>Any car using internal combustion should be put under review and heavy environmental taxation these days.
You'll find the opposite is true. Light trucks more or less get a free pass on emissions and many Hummer buyers buy them under the name of their business thus making them something of a write-off.
Textpad is shareware/nagware with a never expiring trial. Winzip has a 21-day trial, but does not stop functioning nor demand keys after that period.
None of the apps above require 'keys from emule' as suggested by the grandparent. After those 21 days you can buy winzip or use 7zip, which I also listed.
No, it is spyware and has nothing to do with the updated. Quote google:
* Google may collect information about web pages that you are viewing when the advanced functionality is enabled. However, this advanced functionality is optional, and can be easily disabled and re-enabled at any time (by selecting "Privacy Information..." in the Toolbar's "Google" menu.)
* You will know the advanced functionality is enabled when the PageRank meter is visible on your Google Toolbar.
* Google only collects the normal type of information that is already available to the websites you visit. This means, Google cannot collect, for example, your name, email address, telephone number, etc.
In other words, "If you want pagerank, we'll datamine you." Warning people of this shouldnt get you google fan boys in a hissy.
Ask the slashdot admins to reveal what % actually uses desktop linux, its in the logs. The windows userbase is huge, even here. Almost all of my unix use is server side. That being said:
Winamp - disable anon statistics at setup Firefox/Mozilla Media Player Classic - best videoplayer out there OSS Music Brainz - indentifies mp3 files my their sound signature Abiword - word processor OSS eMule - like kazaa only better TightVNC - A nice VNC derivative Cygwin - unix on windows. sexy. Winzip - it now does 256 ARS encryption PGP - the free version, crippled but useful Textpad - great text editor Thunderbird - email client OSS 7-zip - free zip/rar/everything opener Trillian - best IM client, does encryption Gaim - okay IM client OSS CoreFTP - better than filezilla atomic time sychronizer - for PCs/users that cant do NTP Tweak UI - Users will want this eventually AGP - free virus scanner Ad Aware - spybot not needed really. AA catches just about everything now
What NOT to recommend:
Google toolbar - the full version is spyware. Warn users if they are going to use this.
The downside of this approach is that its signal is so weak you may not be able to hear it in another room. On my Neuros player, which is far from a good example, I have to place it right next to a receiver to get it to catch its little FM broadcast. The FCC limits broadcast power pretty severly.
This is a great suggestion if it works. Of course you can roll your own or buy a kit. You can even raise the power and install a nice antenna and I doubt the FCC will come looking for you. Your device will no longer be in FCC Part 15 compliance, though.
> Simple patch to Windows eliminates 99% of all risk of virus infection now and in future.
CHICAGO (Reuters Tech) - Computer scientists claim the patch, printed by Microsoft Press, can be applied anywhere but U of I Professor Stephen Molovich claims the best place to put it is, "Right on your forehead, so people can see it every morning in the mirror." The patch is an ordinary sticker with the words, "Use Firewall. Don't Install Crap. Turn on Auto-Update" on it.
The patch sells for 2 cents when bought in bulk and expects to retail at 5 cents (3 Euro cents). The Open Source community has reverse-engineered their own patches using off the shelf equipment like Avery stickers and Sharpies. OSS advocate Bruce Perens was overhead saying this about the patch, "The big question right now is whether we can get people to use GNUpatch rather than the Microsoft Press patch. It doesn't matter if it's on your arm or on your cat. If we can get people to wear it, security wins in the office and at home."
Wait. SO the users aren't using any spyware or virus detector nor are they updating their system and you blame the OS vendor?
Fine, but when you switch them to unix and they run as root 100% of the time and run any shell script emailed to them, then who will you blame?
MS has its faults, the same way my car does, but at least I take my car to get its oil changed and its crappy components changed when they break. I currently cant afford to buy a better car so I'm stuck with what I've got, so I took it upon myself to learn some basic troubleshooting and repair. I've done two repairs on my own that would have cost me a few hundred this year.
I think the in-laws could be taught to double-click the "lavasoft" icon now and again.
Its a futurist article, really. The whole "life TV" nonsense. Every technological advance has had its futurists and almost without exception they've been painfully wrong.
The author suggests that computers will be more intrusive, when people seem to want less intrusiveness in their lives. Instead of bigger, uglier boxes with tons of storage you'll probably see smaller quieter devices that don't take up so much desktop real-estate. Instead of an mp3 player here, a phone there, a laptop there, etc we're seeing the emergence of the easy to use PDA smartphone. Instead of people blowing their savings on a $2,000 gaming machine, we're seeing a boom in the console gaming industry. Instead of people demanding bigger brighter and higher resolution screens we're seeing a shift to thinner LCD screens for the sake of aesthetics.
