http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com Yep, sure had to go hunting for that.
Didn't have to go hunting for that one, but then, you only patched one piece of software with it (ok, three, since IE and WMP are part of Windows).
But what about everything else that is installed on your system? When the GDI+ vulnerability was announced, how many programs did you have to update in different locations (are you even sure you updated them all?).
That's one way to do it. Or, if you don't like wasting time, just go with the straight microsoft ticket. Install all the software, run windows update once (ok probably twice as you need to install some things sepperatetly) and you are on your way
Once again, you'll only have updated Windows, none of the other applications. Even though MS-Office is from Microsoft, it's not updated through Windows Update, it's updated through Office Update. Same company, same website, yet they insist on making it two separate locations for you to get your updates.
The SP2 firwall will configure itself as you attempt to use applications. You can go from a blank hard drive to a system capable of doing whatever you need it to in 1 to 3 hours depending on what all you purchase.
That is only if you have a Windows CD that actually installs the SP2 directly. If you bought WinXP a couple of months ago, after installing, you do have to switch the firewall on yourself because it's off by default, and then get all the Windows Update, and install the other programs, and get Office Update and any patches for other applications... Even if it takes "only" 3 hours to go from a blank drive to a complete running system, it's 3 hours you have to stay in front of your computer, because the installation process requires information in the middle of the process (contrary to getting it all right at the beginning for most Linux distros), and Windows Update can't update everything at once, so you need several reboots to do the update again. Then you have to install Office... and do Office Update... You can hardly leave your computer for more than 10 minutes during that 3 hours, talk about a waste of time.
I see a lot of people here blaming Microsoft for the fact that lots of other vendors produce software for thier OS and making comparisons to a linux distro based on that. My point is that it is only a fair comparison if you compare the entire microsoft "distro" to the linux one of your choosing.
If you want a fair comparison, then we should consider a Linux install that has the same amount of features than a Microsoft "distro". So install Linux with only OpenOffice.org, Firefox and Totem, that covers a Microsoft "distro" that has Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and WMP. Then, count the number of patched vulnerabilities in each of those distros. IE alone will have more vulnerabilities than the whole Linux distro.
If some catastrophic event destroys Earth then should have a backup. We should first build cities on the moon, however.
I'm not quite good at all those math calculations and stuff... but if the Earth gets destroyed somehow, wouldn't the orbital trajectory of the moon go berserk?
But my initial reaction was: how much gas is needed to affect an entire planet in that way?
We seem to be quite able to generate enough gas to affect our own planet, which is much bigger than Mars... And most of that gas comes from a small fraction of our planet's population. How hard can it be to do it on a smaller planet then?
games are the only thing that keeps me on windows, i spent a bunch of money on a new system to play the latest games,
Sadly, we're trapped in a vicious circle. Game companies only develop for Windows because the Mac/Linux market isn't big enough, and people don't switch to Mac/Linux because game companies don't develop for them...
Microsoft is a business. If they wanted to go out of business, they'd just program a perfect piece of software. If it was really perfect, there'd be no one buying support, additional licensing, and upgrades.
My company (and I) program a very decent piece of software, very secure, very reliable, very few bugs, and when our customers tell us about a bug, we fix it.
Still, tens of thousands of our customers pay for an upgrade every time we make a new version. Why? Because we add *features* and *functionality*, not because we fix things.
You can still make money in programming a pretty darn good piece of software.
Do you honestly believe Microsoft would consider adding Spyware, Adware or Malware to their software in purpose? I don't think so.
I'm not saying they would add malware on purpose, just that they're either too lazy to check and make sure there aren't any malware in their own product, or too lousy at developing software that they can't even figure out if their own software contains a virus, so they're using lawyer-speech to take the responsibility away from them. It's like buying a car and the dealer saying "I can't guarantee you that this car won't explode spontaneously, but if it does, we're not responsible".
As you can see, you may say a lot of things also, and that does not imply they are true
Difference is, the parts I ommited were parts unrelevant to the topic and it did not change the meaning of the original text. On the other hand, you explictly and purposefully altered what I said to change the meaning to whatever you wanted.
