Windows 98, XP, and now Vista all have security loopholes one way or the other. The vaunted UAC on Vista is useless. Blaming the user for running as Administrator and exposing loopholes is like blaming the car driver for driving with the windows down. Yeah, the wind can be heavy when driving at 100mph but that is not the reason for having a burn when driving a Pinto. This is a good test case and lesson for wrong software architecture. By Design Windows is flawed. Blaming the construction is like blaming the poor builders of Leaning Tower of Pisa. Vista was done from ground up ripping out all old code but still has all problems in addition to UAC, BECAUSE Microsoft thinks Security is an add-on. Mac OS X thinks security is part of OS and hence Administrator is different from root.
One should not need UAC to install software, and the registry concept should be thrown out. Why the fcuk should a software write to a registry? It was originally meant for Windows only and should have been locked out instead of allowing every joker to write to it.
It will be great if Windows adopted Linux [kernel] as a base and bolted WINE as a backward way to run Windows Apps and Games. Imagine the muscle Microsoft could bring if it adopted Linux Kernel for Windows. MSDN, TechNet, etc., I bet that would be the day Apple would realize the game was up.
Then the games can boot directly from DVD Which is what we had in early days of DOS games, which booted from special floppy, etc., Which brings us back to the original discussion: Do we need an OS? Embedding a small Linux OS inside the game DVD (or XP for you purists), would enable the game to be played on a particular PC. What about the rest? The idea of an OS was to provide a VM to the hardware. Now if the game were to make a list of all hardware and carry enough drivers, etc., then the initiative to build a game is lost. XBox is still a VM. games built to XBox standards are really software standards. Halo is built to specs that the XBox 360 provides as a software standard. Microsoft can add hardware to XBox and Halo would still play.
Very True. State Secret is a twisted analogy. The State comprises of its citizens. (Roman definition). So State Secrets really means the Citizens' Secrets. In which case the cameras, etc., are to be removed when WE as citizens invoke the State Secrets privilege. Some lawyer should take up this argument in a small sympathetic court and make one council remove cameras because it violates Citizens' Secrets. Once the precedent is established, then it becomes easier to challenge it island-wide. Although i guess the lawyer would be Kelly-ed http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/04/368064.html/ long before he is able to make a success out of it in city courts.
True. And we can expect a repeat in 2008. Which is why McCain is fighting. As churchill once said, a man would not fight a war if he didn't think he has a chance of winning. So McCain, supported by 537 political donors and Karl Rove, will take Obama to a draw and then beat him with Supreme Court orders.
How did we EVER allow a bunch of non-elected representatives to decide who is elected is something i can understand.
Political Lesson 101: 1. A totalitarian government spends its money and employs its people to build a Great Firewall. Expenses: $100 million. It Works.
2. A democratic government takes people's money, gives it to a few chosen private contractors to build a monitoring station that can intercept ten million telephone calls a day, and will work for first few hours before its database becomes full. Expenses: $1215 million. It never works. After a year and spending 10x times the budget, the government blames the contractors, the contractors blame the MPs, and the people vote out the party and a new party comes into power. The new party is approached by a private contractor who proposes monitoring emails....
There should be a law which states that for each camera in public, there should be a camera in each MPs house. After all they are public servants!
Getting the entire country to work in concert is what totalitarian governments do. Wrong. Look at what good did it do to Collective Farms in Stalin's period. His was the most totalitarian government you could get and still he could not improve farming output. (forget about purges). The more hard you squeeze the sand in your palm, the more sand escapes. Its a genuine outpouring of grief. Recognize that for what it is rather than saying bull$hit about totalitarian, etc.
Japanese also seem to have an entrenched attitude of looking down on foreigners That IS the single problem Japan has and will have. They would rather build $100,000 robots than import foreign workers or outsource. They are SO paranoid that a japanese cop will believe the japanese pickpocket than you when you goto complain. WW2 did not teach them squat. I say let them die out completely and be replaced by a race of Robots. Its easier dealing with robots than with japanese who have the condescending tone and the "holier than thou" attitude. No Wonder Germany is kicking their a$$ in precision-equipment markets.
Hey! Am the guy who hates maths because i *hate* maths. (OTOH my maths teacher in school kept hitting me whenever i made a mistake instead of trying to teach me what i did wrong. SO i ended up hating Maths) Yes, and everything you have said is true about getting kicked upstairs while my PhD in Maths comrade is still stuck in same job for past 6 years. Do you want to really know why? Because we MBAs are good at other things like: Actual Domain Knowledge [in banking, etc] instead of mere theoritical knowledge like Myron-Scholes Model. We know we are not good at Maths, and we never claim otherwise, because we buckle down and work hard to learn how business is done in Real world instead of theory. Your PhD leaves for home at 5.30 PM sharp and orders everyone to call him "Doctor". We have no such pretensions. We know our IQ is limited, our knowledge of systems IT is limited, and we have to call HelpDesk to reconfigure voice mail. But we do know how to make sure our business models make sure whatever new regulation or opportunity comes our way, we can be ready for it. We know that buying 20000 shares of SEE in 2006 would have netted us a 78% gain today (inspite of recession), and that while our sutis are clean our hands are ditry because we buckle down and actually do the job, instead of leaving home at 5.30 PM and refusing to get down to brasstacks because "Oh-am-a-doctor"...
The world would belong to Geeks IF they show some business sense instead of bringing Dalek toys to work.
P.S. I was a geek once. I learned quickly that you need to talk business to suits and beat a path to their door instead of waiting for the world to beat a path to my door. Oh, and am armed with State-First marks in Comp Science AND Marketing.
Oh.. the US did this during Pearl Harbour and 9-11. Only that pearl harbor helped bring WW2 to end and made japan a peace-loving country. 9-11 ended in one country broken, one country on the verge of going back and US much poorer. But then when the country is led by a single-digit-IQ oil-loving-Texan who still can't read books and thinks sacrficing Golf is the biggest sacrifice he can make... Sorry. We are ashamed of him. And we didn't vote for him (if you know what voting & elections mean).
Exactly! I Love Company of Heroes and Opposing Fronts. Especially with the Authentic Weapons Mod. After 6 months of nastly playing, i can now beat the Computer at Normal Computer setting easily. 8600 GT and AMD X2 are a deadly combination.
Ohhh believe me, its worse. Sony gets away with hacking thousands of computers, while my next door neighbor gets 4-years time for using WiFi without permission. Medical Insurance companies get away with dubious rejections, while if i game the medical insurance am sentenced to jail. Unless punishments for corporations are made 10x times more heavier than for us, Fascism will rule us all WITH our consent.
Rather than ask them why packet shaping is needed, why not ask a University Focus Group as to benefits of Open Internet? Asking Bell to prove they need shaping is like asking my 3-yr old to prove he needs candy before bedtime. Corporations are adamant children. Treat them sternly and with iron discipline and they will grow up well. Tell Bell they can do all the traffic shaping they want. And if FCC gets ONE complaint from ONE customer against Bell shaping, then Bell's assets would be seized and the company would be Enron'ed. Smile when you say that.
Hey! My wife is an excellent driver. Not all women are bad drivers and not all men are excellent drivers. My wife has an excellent sense of direction, and is uncanny accurate in getting to a new place right the first time.
That maybe the case, but google buying yahoo would be worse for both. Whether you add one drop of poison in a glass of milk or add one drop of milk in a glass of poison means the same. Google + yahoo= instant death to both. First of all how do you evaluate Yahoo and Microsoft (and Google) financially? Balance sheets? P&L? They were tools designed by Leonardo DaVinci's Accountant to help evaluate DaVinci's trade! Secondly Balance Sheet was used by the Great Rails during the Great Expansion West to convince investors their money was spent wisely. Fixed Assets, etc., make sense for a manufacturing or a Brick & Mortar Trading/Rail/Telephone concern.
For IT companies they are worth a sh1t. Goodwill? But then no, SEC does not allow it.
I guess Buffet was wise when he refused to invest in technology companies, because there was no way to evaluate them. Using weight measures to calculate money is not a wise step. I could hold $100 in 100 $1 bills OR hold two $50 bills.
