You can't just have good customer relations management anymore, you need to to be a good corporate citizen with a net societal benefit and cultural ans social corporate conscience. Additionally, you'll need to make sure that all of your customers are liazoned by a single point of contact within your business to maintain a positive balance of customer goodwill. You'll probably also want to leverage centralized customer portals to meet your event horizon and allow you to expand your vertical market segmentation for optimized recurring revenue opportunities.
No doubt. This may be the worst piece of journalism I've ever read. It sounds a lot like it was written by a high school student. My personal favorites:
"As a side note, your Microsoft points you use on Xbox Live Marketplace will be available to buy songs from the Zune music service."
This article sounds like it was dictated by a twelve year old.
"The ExtremeTech article is spread over 10 ad-laden pages. You can read it all on the printer-friendly page, but you'll miss out on the pretty graphs."
Or you can just browse with Firefox and install the AdBlock Plus and AdBlock Filterset.G Updater extensions. Hell I don't even remember what the web was like with ads. I haven't punched a monkey in years. Well, a digital monkey anyways.
Soon to come on Slashdot, "The Return of MAC Spoofing!"
In fact, despite the fact that the end of MAC spoofing is already a long ways off, someone out there is probably proactively working on getting around this already.
Here here . . . I'm using Adblock Plus with the Adblock filterset.G updater extension to continuously update known ad url's. Seriously, the internet the way it's supposed to be if you ask me.
"the problem is still psychological for people though. nuclear IS scary. it's the same thing as flying: it's safer than driving, but people prefer to drive than fly, and feel safer driving than flying. even though the reverse is true. why? the illusion of familiarity and control. people stick with what they are comfortable with, even if what they are comfortable with sucks in comparison"
This is a little nit-pickey because I understand your point and its a valid one. You just chose a bad example. Flying is not safer than driving. Commerical flying is safer than driving. General aviation is much more dangerous. Statistically, its more dangerous than driving. Hell, statistically, its more dangerous than skydiving. Commercial flight is safer than driving because it is heavily regulated and only performed by highly trained professionals in much smaller quantities than driving. If all driving traffic were to take to the sky, regulations and professionals or not, lots of people would start dying. Think about it. Crashing on the ground or crashing at 5,000 ft? Driving is obviously inherently more safe. I think its a valid question to ask if this would be true if all energy consumption were to become nuclear. Yes, we've done alright not blowing ourselves up so far and we *think* we've kind of got this figured out. But do we truly jump headlong into nuclear energy? If we do screw up, the costs are immediately evident and very high.
At least, I think this is the idea that plays through people's minds and push them away from embracing nuclear completely. Not just that its unfamiliar. But I'm sure the consequences of the alternatives (GW, oil wars, etc) have the potential to be just as bad. They just somehow seem less likely, even though they're already evident.
You make an interesting point though, and it really worries me particularly. I'm one of those guys who will probably never buy a new car. I will admit, I could probably afford one right now, but I guess I'm just too cheap. I just couldn't stand to take the loss on driving a new car off the lot. Most of the cars I buy are 5 - 8 years old and I usually get 100,000+ miles out of them. However, as soon as Hybrid's came out of really wanted to have one. But just as I would never buy a used car that will need an engine rebuild in a year, I would never want to buy a hybrid that's going to need a battery pack replacement.
It seems to me that anyone willing to engade in a long hi-speed pursuit is just the sort of person that this will NOT be effective with. I understand wanting to avoid long pursuits. In fact, in my city, as a matter of policy, police officers will not engade in a pursuit with motorcycle in the downtown area. The combination of speed and the crowdedness of the streets are simply not worth the risk.
Also, think about the nature of the pursuits they are wanting to avoid. We've all seen it on cops. Driver takes off going way in excess of 100 mph on city and neighborhood roads. If the cops are lucky, they can radio ahead to other police officers and setup road blocks or put down tire strips. But the suspect always either nails the cops with his car and keeps going, or blows his tires out and keeps going along right on his rims shooting sparks every which way. Sometimes, the cops will perform that move where they catch up to the fleeing car and ram it on a rear fender which sends the driver spinning out of control. Sometimes this works. Sometimes they spin out and hit people and just keep on going. Sometimes they even get the suspect trapped between two cruisers and run at the driver, pistols drawn. And sometimes the drivers just smash their way right out of this almost killing the police officers in the process.
