The article does indeed say that, but the article is just plain wrong. Not only is it not enabled by default, it is not even present. That feature is part of Norton Personal Firewall 2004, not Anti-Virus. I havn't tried that software, but from the description of its features, it doesn't sound like it is on by default.
"Propritary software relies on keeping things secret. Terrorist cells rely on keepin things secret. So really, when you buy a copy of Windows, you may as well make the cheque out to one O. b. Laden."
How's that?;) Loose, irrelavent analogies are fun!
That would be apt but for the fact that it isn't a non-native virus. Between 70%-100% of all people get it at some point. I would hazard a guess that this is also why they are fairly confident there are no major side effects. Nobody would be worried if they were using, say, chicken pox to treat cancer, because its the famous virus that nearly everybody ends up gettings at some point.
Yes, but on the other hand, that is still an old feature. For example, if you are logging in to a Windows NT domain from a Windows 95 machine, it will save your user settings on the server. If you log in from a new machine, they get transfered to the new machine and stored in its local profile settings. It was annoying because if you logged in with the machine unplugged as your FIRST login, it uses default settings. Then you plug it in later and it says "Oh, newer settings! Update!" The other annoyance is that, say you install Mozilla on one computer. When you go and use another, you will have the Mozilla icon on your desktop, and in your settings...but it won't work since none of the binaries are on the new machine. So unless all the machines you use have the same software, you end up with lots of bad shortcuts. In summary, good idea, poor execution, although I seem to recall in Win 98, it at least asked before overwriting your network profile...
They can only fight if if Libraries or something are forced to use it. Fighting it would be fighting Symantec's right to classify websites how they feel. Even if it WAS required to be used, they would have to fight the people requiring it to be used, not Symantec. You see, it isn't libel, because these sites really ARE about weapons.
Somebody said that this Symantec system cannot be changed or adjusted. Well then, they have already established that Libraries cannot use it, because it then fails the "moments notice" removal required after the FIRST case. However, as Symantec sells a product to parents promissing to block drugs, porn, and weapons, and it DOES, then what right is being violated? Nobody made them use it. Perhaps if they didn't know it does this, the consumer could go for some sort of misleading advertisment, or something...but that isn't the sort of thing the ACLU does.
In summary, the ACLU will doubtlessly get involved if the government tries to mandate it anywhere. But they already went to court and got it declared illegal LAST TIME.
So this can still work out as a reason if Gore had 362 going in, and the first TWO bits flipped accidently.
On the other hand, they looked at the card, and it wasn't corrupt. They fixed the problem simply by re-uploading it.
The logs indicate there were TWO uploads (Before the fix). The first contained the valid numbers. The SECOND subtracted the 16K votes. They have no idea where this mysterious second card is, or how it got uploaded. The bitflipping thing is what it was dismissed as when it happened: A corrupt card that they caught and fixed. But the memos show that it was not.
Why would the US turn on Israel? The only reason there arn't three to four times as many UN sanctions on Israel is that the US has vetoed every single one they could, ever. And where do you think Israel gets its tanks, its combat bulldozers, its planes, its missiles, and NBC weapons, its submarine launched nuclear missiles? The US and British and Australian peace protesters are getting shot, and crushed to death by guns and bulldozers built in the good old US of A. The US. Of course, that's where ALL the current "bad guys" got them, but oh well...So far the US has given Israel $87 BILLION in foreign aid. It comes up to $150 billon if you factor in the interest payments on that money. Think about that. With the power grid in ruins, highways crumbling, schools crumbling, hospitals closing, maybe the US could have used that many billion dollars? What does a country smaller than New Jersey need with that much money?
And that figure doesn't even take into account all of the military supplies. Cruise missiles and helicopters and tanks arn't cheap.
And on the subject of bio-weapons research, the US army has also recreated the Spanish Flu.
What if a crazy biologists decides to take loads of folks out
If you read the PNAC group's papers, they REALLY want viruses that can target specific groups. They believe they could be a useful political tool. They want this to kill certain ethnic groups within the US. And also, if the weapons can be tuned fine enough, they want to be able to kill a certain person's family, but nobody else. In small towns who have had little immagration, most of the population will have some genes in common. They want to be able to wipe the town off the map if need be.
