No, you can cancel it this time, but MS does say that in future, this may become manditary for certain downloads. It is required once only, and the key used is stored on your machine for future downloads.
What I fail to understand is why the hell anti virus companies don't allow adware to be included in the definitions, and treated in exactly the same way a virus or trojan would be.
Even if it was a known about "yes I want to remove adware from my computer" tickbox for disclaimer purposes.
There is NO way I am ever going to run 2 completely seperate runtime scanners that effectively do an identical job.
This buying after a date thing. Can I buy a job lot of them, and give them to friends as presents? Or will that still be illegal? Can I also setup a shop, and sell remote control batteries, and with every (very expensive) pack, get a free decoder?
And yes, I would tell anyone not to look into even a $1 cheapy red laser.
But theres a world of difference between shining a laser at effectively point blank range, and getting a glancing flash from somebody thousands of feet away moving at hundreds of miles an hour.
I've said this already, but if ANYONE had intent to damage or injure or cause any sort of problem, they would be shining lasers whilst stood at the end of the runway, or pointing at trucks on the motorway. Not from your own backyard, and certainly not from thousands of feet.
No, standing at the end of the runway and shining lasers at the plane as it approaches is intent.
Same as standing at your back yard throwing stones at a plane many thousands of feet away is just stupidity.
All I can say is the world is a fucked up place if he gets 25 years for this. (I'm not saying it shouldn't go unreprimanded, but this definately seems like a total overreaction.)
If he had intent, he wouldn't be out playing in his backyard. He would have driven to the airport and parked at one end of the runway. Once there, he would have shone the light in the pilots eyes just before it landed. The plane would have crashed and we would be upset.
He was playing in his backgarden. He wasn't doing any of the normal things criminals do - hell, he repeated it when he saw the helicopter.
100% aware that he was stupid, and 100% agree, he should not go unreprimanded, but 25 years is a bit steep. Don't you americans have something about cruel and unusual punishments, why not make the punishment fit the crime, and get him flying a plane whilst the pilots are shining lasers at him from his garden. Make a video of it, and if his eyes get damaged, then its a lesson for us all.
By the way, in my youth, my dad had this mega massive ultra bright torch, I could shine it ALL the way up the mill chimney behind my house, if I could have shone it on a plane, I would have tried.
So the pilot is going to sit there staring into the light whilst travelling at hundreds of miles an hour? I can quite happily see this laser flashing the pilot, but nothing more than a few seconds at most, and even then, the pilot just needs to do something he has done all his life.
Blink.
We arent talking about military or medical lasers, this is a handheld pocket pointer.
from te article: She said her client was playing with his young daughter, using the laser's narrow green beam to point at stars and illuminating trees and neighbor's houses.
theres also the case when a pilot needs to have a crap whilst landing. shit happens
Anybody who thinks this is an act of terrorism needs their head examining. Talk to me when people are stood at the end of the runway when things are dangerous, until then, the sun causes more damage and distractions than any laser pointer.
So the worst that happens is they fly around for another run,
It does start getting frightening when the real terrorist is stood hundreds of metres from the runway, and planes are just seconds from landing.
this guy was playing, if a pilot can be taken out from 15 miles away, how the fuck do they cope at dawn or dusk? You get worse glare from the road on sunny days.
No of course I wouldn't use CS as a precident. I was merely pointing out the way technology is blamed. The person responsible for setting up a remote reobotic surgeon had better use connection models that don't depend upon insecure/unstable pathways, or HE will be the only one purely to blame for any cockups.
A broken connection would be similar to a surgeon with the shits. It happens. Your right, its not the end of the world.
but because its robots, and because its technology, the infrastructure will take the fall. Just look at the excuses in the counter strike world. "Poor larry with his 17 bullet wounds through every major organ would be alive today if it wasn't for the high lag."
I think the interface looks clean and uncluttered. Too often programs overpower the user with options and bumf. I'm growing to like this softer aproach, and giving information in a human readable, easily digestable manner makes life simpler.
If you look at the images, it shows an example of trapping Messenger Plus. It gives a description of what the problem is, explains that its not the actual Messenger plus program that has the problem, but the spyware installed around it, there is the option of ignoring it (selected on screenshot). I cannot tell from the screenshots whether it comes up on ignore by default, but its at least giving more information than previously.
On a slightly different note, in the neowin forum, some folks are saying "i haven't got any adaware hits now I'm using Firefox, but couldn't part of that be Adaware ONLY looking at the IE cache, and not the firefox one? After all, 90% of the crap Adaware ever moans about is data mining cookies.
I would imagine simple high power transmissions would have the best chance of success.
You are in an emergency situation. You want to use the best tool (and hence frequency, and language/mode) possible. You want to ensure contact with as many people as possible.
Reserve the fancy tricks for when your safe and comfortable.
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This would be why its still in beta.
Heres betting that it would identify itself with the original company name.
No, you can cancel it this time, but MS does say that in future, this may become manditary for certain downloads.
It is required once only, and the key used is stored on your machine for future downloads.
Gives me the creeps though.
What I fail to understand is why the hell anti virus companies don't allow adware to be included in the definitions, and treated in exactly the same way a virus or trojan would be.
Even if it was a known about "yes I want to remove adware from my computer" tickbox for disclaimer purposes.
There is NO way I am ever going to run 2 completely seperate runtime scanners that effectively do an identical job.
ahem, its the online picture service:
"..people can upload the pictures and videos for near instantaneous electronic sharing with friends around the world.
On-the-spot sharing of up to 1,500 favorite pictures, synchronized with a person's PC-based picture collection..."
