Ironically, the MOTD at the bottom of this page is currently:
"Consequences, Schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich." -- "Ali Baba Bunny" [1957, Chuck Jones]
Meanwhile, try this thought experiment: throw an ice cube into a swimming pool full of boiling oatmeal and see how much the melting ice cube affects the temperature of the oatmeal. Now scale that up by a factor of, say, ten million.
The one thing we know for certain is that the cost will not go down. When all the oil goes away, its replacement will cost more, and the oil companies want to be the ones collecting that money.
Beas' Facebook page showed an update posted at 7:54 AM on December 7, 2010, which is the same time that Veloz's cell phone records showed a call being made to 911."
Since driving and using a cell phone at the same time are illegal in the city of Chicago, having evidence that the driver was doing so at the time of the accident means the defendant has a rough day in court ahead.
As noted elsewhere in this thread, it's in Task Scheduler as well; also, there's "something else" that starts it on occasion, I never could find out what, but GoogleUpdater kept getting caught by my egress-blocking firewall, even after disabling the service and removing it from TaskScheduler. I finally ended up uninstalling it.
And thanks for the reminder, it's been so long since I was a regular Windows user, I'd forgotten all about 'msconfig'.
The tag is deprecated? Why wasn't W3.org notified? Meanwhile, Slashdot's "Edit Comment" page says:
Allowed HTML
<b> <i> <p> <br> <a> <ol> <ul> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <em> <strong> <tt> <blockquote> <div> <ecode> <quote> URLs
<URL:http://example.com/> will auto-link a URL
And if I do HTML well enough to do the above, maybe I'm not a rookie at it. But I will use <em> instead of <i> from now on, even if it's not the way we did it back in the 50's.
...and the software does not get updated automatically."
Let's talk about CPU-choking check-for-update services. Ever tried to disable GoogleUpdater? I mean really disable it? Or the Adobe "Let's interrupt the boot process with our bullshit" updater? Or my favorite this week - was recently straightening out a friends machine and found an updater service from Intuit running - my friend had installed and used TurboTax to do his taxes last year, so naturally a system service had to be running to check for updates to tax software for FY2009.
I see the <i>italic</i> tags are still broken, damn this web 2.0 stuff is HARD, isn't it?
How dare you suggest that every byte on/b/, or every "frist psot, I for one, in soviet russia, you insensitive clod" on slashdot isn't knowledge of the first order?
Wormer, he's a dead man!
Marmalard, dead!
Niedermeyer... DEAD!!
Or, my personal favorite:
"I want you to get this fuck where he breathes! I want you to find this nancy-boy Eliot Ness, I want him DEAD! I want his family DEAD! I want his house burned to the GROUND! I wanna go there in the middle of the night and I wanna PISS ON HIS ASHES!"
Agreed that sync and "update fetchonly" are harmless. The question is how much automation do you allow before you have to use neurons to prevent The Bad Thing from happening.
I've actually seen people in forums say they do this - the point was "Who do you trust"? Frankly, I find many of the more drool-proof new features in both Linux and KDE4 to be less than useless.
When you only make computers for idiots, only idiots will have computers.
87.3% of all the biggest forehead-whapping Windows security bugs have come from Microsoft's (really Bill Gates) love of whizzo features that look really cool in a developers conference keynote but don't survive the first three minutes of critical thought or exposure to the real world.
I'm specifically referring to things like where IE or Windows Explorer execute code of unknown provenance to provide "previews". Windows Explorer once had a bug which could execute arbitrary code via JPEG preview. Of course, the Outlook preview exploits are LEGION, but we can also include VB macros included in Word and Excel "data" (hahaha) files. Only a sick love of flashy features, consequences be damned can account for this.
It's too bad you don't believe in chiropractors. After a chiropractic adjustment, you might have been able to turn your head upwards and see the joke whizzing way above you.
There are two versions of the "who invented it first" argument; there's the "idea whose time has come" type, say Newton vs Leibniz on calculus; and here invalidation of both claims is probably an option, even if we ignore the money to be made by SOMEBODY holding a patent. But secondly, there's the question as to whether invention was independent, or even fraudulent, as in Elisha Gray vs Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone. Bell basically won on first-to-file because Gray didn't have good enough records to prove he was first-to-invent. So is a real inventor supposed to miss out because somebody tried to steal his idea?
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Meanwhile, try this thought experiment: throw an ice cube into a swimming pool full of boiling oatmeal and see how much the melting ice cube affects the temperature of the oatmeal. Now scale that up by a factor of, say, ten million.