The PC has its place, but I doubt as this "life recorder." Remind me, what percentage of blogs get abandoned after their first week? 90%? more?
And this is one of the main reasons I use Trillian and have my friends using it. Encryption is a snap. I believe the new yahoo client has an encryption option also.
>Anyone know why the AF would come up with their own system?
Why not? I'm sure its a lot cheaper than paying for trillian licenses and of course the option of having the encryption key to decrypt communications is very appealing. Maybe its more feature rich than trillian's. Someone can try a man-in-the-middle attack, steal your buddy's login, etc.
Sadly, there is no encryption standard. Even Gaim can't get its act straight because of licenses. SSL (as in ssl-gaim) is a BSD license while gaim is GPL so they won't play with it. They also snubbed trillian for the same reasons. I don't use OSS for the sake of using OSS, I use what's best.
Also, the commercial entities can roll their own encryption scheme, but that of course leaves you running 4 IM clients at the same time.
This is why Trillian rocks and continues to dominate the multi-IM market.
Its not about historical value, the damn thing is a death trap. The documentary the Discovery channel showed exactly how dangerous that thing is and how lucky Rutan got. Its not worth attempting to fly again. They won the prize and so far no one has died. Mission accomplished.
Its really a proof of concept rocket. "Can we build a cheap-ish rocket out of composites and get into space?" Yes, they did. And it was risky. So off to the museum it goes while they build a much safer and profitable flyer.
The Creative Muvo2 retails at 189.99 and has 4 gig drive in it. The iPod mini is 249.00. Up until last week there was a 50 dollar rebate for the Muvo making it 139.99. The Muvo is super tiny, much smaller than Apple's offerings. Photo here.
There's competition, albiet not much, out there, not to mention the 512 to 1 gig players out there. Most people have no need for 40 gigs in their pocket or they don't want to drop 249 or 299 for an iPod, which wont record line in nor do FM/AM. I see a lot of 128-512 meg players out there and people don't at all seem to mind not having their entire collection on them at all times.
That just shows you either how mismanaged the FCC is or how they knew these letters were from the same people, but used them as an excuse to get their the censorship ball running for the Jebus GOP crowd.
Either way, its an organization that needs to be immediately reformed and made into a public issue. Turn on the TV, the big debate isnt Iraq, FCC, etc its Christmas vs Happy Holidays.
Government and media together. Talk about corruption.
Err, you do know Colin Powell was the man who covered up/whitewashed the My Lai massacre and the famous story didnt break until after the war. Oh and he was in Iran contra. Whoops! And holds the record for the most lies per second at the UN.
Great men indeed!
Try other sources of media than Fox News and CNN and you might learn something.
No, Powell is no Orwellian nightmare, he's more of a soma Brave New World nightmare. The same top-40 droning on and on with media companies buying up all the frequencies and ticket outlets. As long as Joe and Jane Sixpack get their Britney/flavor of the month fix they're happy, even if it costs them two days salary.
Now the AM band is truly Orwelian, with its right wing hate voices blaring on and on. A finer propaganda outlet the world has never seen.
Not to mention Reason is a big "deregulate everything now!!!" nutcase group.
Of course they love Powell. Shame, deregulation means crap on the radio, media consolidation, monopolies,etc. But these guys are ideology first and reality second.
This is true of many spiritual leaders, but the difference here is that software is just software while religious leaders take advantage of one's fear of death and need for meaning, thus the incredibly zealotry. The worst Linux zealot is nothing compared to the best religious missionary.
Seconded. Ol' Linus really lets loose and even gets a bit philosophical for us. Looks like they caught him on a good day or after 120mg of caffeine.
A lot of it can be condensed into management theory like the individual vs. the group vs. the environment, etc. Easily worth the few minutes it takes to read.
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>But don't worry, the moment you become a threat, you're quite certain there's some obscure, anal retentive prohibition, you'll get fucked over with.
Enough America bashing! We're talking about China!
>Any car using internal combustion should be put under review and heavy environmental taxation these days.
You'll find the opposite is true. Light trucks more or less get a free pass on emissions and many Hummer buyers buy them under the name of their business thus making them something of a write-off.
> Same thing with Textpad.
No, its not the same thing with textpad.
Textpad is shareware/nagware with a never expiring trial. Winzip has a 21-day trial, but does not stop functioning nor demand keys after that period.
None of the apps above require 'keys from emule' as suggested by the grandparent. After those 21 days you can buy winzip or use 7zip, which I also listed.
No, it is spyware and has nothing to do with the updated. Quote google:In other words, "If you want pagerank, we'll datamine you." Warning people of this shouldnt get you google fan boys in a hissy.
> You've got to be kidding.