If you say you have the right to rip off the telcos because they ripped you off, well that is taking the law into your own hands. That's illegal... Wrong. That's NOT illegal. Its innovative much like the corporation which uses loopholes in laws to cheat you. Morally wrong, but legally right. So, its not taking law into your own hands. Its like treating the law innovatively and interpret its wording differently to your advantage. Play the same game corporations play. For instance, send comcast a certified letter and tell them of material change in contract has resulted in automatic termination of contract. Get a Justice of Peace to certify that. Send them another notice from Justice of Peace asking for compensation for breaking a contract (legal). Claim small amount not to trigger their lawyers. When they disobey both, get the Justice to get a warrant to seize and auction their assets. Proceed to nearest comcast office with sheriff, throw everyone out and start auctioning their valuables on the spot. BTW, tell a dozen of your friends about "good auction deals" and make them bid $1 or $2 for each PC/Laptop or Router. This way you get to auction everything and yet get back only very little of your claim. And before the high powered lawyers of comcast descend with court injunctions, dispose of every asset in comcast's office at $1-2 to recoup your financial loss. Immediately file a criminal complaint to premept comcast and state comcast is trying to game the system and trying to cheat you out of your judgement. All judges will respect a previous court order and issue another order preventing comcast from contacting you or reversing the auction. Sounds Good??? Its also Perfectly Legal.
D-link DI-524. D-Link?? That's the WORST router ever made. You are better off using a Hayes Analog Acoustic Modem. I suffered with DLink for 2 years before i changed my ISP. I had a router and an ADSL modem. The wifi router crap of DLink NEVER connected to the modem. And the Modem was rebooting every other day.
What laws? They are corporations man! They MAKE the laws. Laws are for stupid apes like you. The cops will break open your door without knocking, rip off your catheter and drag you to prison, all the while mistaking you for the neighbor. Corporations are NEVER treated like that. First the FCC sends them a politely worded letter asking them to "restrain" their blocking activity. That's like Requesting a rabid dog not to bite you in Victorian English. Next, they call up the corporation's executives for a 15-minute chat at tax-payer's expense at the FCC HQ. That's like offering Your Dinner Steak to the rabid dog in the hope it would not bite you. Then, they tell the corporation they can't block traffic and ask them to stop doing it. That's again like Shouting at the rabid dog(after it has eaten your steak) to stop trying to bite you. Lastly the FCC will threaten the corporation with a lawsuit if it fails to stop its blocking activity. That's like saying to the rabid dog in strict terms to stop trying to bite and if it continues you will sue it! The FCC goes to court and spends a huge amount of tax payers money. The corporation spends 10x times the tax-exempt money to permit the court to allow it to block or suspend judgement. The rabid dog actually bites you!
As we have conclusively proved here, the threat of laws or lawsuits don't deter rabid dogs and corporations from bad behavior.
The only way to make them listen or stop their behavior is through: 1. At first complaint from subscriber (proven or not), FCC suspends the operating license and permit of Comcast. That's like tying a neighbor's dog with a tight leash whether rabid or not. Of course the dog will protest, but then its a dog and does not have a vote. 2. Investigation proves comcast was blocking traffic illegally. FCC sends in the sherrifs to drag the CEO and Board to jail and charge them with manslaughter. Additionally they are examined by psychological experts for their deviant behavior. Like the dog being examined for fleas or dripping saliva indicating mad-dog behavior. 3. If proven the blocking did indeed happen (deliberate or otherwise), Comcast's internet license is revoked permanently with prejudice and the division's assets sold off. Much like the doctor injecting the dog with medicines or cutting off a wounded part of the brain. 4. The executives are convicted and sentenced to 10 years hard labor in a medium security prison and prevented from being execs in any internet company hereafter. Much like cutting off a foot of a pained dog. 5. If the same company repeats the same behavior any other time with any other division (Like Telephones), the whole company is delicensed, its assets seized and sold off to pay its debts, and its board and CEO sentenced to life or hanged. The shareholders may then decide to dissolve the company voluntarily or letting the FCC continue to dissolve it. Much like the owner of a rabid dog being asked whether he likes to shoot his rabid dog or let the government shoot the rabid dog.
Exactly. I did the same. Here are more steps: 1. Assign a letter other than C: to your Primary Drive. I assigned I: as Primary Master (150 GB Hitachi). 2. Install Windows, SP, Anti-Virus (suspect it too) and other stuff directly linking to OS. 3. Add another physical disk and label it as C: Add it as Secondary Master. 4. Add C:\Applications as one directory to install all your apps and data. 5. Also create C:\Windows\System32 to mislead hackers.
I faced an issue and i had imaged the drive earlier using Acronis Drive Image 11. I just restored it from backup.
It does the same experiment that the 1970s initial Mars Landers did. The signs then were inconclusive and will be inconclusive because: We look at other planets with the same glasses we look at Earth. Heck even on earth, we are still surprised daily by new findings of life we thought could not support life. And these were detected after so many years and with so good tools. What makes you say a rover-sized tincan will magically detect past life on Mars? Has life detection techniques improved so fast in 30 years? Get about 10 kgs of Mars soil from various locations to Earth orbit (ISS) and let the ISS search it for life. Stop wasting money and sending tincans all over again.
Ahhh, but this sh1t scared government does not tire of culling liberties, or denial of internet access, etc. I recommed you guys pool and buy a couple of lawyers. Then pre-empt this bill with a clause added to it which states, that if the accused is NOT guilty, then the media company which alleges infringement, will have to pay up the cost and lost income. That bill will be defeated.
As opposed to the money that otherwise would have gone to the artists and actors from BitTorrent Yeah, in the same ratio RIAA/MPAA share revenues [with artists] from iTunes store sales...
Motoring camera is what saved my as$ on I-94 3 years ago. I was returning back to Harftord,CT from NY with my friends at 2.30 AM, driving at about 64 mph. There was a driver in front of me (same car model, same color) weaving in and out and doing 50 to 80 mph at times. Almost all traffic was the heavy trucks which were getting jittery and one even blew his horn loud for about 1 full min (deafening us all). Within 3 mins, two cop cars were chasing. One late arriving driver flashed behind me, and i slowed down. But somehow i guess his colleagues told him his mistake, and he sped away, waving us from inside his car. If it were not for the cameras i would have been stopped, and questioned.
Show me cops who oppress groups of people chatting peacefully on a streetcorner, You are right. I found no example of that anywhere in US or UK (Russia is entirely different, but am not including it.) Spent two days looking for an example to show an actual non-benign group being targetted by police for entirely no reason. Could not find one. Always there was a reason: Too rowdy, or snatching purses. Heck i even remember an incident with my group of friends in Sydney (Olympics time). We (group of 5) were deciding (at 2130 hrs) at the Burwood station to decide whether to watch a movie or head back home (different stations). Since we were highly vocal, we saw a cop coming slowly towards us, but we did not stop. After about 6-7 mins, we decided to catch the late night movie and fed the vending machine. The cop stayed close to us, but did NOT interfere, did NOT speak or did NOT even ask us to move away. I guess the cop came over from his office watching us in the CCTV.
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Windows 98, XP, and now Vista all have security loopholes one way or the other.
The vaunted UAC on Vista is useless.
Blaming the user for running as Administrator and exposing loopholes is like blaming the car driver for driving with the windows down.
Yeah, the wind can be heavy when driving at 100mph but that is not the reason for having a burn when driving a Pinto.
This is a good test case and lesson for wrong software architecture.
By Design Windows is flawed. Blaming the construction is like blaming the poor builders of Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Vista was done from ground up ripping out all old code but still has all problems in addition to UAC, BECAUSE Microsoft thinks Security is an add-on.
Mac OS X thinks security is part of OS and hence Administrator is different from root.
One should not need UAC to install software, and the registry concept should be thrown out.
Why the fcuk should a software write to a registry? It was originally meant for Windows only and should have been locked out instead of allowing every joker to write to it.
It will be great if Windows adopted Linux [kernel] as a base and bolted WINE as a backward way to run Windows Apps and Games.
Imagine the muscle Microsoft could bring if it adopted Linux Kernel for Windows. MSDN, TechNet, etc.,
I bet that would be the day Apple would realize the game was up.
Which brings us back to the original discussion: Do we need an OS?
Embedding a small Linux OS inside the game DVD (or XP for you purists), would enable the game to be played on a particular PC.
What about the rest?
The idea of an OS was to provide a VM to the hardware. Now if the game were to make a list of all hardware and carry enough drivers, etc., then the initiative to build a game is lost.
XBox is still a VM. games built to XBox standards are really software standards.
Halo is built to specs that the XBox 360 provides as a software standard. Microsoft can add hardware to XBox and Halo would still play.
Very True. State Secret is a twisted analogy.
The State comprises of its citizens. (Roman definition).
So State Secrets really means the Citizens' Secrets. In which case the cameras, etc., are to be removed when WE as citizens invoke the State Secrets privilege.
Some lawyer should take up this argument in a small sympathetic court and make one council remove cameras because it violates Citizens' Secrets.
Once the precedent is established, then it becomes easier to challenge it island-wide.
Although i guess the lawyer would be Kelly-ed http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/04/368064.html/ long before he is able to make a success out of it in city courts.
True. And we can expect a repeat in 2008.
Which is why McCain is fighting.
As churchill once said, a man would not fight a war if he didn't think he has a chance of winning.
So McCain, supported by 537 political donors and Karl Rove, will take Obama to a draw and then beat him with Supreme Court orders.
How did we EVER allow a bunch of non-elected representatives to decide who is elected is something i can understand.
Political Lesson 101:
1. A totalitarian government spends its money and employs its people to build a Great Firewall. Expenses: $100 million. It Works.
2. A democratic government takes people's money, gives it to a few chosen private contractors to build a monitoring station that can intercept ten million telephone calls a day, and will work for first few hours before its database becomes full. Expenses: $1215 million. It never works. After a year and spending 10x times the budget, the government blames the contractors, the contractors blame the MPs, and the people vote out the party and a new party comes into power. The new party is approached by a private contractor who proposes monitoring emails....
There should be a law which states that for each camera in public, there should be a camera in each MPs house. After all they are public servants!
His was the most totalitarian government you could get and still he could not improve farming output. (forget about purges).
The more hard you squeeze the sand in your palm, the more sand escapes.
Its a genuine outpouring of grief. Recognize that for what it is rather than saying bull$hit about totalitarian, etc.
They would rather build $100,000 robots than import foreign workers or outsource.
They are SO paranoid that a japanese cop will believe the japanese pickpocket than you when you goto complain.
WW2 did not teach them squat.
I say let them die out completely and be replaced by a race of Robots.
Its easier dealing with robots than with japanese who have the condescending tone and the "holier than thou" attitude.
No Wonder Germany is kicking their a$$ in precision-equipment markets.
Hey!
Am the guy who hates maths because i *hate* maths. (OTOH my maths teacher in school kept hitting me whenever i made a mistake instead of trying to teach me what i did wrong. SO i ended up hating Maths)
Yes, and everything you have said is true about getting kicked upstairs while my PhD in Maths comrade is still stuck in same job for past 6 years.
Do you want to really know why?
Because we MBAs are good at other things like: Actual Domain Knowledge [in banking, etc] instead of mere theoritical knowledge like Myron-Scholes Model. We know we are not good at Maths, and we never claim otherwise, because we buckle down and work hard to learn how business is done in Real world instead of theory.
Your PhD leaves for home at 5.30 PM sharp and orders everyone to call him "Doctor". We have no such pretensions. We know our IQ is limited, our knowledge of systems IT is limited, and we have to call HelpDesk to reconfigure voice mail. But we do know how to make sure our business models make sure whatever new regulation or opportunity comes our way, we can be ready for it. We know that buying 20000 shares of SEE in 2006 would have netted us a 78% gain today (inspite of recession), and that while our sutis are clean our hands are ditry because we buckle down and actually do the job, instead of leaving home at 5.30 PM and refusing to get down to brasstacks because "Oh-am-a-doctor"...
The world would belong to Geeks IF they show some business sense instead of bringing Dalek toys to work.
P.S. I was a geek once. I learned quickly that you need to talk business to suits and beat a path to their door instead of waiting for the world to beat a path to my door. Oh, and am armed with State-First marks in Comp Science AND Marketing.
Oh.. the US did this during Pearl Harbour and 9-11.
Only that pearl harbor helped bring WW2 to end and made japan a peace-loving country.
9-11 ended in one country broken, one country on the verge of going back and US much poorer.
But then when the country is led by a single-digit-IQ oil-loving-Texan who still can't read books and thinks sacrficing Golf is the biggest sacrifice he can make...
Sorry. We are ashamed of him. And we didn't vote for him (if you know what voting & elections mean).
Exactly!
I Love Company of Heroes and Opposing Fronts.
Especially with the Authentic Weapons Mod.
After 6 months of nastly playing, i can now beat the Computer at Normal Computer setting easily.
8600 GT and AMD X2 are a deadly combination.
Ohhh believe me, its worse.
Sony gets away with hacking thousands of computers, while my next door neighbor gets 4-years time for using WiFi without permission.
Medical Insurance companies get away with dubious rejections, while if i game the medical insurance am sentenced to jail.
