I am glad to hear that the state of Utah has an anti-spyware law. I would like to see my own neighboring state, Arizona, get one.
I run linux and have never had to deal with spyware or adware on my own computer (though I hear one company is using.xpi to add a "search bar" to Mozilla). My parents, however, run Windows. My little sister installs programs from cereal boxes that are full of spyware, and I swear one of those programs caused porn pop-ups to be displayed on my computer.
So what I'm getting at, is that spyware is a huge problem and it's long time someone did something about it! It's just a pity that there hasn't been a government agency or a court brave enough to bring a big judgement against the industry. The fact of the matter is, these programs vandalize people's systems. They are a form of property damage. Plus they expose people to pornographic ads. They break so many laws already. It is too bad that there has to be legislation before someone can make them pay.
According to the reg, Intel will be calling it XD. I couldn't find anything about it on Intel's website. It is incredibly stupid, though. What a bunch of moronic jackasses, that refuse to give anyone else any credit for innovations in microprocessors.
I am typing this on what will likely be my last Intel system. Intel can bite my ass.
Well, the whole point of the NX bit is to allow the people who already write this code to express their demand in a way that can be better enforced, and is also simpler and more convenient. The people you are talking about, that already figured out another way to prevent stack smashes, clamoured for this. OpenBSD already uses this hardware-level functionality on architectures where it is available.
Good points, I guess for a change someone really knows what they're talking about. Yes I am young, and didn't read much of the news back then. I had no idea it was in 1996. I thought it was in 1998 or 1999.
Anyway, I was making my point mainly against the dozens who posted things to the same effect in other stories. In fact, when I read the article I predicted that someone would say they already knew it and looked for the first one. Oh well, I missed my target I guess.
Well, the reason they had such an easy time getting into the store was not so much the employees being nice, but the fact that the store was big, and the employees didn't expect to know everyone who had authority over them.
If this was a nice, quaint little store, the ordinarily "nice" people would have no problem spotting them, determining that they had no right to be doing such things, and reporting it to the cops.
The quaint store would be a nice social situation, whereas the big box store might not. I'd definitely say that the big box store has more elements of the big, evil organization stigma than the quaint little store. In fact, I think this goes to show that Corporate America isn't as strong as many think.
I expected someone like you to pipe up and say that you'd already thought of this twist and turn in the story. There are a ton of you on/.. If you really thought so, why didn't you say so earlier? You could have a reference to another post where you mentioned it.
Anyway, you guys are karma-whoring jackasses. May you be modded to hell.
These are the words of CowboyNeal, an Apple zealot. I personally don't give a crap, because I don't think translucent windows are a great UI feature. I think it makes it like a toy user interface, in fact.
I am more jealous of Microsoft and their Slate interface coming up in Longhorn. That will be sweet.
I don't use Windows, and as follows I don't pirate it. But I do expect updates for the pirates. Why? Because they screw up MY network, and Microsoft is to blame. I hate those bitches. Every last one of them.
Then why don't you take the money you have now and build a kick-ass system?
I had a system that was pretty similar to yours, a 750MHz AMD Athlon Thunderbird. It was pretty fast, but didn't multitask well. So all at once, I bought parts to build a new system. With all I'd learned from my previous experiences, I was able to build one that was extremely reliable. I bought an ASUS motherboard (Very Important!) a P4 (though if I bought one now you can bet it would be an AMD64 of some variety), a gig of dual-channel DDR made by micron from the lowest bidder (pricewatch.com,a Maxtor hard drive (high performance, no reliablility problems), and then a basic run-of-the-mill video card. Got a 19" monitor, a CDRW, and moved my old hard drive over for extra space.
Now multi-tasking works fantastic, no matter what programs I'm using. I am really pleased with it. My computer performs much better than the average off-the-shelf PC, thanks to the carefully selected proc, memory, and hard drive.
And it was also a learning experience. So, in closing, I would say, don't be discouraged by past experiences - you can still beat the new PC market by building your own computer. You just need to do proper planning. Consider all your options, and put together a killer system. Good luck!
From looking at the patents, however, I'd imagine there's a lot of prior art. For example, would sharing data structures between programs or libraries using Inter Process Communication, and semaphores (handled by code serving as a manager of data objects) be in violation of the patents?
No. That would be quite a stretch, to call processes objects, and system calls messaging. The fact that they accomplish the same thing doesn't matter. Applying it to objects here is the innovation. You wish you thought of it before Kodak. These are dealing with object management interfaces, objects, run-time structure. None of these are any part of what a kernel does. You folks wish you could be as innovative as Kodak.