The camera itself has 256mb of memory, so it will fit a reasonable amount of pictures on, you choose your favorites and upload them to kodak.
You can then steer your family and friends and anyone interested to the site - instantly, certainly cuts out the initial middlestep.
Not a bad idea if you ask me, its like iTunes and the iPod in reverse.
This buying after a date thing.
Can I buy a job lot of them, and give them to friends as presents?
Or will that still be illegal?
Can I also setup a shop, and sell remote control batteries, and with every (very expensive) pack, get a free decoder?
this isn't even the best/most expensive one, but this is enough proof.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5a47/
And yes, I would tell anyone not to look into even a $1 cheapy red laser.
But theres a world of difference between shining a laser at effectively point blank range, and getting a glancing flash from somebody thousands of feet away moving at hundreds of miles an hour.
I've said this already, but if ANYONE had intent to damage or injure or cause any sort of problem, they would be shining lasers whilst stood at the end of the runway, or pointing at trucks on the motorway.
Not from your own backyard, and certainly not from thousands of feet.
No, standing at the end of the runway and shining lasers at the plane as it approaches is intent.
Same as standing at your back yard throwing stones at a plane many thousands of feet away is just stupidity.
All I can say is the world is a fucked up place if he gets 25 years for this.
(I'm not saying it shouldn't go unreprimanded, but this definately seems like a total overreaction.)
If he had intent, he wouldn't be out playing in his backyard.
He would have driven to the airport and parked at one end of the runway.
Once there, he would have shone the light in the pilots eyes just before it landed.
The plane would have crashed and we would be upset.
He was playing in his backgarden.
He wasn't doing any of the normal things criminals do - hell, he repeated it when he saw the helicopter.
100% aware that he was stupid, and 100% agree, he should not go unreprimanded, but 25 years is a bit steep.
Don't you americans have something about cruel and unusual punishments, why not make the punishment fit the crime, and get him flying a plane whilst the pilots are shining lasers at him from his garden.
Make a video of it, and if his eyes get damaged, then its a lesson for us all.
By the way, in my youth, my dad had this mega massive ultra bright torch, I could shine it ALL the way up the mill chimney behind my house, if I could have shone it on a plane, I would have tried.
So the pilot is going to sit there staring into the light whilst travelling at hundreds of miles an hour?
I can quite happily see this laser flashing the pilot, but nothing more than a few seconds at most, and even then, the pilot just needs to do something he has done all his life.
Blink.
We arent talking about military or medical lasers, this is a handheld pocket pointer.
from te article:
She said her client was playing with his young daughter, using the laser's narrow green beam to point at stars and illuminating trees and neighbor's houses.
Theres the biggest victim.
theres also the case when a pilot needs to have a crap whilst landing.
shit happens
Anybody who thinks this is an act of terrorism needs their head examining.
Talk to me when people are stood at the end of the runway when things are dangerous, until then, the sun causes more damage and distractions than any laser pointer.
So the worst that happens is they fly around for another run,
It does start getting frightening when the real terrorist is stood hundreds of metres from the runway, and planes are just seconds from landing.
this guy was playing, if a pilot can be taken out from 15 miles away, how the fuck do they cope at dawn or dusk?
You get worse glare from the road on sunny days.
Daylight savings time?
Look at the poster above you for the "buggy" version.
Windows has just altered your clock by one hour consistantly.
I don't care, your right.
Best first post ever.
No of course I wouldn't use CS as a precident.
I was merely pointing out the way technology is blamed.
The person responsible for setting up a remote reobotic surgeon had better use connection models that don't depend upon insecure/unstable pathways, or HE will be the only one purely to blame for any cockups.
A broken connection would be similar to a surgeon with the shits.
It happens. Your right, its not the end of the world.
but because its robots, and because its technology, the infrastructure will take the fall. Just look at the excuses in the counter strike world.
"Poor larry with his 17 bullet wounds through every major organ would be alive today if it wasn't for the high lag."
The art is to simply open the ports you want to allow access on :)
"Sure, you can surf the web from my connection, but your not going to send crap through it"
it had a moulded-rubber case which could resist falling down the toilet or whatever - but I'm not sure what happened to it.
Somebody flushed.
Lets put it another way,
if they DON'T deliver in 14 days, do I get the laptop for free?
I think the interface looks clean and uncluttered.
Too often programs overpower the user with options and bumf.
I'm growing to like this softer aproach, and giving information in a human readable, easily digestable manner makes life simpler.
If you look at the images, it shows an example of trapping Messenger Plus.
It gives a description of what the problem is, explains that its not the actual Messenger plus program that has the problem, but the spyware installed around it, there is the option of ignoring it (selected on screenshot).
I cannot tell from the screenshots whether it comes up on ignore by default, but its at least giving more information than previously.
On a slightly different note, in the neowin forum, some folks are saying "i haven't got any adaware hits now I'm using Firefox, but couldn't part of that be Adaware ONLY looking at the IE cache, and not the firefox one?
After all, 90% of the crap Adaware ever moans about is data mining cookies.
My youngest has a thing for The Fimbles :)
Luckily the BBC have plenty of resources available to entertain him
For most geeks, all thats needed is a tobacco plant, a coffee plant, and a twinkie tree.
;)
What? you mean twinkies arent grown on trees?
I would imagine simple high power transmissions would have the best chance of success.
You are in an emergency situation.
You want to use the best tool (and hence frequency, and language/mode) possible.
You want to ensure contact with as many people as possible.
Reserve the fancy tricks for when your safe and comfortable.
(Applies to pretty much anything, not just radio)
I smeared paint all over my windows, now I can't see what I'm typing.