Yeah, I understand the need to want to curtail all of this dangerous activity. But what the last thing you always see from your airial police-cam? The driver gets out and starts running. My guess, if the person fleeing is desperate enough to get involved in a high speed pursuit, then they are also probably going to run after they ditch their car. If the cop is hanging back, I seriously doubt they are going to catch them.
And this changes the bias how? It's called groupthink. One person makes a suggestion, putting that suggestion in the list. Other people see the suggestion and immediately pick up on it.
I have put myself through quite a bit of college doing freelance computer work for people (and their kids) who have infected themselves with spyware and I can tell you that pr0n is probably the number 1 source of spyware out there. Men simply don't make good decisions about what links to click when they have gone into pr0n mode. Gaming sites are also pretty high on the list as well as file sharing apps. But truly, it comes down to the user. An intelligent user can completely evade spyware if they are cautious. I am living proof of that. God knows, I have surfed enough pr0n to nuke a thousand Windows boxes. However, I amazingly have never infected myself with a single instance of spyware.
Adaware and Spybot Search and destroy are your best place to start, but I understand your frustration. Probably three out of the last four times I've dealt with a Spyware infested machine they didn't completely do the trick on their own.
Install and run Adaware and Spybot S&D, making sure you update the programs and select to perform deep scans (within archives, etc) in the custom scan options. This will probably most of the easiest and most common exploits. Reboot.
Go through your Add/Remove programs menu and try removing any programs you can identify as spware. If the programs didn't come with an uninstaller, I would have to officially recommend you do not go through any of their steps to download one and run it. I have tried this in the past with mixed results. Some of these programs truly were just severely annoying adware that actually removed themselves at the end of this lengthy process, but some were truly malicious that simply installed MORE spyware after running the uninstaller. I recommend you don't risk this.
Open up the task manager and go through each and every process, reseaching in if need be. I use groups.google.au to get the older version which seems to provide more relavent results. Kill any processes that you find are suspiscious. Hell, kill any processes you can't identify as normal Windows OS or application processes. I dealt with a instance of spyware once that executed two randomly named processes that protected the spyware from removal. If you killed one process, the other would immediately respawn it.
Go through all of your startup locations:
C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp
C:\WINDOWS\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunServices
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Run
Start --> Run --> msconfig --> Startup tab
Once again, go through each and every item and delete or disable everything that you can identify as malicious. It's likely that when searching you will run across others who have dealt with the same spyware issues in the past and have had to figure out how to remove them.
Run your Adaware and Spybot S&D scans again. Reboot. Test your machine to see if the spyware is still there. Still have problems?
Download and run Hijack This Pour through your log once more, or alternatively post it to one of the many forums where professionals are willing to lend you a helping hand. At this point, you may also want to consider downloading and running Rootkit Revealer.
Also, try rebooting into safe mode and running your scans. Even though you are in safe mode, you should still monitor and kill processes that are suspicious. Remember, Sony's Rootkit came complete with a safe mode driver.
If all of this hasn't worked, then I suggest you back up your data, scan it for viruses, and do a low level format with a utility such as Killdisk. Now that you have to reinstall your OS, perhaps now is the prefect time to make the Linux switch.
"Of those top 10 applications, two of them are financial management packages. Looks like there is quite a demand for that. It looks like there is a huge interest in the AUTOCAD arena, as well. Something that is very well worth noting is the demand for multimedia applications."
I imagine this is probably because of the fact that they suggest all of those top ten applications in their dropdown menu (leaving an "other" option at the bottom in case you don't want any of their default applications). Anyone whose ever worked on survey or statistics theory knows this is an obvious bias. That's not to say that's its a bad idea to do this if they have an agenda, I'm just pointing out that the results should definately be taken with a grain of salt here. There may be more relevant programs people would like to see ported to Linux. I imagine lots of people can think of specific games they'd like to see ported. Anyone whose ever reads/. knows that there's a pretty large community of gamers that keep that one Windows box around just for gaming.
Anyways, I say best of luck to Novell. I'd love it if they were able to make some ground with Adobe on porting some of their apps.
