I had a 2004 Passat - was perhaps the biggest money pit of a car I ever owned. I spent much of my time at the dealership with numerous recalls and had a very enjoyable 57-mile drive with faulty coils (https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news03/vw_coils.html). German Engineering will be forever considered a threat.
I've found that the only way to get Comcast to respond in earnest is to open up an FCC complaint. I had proof that they had over-billed me for months charging me fees for equipment I didn't own (I use a cablecard + HDHomerun). The rep said that they would only be able to credit me a single month. After contacting the FCC, I got direct attention from someone who was capable of speaking without a script and received a rather large check. You just know for every story like mine, there's hundreds of others that didn't get satisfaction. That's why Comcast has enough money to buy their own legislation. Screw Comcast sideways.....greedy bastards.
Wish I had mod points. The audio jack is also a fantastic analog input mechanism as evidenced by widgets used for guitar effects/practice and credit card readers like the square reader (although its days may be numbered with the eventual transition to chips).
Posting and losing some mod points. I think there should be a clear message to politicians: Do you want your name associated with the most hated company in America? Make sure they know how vile Comcast is and tie them to it. .
Blowing mod points.... there is a common economic model that describes where each candidate would have to reside in order to obtain the most votes from their particular brand of lunatic fringe. Look up the Hotelling model. This explains why the candidates in a two party system are just the top and bottom of a shit sandwich.
Interesting perspective, but Microsoft obviously did something bad enough to compel them to pay Caldera at least 155 million (http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/news2/microsoft-settles-dr-dos-antitrust-lawsuit) . Something tells me if this was just a blip in a beta, they'd take it to court.
IANAL, but I recall that Microsoft got in a bit of trouble because early versions of Windows were designed NOT to run on top of Digital Research DOS. Not going out of your way to support something is one thing, being exclusionary and abusing a monopoly position is another
As a software developer, I've had job interviews that have required drug tests and criminal background checks. Are you telling me, we shouldn't have a full picture of who we're hiring to run this country?
Losing my mods to reply. Like everything to do with media, the reason was not because it was technically impossible, but legally impossible. Do you recall the Diamond Rio? Mp3.com? Few folks do. They were the first commercial mp3 player and most popular site for mp3 music and they were pretty incredible at the time. Diamond had to fend off lawsuits after releasing the device. Mp3.com was sued into oblivion and now there's Google Music, Amazon Cloud, and Apple's copycat offering.
Apple had considerable capital and in a post-Napster world there were more execs interested in a legitimate model for downloading music. THAT's why the RIAA is killing innovation. Jeez, it's not like this is ancient history....
Look at it, they were an underdog hemorrhaging money. Jobs comes back from close contact with Disney with a penchant for pillaging stuff that's freely available and repackaging it in the most closed way possible.
Disney also pillages the Public Domain, stealing from myth and fable and then adding a tiny circled 'C', making it their own. If you don't believe you, they've got a million lawyers with pillow-cases full of legal briefs to beat you down with.
It's clear that disembodied spirit of Walt Disney is running Apple.
This is why we can't have nice things. I would LOVE to support democracy locally and internationally by running a Tor node, but I would never run one as long as the risk existed that I'd be questioned about kiddie porn. I know I'm innocent, I could be PROVEN innocent, but anyone who ever heard would always think I was guilty. It's just not worth it to me. It's Kryptonite to free speech.
I was analyzing some issues for a client that was using Microsoft Site Server circa 1999. We took a look at the server and it had been caching every single credit card transaction because a debug setting was on. This wasn't custom code or a hack, this was Microsoft's out of the box configuration. I can COMPLETELY believe that Microsoft would store sensitive information on the local machine especially if they think that they've sandboxed it from the end user.
I was doing it with my Palm Pre several years ago and it had the added benefit of merging my personal (google) calendar with my work (Exchange) calendar.
You don't NEED a CA-issued certificate to distribute Android Software. You can simply use the keytool supplied in the Android SDK (http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/app-signing.html). When you create a market account with google, you need to provide a credit card and a cell phone number, both of which can easily be fraudulent/disposable.