I don't see patenting to make their system compatible working well as a long-term solution. They have in recent years pissed off satisfied customers, and I see Longhorn as doing that even more. The last decent version of Windows was Windows 2000. Now they have all kinds of ads pop up on your system tray, and in Longhorn, they are implementing a strategy to keep people from ignoring them. This is not going to fly in countries where ordinary, everyday people recognize that a free alternative exists - Linux. And because people in the U. S. will have to communicate with them, Microsoft is not going to be able to completely lock them in. They will have to learn how to share files and do business with people running other OS's.
I really think Microsoft is making a bad call here. But then again, they have known how to secure sales in the past, more than anyone else. Time will tell whether they will be able to continue to charge ridiculous amounts of money for Windoze and Office.
Among people over 30 I've found that most military personnel are heterosexual upstanding citizens.
At least someone agrees with me that you can't be an upstanding citizen by parading your homosexuality in front of everyone. I can't imagine all the poor kids that will be raised by homosexuals. Too be so young, and given such a distorted view of the world, is very sad.
I only hope he hand typed the story and didn't have a bot send it in.
I was with you until this point. Even having a bot send something in is fair game, as far as I am concerned. If it's correct and timely, that's all I feel matters. If he's just been submitting false alarms, I'm sure he would be banned by this point anyway (if not by username/IP then by content).
Using the tilt-bottle trick, I got a 100% success rate, and I also recruited all my co-workers to give me their caps (I also searched our recycle bins) and ended up with well over 30 free songs.
You dug in the trash and only ended up with 30 free songs? You could have purchased them for only like $30, or even got them for free from P2P sites.
I have a friend who is collecting Mountain Dew caps in the hopes of getting an Xbox. Needs 550, is already up to 200. He'll at least get an XBox Live out of the deal.
And an XBox Live is something that won't be had for free. Period.
That's why I can't understand people who will save and collect for silly little promotions like iTunes. In order to build any kind of collection, you would need to spend at least a hundred dollars, in addition to the caps you won.
And the fact that there were caps in the recycling bin was very revealing. I bet if they were free physical CD caps from a store, you would have a lot more people redeeming them.
You seem to be a reasonable person, who is trying to reason with the RIAA. Not going to happen.
This one rational thought could be used to explain the main problem with the {MP|RI}AA. They are just a bunch of greedy bastards, that want to have as big of an organization as they can have, because it means bigger paychecks. If they were reasonable people, and really looking out for their businesses, they would probably reach the same conclusion you do. But they are a bunch of filthy money-grubbing scum-whores.
If they scaled back their campaign and sold un-DRMed, high-quality music on the Internet for a reasonable price, they would be making a hell of a lot more money. I know a lot of people (myself included) that are boycotting them for DRM, and really, no other reason. Those damn fools!
a) my computer should do what I tell it to and not be subject to the arbitrary whims of a 3rd party
I absolutely agree 100%. If you give control of one thing to a third party, what's to start another?
Microsoft would have everyone using DRM for all documents. If we keep DRM off most of our Linux boxen, and be vocal enough complainers, most decent businesspeople will realize that maybe it isn't such a good idea to send things DRM'ed. Then it will hopefully be kept to just media.
If they can't penetrate every computer, then they won't have a total monopoly on it, and people using FOSS will still be able to conduct business.
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P class or NP class?
I run linux and have never had to deal with spyware or adware on my own computer (though I hear one company is using .xpi to add a "search bar" to Mozilla). My parents, however, run Windows. My little sister installs programs from cereal boxes that are full of spyware, and I swear one of those programs caused porn pop-ups to be displayed on my computer.
So what I'm getting at, is that spyware is a huge problem and it's long time someone did something about it! It's just a pity that there hasn't been a government agency or a court brave enough to bring a big judgement against the industry. The fact of the matter is, these programs vandalize people's systems. They are a form of property damage. Plus they expose people to pornographic ads. They break so many laws already. It is too bad that there has to be legislation before someone can make them pay.
I am typing this on what will likely be my last Intel system. Intel can bite my ass.
Well, the whole point of the NX bit is to allow the people who already write this code to express their demand in a way that can be better enforced, and is also simpler and more convenient. The people you are talking about, that already figured out another way to prevent stack smashes, clamoured for this. OpenBSD already uses this hardware-level functionality on architectures where it is available.
'Nuff said.
Anyway, I was making my point mainly against the dozens who posted things to the same effect in other stories. In fact, when I read the article I predicted that someone would say they already knew it and looked for the first one. Oh well, I missed my target I guess.
If this was a nice, quaint little store, the ordinarily "nice" people would have no problem spotting them, determining that they had no right to be doing such things, and reporting it to the cops.
The quaint store would be a nice social situation, whereas the big box store might not. I'd definitely say that the big box store has more elements of the big, evil organization stigma than the quaint little store. In fact, I think this goes to show that Corporate America isn't as strong as many think.
