the fact that when troops arrived in Iraq they found proof that the Iraqi gov't owed huge sums of money to the French and Russian gov'ts may have played just a tiny part in their refusal to go to war?
Seems like they're better off than all the folks near the arctic circle, but you don't see/hear them complaining...
Ho Ho Ho says Santa! It's cold and dark here up here at the North Pole. I demand that world governments unite to change the earth's tilt so that we can warm the place up and get some friggin sunlight all year round.
Think of my Elves and how much more productive they'd be if it were warmer!
Here in the Netherlands cable companies are quickly converting everything to digital.
NL converted to the Euro more quickly than any other EU country, if memory serves correct. I was told it was because NL businessmen were too stingy to want to run two parallel systems, so switching off the old currency saved them money.
Probably the same thing applies to the digital switchover - why keep the old analogue systems running when you can create demand for new equipment by pushing people to change?
Perhaps the key issue is that television is driven my marketing/advertising. The people who can't afford 75 euros for a basic set top box are going to be uninteresting to your customers (the advertisers) as they won't have money for luxuries... who cares if you lose them as viewers.
there's an option in "windows control panel->mouse" to automatically move the mouse pointer to the default button on a dialog box. (Or at least it was there in win2kpro)
I turned it on once because it seemed like it would make, but when I found myself accidentally doing stuff, I turned it off, and stayed clear of it since!
need is application sandboxing; that is, restrict an application's access to system resources when it runs (think chroot jails
this is a neat idea. snag is, 99% of windows applications have to be installed as administrator mode to work, and ?50% have to run as admin to work!
another snag is that windows XP home is crippled in terms of file protection/security. With XPpro you can set file protections, ownership etc, this has been almost entirely stripped out in XPhome, so you can't actually try and lock the machine down even after using admin to install the package.
Sony waved a couple of million dollars under your nose to claim that their rootkit wasn't malware...If you genuinely would turn it down
I'd accept it, put the money beyond jurisdiction into a Swiss Bank account, sell the company, have plane tickets standing by just in case, start a new website denouncing the original one which stopped telling of the Sony evil, and wait for the next million dollar offer!
how about packages which use time-limits to allow evaluation, but set something in the system to prevent deinstall/reinstall to get round it.
for example, ULead do this a lot - you download the full (or nearly full) package but it expires after a number of weeks. if the program expires, you try de/reinstall, the time limit is still reduced or expired.
does this behavious still count in some small way as spyware - the fact that they don't deinstall *everything*, and thus can track a reinstall?
short of using SysInternal's filemon and regmon and manually checking everything that the program and its installer look at, is there an easy way of "diff"ing what a windows installer *does* to the entire system? In linux, I could just md5 everything, or even chroot the install!
You can just imagine them changing the taxes so you are taxed more the more you drive.
We are taxed the more we drive... for each mile, I consume fuel, the cost of which is more than 75% tax in the UK. In fact, the UK government charge VAT (=~ value added tax, i.e. sales tax at the point of sale) on top of the excise duty already charged on the fuel, which means that the cost of the VAT is more than the actual value of the fuel!
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For Assholes
These books should also be on Darl McBride's bookshelf alongside "teach yourself FUD" by Bill Gates.
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until it's you and the terror you've supposedly perpetrated is making a joke about a prominent political figure.
at the labour political party conference, merely heckling a speaker got someone tossed out and detained for a while under the old and less draconian anit-terror laws.
the UK gov't have proven themselves to be setting up a dictatorship: first there was the Civil Contingencies Bill (which allows any gov't minister to take control, impound property etc, merely due to a "threat" [whose nature has not been explicitly stated]). Then the anti-terror acts. Coupled with ID cards, we're only a few years away from a totalitarian state...
And yet we have the audacity to criticize Mugabe, Hussein etc for the power they wield[ed] over the populace.
is truecrypt what was once called "rubberhose" (was at www.rubberhose.org, which seems to have disappeared). There's a reference at wiretapped about it.
rubberhose allowed multiple levels of encrypted data, so that it would never be possible to find out what how many hidden/encrypted file systems were in the virtual disk. Moreover, you could set up a plausible-deniability virtual disk, with two passwords, one for normal access, the other which then triggers erasure of the more secret volumes.
the intention was to be able to send researchers into rogue/enemy nations, allow them to gather secret information, yet protect that information at multiple levels of secrecy.
Too bad it's windoze-only
irfanview runs faultlessly on wine.
it's one of the few programs I really miss now I'm 99% linux, so I can get my fix that way.
irfanview wins because it's very easy to use, and has a jpeg lossless rotation plugin. I install it on nearly every machine I help set up for other people, because I know they'd be lost with PSP and other things which are overly featured for 99% of photo processing work.
free-as-in-beer for personal use only
Irfan has put in a huge amount of work, it's only reasonable that commercial users should contribute - and in contrast Adobe Photoshop isn't free for personal use, is it?
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now, of course, the debt is cancelled :-)
Ho Ho Ho says Santa! It's cold and dark here up here at the North Pole. I demand that world governments unite to change the earth's tilt so that we can warm the place up and get some friggin sunlight all year round.
Think of my Elves and how much more productive they'd be if it were warmer!
wouldn't it be more interesting to demolish part of the mountain?