It's the difference between quoting the relevant parts of a source to lighten the text and totally misquoting someone.
Note that their Skype website says: No Spyware, Adware or Malware
Kazaa says: No Spyware
Funny when companies have to explicitly mention they're not evil. Funnier is that Microsoft also says: "We're not saying there's no virus or malware in our product". Seriously... The MSN-Messenger license states that :
disclaimer of warranties. to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, microsoft and its suppliers provide to you [...] as is and with all faults; and microsoft and its suppliers hereby disclaim [...] all warranties and conditions, whether express, implied or statutory, including, [...] lack of viruses, [...]
A higher mass mean's it'll take longer to get there, but you'll still get there. Double the mass, double the time.
A higher mass also means it's harder to slow down and land safely. Double the mass, double the energy required to land safely (or double the force of the crash...)
recidivate Audio pronunciation of "recidivating" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-sd-vt)
intr.v. recidivated, recidivating, recidivates
To return to a previous pattern of behavior, especially to return to criminal habits.
You can invent all the scenarios that you want, but the only thing that matters is the real case. We cannot completely know if every single person on death row deserves to be there.
It is true that there might be a possibility that a mistake was made, and someone was wrongfully accused of something. But what about recidivists? Can you be so unlucky that 5 different juries wrongfully find you guilty of 5 different crimes you didn't commit? How many "second chances" should a criminal have?
I just LOVE it when one of you right wingers expresses such extreme confidence in the ability of our government to accurately determine if someone is guilty, but you also still continue to believe that government screws up everything it touches.
GP posted : If you are convicted beyond a shadow of a doubt
"Beyond the shadow of a doubt" can make it highly restrictive, but if security cameras see you take out your gun and shoot someone, with a high-enough resolution that we can recognize your face, and the cops got there 5 seconds later, see you on the scene of the crime, with a smoking gun... all that on the surveillance tape... Now tell me... how is it even remotely possible that you might not be guilty?
There are only a few differences between the qwerty and the azerty keyboard, while the dvorak has a totally different layout. It's much easier to "relearn" to type the a,z,q,w and m letters while keeping the others in the same spot. Even an unfamiliar user will manage with only a few typos.
I still haven't found the courage to try those dvorak thingy... too many years of qwerty typing grows on you... (plus, dvorak was optimized for the English language... English is only my third language, the first two being French and Machine, so maybe dvorak isn't good for me anyway; where's the "ù" character on those keyboards anyway?)
Just Google the phrase "except in Nebraska". Thousands of websites, from warranty disclaimers to various age restrictions on contests to bicameral legislature will pop up that include the magic words, "except in Nebraska". Nebraska doesn't allow for voluntary disclaiming implied warranties, you must be 21 to participate in most contests, and they have a unicameral (one Senate, no House) legislature.
We have about the same thing in Canada with the "except in Québec" thing. Any online "contest", or basically anything that you can win "for free", whether it's based in Canada or in the U.S., it always say: "Residents of the U.S. and of Canada (except Québec) are eligible..." or stuff like that...
That's because government controls all gambling here, and you need to get a licence to be allowed to let a resident of Québec claim a prize, and most people (especially in the U.S.) don't care about us in Québec so they don't bother to get the licence...... those damn cheap ****, won't let me get something for free... *mumble* *grumble*
Actually...my wife knows all my passwords...ya never know when your time is up and some of them are very important accounts that she will need to take care of once I'm gone...
The main reason why I will probably never give my wife any of my important passwords (probably any at all) is that I can remember tens of unintuitive passwords that are at least 8 characters long with letters and numbers and special characters, with both upper and lower case. I know she can't. If I give her my passwords, she'll write them down, and #1 rule of passwords is "don't write it down", but she doesn't care.
If I have to choose between having all my important passwords written down by someone else and not telling my wife any of my passwords, then I guess I'd rather let her go through the legal process to gain acces to my stuff.
