Don't be ridiculous. You can't block an entire country just because of one individual. This could happen anywhere. Look at the amount of spam originating from America. The problem is more difficult to solve than just saying the government should fix it.
There isn't really much point repeating info here that is already explained in much more detail on Wikipedia, apart from to give a quick summary to get people interested and then link to the rest of the information.
If people want to do further reading on the topic, Wikipedia is also a great starting point for some useful links. I have often followed a Wikipedia link from here and ended up following links to other pages.
Google is good too. Both have their strengths and weaknesses.
You hate microsoft because you think they develop shitty software, but you want them to keep it that way and not to improve their products.
If you call adding DRM and further anti-piracy measures "improving", then I hope that they will be "improving" their products, even if it does mean a few more delays.
By the time Vista is released, 1 Gig will seem like nothing. We will have 1 gig chips implanted into our brains just so that we can remember where our flying car was parked.
Better yet: One key decrypts your regular files. Letters to grandma, pictures of your baby, etc. And the other decrypts your super secret terrorist plans. Both from the same encrypted volume.
Good idea. Then you can give up the key showing your terrorist plans and just get a few years in jail. They will never find your photo collection and your secret letters.
Time for steganographic file systems where your private data can be hidden inside innocent looking files. They can't force you to disclose your key if they don't know and/or can't prove that you have one.
No they aren't. They know exactly what they are doing, even when they are saying misleading statements. The people that act on FUD without checking any facts are the ignorant ones. That's basically everyone else.
Microsoft has lots of problems, but one thing they do really well is understand, find weaknesses in, and then destroy their competitors.
Of course they cannot ever destroy OSS, but they are doing a very good job of keeping their market share for as long as they can.
The continual adoption of Open Source software by developing countries is starting to give me hope that we might actually have a chance of escaping the Monocrosoft empire.
You can escape already now, as long as you are willing to make some sacrifices like having to explain to family members why the you haven't played the fantastic game that they emailed to you as an.exe file.
The distro I use, Gentoo, lets you play mp3s easily. In fact most Linux distributions do. I don't think it's a controversial issue that people want interoperability with their closed format files.
But that's not the issue people have with Linspire.
The advertising of a 'pop-up blocker' is bizaar, it's not a feature, it's the removal of a feature.
If you really want popups, turn the popup blocker off. It's not hidden away in some obscure setting in about:config, it's the first option in the Content settings tab!
Edit->Preferences->Content->[ ] Block Popup Windows
Also when it hides a popup you get a message telling you about it and an easy way to show it.
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is it ready for Vista Forever?
Don't be ridiculous. You can't block an entire country just because of one individual. This could happen anywhere. Look at the amount of spam originating from America. The problem is more difficult to solve than just saying the government should fix it.
There isn't really much point repeating info here that is already explained in much more detail on Wikipedia, apart from to give a quick summary to get people interested and then link to the rest of the information.
If people want to do further reading on the topic, Wikipedia is also a great starting point for some useful links. I have often followed a Wikipedia link from here and ended up following links to other pages.
Google is good too. Both have their strengths and weaknesses.
...trashing half a billion computers, surely an impossible thing to do.....
That sounds like a challenge for Vista Forever.
This is slashdot though. You get modded down for going against the brainthink and suggested a perfectly reasonable alternative.
organisms that require concentrations of vancomycin that come close to causing neprotoxicity (kidneys) and ototoxicity (ears) and who knows what else.
It causes kidneys and ears? On the patient? Eww.
Or do you mean that the bacteria grow ears and kidneys? That would be sort of cool.
MPAA/RIAA = no. I have heard some of their actions might violate the RICO act, but they are still unprosecuted.
So if you aren't prosecuted you can't be called a terrorist?
Use Linux and be done with it. No need for AV software.
Whilst your comment seems to be factually correct, more people will read it and take it seriously if you supply a source:
:)
"Vancomycin and teicoplanin are glycopeptide antibiotics used to treat MRSA infections."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRSA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancomycin
Plus you get some free karma for doing it. Always works!
all software patent lawsuits are, by definition, frivolous.
It's immoral to test on humans and it should be banned. Can't they use guinea pigs instead? That's what they were invented for.
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Guinea_pig (karma whoring link)
You hate microsoft because you think they develop shitty software, but you want them to keep it that way and not to improve their products.
If you call adding DRM and further anti-piracy measures "improving", then I hope that they will be "improving" their products, even if it does mean a few more delays.
... when Intel makes them a new offer? I'll believe it when I see the product on the shelf. Or e-shelf.
By the time Vista is released, 1 Gig will seem like nothing. We will have 1 gig chips implanted into our brains just so that we can remember where our flying car was parked.
Better yet: One key decrypts your regular files. Letters to grandma, pictures of your baby, etc. And the other decrypts your super secret terrorist plans. Both from the same encrypted volume.
Good idea. Then you can give up the key showing your terrorist plans and just get a few years in jail. They will never find your photo collection and your secret letters.
Time for steganographic file systems where your private data can be hidden inside innocent looking files. They can't force you to disclose your key if they don't know and/or can't prove that you have one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
MS = ignorant.
No they aren't. They know exactly what they are doing, even when they are saying misleading statements. The people that act on FUD without checking any facts are the ignorant ones. That's basically everyone else.
Microsoft has lots of problems, but one thing they do really well is understand, find weaknesses in, and then destroy their competitors.
Of course they cannot ever destroy OSS, but they are doing a very good job of keeping their market share for as long as they can.
Konqueror has "open in firefox" and "open in opera" options, firefox doesn't have anything like that.
There are at least two Firefox extensions for viewing pages in Internet Explorer.
Here it is: RetroFind.
I think that this is a reasonably cool feature for people who can't write HTML or FTP.
Not being able to write HTML never stopped anyone before.
Unfortunately.
For Linux there is Beagle.
The continual adoption of Open Source software by developing countries is starting to give me hope that we might actually have a chance of escaping the Monocrosoft empire.
.exe file.
You can escape already now, as long as you are willing to make some sacrifices like having to explain to family members why the you haven't played the fantastic game that they emailed to you as an
The distro I use, Gentoo, lets you play mp3s easily. In fact most Linux distributions do. I don't think it's a controversial issue that people want interoperability with their closed format files.
But that's not the issue people have with Linspire.
Do you still get the problem if you remove the extensions?
The advertising of a 'pop-up blocker' is bizaar, it's not a feature, it's the removal of a feature.
If you really want popups, turn the popup blocker off. It's not hidden away in some obscure setting in about:config, it's the first option in the Content settings tab!
Edit->Preferences->Content->[ ] Block Popup Windows
Also when it hides a popup you get a message telling you about it and an easy way to show it.