Cute. You had a root kit. It had total control of your operating system for an indeterminate period of time. During that time it could download any software from the internet it wanted, and use it to patch any operating system or application file it liked - or all of them.
But you can fix it "sure fire" by using FIXMBR. That will restore the boot block and all will be well again!
Please don't give any more computer advice until you've been detarded.
I'm glad they've changed. Your PC tech is more like your confessor or your doctor than ever before. The level of professional confidence required is not matched by legal protections or professional standards.
Actually that was a personal question. I think he's the guy that got me hooked on D&D. Thanks though. I bought one of those Burroughs machines as salvage once. They had like 300 lbs of aluminum in them. That was like two cases of beer.
Honestly. Do the people who come up with these things actually think of what they're doing ? Or are they too busy counting beans ?
They want to believe in DRM because they honestly believe their content won't maintain its value if it's not protected. People are eager to sell them DRM solutions because they have huge piles of money and they're willing to believe in the DRM fairy. This keeps going on because we continue to pay and pay and pay, proving the point.
Now excuse me, I have to go buy the White Album. Again.
With each right comes a duty - not an obligation. Noone is forced to vote. It's not an obligation. But if you don't vote, you haven't done your duty and so you've done far worse than those who chose wrong. At least they were brave enough to step up and say "not him".
I agree with you a lot. I posted that because most of the people reading it aren't vets, and don't understand the responsibilities of a citizen.
A protest "not vote" is your right. I still doesn't count. If all someone does is "not vote" they're counted in the "don't care" segment. If they truly do care they've sent a message they didn't intend - and so done worse than ignored the issues of the day - they've neglected their duty.
Perhaps in each individual case the individual abandoning his post at the polls is a minor thing. In the whole it's bad for you and me as the "don't care" segment swells to more than either of us. It's better to commend to each soul that he take his post at the polls and discharge his duty - if not his obligation - at the appointed time.
Complaining is truly a right that Privates and Bosun's mates have raised to a high art. That said, let's not encourage the guy that changes our oil to abandon his post too, ok?
You missed a "not" in "things being entirely bad" but I got your meaning. Yeah, if Windows was a significant portion of the "mixed" that would be interesting.
If you look closely though Windows has even less of a presence there. I think my paper, "Task granularity in homogeneous clusters" covered this.
I started this thread. I live in such a state and I feel your pain.
You go vote because
Each vote improves the popular vote, and hence the "mandate" of the winner. Even if your party or candidate doesn't win, you can decrease the boldness of the winner.
The location of the "pivotal" votes is unknown, and can be quite surprising.
Local elections matter too. Even if you can't change the electoral college, you can get a new governor or boot your rascal Senator out. Or maybe approve the levy for the school your kids go to.
You get a neat sticker, and a discount on donuts and coffee.
You get to look down on your idiot nephew who missed his chance to have his opinion heard.
Taxes by their nature involve employing men with guns to take stuff away from some people and give that stuff to other people. The men with guns always get a cut. In the brutal math of economics, this is the definition of a tax. The only thing that separates it from robbery is its justification in the common weal and general acceptance.
They're a necessary evil. Like copyright, they're a compromise of the necessary against the ideal. Left to their own devices people would eventually opt not to fund the common defense, upon which all else relies. The Senate of Greece one revoked all their laws but one: If it harm none, do what you will. Some time thereafter they were overrun by barbarians because the common greek citizen would neither contribute to nor serve in the defense of the land. It's a nice liberal law, but in practice it doesn't work in a world with external threats.
that's how it is now, with the resulting problems.
And some of us like it like that.
I think it was Mark Twain who wrote that the purpose of government is do deplete the surplus productivity, and so prevent the excess of leisure from whence insurrection springs. It may be our current system is too efficient at that task.
And no, not every voice will be heard, but that's why we have an independent judiciary that is charged with protecting the rights of the minority.
The role of the judiciary is to interpret the law. The law, in certain instances, is designed to protect the rights of the minority, but that's not the point.
The role of the judiciary is not to "protect the rights of the minority".
The rest of this post assumes that "we" are citizens of the USA.
Our constitution recognizes that the authority of government is derived from the consent of the governed. That's us. When our government does stupid things, it putatively does them on our behalf. Presumably the actions of our government are an expression of the common will, and so it is right and proper that foreigners might dislike us individually for the actions we take collectively. So it is that tourists in foreign lands feel some coldness when the actions of our government are received badly, as R.A.H. wrote about in "Expanded Universe". (Gary powers was "shot down" while the Heinleins were touring Russia.) When our government does smart things (WPA, the space program, etc.) we enjoy the benefits.
Here at home we don't worry much about what happens in foreign lands as long as our troops and tourists come home OK. That might be a mistake. The genocide in Rwanda that we turned a blind eye to years ago has turned into genocide in Congo. In a few years it may spread. As Men (and this is the usage that includes women too) we are diminished by the heinous injustices that occur anywhere in the world. But are we - can we - be the World Police? Can we do anything about it?