I was able to find a slim PS2 two weeks ago. Great, but I also needed a memory card (for both PS1 and PS2) if I were to save my games...
It took me 9 days of shopping every day at EBgames, BestBuy, Toys'R'us, RadioShack, WalMart, Zellers and any other store that could remotely be associated with the idea of selling video game stuff before I could actually find a third party memory card somewhere.
Even the third party providers are having trouble meeting demand even weeks after christmas.
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Well now... is there anything a GBA can't do?
Didn't have to go hunting for that one, but then, you only patched one piece of software with it (ok, three, since IE and WMP are part of Windows).
But what about everything else that is installed on your system? When the GDI+ vulnerability was announced, how many programs did you have to update in different locations (are you even sure you updated them all?).
That's one way to do it. Or, if you don't like wasting time, just go with the straight microsoft ticket. Install all the software, run windows update once (ok probably twice as you need to install some things sepperatetly) and you are on your way
Once again, you'll only have updated Windows, none of the other applications. Even though MS-Office is from Microsoft, it's not updated through Windows Update, it's updated through Office Update. Same company, same website, yet they insist on making it two separate locations for you to get your updates.
The SP2 firwall will configure itself as you attempt to use applications. You can go from a blank hard drive to a system capable of doing whatever you need it to in 1 to 3 hours depending on what all you purchase.
That is only if you have a Windows CD that actually installs the SP2 directly. If you bought WinXP a couple of months ago, after installing, you do have to switch the firewall on yourself because it's off by default, and then get all the Windows Update, and install the other programs, and get Office Update and any patches for other applications... Even if it takes "only" 3 hours to go from a blank drive to a complete running system, it's 3 hours you have to stay in front of your computer, because the installation process requires information in the middle of the process (contrary to getting it all right at the beginning for most Linux distros), and Windows Update can't update everything at once, so you need several reboots to do the update again. Then you have to install Office... and do Office Update... You can hardly leave your computer for more than 10 minutes during that 3 hours, talk about a waste of time.
I see a lot of people here blaming Microsoft for the fact that lots of other vendors produce software for thier OS and making comparisons to a linux distro based on that. My point is that it is only a fair comparison if you compare the entire microsoft "distro" to the linux one of your choosing.
If you want a fair comparison, then we should consider a Linux install that has the same amount of features than a Microsoft "distro". So install Linux with only OpenOffice.org, Firefox and Totem, that covers a Microsoft "distro" that has Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and WMP. Then, count the number of patched vulnerabilities in each of those distros. IE alone will have more vulnerabilities than the whole Linux distro.
Just because a spyware is a trojan doesn't mean a trojan is a spyware.
GP post was talking about how inaccurate the article actually is in saying a spyware disabled the anti-spyware tool, while it's actually a trojan.
Anyway... it wouldn't be the first time Slashdot screws up and posts stuff that is totally false on the front page...
I'm not quite good at all those math calculations and stuff... but if the Earth gets destroyed somehow, wouldn't the orbital trajectory of the moon go berserk?
We seem to be quite able to generate enough gas to affect our own planet, which is much bigger than Mars... And most of that gas comes from a small fraction of our planet's population. How hard can it be to do it on a smaller planet then?
Sadly, we're trapped in a vicious circle. Game companies only develop for Windows because the Mac/Linux market isn't big enough, and people don't switch to Mac/Linux because game companies don't develop for them...
Who's gonna make the first move?
My company (and I) program a very decent piece of software, very secure, very reliable, very few bugs, and when our customers tell us about a bug, we fix it.
Still, tens of thousands of our customers pay for an upgrade every time we make a new version. Why? Because we add *features* and *functionality*, not because we fix things.
You can still make money in programming a pretty darn good piece of software.
I'm not saying they would add malware on purpose, just that they're either too lazy to check and make sure there aren't any malware in their own product, or too lousy at developing software that they can't even figure out if their own software contains a virus, so they're using lawyer-speech to take the responsibility away from them. It's like buying a car and the dealer saying "I can't guarantee you that this car won't explode spontaneously, but if it does, we're not responsible".
