And they give me unattended installs of XP, slipstreamed with all the drivers I need*, and most useless Windows services disabled (like system restore and the slow-self-destruct feature called Windows Update and "net send" and "SSDP Service Discovery" that won't ever discover any service at all since there are zero currently sold devices that connect to it.)
* Drivers I need : ATI cards, nVidia cards, all current AC97s, Intel and VIA and AMD and nVidia mobo chipsets, Broadcom 44xx and Marvell and Realtek net cards, possibly Atheros and Intel WLAN cards - done, all current hardware worth buying listed in under two lines. As for the AMD CPUs that need a driver to underclock themselves because they BURN when they run at their normal freq, those should just be left to fry. Buy Intel.
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If we teach noobs that DRM == rootkit, maybe there will be enough outcry to influence the morons who thought DRM was a good thing in the first place.
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...snip... This analogy also opens the door to comparisons to pirates stealing the recipe and then making it without the shit, and how pie makers who don't use shit in their recipes sell more pies.
Yeah, but what about the companies who make the shit to use in pie recipes?
(Answer : their owners should be stoned on public places while impaled up the ass by metal cacti attached to the pyres burning them alive. No, it' not "cruel and unusual punishment", it's just "deterrence so no one will Just That EVER AGAIN")
Just because it's free with a new PC. HP pre-paid my license of Vista, got refunded by malware authors such as Symantec for ad space for their crap, and I threw the whole mess away by installing Pirate Editions of both OSX and XP.
Because everyone (who owns a brain bigger than two connected neurons) uses Windows XP Pirate Edition that does not even ask an FCKGW any longer AND passes WGA for a month (or indefinitely if you turn off the "slow self-destruct" feature called Windows Update)
I use to playing a rather recent game (an RTS called Dawn of War SoulStorm) on my recent (Aug 08) laptop.
I first tried on the Hackintosh system, with Wine. Wine having no hardware 3D support on Mac, I pirated CrossOver Games. Which HAS 3D support. (WTF?) It sucked. It was as slow as it would have been on a four-year-old PC. I could count the framerate with a wristwatch.
Then I tried on the Linux system. Worked out of the box, a charm. But it was as slow as it would have been on a two-year-old PC, and buggier than with CrossOver. (Still sluggish, and control widget skins not on the click-sensitive places.)
Then I ran it on the much-resisted install of XP I finally had* to do. Miracle! It's all fast nice! Even at native resolution (17" 1440x900) hallelujah.
Punchline : WINE is a joke. Can run Notepad fast enough. On recent machines. Not the Vista version, we need to fix DirectX support first. (Hint : will never happen)
* : Go try to connect a WLAN card from Intel to anything encrypted under a non-Windows OS. No, not the obsolete ones; I mean a recent model like the 3965 or 4965.
Bwaaah, jumping through that many hoops just to play a game?
What is wrong with these people? Can't they write a not-emulator that Just Works? Or, are game developpers actively trying to discourage Linux users from playing their games?
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Your code is wrong.
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What does firmware update do? Of course they fix occasional bugs and bring "useful features", but most of the time it's only to stop you from playing "illegally copied" games thanks to an "unauthorized" mod-chip.
Yeah, because it's supposed to be "No Such Agency", but I guess the idiot who went for first post didn't have enough time to remember it right.
Back on topic, now that I've threadjacked high enough to be READ...... Since when does the NSA follow laws? No one knows anything of what it is they actually do with all those metric shittons of money they gobble down every year.
If it was Belgium, their upper echelons (yeah, pun) would just steal it, but in the US?
Yeah, it must cost around that just to put the drive in a computer and assess what's wrong... which would take me from 30 sec to 5 mins, depending on what is actually wrong with the drive.
No, you don't understand. What Google sells is advertising space, which pays for the content and services.
Picture this : free primary scientific information means a narrowly targeted, highly interested public. If it gets all published for free on the web, people will read it, and some WILL buy associated products. Lab machines and such, for example - and one spectrometer is a product so deliriously expensive that one sale could easily pay for a whole lot of article royalties.
But if articles are free, so many more people will read them that some are bound to buy something after reading an associated ad on a product they want or need. That's one sale that might not have occured at all in the current model. Moreover, many more ads would be displayed than in science journals that print the same ads on all their copies, and that is Good Capitalism, because it enhances competition. And in such conditions, lab machines might, just might have a market multiplied by orders of magnitude, and their prices would drop accordingly.