Unless punishments for corporations are made 10x times more heavier than for us, Fascism will rule us all WITH our consent.
Rather than ask them why packet shaping is needed, why not ask a University Focus Group as to benefits of Open Internet?
Asking Bell to prove they need shaping is like asking my 3-yr old to prove he needs candy before bedtime.
Corporations are adamant children.
Treat them sternly and with iron discipline and they will grow up well.
Tell Bell they can do all the traffic shaping they want. And if FCC gets ONE complaint from ONE customer against Bell shaping, then Bell's assets would be seized and the company would be Enron'ed.
Smile when you say that.
Hey! My wife is an excellent driver.
Not all women are bad drivers and not all men are excellent drivers.
My wife has an excellent sense of direction, and is uncanny accurate in getting to a new place right the first time.
That maybe the case, but google buying yahoo would be worse for both.
Whether you add one drop of poison in a glass of milk or add one drop of milk in a glass of poison means the same.
Google + yahoo= instant death to both.
First of all how do you evaluate Yahoo and Microsoft (and Google) financially?
Balance sheets? P&L?
They were tools designed by Leonardo DaVinci's Accountant to help evaluate DaVinci's trade!
Secondly Balance Sheet was used by the Great Rails during the Great Expansion West to convince investors their money was spent wisely.
Fixed Assets, etc., make sense for a manufacturing or a Brick & Mortar Trading/Rail/Telephone concern.
For IT companies they are worth a sh1t.
Goodwill? But then no, SEC does not allow it.
I guess Buffet was wise when he refused to invest in technology companies, because there was no way to evaluate them.
Using weight measures to calculate money is not a wise step. I could hold $100 in 100 $1 bills OR hold two $50 bills.
Its innovative much like the corporation which uses loopholes in laws to cheat you. Morally wrong, but legally right.
So, its not taking law into your own hands. Its like treating the law innovatively and interpret its wording differently to your advantage.
Play the same game corporations play.
For instance, send comcast a certified letter and tell them of material change in contract has resulted in automatic termination of contract.
Get a Justice of Peace to certify that.
Send them another notice from Justice of Peace asking for compensation for breaking a contract (legal). Claim small amount not to trigger their lawyers.
When they disobey both, get the Justice to get a warrant to seize and auction their assets.
Proceed to nearest comcast office with sheriff, throw everyone out and start auctioning their valuables on the spot.
BTW, tell a dozen of your friends about "good auction deals" and make them bid $1 or $2 for each PC/Laptop or Router. This way you get to auction everything and yet get back only very little of your claim.
And before the high powered lawyers of comcast descend with court injunctions, dispose of every asset in comcast's office at $1-2 to recoup your financial loss.
Immediately file a criminal complaint to premept comcast and state comcast is trying to game the system and trying to cheat you out of your judgement. All judges will respect a previous court order and issue another order preventing comcast from contacting you or reversing the auction.
Sounds Good???
Its also Perfectly Legal.
You are better off using a Hayes Analog Acoustic Modem.
I suffered with DLink for 2 years before i changed my ISP.
I had a router and an ADSL modem. The wifi router crap of DLink NEVER connected to the modem. And the Modem was rebooting every other day.
Are you a board member of Comcast Board or its CTO/CFO/CEO by any chance?
What laws?
They are corporations man!
They MAKE the laws.
Laws are for stupid apes like you. The cops will break open your door without knocking, rip off your catheter and drag you to prison, all the while mistaking you for the neighbor.
Corporations are NEVER treated like that.
First the FCC sends them a politely worded letter asking them to "restrain" their blocking activity. That's like Requesting a rabid dog not to bite you in Victorian English.
Next, they call up the corporation's executives for a 15-minute chat at tax-payer's expense at the FCC HQ. That's like offering Your Dinner Steak to the rabid dog in the hope it would not bite you.
Then, they tell the corporation they can't block traffic and ask them to stop doing it. That's again like Shouting at the rabid dog(after it has eaten your steak) to stop trying to bite you.
Lastly the FCC will threaten the corporation with a lawsuit if it fails to stop its blocking activity. That's like saying to the rabid dog in strict terms to stop trying to bite and if it continues you will sue it!
The FCC goes to court and spends a huge amount of tax payers money. The corporation spends 10x times the tax-exempt money to permit the court to allow it to block or suspend judgement. The rabid dog actually bites you!