Anyway, you guys are karma-whoring jackasses. May you be modded to hell.
These are the words of CowboyNeal, an Apple zealot. I personally don't give a crap, because I don't think translucent windows are a great UI feature. I think it makes it like a toy user interface, in fact.
I am more jealous of Microsoft and their Slate interface coming up in Longhorn. That will be sweet.
Absolutely.
Oh, absolutely. If anyone reading this post is smart enough to write such a thing, please get at it. You'll be my fucking hero.
I don't use Windows, and as follows I don't pirate it. But I do expect updates for the pirates. Why? Because they screw up MY network, and Microsoft is to blame. I hate those bitches. Every last one of them.
I had a system that was pretty similar to yours, a 750MHz AMD Athlon Thunderbird. It was pretty fast, but didn't multitask well. So all at once, I bought parts to build a new system. With all I'd learned from my previous experiences, I was able to build one that was extremely reliable. I bought an ASUS motherboard (Very Important!) a P4 (though if I bought one now you can bet it would be an AMD64 of some variety), a gig of dual-channel DDR made by micron from the lowest bidder (pricewatch.com,a Maxtor hard drive (high performance, no reliablility problems), and then a basic run-of-the-mill video card. Got a 19" monitor, a CDRW, and moved my old hard drive over for extra space.
Now multi-tasking works fantastic, no matter what programs I'm using. I am really pleased with it. My computer performs much better than the average off-the-shelf PC, thanks to the carefully selected proc, memory, and hard drive.
And it was also a learning experience. So, in closing, I would say, don't be discouraged by past experiences - you can still beat the new PC market by building your own computer. You just need to do proper planning. Consider all your options, and put together a killer system. Good luck!
No. That would be quite a stretch, to call processes objects, and system calls messaging. The fact that they accomplish the same thing doesn't matter. Applying it to objects here is the innovation. You wish you thought of it before Kodak. These are dealing with object management interfaces, objects, run-time structure. None of these are any part of what a kernel does. You folks wish you could be as innovative as Kodak.
--Patent Apologist
Come on, some AC post the questions and answers to the AP test. I Dare Ya!
You just don't want anyone to call you a MacFag. If it were any other OS you were adopting it wouldn't be a problem.
I really think Microsoft is making a bad call here. But then again, they have known how to secure sales in the past, more than anyone else. Time will tell whether they will be able to continue to charge ridiculous amounts of money for Windoze and Office.
Well said. And for any gays that may be reading this, all is not completely lost. Check out Homosexuals Anonymous.
At least someone agrees with me that you can't be an upstanding citizen by parading your homosexuality in front of everyone. I can't imagine all the poor kids that will be raised by homosexuals. Too be so young, and given such a distorted view of the world, is very sad.
I switched from some murky client which didn't exactly have a bright outlook regarding spam to Thunderbird a while back and was not dissapointed.
benedict
Don't know if google spiders /. pages, though.
I was with you until this point. Even having a bot send something in is fair game, as far as I am concerned. If it's correct and timely, that's all I feel matters. If he's just been submitting false alarms, I'm sure he would be banned by this point anyway (if not by username/IP then by content).
You dug in the trash and only ended up with 30 free songs? You could have purchased them for only like $30, or even got them for free from P2P sites.
I have a friend who is collecting Mountain Dew caps in the hopes of getting an Xbox. Needs 550, is already up to 200. He'll at least get an XBox Live out of the deal.
And an XBox Live is something that won't be had for free. Period.
That's why I can't understand people who will save and collect for silly little promotions like iTunes. In order to build any kind of collection, you would need to spend at least a hundred dollars, in addition to the caps you won.
And the fact that there were caps in the recycling bin was very revealing. I bet if they were free physical CD caps from a store, you would have a lot more people redeeming them.
This one rational thought could be used to explain the main problem with the {MP|RI}AA. They are just a bunch of greedy bastards, that want to have as big of an organization as they can have, because it means bigger paychecks. If they were reasonable people, and really looking out for their businesses, they would probably reach the same conclusion you do. But they are a bunch of filthy money-grubbing scum-whores.
If they scaled back their campaign and sold un-DRMed, high-quality music on the Internet for a reasonable price, they would be making a hell of a lot more money. I know a lot of people (myself included) that are boycotting them for DRM, and really, no other reason. Those damn fools!
I absolutely agree 100%. If you give control of one thing to a third party, what's to start another?
Microsoft would have everyone using DRM for all documents. If we keep DRM off most of our Linux boxen, and be vocal enough complainers, most decent businesspeople will realize that maybe it isn't such a good idea to send things DRM'ed. Then it will hopefully be kept to just media.
If they can't penetrate every computer, then they won't have a total monopoly on it, and people using FOSS will still be able to conduct business.