"Speaking as a gay man, it's nice to know that my freedom to have a sexual relationship doesn't "really matter" and that I should be more worried about "the increasing power of Big Media" than about whether I spend the rest of my life alone. Thanks so much for clarifying that for me."
Actually, I think you're taking the parent post in the wrong context. You see, in the United States, it is a common tactic of politicians to invent highly salient and controversial poltical topics that will draw attention away from more pressing issues (I.E., war). These politicians will then set themselves up as a champion of one side of this argument, hopefully delivering the double benefit of drawing more votes from a particular demographic. Additionally, the perfect "watch-the-birdy" politcal tactic should pose little risk to the party harnessing its political credit, should the battle ultimately be lost.
The Bush Administration's use of the proposed ammendment to ban same-sex marriage was an absolutely brilliant implementation of the "watch-the-birdy" political tactic. Analysts found that the country was highly polarized on this issue, promising lots of media attention that would draw criticisms away from his Administrations' floundering battle against insurgents in Iraq. Additionally, the issue brought the religous right to the poles in his favor in droves, including the (mainly) Catholic Hispanic demographic, where Republican favor has long been lacking. And finally, should his party lose this battle, the worst that could happen is that we revert to the status quo. No part of this battle involved at any time affirming or protecting the right of gays to marry, only denying it. Genuis really.
I appears to me that the parent poster is definately concerned with the protection of civil liberties. I doubt he meant to trivialize your rights as a citizen. Rather, I think he was expressing his frustrations with the gullibility the U.S. voters who fell for this watch-the-birdie tactic.
Slashdot Mirror
. . . and if some little annoying item should happen to make it through all of those filters, just nuke it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/951/
You can't just have good customer relations management anymore, you need to to be a good corporate citizen with a net societal benefit and cultural ans social corporate conscience. Additionally, you'll need to make sure that all of your customers are liazoned by a single point of contact within your business to maintain a positive balance of customer goodwill. You'll probably also want to leverage centralized customer portals to meet your event horizon and allow you to expand your vertical market segmentation for optimized recurring revenue opportunities.
Nuff said.
No doubt. This may be the worst piece of journalism I've ever read. It sounds a lot like it was written by a high school student. My personal favorites:
"As a side note, your Microsoft points you use on Xbox Live Marketplace will be available to buy songs from the Zune music service."
This article sounds like it was dictated by a twelve year old.
"The ExtremeTech article is spread over 10 ad-laden pages. You can read it all on the printer-friendly page, but you'll miss out on the pretty graphs."
Or you can just browse with Firefox and install the AdBlock Plus and AdBlock Filterset.G Updater extensions. Hell I don't even remember what the web was like with ads. I haven't punched a monkey in years. Well, a digital monkey anyways.
Oooooohhhhhhhhh, flamebait this: 00====o
Soon to come on Slashdot, "The Return of MAC Spoofing!" In fact, despite the fact that the end of MAC spoofing is already a long ways off, someone out there is probably proactively working on getting around this already.
Wont someone please think of the robots!
This guy is a "fan-boy".
Thank you.
Here here . . . I'm using Adblock Plus with the Adblock filterset.G updater extension to continuously update known ad url's. Seriously, the internet the way it's supposed to be if you ask me.
Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment ... like the body or the subject!)
Fuck off slashbot piece of shit. All I had to say fucking fit in the subject.
Couldn't resist.
I never said it wasn't a no-brainer you knee jerk dickhead.
"the problem is still psychological for people though. nuclear IS scary. it's the same thing as flying: it's safer than driving, but people prefer to drive than fly, and feel safer driving than flying. even though the reverse is true. why? the illusion of familiarity and control. people stick with what they are comfortable with, even if what they are comfortable with sucks in comparison"
This is a little nit-pickey because I understand your point and its a valid one. You just chose a bad example. Flying is not safer than driving. Commerical flying is safer than driving. General aviation is much more dangerous. Statistically, its more dangerous than driving. Hell, statistically, its more dangerous than skydiving. Commercial flight is safer than driving because it is heavily regulated and only performed by highly trained professionals in much smaller quantities than driving. If all driving traffic were to take to the sky, regulations and professionals or not, lots of people would start dying. Think about it. Crashing on the ground or crashing at 5,000 ft? Driving is obviously inherently more safe. I think its a valid question to ask if this would be true if all energy consumption were to become nuclear. Yes, we've done alright not blowing ourselves up so far and we *think* we've kind of got this figured out. But do we truly jump headlong into nuclear energy? If we do screw up, the costs are immediately evident and very high.
