Relax. Mostly everything is first designed for the military-use (they pay the big bucks) and then little later it always comes available to the consumers.
The Xylithol-gum is proved to normalize the mouth's ph-level (acid-level), therefore it does protect the teeth very well when chew'd after a meal. ph drops when you eat (just about anything) and your teeth get under attack. The faster the mouth's ph-level normalizes, the better.
What is Sony wins and court rules that the rootkit is ok to use and legal? All software that remove or tampers with the drm would probably be illegal in California?
Stories like this make me really angry. Because the consumers always lose.
How come the insurance comppany didn't pay for the laptop when you had the receipt of the Dell's repair work and the pictures of the broken laptop after the crash? I'm 100% sure insurance comppanies here in Finland would have paid, even to they are crooks also.
F-Secure's Mikko Hypönen has haid that the Sony DRM, when run on Windows Vista "breaks the operating system spectacularly". Imagine 5 years from now, someone pops an Sony disc and puts it in his/hers/dads computer and wham, the Vista operating system crashes. Great, who to blame? It doesn't really matter if Sony makes "better" version for the newer cd's, are they going to upgrade all the existings cd's also?
These cds are going to be around for a long time and it seems thay they are designed only for Windows XP!!
This is true, but most problems can be fixed. For example, sometimes it's enough just to give the users write/full access to the program's own directory. Sometimes some old programs designed for WinNT require access to certain parts of the Windows registry where normal users don't anymore have access on Windows 2000 or XP (On NT normal users had access to almost everywhere on the registry).
It's not your laptop, it's the company's laptop and one can't just do anything he wants with company's property.
Average user shouldn't have admin rights to his laptop, that's just plain stupid. Of course there are exceptions, I and I imagine that most who read slashdot are exceptions on this case:)
Actually, in many cases it's better to wound the enemy and leave them alive. That's because when one enemy soldier get's shot, he'll start screaming his comrades for help. One wounded and screaming soldier takes one or two other solderies to help him, when one dead soldier doesn't. Screaming comrades aren't very good for enemy's fighting moral either. At least this is what I was teached in the army.
F-Secure tells, that you need to answer YES four time before you get infected.
From F-secure's page:
"So how come anybody ever gets infected by it if you have to click "Yes" so many times?
Well, we've spoken to many people who've actually been infected, and they typically explain it like this: They got this weird message on the phone, requesting a "Yes" or "No" answer. So they clicked "No". But the message popped up immediatly again. And they clicked "No" - only to see the message pop up again. And since "No" didn't seem to be working, they clicked "Yes"...
The message would have disappeared if they would have walked away from the area where they were (to get out of the range of the infected phone), but there's no way for an end user to know that."
http://www.f-secure.fi/weblog/
I (we) run a small site here in Finland and we are paying about 20 euros/kk. Quota is 250MB, altought it is not controlled any way. No transfer limits (We have about 65 gigs of transfers from our site each month). We're pretty happy with the deal, especially since the line is fast (100 or 1000mbit or something, they won't tell).
Do you think it's expensive or not?
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Relax. Mostly everything is first designed for the military-use (they pay the big bucks) and then little later it always comes available to the consumers.
The Xylithol-gum is proved to normalize the mouth's ph-level (acid-level), therefore it does protect the teeth very well when chew'd after a meal. ph drops when you eat (just about anything) and your teeth get under attack. The faster the mouth's ph-level normalizes, the better.
What is Sony wins and court rules that the rootkit is ok to use and legal? All software that remove or tampers with the drm would probably be illegal in California?
Stories like this make me really angry. Because the consumers always lose. How come the insurance comppany didn't pay for the laptop when you had the receipt of the Dell's repair work and the pictures of the broken laptop after the crash? I'm 100% sure insurance comppanies here in Finland would have paid, even to they are crooks also.
F-Secure's Mikko Hypönen has haid that the Sony DRM, when run on Windows Vista "breaks the operating system spectacularly". Imagine 5 years from now, someone pops an Sony disc and puts it in his/hers/dads computer and wham, the Vista operating system crashes. Great, who to blame? It doesn't really matter if Sony makes "better" version for the newer cd's, are they going to upgrade all the existings cd's also? These cds are going to be around for a long time and it seems thay they are designed only for Windows XP!!
F-secure's page about the XCP DRM Software: http://europe.f-secure.com/v-descs/xcp_drm.shtml
What attack?
100 million chinese can't all be Wong!
This is true, but most problems can be fixed. For example, sometimes it's enough just to give the users write/full access to the program's own directory. Sometimes some old programs designed for WinNT require access to certain parts of the Windows registry where normal users don't anymore have access on Windows 2000 or XP (On NT normal users had access to almost everywhere on the registry).
It's not your laptop, it's the company's laptop and one can't just do anything he wants with company's property. Average user shouldn't have admin rights to his laptop, that's just plain stupid. Of course there are exceptions, I and I imagine that most who read slashdot are exceptions on this case :)
I'm confused. Is it normal in Usa that customer's phonenumbers are asked when they buy something from a store? That sound's so ridiculous..
When I was a kid, I always tought that it was one person who's name was "Many Bothans"..?
Actually, in many cases it's better to wound the enemy and leave them alive. That's because when one enemy soldier get's shot, he'll start screaming his comrades for help. One wounded and screaming soldier takes one or two other solderies to help him, when one dead soldier doesn't. Screaming comrades aren't very good for enemy's fighting moral either. At least this is what I was teached in the army.
F-Secure tells, that you need to answer YES four time before you get infected. From F-secure's page: "So how come anybody ever gets infected by it if you have to click "Yes" so many times? Well, we've spoken to many people who've actually been infected, and they typically explain it like this: They got this weird message on the phone, requesting a "Yes" or "No" answer. So they clicked "No". But the message popped up immediatly again. And they clicked "No" - only to see the message pop up again. And since "No" didn't seem to be working, they clicked "Yes"... The message would have disappeared if they would have walked away from the area where they were (to get out of the range of the infected phone), but there's no way for an end user to know that." http://www.f-secure.fi/weblog/
It can't be very good, it didn't find any spyware on my Windows 2000 computer :)
In Police Quest I if you looked at a building's wall by typing "look at wall" it said "These walls have an important job of keeping the roof up" :)
Heh, I remember how there was an "atoll" named "nothing"..
I (we) run a small site here in Finland and we are paying about 20 euros/kk. Quota is 250MB, altought it is not controlled any way. No transfer limits (We have about 65 gigs of transfers from our site each month). We're pretty happy with the deal, especially since the line is fast (100 or 1000mbit or something, they won't tell). Do you think it's expensive or not?