And every GSM customer in (almost all parts of the world) are required to be registered with the provider. It is illegal to provide anonymous cellphone subscriptions in this country and most others.
What about "pay as you go" phone where you just buy minutes...they sell those at every Wal-Mart and 7/11 in the nation. Doesn't look illegal to me...
Turn on the TV? Which channel? Fox News, our very own version of Pravda, with red, white and blue text banners and pundits foaming at the mouth about how it's treason to disagree with our Leader in time of war, a war which conveniently will never end?
Have you really ever watched Fox News? Yeah, there are some really conservative pundits, but that have a fair number of liberals ("progressives" if you like) as well. Please leave the party line litany at home.
If you have the *ability* to do it, then somebody in your organization eventually will decide that it sounds like a good idea.
And so what if they do? If the said company already has your information, why does it matter if they know how often you come to their site, and where you go on the site, and which sites they get click throughs from?
Doesn't sound very sinister. You should focus your efforts on getting MasterCard to stop losing people's info, or something serious, rather than worrying about cookies.
some programs leave directory structures behind sometimes with megabytes of data files in them!
That really doesn't have anything to do with Windows. Installers/uninstallers are created by whoever authored the program being uninstalled. Many times programs leave behind settings files in hopes that someday you'll reinstall.
Norton Internet Security provides a COMPLETE security solution for your machine by promptly blocking all programs on your machine from having any internet access, AT ALL! Buy it today!
This is advice from an idiot for other idiots. I'm sure the worms and other malware you invite onto this system will make great use of the "more than 10 MB RAM left for your applications."
Or maybe he's behind a hardware firewall and doesn't have to worry about worms, and he maybe he disabled ActiveX and no longer has to worry about malware either.
If you are selling internet security to non-technical users, then it becomes your responsibility to see that everything works properly.
Since when is the seller of a product responsible for teaching the buyer how to use it? The users should know how to use what they're are buying, or else why are they buying it?
"I work in a call center for a major US ISP. