I have noticed that more machines I work on these days have been broken by Windows Updates rather than other malicious code. I don't work on as many machines these days as I used to but do find this to be suprising trend (3 of the last 3).
There is one, it's called ipCop, ipcop.org, it does a great job of protecting windows machines. I set one up at a non-profit that only had Win95 & 98 machines and it stopped their problems.
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hmmmn, interesting insight. Not sure if I agree, but will have to think about it for a while because I can never figure out why there are Mc Donalds there now...
Where exactly did I state I hate the military? All I stated was my Uncle's firsthand impression of the American Army as he saw it when he was engaged with them in war games whilst serving in the Blackwatch backed up what the original post said was unfounded. And this was in the late fifties! American troops have a long tradition of bringing toys to the battlefront to distract themselves.
From their website, http://www.army.mod.uk/blackwatch/ , the Black Watch lay claim to being "one of the most famous fighting forces in the world. We combine the proud history and tradition of an organisation that has been soldiering for over 250 years, with the skills and professionalism of a front-line unit in a modern Army." So you might understand why he was unimpressed by the yanks and he'll go on and on about how easy they were to beat and how exactly they went about taking advantage of the 'lazy, spoilt Americans.'
My Uncle is an expert marksmen. He represented his country in the Commonwealth games. Additionally he has served in Honour Guard for the Queen. I have the greatest respect for the military, but not all military. Respect is not given, it is earned. Those who fail to hold true to Duty, Honour and Country have no respect in my book.
The American soldier never lost a battle in Vietnam!? Who's the revisionist, exactly? The biggest battle American soldiers in Viet Nam lost on the terms of Duty and Honour was My Lai. Militarily, they didn't have much success with the Tet Offensive either, did they? I also remember a bit of a dodgy showing in Hanoi.
As a force, American soldiers have dwindling respect worldwide. They are seen as greedy, lazy, arrogant and more likely to die from friendly fire than enemy (although this is an exaggeration it is the perception, for example in the original Gulf War only a third of US troops who died were killed by friendly fire and that is hardly a majority is it?). Episodes from My Lai to Haditha do little to improve their image worldwide either.
Although the article does mention that the guys on the frontline are more worried about enemy attacks than big screen tv's and I am sure they are doing a solid job, it is unfortunate that the guys who are good soldiers are sullied by so many bad apples.
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Yes, I agree, lousy politicians. If it weren't for them those brave soldiers would have put down their budweisers and transistor radios and won that thing given another eight years.
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My uncle was in the Blackwatch before Viet Nam and participated in wargames with the US soldiers. He said he wasn't suprised the US lost vietnam because it was so easy to take out yanks because you could hear em for miles with their transistor radios. They were easy to track and they never heard you coming.
I think if there is a possibility it's going to be your last days on earth if you fsck up, well you'd better put down the toys and face it head on like a man and maybe survive. The enemy sure ain't playing games... they want to kill you just so they can get your boots instead of the crap they have on their feet.
In the case of crazy cat women, they are probably being dominated by Toxoplasma gondii a great little parasite that can only reproduce in cats but changes the behaviour of other animals to help them get back to cats. For instance, rodents infected with Toxoplasma gondii not only loose fear of the smell of cat urine but are actually drawn to it!
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/science/20toxo.h tml?ex=1155096000&en=977deffa6234ac39&ei=5070
d00d, you'r gonna believe Wikipedia when they flub such common knowledge? Bono broke up with Cher and started the U2's a play on his previous hit single "I've got You Babe". He then went on to be a Senator to represent Mickey Mouse. He died in a ski accident and currently tours with the U2's and is involved in trying to stop poverty and stuff like that. Jees! Keep up with what's goin on, eh!
Even better than I had imagined it! I mostly thought of him for the role cause he's a good scotsman and plays a wide variety of roles. Really liked him in Match Point.
Now that you mention it, this could be the best Star Trek ever...
Trainspotting meets Star Trek...
Begbie would be a better Kirk than Matt Damon or Shatner!
That is true, he isn't... or is he? (wow, that would be a plot twist.. Gates secretly funding Linux to get revenge on Ballmer, this time it's personal).
Just for the record, ever since Bill Gates quit his day job at Microsoft he has been running one of the largest privately funded health and education initiatives to allieviate misery worldwide. His project has been so successful that he has been able to convince Warren Buffet to donate the bulk of his wealth to the fund, too.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm
Okay, it was an obligatory joke... yes I know we won the revolutionary war due to the French military assistance and they gave us the statue of liberty... I just find it funny to swap out the word 'French' with the word 'Freedom' to be "PC" -- however, when talking about France should one instead use the word "Freedom"? Wow, 2.5 gigs... yeah that is freedom!
You are definitely onto something. Color eyesight is important in food gathering too. Trying to find blueberries when colorblind would be difficult. It's amazing how plants like strawberries, blueberries and the like just vibrate visually when hunting for them.
Snakes, I usually notice through their motion, but fruit and vegtables are usually a color/shape identification. This is why carnivores are generally loaded with rods and colorblind, but have excellent sharp vision and motion detection whereas vegetarians are loaded with cones to see colors.
And how exactly does Hoover work into this equation? He enabled the mob because they would have exposed his penchant for frilly dress. Would the mob been able to do this to Grant in regards to his drinking? No.
I understand how the Government types think and I am arguing that it is retarded and is a dis-service to this country and is a basis of that which undermines the whole concept of a free society. It's pathetic that organized crime was able to take over because somebody is afraid their mom might be shocked to learn he has a similar taste in clothing as she does.
I know how to think like "the Man". It's a disaster. It's why the US intelligence agencies are a joke.
Just as that faggot Hoover dropped the ball with the mob, "the Man" is all too worried about covering their asses regarding their dirty little secrets to keep an eye on the ball. It's about time "the man" started acting like one. 9/11 was the direct result of intelligence failure: failure to see how to deal with the rise of fundamentalist islam and failure to see all the puzzle pieces fall in place. Those waster sychophants in Homeland "security" have to quit hiding their strapons and catalogs of psychotic perversions and fucking use some common sense and do their jobs.
That is just bad logic. Yes it is true this discrimination takes place, but to the detriment of everyone involved. Look no further than Alan Turing. Is the world a better place without him? What if he had been screened out even earlier?
And seriously, how do they know you haven't told your dad about that 'experimental weekend' and your family isn't proud of your insane genius? This is an alleged case where someone took the steps to keep something private and it was still used against him! It's not suprising, but I am a little jaded by the nanny state.
The opposite arguement could be used just as easily in screening: if you are a prude we don't want you because you are too easy to extort -- all the enemy needs to do is drop a little pixie dust in your diet coke and get some shots of you and trixie -- you'd do anything to protect your prudish self image, even treason.
That fake moral high ground impedes the screener's ability to make a rational choice. Performance should be the metric, not membership in the PTA. Those snools should be following the lead of the great Republican president Abe Lincoln and grow a pair. When the press started harassing him about Grant's drinking he looked em in the eye and said, "Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case".
I hear ya, but I'd be afraid to do that. Nuclear weapons were inevitable and right or wrong the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did their purpose: intimidate Stalin into holding the line and not going further East or West. It's well known that Patton thought we should go to Moscow, do you not think Stalin was considering a similar extension of the war in the other direction?
For what we know and what we didn't know at that time Truman was in a spot. I often wonder if FDR was assasinated to clear the way for the bomb to be used.
But let's say the Manhattan Project just didn't happen... and let's say the war in Europe had not gone as well as it did... there were German Scientists who were supposedly close to an atomic bomb too... and say they were picked up by the Russians and so was Werner Von Braun... it's a dicey situation, the curse of Prometheus.
Yes, today's solution is tomorrow's problem. This is technology's yolk.
But would you want to turn back the clock and live in a world with out the internet since it can cause identity theft? Live without calculus because it can lead to missles? Live without pennecilin because it can lead to resistant bacteria?
Sure this technology will be abused like all others, but hopefully the ammoral yuppies that rely on it will also be bankrolling research that has benefits that far outweigh the problems and moral dilemmas it creates.
Before she came over to HP she had done her fair share of gutting Lucent by actively overvaluating their stock and putting fake profits ahead of engineering quality.
She may be one of the worst things to ever happen to American Technology.
Yes, fuck the parking meters, but don't blow them up. Why shouldn't they tax the lazy? I mean they tax the stupid with lottery tickets and the self indulgent with cigarettes.