Our laws including the constitution have been sorely tested these last few years, it's true. Part of this is the cold press of events, as the cauldron of strife distills new truths from the mash of common ideals. Part is the intrusion of money represented by special interests who ply our representatives with education campaigns, astroturf campaigns, and flat cash. We do bear some responsibility for this. If we were not so susceptible to advertising there would be no incentive to accept the funding for advertising that drives reelection campaigns. As it sits now the candidate with the most money doesn't always win but like the race to the swift and the battle to the strong, that's where the smart money lays their bets. If we cared more it would not be so.
Protesters can do a lot, but the sad fact is that in the modern market protesters can be hired. For a million bucks you can shut down a major city for a number of hours with protesters who care not for your cause but who'll show up and protest for a buck. Some of them are quite clever. If you mix in with them because you believe in the cause of the day is your zeal real, or is it a network effect purchased by the protest organizer?
Sigh. Go vote.
Oh, and support Project Gutenberg. They're doing more for you and all mankind than you know.
You're modded funny, but five people in their minivans can shut down a morning commute in a major city by lining up side by side and driving slow. I've done it to protest the 55MPH speed limit. If you have a hundred committed people you can keep that up indefinitely on multiple arterials, as even if they're arrested they get bail and take another turn. Go slow for five minutes and quit strategies are even more durable, as they don't get caught but a five minute backup has network effects that make an entire city an hour late for work. Every day.
Think about what that would do to your local economy. It's amazing how fragile our system is.
They do for the most part. But almost inevitably somebody makes 200,000 circuit boards, only to discover that something doesn't work and it to be reworked. Three resistors, a capacitor and an IO connector have to be changed. It's boring work in a toxic environment under appalling conditions. But it's got to be done if you want that new BluRay player under your tree.
Not only will we discover more particles with the LHC, we will create a greater understanding of the world in which we live. This will inevitably lead to the result the common man understands: cool new products! These products will of course be expensive at first and cost less over time, ultimately driving up the standard of living for all but the most exploited among us.
Research always pays. Sometimes embarrassingly much. That's why, although I would like NASA's budget to be increased to a few hundred billion dollars a year, I can live with the pittance they're given. Eventually somebody with a profit motive will explore space, succeed, and reap returns beyond the dreams of Midas.
Given a life of 20 picoseconds, I can't imagine that there would be monstrous factories of these things all over the universe to account for the stupidly large amount of mass they are supposed to account for.
The factory was only working for about 100 picoseconds and most of the product was consumed in short order. Like CueCats though the unused product remains, eating up storage costs throughout the universe as we know it. Buy yours today!
Seriously, though - a simpler explanation for the unexplained phenomena could be that the "gravitic constant" is not constant, as we know it to not be. If its inconstance is nonlinear that would explain a lot. A logarithmic depreciation of the gravitic constant from the big bang to now could well explain a lot of the presently supposed "dark matter" and "dark energy".
Where are the folks who can solder, "feel" what a capacitor does and do all Ohm's Law calculation in their subconscious?
We're still out here. I know a few. The end of electronics repair shops in the US in favor of disposable electronics has driven most to abandon the field.
But yeah, watching an electronics tech explain to an EE stuff most of us learned in high school is pretty sad.
The real stuff has gotten pretty tough. I had the challenge once to rework a preproduction board to prove a design change. I was way out of my comfort zone.
Resistors these days are the size of a juvenile flea. If you drop one, let it go man... it's gone. ICs aren't much better. You have to use IPA and a lintfree cloth just to clean the soldering tweezers. It takes a 60x microscope and a steady hand. I was really regretting my caffeine habit. And the tiny static charges make everything sticky. The leadfree solder takes more heat so you have to be extra careful not so bake the components to death. And don't stab yourself with the tweezers. They look like pencil erasers in the scope but they'll penetrate your skin with no resistance, burning the whole way.
It worked. It wasn't pretty, but it worked. I am thrilled to have had the experience. I wish I knew a vendor for the surgical point soldering tweezers.
Respect to the asian ladies in the factory that do this all day for a pittance, with nothing more than a magnifying glass and grim determination.
They're paper EE's from offshore colleges. That fad won't last.
You can buy a 2 channel USB O-scope for $140, and a datalogger for $80. Most electronics companies will send you bits of the latest science just for asking. I think if the kids today want to take over the world, they have the tools available. Do they have the wits?
A little hot, but on time, in time for Christmas and slamming the benchmarks. Hey, there is a system that can run Crysis with all the features turned on!
Maybe a price break on the LGA775 quad lineup now please?
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Cute. You had a root kit. It had total control of your operating system for an indeterminate period of time. During that time it could download any software from the internet it wanted, and use it to patch any operating system or application file it liked - or all of them.