Ask the slashdot admins to reveal what % actually uses desktop linux, its in the logs. The windows userbase is huge, even here. Almost all of my unix use is server side. That being said:
Winamp - disable anon statistics at setup
Firefox/Mozilla
Media Player Classic - best videoplayer out there OSS
Music Brainz - indentifies mp3 files my their sound signature
Abiword - word processor OSS
eMule - like kazaa only better
TightVNC - A nice VNC derivative
Cygwin - unix on windows. sexy.
Winzip - it now does 256 ARS encryption
PGP - the free version, crippled but useful
Textpad - great text editor
Thunderbird - email client OSS
7-zip - free zip/rar/everything opener
Trillian - best IM client, does encryption
Gaim - okay IM client OSS
CoreFTP - better than filezilla
atomic time sychronizer - for PCs/users that cant do NTP
Tweak UI - Users will want this eventually
AGP - free virus scanner
Ad Aware - spybot not needed really. AA catches just about everything now
What NOT to recommend:
Google toolbar - the full version is spyware. Warn users if they are going to use this.
Toyota estimates 10.1 seconds to go from 0-60. Which is average or near average.
1993 Hummer 20.2 seconds.
Now which car "has a long way to go" before its ready for the masses?
What ads?
The downside of this approach is that its signal is so weak you may not be able to hear it in another room. On my Neuros player, which is far from a good example, I have to place it right next to a receiver to get it to catch its little FM broadcast. The FCC limits broadcast power pretty severly.
This is a great suggestion if it works. Of course you can roll your own or buy a kit. You can even raise the power and install a nice antenna and I doubt the FCC will come looking for you. Your device will no longer be in FCC Part 15 compliance, though.
Adult acne considered sexy.
$20 computer speakers deliver rich, full sound.
Nerdfilter slashdots a site.
Buying robot dog sane move, claim psychologists.
VoIP company turns profit, plans to spend half of it to call ma with the good news.
Firefox and IE usage down as people discover this seasons new sitcoms.
MMORPG player doesn't complain about, "the grind" for once.
Mom, dad, and little sister all understand what you mean when you say, "MP3 bitrate."
New technology not applicable to pornography delivery claim computer scientists.
Burt Rutan has something nice to say about NASA.
American adults now smarter than new Treo smartphone.
Adding bold to 'MCSE' on resume got local man a job.
New open source app has easy to remember and pronouncable name.
> Simple patch to Windows eliminates 99% of all risk of virus infection now and in future.
CHICAGO (Reuters Tech) - Computer scientists claim the patch, printed by Microsoft Press, can be applied anywhere but U of I Professor Stephen Molovich claims the best place to put it is, "Right on your forehead, so people can see it every morning in the mirror." The patch is an ordinary sticker with the words, "Use Firewall. Don't Install Crap. Turn on Auto-Update" on it.
The patch sells for 2 cents when bought in bulk and expects to retail at 5 cents (3 Euro cents). The Open Source community has reverse-engineered their own patches using off the shelf equipment like Avery stickers and Sharpies. OSS advocate Bruce Perens was overhead saying this about the patch, "The big question right now is whether we can get people to use GNUpatch rather than the Microsoft Press patch. It doesn't matter if it's on your arm or on your cat. If we can get people to wear it, security wins in the office and at home."
>especially since console makers are losing money on each one produced?????
Psst, they get a % of the game sales.
> Consoles do not compare to gaming machines, in a professional way.
Gamers don't seem to mind. Look at the sales. My videocard costs more than all the popular consoles. Guess which people would rather pay for?
>damn you micro$hite
Wait. SO the users aren't using any spyware or virus detector nor are they updating their system and you blame the OS vendor?
Fine, but when you switch them to unix and they run as root 100% of the time and run any shell script emailed to them, then who will you blame?
MS has its faults, the same way my car does, but at least I take my car to get its oil changed and its crappy components changed when they break. I currently cant afford to buy a better car so I'm stuck with what I've got, so I took it upon myself to learn some basic troubleshooting and repair. I've done two repairs on my own that would have cost me a few hundred this year.
I think the in-laws could be taught to double-click the "lavasoft" icon now and again.
Its a futurist article, really. The whole "life TV" nonsense. Every technological advance has had its futurists and almost without exception they've been painfully wrong.
The author suggests that computers will be more intrusive, when people seem to want less intrusiveness in their lives. Instead of bigger, uglier boxes with tons of storage you'll probably see smaller quieter devices that don't take up so much desktop real-estate. Instead of an mp3 player here, a phone there, a laptop there, etc we're seeing the emergence of the easy to use PDA smartphone. Instead of people blowing their savings on a $2,000 gaming machine, we're seeing a boom in the console gaming industry. Instead of people demanding bigger brighter and higher resolution screens we're seeing a shift to thinner LCD screens for the sake of aesthetics.