NL converted to the Euro more quickly than any other EU country, if memory serves correct. I was told it was because NL businessmen were too stingy to want to run two parallel systems, so switching off the old currency saved them money.
Probably the same thing applies to the digital switchover - why keep the old analogue systems running when you can create demand for new equipment by pushing people to change?
Perhaps the key issue is that television is driven my marketing/advertising. The people who can't afford 75 euros for a basic set top box are going to be uninteresting to your customers (the advertisers) as they won't have money for luxuries... who cares if you lose them as viewers.
I turned it on once because it seemed like it would make, but when I found myself accidentally doing stuff, I turned it off, and stayed clear of it since!
Well, we're not that far off the vision part. Not sure how you're going to fit the batteries inside your head to power the laser beams though.1 2/0840243&tid=126&tid=14
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/
this is a neat idea. snag is, 99% of windows applications have to be installed as administrator mode to work, and ?50% have to run as admin to work!
another snag is that windows XP home is crippled in terms of file protection/security. With XPpro you can set file protections, ownership etc, this has been almost entirely stripped out in XPhome, so you can't actually try and lock the machine down even after using admin to install the package.
start spyware monitoring/announcement website
declare many things to be dodgy
extort money from vendors
profit!
Sony waved a couple of million dollars under your nose to claim that their rootkit wasn't malware...If you genuinely would turn it down
I'd accept it, put the money beyond jurisdiction into a Swiss Bank account, sell the company, have plane tickets standing by just in case, start a new website denouncing the original one which stopped telling of the Sony evil, and wait for the next million dollar offer!
for example, ULead do this a lot - you download the full (or nearly full) package but it expires after a number of weeks. if the program expires, you try de/reinstall, the time limit is still reduced or expired.
does this behavious still count in some small way as spyware - the fact that they don't deinstall *everything*, and thus can track a reinstall?
short of using SysInternal's filemon and regmon and manually checking everything that the program and its installer look at, is there an easy way of "diff"ing what a windows installer *does* to the entire system? In linux, I could just md5 everything, or even chroot the install!
You can just imagine them changing the taxes so you are taxed more the more you drive.
We are taxed the more we drive... for each mile, I consume fuel, the cost of which is more than 75% tax in the UK. In fact, the UK government charge VAT (=~ value added tax, i.e. sales tax at the point of sale) on top of the excise duty already charged on the fuel, which means that the cost of the VAT is more than the actual value of the fuel!
Stats sources:r iceseurope.htm o rtation_and_statistics/volume_04_number_01/paper_0 6/html/table11.html
http://www.see-search.com/business/fuelandpetrolp
http://www.bts.gov/publications/journal_of_transp
http://www.theaa.com/allaboutcars/fuel/
The Shallow Unteachable Twit's Manual For
Become Dangerous With Too Little Knowledge Of In 24 Hours
For The Brainless
For Assholes
These books should also be on Darl McBride's bookshelf alongside "teach yourself FUD" by Bill Gates.
the problem with the x86 architecture is that the whole instruction set is out of date:
http://www.geek.com/procspec/features/revx86/
you sure about that?
harden your computer using one of these kits:N br=315
http://www.bondo-online.com/catalog_item.asp?item
it works with both Linux (TM) and Windows (TM).
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The irony of this should appeal to many /.'s.
at the labour political party conference, merely heckling a speaker got someone tossed out and detained for a while under the old and less draconian anit-terror laws.
the UK gov't have proven themselves to be setting up a dictatorship: first there was the Civil Contingencies Bill (which allows any gov't minister to take control, impound property etc, merely due to a "threat" [whose nature has not been explicitly stated]). Then the anti-terror acts. Coupled with ID cards, we're only a few years away from a totalitarian state...
And yet we have the audacity to criticize Mugabe, Hussein etc for the power they wield[ed] over the populace.
rubberhose allowed multiple levels of encrypted data, so that it would never be possible to find out what how many hidden/encrypted file systems were in the virtual disk. Moreover, you could set up a plausible-deniability virtual disk, with two passwords, one for normal access, the other which then triggers erasure of the more secret volumes.
the intention was to be able to send researchers into rogue/enemy nations, allow them to gather secret information, yet protect that information at multiple levels of secrecy.
IE on wine works well, however, I've never gotten the java plugin to work; I now use qemu, and problem is solved.
mod parent up - it's a funny spoof!
2 + 2
followed by a "tick" and have it insert " = 4" in the right location.
Anyone who remembers the old P2 math bug and the coupla excel bugs, would not be surprised to see 2 + 2 = 4.1!
Damn, someone took the domain already.
that link is work-safe.
irfanview runs faultlessly on wine.
it's one of the few programs I really miss now I'm 99% linux, so I can get my fix that way.
irfanview wins because it's very easy to use, and has a jpeg lossless rotation plugin. I install it on nearly every machine I help set up for other people, because I know they'd be lost with PSP and other things which are overly featured for 99% of photo processing work.
free-as-in-beer for personal use only
Irfan has put in a huge amount of work, it's only reasonable that commercial users should contribute - and in contrast Adobe Photoshop isn't free for personal use, is it?
So are you suggesting we could indirectly power the Honda from dead cats, via a bio-diesel stage?
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