Apparently you never heard of Microsoft's Hidden Files SUMMARY: Discuss this article with the author, and with other readers, in the Hidden Files discussion area of our forums! There are folders on your computer that Microsoft has tried hard to keep secret. Within these folders you will find two major things: Microsoft Internet Explorer has not been clearing your browsing history after you have instructed it to do so, and Microsoft's Outlook Express has not been deleting your e-mail correspondence after you've erased them from your Deleted Items bin. (This also includes all incoming and outgoing file attachments.) And believe me, that's not even the half of it.
When I say these files are hidden well, I really mean it. If you don't have any knowledge of DOS then don't plan on finding these files on your own. I say this because these files/folders won't be displayed in Windows Explorer at all -- only DOS. (Even after you have enabled Windows Explorer to "show all files.") And to top it off, the only way to find them in DOS is if you knew the exact location of them. Basically, what I'm saying is if you didn't know the files existed then the chances of you running across them is slim to slimmer.
You object to Google taking a picture of your house that ANYONE walking by could take, or of making a note of any wireless nearby, which can also be done by anyone from public property. Windows doesn't "phone home" on a regular basis for nothing. While the info in the URL is ancient history Microsoft hasn't quit, they just gotten more sophisticated. Windows generates a GUID based on 10 components of your hardware that Windows is running on. EVERY document you send out has your GUId embedded in it. Every online transaction includes your GUID, regardless of whether you identified yourself or not. Microsoft takes the GUID from your Amazon credit card transaction and matches your name and address with the GUID you left when you posted an anonymous message or downloaded a file.
And you think Google is being invasive for putting up Google Earth, or Street View. Get real. This current anti-Google campaign has all the stink of one of Microsoft's dirty tricks combined with their classic "astroturfing".
In fact, you could be one of James Plamondon's "Technical Evangelists".
"The bankruptcy judge called for a Chapter 11 trustee in August 2009, about one month before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver ruled in the company's favor after six years of litigation with Waltham, Massachusetts-based Novell Inc. The case went back to the district court, where the judge and jury further clarified SCO's rights in certain Unix software incorporated in software for network systems.
All this time I thought that Novell had won the court case and proved that SCO didn't have any Unix "rights". How could the bankruptcy judge get it so wrong?
That's because Linux is 100% as vulnerable to... Linux uses security by "obscurity"...
You really have things backwards. Linux source code is GPL freely available for anyone to inspect. Windows source is proprietary and secret, which Gates testified before Congress was necessary because it was a national resource that should be kept secret for security reasons... until Gates gave the Chinese copies of the XP source because it was their price for Microsoft to do business in China. So, it is Microsoft that practices "security by obscurity".
Actual security? The 1,000,000 + zombies that are appearing on the giant bot farms discovered every so often are compromised Windows boxes, not Linux or Mac OS X boxes. Ballmer himself put the Linux desktop market share at around 10% and called Linux a greater competitive threat than Apple. With that percentage and, according to you Linux is equally as vulnerable, then why isn't 100,000 of those zombies Linux boxes?
And, if Linux is so easy to compromise then why did professional hackers spend more than 6 months last year just to capture only 700 Linux boxes using brute force password cracking when, according to you, all they had to do was spend a day or two to lure a few hundred thousand Linux users to their porn site honey pot?
Morons are those who drink Microsoft's Kool-aide and become brainless human zombies chanting MS Technical Evangelists astroturf postings as if they are fact.
Forget that it's riding on the most insecure OS on the planet. IF Microsoft, which KNOWS ALL the "undocumented" features of.NET, and it's hand picked partner Aventure, cannot build an app which is both stable and fast, then who can?
It's a common practice these days for has-been journalists to attempt to boost their page hits by using inflammatory article titles or leads to mundane or ridiculous articles that may only vaguely refer to Linux. You've seen them - "Is Debian Yesterday's distribution?" is but one recent example.
It appears to me that the Valve corporation salted the rumor mine in order to gain FREE publicity about their Steam product. Letting "leak" a Mac Os X launcher script that contains references: elif [ "$UNAME" == "Linux" ]; then
PLATFORM=linux32
# prepend our lib path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${STEAMROOT}"/${PLATFORM}:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH fi
served nicely as the "Fool's Gold" for the rumor mine.
That Valve did not IMMEDIATELY SQUELCH the rumor, but let it play for FOUR MONTHS, is prima facia evidence that they were exploiting its news value to advertize Steam. They could have refuted the rumor within a few days of the Phoronix article, or they could have simply kept silent for ever about it. The first option would have reduced the news buzz considerable. The second option would have looked even more like blatant exploitation of the Linux phenomena. Four months is just right to maximize the Steam buzz, plus they get an additional buzz kick with their refutation comment.
Just another example of what is becoming classic and all to frequent corporate sleaze behavior.
If this is a false accusation, and I believe it is, I would also suspect that agents would be assigned to astroturf media sites with posts supporting the accusations and charges.
A couple days ago I did a count of the number and kind of computers offered by DELL that come with Ubuntu pre-installed. Dell offered, when I counted, a total of 32 different laptops and, surprisingly, 32 different desktops. Only 3% of their desktop offerings and 6% of their laptop offerings ran Ubuntu pre-installed. I also noted that the customization offerings were much less with the Ubuntu. With friends like Dell, Linux needs no enemies. That's why I say that Dell offers Linux so that Microsoft can point to them when people accuse it of being a monopoly.
Comparing an Ubuntu XPS7100 with its Windows counterpart I noticed the Ubuntu offering was only $20 less, but it had fewer customizations, and those that were offered weren't of the caliber or range of those offered for the Windows machines.
This is why, when folks buy a DELL but with the intent of running Linux, they buy the hardware and customizations they want using the more generous Windows offerings, and then either dual boot with Windows or REPLACE Windows with Linux. Thus, Windows gets the "retail sales channel count" but Linux gets the machine. The Windows purchaser continues to shell out even MORE cash for adequate AV software, cdrom burning software, firewall software, office software, graphics software, etc... The Linux user installs all of that software from their repository at the same cost of their distro - 0$. The result? Windows machines continue to be added to Windows bot farms in the tens of thousands. While Windows servers comprise only 16.6% of all Internet servers, they serve 99% of all spam and malware. OpenSource software, running on 76% of all Internet servers, account for a fraction of a percent of malware. This is why, as Steve Ballmer noted 18 months ago, that Linux is their main competition and its desktop market share has exceeded Apple's.
