Or 40 dollars per visit. First off, this is a fraction of what Best Buy would charge for similiar service, secondly you deserve it, and lastly they will take your advice seriously if they know its going to cost them 40-50 dollars to fix another spyware/virus infestation. If you charge next to nothing they'll ignore your advice, treat you like some idiot savant who doesnt know his own value, and pester you with phonecalls because they have not learned proper PC hygeine.
Sure, you will lose customers this way, but those are customers you'd want to lose anyway. The cheap naggers who are unwilling to learn anything aren't worth the trouble.
These are cosmetic/weak. Obviously, you're going to need a couple things to actually use this computer:
1. A USB hub. It blows my mind Apple wouldnt put in at least four ports. Two are going to be taken by the keyboard and mouse. I mean, how much money could they be saving by saving two ports. Or they could have added PS/2 ports for older mice/keyboards. You're not going to be able to use a USB printer or scanner without that hub.
2. A KVM switch. Considering they're aiming for the first time Apple buyer with a PC, this is pretty much a must have.
Not to mention selling this with 256megs of ram isnt such a hot idea. The real problem here is if people perceive this as being too cheap they're just not going to buy it. Toss in 50+ bucks for the 512 upgrade, 20 something for a usb2 hub, and another 20 something for a KVM, it adds up to an extra 100 just to have a usable machine.
Of course, the editor doesnt actually mean it, its just a taunt. This stupid "my patches vs your patches" game is ridiculous and further cements slashdot as a "teen hangout" than anything resembling a tech site.
Not to mention running an update on most linux distros demands a serious amount of patching.
If slashdot would stop taunting for two minutes, they would realize that MS has a policy of patching on the first tuesday of each month and once auto-updates are enabled this becomes a non-issue.
Its getting old, really. If MS patches or doesnt patch, its going to be a slashdot item with the typical trolls coming out from under their bridges.
According to secunia the web browser I'm using has 5 non-patched critical security holes. Guess what, I'm not using IE. Has this been a slashdot item yet? If not why? Where are mozilla's tuesday patches? Oh right, we have a double standard for them and just wait for release 1.1 without saying a word.
> The problem here, though, is that it's difficult to design a better human
Actually, I'd argue that both humans are designed quite well, its just one of them has a skill set that allows him to victimize the other with near impunity, as this case is a deviation from the norm.
A great deal of law is based on the concept that there will be those who have some power to take, coerce, hurt, etc others. In this case the student used his skills (albiet pathetic in terms of hacking) to vicitmize the teacher and make a profit off of stolen information.
In the context of a society where the world is shifting from property-based to information-based transactions and wealth, this is a very important distinction. The world is very much changing and it is up to the legislature and the judiciary to keep up with the changes. It wasnt too long ago where electronic identify theft wasnt really seen as a problem and now most states have specific laws on targetting this.
Of course, one can argue "well laws are already in place for x or y" but that is a half-truth at best. Many wiretap laws and false identification laws are worded in a specific way which gives the offender an unfair advantage. Telephone based wiretap laws do not protect people from sniffers (usually). Its also easy to imagine a lot of people screaming "We already have these laws for the telegraph" or somesuch when these laws were proposed. They fail to realize the fundamental difference between these technologies and their expliots.
Now, this case does involve a minor, which of course leaves the DA to opportunity to try him as such. It also leaves the jury the option to give a low sentance if they believe the defendant is worthy of it. This is a built-in checks and balance system to help control over-zealous prosecutors. In fact, a jury has no legal obligation to obey the law and can use a method called jury nullification to toss out the case on the premise that the law is unfair in itself.
The "wild west" mentality of information technology has to fold as more and more vital and important things are trusted to computers, networks, etc. The "hackers ethic" from the 70's and 80's certainly does not apply when we have people putting their lives on their computers, be it all the financial transactions, bank passwords, or even baby pictures. In short, the stakes have been raise by quite a bit and sending violators to county jail or even state prison cannot be dismissed out of hand as being a dystopian ideal.
A misdemeanor, frankly, for information theft and sale-of isnt that bad. Many computer crimes are felonies and personally I think the use of keyloggers should automatically be a felony as they void encryption schemes are are promiscious, thus unable to tell the difference between homework answers and bank passwords or pgp passphrases.
I would also like to see the hardware keylogger made illegal to sell, transport, or posses. And I would love to see a user's "bill of rights" which protects them from these threats wherever they originate, be it from the kid in some class or from the government doing something unethical without a warrant.
>Do you even know the purpose of felony vs. misdemeanor?
A felony is typically a crime that ends up with the person in prison for a year or longer. A misdemeanor usually ends up with a year or less. More info here.
>such as rape, murder
No. Felonies also include identification theft, burglery, computer crimes, etc. Nice use of the hot-button strawman tactic though.
That said, if the state chooses to try him as a minor, that is their perogative, but the assumption that felonies only involve rape or murder and the like is false and the idea that computer crimes should never reach the level of felony is ridiculous and there are already felony computer crime punishments which is a good idea as society shifts from property based to information based.
>>. What the fuck is wrong with people like you?
Perhaps you should ask yourself that question before you go off with misleading statements.
I think youre wrong, the kid should be charged with a felony for this. This is exactly like breaking and entering and spying on someone. Until people see the real world analog to computer crimes we're going to have to deal with very casual law breaking and victimization. I dont think we've given deterance enough of a chance when it comes to things like these.
Lets face it, the skills linux demand (that is if you want to do anything but view webpages and read email) is elitist while OSX is populist. This is why so many people arent excited by a nice free server OS or a OS with lots of free developers tools. They want to do other things than code or be part of the ill-defined and (for the non-techy) bewildering open source movement.
I'm much more excited to see a very affordable mac offered by apple. All this anti-MS agnst should be helping a corporate competitor who can deliver the goods, especially the in the application department (iLife alone is worth the price of admission). Lets face it, many popular OSS projects are clones of stuff commercial developers innovated anyway. If people really want to revolutionize the desktop, then its fairly obvious linux isnt catching on like so many predicted it would by now and its time to try to get Joe Sixpack trying something else if he wants to get away from windows.
Maybe someday there will be a year of the linux desktop, maybe not, but in the meantime I like turning people onto Apple's offerings when they complain about their wintel box instead of telling them to download an iso and learn some very arcane command line skills and then after getting sick of the learning curve and the lack of commercial apps they give-up and reinstall XP. Nor do I want to be their full-time sysadmin for the *nix machine. Way too many "my gf/grandma/dog uses linux" stories ignore the time and effort put in by the evangelist to admin these machines or configure them to make them semi-fool proof.
Linux, like OS X is very much a niche product, but I'm much more comfortable going to bat to get people (ordinary people, not techies) on mac machines than I am getting them to go the linux route.
>They do this because Google places higher value on pages with search terms directly in the URL.
I just hate this, because its been abused for so long and google has done nothing to stop it. I believe some blog software uses this form now either by default or as a setting. So someone blogging about "minnesota fishing sucks" with the filename minnsota_fishing_sucks.php gets a higher priority than, say, a guide to minnesota fishing with just a plain old index.html in there. The URLs are just crazy long nowadays as people try to game the system. And it works great too. That page will just fly up the rankings.
On top what you've listed its important to include:
The google toolbar is spyware. The one without pagerank isnt. On top if it, very few (if any) spyware scanners will let you know.
They do not reveal who, in fact they refuse, they are selling all their datamining stuff to. They put a non-expiring tracking cookie on everyone who uses their service to track them, preferably for life or at least the life of that computer. I wrote a little piece (with screenshots!) on how you can thwart this with firefox by removing it for good, or letting firefox only allow the cookie per session here.
That is the price to use google. Its free, like spyware funded apps are free. Its just not a biggie to many people or they accept tracking and spyware as the price of entry. That is of course your perogative.
They certainly arent as bad as MS, MarketScore, etc but they really get a pass on a lot of things they do. What helps is the perception that they are a great, awesome company which loves you. Regardless if that belief has much to do with reality.
Also, I dont think the new groups interface is that bad, its just extremely dumbed down, thus the whole "google is geeks and geek friendly" might have been true at one point, but now all their work must attract the lowest common denominator as much as they can as they are now a public company and with all this competition they have to shoot for the LCD as much as possible to get more eyes on their pages than on a9 or overture. Competition is certainly good, but usually its good only for the LCD.
After the DOJ's bang-up job with Microsoft and the FCC and SEC letting just about every merger happen without too many questions, well, I wouldnt expect the GOP run government to do anything remotely pro-consumer.
There's this country, I live there, where a good amount of people don't even own PCs. They have socialized evil government computers in these evil socialized book-stealing places called libraries. In these evil factories of information, the computerless in my neighborhood (mostly the older crowd) get FREE internet access! They get to use the computers to do word processing too and get FREE evil government paper. They machines are usually booked in advance for these purposes.
Care to guess what hell-hole 3rd world bannana republic/tin horn dictatorship I live in where many people do not even own their own PC and have to resort to cheap and evil government machines at the local subsidized book-stealing centers which hurt the good people in the publishing industry
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Dont forget to add a couple loud ass case fans for authenticity and so they know its on.
>Except for the users who are both idiots and south paws, in which case the normal click is on the right, and the context click is on the left.
The mouse doesnt magically become a mirror image of itself when you move it to the left side of the keyboard. Saying "right click" still applies to the same side of the mouse and the same button. If you dont believe me, take a sharpie and label the left button L and the right button R and then place the mouse on random spots on your desk.Unless these people are remapping their buttons or holding the mouse upside down, then its all the same.
When I used to put the mouse on the left hand side of the keyboard I never had the urge to remap my buttons. As I lefty, I still move the mouse to the left side of the keyboard when I need to draw something steady in photoshop or whatever, but I have no idea what you're complaining about.
And do people really say "south paw" anymore? Is 30s slang suddenly popular?
Or to re-phrase it, wifi has SAVED me money. There's no way I would have payed for a GPRS or CDMA card for my laptop, especially with per kilobyte pricing some companies are fond of doing. I'm so sick of these industry POV articles.
Everything is a "loss" for someone. Its a gain to others too. That's life. Its time they got used to it. I sure don't hear the wifi equipment people complaining about their huge sales.
If you listen closely you can still hear the horse and buggy people complain abou this new fangled automocar that is so popular.
Why is some unix the alternative? There's a popular and commercial and well-supported platform out there for the home user. Its called a Mac. I swear, reading some of these posts its like linux is the spoiler third-party candidate.
1. Install some linux on ma's computer. 2. Ma gets all confused with the command line and is sick of the lack of commercial apps and decides windows is the way to be and switches back. 3. MS wins.
Buy Ma a Mac and chances are that old XP box with all its problems will stay on the floor.
Christ, is there a "nutters" web template out there? Every site dealing with bible codes, aliens, newagey psuedo-science, etc have the same starry (or psychedelic) background, fonts that are way too big and colorful for proper reading, etc. I guess its all the best. Its like a big sign screaming "This guy is nuts!"
I swear, I was half expecting a "See you at Time Cube Con '05" at the bottom the page.
Not to mention that blog is famous for leaning on the right side of politics, so its no surprise they would praise the Carnivore system and call the complaints of civil libertarians trivial.
Its just some mostly Republican law junkies posting their opinions in a very fast and loose style. No citations, very little to oversight, no comments, etc. Its how not to run a political blog, but right wing blogs tend to have that kind of format (just tell us what to think!) as open commenting tends to hurt their carefully crafted strawmen and absurd ideological positions.
The video is an uber-compressed mp4 weighing in at 700k. That's what? 2 or 3 flash/shockwave embed ads on typical commercial sites?
For reference, right now, cnet.com weighs in at 235k. 1/3rd the size of the video. Slashdot probably has a better change of taking down cnet than this guy's video site.
>exchange data via Outlook Web Access 2000 or 2003.
No. It uses WebDAV. OWA uses WebDAV also. If disabled then the connector wont work. So far I dont think anyone has reverse engineered MS's MAPI protocol.
