I would encourage you all to buy the CD Set to support continuing development of this distrobution. Mandrake have been having problems recently, and every purchase counts:)
Worst Public Servant: London Mayor Ken Livingstone, whose traffic-reduction plan relies on a network of 700 surveillance cameras posted around the capital that photograph car license plates to enforce a new fee for driving during rush hour.
I would disagree. Livingstone's system visibly cut traffic (certainly on the first day, since then the pictures havn't been plastered all over TV) and anyone can note down your registration plate anyway. In central London you cann't have ten lane wide payment barriers, nor can you widen roads or build flyovers. Something needed done, and this seemed drastic but as far a I can see it was one of the only viable options.
A payment for email would be cracked or bypassed within a week, and social engineering could be use to get other unfortunate users to foot the cost for those who cannt work it out.
Audigy 2 review the title shouts! I thought hurrah, a review of some sort of special edition on that will be completly out of budget but makes an interesting review. But alas, it is a review of a card that has been avaliable for months. Slow news day?
Short but sweet
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Google Hacks
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· Score: 1, Insightful
Looks like an interesting book, I will look out for it. The 'power' of google is not particularly touched on in everyday use at all.
and 'uncouple' it's Media Player audiovisual software from the Windows operating system
I wonder if some of the new 'proprietary information' will include some of the WMP technology so that Winamp et. all can play the files properly. At the moment nullsoft is required to not do anything to WMP files but play them - no visualisation etc.
I got a mobile phone when the price and charging was right for me. Before that I used my chargecard in payphones perfectly happily, the only disadvantage of that now is that less and less are being constructed.
I had my first phone for at least three years, and when I replaced it not last month it was not because it was obsolete but because I was fed up of some of the restrictions that now don't exist. Not being able to text straight to someone in my phonebook being one, lock not locking the power button another. I am confident I shall keep my current phone for a similar length of time. I don't keep up with the Joneses, I simply take onboard new technology when I feel the time is right.
It is all done over the phonelines, but there many many DSL companies competing (although only a few get mainstream attention). The competition gives the 'hardcore' internet users much choice, but in the end the DSL network is all owned by BT.
This is another team trying to get a licence to allow linux to run (in the same way a game is signed - only an OS), NOT microsoft trying to get their way into linux. I personally bet the app is turned down.
What smartarse decided to put registration data in such a volatile place such as the MBR. Heck, any program that performs low-level operations on your hard disk should be banned, because of the risks involved with writing blindly onto one area. Turbotax are treading shallow water, especially after their licencing 'policy'
The software purchased would no longer belong to the buyer.
UCITA allows consumers to become licensees who are bound to the terms of the contract provided in "shrink-wrap" products or "click-on" agreements.
UCITA allows restrictions on use to be revealed after purchase.
UCITA allows restrictions that prohibit users from criticizing or publicly commenting on software they purchased.
UCITA puts consumers at the mercy of software publishers to "blackmail" users for more fees by their unhindered ability to disable or remove their product for unspecified "license violations."
How the fuck that law was even thought up in the first place is beyond me, let alone taken seriously and implemented in two states (Maryland and Virginia). This is a severe intrusion into consumer rights and privacy and as far as I can see trys to restrict what, when and where you can do with software as much as possible.
£5 per car, per day. The bigwigs on expences who travel in their BMWs will drive through without blinking an eyelid. Mr Bloggs who has to drive in and is on a Teachers salary has to pay the same £5. £150 for 30 days travel is a big dent - up to £1800 a year. The people who need to use the roads (dont ask me why they need to) will be put off. The vans, £40,000 BMWs & limos will drive right through. Surly something is wrong here?
A device that can be used to see through walls has potential anti-terrorism uses, and if tweaked it could probably be used as a replacement for the mildly-dangerous xray technology. Also being able to be used for communications, this is a step in the right direction for research into radio technologys.
Likelihood there will be another one: very high
Likelihood that it will affect a Microsoft product: pretty high
Likelihood that it will exploit a flaw that was fixed the summer before: almost certain
As far as i'm concerned those with low maintenence co-located servers should pay more attention to security bulletins so that when when a major patch does come out they can fix it, then when something does hit their several-year-old computer it won't be thrashed to death by modern worms.
