A PPP connection via a modem is a direct connection to the Internet. You are _extremely_ vulnerable if your connection is directly through a modem.
I found that out myself the hard way a year or two ago - at home I'm behind NAT, and there's at least two levels of NAT and three firewalls between me and the Internet at work, and I don't use I.E.. So I never really paid much attention to patches and updates, or even anti-virus stuff.
However, one night when I was interstate for work, I dialled connected to the Internet by modem from the hotel room. I had three viruses by the end of the hour. I'd become so used to always having firewalls in front of me that it never occurred to me to even worry about it.
Now I make sure I patch regularly and that my anti virus software is up to date before exposing myself like;)
> Now now, anybody who didn't change hardware for a year is using it for a fairly specialized purpose
Or using a laptop.
Besides, your statement is pretty much wrong anyway. Anyone who didn't change hardware for a year is not an early adopting gamer. Pretty much any hardware an average user is going to add to a machine will be USB or IEEE1394 based, so no reboot required. A year without fiddling with the PCI cards, hard drives, memory or CPU is perfectly normal.
Your point about patches is fairly valid - but it's still not inconceivable that someone who always uses their machine from behind a firewall could go a year without patching.
I'm not sure you can put power users and gamers in the same category.
Linux has been a viable desktop for power users from the day it was released.
Developer and admin types (which is what I'd call a power user) find Unix like desktops far more useful and powerful (and therefore usable) than a more "User Friendly" alternative like Windows...
That paragraph in the article completely baffled me.
I'm not sure if it was the reporter or Healthcare Advocates - but someone has absolutely no idea how robots.txt, web crawlers, web servers and the Internet Archive work.
They're implying that when the lawyers queried the old versions, that somehow the wayback machine really grabbed the copies old copies straight from Healthcare Advocates' website.
Perhaps they don't understand that "Wayback Machine" is just a name. It's not actually a time machine.
laptop stands are used in conjunction with external keyboard and mouse.
why on earth would you think he was going to type like that?
but either way, it's still pretty lame... I've never been a fan of most laptop stands anyway - you either have to have the screen too far away, or you've got the front of the laptop hanging over your keyboard....
I use one of these. They're great for carrying around - even fit into one of Dell's ridiculously small laptop bags. Of course you need to use an external keyboard and mouse - but I can't understand why - or how - someone would use any sort of laptop stand without an external keyboard.
They're not exactly the most stylish of things, but they don't take up much space.
it wasn't a dedicated bookstore, so some idiot probably opened the box and put the books on display not realising there was anything special about them.
15 people managed to pick up copies and take them through a checkout manned by someone that neither knows or cares when the release date is before someone noticed and did something about it.
well, they _have_ had the application since 1998, and it's still essentially the same application - the only thing that changes year to year is whatever is necesary to support changes in tax law, and the submission protocol - most of that should be in platform agnostic code anyway, so it's not like they haven't had plenty of oportunity.
However, considering it _has_ been out since 1998, I'm not entirely sure why it's suddenly such a big shock and outrage that it doesn't support anything other than windows. It's _never_ supported anything other than Windows.
Because at the moment they provide guarantees and protection when you use the application to submit your taxes.
If they opened the source and allowed non official clients to connect to the service, they could no longer provide those guarantees or protections.
Also, I don't think too many people would be happy trusting their TFN to anything but software provided by the ATO.
Also, the etax software has _never_ been anything but windows only, I don't know why suddenly that's a big problem - or any more of a problem than it was in 1998.
I'm a New Zealander, and I want to clarify some stuff I keep hearing about New Zealand by Australians.
* Yes we are the country with the sheep * We use the sheep for meat and wool, and are not entirely sure what Australians think sheep are kept for, or why they would immediately jump to the conclusions they do. * Every famous Australian is really a New Zealander. * Every one of them.
Astrology is not a paranormal ability. In theory, anyone should be able to study the right things and make predictions - assuming there's any truth in it in the first place of course;)
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It's worse when you're looking for professional reviews, and all you get are pages of sites with "Write a review of this product", "Click to see other reviews". Most of the time there aren't any user reviews, and even when there are, they're worthless because user reviews tend be either rant or gush with no middle ground.
Actually, I was completely unaware of the existence of the Mabinogion when I first started using it.
Stephen Lawhead had co-opeted "mabinogi" to use as a title for apprentice bards in his Song of Albion series - I started using it as my nick online, as I figured it suited my amateur musician status (and wasn't an actual character name). Only later did I find out about the Mabinogion.
I now have a copy of the Charlotte Guest translation, but I keep meaning to find a different one, as hers is more than a little obtuse;)
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that's not true at all.
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A PPP connection via a modem is a direct connection to the Internet.
You are _extremely_ vulnerable if your connection is directly through a modem.
I found that out myself the hard way a year or two ago - at home I'm behind NAT, and there's at least two levels of NAT and three firewalls between me and the Internet at work, and I don't use I.E.. So I never really paid much attention to patches and updates, or even anti-virus stuff.
However, one night when I was interstate for work, I dialled connected to the Internet by modem from the hotel room. I had three viruses by the end of the hour.
I'd become so used to always having firewalls in front of me that it never occurred to me to even worry about it.
Now I make sure I patch regularly and that my anti virus software is up to date before exposing myself like
> Now now, anybody who didn't change hardware for a year is using it for a fairly specialized purpose
Or using a laptop.