> No, I don't play a lot of them either, but that's the number one gripe from people.
And its not a serious gripe. A wintel PC can be had pretty cheaply. Upgrade the video card and off you go. Or buy a console.
Game developers are not going to take any other OS seriously. The returns on porting over to OSX or linux are poor. Get used to it. Adapt or find better things to with your free time.
Not to mention its against the TOS to run services. So that 768up might be tempting but you'll be in breach of terms if you run a web server, email server, etc. Hell, good luck with email on comcast's IP block as many anti-spam solutions mark it as spam.
I really dont understand this limitation. Most DSL providers let you run services and dont have "invisible limits." People looking to run a server cheaply shouldnt be considering comcast.
I believe shutting off activeX also disables javascript in IE. So you get ActiveX errors for sites simply running javascript. Its been a while, but I remember way too many activex errors for pages that werent using it.
No, it shouldn't. First off VNC and FTP are not spyware. Period.
Secondly, look outside your slashdot bubble and you'll see people who share computers. Not everyone has three or four boxes laying about. One person (or the admin) may put a VNC server on there and then another person may remove it because they trust the MS app and don't know any better.
Stick to spyware. Seriously. On one machine I tested it, it couldnt remove a common spyware browser helper object. MS cant remove stuff from their own browser? Yep.
Where's the "Zephyr" police and the WSJ on these guys? No disclosure here. Where's the outrage? Oh right, the Republican double standard. From here.
The two leading South Dakota blogs - websites full of informal analysis, opinions and links - were authored by paid advisers to Thune's campaign.
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader and the National Journal first cited Federal Election Commission documents showing that Jon Lauck, of Daschle v Thune, and Jason Van Beek, of South Dakota Politics, were advisers to the Thune campaign.
The documents, also obtained by CBS News, show that in June and October the Thune campaign paid Lauck $27,000 and Van Beek $8,000. Lauck had also worked on Thune's 2002 congressional race.
Both blogs favored Thune, but neither gave any disclaimer during the election that the authors were on the payroll of the Republican candidate.
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Or 40 dollars per visit. First off, this is a fraction of what Best Buy would charge for similiar service, secondly you deserve it, and lastly they will take your advice seriously if they know its going to cost them 40-50 dollars to fix another spyware/virus infestation. If you charge next to nothing they'll ignore your advice, treat you like some idiot savant who doesnt know his own value, and pester you with phonecalls because they have not learned proper PC hygeine.
Sure, you will lose customers this way, but those are customers you'd want to lose anyway. The cheap naggers who are unwilling to learn anything aren't worth the trouble.
These are cosmetic/weak. Obviously, you're going to need a couple things to actually use this computer:
1. A USB hub. It blows my mind Apple wouldnt put in at least four ports. Two are going to be taken by the keyboard and mouse. I mean, how much money could they be saving by saving two ports. Or they could have added PS/2 ports for older mice/keyboards. You're not going to be able to use a USB printer or scanner without that hub.
2. A KVM switch. Considering they're aiming for the first time Apple buyer with a PC, this is pretty much a must have.
Not to mention selling this with 256megs of ram isnt such a hot idea. The real problem here is if people perceive this as being too cheap they're just not going to buy it. Toss in 50+ bucks for the 512 upgrade, 20 something for a usb2 hub, and another 20 something for a KVM, it adds up to an extra 100 just to have a usable machine.
Of course, the editor doesnt actually mean it, its just a taunt. This stupid "my patches vs your patches" game is ridiculous and further cements slashdot as a "teen hangout" than anything resembling a tech site.
Not to mention running an update on most linux distros demands a serious amount of patching.
If slashdot would stop taunting for two minutes, they would realize that MS has a policy of patching on the first tuesday of each month and once auto-updates are enabled this becomes a non-issue.
Its getting old, really. If MS patches or doesnt patch, its going to be a slashdot item with the typical trolls coming out from under their bridges.
According to secunia the web browser I'm using has 5 non-patched critical security holes. Guess what, I'm not using IE. Has this been a slashdot item yet? If not why? Where are mozilla's tuesday patches? Oh right, we have a double standard for them and just wait for release 1.1 without saying a word.