But you can fix it "sure fire" by using FIXMBR. That will restore the boot block and all will be well again!
Please don't give any more computer advice until you've been detarded.
I'm glad they've changed. Your PC tech is more like your confessor or your doctor than ever before. The level of professional confidence required is not matched by legal protections or professional standards.
That needs to change.
Heh.
Actually that was a personal question. I think he's the guy that got me hooked on D&D. Thanks though. I bought one of those Burroughs machines as salvage once. They had like 300 lbs of aluminum in them. That was like two cases of beer.
Honestly. Do the people who come up with these things actually think of what they're doing ? Or are they too busy counting beans ?
They want to believe in DRM because they honestly believe their content won't maintain its value if it's not protected. People are eager to sell them DRM solutions because they have huge piles of money and they're willing to believe in the DRM fairy. This keeps going on because we continue to pay and pay and pay, proving the point.
Now excuse me, I have to go buy the White Album. Again.
With each right comes a duty - not an obligation. Noone is forced to vote. It's not an obligation. But if you don't vote, you haven't done your duty and so you've done far worse than those who chose wrong. At least they were brave enough to step up and say "not him".
I agree with you a lot. I posted that because most of the people reading it aren't vets, and don't understand the responsibilities of a citizen.
A protest "not vote" is your right. I still doesn't count. If all someone does is "not vote" they're counted in the "don't care" segment. If they truly do care they've sent a message they didn't intend - and so done worse than ignored the issues of the day - they've neglected their duty.
Perhaps in each individual case the individual abandoning his post at the polls is a minor thing. In the whole it's bad for you and me as the "don't care" segment swells to more than either of us. It's better to commend to each soul that he take his post at the polls and discharge his duty - if not his obligation - at the appointed time.
Complaining is truly a right that Privates and Bosun's mates have raised to a high art. That said, let's not encourage the guy that changes our oil to abandon his post too, ok?
Thanks for that.
The advantages are not immediately apparent. They're there though.
You missed a "not" in "things being entirely bad" but I got your meaning. Yeah, if Windows was a significant portion of the "mixed" that would be interesting.
If you look closely though Windows has even less of a presence there. I think my paper, "Task granularity in homogeneous clusters" covered this.
I started this thread. I live in such a state and I feel your pain.
You go vote because
Whatever works for you. Just go vote, ok?
Taxes by their nature involve employing men with guns to take stuff away from some people and give that stuff to other people. The men with guns always get a cut. In the brutal math of economics, this is the definition of a tax. The only thing that separates it from robbery is its justification in the common weal and general acceptance.
They're a necessary evil. Like copyright, they're a compromise of the necessary against the ideal. Left to their own devices people would eventually opt not to fund the common defense, upon which all else relies. The Senate of Greece one revoked all their laws but one: If it harm none, do what you will. Some time thereafter they were overrun by barbarians because the common greek citizen would neither contribute to nor serve in the defense of the land. It's a nice liberal law, but in practice it doesn't work in a world with external threats.
that's how it is now, with the resulting problems.
And some of us like it like that.
I think it was Mark Twain who wrote that the purpose of government is do deplete the surplus productivity, and so prevent the excess of leisure from whence insurrection springs. It may be our current system is too efficient at that task.
And no, not every voice will be heard, but that's why we have an independent judiciary that is charged with protecting the rights of the minority.
The role of the judiciary is to interpret the law. The law, in certain instances, is designed to protect the rights of the minority, but that's not the point.
The role of the judiciary is not to "protect the rights of the minority".
You've probably read it, but let's reference The Federalist Papers, shall we?
The rest of this post assumes that "we" are citizens of the USA.
Our constitution recognizes that the authority of government is derived from the consent of the governed. That's us. When our government does stupid things, it putatively does them on our behalf. Presumably the actions of our government are an expression of the common will, and so it is right and proper that foreigners might dislike us individually for the actions we take collectively. So it is that tourists in foreign lands feel some coldness when the actions of our government are received badly, as R.A.H. wrote about in "Expanded Universe". (Gary powers was "shot down" while the Heinleins were touring Russia.) When our government does smart things (WPA, the space program, etc.) we enjoy the benefits.
Here at home we don't worry much about what happens in foreign lands as long as our troops and tourists come home OK. That might be a mistake. The genocide in Rwanda that we turned a blind eye to years ago has turned into genocide in Congo. In a few years it may spread. As Men (and this is the usage that includes women too) we are diminished by the heinous injustices that occur anywhere in the world. But are we - can we - be the World Police? Can we do anything about it?
