There's some overlap. A typical spyware program will show as about 20 entries in AdAware IIRC from the time I removed a few from my brother's computer. It lists the running process(es), executable, registry keys, any related cookies, etc. separately.
I'm not an expert on the Brazilian drug "industry", but from what you see occasionally in the papers it appears that rivalries between drug gangs frequently spill out into violence. I wouldn't bet against some of that violence being threatened against users who consider switching supplier.
I don't know how else you could prevent digital theft.
Copyright infringement is already illegal. It can't be absolutely prevented, but existing law is being enforced. I don't think much of the way the RIAA is doing it, but they're not going to play fairer if you give them more ammo.
The UK has banned publishing material likely to incite racial hatred since 1986. Can you point to any legislation which has been piggy-backed onto that?
Oh, and over here it's only governments who get to pass laws. Maybe you need to start fighting and dying for some freedom where you live.
One potential application would be biometrics. The UK government seems convinced they're the solution to all the world's ills (okay, I exaggerate slightly), and one of the biometrics they're testing involves storing a mesh of your face. Spline compression might be one approach to storing such a mesh, but most faces aren't inherently made up of the standard modelling primitives.
Note, before flaming me, that I'm not advocating biometrics in this post. Thank you.
It's a shame the MSDN sample code doesn't all work. I have distinct memories of trying not to pull my hair out while I attempted to debug the sample code for scrollpanes.
I haven't worked with the Win32 API for four years, but when I did I remember having to discover by trial and error such oddments as a disagreement between the function to draw an ellipse and the function to create a region to detect clicks in an ellipse as to whether the bounding box of the ellipse (specified as x, y, width, height) included the column x+width and the row y+height or not. That kind of thing should be documented, but wasn't.
A do-not-spam list that was a one-way hash of the addresses would be immune to becoming a spam-me-now list
No it wouldn't. I create a long list of random Hotmail addresses, hash them, and e-mail those with hashes in the list. Of course, spammers with sense might realise that people who actually bother to sign up are unlikely to buy from spam, but since it's so cheap they'll do it until someone is caught and sued.
:blink: I've always understood that U.S. salaries in dollars are greater than U.K. salaries in pounds (e.g. there was a/. article recently which mentioned a typical sysadmin salary of $60k - here I think it's closer to 40k; for a hard comparison, the national average wage is about 21k) but U.K. prices in pounds are about the same as U.S. prices in dollars.
It sounds like they're setting up restrictions on importing across EU borders though, and that sounds likely to be in violation of EU law. It'll be interesting to see whether or not anyone sues.
Use a small screwdriver to lever the keys off. Wash them in water. Replace them in the correct positions. Takes an hour or two, mainly because the space bar is a pain to get back on.
The memories of the time I knocked a bottle of Pepsi over my keyboard are still strong.
Even if it doesn't help you identify companies which are selling your data, it allows you to filter the spam. (It's also possible under certain jurisdictions that the company would still be liable for failing to properly secure your data - I don't think a name/e-mail address pair would be sufficiently identifiable to count as personal data for the purposes of the UK's Data Protection Act 1998 and corresponding legislation in other EU countries, but I haven't checked with the Information Commissioner.)
Many thanks. That could be very useful if I ever again find myself filling out a registration form that requires a valid US zip code. (I live in the UK, but it appears that not all webmasters realise that different countries have different postcode systems).
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There's some overlap. A typical spyware program will show as about 20 entries in AdAware IIRC from the time I removed a few from my brother's computer. It lists the running process(es), executable, registry keys, any related cookies, etc. separately.
- Short your own stock
- Sue customers
- Make it known that you can't win lawsuits
- Profit
Get the steps out of order and 4 might not be too successful.I'm not an expert on the Brazilian drug "industry", but from what you see occasionally in the papers it appears that rivalries between drug gangs frequently spill out into violence. I wouldn't bet against some of that violence being threatened against users who consider switching supplier.
The first thing you should put on your lists is "Make list". That way you get something to check off as done almost immediately.
Speaking of the perversion of English, I think the acronym you were aiming for is PROPAGANDA.
Our politicians are bad. Yours are worse.
Oh, and over here it's only governments who get to pass laws. Maybe you need to start fighting and dying for some freedom where you live.
The courts, of course. It's their job to construe legislation.
BCPL. I was lectured on Comparative Programming Languages by the guy who designed it.
I have a reliable network [b]and[/b] a 3D game on my phone. Sure, Munkiki isn't Doom, but it's more 3D than 5k Castle Wolfenstein.
Waits to be modded down Offtopic by non-Brits.
Note, before flaming me, that I'm not advocating biometrics in this post. Thank you.
It's a shame the MSDN sample code doesn't all work. I have distinct memories of trying not to pull my hair out while I attempted to debug the sample code for scrollpanes.
I haven't worked with the Win32 API for four years, but when I did I remember having to discover by trial and error such oddments as a disagreement between the function to draw an ellipse and the function to create a region to detect clicks in an ellipse as to whether the bounding box of the ellipse (specified as x, y, width, height) included the column x+width and the row y+height or not. That kind of thing should be documented, but wasn't.
:blink: I've always understood that U.S. salaries in dollars are greater than U.K. salaries in pounds (e.g. there was a /. article recently which mentioned a typical sysadmin salary of $60k - here I think it's closer to 40k; for a hard comparison, the national average wage is about 21k) but U.K. prices in pounds are about the same as U.S. prices in dollars.
IIRC mine had 10 meg when I signed up, back in 1997, but it was cut to 6 at some point.
It sounds like they're setting up restrictions on importing across EU borders though, and that sounds likely to be in violation of EU law. It'll be interesting to see whether or not anyone sues.
The memories of the time I knocked a bottle of Pepsi over my keyboard are still strong.
Even if it doesn't help you identify companies which are selling your data, it allows you to filter the spam. (It's also possible under certain jurisdictions that the company would still be liable for failing to properly secure your data - I don't think a name/e-mail address pair would be sufficiently identifiable to count as personal data for the purposes of the UK's Data Protection Act 1998 and corresponding legislation in other EU countries, but I haven't checked with the Information Commissioner.)
Many thanks. That could be very useful if I ever again find myself filling out a registration form that requires a valid US zip code. (I live in the UK, but it appears that not all webmasters realise that different countries have different postcode systems).
Looks more like concentric circles to me. Maybe we've found the true location of Atlantis.