1. Open My Computer 2. Right-click on your CD-Rom drive's icon 3. Click Properties 4. Go to the AutoPlay tab 5. Select Music CD from the content type dropdown 6. Select the radio button for "Select an action to perform" 7. Click on "Take no action" at the bottom of the list of actions 8. Click Apply/OK.
Do this for all content types for which you wish to disable the Autorun feature.
Well of course those that live in the sticks or in limited-connectivity areas will suffer, but they will suffer regardless if the internet is tiered anyway.
When we founded Blue Security in 2004, we believed that if we automated a way for users to rise up and exercise their rights under the CAN-SPAM Act, we could reduce the amount of spam on the Internet.
Over the past few months we were able to leverage the power of the Blue Community and convince top spammers responsible for sending over 25% of the world's spam to comply with our users' opt-out list. We were making real progress in eliminating spam from the lives of our users.
However, several leading spammers viewed this change as a strategic threat to their spam business. The week before last, these spammers launched a series of attacks against us, taking down hundreds of thousands of other websites via a massive Denial-of-Service attack and causing damage to ISPs, website owners and Internet users worldwide. They also began a relentless campaign of email intimidation against many members of the Blue Community.
After recovering from the attack, we determined that once we reactivated the Blue Community, spammers would resume their attacks. We cannot take the responsibility for an ever-escalating cyber war through our continued operations.
As we cannot build the Blue Security business on the foundation we originally envisioned, we are discontinuing all of our anti-spam activities on your behalf and are exploring other, non spam-related avenues for our technological developments. As much as it saddens us, we believe this is the responsible thing to do.
You need not do anything as a result of this change. We will continue to protect your names and addresses and honor all privacy commitments we made to you.
We have concluded we should not take Blue Security to the full deployment stage we originally planned to achieve, but we are proud of what we have accomplished thus far as a young startup company.
We are extremely proud to have had the chance to work with such a devoted and dedicated community: thank you for the vote of confidence you gave us over the past few months as well as the particularly vocal support you have shown over the last two weeks.
We will be innovating and building our technology in new, other directions and will continue to give back to you, our Community.
Yeah, you've got a point there - I should've rephrased that as "Nobody reads those letters - unless they contain some sort of threat of legal action..."
Nobody reads those letters. You get a canned response (if anything at all) that says something along the lines of "Thank you for contacting us... blah blah blah... yadda yadda yadda..."
Now hitting the retailers where it counts - sales/returns - THAT gets a response. If suddenly Best Buy refuses to sell certain ATI cards based on defective returns, you bet your ass ATI will look into it.
Maybe it's just one of those "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" scenarios. Maybe they don't want to switch to their backup plan just yet because it's not going to be as smooth as they claim, and since the current system works rather well, why not fight to keep it.
That depends. If it predicts and filters 84% of all spam, then it can't be anything but good. However, if 84% of what it predicts and filters is indeed spam, then 16% was not and was filtered needlessly - that's bad.
Am I the only one to notice this? I thought this was Slashdot!
...success of the DS in Japan, where the two-screened console...
Since when did the DS get classified as a "console"? Last I checked, this term is reserved for those game systems that sit by your TV. What kind of crack comparison is that?! Comparing a hand-held to a console...
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday October 11, @11:02PM
DIY News writes to tell us that China has launched their second manned space mission just two years after becoming only the third nation to launch a human into orbit. Astronauts Fei Julong and Nie Haisheng took off Wednesday at 9:00 pm EST (0100 GMT) for a mission that could last up to five days.
Slashdot definitely needs to get the news out more timely, like better than 3 days after the event, but the night before is just silly...
The GP meant the cost to the record companies is zero. Apple obviously puts part of their profit toward bandwidth, servers, etc... but the record companies have no effort involved whatsoever.
I wasn't saying that is a bad thing; I agree it is a good thing. However, I'd like to add that Mozilla does it for the right reasons while Microsoft does not, which I should have included in my reply.
Microsoft (the bully) is scared of Mozilla (the other weak little kids). If Microsoft was not scared of Mozilla, it would not bother trying to tarnish Mozilla's image by using it's bully friends (Symantec).
Slashdot Mirror
'nuff said.
Disabling Auto-Run:
1. Open My Computer
2. Right-click on your CD-Rom drive's icon
3. Click Properties
4. Go to the AutoPlay tab
5. Select Music CD from the content type dropdown
6. Select the radio button for "Select an action to perform"
7. Click on "Take no action" at the bottom of the list of actions
8. Click Apply/OK.
Do this for all content types for which you wish to disable the Autorun feature.
Well of course those that live in the sticks or in limited-connectivity areas will suffer, but they will suffer regardless if the internet is tiered anyway.
I'm hoping that after the suit, they DO file suit against him for fraud. That'll teach him.