Our laws including the constitution have been sorely tested these last few years, it's true. Part of this is the cold press of events, as the cauldron of strife distills new truths from the mash of common ideals. Part is the intrusion of money represented by special interests who ply our representatives with education campaigns, astroturf campaigns, and flat cash. We do bear some responsibility for this. If we were not so susceptible to advertising there would be no incentive to accept the funding for advertising that drives reelection campaigns. As it sits now the candidate with the most money doesn't always win but like the race to the swift and the battle to the strong, that's where the smart money lays their bets. If we cared more it would not be so.
Protesters can do a lot, but the sad fact is that in the modern market protesters can be hired. For a million bucks you can shut down a major city for a number of hours with protesters who care not for your cause but who'll show up and protest for a buck. Some of them are quite clever. If you mix in with them because you believe in the cause of the day is your zeal real, or is it a network effect purchased by the protest organizer?
Sigh. Go vote.
Oh, and support Project Gutenberg. They're doing more for you and all mankind than you know.
You're modded funny, but five people in their minivans can shut down a morning commute in a major city by lining up side by side and driving slow. I've done it to protest the 55MPH speed limit. If you have a hundred committed people you can keep that up indefinitely on multiple arterials, as even if they're arrested they get bail and take another turn. Go slow for five minutes and quit strategies are even more durable, as they don't get caught but a five minute backup has network effects that make an entire city an hour late for work. Every day.
Think about what that would do to your local economy. It's amazing how fragile our system is.
They do for the most part. But almost inevitably somebody makes 200,000 circuit boards, only to discover that something doesn't work and it to be reworked. Three resistors, a capacitor and an IO connector have to be changed. It's boring work in a toxic environment under appalling conditions. But it's got to be done if you want that new BluRay player under your tree.
When you drop a subatomic particle just let it go, man. It's gone.
Not only will we discover more particles with the LHC, we will create a greater understanding of the world in which we live. This will inevitably lead to the result the common man understands: cool new products! These products will of course be expensive at first and cost less over time, ultimately driving up the standard of living for all but the most exploited among us.
Research always pays. Sometimes embarrassingly much. That's why, although I would like NASA's budget to be increased to a few hundred billion dollars a year, I can live with the pittance they're given. Eventually somebody with a profit motive will explore space, succeed, and reap returns beyond the dreams of Midas.
Given a life of 20 picoseconds, I can't imagine that there would be monstrous factories of these things all over the universe to account for the stupidly large amount of mass they are supposed to account for.
The factory was only working for about 100 picoseconds and most of the product was consumed in short order. Like CueCats though the unused product remains, eating up storage costs throughout the universe as we know it. Buy yours today!
Seriously, though - a simpler explanation for the unexplained phenomena could be that the "gravitic constant" is not constant, as we know it to not be. If its inconstance is nonlinear that would explain a lot. A logarithmic depreciation of the gravitic constant from the big bang to now could well explain a lot of the presently supposed "dark matter" and "dark energy".
Where are the folks who can solder, "feel" what a capacitor does and do all Ohm's Law calculation in their subconscious?
We're still out here. I know a few. The end of electronics repair shops in the US in favor of disposable electronics has driven most to abandon the field.
But yeah, watching an electronics tech explain to an EE stuff most of us learned in high school is pretty sad.
Did your high school have an IBM 5150?
The real stuff has gotten pretty tough. I had the challenge once to rework a preproduction board to prove a design change. I was way out of my comfort zone.
Resistors these days are the size of a juvenile flea. If you drop one, let it go man... it's gone. ICs aren't much better. You have to use IPA and a lintfree cloth just to clean the soldering tweezers. It takes a 60x microscope and a steady hand. I was really regretting my caffeine habit. And the tiny static charges make everything sticky. The leadfree solder takes more heat so you have to be extra careful not so bake the components to death. And don't stab yourself with the tweezers. They look like pencil erasers in the scope but they'll penetrate your skin with no resistance, burning the whole way.
It worked. It wasn't pretty, but it worked. I am thrilled to have had the experience. I wish I knew a vendor for the surgical point soldering tweezers.
Respect to the asian ladies in the factory that do this all day for a pittance, with nothing more than a magnifying glass and grim determination.
They're paper EE's from offshore colleges. That fad won't last.
You can buy a 2 channel USB O-scope for $140, and a datalogger for $80. Most electronics companies will send you bits of the latest science just for asking. I think if the kids today want to take over the world, they have the tools available. Do they have the wits?
It's simply another piece of code to be debated and which will stave off Linux on the Desktop another 5 years.
Choice. It's bad. It makes us do the choosing. Choosing involves weighing, learning and investigating. That's a lot of work. We should avoid choice.
Cathedral. Bazaar.
Some of us like the chaotic diversity of deliberate mutation brutally winnowed with Darwinian selection. At least in software. In beer, not so much.
A little hot, but on time, in time for Christmas and slamming the benchmarks. Hey, there is a system that can run Crysis with all the features turned on!
Maybe a price break on the LGA775 quad lineup now please?