Spybot S+D has REALTIME protection
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So use it and it will block nearly everything it is capable of identifying. Keep the sig file up to date and run it off the scheduler every once in a while. Blow your Browser cache away once a week. In fact blow away ALL the cookies on a regular interval.
Covered it in one of his books. If you want a computer to function with a one nanosecond cycletime, in a perfect universe it could be no larger than the cube root of one foot along any axis. You simply bump into the speed of light at that point.
We spend about an order of magnitude more work effort cleaning up the nuclear industrial accident after it's occurred instead of designing the goddamned thing to work right from the get-go.
Any other product or service that worked so poorly it had to be managed like desktop software would be REFUND worthy or covered under lemon laws. I can't even imagine owning a toaster (real toaster not a net appliance) when I knew it MIGHT not work or it MIGHT burst into flames or it MIGHT cause the coffepot next to it to explode.
that's exactly my point. it seems that there really is only one or two court sports and one or two fighting sports yet we get treated to 4000 different indigenous pointless variations to the same damn thing.
I was trying to be kind. And I am so glad that they decided not to have an exhbition sport this time round. We are officially at the bottom of the barrel.
Synchronized Diving? C'mon that SCREAMS Metrosexual Athletics.
And I was watching Badminton this morning and while I'm sure the athletes try real hard I challenge anyone on earth to describe to me anything about the game played at that level that is different in any way from the game we played as kids. All it is is 4 guys with extremely fast reflexes.
Horsejumping? Do they give medals to the horse?
The list of silly 'sports' in the Olympics is getting pretty fucking long.
People wouldn't change the oil in their car if there was no plastic sticker in the windshield to tell them to do that. Shit, they probably don't clean out the toaster unless it catches on fire.
If computers want smarter USERS then they have to build smarter COMPUTERS to serve them. Build it the fuck right from the get-go and make it so it is literally as idiot proof as the old pre-celluar age residential telephone.
Until then? Shut the fuck up and keep fixing all the crap you sent us to begin with.
I sincerely hope that MS charges Hollywood a billion dollars a picture to use MS products. I hope the people who brought you the commercial in your theater with the fat bald stuntman have to eat their own children.
But iDot machines at $200 no committment
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There are machines out there like iDot who sell lower end PCs - Athlon, 128Mb, no hard drive no monitor for about $160-$199. You could easily configure an AMD 2100, 512MB RAM, 40GB drive, sound, video, kb, mouse, Linspire, with shipping for about $385.
You could but a sub300 machine for about $225 + 50 bucks more for a drive and be out the door with a non bleeding edge machine for under 300 bucks.
If you want to compel someone to use your upgrade you have to make a compelling case to do so. One plausible way is to create a browser that 'exploits' all sorts of new widgets that you can't fully use until you get the rest of the upgrade. Or plausibly another way would be to make all the security fixes inherent in the new browser more functional and more useful if and only if the rest of the upgrade is installed.
BTW I could care less about open source. I don't use it.
I would imagine that people by and large go to DefCon to learn HOW to do something not WHY. There appears to be a lot of faux anarcho posing going on as well as faux Fedcop speak in response.
Only another anarchist or Fedcop would ever think that what an anarchist or Fedcop has to say is remotely interesting. I can't imagine anyone at DefCon suddenly deciding that either breaking thinks is kewl or that diversity of opinion has to be tolerated. Nor would I think that the self professed Grey-Hats are going to come out in favor of the PATRIOT act.
When we all talk to a room full of people who are our clones it's got to get pretty boring.
Being a do nothing boss and a civil servant to boot with nearly limitless power to terrorize the underlings at will and whim is pretty much how the world works. Get over it.
If you want to get your boss shitcanned then do a reasonably good job and plant porn on his/her machine.
The Australian equivalent of the RIAA has started taking dentists to court for illegally broadcasting music to their patients in the office. They are also going after commercial landlords who operate elevators which broadcast music.
It looks like in the future that loudspeakers themselves may be illegal because they broadcast to more than one legitimate 'licence' holder.
