full disclosure letting people know that in 6 months the price would be $300-$400 (or some disclosure that the price would drop a lot in a short time) then no reason to be pissed
Furthermore, if they didn't tell everyone the price was going to drop no one would buy it because no one would believe that a console could succeed at $1000 (i.e. even if you'd buy it you know that not enough people will and therefore there won't be many games made for it)
If you are young enough that you can not afford a copy of windows (and you are reading slashdot taking you out the impoverished demographic) then you are not old enough to have bought windows 3.1.
So if he can't own his ideas and therefore sell them or the right to use them - who exactly is going to 'pay him for his labor'? Who determines how much he deserves for his labor? Shouldn't how much he gets for his labor be a function of how much / how many people WANT the results of his labor? Should one get paid the same amount for resaerching the behavior of magic the gathering players as one gets paid for curing aids? Capitalism is a system of determining value based on how much other people value what you did