At least, I think this is the idea that plays through people's minds and push them away from embracing nuclear completely. Not just that its unfamiliar. But I'm sure the consequences of the alternatives (GW, oil wars, etc) have the potential to be just as bad. They just somehow seem less likely, even though they're already evident.
My thought exactly.
Oh . . . and by the way. YOU'RE WELCOOOME!
You make an interesting point though, and it really worries me particularly. I'm one of those guys who will probably never buy a new car. I will admit, I could probably afford one right now, but I guess I'm just too cheap. I just couldn't stand to take the loss on driving a new car off the lot. Most of the cars I buy are 5 - 8 years old and I usually get 100,000+ miles out of them. However, as soon as Hybrid's came out of really wanted to have one. But just as I would never buy a used car that will need an engine rebuild in a year, I would never want to buy a hybrid that's going to need a battery pack replacement.
/badpun
Hmm, maybe it doesn't pay to be cheap.
It seems to me that anyone willing to engade in a long hi-speed pursuit is just the sort of person that this will NOT be effective with. I understand wanting to avoid long pursuits. In fact, in my city, as a matter of policy, police officers will not engade in a pursuit with motorcycle in the downtown area. The combination of speed and the crowdedness of the streets are simply not worth the risk.
Also, think about the nature of the pursuits they are wanting to avoid. We've all seen it on cops. Driver takes off going way in excess of 100 mph on city and neighborhood roads. If the cops are lucky, they can radio ahead to other police officers and setup road blocks or put down tire strips. But the suspect always either nails the cops with his car and keeps going, or blows his tires out and keeps going along right on his rims shooting sparks every which way. Sometimes, the cops will perform that move where they catch up to the fleeing car and ram it on a rear fender which sends the driver spinning out of control. Sometimes this works. Sometimes they spin out and hit people and just keep on going. Sometimes they even get the suspect trapped between two cruisers and run at the driver, pistols drawn. And sometimes the drivers just smash their way right out of this almost killing the police officers in the process.
Yeah, I understand the need to want to curtail all of this dangerous activity. But what the last thing you always see from your airial police-cam? The driver gets out and starts running. My guess, if the person fleeing is desperate enough to get involved in a high speed pursuit, then they are also probably going to run after they ditch their car. If the cop is hanging back, I seriously doubt they are going to catch them.
And this changes the bias how? It's called groupthink. One person makes a suggestion, putting that suggestion in the list. Other people see the suggestion and immediately pick up on it.
I have put myself through quite a bit of college doing freelance computer work for people (and their kids) who have infected themselves with spyware and I can tell you that pr0n is probably the number 1 source of spyware out there. Men simply don't make good decisions about what links to click when they have gone into pr0n mode. Gaming sites are also pretty high on the list as well as file sharing apps. But truly, it comes down to the user. An intelligent user can completely evade spyware if they are cautious. I am living proof of that. God knows, I have surfed enough pr0n to nuke a thousand Windows boxes. However, I amazingly have never infected myself with a single instance of spyware.
Sorry, that should be http://groups.google.com.au/.
Adaware and Spybot Search and destroy are your best place to start, but I understand your frustration. Probably three out of the last four times I've dealt with a Spyware infested machine they didn't completely do the trick on their own.
r entVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunServices
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Run
Start --> Run --> msconfig --> Startup tab
Install and run Adaware and Spybot S&D, making sure you update the programs and select to perform deep scans (within archives, etc) in the custom scan options. This will probably most of the easiest and most common exploits. Reboot.
Go through your Add/Remove programs menu and try removing any programs you can identify as spware. If the programs didn't come with an uninstaller, I would have to officially recommend you do not go through any of their steps to download one and run it. I have tried this in the past with mixed results. Some of these programs truly were just severely annoying adware that actually removed themselves at the end of this lengthy process, but some were truly malicious that simply installed MORE spyware after running the uninstaller. I recommend you don't risk this.
