I'm not having a good time on this thread:-) Another poster named a bar as a (old) metric unit of pressure when I would have sworn it was simply 1 atmosphere - which it practically is but it's also 100 kPa.
Alpha particle
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OT. but towards the end, it suggests that almost all cancers from smoking are a result of the tiny 210Po content. Which makes you wonder if they could make safer ones with hydroponics. (The Po comes from the phosphate fertiliser).
Unless I'm mistaken there isn't any such thing. The article says you would be breaking the EULA, not that they will prevent you. It also says that the MSDN version of Vista Home are not affected.
FTA:
"So, Microsoft removes user choice in the name of security," he said.
That's cool, why don't they just put "You will not infect this software with a virus" in the EULA too, that will be another contribution to security.
Why don't they just say they want more money from people who know what a VM is and have done with it.
No, this problem only affects computers with browsers that support ActiveX. That's why W2K3 isn't affected because IE is configured to be virtually "text only"
Have you seen the 'mitigating factors from the MS advisory? They're hilarious:
In a Web-based attack scenario, an attacker would have to host a Web site that contains a Web page that is used to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit a malicious Web site. Instead, an attacker would have to persuade them to visit the Web site, typically by getting them to click a link that takes them to the attacker's Web site.
Ahh, easy. Don't click links on the web then.
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the logged on user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
That's good, the first thing Aunt Nelly does with her new PC is set up a LUA account.
The Restricted sites zone helps reduce attacks that could try to exploit this vulnerability by preventing Active Scripting from being used when reading HTML e-mail messages. However, if a user clicks a link in an e-mail message, they could still be vulnerable to this issue through the Web-based attack scenario.
Put malicious sites in the Restricted Zone first, good advice - can we have a list of them please? Before anyone suggests turning off Active Scripting, that causes IE to display a warning message box every time you visit a site with Flash, making it unusable.
A much better mitigating factor would be that over 10% of users can't run ActiveX because they are using Firefox or Linux.
I think the increments are being targetted in schools these days. I suppose the reasoning is that if you grow up with total surviellance you won't have known any different. My kids have a 'helpful' library system where they can book out using their fingerprints. I was furious when I found out but by then it was too late.
War on drugs? lets test them! It's optional now and either the kid or the parent can decline but it doesn't say that they won't draw any conclusions.
I see they're still breaking the MSDN article for Firefox users, how childish. Perhaps it should say "The user should never feel condescended to, blamed, or intimidated unless they are using non-Microsoft software"
Hmm, so when the "rest of the world" buys their music crippled with DRM what are you going to do for music?
Actually as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, this kind of greedy approach actually helps. I'd love Microsoft to burn their users so badly that DRM becomes totally unacceptable to anyone who has a PC.
Here here. Also note the previous complaint that they bundled Windows Media Player killing sales of Realplayer, another bag of adware and bloat.
Acrobat installs several services and tries to phone home all the time and you will probably get more performance from your PC by being part of a botnet than running Norton.
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PRAM has the properties you describe. Although it isn't a type of Flash memory so I doubt it's the one present in hybrid drives.
If you can't get away with installing Cygwin at work, try GNU utilities for Win32
Just unzip them into the path and off you go.
also, that problem with search for text in file is a BUG
If you want a working version of their GUI search, try Agent Ransack
It's "Under heavy development" according to their site.
www.mono-project.com/WinForms
In the Anime, she is posessed and used to summon Pharaoh 90 who appears as a large black ball to destroy the Earth.
No need to worry though, it's not like this could happen.
I'm not having a good time on this thread :-) Another poster named a bar as a (old) metric unit of pressure when I would have sworn it was simply 1 atmosphere - which it practically is but it's also 100 kPa.
:-( oops. Mixed it up with calorie per second. We still measure light bulb power in watts though.
ergs/s ...is imperial. Power is measured in Watts which are Joules/s.
Obilg. Wikipedia reference
Agree with the argument though, nearly everything is metric except for speeds on the road, perhaps people's weight in stones although that's changing.
The IE7 installer validates your Windows install/license before it will install. Good luck installing it!
Err, this was out on Monday:
"Also note that we will avoid Microsoft's Genuine Advantage download validation checks"
Internet Explorer 7 on Linux
BF2142 being one I would have bought if not for my problems with the previous iteration.
I skipped that one aswell due to problems with BF2 and reported bugs and spyware in 2142.
OT. but towards the end, it suggests that almost all cancers from smoking are a result of the tiny 210Po content. Which makes you wonder if they could make safer ones with hydroponics. (The Po comes from the phosphate fertiliser).
Unless I'm mistaken there isn't any such thing. The article says you would be breaking the EULA, not that they will prevent you. It also says that the MSDN version of Vista Home are not affected.
FTA:
That's cool, why don't they just put "You will not infect this software with a virus" in the EULA too, that will be another contribution to security.
Why don't they just say they want more money from people who know what a VM is and have done with it.
At least nobody can feed the trolls now!
Have you seen the 'mitigating factors from the MS advisory? They're hilarious:
Ahh, easy. Don't click links on the web then.
That's good, the first thing Aunt Nelly does with her new PC is set up a LUA account.
Put malicious sites in the Restricted Zone first, good advice - can we have a list of them please? Before anyone suggests turning off Active Scripting, that causes IE to display a warning message box every time you visit a site with Flash, making it unusable.
A much better mitigating factor would be that over 10% of users can't run ActiveX because they are using Firefox or Linux.
I think the increments are being targetted in schools these days. I suppose the reasoning is that if you grow up with total surviellance you won't have known any different. My kids have a 'helpful' library system where they can book out using their fingerprints. I was furious when I found out but by then it was too late.
War on drugs? lets test them! It's optional now and either the kid or the parent can decline but it doesn't say that they won't draw any conclusions.
Mod parent up! I've been doing this for years as it's the only way to ensure your email isn't being tracked.
An email client only has any business talking to your ISP's email server on POP3 and SMTP and nothing else.
$10/gallon gas
Grr!! we have that in the UK now you insensitive clod.
Or Rob Maldas
They could also get a .de name. Something beyond the jurisdiction of a US. Court.
Why would they want to do that? From the article;
Executives at the U.K.-based Spamhaus Project...
Microsoft keelhauls customers in WGA snafu
A friend of mine has a legit copy bought with a new PC which fails WGA.
That has been my experience too, I'm behind a NAT router and I've never had any problems with bandwidth / resource hogging.
I wish Skype was open source too but I use it because it runs on my PocketPC easily whereas not many other VoIP clients do.
This whole "cause confusion" argument is so ridiculous, it's been tried many times before and it rarely works.
err, do you remember Mike Rowe?
I see they're still breaking the MSDN article for Firefox users, how childish. Perhaps it should say "The user should never feel condescended to, blamed, or intimidated unless they are using non-Microsoft software"
the rest of the world is not our responsibility
Hmm, so when the "rest of the world" buys their music crippled with DRM what are you going to do for music?
Actually as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, this kind of greedy approach actually helps. I'd love Microsoft to burn their users so badly that DRM becomes totally unacceptable to anyone who has a PC.
Here here. Also note the previous complaint that they bundled Windows Media Player killing sales of Realplayer, another bag of adware and bloat.
Acrobat installs several services and tries to phone home all the time and you will probably get more performance from your PC by being part of a botnet than running Norton.
Article about Norton here
...and my favourite pinball machine too!