As the economy continues to stagnate, people are without jobs or are in low paying jobs, and money is tight. I have had nearly a couple dozen people who have been running Windows for years call me up and say they've heard about Linux and ask me to install it on their computer. These are friends who've asked me several times in the past to restore their Windows boxes to running condition again. Since installing Linux (usually PCLinuxOS or Kubuntu) the only calls I get are "what printer should I choose?", or "This pop-up says my computer is infected with Windows viruses! What should I do?" I laugh and tell them to ignore it. Only one, who couldn't find a Linux version of the kind of software he was using, returned to Windows, but he uses Linux in dual boot to surf the web and do online accounting and buying.
throw more of their money at Larry Ellison so he can buy more fighter jets and luxury yachts.
It will also assure their continued lock-in to one of the most expensive pieces of proprietary software sold. That "Premium" support they mention... will it be as good as their current support? My son, the Oracle dba, hsa abandon Oracle's paid support in favor of the open Oracle forums, where support is faster coming and better. That doesn't stop his bosses from continuing to throw money at Oracle for each CPU (not server) their database runs on.
Lock-in is a rut, similar to a grave, but open on both ends.
DELL's entire Linux effort for the last three years has been, IMO, one big gigantic FRAUD, with the intent to offer Ubuntu pre-installed on a few marginal boxes without significant customization available and for only one reason: so that Microsoft can avoid charges that it holds an illegal monopoly on the PC OEM desktop. Which it does.
The only question remaining is: "What are the advantages to DELL for allowing itself to be controlled as if it were a wholly owned subsidiary of another corporate, perhaps including Microsoft?"
Well, we have one answer to that question already. Just yesterday (7/23) we learned that DELL corporate has agreed to pay a $100 Million fine, and Dell personally has agreed to pay $4 Million. Two of his lieutenants have agreed to pay $4M and $3M each. And what did the SEC fine them for?
"They failed to disclose material information to investors and used fraudulent accounting to make it falsely appear that the company was consistently meeting Wall Street earnings targets."
If THAT is a crime then Microsoft is guilty as well. That's how they got to the top of the pile they are setting on today. What DELL actually did was take payoffs from Intel to not use AMD chips.
The SEC charged that Dell did not disclose to investors large "exclusivity payments" the company received from Intel Corporation to not use central processing units (CPUs) manufactured by Intel's main rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD).
"It was these payments rather than the company's management and operations that allowed Dell to meet its earnings targets," the SEC said. "After Intel cut these payments, Dell again misled investors by not disclosing the true reason behind the company's decreased profitability."... The SEC's complaint charged that the exclusivity payments made by Intel to Dell for not using CPUs made by AMD grew from 10 percent of Dell's operating income in fiscal year 2003 to 38 percent in fiscal year 2006. It peaked at 76 percent in the first quarter of FY 2007.
In fiscal year 2007, after Dell announced its intention to begin using CPUs made by AMD, the company and the individuals charged failed to disclose the basis for the company's sharp drop in its operating results. "In dollar terms, the reduction in Intel exclusivity payments was equivalent to 75 percent of the decline in Dell's operating income" the SEC said, and Messrs. Dell, Rollins, and Schneider told investors in an earnings call "that the sharp drop in the company's operating results was attributable to Dell pricing too aggressively in the face of slowing demand and to component costs declining less than expected."
Intel is the subject of antitrust lawsuits brought by the Federal Trade Commission and several states. In November 2009, Intel agreed to pay AMD $1.25 billion as part of a settlement in a private antitrust suit brought by AMD.
This reveals the injustice in the prosecution of corporate white collar crime: that Dell and the other people involved at both companies did not face CRIMINAL prosecution and didn't even have to admit guilt, even though there was enough evidence to force them to pay hundreds of millions in fines, which amounts to about 10% of their annual net profit during the last four quarters. Perhaps if Dell and the Intel management and major share holders had to spend some hard time in jail they wouldn't be so willing to flaunt the law for obscene profits. Such puny fines is like a hand-slap and defacto approval of their behavior.
DELL's behavior with Intel suggests that DELL is staying afloat, despite the poor quality of their machines and their high return rates, because Microsoft is paying them to NOT include Ubuntu on their desktops. It also raises questions about the other PC OEMs who won't free up their desktop for competition against Microsoft.
Large file libraries such as download.com and tucows.com offer a range of files and content we can not match, so we have taken the reluctant decision to discontinue this service.
The affected files are "... files include Windows utilities and drivers, along with a variety of Linux software such as the popular Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora distributions." so as such the change in corporate policy doesn't constitute an attack on Linux per se. While their users want or require those files, What this policy really represents is the classic corporate tactic of letting others supply materials from which they and/or their consumers derive use. In Corporate speak these materials are "Externalities", in which a corporation maximizes its profits by offloading its costs to others or the public. This is accomplished only because of the apathy of those on to whom the costs are transfered See part 4 of the video "The Corporation".
BTW, this is the tactic Microsoft used to finance the coding of Win95:
"3) Convincing Employees to Take Less Real Wages: Microsoft aggressively markets stock options to new employees in an effort to take wage expenses off the books. They also know that they can pocket the exercise price employees will be required to pay to take ownership of the stock. What also seems clear is that Microsoft is still aggressively marketing its stock option program to new recruits. To quote an email received, "I am about to begin employment at Microsoft and the stock option was the selling factor. Does your article overall state that it will be bad for me and will fail me in my retirement planning?" Is Microsoft fulfilling its disclosure obligations to its own employees, especially those that have put their entire 401K balance in Microsoft stock? This explains how 22 percent of Microsoft's massive cash balance has actually come from its own employees in the form of them prepaying their own wages through stock option exercise prices."
in recent history that gambling casinos have used "mechanical problems" to evade honoring their promises?
I wager it will be used again. After all, aren't most winners too poor to afford lawyers to fight the casinos? It's the same problem with corporate abuse of DRM and DMCA lawsl.
a.k.a "campaign contributions. They are bribes because the politician can convert them to personal funds if he/she doesn't run for office again. That's why they are always campaigning, 7/24/365... to increase their personal wealth. Thank Congress for that. They could have said no to the bribes.
I didn't vote for him, but Pres Obama won a landslide victory to enact, among other things, universal, single payer health care legislation.