I had to come up with a T-shirt logo for our cub scout pack. I'm not a graphic designer by trade and not enough of a hobbyist to justify purchasing an overpriced piece of software from Adobe. InkScape and GIMP are more than enough for my needs and probably meet the needs of the majority of folks out there.
Just like Microsoft Word hasn't added any must-have features in years, I'm sure that the additional functionality present in the Adobe products caters to the niche markets that are willing to pay a premium. Since I'm not overly concerned with CMYK or whatever the equal-tier feature is in Illustrator, a book like this might just be what I need to get more use out of what I have available.
I installed AVG on my mother-in-law's machine because she had an expired trial version of some other AV software. It was great for a while, but they must've had a change in direction/managment. Because all of a sudden they started with popups to get a full paid version of the software - even uninstalling the product didn't fix it. I had to surgically extract crap from the registry and program files folder to finally get rid of it.
Avast or ClamWin for me - no more AVG.
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Eh, I'm sure a lot of us (being the Slashdot crowd) would be bothered by these things, but I honestly can't see 95%+ of Vista users even noticing.
There are lots of great uses for virtual machines, but you don't need one to surf MySpace and YouTube, send e-mail, download porn, run Word, or any of the things the vast majority of home users will be using their PCs for.
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You know what's funny....you don't need Vista to do those things either...
I think that we should force voting machines to AT LEAST go through the level of certification that goes into Slot machines. Some of the trivial hacks that have been discussed would be impossible with a minimal level of REALLY independent verification.
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I had a 2004 Passat - was perhaps the biggest money pit of a car I ever owned. I spent much of my time at the dealership with numerous recalls and had a very enjoyable 57-mile drive with faulty coils (https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news03/vw_coils.html). German Engineering will be forever considered a threat.
I've found that the only way to get Comcast to respond in earnest is to open up an FCC complaint. I had proof that they had over-billed me for months charging me fees for equipment I didn't own (I use a cablecard + HDHomerun). The rep said that they would only be able to credit me a single month. After contacting the FCC, I got direct attention from someone who was capable of speaking without a script and received a rather large check. You just know for every story like mine, there's hundreds of others that didn't get satisfaction. That's why Comcast has enough money to buy their own legislation. Screw Comcast sideways.....greedy bastards.
Wish I had mod points. The audio jack is also a fantastic analog input mechanism as evidenced by widgets used for guitar effects/practice and credit card readers like the square reader (although its days may be numbered with the eventual transition to chips).
Good luck tracking me!! I copy all of my code from Stackoverflow!
Duh, why would Apple get rid of a headphone jack? Don't they sell Beats headphones now?
Posting and losing some mod points. I think there should be a clear message to politicians: Do you want your name associated with the most hated company in America? Make sure they know how vile Comcast is and tie them to it. .
Blowing mod points.... there is a common economic model that describes where each candidate would have to reside in order to obtain the most votes from their particular brand of lunatic fringe. Look up the Hotelling model. This explains why the candidates in a two party system are just the top and bottom of a shit sandwich.
Interesting perspective, but Microsoft obviously did something bad enough to compel them to pay Caldera at least 155 million (http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/news2/microsoft-settles-dr-dos-antitrust-lawsuit) . Something tells me if this was just a blip in a beta, they'd take it to court.
IANAL, but I recall that Microsoft got in a bit of trouble because early versions of Windows were designed NOT to run on top of Digital Research DOS. Not going out of your way to support something is one thing, being exclusionary and abusing a monopoly position is another
As a software developer, I've had job interviews that have required drug tests and criminal background checks. Are you telling me, we shouldn't have a full picture of who we're hiring to run this country?
Rock Star Developers, seriously? None of them are that good.
Agreed. Rock Stars suck as developers. And most of them suck at rock, as well.
There's not great at astronomy either.
