"The legislation, which was approved by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, is designed to safeguard people from hackers and help protect their personal information."
"One form of spyware called adware has the ability to collect information on a computer user's web-surfing.
It can result in people being bombarded with pop-up ads that are hard to close."
Lesse. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Check. Hackers as evil villians. Check. Mixing javascript pop-up ads and Malware. Check.
"Can this really help cut down spyware or will it just be another fatally flawed piece of legislation?"
The Self-Checkout system has always struck me as a bit abusable. One thing I've always noticed at my local check-out station is the ability to cancel a purchase midway through - of course it requires the approval of the cashier at the machine, but they usually don't give a damn. Maybe I'm ignorant, but if you cancel the purchase after scanning half of your items, what are you left with? Are the items technically "purchased", or is there some kind of de-activation scheme on those items I'm not aware of?
I have solved the spam problem. We wait 50 years for all of the pre-internet people to die off, and the market evaporates, as few people who grew up online use spam like the pre-internet people. Of course it's not the best solution, since it's a bit time-consuming, but it's a start.
CNN interrupted the breaking story this morning to talk about delayed holiday flights and how unfortunate those who were late for Christmas were. Kinda puts things in perspective, doesn't it?
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Because after we ignore the fact a man has been living at the top of the earth for the past several hundred years with little more than old cookies to eat, and has somehow managed to build a toy-production empire that is undetectable by all means of searching, then, and only then, can we begin caring about how he makes his rounds.
In that case, I agree with you. The difference between simple uninstall instructions and an entire sub-catergory of Internet Explorer history on the topic of the ability of uninstalling can be considered different enough that the latter can be included.
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"Santa really needs to consider selling that authoritative list of "naughty" girls. He could make a killing with that thing."
They're like, what? 4? 5? I can already guess what list you're on...
It's an open-source Encyclopedia, not an instruction manual. You could discuss the controversy behind being unable to uninstall it, and provide a link, but remember - the point here is to get the gist of something, not to provide a complete manual for reality. If we were to discuss unistall instructions, what's to stop someone from turning it into basically a Help / Support guide? Nothing, really. That's not what Wikipedia is.
You've obviously never worked in a Wikipedia environment. It's amazing that once you've become free from most of the rules, and are given a simply goal, how people will organize themselves and work toward a common goal. Not to say there aren't trolls, but now you have the community, not just the moderators working against them. I'm honestly surprised at how Wikipedia has gotten so many things right - not to say there aren't problems, but overall the project itself is a grand success.
Curious - if she was allowed to go to Spring Break in the first place, and flash her breasts around to anyone and everyone, what makes you think her incapable of making an informed (or ill-formed) decision?
Apparently a nobel information hacker hast stepped forth on the link, and proclaimed "You fucker steal artists!", followed by rancid anti-torrent links and notes. Oh yes, keep the free spirit alive for us all, man.
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2600 did an article on this subject last summer, discussing the terminology and such.
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"However, and this is a big however, they grant a blanket exception to your ISP or network admins."
Can you say MPAA/RIAA?
"The legislation, which was approved by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, is designed to safeguard people from hackers and help protect their personal information."
"One form of spyware called adware has the ability to collect information on a computer user's web-surfing.
It can result in people being bombarded with pop-up ads that are hard to close."
Lesse. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Check. Hackers as evil villians. Check. Mixing javascript pop-up ads and Malware. Check.
"Can this really help cut down spyware or will it just be another fatally flawed piece of legislation?"
I dunno, what do you think?
Maybe this will bring some interesting attention to the OGG file format?
I recently struck it up with a very nice man from Nigeria...
No comment.
The Self-Checkout system has always struck me as a bit abusable. One thing I've always noticed at my local check-out station is the ability to cancel a purchase midway through - of course it requires the approval of the cashier at the machine, but they usually don't give a damn. Maybe I'm ignorant, but if you cancel the purchase after scanning half of your items, what are you left with? Are the items technically "purchased", or is there some kind of de-activation scheme on those items I'm not aware of?
I have solved the spam problem. We wait 50 years for all of the pre-internet people to die off, and the market evaporates, as few people who grew up online use spam like the pre-internet people. Of course it's not the best solution, since it's a bit time-consuming, but it's a start.
Then what is /.? A one-sided rant?
Oops. Godwin wins again.
The images are open to the public, and thus they stay that way. Trademarking a public image would be illegal to start off with.
If the secret had been kept, would we be any more the wiser?
CNN interrupted the breaking story this morning to talk about delayed holiday flights and how unfortunate those who were late for Christmas were. Kinda puts things in perspective, doesn't it?
Wait...you mean he's...not real?
Because after we ignore the fact a man has been living at the top of the earth for the past several hundred years with little more than old cookies to eat, and has somehow managed to build a toy-production empire that is undetectable by all means of searching, then, and only then, can we begin caring about how he makes his rounds.
In that case, I agree with you. The difference between simple uninstall instructions and an entire sub-catergory of Internet Explorer history on the topic of the ability of uninstalling can be considered different enough that the latter can be included.
"Santa really needs to consider selling that authoritative list of "naughty" girls. He could make a killing with that thing."
They're like, what? 4? 5? I can already guess what list you're on...
It's an open-source Encyclopedia, not an instruction manual. You could discuss the controversy behind being unable to uninstall it, and provide a link, but remember - the point here is to get the gist of something, not to provide a complete manual for reality. If we were to discuss unistall instructions, what's to stop someone from turning it into basically a Help / Support guide? Nothing, really. That's not what Wikipedia is.
You've obviously never worked in a Wikipedia environment. It's amazing that once you've become free from most of the rules, and are given a simply goal, how people will organize themselves and work toward a common goal. Not to say there aren't trolls, but now you have the community, not just the moderators working against them. I'm honestly surprised at how Wikipedia has gotten so many things right - not to say there aren't problems, but overall the project itself is a grand success.
Proof-reading /.?
Curious - if she was allowed to go to Spring Break in the first place, and flash her breasts around to anyone and everyone, what makes you think her incapable of making an informed (or ill-formed) decision?
PS: Check the source, he was kind enough to leave the message intact in comments. Oh, how I do love these people.
Apparently a nobel information hacker hast stepped forth on the link, and proclaimed "You fucker steal artists!", followed by rancid anti-torrent links and notes. Oh yes, keep the free spirit alive for us all, man.
"Oh look, Grandfather apparently needed a larger penis."
"LiveCD, or an operating system that is able to load directly from a bootable CD, without any installation process, without any hard disk."
I'm sad to report that the above statement was half the summary.