On their page (when it's working of course) at http://www.bluesecurity.com/:
Blue Security Ceases Anti-Spam Operations
When we founded Blue Security in 2004, we believed that if we automated a way for users to rise up and exercise their rights under the CAN-SPAM Act, we could reduce the amount of spam on the Internet.
Over the past few months we were able to leverage the power of the Blue Community and convince top spammers responsible for sending over 25% of the world's spam to comply with our users' opt-out list. We were making real progress in eliminating spam from the lives of our users.
However, several leading spammers viewed this change as a strategic threat to their spam business. The week before last, these spammers launched a series of attacks against us, taking down hundreds of thousands of other websites via a massive Denial-of-Service attack and causing damage to ISPs, website owners and Internet users worldwide. They also began a relentless campaign of email intimidation against many members of the Blue Community.
After recovering from the attack, we determined that once we reactivated the Blue Community, spammers would resume their attacks. We cannot take the responsibility for an ever-escalating cyber war through our continued operations.
As we cannot build the Blue Security business on the foundation we originally envisioned, we are discontinuing all of our anti-spam activities on your behalf and are exploring other, non spam-related avenues for our technological developments. As much as it saddens us, we believe this is the responsible thing to do.
You need not do anything as a result of this change. We will continue to protect your names and addresses and honor all privacy commitments we made to you.
We have concluded we should not take Blue Security to the full deployment stage we originally planned to achieve, but we are proud of what we have accomplished thus far as a young startup company.
We are extremely proud to have had the chance to work with such a devoted and dedicated community: thank you for the vote of confidence you gave us over the past few months as well as the particularly vocal support you have shown over the last two weeks.
We will be innovating and building our technology in new, other directions and will continue to give back to you, our Community.
Thank you for your support,
The Blue Security Team.
Yeah, you've got a point there - I should've rephrased that as "Nobody reads those letters - unless they contain some sort of threat of legal action..."
Nobody reads those letters. You get a canned response (if anything at all) that says something along the lines of "Thank you for contacting us... blah blah blah... yadda yadda yadda..."
Now hitting the retailers where it counts - sales/returns - THAT gets a response. If suddenly Best Buy refuses to sell certain ATI cards based on defective returns, you bet your ass ATI will look into it.
I would think that all the sunken ships/airplanes out there would cause more damage to the stream than a passive turbine.
Maybe it's just one of those "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" scenarios. Maybe they don't want to switch to their backup plan just yet because it's not going to be as smooth as they claim, and since the current system works rather well, why not fight to keep it.
That depends. If it predicts and filters 84% of all spam, then it can't be anything but good. However, if 84% of what it predicts and filters is indeed spam, then 16% was not and was filtered needlessly - that's bad.
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Try reversing them, then speaking them, and tell me which you prefer to say. Dugg/Slashdotted sounds better.
Where is the enjoyment in doing what you would very well be doing while not in front of the computer?
Do you seek out weapons and slaughter innocent bystanders while you are not in front of the computer?
Don't forget to add that XM/Sirius is also not free. So like iTunes, we XM/Sirius subscribers are paying for this content.
best thing since sliced toast
Maybe, but is it better than sliced bread?
Requirements for "Capture and Broadcast of audio files" per Microsoft's site:
2000 MHz processor or higher, such as an AMD Athlon 64
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
512 MB of RAM or higher
Supported audio and video capture device
Pay special attention to the last line.
It's nice that our tax dollars are being used for the right stuff.
It might just be me, but Symantec getting my tax dollars is far from the way I imagined it being spent on "the right stuff".
Am I the only one to notice this? I thought this was Slashdot!
...success of the DS in Japan, where the two-screened console...
Since when did the DS get classified as a "console"? Last I checked, this term is reserved for those game systems that sit by your TV. What kind of crack comparison is that?! Comparing a hand-held to a console...
How dod all the trolls miss that one?
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday October 11, @11:02PM
DIY News writes to tell us that China has launched their second manned space mission just two years after becoming only the third nation to launch a human into orbit. Astronauts Fei Julong and Nie Haisheng took off Wednesday at 9:00 pm EST (0100 GMT) for a mission that could last up to five days.
Slashdot definitely needs to get the news out more timely, like better than 3 days after the event, but the night before is just silly...
The GP meant the cost to the record companies is zero. Apple obviously puts part of their profit toward bandwidth, servers, etc... but the record companies have no effort involved whatsoever.
In fact most of them currently think that IE is "the internet".
Oh how wrong you are... Most of them don't even know IE exists or what it is. There are only a few that know AOL is not the internet - IE is.
Gee, I though Internet Explorer came with every Windows installer...
I wasn't saying that is a bad thing; I agree it is a good thing. However, I'd like to add that Mozilla does it for the right reasons while Microsoft does not, which I should have included in my reply.
Microsoft (the bully) is scared of Mozilla (the other weak little kids). If Microsoft was not scared of Mozilla, it would not bother trying to tarnish Mozilla's image by using it's bully friends (Symantec).
It should have just been posted in the original story summary as an update...