I wish I was making this up, but I'm not.
"... advanced forms of biological warfare that can "target" specific
genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a
politically useful tool." - Rebuilding Americas Defenses, PNAC white paper
You can confirm this by reading it online from their website.
And who wrote this whitepaper? Wolfowitz and Libby, amongst others. (Assistants to Rumsfeld and Powel)
And who is a member of PNAC, besides them?
Cheney
Rumsfeld
Dan Quayle
Jeb Bush
Steve Forbes
Vin Weber
Those are just the ones I found interesting, they have a complete list on their website. The people running the US think that bio-weapons designed to kill everybody with blue eyes, or brown skin, or curly hair, are "politically useful tools." Remember that. They also have said other interesting things...
It completely depends on the hardware. Lots of older hardware has completly awful driver support for XP. It will crash a lot. Whereas that same older hardware was more likely to have 98 and 2000 drivers...the end result is, many people upgraded and found worse stability when it first came out...and many others upgraded and found better stability.
Many windows crashes are caused by drivers, not the core system. I have never had my 2K system crash on me, except when I install bad drivers. But everybody blames MS. It's like blaming Linus because some third party device module crashed your Linux system. The only thing they could reasonably do is make sure that only drivers they have tested can be installed. DRM is part of that.
Excatly. Windows determines if you can run it based on if it is a.exe. If it is.vb, visual basic runs the script, and so on.
So it will stop something called trojan.vb. But IE determines what to do with files based on their MIME type. So you can have a vb script with a.gif extention, but IE still executes it as what the MIME says it is: A VB script. Stupidest thing I have ever heard, but it got past them. Last I heard, they couldn't fix it, either, and Outlook uses IE to render HTML mail.
If they have a transcript that says something, and the press has a different one, the government can say "You misheard"
If they have a transcript that says the same thing as the press, obviously that was what was said.
If they have the same transcript, and then the government one changes, then clearly they changed their mind on what they said...sounds like fraud to me. They are claiming they said something, and clearly they did not.
Sorry, but I don't think this will improve memory. Subliminal clues may help you when you are wearing the glasses, but I bet that when you don't wear them, you won't be able to remember at all, because you will have learned to rely on them, rather than your memory. They don't assist memory, they replace it.
By sending the signal, you are saying you are an emergency vehicle. I say it is fraudulent misrepresentation for personal gain.
And saying it is the same thing as a pedestrian pressing the button is like saying that since logging in to your own machine with your own password isn't illegal, then somebody cracking your password to get in isn't either, since it does the same thing (Allows a person to log on to your system)
It isn't overspinning them. It is sending a standard flush-cache command to the drive. It was recently added to the kernel. Windows doesn't use it, either. LG didn't implement it properly. It crashes the firmware. And you can't reflash the firmware because the flashing is done by a program IN the firmware:O
In that case, however, it didn't damage the hardware...it crashed the OS. And then when it was rebooting, it reads from the CD drive and crashes again...and you can't eject the CD manually, because on Macs no removable media can be ejected manually. There isn't even a pinhole. Stupid design, but nothing is ruined, if you know what you are doing. (You can eject from open firmware)
IIRC, the recording window is beteween 30 and 60 seconds, and it stops when you get in an accident (OR at least, any accident severe enough to make the airbag deploy)
If it recorded your GPS position, heading, and speeds for a few days, that would be invasive...but it doesn't. It is good to be vigilant, but we arn't on a slippery slope yet. OnStar COULD do this...but if you don't want OnStar, don't BUY it.
This records your speed in a circular buffer for about 30 seconds (Or some small amount of time like that). It stops writing when you are in an accident. When you get your airbag reset, they also have to reset the blackbox recorder. This way, nobody can tell your driving habits, but they CAN tell how fast you were going before you hit that kid in the school zone. You can prove you were only going 20, or the cops can prove you were doing 75.