Then the corporate lobbyists took over, greased the politicians palms, and suddenly the politician "see problems" with what the large majority of American voters asked for. Members of Obama's own party are just as guilty as the Republicans in accepting bribes to feather their own nests at the expense of our Republic. Then those deceitful corporations put up some pseudo "grass roots" websites pretending to be "ordinary" Americans (just the way Microsoft talked dead people into writing letters to Congress telling them to call of the DOJ), hired a few buses and filled them with rent-a-protesters, who made each of their Tea Party stops look like part of a ground swell movement. Those Conservatives who got emails from employees of "prosperityforamerica.com", or similar sounding sites, didn't know enough to do a WHOIS on the domain name and see who actually paid for the domain and what organizations are actually behind them. They would have found a dozen different websites were all fronted by corporate Republicans, just another part of the corporation lobbying campaign. Those crafty corporate sponsors of Republican shenanigans caught wind of some folks actually doing a WHOIS and reporting the results, so they now hide their sites behind anonymous proxies to conceal their identity. If THAT didn't tell you all you needed to know about their ethics and intent then you are not smart enough to vote.
The corporate lobbyists who are behind Socialist causes act just as corruptly as the "free market" corporate lobbyists do. So do the non-profits, except they claim to be lobbying for noble purposes. The effect is the same, however, the will of the people is thwarted when one lobbyist with a bag full of "campaign contributions" can nullify the votes of tens, hundreds, thousands or millions of voters. Thank Congress. Millions of voters didn't want Congress to put a "cap" on BP's financial exposure to their environmental pollution, but that is why now, by law, BP's financial accountability for the Gulf of Mexico disaster is only $75 million Dollars! Exxon put up a good front in the Valdez disaster, and made lots of nice sounding promises too. But after public interest waned their lawyers took over. Just THIS YEAR, 24 years later, they settled the last of the lawsuits filed against them... and over all paid only ten cents on the dollar. Thank Congress for that.
The problem is the Corporations are NOT corpus. They are NOT living individuals and they should NOT have the rights of living, breathing people. Lobbying, for what ever cause, even high moralistic ones, should be outlawed. A CEO does NOT deserve to have his or her vote counted thousands of times while you or my vote is counted only once. Thank Congress for that.
That's what broke out political system, and it has been a long time coming. You can't continue raping the Goose the laid the Golden Eggs and expect the Gold to continue. We are now out of jobs because we are out of manufacturing plants. We are out of resources because we don't make things to last. Sales have to "grow" so things are made to wear out, and wear out quickly. We are polluting our environment because we want to retire before we reach 50 and live like Kings with several castles each. Even our "Green House Guru" can't live in a home that respects the environment. His house has to leave a Carbon foot print that is ten times that left by the average citizen.
Finally, when you voted for a Congress person because their ear mark gave you a job on a highway that went to no where, or on an air port that only the congressman uses, or for research into the sex life of a hammer, he BRIBED YOU. YOU CAN THANK YOURSELVES FOR THAT.
A TRUE OSS license will contain the Four Freedoms. IF it does not then it is not a license that would encourage community source code contributions and return improvements back to the community for the benefit of all.
The OSI markets a forest of pseudo Open Source licenses which attempt to hide the few trees that honor the Four Freedoms. Without the Four Freedoms GNU Linux would not have grown to its present popularity and still remain free. One has only to look at the BSD license to see that such a license is just an invitation for proprietary software houses to take, take, take, and without a single thought of returning anything of value to the community except an invoice, DRM and a EULA.
WebM will be exploited by proprietary houses but the license does not require them to do anything to the benefit of the community It does allow them to exploit WebM for profit. Their next step will be to follow Microsoft's behavior and patent their WebM extensions, then make deals with browser writers to incorporate their version of WebM and not the root codec, just the way Microsoft "convinced" peripheral manufacturers to remove the CPUs from their products and make then dependent on the Windows OS for their operation.
Under Reagan's facile gaze, the economy was sent into the worst* recession in our lifetime.
You must be pretty young, or your school books got it wrong.
The "worst recession in our lifetimes" was pale in comparison to the current economic woes, and the 21% inflation and long lines at the gas pump were on Carter's watch, not Reagan's. That's why Carter didn't win a second term. When ACORN picketed banks in Chicago they were ignored, but when they terrorized bank employees at their homes they forced the beginnings of the NIJA house loans (No Income, Job or Assets -- the SUPPRESSED SNL comedy sketch got it right! http://www.savethisnation.org/apps/videos/videos/show/2394707-mortgage-crisis-skit-pulled-from-snl). They took their campaign to Washington and were successful in getting the Democrats to pass the Community Reinvestment Act, which was ineffective in promoting NIJA loans nationwide UNTIL Clinton signed an Executive Order requiring all banks that do business with the Federal Government to have a certain percentage of NIJA loans. That started the beginning of the housing bubble which was inflated with flatulance of worthless paper. With the full faith and credit of the US government now behind the NIJA loans the greedy Wall Street fatcats saw a GOLDEN opportunity. While Congress and SEC turned their backs and closed their eyes, ears and oversight, the worthless NIJA subprime mortgages were repackaged with good paper and sold to everyone, especially our friends overseas. In 2004 and 2006 CSPAN filmed Congressional hearings about the housing bubble. You can watch and see for yourself who ridiculed those who were concerned and who was responsible for blocking any and all attempts to reign in the situation before it got out of hand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs Among other tactics even the race card was played as a device to stop the inquiry.
The losses in the housing bubble has paled in comparison to the subsequent unsupervised, unmonitored and unaccounted giveaway of TRILLIONS of dollars to fatcats who had already made Billions using the Subprime Mortgages to plunder the uninformed, and to political opportunists on the Left. To a casual observer such wholesale plundering of the US Treasury seems like an organized campaign to totally collapse the American economy and force the country into 2nd or 3rd world status, while holding up Socialism as the "savior". Many communities can no longer support their own infrastructure. After a severe and long winter streets and bridges are in terrible shape and homes and apartments need repairs. Pot hole damages to automobiles is much higher than normal. Add to those stress the affects of a much larger than normal number of citizens being unemployed and, considering that only minimum wage jobs are available, unemployable, the economic woes will only increase. So will the political unrest.