> The problem here, though, is that it's difficult to design a better human
Actually, I'd argue that both humans are designed quite well, its just one of them has a skill set that allows him to victimize the other with near impunity, as this case is a deviation from the norm.
A great deal of law is based on the concept that there will be those who have some power to take, coerce, hurt, etc others. In this case the student used his skills (albiet pathetic in terms of hacking) to vicitmize the teacher and make a profit off of stolen information.
In the context of a society where the world is shifting from property-based to information-based transactions and wealth, this is a very important distinction. The world is very much changing and it is up to the legislature and the judiciary to keep up with the changes. It wasnt too long ago where electronic identify theft wasnt really seen as a problem and now most states have specific laws on targetting this.
Of course, one can argue "well laws are already in place for x or y" but that is a half-truth at best. Many wiretap laws and false identification laws are worded in a specific way which gives the offender an unfair advantage. Telephone based wiretap laws do not protect people from sniffers (usually). Its also easy to imagine a lot of people screaming "We already have these laws for the telegraph" or somesuch when these laws were proposed. They fail to realize the fundamental difference between these technologies and their expliots.
Now, this case does involve a minor, which of course leaves the DA to opportunity to try him as such. It also leaves the jury the option to give a low sentance if they believe the defendant is worthy of it. This is a built-in checks and balance system to help control over-zealous prosecutors. In fact, a jury has no legal obligation to obey the law and can use a method called jury nullification to toss out the case on the premise that the law is unfair in itself.
The "wild west" mentality of information technology has to fold as more and more vital and important things are trusted to computers, networks, etc. The "hackers ethic" from the 70's and 80's certainly does not apply when we have people putting their lives on their computers, be it all the financial transactions, bank passwords, or even baby pictures. In short, the stakes have been raise by quite a bit and sending violators to county jail or even state prison cannot be dismissed out of hand as being a dystopian ideal.
A misdemeanor, frankly, for information theft and sale-of isnt that bad. Many computer crimes are felonies and personally I think the use of keyloggers should automatically be a felony as they void encryption schemes are are promiscious, thus unable to tell the difference between homework answers and bank passwords or pgp passphrases.
I would also like to see the hardware keylogger made illegal to sell, transport, or posses. And I would love to see a user's "bill of rights" which protects them from these threats wherever they originate, be it from the kid in some class or from the government doing something unethical without a warrant.
>Do you even know the purpose of felony vs. misdemeanor?
A felony is typically a crime that ends up with the person in prison for a year or longer. A misdemeanor usually ends up with a year or less. More info here.
>such as rape, murder
No. Felonies also include identification theft, burglery, computer crimes, etc. Nice use of the hot-button strawman tactic though.
That said, if the state chooses to try him as a minor, that is their perogative, but the assumption that felonies only involve rape or murder and the like is false and the idea that computer crimes should never reach the level of felony is ridiculous and there are already felony computer crime punishments which is a good idea as society shifts from property based to information based.
>>. What the fuck is wrong with people like you?
Perhaps you should ask yourself that question before you go off with misleading statements.
I think youre wrong, the kid should be charged with a felony for this. This is exactly like breaking and entering and spying on someone. Until people see the real world analog to computer crimes we're going to have to deal with very casual law breaking and victimization. I dont think we've given deterance enough of a chance when it comes to things like these.
Lets face it, the skills linux demand (that is if you want to do anything but view webpages and read email) is elitist while OSX is populist. This is why so many people arent excited by a nice free server OS or a OS with lots of free developers tools. They want to do other things than code or be part of the ill-defined and (for the non-techy) bewildering open source movement.
I'm much more excited to see a very affordable mac offered by apple. All this anti-MS agnst should be helping a corporate competitor who can deliver the goods, especially the in the application department (iLife alone is worth the price of admission). Lets face it, many popular OSS projects are clones of stuff commercial developers innovated anyway. If people really want to revolutionize the desktop, then its fairly obvious linux isnt catching on like so many predicted it would by now and its time to try to get Joe Sixpack trying something else if he wants to get away from windows.