No one is forcing you to park at the meters. Blowing them up is way out of line when you can park a few blocks away and walk for free... or better still not drive a car at all. Maybe the extra exercise will help you work through your "anger issues" or at least give you time and oxygen to better understand your priorities.
How much of a revolutionary would Bobby Sands have been if he had spent his days rotting in the hole for blowing up parking meters? I am not an advocate of any violence, but would anyone have voted him into Parliament?
You have to pick the right battles and parking meters are not worth it. In fact if you are stupid enough to do something like blowing up a parking meter you deserve what's coming to you. You are not safe for the gene pool.
One bid seems to attract more bids and the price starts rising as more people become committed to 'winning' the auction. If you wait until the last minute, often times you are just bidding against no one and get the product for the bottom price. The only downside to the sniping tactic is forgetting to bid especially if you are too lazy to automate.
1. It does worsen your connection. Your side of the connection will be the same, but the service side will be diminished so overall your connection will be degraded. It's like construction around where you work won't affect your driveway, but it could add considerable time to your commute.
2. It does cost you more money. If the services you use are paying extortion they will pass the cost on to you. Additionally the telcos will shut down VoIP so one of the huge cost savings benefit of having broadband is gone.
3. As above, the companies that can benefit from the charge will pay the fee, but it will be passed on to the consumer.
Why should you care? Well your tax dollars paid for the bulk of the infrastructure the telcos are trying to steal. Additionally they were given huge government payouts to improve the infrastructure and they haven't. So in effect you will be paying more for getting less and told to like it.
The biggest threat of tiered internet is censorship. Removing the egalitarian nature of the internet will allow for huge scale censorship. Additionally, the censorship is not just limited to thoughts but to business. The leveling field that was the promise of the internet will be removed and small businesses will be censored from doing business thus the large companies will keep advantage. Innovation will be victim. Would you want to live in a world that couldn't have given us amazon, ebay or slashdot?
No they are probably not going to completely censor porn or anything but be assured the only porn you will have access to will be AT&T porn. It will be Potterville all over again.
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I have noticed that more machines I work on these days have been broken by Windows Updates rather than other malicious code. I don't work on as many machines these days as I used to but do find this to be suprising trend (3 of the last 3).
Anyone else noticing this phenomenon?
There is one, it's called ipCop, ipcop.org, it does a great job of protecting windows machines. I set one up at a non-profit that only had Win95 & 98 machines and it stopped their problems.
hmmmn, interesting insight. Not sure if I agree, but will have to think about it for a while because I can never figure out why there are Mc Donalds there now...
Where exactly did I state I hate the military? All I stated was my Uncle's firsthand impression of the American Army as he saw it when he was engaged with them in war games whilst serving in the Blackwatch backed up what the original post said was unfounded. And this was in the late fifties! American troops have a long tradition of bringing toys to the battlefront to distract themselves.
From their website, http://www.army.mod.uk/blackwatch/ , the Black Watch lay claim to being "one of the most famous fighting forces in the world. We combine the proud history and tradition of an organisation that has been soldiering for over 250 years, with the skills and professionalism of a front-line unit in a modern Army." So you might understand why he was unimpressed by the yanks and he'll go on and on about how easy they were to beat and how exactly they went about taking advantage of the 'lazy, spoilt Americans.'
My Uncle is an expert marksmen. He represented his country in the Commonwealth games. Additionally he has served in Honour Guard for the Queen. I have the greatest respect for the military, but not all military. Respect is not given, it is earned. Those who fail to hold true to Duty, Honour and Country have no respect in my book.
The American soldier never lost a battle in Vietnam!? Who's the revisionist, exactly? The biggest battle American soldiers in Viet Nam lost on the terms of Duty and Honour was My Lai. Militarily, they didn't have much success with the Tet Offensive either, did they? I also remember a bit of a dodgy showing in Hanoi.
As a force, American soldiers have dwindling respect worldwide. They are seen as greedy, lazy, arrogant and more likely to die from friendly fire than enemy (although this is an exaggeration it is the perception, for example in the original Gulf War only a third of US troops who died were killed by friendly fire and that is hardly a majority is it?). Episodes from My Lai to Haditha do little to improve their image worldwide either.
Although the article does mention that the guys on the frontline are more worried about enemy attacks than big screen tv's and I am sure they are doing a solid job, it is unfortunate that the guys who are good soldiers are sullied by so many bad apples.