Both the Republicans and the Democrats have done their very best to destroy the Constitution, even before the RICO Act, continuing with the PATRIOT Act, and HUNDREDS of dictatorial "Executive Orders", neither party can claim clean hands in all the problems that led to the current situation. Their whole job seems to one of taking bribes (a.k.a. "campaign contributions") so they can be reelected in perpetuity, thus they are on a 24/7/365 campaign mode, with marginal time taken out to actually do that for which they were elected. It seems the only time they come back to Washington is to vot
popped out of a wall socket in my living room when a lighting bolt struck a pole near the corner of my house. The power cord to a Thomas clock plugged into that socket melted. The ball had the size of a soccer ball and the color of a basketball, except that it was iridescent. It floated across the living room a distance of about 12 feet, gradually settling down and touching the carpet, where it disappeared in a flash and left a burned patch about three inches in diameter. This was the first and only plasma ball (ball lightening?) I ever saw.
Why would he want to do that? Carbon Credits is a gold mine for Gore and he is mining them for all he can.
I downloaded the FOIA.ZIP file and examined the 1,037 emails and other documents it contained. Gore claims that the emails are "all ten years old or older" and implies their contents are meaningless today. He lied or he is totally ignorant of the facts: http://www.examiner.com/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2009m12d9-Al-Gore-talks-Climategate-on-CNN-and-Slate-misstates-the-facts#video Of the 1,037 emails over 10% were written in 2009. The most recent had the following header: From: "Thorne, Peter (Climate Research)" (peter.thorne@metoffice.gov.uk) To: "Phil Jones" (p.jones@uea.ac.uk) Subject: Letter draft Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:17:44 -0000
which was sent only FIVE days before the files were posted on line.
One has only to read HARRY_README.TXT to understand what was going on and see how the manipulation, cherry picking, cooking and creating "data" out of thin air was taking place.
The "reviews" whitewash the actions of the CRU and its cooperating agencies, all part of a subagency of the UN,the IPCC, all government funded. The "reviews" in effect say it is:
OK to ignore Freedom of Information Acts, or subvert their intent, or make plans to destroy the data if no other recourse is available.
OK to intimidate climate journals into getting AGW articles "peer reviewed" by cronies after getting equally qualified academics with apposing views thrown off of the list of peer reviewers.
OK to slander non-AGW academics, some with more expertise and academic standing than they have, like MIT Prof Richard Lindzen, and try to destroy their careers. BTW, you can read the tactics they discuss and choose in the emails.
OK to publish articles in those journals that posit conclusions which cannot be verified or replicated because the data is withheld from the journal, and thus its readers, a specifically NON-academic attitude.
OK to publish articles making unsubstantiated claims about the Amazon forests or the Himalayan glaciers, or other topics, using the un-reviewed rantings of Green Peace activists as your authorities.
OK to make contracts with UN agencies guaranteeing "deliverables" (data) at "milestones" which will support the AGW theory the UN supports, because AGW can be used to justify redistribute wealth from rich countries to poor ones (dialectical materialism) in the form of "Carbon Taxes". (Manipulating Carbon Tax Credits is where Gore is making his millions.)
I remember the "Global Cooling/Nuclear Winter" hysteria. I remember the Club of Rome hysteria (I fell for that one until I analyzed the BASIC program and realized the program was rigged to produce the same results regardless of the input, just as the AGW computer models do. Using the "Hockey Stick" methodologies one can get a hockey stick using red noise. Similar manipulations of models were used by Federal Agencies to justify dictating water usage in the Mid-West US.) Now I am witnessing the AGW hysteria
The people who pushed the first two are the ones (and/or their students), pushing AGW, along with their friends in the Left Wing media. The "solution" in each is the same: adopt Marxism world wide and we'll all stand around in the promise land singing Kumbaya.
But, I got hit by a truck and my wife got bored by the treadmill.
We tried gym memberships, at home exercise routines, beach balls, weight benches, etc. The treadmill doesn't exercise many muscles. My wife, who had experienced a small stroke during hearth surgery, had difficulty walking without dragging her right foot, and on occasions she'd stagger. And it was all boring, boring, boring. The beach ball exercise where you put it against your back and then squat to a point your legs make a 90 degree angle, hold it for the count of 10, then stand again, all the while holding the beach ball against the wall, KILLED my knees. Took me months to recover and even just to walk without knee pain.
Then we got a Wii and Wii Plus exercise board. Big difference. shifting your weight while trying to drop the balls through the holes, dodging the soccer balls, riding the bike and finding the flag poles, playing golf, bowling and other Wii fitness activities exercises leg muscles that increased my wife's walking agility like the treadmill never could. I get drenched in sweat trying to find the flags while riding a bike all over an island, or by trying to find the balloons on a beach while riding a Segway.
If your "fact" is actually true then some report somewhere should state the men who have had vasectomies have a (insert number here)% greater change of Prostate cancer.
Then, there is this pesky fact: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/vasectomy "In 1997, the NCI convened the prostate cancer Progress Review Group (PRG), a committee that included members from the scientific, medical, industrial, and advocacy communities. This group was charged with developing a national plan to outline scientific efforts involving prostate cancer research. The PRG's final report, published in August 1998, concluded that the evidence supporting a role for vasectomy in the development of prostate cancer is weak.
Researchers continue to investigate the possible relationship between vasectomy and prostate cancer. The majority of studies conducted thus far have upheld the conclusions made at the 1993 NICHD conference. Although a few studies have reported a link between vasectomy and prostate cancer, it is possible that other factors, including chance, may be responsible for the association suggested in these studies."
If your "fact" is actually true then some report somewhere should state the men who have had vasectomies have a (insert number here)% greater change of Prostate cancer.
Then, there is this pesky fact: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/vasectomy "In 1997, the NCI convened the prostate cancer Progress Review Group (PRG), a committee that included members from the scientific, medical, industrial, and advocacy communities. This group was charged with developing a national plan to outline scientific efforts involving prostate cancer research. The PRG's final report, published in August 1998, concluded that the evidence supporting a role for vasectomy in the development of prostate cancer is weak.
Researchers continue to investigate the possible relationship between vasectomy and prostate cancer. The majority of studies conducted thus far have upheld the conclusions made at the 1993 NICHD conference. Although a few studies have reported a link between vasectomy and prostate cancer, it is possible that other factors, including chance, may be responsible for the association suggested in these studies."