Maybe someday there will be a year of the linux desktop, maybe not, but in the meantime I like turning people onto Apple's offerings when they complain about their wintel box instead of telling them to download an iso and learn some very arcane command line skills and then after getting sick of the learning curve and the lack of commercial apps they give-up and reinstall XP. Nor do I want to be their full-time sysadmin for the *nix machine. Way too many "my gf/grandma/dog uses linux" stories ignore the time and effort put in by the evangelist to admin these machines or configure them to make them semi-fool proof.
Linux, like OS X is very much a niche product, but I'm much more comfortable going to bat to get people (ordinary people, not techies) on mac machines than I am getting them to go the linux route.
>They do this because Google places higher value on pages with search terms directly in the URL.
I just hate this, because its been abused for so long and google has done nothing to stop it. I believe some blog software uses this form now either by default or as a setting. So someone blogging about "minnesota fishing sucks" with the filename minnsota_fishing_sucks.php gets a higher priority than, say, a guide to minnesota fishing with just a plain old index.html in there. The URLs are just crazy long nowadays as people try to game the system. And it works great too. That page will just fly up the rankings.
On top what you've listed its important to include:
The google toolbar is spyware. The one without pagerank isnt. On top if it, very few (if any) spyware scanners will let you know.
They do not reveal who, in fact they refuse, they are selling all their datamining stuff to. They put a non-expiring tracking cookie on everyone who uses their service to track them, preferably for life or at least the life of that computer. I wrote a little piece (with screenshots!) on how you can thwart this with firefox by removing it for good, or letting firefox only allow the cookie per session here.
That is the price to use google. Its free, like spyware funded apps are free. Its just not a biggie to many people or they accept tracking and spyware as the price of entry. That is of course your perogative.
They certainly arent as bad as MS, MarketScore, etc but they really get a pass on a lot of things they do. What helps is the perception that they are a great, awesome company which loves you. Regardless if that belief has much to do with reality.
Also, I dont think the new groups interface is that bad, its just extremely dumbed down, thus the whole "google is geeks and geek friendly" might have been true at one point, but now all their work must attract the lowest common denominator as much as they can as they are now a public company and with all this competition they have to shoot for the LCD as much as possible to get more eyes on their pages than on a9 or overture. Competition is certainly good, but usually its good only for the LCD.
> i guess i won't have to worry about getting a new graphics card after all
Heh, I bet this is a blessing to parents getting hit up by their kids for a $200 video card to play a $60 game.
Xmas 2004:
Kid: Dad did you get me the game and the card I need to play it?
Dad: Almost, son! Here you go!
Kid tears at package to find The Doom III boardgame.
Dad: Merry Christmas! You didnt think I was going to spend almost $300 so you could play some game?
>Anti-Trust inspection.
After the DOJ's bang-up job with Microsoft and the FCC and SEC letting just about every merger happen without too many questions, well, I wouldnt expect the GOP run government to do anything remotely pro-consumer.
There's this country, I live there, where a good amount of people don't even own PCs. They have socialized evil government computers in these evil socialized book-stealing places called libraries. In these evil factories of information, the computerless in my neighborhood (mostly the older crowd) get FREE internet access! They get to use the computers to do word processing too and get FREE evil government paper. They machines are usually booked in advance for these purposes.
Care to guess what hell-hole 3rd world bannana republic/tin horn dictatorship I live in where many people do not even own their own PC and have to resort to cheap and evil government machines at the local subsidized book-stealing centers which hurt the good people in the publishing industry
Dont forget to add a couple loud ass case fans for authenticity and so they know its on.
>Except for the users who are both idiots and south paws, in which case the normal click is on the right, and the context click is on the left.
The mouse doesnt magically become a mirror image of itself when you move it to the left side of the keyboard. Saying "right click" still applies to the same side of the mouse and the same button. If you dont believe me, take a sharpie and label the left button L and the right button R and then place the mouse on random spots on your desk.Unless these people are remapping their buttons or holding the mouse upside down, then its all the same.