We were ordering pizza a few nights ago. "Hmmm, do you like Panago?" "Yeah, it's not bad...but wait, they have that annoying ad where they sing Mambo #5, but about pizza. Lets get it from somewhere else"
Whenever an ad annoys me, I make note, and never buy the product, even if it is cheapest. If I am buying something, I always consider the options, look for reviews if appropriate, etc. The best they can hope for with advertising is to NOT disqualify themselves by annoying me;)
Use the power to make hydrogen. Use said hydrogen to float zeplins and transport said hydrogen to other countries. Re-inflate with helium in storage tanks. Fly back, re-compress helium and reful with hydrogen. Repeat.
I know, I know "Oh, the humanity!" But the Hindenburg didn't burn because of the hydrogen, it burnt because they used a highly flammable protective paint. If you fill a balloon with hydrogen, then burn it with a match, it won't explode. It will burn a little around the hole, until it is deflated.
Good point, but this doesn't even cut the motor. It just puts it into idle only. Power steering and powered brakes will still work. So a better measure of what it would be like is...drive up to 30, then take your foot off the gas.
Plus, since they KNOW where the car is, they can avoid doing it while the person is flying at 120 around a sharp highway corner in rush-hour traffic, and wait until they are stopped at a light or something, and the cops are nearby to arrest him when he can't drive away.
I'm no lawyer, but the fact that you have "convinced" somebody of something doesn't mean it is any more credible.
Does the fact that lots of people bought shares from those scam artists selling plots of the Moon and Mars lend their claim that "International law says no country can claim celestial bodies...therefore, since I am not a country, I can and do. Shotty Mars!" any credibility? Nope
People bought the shares because they were cheap...and if it WAS credible, it would be an EXCELLENT investment, since the price would go up when we start colonizing. Similarly, Fortune 1000 companies think it is relativly cheap to proff themselves against even the remote possibility of a billion dollar lawsuit like IBM is getting. Even if they think the claims are rediculous, a cost-benifit analysis probably shows they shouldn't really take the risk...and the shareholders will insist.
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The article does indeed say that, but the article is just plain wrong. Not only is it not enabled by default, it is not even present. That feature is part of Norton Personal Firewall 2004, not Anti-Virus. I havn't tried that software, but from the description of its features, it doesn't sound like it is on by default.
"Propritary software relies on keeping things secret. Terrorist cells rely on keepin things secret. So really, when you buy a copy of Windows, you may as well make the cheque out to one O. b. Laden."
;) Loose, irrelavent analogies are fun!
How's that?
That would be apt but for the fact that it isn't a non-native virus. Between 70%-100% of all people get it at some point. I would hazard a guess that this is also why they are fairly confident there are no major side effects. Nobody would be worried if they were using, say, chicken pox to treat cancer, because its the famous virus that nearly everybody ends up gettings at some point.
The first multiplayer games where MUDs, created in the 70's on multiuser mainframes. Communication was done through shared memory.
Yes, but on the other hand, that is still an old feature. For example, if you are logging in to a Windows NT domain from a Windows 95 machine, it will save your user settings on the server. If you log in from a new machine, they get transfered to the new machine and stored in its local profile settings. It was annoying because if you logged in with the machine unplugged as your FIRST login, it uses default settings. Then you plug it in later and it says "Oh, newer settings! Update!" The other annoyance is that, say you install Mozilla on one computer. When you go and use another, you will have the Mozilla icon on your desktop, and in your settings...but it won't work since none of the binaries are on the new machine. So unless all the machines you use have the same software, you end up with lots of bad shortcuts. In summary, good idea, poor execution, although I seem to recall in Win 98, it at least asked before overwriting your network profile...
They can only fight if if Libraries or something are forced to use it. Fighting it would be fighting Symantec's right to classify websites how they feel. Even if it WAS required to be used, they would have to fight the people requiring it to be used, not Symantec. You see, it isn't libel, because these sites really ARE about weapons.
Somebody said that this Symantec system cannot be changed or adjusted. Well then, they have already established that Libraries cannot use it, because it then fails the "moments notice" removal required after the FIRST case. However, as Symantec sells a product to parents promissing to block drugs, porn, and weapons, and it DOES, then what right is being violated? Nobody made them use it. Perhaps if they didn't know it does this, the consumer could go for some sort of misleading advertisment, or something...but that isn't the sort of thing the ACLU does.