It might be useful for data on laptops that are taken out of the office and left in cabs, restaurants and hotels, if the encryption was done with a 4096 key.
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Google is far move invasive than Microsoft...
Apparently you never heard of Microsoft's Hidden Files
SUMMARY:
Discuss this article with the author, and with other readers, in the Hidden Files discussion area of our forums!
There are folders on your computer that Microsoft has tried hard to keep secret. Within these folders you will find two major things: Microsoft Internet Explorer has not been clearing your browsing history after you have instructed it to do so, and Microsoft's Outlook Express has not been deleting your e-mail correspondence after you've erased them from your Deleted Items bin. (This also includes all incoming and outgoing file attachments.) And believe me, that's not even the half of it.
When I say these files are hidden well, I really mean it. If you don't have any knowledge of DOS then don't plan on finding these files on your own. I say this because these files/folders won't be displayed in Windows Explorer at all -- only DOS. (Even after you have enabled Windows Explorer to "show all files.") And to top it off, the only way to find them in DOS is if you knew the exact location of them. Basically, what I'm saying is if you didn't know the files existed then the chances of you running across them is slim to slimmer.
You object to Google taking a picture of your house that ANYONE walking by could take, or of making a note of any wireless nearby, which can also be done by anyone from public property. Windows doesn't "phone home" on a regular basis for nothing. While the info in the URL is ancient history Microsoft hasn't quit, they just gotten more sophisticated. Windows generates a GUID based on 10 components of your hardware that Windows is running on. EVERY document you send out has your GUId embedded in it. Every online transaction includes your GUID, regardless of whether you identified yourself or not. Microsoft takes the GUID from your Amazon credit card transaction and matches your name and address with the GUID you left when you posted an anonymous message or downloaded a file.
And you think Google is being invasive for putting up Google Earth, or Street View. Get real. This current anti-Google campaign has all the stink of one of Microsoft's dirty tricks combined with their classic "astroturfing".
In fact, you could be one of James Plamondon's "Technical Evangelists".
"The bankruptcy judge called for a Chapter 11 trustee in August 2009, about one month before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver ruled in the company's favor after six years of litigation with Waltham, Massachusetts-based Novell Inc. The case went back to the district court, where the judge and jury further clarified SCO's rights in certain Unix software incorporated in software for network systems.
All this time I thought that Novell had won the court case and proved that SCO didn't have any Unix "rights". How could the bankruptcy judge get it so wrong?
That's because Linux is 100% as vulnerable to ... Linux uses security by "obscurity"...
You really have things backwards. Linux source code is GPL freely available for anyone to inspect. Windows source is proprietary and secret, which Gates testified before Congress was necessary because it was a national resource that should be kept secret for security reasons ... until Gates gave the Chinese copies of the XP source because it was their price for Microsoft to do business in China. So, it is Microsoft that practices "security by obscurity".
Actual security? The 1,000,000 + zombies that are appearing on the giant bot farms discovered every so often are compromised Windows boxes, not Linux or Mac OS X boxes. Ballmer himself put the Linux desktop market share at around 10% and called Linux a greater competitive threat than Apple. With that percentage and, according to you Linux is equally as vulnerable, then why isn't 100,000 of those zombies Linux boxes?
And, if Linux is so easy to compromise then why did professional hackers spend more than 6 months last year just to capture only 700 Linux boxes using brute force password cracking when, according to you, all they had to do was spend a day or two to lure a few hundred thousand Linux users to their porn site honey pot?
Morons are those who drink Microsoft's Kool-aide and become brainless human zombies chanting MS Technical Evangelists astroturf postings as if they are fact.
capable .NET is.
Forget that it's riding on the most insecure OS on the planet. IF Microsoft, which KNOWS ALL the "undocumented" features of .NET, and it's hand picked partner Aventure, cannot build an app which is both stable and fast, then who can?
Just where did those "rumors" come from?
It's a common practice these days for has-been journalists to attempt to boost their page hits by using inflammatory article titles or leads to mundane or ridiculous articles that may only vaguely refer to Linux. You've seen them - "Is Debian Yesterday's distribution?" is but one recent example.
It appears to me that the Valve corporation salted the rumor mine in order to gain FREE publicity about their Steam product. Letting "leak" a Mac Os X launcher script that contains references:
elif [ "$UNAME" == "Linux" ]; then
PLATFORM=linux32
# prepend our lib path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${STEAMROOT}"/${PLATFORM}:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
fi
served nicely as the "Fool's Gold" for the rumor mine.
That Valve did not IMMEDIATELY SQUELCH the rumor, but let it play for FOUR MONTHS, is prima facia evidence that they were exploiting its news value to advertize Steam. They could have refuted the rumor within a few days of the Phoronix article, or they could have simply kept silent for ever about it. The first option would have reduced the news buzz considerable. The second option would have looked even more like blatant exploitation of the Linux phenomena. Four months is just right to maximize the Steam buzz, plus they get an additional buzz kick with their refutation comment.
Just another example of what is becoming classic and all to frequent corporate sleaze behavior.
If this is a false accusation, and I believe it is, I would also suspect that agents would be assigned to astroturf media sites with posts supporting the accusations and charges.
You forgot "evil"
these instruments if they cannot be heard in live settings or by film or audio recordings?
A couple days ago I did a count of the number and kind of computers offered by DELL that come with Ubuntu pre-installed. Dell offered, when I counted, a total of 32 different laptops and, surprisingly, 32 different desktops. Only 3% of their desktop offerings and 6% of their laptop offerings ran Ubuntu pre-installed. I also noted that the customization offerings were much less with the Ubuntu. With friends like Dell, Linux needs no enemies. That's why I say that Dell offers Linux so that Microsoft can point to them when people accuse it of being a monopoly.
Comparing an Ubuntu XPS7100 with its Windows counterpart I noticed the Ubuntu offering was only $20 less, but it had fewer customizations, and those that were offered weren't of the caliber or range of those offered for the Windows machines.
This is why, when folks buy a DELL but with the intent of running Linux, they buy the hardware and customizations they want using the more generous Windows offerings, and then either dual boot with Windows or REPLACE Windows with Linux. Thus, Windows gets the "retail sales channel count" but Linux gets the machine. The Windows purchaser continues to shell out even MORE cash for adequate AV software, cdrom burning software, firewall software, office software, graphics software, etc... The Linux user installs all of that software from their repository at the same cost of their distro - 0$. The result? Windows machines continue to be added to Windows bot farms in the tens of thousands. While Windows servers comprise only 16.6% of all Internet servers, they serve 99% of all spam and malware. OpenSource software, running on 76% of all Internet servers, account for a fraction of a percent of malware. This is why, as Steve Ballmer noted 18 months ago, that Linux is their main competition and its desktop market share has exceeded Apple's.