Damn right! If man were meant to fly, he'd have wings!
The one thing we know for certain is that the cost will not go down. When all the oil goes away, its replacement will cost more, and the oil companies want to be the ones collecting that money.
Meaning Beas did hit submit - at 7:54 AM.
Since driving and using a cell phone at the same time are illegal in the city of Chicago, having evidence that the driver was doing so at the time of the accident means the defendant has a rough day in court ahead.
And now I note that having been broken since the latest Slachcode update it's now suddenly magically fixed.
This is completely incorrect. You're not paying a prostitute for sex, you're paying them to go away afterwards.
As noted elsewhere in this thread, it's in Task Scheduler as well; also, there's "something else" that starts it on occasion, I never could find out what, but GoogleUpdater kept getting caught by my egress-blocking firewall, even after disabling the service and removing it from TaskScheduler. I finally ended up uninstalling it.
And thanks for the reminder, it's been so long since I was a regular Windows user, I'd forgotten all about 'msconfig'.
Meanwhile, Slashdot's "Edit Comment" page says:
And if I do HTML well enough to do the above, maybe I'm not a rookie at it. But I will use <em> instead of <i> from now on, even if it's not the way we did it back in the 50's.
Why? So you can automagically erase all your data and re-install the bloatware?
Let's talk about CPU-choking check-for-update services. Ever tried to disable GoogleUpdater? I mean really disable it? Or the Adobe "Let's interrupt the boot process with our bullshit" updater? Or my favorite this week - was recently straightening out a friends machine and found an updater service from Intuit running - my friend had installed and used TurboTax to do his taxes last year, so naturally a system service had to be running to check for updates to tax software for FY2009.
I see the <i>italic</i> tags are still broken, damn this web 2.0 stuff is HARD, isn't it?
Oh, if only you could add to knowledge before you used it.
How dare you suggest that every byte on /b/, or every "frist psot, I for one, in soviet russia, you insensitive clod" on slashdot isn't knowledge of the first order?
In UNIX, that's what we used to call the "sticky bits".
Wormer, he's a dead man!
Marmalard, dead!
Niedermeyer... DEAD!!
Or, my personal favorite:
"I want you to get this fuck where he breathes! I want you to find this nancy-boy Eliot Ness, I want him DEAD! I want his family DEAD! I want his house burned to the GROUND! I wanna go there in the middle of the night and I wanna PISS ON HIS ASHES!"
When I glanced at that, I saw "I think Microsoft will be the contributing factor to the success of Java"; and had quite a good giggle.
Your laughably puny ninja-like reflexes are useless compared to the pirate-like reflexes of those who modded you into oblivion.
Agreed that sync and "update fetchonly" are harmless. The question is how much automation do you allow before you have to use neurons to prevent The Bad Thing from happening.
I've actually seen people in forums say they do this - the point was "Who do you trust"? Frankly, I find many of the more drool-proof new features in both Linux and KDE4 to be less than useless.
When you only make computers for idiots, only idiots will have computers.
Exactly.
87.3% of all the biggest forehead-whapping Windows security bugs have come from Microsoft's (really Bill Gates) love of whizzo features that look really cool in a developers conference keynote but don't survive the first three minutes of critical thought or exposure to the real world.
I'm specifically referring to things like where IE or Windows Explorer execute code of unknown provenance to provide "previews". Windows Explorer once had a bug which could execute arbitrary code via JPEG preview. Of course, the Outlook preview exploits are LEGION, but we can also include VB macros included in Word and Excel "data" (hahaha) files. Only a sick love of flashy features, consequences be damned can account for this.
Just curious here: do you run "emerge --update world" from a root crontab entry?
ISWYDT
(keys desk intercom) Miss Jones, come in here! And bring your steganography pad!
It's too bad you don't believe in chiropractors. After a chiropractic adjustment, you might have been able to turn your head upwards and see the joke whizzing way above you.
There are two versions of the "who invented it first" argument; there's the "idea whose time has come" type, say Newton vs Leibniz on calculus; and here invalidation of both claims is probably an option, even if we ignore the money to be made by SOMEBODY holding a patent. But secondly, there's the question as to whether invention was independent, or even fraudulent, as in Elisha Gray vs Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone. Bell basically won on first-to-file because Gray didn't have good enough records to prove he was first-to-invent. So is a real inventor supposed to miss out because somebody tried to steal his idea?