Cheaper science means the algorithm of the scientific method would be distributed on many, many more nodes, thus Progress would come much, much faster. That is a Good Thing, yes?
I was looking for some place to post the factoid that 41cm is way, way behind the current tech level. Satellites can see with a res of 1 inch, and that's whet the public is told. Make that 1mm for really advanced current systems, those we'll be told about in a couple of decades.
"50cm because of US regulations". That's ridiculous. You can't regulate technology. It's just like regulating science.
Bah, the morons at the ISP heard "hostage" somewhere in the woman's words and overreacted with an hysteria attack.
People who don't understand more than one word in a sentence are sub-humans. They should be forced to follow courses in understanding, and if they fail* be made unable to replicate, lest their stupidity genes carry on polluting humanity.
And organizations that overreact in that kind of way should be heavily fined too. Until they understand that stupid hysteria is a threat to humanity.
* : bold typeface, so that the same kind of idiots who might dwell here have a better chance of reading that part of the sentence
So, now in Germany, Customs can seize any yet-unreleased tech product and... what, profit?
This world is such a sad place... I'm gonna buy me an official-looking costume and use that as a license to steal, too. Gonna make a killing on ebay selling next year's gizmos.
Well, since the choice arises at the time he confronts the situation, the answer is obvious.
That, and the fact that he watched the video, and I didn't. I chose not to, I weigh 65Kg even though I drink a gallon of soda a day, I'm not concerned by the video about illnesses for fat people, and it is MY WILL not to watch them and eat burgers.
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And they give me unattended installs of XP, slipstreamed with all the drivers I need*, and most useless Windows services disabled (like system restore and the slow-self-destruct feature called Windows Update and "net send" and "SSDP Service Discovery" that won't ever discover any service at all since there are zero currently sold devices that connect to it.)
* Drivers I need : ATI cards, nVidia cards, all current AC97s, Intel and VIA and AMD and nVidia mobo chipsets, Broadcom 44xx and Marvell and Realtek net cards, possibly Atheros and Intel WLAN cards - done, all current hardware worth buying listed in under two lines.
As for the AMD CPUs that need a driver to underclock themselves because they BURN when they run at their normal freq, those should just be left to fry. Buy Intel.
If we teach noobs that DRM == rootkit, maybe there will be enough outcry to influence the morons who thought DRM was a good thing in the first place.
...snip...
This analogy also opens the door to comparisons to pirates stealing the recipe and then making it without the shit, and how pie makers who don't use shit in their recipes sell more pies.
Yeah, but what about the companies who make the shit to use in pie recipes?
(Answer : their owners should be stoned on public places while impaled up the ass by metal cacti attached to the pyres burning them alive. No, it' not "cruel and unusual punishment", it's just "deterrence so no one will Just That EVER AGAIN")
Yes.
But it can't "run arbitrary code uploaded by the attacker [define attacker as the person uploading the code to your machine without your consent]".
Thus, YOU FAIL IT
NOT a rootkit
Malware YES
Rootkit NO
Got it now?
Else :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit
Pay for Windows? Yeah, right.
Just because it's free with a new PC. HP pre-paid my license of Vista, got refunded by malware authors such as Symantec for ad space for their crap, and I threw the whole mess away by installing Pirate Editions of both OSX and XP.
Because everyone (who owns a brain bigger than two connected neurons) uses Windows XP Pirate Edition that does not even ask an FCKGW any longer AND passes WGA for a month (or indefinitely if you turn off the "slow self-destruct" feature called Windows Update)
format c:
Only way to be sure...
Use a VM, get your perfs halved!
Yes, halved. Yes, I've tried.
I use to playing a rather recent game (an RTS called Dawn of War SoulStorm) on my recent (Aug 08) laptop.
I first tried on the Hackintosh system, with Wine. Wine having no hardware 3D support on Mac, I pirated CrossOver Games. Which HAS 3D support. (WTF?) It sucked. It was as slow as it would have been on a four-year-old PC. I could count the framerate with a wristwatch.
Then I tried on the Linux system. Worked out of the box, a charm. But it was as slow as it would have been on a two-year-old PC, and buggier than with CrossOver. (Still sluggish, and control widget skins not on the click-sensitive places.)