The PC has its place, but I doubt as this "life recorder." Remind me, what percentage of blogs get abandoned after their first week? 90%? more?
And this is one of the main reasons I use Trillian and have my friends using it. Encryption is a snap. I believe the new yahoo client has an encryption option also.
>Anyone know why the AF would come up with their own system?
Why not? I'm sure its a lot cheaper than paying for trillian licenses and of course the option of having the encryption key to decrypt communications is very appealing. Maybe its more feature rich than trillian's. Someone can try a man-in-the-middle attack, steal your buddy's login, etc.
Sadly, there is no encryption standard. Even Gaim can't get its act straight because of licenses. SSL (as in ssl-gaim) is a BSD license while gaim is GPL so they won't play with it. They also snubbed trillian for the same reasons. I don't use OSS for the sake of using OSS, I use what's best.
Also, the commercial entities can roll their own encryption scheme, but that of course leaves you running 4 IM clients at the same time.
This is why Trillian rocks and continues to dominate the multi-IM market.
Its not about historical value, the damn thing is a death trap. The documentary the Discovery channel showed exactly how dangerous that thing is and how lucky Rutan got. Its not worth attempting to fly again. They won the prize and so far no one has died. Mission accomplished.
Its really a proof of concept rocket. "Can we build a cheap-ish rocket out of composites and get into space?" Yes, they did. And it was risky. So off to the museum it goes while they build a much safer and profitable flyer.
The Creative Muvo2 retails at 189.99 and has 4 gig drive in it. The iPod mini is 249.00. Up until last week there was a 50 dollar rebate for the Muvo making it 139.99. The Muvo is super tiny, much smaller than Apple's offerings. Photo here.
There's competition, albiet not much, out there, not to mention the 512 to 1 gig players out there. Most people have no need for 40 gigs in their pocket or they don't want to drop 249 or 299 for an iPod, which wont record line in nor do FM/AM. I see a lot of 128-512 meg players out there and people don't at all seem to mind not having their entire collection on them at all times.
>sent by form letters from one family group.
That just shows you either how mismanaged the FCC is or how they knew these letters were from the same people, but used them as an excuse to get their the censorship ball running for the Jebus GOP crowd.
Either way, its an organization that needs to be immediately reformed and made into a public issue. Turn on the TV, the big debate isnt Iraq, FCC, etc its Christmas vs Happy Holidays.
Government and media together. Talk about corruption.
Err, you do know Colin Powell was the man who covered up/whitewashed the My Lai massacre and the famous story didnt break until after the war. Oh and he was in Iran contra. Whoops! And holds the record for the most lies per second at the UN.
Great men indeed!
Try other sources of media than Fox News and CNN and you might learn something.
No, Powell is no Orwellian nightmare, he's more of a soma Brave New World nightmare. The same top-40 droning on and on with media companies buying up all the frequencies and ticket outlets. As long as Joe and Jane Sixpack get their Britney/flavor of the month fix they're happy, even if it costs them two days salary.
Now the AM band is truly Orwelian, with its right wing hate voices blaring on and on. A finer propaganda outlet the world has never seen.
Not to mention Reason is a big "deregulate everything now!!!" nutcase group.
Of course they love Powell. Shame, deregulation means crap on the radio, media consolidation, monopolies,etc. But these guys are ideology first and reality second.
Slashdot just got trolled by Reason. Classic.
>Howard Kurtz is a well-respected media reporter and media critic.
Mod this guy up as funny!
Here's Kurtz in his own words.
Kurtz wants to be treated like a celebrity.
Kurtz knows newsworthiness!
Kurtz knows how to place play the race card! And knows how to bury stories.
To kurtz lying about war and starting one is the same about lying about a blowjob.
This is true of many spiritual leaders, but the difference here is that software is just software while religious leaders take advantage of one's fear of death and need for meaning, thus the incredibly zealotry. The worst Linux zealot is nothing compared to the best religious missionary.
Seconded. Ol' Linus really lets loose and even gets a bit philosophical for us. Looks like they caught him on a good day or after 120mg of caffeine.
A lot of it can be condensed into management theory like the individual vs. the group vs. the environment, etc. Easily worth the few minutes it takes to read.
>It's called sniffing.
That's far too complex.
Buy game. Create female character. Ask Mage, "Hi, I'm new, can I tag along with you for a while?"
This is the digital version of the 'Russian Hooker' gambit, except, sadly, with geeks no real sex needs to be exchanged for information.
>you have to be specific when making accusations abouit a company with a good rep. not just expect everyone to beleive it.
Christ, you're lazy. This is common information that can be easily searched.
Google tracking cookie. Pick an article.
Google own "privacy" policy regarding the full version of its toolbar. Yes, Virginia, that's spyware.