1) Microsoft are getting into bed with government through the back door (no pun intended)
2) Bush is short-sighted enough to thing that the person who is head of Microsoft security will bring better security than a team of specialists. Oh wait, one person is better because he can call them a czar. Buzzword-me-do.
Verisign are now introducing propriatary, Internet Explorer only, DNS mechanisms much like the system I saw a couple of years ago where by using another company's DNS servers you could have domain.anything. Not only does this mean that anyone not using IE cann't access sites that use this 'special mechanism', but people with standard keyboards cann't access other 'language sites' without using character map - and even that does not contain japaneese/chineese characters IIRC.
Oh, may I also draw your attention to this part of the EULA: 11. Automatic Updates/No Maintenance.
VeriSign has the right, but not the obligation, to provide you periodically with automatic modifications, updates, upgrades, or error fixes for the Software using the transmission mechanism described above. This license does not entitle you to any support or maintenance for the Software.
Another browser 'add-on' that gives itself the right to install whatever the fuck it wants. Verisign should of been closed long ago.
It should be noted though that AOL has said it has stopped simply signing up new customers for the sake of counting them.
Is this an admission that the hundreds of CDs each and everyone here will have recieved were just a stunt to get the numbers up?
BeyondUnreal.com will be happy to let you mirror all their files (currently 20GB, always growing) so long as you sacrafice your upload bandwidth to the rabid BU visitors (they get alot) and allow them updates whenever necessary.
Perhaps IBM could put them to use next time an insurance company comes to them for colocation.
IBM has lost a hard drive containing the records of 180,000 clients of an insurance company. Details include "names, addresses, beneficiaries, social insurance numbers, pension values, pre-authorized checking information and mothers' maiden names", according to wire reports. Anything else? Oh yes, their bank account details.
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I would encourage you all to buy the CD Set to support continuing development of this distrobution. Mandrake have been having problems recently, and every purchase counts :)
Worst Public Servant: London Mayor Ken Livingstone, whose traffic-reduction plan relies on a network of 700 surveillance cameras posted around the capital that photograph car license plates to enforce a new fee for driving during rush hour.
I would disagree. Livingstone's system visibly cut traffic (certainly on the first day, since then the pictures havn't been plastered all over TV) and anyone can note down your registration plate anyway. In central London you cann't have ten lane wide payment barriers, nor can you widen roads or build flyovers. Something needed done, and this seemed drastic but as far a I can see it was one of the only viable options.
A payment for email would be cracked or bypassed within a week, and social engineering could be use to get other unfortunate users to foot the cost for those who cannt work it out.
why dont amazon patent the entire fucking internet. here is a equally dumb patent filed by amazon.
Audigy 2 review the title shouts! I thought hurrah, a review of some sort of special edition on that will be completly out of budget but makes an interesting review. But alas, it is a review of a card that has been avaliable for months. Slow news day?
Looks like an interesting book, I will look out for it. The 'power' of google is not particularly touched on in everyday use at all.
and 'uncouple' it's Media Player audiovisual software from the Windows operating system
I wonder if some of the new 'proprietary information' will include some of the WMP technology so that Winamp et. all can play the files properly. At the moment nullsoft is required to not do anything to WMP files but play them - no visualisation etc.
I just loaded it, albiet with a one minute load time. Not down, just unaccessable.
I got a mobile phone when the price and charging was right for me. Before that I used my chargecard in payphones perfectly happily, the only disadvantage of that now is that less and less are being constructed.
I had my first phone for at least three years, and when I replaced it not last month it was not because it was obsolete but because I was fed up of some of the restrictions that now don't exist. Not being able to text straight to someone in my phonebook being one, lock not locking the power button another. I am confident I shall keep my current phone for a similar length of time. I don't keep up with the Joneses, I simply take onboard new technology when I feel the time is right.
It is all done over the phonelines, but there many many DSL companies competing (although only a few get mainstream attention). The competition gives the 'hardcore' internet users much choice, but in the end the DSL network is all owned by BT.
Next thing I know my model plane will be considered a spyplane if I mount a video camera on it. Actually, I shouldn't give them ideas.