As the economy continues to stagnate, people are without jobs or are in low paying jobs, and money is tight. I have had nearly a couple dozen people who have been running Windows for years call me up and say they've heard about Linux and ask me to install it on their computer. These are friends who've asked me several times in the past to restore their Windows boxes to running condition again. Since installing Linux (usually PCLinuxOS or Kubuntu) the only calls I get are "what printer should I choose?", or "This pop-up says my computer is infected with Windows viruses! What should I do?" I laugh and tell them to ignore it. Only one, who couldn't find a Linux version of the kind of software he was using, returned to Windows, but he uses Linux in dual boot to surf the web and do online accounting and buying.
throw more of their money at Larry Ellison so he can buy more fighter jets and luxury yachts.
It will also assure their continued lock-in to one of the most expensive pieces of proprietary software sold. That "Premium" support they mention... will it be as good as their current support? My son, the Oracle dba, hsa abandon Oracle's paid support in favor of the open Oracle forums, where support is faster coming and better. That doesn't stop his bosses from continuing to throw money at Oracle for each CPU (not server) their database runs on.
Lock-in is a rut, similar to a grave, but open on both ends.
With "friends" like DELL, Linux needs no enemies.
DELL's entire Linux effort for the last three years has been, IMO, one big gigantic FRAUD, with the intent to offer Ubuntu pre-installed on a few marginal boxes without significant customization available and for only one reason: so that Microsoft can avoid charges that it holds an illegal monopoly on the PC OEM desktop. Which it does.
The only question remaining is: "What are the advantages to DELL for allowing itself to be controlled as if it were a wholly owned subsidiary of another corporate, perhaps including Microsoft?"
Well, we have one answer to that question already. Just yesterday (7/23) we learned that DELL corporate has agreed to pay a $100 Million fine, and Dell personally has agreed to pay $4 Million. Two of his lieutenants have agreed to pay $4M and $3M each. And what did the SEC fine them for?
"They failed to disclose material information to investors and used fraudulent accounting to make it falsely appear that the company was consistently meeting Wall Street earnings targets."
If THAT is a crime then Microsoft is guilty as well. That's how they got to the top of the pile they are setting on today. What DELL actually did was take payoffs from Intel to not use AMD chips.
The SEC charged that Dell did not disclose to investors large "exclusivity payments" the company received from Intel Corporation to not use central processing units (CPUs) manufactured by Intel's main rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD).
"It was these payments rather than the company's management and operations that allowed Dell to meet its earnings targets," the SEC said. "After Intel cut these payments, Dell again misled investors by not disclosing the true reason behind the company's decreased profitability." ...
The SEC's complaint charged that the exclusivity payments made by Intel to Dell for not using CPUs made by AMD grew from 10 percent of Dell's operating income in fiscal year 2003 to 38 percent in fiscal year 2006. It peaked at 76 percent in the first quarter of FY 2007.
In fiscal year 2007, after Dell announced its intention to begin using CPUs made by AMD, the company and the individuals charged failed to disclose the basis for the company's sharp drop in its operating results. "In dollar terms, the reduction in Intel exclusivity payments was equivalent to 75 percent of the decline in Dell's operating income" the SEC said, and Messrs. Dell, Rollins, and Schneider told investors in an earnings call "that the sharp drop in the company's operating results was attributable to Dell pricing too aggressively in the face of slowing demand and to component costs declining less than expected."
Intel is the subject of antitrust lawsuits brought by the Federal Trade Commission and several states. In November 2009, Intel agreed to pay AMD $1.25 billion as part of a settlement in a private antitrust suit brought by AMD.
This reveals the injustice in the prosecution of corporate white collar crime: that Dell and the other people involved at both companies did not face CRIMINAL prosecution and didn't even have to admit guilt, even though there was enough evidence to force them to pay hundreds of millions in fines, which amounts to about 10% of their annual net profit during the last four quarters. Perhaps if Dell and the Intel management and major share holders had to spend some hard time in jail they wouldn't be so willing to flaunt the law for obscene profits. Such puny fines is like a hand-slap and defacto approval of their behavior.
DELL's behavior with Intel suggests that DELL is staying afloat, despite the poor quality of their machines and their high return rates, because Microsoft is paying them to NOT include Ubuntu on their desktops. It also raises questions about the other PC OEMs who won't free up their desktop for competition against Microsoft.
Large file libraries such as download.com and tucows.com offer a range of files and content we can not match, so we have taken the reluctant decision to discontinue this service.
The affected files are "... files include Windows utilities and drivers, along with a variety of Linux software such as the popular Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora distributions." so as such the change in corporate policy doesn't constitute an attack on Linux per se. While their users want or require those files, What this policy really represents is the classic corporate tactic of letting others supply materials from which they and/or their consumers derive use. In Corporate speak these materials are "Externalities", in which a corporation maximizes its profits by offloading its costs to others or the public. This is accomplished only because of the apathy of those on to whom the costs are transfered See part 4 of the video "The Corporation".
BTW, this is the tactic Microsoft used to finance the coding of Win95:
"3) Convincing Employees to Take Less Real Wages: Microsoft aggressively markets stock options to new employees in an effort to take wage expenses off the books. They also know that they can pocket the exercise price employees will be required to pay to take ownership of the stock. What also seems clear is that Microsoft is still aggressively marketing its stock option program to new recruits. To quote an email received, "I am about to begin employment at Microsoft and the stock option was the selling factor. Does your article overall state that it will be bad for me and will fail me in my retirement planning?" Is Microsoft fulfilling its disclosure obligations to its own employees, especially those that have put their entire 401K balance in Microsoft stock? This explains how 22 percent of Microsoft's massive cash balance has actually come from its own employees in the form of them prepaying their own wages through stock option exercise prices."
Interesting? Yes!
But, where is the source code he promised to Open Source and release?
in recent history that gambling casinos have used "mechanical problems" to evade honoring their promises?