Yes, I agree, lousy politicians. If it weren't for them those brave soldiers would have put down their budweisers and transistor radios and won that thing given another eight years.
My uncle was in the Blackwatch before Viet Nam and participated in wargames with the US soldiers. He said he wasn't suprised the US lost vietnam because it was so easy to take out yanks because you could hear em for miles with their transistor radios. They were easy to track and they never heard you coming.
I think if there is a possibility it's going to be your last days on earth if you fsck up, well you'd better put down the toys and face it head on like a man and maybe survive. The enemy sure ain't playing games... they want to kill you just so they can get your boots instead of the crap they have on their feet.
In the case of crazy cat women, they are probably being dominated by Toxoplasma gondii a great little parasite that can only reproduce in cats but changes the behaviour of other animals to help them get back to cats. For instance, rodents infected with Toxoplasma gondii not only loose fear of the smell of cat urine but are actually drawn to it! http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/science/20toxo.h tml?ex=1155096000&en=977deffa6234ac39&ei=5070
Well Kasem and the U2's Island Records did ban the record, Negativland's U2, that the recording of Kasem's record was recorded... does that count?
According to Casey Kasem, the U2's "are from england and who gives a $hit!"
d00d, you'r gonna believe Wikipedia when they flub such common knowledge? Bono broke up with Cher and started the U2's a play on his previous hit single "I've got You Babe". He then went on to be a Senator to represent Mickey Mouse. He died in a ski accident and currently tours with the U2's and is involved in trying to stop poverty and stuff like that. Jees! Keep up with what's goin on, eh!
Even better than I had imagined it! I mostly thought of him for the role cause he's a good scotsman and plays a wide variety of roles. Really liked him in Match Point.
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Now that you mention it, this could be the best Star Trek ever...
Trainspotting meets Star Trek
Begbie would be a better Kirk than Matt Damon or Shatner!
yes, for some reaon Bacon seems connected to these actors.. I am not sure exactly how.
Affleck would make a great Spock... I just want to see Ewen Bremmner (Spud from Trainspotting) as Scotty... that would be cool.
That is true, he isn't... or is he? (wow, that would be a plot twist.. Gates secretly funding Linux to get revenge on Ballmer, this time it's personal).
Just for the record, ever since Bill Gates quit his day job at Microsoft he has been running one of the largest privately funded health and education initiatives to allieviate misery worldwide. His project has been so successful that he has been able to convince Warren Buffet to donate the bulk of his wealth to the fund, too. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm
Okay, it was an obligatory joke... yes I know we won the revolutionary war due to the French military assistance and they gave us the statue of liberty... I just find it funny to swap out the word 'French' with the word 'Freedom' to be "PC" -- however, when talking about France should one instead use the word "Freedom"? Wow, 2.5 gigs... yeah that is freedom!
You are definitely onto something. Color eyesight is important in food gathering too. Trying to find blueberries when colorblind would be difficult. It's amazing how plants like strawberries, blueberries and the like just vibrate visually when hunting for them.
Snakes, I usually notice through their motion, but fruit and vegtables are usually a color/shape identification. This is why carnivores are generally loaded with rods and colorblind, but have excellent sharp vision and motion detection whereas vegetarians are loaded with cones to see colors.
And how exactly does Hoover work into this equation? He enabled the mob because they would have exposed his penchant for frilly dress. Would the mob been able to do this to Grant in regards to his drinking? No.
I understand how the Government types think and I am arguing that it is retarded and is a dis-service to this country and is a basis of that which undermines the whole concept of a free society. It's pathetic that organized crime was able to take over because somebody is afraid their mom might be shocked to learn he has a similar taste in clothing as she does.
I know how to think like "the Man". It's a disaster. It's why the US intelligence agencies are a joke.
Just as that faggot Hoover dropped the ball with the mob, "the Man" is all too worried about covering their asses regarding their dirty little secrets to keep an eye on the ball. It's about time "the man" started acting like one. 9/11 was the direct result of intelligence failure: failure to see how to deal with the rise of fundamentalist islam and failure to see all the puzzle pieces fall in place. Those waster sychophants in Homeland "security" have to quit hiding their strapons and catalogs of psychotic perversions and fucking use some common sense and do their jobs.
That is just bad logic. Yes it is true this discrimination takes place, but to the detriment of everyone involved. Look no further than Alan Turing. Is the world a better place without him? What if he had been screened out even earlier?