This is another team trying to get a licence to allow linux to run (in the same way a game is signed - only an OS), NOT microsoft trying to get their way into linux. I personally bet the app is turned down.
And probably did when it was made, too :)
Happy Birthday to the CBBS, and a toast to the first major communications devopment of the 21st century.
I would rather hope that Norton would spot something writing to my boot sector . . . I once ran fdisk /mbr and yes, it did alert me.
What smartarse decided to put registration data in such a volatile place such as the MBR. Heck, any program that performs low-level operations on your hard disk should be banned, because of the risks involved with writing blindly onto one area. Turbotax are treading shallow water, especially after their licencing 'policy'
I mirrored it. Read away.
The software purchased would no longer belong to the buyer.
UCITA allows consumers to become licensees who are bound to the terms of the contract provided in "shrink-wrap" products or "click-on" agreements.
UCITA allows restrictions on use to be revealed after purchase.
UCITA allows restrictions that prohibit users from criticizing or publicly commenting on software they purchased.
UCITA puts consumers at the mercy of software publishers to "blackmail" users for more fees by their unhindered ability to disable or remove their product for unspecified "license violations."
How the fuck that law was even thought up in the first place is beyond me, let alone taken seriously and implemented in two states (Maryland and Virginia). This is a severe intrusion into consumer rights and privacy and as far as I can see trys to restrict what, when and where you can do with software as much as possible.
£5 per car, per day. The bigwigs on expences who travel in their BMWs will drive through without blinking an eyelid. Mr Bloggs who has to drive in and is on a Teachers salary has to pay the same £5. £150 for 30 days travel is a big dent - up to £1800 a year. The people who need to use the roads (dont ask me why they need to) will be put off. The vans, £40,000 BMWs & limos will drive right through. Surly something is wrong here?
A device that can be used to see through walls has potential anti-terrorism uses, and if tweaked it could probably be used as a replacement for the mildly-dangerous xray technology. Also being able to be used for communications, this is a step in the right direction for research into radio technologys.
Likelihood there will be another one: very high
Likelihood that it will affect a Microsoft product: pretty high
Likelihood that it will exploit a flaw that was fixed the summer before: almost certain
As far as i'm concerned those with low maintenence co-located servers should pay more attention to security bulletins so that when when a major patch does come out they can fix it, then when something does hit their several-year-old computer it won't be thrashed to death by modern worms.
1) Microsoft are getting into bed with government through the back door (no pun intended)
2) Bush is short-sighted enough to thing that the person who is head of Microsoft security will bring better security than a team of specialists. Oh wait, one person is better because he can call them a czar. Buzzword-me-do.
Verisign are now introducing propriatary, Internet Explorer only, DNS mechanisms much like the system I saw a couple of years ago where by using another company's DNS servers you could have domain.anything. Not only does this mean that anyone not using IE cann't access sites that use this 'special mechanism', but people with standard keyboards cann't access other 'language sites' without using character map - and even that does not contain japaneese/chineese characters IIRC.
Oh, may I also draw your attention to this part of the EULA:
11. Automatic Updates/No Maintenance.
VeriSign has the right, but not the obligation, to provide you periodically with automatic modifications, updates, upgrades, or error fixes for the Software using the transmission mechanism described above. This license does not entitle you to any support or maintenance for the Software.
Another browser 'add-on' that gives itself the right to install whatever the fuck it wants. Verisign should of been closed long ago.
It should be noted though that AOL has said it has stopped simply signing up new customers for the sake of counting them.
Is this an admission that the hundreds of CDs each and everyone here will have recieved were just a stunt to get the numbers up?
BeyondUnreal.com will be happy to let you mirror all their files (currently 20GB, always growing) so long as you sacrafice your upload bandwidth to the rabid BU visitors (they get alot) and allow them updates whenever necessary.
Perhaps IBM could put them to use next time an insurance company comes to them for colocation.
IBM has lost a hard drive containing the records of 180,000 clients of an insurance company. Details include "names, addresses, beneficiaries, social insurance numbers, pension values, pre-authorized checking information and mothers' maiden names", according to wire reports. Anything else? Oh yes, their bank account details.