When I used to put the mouse on the left hand side of the keyboard I never had the urge to remap my buttons. As I lefty, I still move the mouse to the left side of the keyboard when I need to draw something steady in photoshop or whatever, but I have no idea what you're complaining about.
And do people really say "south paw" anymore? Is 30s slang suddenly popular?
Or to re-phrase it, wifi has SAVED me money. There's no way I would have payed for a GPRS or CDMA card for my laptop, especially with per kilobyte pricing some companies are fond of doing. I'm so sick of these industry POV articles.
Everything is a "loss" for someone. Its a gain to others too. That's life. Its time they got used to it. I sure don't hear the wifi equipment people complaining about their huge sales.
If you listen closely you can still hear the horse and buggy people complain abou this new fangled automocar that is so popular.
>forcing you to get third party products to do the job right.
>This means that you pay through the nose
Free/semi-free encryption:
1. gpg for wingows.
2. pgp (older version gives full access, new one not so much)
3. winzip, now uses AES
I'm sure there are others
>Most people won't switch to *nix from windows
Why is some unix the alternative? There's a popular and commercial and well-supported platform out there for the home user. Its called a Mac. I swear, reading some of these posts its like linux is the spoiler third-party candidate.
1. Install some linux on ma's computer.
2. Ma gets all confused with the command line and is sick of the lack of commercial apps and decides windows is the way to be and switches back.
3. MS wins.
Buy Ma a Mac and chances are that old XP box with all its problems will stay on the floor.
Christ, is there a "nutters" web template out there? Every site dealing with bible codes, aliens, newagey psuedo-science, etc have the same starry (or psychedelic) background, fonts that are way too big and colorful for proper reading, etc. I guess its all the best. Its like a big sign screaming "This guy is nuts!"
I swear, I was half expecting a "See you at Time Cube Con '05" at the bottom the page.
Not to mention that blog is famous for leaning on the right side of politics, so its no surprise they would praise the Carnivore system and call the complaints of civil libertarians trivial.
Its just some mostly Republican law junkies posting their opinions in a very fast and loose style. No citations, very little to oversight, no comments, etc. Its how not to run a political blog, but right wing blogs tend to have that kind of format (just tell us what to think!) as open commenting tends to hurt their carefully crafted strawmen and absurd ideological positions.
The video is an uber-compressed mp4 weighing in at 700k. That's what? 2 or 3 flash/shockwave embed ads on typical commercial sites?
For reference, right now, cnet.com weighs in at 235k. 1/3rd the size of the video. Slashdot probably has a better change of taking down cnet than this guy's video site.
>exchange data via Outlook Web Access 2000 or 2003.
No. It uses WebDAV. OWA uses WebDAV also. If disabled then the connector wont work. So far I dont think anyone has reverse engineered MS's MAPI protocol.
> No, I don't play a lot of them either, but that's the number one gripe from people.
And its not a serious gripe. A wintel PC can be had pretty cheaply. Upgrade the video card and off you go. Or buy a console.
Game developers are not going to take any other OS seriously. The returns on porting over to OSX or linux are poor. Get used to it. Adapt or find better things to with your free time.
Not to mention its against the TOS to run services. So that 768up might be tempting but you'll be in breach of terms if you run a web server, email server, etc. Hell, good luck with email on comcast's IP block as many anti-spam solutions mark it as spam.
I really dont understand this limitation. Most DSL providers let you run services and dont have "invisible limits." People looking to run a server cheaply shouldnt be considering comcast.
I believe shutting off activeX also disables javascript in IE. So you get ActiveX errors for sites simply running javascript. Its been a while, but I remember way too many activex errors for pages that werent using it.
No, it shouldn't. First off VNC and FTP are not spyware. Period.
Secondly, look outside your slashdot bubble and you'll see people who share computers. Not everyone has three or four boxes laying about. One person (or the admin) may put a VNC server on there and then another person may remove it because they trust the MS app and don't know any better.
Stick to spyware. Seriously. On one machine I tested it, it couldnt remove a common spyware browser helper object. MS cant remove stuff from their own browser? Yep.