As we have conclusively proved here, the threat of laws or lawsuits don't deter rabid dogs and corporations from bad behavior.
The only way to make them listen or stop their behavior is through:
1. At first complaint from subscriber (proven or not), FCC suspends the operating license and permit of Comcast. That's like tying a neighbor's dog with a tight leash whether rabid or not. Of course the dog will protest, but then its a dog and does not have a vote.
2. Investigation proves comcast was blocking traffic illegally. FCC sends in the sherrifs to drag the CEO and Board to jail and charge them with manslaughter. Additionally they are examined by psychological experts for their deviant behavior. Like the dog being examined for fleas or dripping saliva indicating mad-dog behavior.
3. If proven the blocking did indeed happen (deliberate or otherwise), Comcast's internet license is revoked permanently with prejudice and the division's assets sold off. Much like the doctor injecting the dog with medicines or cutting off a wounded part of the brain.
4. The executives are convicted and sentenced to 10 years hard labor in a medium security prison and prevented from being execs in any internet company hereafter. Much like cutting off a foot of a pained dog.
5. If the same company repeats the same behavior any other time with any other division (Like Telephones), the whole company is delicensed, its assets seized and sold off to pay its debts, and its board and CEO sentenced to life or hanged. The shareholders may then decide to dissolve the company voluntarily or letting the FCC continue to dissolve it. Much like the owner of a rabid dog being asked whether he likes to shoot his rabid dog or let the government shoot the rabid dog.
Exactly. I did the same. Here are more steps:
1. Assign a letter other than C: to your Primary Drive. I assigned I: as Primary Master (150 GB Hitachi).
2. Install Windows, SP, Anti-Virus (suspect it too) and other stuff directly linking to OS.
3. Add another physical disk and label it as C: Add it as Secondary Master.
4. Add C:\Applications as one directory to install all your apps and data.
5. Also create C:\Windows\System32 to mislead hackers.
I faced an issue and i had imaged the drive earlier using Acronis Drive Image 11. I just restored it from backup.
It does the same experiment that the 1970s initial Mars Landers did.
The signs then were inconclusive and will be inconclusive because: We look at other planets with the same glasses we look at Earth.
Heck even on earth, we are still surprised daily by new findings of life we thought could not support life.
And these were detected after so many years and with so good tools.
What makes you say a rover-sized tincan will magically detect past life on Mars?
Has life detection techniques improved so fast in 30 years?
Get about 10 kgs of Mars soil from various locations to Earth orbit (ISS) and let the ISS search it for life.
Stop wasting money and sending tincans all over again.
Ahhh, but this sh1t scared government does not tire of culling liberties, or denial of internet access, etc.
I recommed you guys pool and buy a couple of lawyers.
Then pre-empt this bill with a clause added to it which states, that if the accused is NOT guilty, then the media company which alleges infringement, will have to pay up the cost and lost income.
That bill will be defeated.
Motoring camera is what saved my as$ on I-94 3 years ago.
I was returning back to Harftord,CT from NY with my friends at 2.30 AM, driving at about 64 mph.
There was a driver in front of me (same car model, same color) weaving in and out and doing 50 to 80 mph at times.
Almost all traffic was the heavy trucks which were getting jittery and one even blew his horn loud for about 1 full min (deafening us all).
Within 3 mins, two cop cars were chasing.
One late arriving driver flashed behind me, and i slowed down. But somehow i guess his colleagues told him his mistake, and he sped away, waving us from inside his car.
If it were not for the cameras i would have been stopped, and questioned.
Spent two days looking for an example to show an actual non-benign group being targetted by police for entirely no reason. Could not find one. Always there was a reason: Too rowdy, or snatching purses.
Heck i even remember an incident with my group of friends in Sydney (Olympics time). We (group of 5) were deciding (at 2130 hrs) at the Burwood station to decide whether to watch a movie or head back home (different stations). Since we were highly vocal, we saw a cop coming slowly towards us, but we did not stop. After about 6-7 mins, we decided to catch the late night movie and fed the vending machine.
The cop stayed close to us, but did NOT interfere, did NOT speak or did NOT even ask us to move away.
I guess the cop came over from his office watching us in the CCTV.
And am sorry for my previous posts.
True. I downloaded the first patch manually. (one which used to crash MS Retail Mgmt System).
It works fine on my M2N-E-SLI with AMD 64 X2 4300+.