Tell that to Brian May! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_May)
Losing my mods to reply. Like everything to do with media, the reason was not because it was technically impossible, but legally impossible. Do you recall the Diamond Rio? Mp3.com? Few folks do. They were the first commercial mp3 player and most popular site for mp3 music and they were pretty incredible at the time. Diamond had to fend off lawsuits after releasing the device. Mp3.com was sued into oblivion and now there's Google Music, Amazon Cloud, and Apple's copycat offering. Apple had considerable capital and in a post-Napster world there were more execs interested in a legitimate model for downloading music. THAT's why the RIAA is killing innovation. Jeez, it's not like this is ancient history....
But look at the UI!!!!!!!elventyone!!! Microsoft has given us the "Safe Mode" option. Except it's not an option. And I doubt it's safe.
Look at it, they were an underdog hemorrhaging money. Jobs comes back from close contact with Disney with a penchant for pillaging stuff that's freely available and repackaging it in the most closed way possible. Disney also pillages the Public Domain, stealing from myth and fable and then adding a tiny circled 'C', making it their own. If you don't believe you, they've got a million lawyers with pillow-cases full of legal briefs to beat you down with. It's clear that disembodied spirit of Walt Disney is running Apple.
This is why we can't have nice things. I would LOVE to support democracy locally and internationally by running a Tor node, but I would never run one as long as the risk existed that I'd be questioned about kiddie porn. I know I'm innocent, I could be PROVEN innocent, but anyone who ever heard would always think I was guilty. It's just not worth it to me. It's Kryptonite to free speech.
I was analyzing some issues for a client that was using Microsoft Site Server circa 1999. We took a look at the server and it had been caching every single credit card transaction because a debug setting was on. This wasn't custom code or a hack, this was Microsoft's out of the box configuration. I can COMPLETELY believe that Microsoft would store sensitive information on the local machine especially if they think that they've sandboxed it from the end user.
I was doing it with my Palm Pre several years ago and it had the added benefit of merging my personal (google) calendar with my work (Exchange) calendar.
You don't NEED a CA-issued certificate to distribute Android Software. You can simply use the keytool supplied in the Android SDK (http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/app-signing.html). When you create a market account with google, you need to provide a credit card and a cell phone number, both of which can easily be fraudulent/disposable.
I had to come up with a T-shirt logo for our cub scout pack. I'm not a graphic designer by trade and not enough of a hobbyist to justify purchasing an overpriced piece of software from Adobe. InkScape and GIMP are more than enough for my needs and probably meet the needs of the majority of folks out there.
Just like Microsoft Word hasn't added any must-have features in years, I'm sure that the additional functionality present in the Adobe products caters to the niche markets that are willing to pay a premium. Since I'm not overly concerned with CMYK or whatever the equal-tier feature is in Illustrator, a book like this might just be what I need to get more use out of what I have available.
....then everyone gets all of your private information...and your friends' private information....and their friends' private information
...I was going to post "Well at least you can distill alcohol legally" and then I remembered that's New Zealand. You guys really *ARE* screwed.
symlink the LSO folder to /dev/null
I installed AVG on my mother-in-law's machine because she had an expired trial version of some other AV software. It was great for a while, but they must've had a change in direction/managment. Because all of a sudden they started with popups to get a full paid version of the software - even uninstalling the product didn't fix it. I had to surgically extract crap from the registry and program files folder to finally get rid of it. Avast or ClamWin for me - no more AVG.
[quote] Eh, I'm sure a lot of us (being the Slashdot crowd) would be bothered by these things, but I honestly can't see 95%+ of Vista users even noticing. There are lots of great uses for virtual machines, but you don't need one to surf MySpace and YouTube, send e-mail, download porn, run Word, or any of the things the vast majority of home users will be using their PCs for. [/quote] You know what's funny....you don't need Vista to do those things either...
I think that we should force voting machines to AT LEAST go through the level of certification that goes into Slot machines. Some of the trivial hacks that have been discussed would be impossible with a minimal level of REALLY independent verification.