Besides, your statement is pretty much wrong anyway.
Anyone who didn't change hardware for a year is not an early adopting gamer.
Pretty much any hardware an average user is going to add to a machine will be USB or IEEE1394 based, so no reboot required.
A year without fiddling with the PCI cards, hard drives, memory or CPU is perfectly normal.
Your point about patches is fairly valid - but it's still not inconceivable that someone who always uses their machine from behind a firewall could go a year without patching.
I'm guessing that was the intention, and Google was an unintended consequence...
I'm not sure you can put power users and gamers in the same category.
Linux has been a viable desktop for power users from the day it was released.
Developer and admin types (which is what I'd call a power user) find Unix like desktops far more useful and powerful (and therefore usable) than a more "User Friendly" alternative like Windows...
Well it was all right until you had to go and mention it ;)
Every original work is copyrighted when put down in tangible form (saving to disk counts).
However, if they'd asked, the Internet Archive would have deleted their stuff and stopped archiving.
That paragraph in the article completely baffled me.
I'm not sure if it was the reporter or Healthcare Advocates - but someone has absolutely no idea how robots.txt, web crawlers, web servers and the Internet Archive work.
They're implying that when the lawyers queried the old versions, that somehow the wayback machine really grabbed the copies old copies straight from Healthcare Advocates' website.
Perhaps they don't understand that "Wayback Machine" is just a name.
It's not actually a time machine.
laptop stands are used in conjunction with external keyboard and mouse.
why on earth would you think he was going to type like that?
but either way, it's still pretty lame...
I've never been a fan of most laptop stands anyway - you either have to have the screen too far away, or you've got the front of the laptop hanging over your keyboard....
I use one of these.
They're great for carrying around - even fit into one of Dell's ridiculously small laptop bags.
Of course you need to use an external keyboard and mouse - but I can't understand why - or how - someone would use any sort of laptop stand without an external keyboard.
They're not exactly the most stylish of things, but they don't take up much space.
> If you do an experiment, notice how much cooler the HD temp is when doing so.
Wouldn't that be just because the sensor is in the logic board?
probably two GF 6800 Ultras with SLI ;)
Afterall, the 7800 is out now, so the 6800 is "old generation" isn't it?
it wasn't a dedicated bookstore, so some idiot probably opened the box and put the books on display not realising there was anything special about them.
15 people managed to pick up copies and take them through a checkout manned by someone that neither knows or cares when the release date is before someone noticed and did something about it.
That's my guess.
because it's still being used by users, and no application should ever trust user input.
Not being out on the Internet doesn't make it immune to security issues, it just means it's a smaller target.
well, they _have_ had the application since 1998, and it's still essentially the same application - the only thing that changes year to year is whatever is necesary to support changes in tax law, and the submission protocol - most of that should be in platform agnostic code anyway, so it's not like they haven't had plenty of oportunity.
However, considering it _has_ been out since 1998, I'm not entirely sure why it's suddenly such a big shock and outrage that it doesn't support anything other than windows. It's _never_ supported anything other than Windows.
actually, it's Win32 application, that then submits the tax return over the internet.
It is _not_ a web interface....
And of course, it's also not the only way to submit taxes, you can still do it the pen and paper way, or see a tax consultant
Because at the moment they provide guarantees and protection when you use the application to submit your taxes.
If they opened the source and allowed non official clients to connect to the service, they could no longer provide those guarantees or protections.
Also, I don't think too many people would be happy trusting their TFN to anything but software provided by the ATO.
Also, the etax software has _never_ been anything but windows only, I don't know why suddenly that's a big problem - or any more of a problem than it was in 1998.
I'm assuming that you mean Opera (since it's always Opera users that say that ;) )
But when did Opera get it? Konqueror's had it since version 2. It's very possible that it was inspired by Opera, but I'd be curious to know...
then you're BLIND.
.NET ads in the big ad area in stories.
There's everything from "Get The Facts" ads across the top to Visual Studio
They've had them for years...
no, I said _famous_, not moronic ;)
I'm a New Zealander, and I want to clarify some stuff I keep hearing about New Zealand by Australians.
* Yes we are the country with the sheep
* We use the sheep for meat and wool, and are not entirely sure what Australians think sheep are kept for, or why they would immediately jump to the conclusions they do.
* Every famous Australian is really a New Zealander.
* Every one of them.
Astrology is not a paranormal ability. ;)
In theory, anyone should be able to study the right things and make predictions - assuming there's any truth in it in the first place of course
It's worse when you're looking for professional reviews, and all you get are pages of sites with "Write a review of this product", "Click to see other reviews". Most of the time there aren't any user reviews, and even when there are, they're worthless because user reviews tend be either rant or gush with no middle ground.
Actually, I was completely unaware of the existence of the Mabinogion when I first started using it.
;)
Stephen Lawhead had co-opeted "mabinogi" to use as a title for apprentice bards in his Song of Albion series - I started using it as my nick online, as I figured it suited my amateur musician status (and wasn't an actual character name).
Only later did I find out about the Mabinogion.
I now have a copy of the Charlotte Guest translation, but I keep meaning to find a different one, as hers is more than a little obtuse
>. Absolutly perfect and rigid in style and form
Take that journal to an editor of fiction, and you'll be lucky if the only thing without a red line through it by the end is the author's name.
there is no "Perfect" style, there are various styles suited to different purposes.
But all of them still rely on correct basic grammar.