The future sucks, it always does
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Why do I get the feeling that if SF writers were in charge of the industrial revolution we'd still all be dairy farmers?
Why does the future always suck, why is that the natural consequence of progress along any dimension? Why do they embrace defeat?
It's always some dark dystopian future and the cure is always either free love or fascism isn't it?
That's why I like PK Dick so much. No happy endings, we all die alone tortured by our paranoias.
IBM collects so many patents because it makes about 400 million dollars a year going after people who may have infringed on them. How much would you cough up if a Deathstar full of IBM attornies showed up at your door?
The last time I checked a reasonably priced low end mp3 player was more than a hundred bucks. A cheap snapshot digital camera, ditto. A voice recorder - same thing. And don't even get me started with Palm. And those features on phones are not that dramatically worse than standalone devices.
And who wants to walk around with Batman's utility belt anyway?
What all those gadget makers are discovering that all their gadgets really aren't worth that much.
Now if we could just nuke all the phone companies and send their employees straight to hell it would be GLORIOUS.
Seriously what violence are they talking about? Talk shows? Eat Bugs shows? The Real World? Golf? The Fishing Channel? Who wants to marry my Dad? Oprah? Fairly Odd Parents?
What violence?
Do they mean channels that are already restricted like HBO?
Intel has been in news recently with one story after another about how they missed most of their product launches this year. Today in fact the CEO sent a memo to the entire company telling them in short that they're a bunch of losers who have to work harder or there will be hell to pay.
Maybe they really don't have a fucking clue at Intel and what they really don't need is yet another pointless product variation and instead they should focus on getting their stuff right.
Intel is starting to look like a goddamn cereal company that's making up shit just to get more shelf space.
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So use it and it will block nearly everything it is capable of identifying. Keep the sig file up to date and run it off the scheduler every once in a while. Blow your Browser cache away once a week. In fact blow away ALL the cookies on a regular interval.
You will have essentially no spyware.
Covered it in one of his books. If you want a computer to function with a one nanosecond cycletime, in a perfect universe it could be no larger than the cube root of one foot along any axis. You simply bump into the speed of light at that point.
We spend about an order of magnitude more work effort cleaning up the nuclear industrial accident after it's occurred instead of designing the goddamned thing to work right from the get-go.
Any other product or service that worked so poorly it had to be managed like desktop software would be REFUND worthy or covered under lemon laws. I can't even imagine owning a toaster (real toaster not a net appliance) when I knew it MIGHT not work or it MIGHT burst into flames or it MIGHT cause the coffepot next to it to explode.
that's exactly my point. it seems that there really is only one or two court sports and one or two fighting sports yet we get treated to 4000 different indigenous pointless variations to the same damn thing.
I was trying to be kind. And I am so glad that they decided not to have an exhbition sport this time round. We are officially at the bottom of the barrel.
Seriously unless you are moored to your Lay-Z-Boy on life support there is almost nothing on worth watching.
I bet people get all wet and shit watching Bass Masters on a huge ass high def widescreen. Them motherfuckin Bass wuz ginormous now git me a beer.
Synchronized Diving? C'mon that SCREAMS Metrosexual Athletics.
And I was watching Badminton this morning and while I'm sure the athletes try real hard I challenge anyone on earth to describe to me anything about the game played at that level that is different in any way from the game we played as kids. All it is is 4 guys with extremely fast reflexes.
Horsejumping? Do they give medals to the horse?
The list of silly 'sports' in the Olympics is getting pretty fucking long.
Ok so it might fix some things but the patient could die from the cure.
People wouldn't change the oil in their car if there was no plastic sticker in the windshield to tell them to do that. Shit, they probably don't clean out the toaster unless it catches on fire.
If computers want smarter USERS then they have to build smarter COMPUTERS to serve them. Build it the fuck right from the get-go and make it so it is literally as idiot proof as the old pre-celluar age residential telephone.
Until then? Shut the fuck up and keep fixing all the crap you sent us to begin with.