I wager it will be used again. After all, aren't most winners too poor to afford lawyers to fight the casinos? It's the same problem with corporate abuse of DRM and DMCA lawsl.
a.k.a "campaign contributions. They are bribes because the politician can convert them to personal funds if he/she doesn't run for office again. That's why they are always campaigning, 7/24/365 ... to increase their personal wealth. Thank Congress for that. They could have said no to the bribes.
I didn't vote for him, but Pres Obama won a landslide victory to enact, among other things, universal, single payer health care legislation.
Then the corporate lobbyists took over, greased the politicians palms, and suddenly the politician "see problems" with what the large majority of American voters asked for. Members of Obama's own party are just as guilty as the Republicans in accepting bribes to feather their own nests at the expense of our Republic. Then those deceitful corporations put up some pseudo "grass roots" websites pretending to be "ordinary" Americans (just the way Microsoft talked dead people into writing letters to Congress telling them to call of the DOJ), hired a few buses and filled them with rent-a-protesters, who made each of their Tea Party stops look like part of a ground swell movement. Those Conservatives who got emails from employees of "prosperityforamerica.com", or similar sounding sites, didn't know enough to do a WHOIS on the domain name and see who actually paid for the domain and what organizations are actually behind them. They would have found a dozen different websites were all fronted by corporate Republicans, just another part of the corporation lobbying campaign. Those crafty corporate sponsors of Republican shenanigans caught wind of some folks actually doing a WHOIS and reporting the results, so they now hide their sites behind anonymous proxies to conceal their identity. If THAT didn't tell you all you needed to know about their ethics and intent then you are not smart enough to vote.
The corporate lobbyists who are behind Socialist causes act just as corruptly as the "free market" corporate lobbyists do. So do the non-profits, except they claim to be lobbying for noble purposes. The effect is the same, however, the will of the people is thwarted when one lobbyist with a bag full of "campaign contributions" can nullify the votes of tens, hundreds, thousands or millions of voters. Thank Congress. Millions of voters didn't want Congress to put a "cap" on BP's financial exposure to their environmental pollution, but that is why now, by law, BP's financial accountability for the Gulf of Mexico disaster is only $75 million Dollars! Exxon put up a good front in the Valdez disaster, and made lots of nice sounding promises too. But after public interest waned their lawyers took over. Just THIS YEAR, 24 years later, they settled the last of the lawsuits filed against them ... and over all paid only ten cents on the dollar. Thank Congress for that.
The problem is the Corporations are NOT corpus. They are NOT living individuals and they should NOT have the rights of living, breathing people. Lobbying, for what ever cause, even high moralistic ones, should be outlawed. A CEO does NOT deserve to have his or her vote counted thousands of times while you or my vote is counted only once. Thank Congress for that.
That's what broke out political system, and it has been a long time coming. You can't continue raping the Goose the laid the Golden Eggs and expect the Gold to continue. We are now out of jobs because we are out of manufacturing plants. We are out of resources because we don't make things to last. Sales have to "grow" so things are made to wear out, and wear out quickly. We are polluting our environment because we want to retire before we reach 50 and live like Kings with several castles each. Even our "Green House Guru" can't live in a home that respects the environment. His house has to leave a Carbon foot print that is ten times that left by the average citizen.
Finally, when you voted for a Congress person because their ear mark gave you a job on a highway that went to no where, or on an air port that only the congressman uses, or for research into the sex life of a hammer, he BRIBED YOU. YOU CAN THANK YOURSELVES FOR THAT.
bringing it back.
Do they call the bribes "campaign contributions" in Canada as well?
It does have some true OSS licenses of its own
A TRUE OSS license will contain the Four Freedoms. IF it does not then it is not a license that would encourage community source code contributions and return improvements back to the community for the benefit of all.
The OSI markets a forest of pseudo Open Source licenses which attempt to hide the few trees that honor the Four Freedoms. Without the Four Freedoms GNU Linux would not have grown to its present popularity and still remain free. One has only to look at the BSD license to see that such a license is just an invitation for proprietary software houses to take, take, take, and without a single thought of returning anything of value to the community except an invoice, DRM and a EULA.
WebM will be exploited by proprietary houses but the license does not require them to do anything to the benefit of the community It does allow them to exploit WebM for profit. Their next step will be to follow Microsoft's behavior and patent their WebM extensions, then make deals with browser writers to incorporate their version of WebM and not the root codec, just the way Microsoft "convinced" peripheral manufacturers to remove the CPUs from their products and make then dependent on the Windows OS for their operation.
Under Reagan's facile gaze, the economy was sent into the worst* recession in our lifetime.
You must be pretty young, or your school books got it wrong.
The "worst recession in our lifetimes" was pale in comparison to the current economic woes, and the 21% inflation and long lines at the gas pump were on Carter's watch, not Reagan's. That's why Carter didn't win a second term. When ACORN picketed banks in Chicago they were ignored, but when they terrorized bank employees at their homes they forced the beginnings of the NIJA house loans (No Income, Job or Assets -- the SUPPRESSED SNL comedy sketch got it right! http://www.savethisnation.org/apps/videos/videos/show/2394707-mortgage-crisis-skit-pulled-from-snl). They took their campaign to Washington and were successful in getting the Democrats to pass the Community Reinvestment Act, which was ineffective in promoting NIJA loans nationwide UNTIL Clinton signed an Executive Order requiring all banks that do business with the Federal Government to have a certain percentage of NIJA loans. That started the beginning of the housing bubble which was inflated with flatulance of worthless paper. With the full faith and credit of the US government now behind the NIJA loans the greedy Wall Street fatcats saw a GOLDEN opportunity. While Congress and SEC turned their backs and closed their eyes, ears and oversight, the worthless NIJA subprime mortgages were repackaged with good paper and sold to everyone, especially our friends overseas. In 2004 and 2006 CSPAN filmed Congressional hearings about the housing bubble. You can watch and see for yourself who ridiculed those who were concerned and who was responsible for blocking any and all attempts to reign in the situation before it got out of hand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs
Among other tactics even the race card was played as a device to stop the inquiry.