Then I ran it on the much-resisted install of XP I finally had* to do. Miracle! It's all fast nice! Even at native resolution (17" 1440x900) hallelujah.
Punchline : WINE is a joke. Can run Notepad fast enough. On recent machines. Not the Vista version, we need to fix DirectX support first. (Hint : will never happen)
* : Go try to connect a WLAN card from Intel to anything encrypted under a non-Windows OS. No, not the obsolete ones; I mean a recent model like the 3965 or 4965.
Bwaaah, jumping through that many hoops just to play a game?
What is wrong with these people? Can't they write a not-emulator that Just Works? Or, are game developpers actively trying to discourage Linux users from playing their games?
Your code is wrong.
What does firmware update do? Of course they fix occasional bugs and bring "useful features", but most of the time it's only to stop you from playing "illegally copied" games thanks to an "unauthorized" mod-chip.
There, fixed that for you.
Yeah, because it's supposed to be "No Such Agency", but I guess the idiot who went for first post didn't have enough time to remember it right.
Back on topic, now that I've threadjacked high enough to be READ... ... Since when does the NSA follow laws? No one knows anything of what it is they actually do with all those metric shittons of money they gobble down every year.
If it was Belgium, their upper echelons (yeah, pun) would just steal it, but in the US?
You can also write a couple of random bytes in random places on the disk, and it will become undecipherable even with the keys.
Assessment for US$ 160?
Yeah, it must cost around that just to put the drive in a computer and assess what's wrong... which would take me from 30 sec to 5 mins, depending on what is actually wrong with the drive.
I do that all the time. It ensures that comments are read.
Yeah, except that Blizzard is rumored to have ensured that WoW would run on Wine.
Sorry, I'm disagreeing here. If it CAN zoom to 41cm, it's EVIL to censor it down to 50cm.
No, you don't understand. What Google sells is advertising space, which pays for the content and services.
Picture this : free primary scientific information means a narrowly targeted, highly interested public. If it gets all published for free on the web, people will read it, and some WILL buy associated products. Lab machines and such, for example - and one spectrometer is a product so deliriously expensive that one sale could easily pay for a whole lot of article royalties.
But if articles are free, so many more people will read them that some are bound to buy something after reading an associated ad on a product they want or need. That's one sale that might not have occured at all in the current model. Moreover, many more ads would be displayed than in science journals that print the same ads on all their copies, and that is Good Capitalism, because it enhances competition. And in such conditions, lab machines might, just might have a market multiplied by orders of magnitude, and their prices would drop accordingly.
Cheaper science means the algorithm of the scientific method would be distributed on many, many more nodes, thus Progress would come much, much faster. That is a Good Thing, yes?
See the awesome power of Capitalism Done Right.
I was looking for some place to post the factoid that 41cm is way, way behind the current tech level. Satellites can see with a res of 1 inch, and that's whet the public is told. Make that 1mm for really advanced current systems, those we'll be told about in a couple of decades.
"50cm because of US regulations". That's ridiculous. You can't regulate technology. It's just like regulating science.
Bah, the morons at the ISP heard "hostage" somewhere in the woman's words and overreacted with an hysteria attack.
People who don't understand more than one word in a sentence are sub-humans. They should be forced to follow courses in understanding, and if they fail* be made unable to replicate, lest their stupidity genes carry on polluting humanity.
And organizations that overreact in that kind of way should be heavily fined too. Until they understand that stupid hysteria is a threat to humanity.
* : bold typeface, so that the same kind of idiots who might dwell here have a better chance of reading that part of the sentence
Threadjack ftw!
So, now in Germany, Customs can seize any yet-unreleased tech product and ... what, profit?
This world is such a sad place... I'm gonna buy me an official-looking costume and use that as a license to steal, too. Gonna make a killing on ebay selling next year's gizmos.
Okay.
You're a fucking moron.
I freely choose to insult you.
I'm lying on a mattress now. I chose to. I could be on a chair instead.
Free will in action.
Now, what will your pre-determined answer be?
Well, since the choice arises at the time he confronts the situation, the answer is obvious.
That, and the fact that he watched the video, and I didn't. I chose not to, I weigh 65Kg even though I drink a gallon of soda a day, I'm not concerned by the video about illnesses for fat people, and it is MY WILL not to watch them and eat burgers.
Thus, there is free will. Case closed.
No, but it makes for an interesting LSD trip.
Your syllogism is wrong.