I sincerely hope that MS charges Hollywood a billion dollars a picture to use MS products. I hope the people who brought you the commercial in your theater with the fat bald stuntman have to eat their own children.
There are machines out there like iDot who sell lower end PCs - Athlon, 128Mb, no hard drive no monitor for about $160-$199. You could easily configure an AMD 2100, 512MB RAM, 40GB drive, sound, video, kb, mouse, Linspire, with shipping for about $385.
You could but a sub300 machine for about $225 + 50 bucks more for a drive and be out the door with a non bleeding edge machine for under 300 bucks.
And they don't require a monthly pimp fee to AOL.
If you want to compel someone to use your upgrade you have to make a compelling case to do so. One plausible way is to create a browser that 'exploits' all sorts of new widgets that you can't fully use until you get the rest of the upgrade. Or plausibly another way would be to make all the security fixes inherent in the new browser more functional and more useful if and only if the rest of the upgrade is installed.
BTW I could care less about open source. I don't use it.
It's axiomatic that the browser will be released first. This will be how they essentially force you along the upgrade path.
To get modded down when I say I can't believe how hard /. sux
I would imagine that people by and large go to DefCon to learn HOW to do something not WHY. There appears to be a lot of faux anarcho posing going on as well as faux Fedcop speak in response.
Only another anarchist or Fedcop would ever think that what an anarchist or Fedcop has to say is remotely interesting. I can't imagine anyone at DefCon suddenly deciding that either breaking thinks is kewl or that diversity of opinion has to be tolerated. Nor would I think that the self professed Grey-Hats are going to come out in favor of the PATRIOT act.
When we all talk to a room full of people who are our clones it's got to get pretty boring.
Being a do nothing boss and a civil servant to boot with nearly limitless power to terrorize the underlings at will and whim is pretty much how the world works. Get over it.
If you want to get your boss shitcanned then do a reasonably good job and plant porn on his/her machine.
Imagine the fun we'll have when viruses can actually alter the router, switch and firewall hardware designed to protect us from the viruses.
The Australian equivalent of the RIAA has started taking dentists to court for illegally broadcasting music to their patients in the office. They are also going after commercial landlords who operate elevators which broadcast music.
It looks like in the future that loudspeakers themselves may be illegal because they broadcast to more than one legitimate 'licence' holder.
Why do I get the feeling that if SF writers were in charge of the industrial revolution we'd still all be dairy farmers?
Why does the future always suck, why is that the natural consequence of progress along any dimension? Why do they embrace defeat?
It's always some dark dystopian future and the cure is always either free love or fascism isn't it?
That's why I like PK Dick so much. No happy endings, we all die alone tortured by our paranoias.
IBM collects so many patents because it makes about 400 million dollars a year going after people who may have infringed on them. How much would you cough up if a Deathstar full of IBM attornies showed up at your door?
This is what's behind the MS plan.
The last time I checked a reasonably priced low end mp3 player was more than a hundred bucks. A cheap snapshot digital camera, ditto. A voice recorder - same thing. And don't even get me started with Palm. And those features on phones are not that dramatically worse than standalone devices.
And who wants to walk around with Batman's utility belt anyway?
What all those gadget makers are discovering that all their gadgets really aren't worth that much.
Now if we could just nuke all the phone companies and send their employees straight to hell it would be GLORIOUS.
Shee-it even in death Crick gets credit for someone else's work. Goddamn.
sucks to be them
Seriously what violence are they talking about? Talk shows? Eat Bugs shows? The Real World? Golf? The Fishing Channel? Who wants to marry my Dad? Oprah? Fairly Odd Parents?
What violence?
Do they mean channels that are already restricted like HBO?
Intel has been in news recently with one story after another about how they missed most of their product launches this year. Today in fact the CEO sent a memo to the entire company telling them in short that they're a bunch of losers who have to work harder or there will be hell to pay.
Maybe they really don't have a fucking clue at Intel and what they really don't need is yet another pointless product variation and instead they should focus on getting their stuff right.
Intel is starting to look like a goddamn cereal company that's making up shit just to get more shelf space.