And seriously, how do they know you haven't told your dad about that 'experimental weekend' and your family isn't proud of your insane genius? This is an alleged case where someone took the steps to keep something private and it was still used against him! It's not suprising, but I am a little jaded by the nanny state.
The opposite arguement could be used just as easily in screening: if you are a prude we don't want you because you are too easy to extort -- all the enemy needs to do is drop a little pixie dust in your diet coke and get some shots of you and trixie -- you'd do anything to protect your prudish self image, even treason.
That fake moral high ground impedes the screener's ability to make a rational choice. Performance should be the metric, not membership in the PTA. Those snools should be following the lead of the great Republican president Abe Lincoln and grow a pair. When the press started harassing him about Grant's drinking he looked em in the eye and said, "Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case".
I hear ya, but I'd be afraid to do that. Nuclear weapons were inevitable and right or wrong the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did their purpose: intimidate Stalin into holding the line and not going further East or West. It's well known that Patton thought we should go to Moscow, do you not think Stalin was considering a similar extension of the war in the other direction?
For what we know and what we didn't know at that time Truman was in a spot. I often wonder if FDR was assasinated to clear the way for the bomb to be used.
But let's say the Manhattan Project just didn't happen... and let's say the war in Europe had not gone as well as it did... there were German Scientists who were supposedly close to an atomic bomb too... and say they were picked up by the Russians and so was Werner Von Braun... it's a dicey situation, the curse of Prometheus.
Yes, today's solution is tomorrow's problem. This is technology's yolk.
But would you want to turn back the clock and live in a world with out the internet since it can cause identity theft? Live without calculus because it can lead to missles? Live without pennecilin because it can lead to resistant bacteria?
Sure this technology will be abused like all others, but hopefully the ammoral yuppies that rely on it will also be bankrolling research that has benefits that far outweigh the problems and moral dilemmas it creates.
Before she came over to HP she had done her fair share of gutting Lucent by actively overvaluating their stock and putting fake profits ahead of engineering quality.
She may be one of the worst things to ever happen to American Technology.
Yes, fuck the parking meters, but don't blow them up. Why shouldn't they tax the lazy? I mean they tax the stupid with lottery tickets and the self indulgent with cigarettes.
No one is forcing you to park at the meters. Blowing them up is way out of line when you can park a few blocks away and walk for free... or better still not drive a car at all. Maybe the extra exercise will help you work through your "anger issues" or at least give you time and oxygen to better understand your priorities.
How much of a revolutionary would Bobby Sands have been if he had spent his days rotting in the hole for blowing up parking meters? I am not an advocate of any violence, but would anyone have voted him into Parliament?
You have to pick the right battles and parking meters are not worth it. In fact if you are stupid enough to do something like blowing up a parking meter you deserve what's coming to you. You are not safe for the gene pool.
One bid seems to attract more bids and the price starts rising as more people become committed to 'winning' the auction. If you wait until the last minute, often times you are just bidding against no one and get the product for the bottom price. The only downside to the sniping tactic is forgetting to bid especially if you are too lazy to automate.
1. It does worsen your connection. Your side of the connection will be the same, but the service side will be diminished so overall your connection will be degraded. It's like construction around where you work won't affect your driveway, but it could add considerable time to your commute.
2. It does cost you more money. If the services you use are paying extortion they will pass the cost on to you. Additionally the telcos will shut down VoIP so one of the huge cost savings benefit of having broadband is gone.
3. As above, the companies that can benefit from the charge will pay the fee, but it will be passed on to the consumer.
Why should you care? Well your tax dollars paid for the bulk of the infrastructure the telcos are trying to steal. Additionally they were given huge government payouts to improve the infrastructure and they haven't. So in effect you will be paying more for getting less and told to like it.
The biggest threat of tiered internet is censorship. Removing the egalitarian nature of the internet will allow for huge scale censorship. Additionally, the censorship is not just limited to thoughts but to business. The leveling field that was the promise of the internet will be removed and small businesses will be censored from doing business thus the large companies will keep advantage. Innovation will be victim. Would you want to live in a world that couldn't have given us amazon, ebay or slashdot?
No they are probably not going to completely censor porn or anything but be assured the only porn you will have access to will be AT&T porn. It will be Potterville all over again.