Difference is, the parts I ommited were parts unrelevant to the topic and it did not change the meaning of the original text. On the other hand, you explictly and purposefully altered what I said to change the meaning to whatever you wanted.
It's the difference between quoting the relevant parts of a source to lighten the text and totally misquoting someone.
When buying a pair of leather shoes, you don't really need a full medical check on the cow that the leather came from...
"Evaluation versions" are the software equivalent of "trying the shoes on"
Kazaa says: No Spyware
Funny when companies have to explicitly mention they're not evil. Funnier is that Microsoft also says: "We're not saying there's no virus or malware in our product". Seriously... The MSN-Messenger license states that :
disclaimer of warranties. to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, microsoft and its suppliers provide to you [...] as is and with all faults; and microsoft and its suppliers hereby disclaim [...] all warranties and conditions, whether express, implied or statutory, including, [...] lack of viruses, [...]
A higher mass also means it's harder to slow down and land safely. Double the mass, double the energy required to land safely (or double the force of the crash...)
You mean you actually installed and ran a piece of software from the **AA?!?
Dude, you just got p0wned... All your bases are belong to them now :-P
And that is why dictionaries exist...
recidivating
It is true that there might be a possibility that a mistake was made, and someone was wrongfully accused of something. But what about recidivists? Can you be so unlucky that 5 different juries wrongfully find you guilty of 5 different crimes you didn't commit? How many "second chances" should a criminal have?
GP posted : If you are convicted beyond a shadow of a doubt
"Beyond the shadow of a doubt" can make it highly restrictive, but if security cameras see you take out your gun and shoot someone, with a high-enough resolution that we can recognize your face, and the cops got there 5 seconds later, see you on the scene of the crime, with a smoking gun... all that on the surveillance tape... Now tell me... how is it even remotely possible that you might not be guilty?
It might not dissuade them from doing it the first time, but it will damn well prevent them from recidivating.
I still haven't found the courage to try those dvorak thingy... too many years of qwerty typing grows on you... (plus, dvorak was optimized for the English language... English is only my third language, the first two being French and Machine, so maybe dvorak isn't good for me anyway; where's the "ù" character on those keyboards anyway?)
Work has already begun on new Mario, Zelda and Super Smash Bros. titles, all of which are to be available at launch.
We have about the same thing in Canada with the "except in Québec" thing. Any online "contest", or basically anything that you can win "for free", whether it's based in Canada or in the U.S., it always say: "Residents of the U.S. and of Canada (except Québec) are eligible..." or stuff like that...
That's because government controls all gambling here, and you need to get a licence to be allowed to let a resident of Québec claim a prize, and most people (especially in the U.S.) don't care about us in Québec so they don't bother to get the licence... ... those damn cheap ****, won't let me get something for free... *mumble* *grumble*
What the hell is my Latinum?
The main reason why I will probably never give my wife any of my important passwords (probably any at all) is that I can remember tens of unintuitive passwords that are at least 8 characters long with letters and numbers and special characters, with both upper and lower case. I know she can't. If I give her my passwords, she'll write them down, and #1 rule of passwords is "don't write it down", but she doesn't care.
If I have to choose between having all my important passwords written down by someone else and not telling my wife any of my passwords, then I guess I'd rather let her go through the legal process to gain acces to my stuff.
The shortage is not only on consoles.
I was able to find a slim PS2 two weeks ago. Great, but I also needed a memory card (for both PS1 and PS2) if I were to save my games...
It took me 9 days of shopping every day at EBgames, BestBuy, Toys'R'us, RadioShack, WalMart, Zellers and any other store that could remotely be associated with the idea of selling video game stuff before I could actually find a third party memory card somewhere.
Even the third party providers are having trouble meeting demand even weeks after christmas.
Then the lead-pipe-company should be held responsible for not taking reasonable care that their lead pipe wouldn't be used to harm somebody...
If you installed an unofficial patch that Sony never told you to install, why would they be responsible? Did they force that patch into your PSP?