Since the collapse Barney Frank and other culpable Congressmen went on a campaign to spin the facts:
http://biggovernment.com/mrichmond/2010/05/07/barney-frank-video-tip-toeing-through-the-tulips-while-the-housing-bubble-burst/
The losses in the housing bubble has paled in comparison to the subsequent unsupervised, unmonitored and unaccounted giveaway of TRILLIONS of dollars to fatcats who had already made Billions using the Subprime Mortgages to plunder the uninformed, and to political opportunists on the Left. To a casual observer such wholesale plundering of the US Treasury seems like an organized campaign to totally collapse the American economy and force the country into 2nd or 3rd world status, while holding up Socialism as the "savior". Many communities can no longer support their own infrastructure. After a severe and long winter streets and bridges are in terrible shape and homes and apartments need repairs. Pot hole damages to automobiles is much higher than normal. Add to those stress the affects of a much larger than normal number of citizens being unemployed and, considering that only minimum wage jobs are available, unemployable, the economic woes will only increase. So will the political unrest.
Both the Republicans and the Democrats have done their very best to destroy the Constitution, even before the RICO Act, continuing with the PATRIOT Act, and HUNDREDS of dictatorial "Executive Orders", neither party can claim clean hands in all the problems that led to the current situation. Their whole job seems to one of taking bribes (a.k.a. "campaign contributions") so they can be reelected in perpetuity, thus they are on a 24/7/365 campaign mode, with marginal time taken out to actually do that for which they were elected. It seems the only time they come back to Washington is to vot
popped out of a wall socket in my living room when a lighting bolt struck a pole near the corner of my house. The power cord to a Thomas clock plugged into that socket melted. The ball had the size of a soccer ball and the color of a basketball, except that it was iridescent. It floated across the living room a distance of about 12 feet, gradually settling down and touching the carpet, where it disappeared in a flash and left a burned patch about three inches in diameter. This was the first and only plasma ball (ball lightening?) I ever saw.
Why would he want to do that? Carbon Credits is a gold mine for Gore and he is mining them for all he can.
I downloaded the FOIA.ZIP file and examined the 1,037 emails and other documents it contained. Gore claims that the emails are "all ten years old or older" and implies their contents are meaningless today. He lied or he is totally ignorant of the facts: http://www.examiner.com/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2009m12d9-Al-Gore-talks-Climategate-on-CNN-and-Slate-misstates-the-facts#video
Of the 1,037 emails over 10% were written in 2009. The most recent had the following header:
From: "Thorne, Peter (Climate Research)" (peter.thorne@metoffice.gov.uk)
To: "Phil Jones" (p.jones@uea.ac.uk)
Subject: Letter draft
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:17:44 -0000
which was sent only FIVE days before the files were posted on line.
One has only to read HARRY_README.TXT to understand what was going on and see how the manipulation, cherry picking, cooking and creating "data" out of thin air was taking place.
The "reviews" whitewash the actions of the CRU and its cooperating agencies, all part of a subagency of the UN,the IPCC, all government funded. The "reviews" in effect say it is:
To see who is putting their money AND actions where their mouth is just compare the homes of two prominent politicians:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp
Here is how Gore is putting his money where his mouth is:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-worlds-first-carbon-billionaire.html
I remember the "Global Cooling/Nuclear Winter" hysteria.
I remember the Club of Rome hysteria (I fell for that one until I analyzed the BASIC program and realized the program was rigged to produce the same results regardless of the input, just as the AGW computer models do. Using the "Hockey Stick" methodologies one can get a hockey stick using red noise. Similar manipulations of models were used by Federal Agencies to justify dictating water usage in the Mid-West US.)
Now I am witnessing the AGW hysteria
The people who pushed the first two are the ones (and/or their students), pushing AGW, along with their friends in the Left Wing media. The "solution" in each is the same: adopt Marxism world wide and we'll all stand around in the promise land singing Kumbaya.
airplanes, yachts or mansions.
But, I got hit by a truck and my wife got bored by the treadmill.
We tried gym memberships, at home exercise routines, beach balls, weight benches, etc. The treadmill doesn't exercise many muscles. My wife, who had experienced a small stroke during hearth surgery, had difficulty walking without dragging her right foot, and on occasions she'd stagger. And it was all boring, boring, boring. The beach ball exercise where you put it against your back and then squat to a point your legs make a 90 degree angle, hold it for the count of 10, then stand again, all the while holding the beach ball against the wall, KILLED my knees. Took me months to recover and even just to walk without knee pain.
Then we got a Wii and Wii Plus exercise board. Big difference. shifting your weight while trying to drop the balls through the holes, dodging the soccer balls, riding the bike and finding the flag poles, playing golf, bowling and other Wii fitness activities exercises leg muscles that increased my wife's walking agility like the treadmill never could. I get drenched in sweat trying to find the flags while riding a bike all over an island, or by trying to find the balloons on a beach while riding a Segway.
If your "fact" is actually true then some report somewhere should state the men who have had vasectomies have a (insert number here)% greater change of Prostate cancer.
Then, there is this pesky fact: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/vasectomy
"In 1997, the NCI convened the prostate cancer Progress Review Group (PRG), a committee that included members from the scientific, medical, industrial, and advocacy communities. This group was charged with developing a national plan to outline scientific efforts involving prostate cancer research. The PRG's final report, published in August 1998, concluded that the evidence supporting a role for vasectomy in the development of prostate cancer is weak.
Researchers continue to investigate the possible relationship between vasectomy and prostate cancer. The majority of studies conducted thus far have upheld the conclusions made at the 1993 NICHD conference. Although a few studies have reported a link between vasectomy and prostate cancer, it is possible that other factors, including chance, may be responsible for the association suggested in these studies."
Oops!
If your "fact" is actually true then some report somewhere should state the men who have had vasectomies have a (insert number here)% greater change of Prostate cancer.
Then, there is this pesky fact: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/vasectomy
"In 1997, the NCI convened the prostate cancer Progress Review Group (PRG), a committee that included members from the scientific, medical, industrial, and advocacy communities. This group was charged with developing a national plan to outline scientific efforts involving prostate cancer research. The PRG's final report, published in August 1998, concluded that the evidence supporting a role for vasectomy in the development of prostate cancer is weak.
Researchers continue to investigate the possible relationship between vasectomy and prostate cancer. The majority of studies conducted thus far have upheld the conclusions made at the 1993 NICHD conference. Although a few studies have reported a link between vasectomy and prostate cancer, it is possible that other factors, including chance, may be responsible for the association suggested in these studies."
Opps!
It might be useful for data on laptops that are taken out of the office and left in cabs, restaurants and hotels, if the encryption was done with a 4096 key.