Open up the task manager and go through each and every process, reseaching in if need be. I use groups.google.au to get the older version which seems to provide more relavent results. Kill any processes that you find are suspiscious. Hell, kill any processes you can't identify as normal Windows OS or application processes. I dealt with a instance of spyware once that executed two randomly named processes that protected the spyware from removal. If you killed one process, the other would immediately respawn it.
Go through all of your startup locations: C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp C:\WINDOWS\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Cur
Once again, go through each and every item and delete or disable everything that you can identify as malicious. It's likely that when searching you will run across others who have dealt with the same spyware issues in the past and have had to figure out how to remove them.
Run your Adaware and Spybot S&D scans again. Reboot. Test your machine to see if the spyware is still there. Still have problems?
Download and run Hijack This Pour through your log once more, or alternatively post it to one of the many forums where professionals are willing to lend you a helping hand. At this point, you may also want to consider downloading and running Rootkit Revealer.
Also, try rebooting into safe mode and running your scans. Even though you are in safe mode, you should still monitor and kill processes that are suspicious. Remember, Sony's Rootkit came complete with a safe mode driver.
If all of this hasn't worked, then I suggest you back up your data, scan it for viruses, and do a low level format with a utility such as Killdisk. Now that you have to reinstall your OS, perhaps now is the prefect time to make the Linux switch.
So what do you suppose CowboyNeal is going do with his 250 points? Can you say, unethical journalism?
Wait, did I say journalism? Nevermind.
"Of those top 10 applications, two of them are financial management packages. Looks like there is quite a demand for that. It looks like there is a huge interest in the AUTOCAD arena, as well. Something that is very well worth noting is the demand for multimedia applications."
/. knows that there's a pretty large community of gamers that keep that one Windows box around just for gaming.
I imagine this is probably because of the fact that they suggest all of those top ten applications in their dropdown menu (leaving an "other" option at the bottom in case you don't want any of their default applications). Anyone whose ever worked on survey or statistics theory knows this is an obvious bias. That's not to say that's its a bad idea to do this if they have an agenda, I'm just pointing out that the results should definately be taken with a grain of salt here. There may be more relevant programs people would like to see ported to Linux. I imagine lots of people can think of specific games they'd like to see ported. Anyone whose ever reads
Anyways, I say best of luck to Novell. I'd love it if they were able to make some ground with Adobe on porting some of their apps.
That's one thing that drove our decision to stick to IBM hardware: Linux support. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/documen t.do?sitestyle=ibm&lndocid=MIGR-48NT8D
"Speaking as a gay man, it's nice to know that my freedom to have a sexual relationship doesn't "really matter" and that I should be more worried about "the increasing power of Big Media" than about whether I spend the rest of my life alone. Thanks so much for clarifying that for me."
:-)
Actually, I think you're taking the parent post in the wrong context. You see, in the United States, it is a common tactic of politicians to invent highly salient and controversial poltical topics that will draw attention away from more pressing issues (I.E., war). These politicians will then set themselves up as a champion of one side of this argument, hopefully delivering the double benefit of drawing more votes from a particular demographic. Additionally, the perfect "watch-the-birdy" politcal tactic should pose little risk to the party harnessing its political credit, should the battle ultimately be lost.
The Bush Administration's use of the proposed ammendment to ban same-sex marriage was an absolutely brilliant implementation of the "watch-the-birdy" political tactic. Analysts found that the country was highly polarized on this issue, promising lots of media attention that would draw criticisms away from his Administrations' floundering battle against insurgents in Iraq. Additionally, the issue brought the religous right to the poles in his favor in droves, including the (mainly) Catholic Hispanic demographic, where Republican favor has long been lacking. And finally, should his party lose this battle, the worst that could happen is that we revert to the status quo. No part of this battle involved at any time affirming or protecting the right of gays to marry, only denying it. Genuis really.
I appears to me that the parent poster is definately concerned with the protection of civil liberties. I doubt he meant to trivialize your rights as a citizen. Rather, I think he was expressing his frustrations with the gullibility the U.S. voters who fell for this watch-the-birdie tactic.
So try not to get your panties all in a bunch.