In summary, the ACLU will doubtlessly get involved if the government tries to mandate it anywhere. But they already went to court and got it declared illegal LAST TIME.
Just to be pedantic:
300 = 0000 0001 0010 1100.
-16084 = 1100 0001 0010 1100.
So that is TWO bits flipped. But in either case, the actual number was 16,022, not 16084.
-16022 = 1100 0001 0110 1010
362 = 0000 0001 0110 1010
So this can still work out as a reason if Gore had 362 going in, and the first TWO bits flipped accidently.
On the other hand, they looked at the card, and it wasn't corrupt. They fixed the problem simply by re-uploading it.
The logs indicate there were TWO uploads (Before the fix). The first contained the valid numbers. The SECOND subtracted the 16K votes. They have no idea where this mysterious second card is, or how it got uploaded. The bitflipping thing is what it was dismissed as when it happened: A corrupt card that they caught and fixed. But the memos show that it was not.
TV executives blame video-games for a drop off in viewership, and the news outlets owned by the same people call for video-games to be banned...
It will look a little something like this.
Good thing there is more than one, for just such an emergency ;)
Why would the US turn on Israel? The only reason there arn't three to four times as many UN sanctions on Israel is that the US has vetoed every single one they could, ever. And where do you think Israel gets its tanks, its combat bulldozers, its planes, its missiles, and NBC weapons, its submarine launched nuclear missiles? The US and British and Australian peace protesters are getting shot, and crushed to death by guns and bulldozers built in the good old US of A. The US. Of course, that's where ALL the current "bad guys" got them, but oh well...So far the US has given Israel $87 BILLION in foreign aid. It comes up to $150 billon if you factor in the interest payments on that money. Think about that. With the power grid in ruins, highways crumbling, schools crumbling, hospitals closing, maybe the US could have used that many billion dollars? What does a country smaller than New Jersey need with that much money? And that figure doesn't even take into account all of the military supplies. Cruise missiles and helicopters and tanks arn't cheap.
And on the subject of bio-weapons research, the US army has also recreated the Spanish Flu.
If you read the PNAC group's papers, they REALLY want viruses that can target specific groups. They believe they could be a useful political tool. They want this to kill certain ethnic groups within the US. And also, if the weapons can be tuned fine enough, they want to be able to kill a certain person's family, but nobody else. In small towns who have had little immagration, most of the population will have some genes in common. They want to be able to wipe the town off the map if need be.
I wish I was making this up, but I'm not.
"... advanced forms of biological warfare that can "target" specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool." - Rebuilding Americas Defenses, PNAC white paper
You can confirm this by reading it online from their website. And who wrote this whitepaper? Wolfowitz and Libby, amongst others. (Assistants to Rumsfeld and Powel)
And who is a member of PNAC, besides them?
Cheney
Rumsfeld
Dan Quayle
Jeb Bush
Steve Forbes
Vin Weber
Those are just the ones I found interesting, they have a complete list on their website. The people running the US think that bio-weapons designed to kill everybody with blue eyes, or brown skin, or curly hair, are "politically useful tools." Remember that. They also have said other interesting things...
It completely depends on the hardware. Lots of older hardware has completly awful driver support for XP. It will crash a lot. Whereas that same older hardware was more likely to have 98 and 2000 drivers...the end result is, many people upgraded and found worse stability when it first came out...and many others upgraded and found better stability.
Many windows crashes are caused by drivers, not the core system. I have never had my 2K system crash on me, except when I install bad drivers. But everybody blames MS. It's like blaming Linus because some third party device module crashed your Linux system. The only thing they could reasonably do is make sure that only drivers they have tested can be installed. DRM is part of that.
Excatly. Windows determines if you can run it based on if it is a .exe. If it is .vb, visual basic runs the script, and so on.
So it will stop something called trojan.vb. But IE determines what to do with files based on their MIME type. So you can have a vb script with a .gif extention, but IE still executes it as what the MIME says it is: A VB script. Stupidest thing I have ever heard, but it got past them. Last I heard, they couldn't fix it, either, and Outlook uses IE to render HTML mail.
If they have a transcript that says something, and the press has a different one, the government can say "You misheard"
If they have a transcript that says the same thing as the press, obviously that was what was said.
If they have the same transcript, and then the government one changes, then clearly they changed their mind on what they said...sounds like fraud to me. They are claiming they said something, and clearly they did not.
Sorry, but I don't think this will improve memory. Subliminal clues may help you when you are wearing the glasses, but I bet that when you don't wear them, you won't be able to remember at all, because you will have learned to rely on them, rather than your memory. They don't assist memory, they replace it.
By sending the signal, you are saying you are an emergency vehicle. I say it is fraudulent misrepresentation for personal gain.
And saying it is the same thing as a pedestrian pressing the button is like saying that since logging in to your own machine with your own password isn't illegal, then somebody cracking your password to get in isn't either, since it does the same thing (Allows a person to log on to your system)
It isn't overspinning them. It is sending a standard flush-cache command to the drive. It was recently added to the kernel. Windows doesn't use it, either. LG didn't implement it properly. It crashes the firmware. And you can't reflash the firmware because the flashing is done by a program IN the firmware :O
In that case, however, it didn't damage the hardware...it crashed the OS. And then when it was rebooting, it reads from the CD drive and crashes again...and you can't eject the CD manually, because on Macs no removable media can be ejected manually. There isn't even a pinhole. Stupid design, but nothing is ruined, if you know what you are doing. (You can eject from open firmware)
IIRC, the recording window is beteween 30 and 60 seconds, and it stops when you get in an accident (OR at least, any accident severe enough to make the airbag deploy)
If it recorded your GPS position, heading, and speeds for a few days, that would be invasive...but it doesn't. It is good to be vigilant, but we arn't on a slippery slope yet. OnStar COULD do this...but if you don't want OnStar, don't BUY it.
This records your speed in a circular buffer for about 30 seconds (Or some small amount of time like that). It stops writing when you are in an accident. When you get your airbag reset, they also have to reset the blackbox recorder. This way, nobody can tell your driving habits, but they CAN tell how fast you were going before you hit that kid in the school zone. You can prove you were only going 20, or the cops can prove you were doing 75.
We were ordering pizza a few nights ago. "Hmmm, do you like Panago?" "Yeah, it's not bad...but wait, they have that annoying ad where they sing Mambo #5, but about pizza. Lets get it from somewhere else"
Whenever an ad annoys me, I make note, and never buy the product, even if it is cheapest. If I am buying something, I always consider the options, look for reviews if appropriate, etc. The best they can hope for with advertising is to NOT disqualify themselves by annoying me ;)
Use the power to make hydrogen. Use said hydrogen to float zeplins and transport said hydrogen to other countries. Re-inflate with helium in storage tanks. Fly back, re-compress helium and reful with hydrogen. Repeat.
I know, I know "Oh, the humanity!" But the Hindenburg didn't burn because of the hydrogen, it burnt because they used a highly flammable protective paint. If you fill a balloon with hydrogen, then burn it with a match, it won't explode. It will burn a little around the hole, until it is deflated.
Good point, but this doesn't even cut the motor. It just puts it into idle only. Power steering and powered brakes will still work. So a better measure of what it would be like is...drive up to 30, then take your foot off the gas.
Plus, since they KNOW where the car is, they can avoid doing it while the person is flying at 120 around a sharp highway corner in rush-hour traffic, and wait until they are stopped at a light or something, and the cops are nearby to arrest him when he can't drive away.
I'm no lawyer, but the fact that you have "convinced" somebody of something doesn't mean it is any more credible.
Does the fact that lots of people bought shares from those scam artists selling plots of the Moon and Mars lend their claim that "International law says no country can claim celestial bodies...therefore, since I am not a country, I can and do. Shotty Mars!" any credibility? Nope
People bought the shares because they were cheap...and if it WAS credible, it would be an EXCELLENT investment, since the price would go up when we start colonizing. Similarly, Fortune 1000 companies think it is relativly cheap to proff themselves against even the remote possibility of a billion dollar lawsuit like IBM is getting. Even if they think the claims are rediculous, a cost-benifit analysis probably shows they shouldn't really take the risk...and the shareholders will insist.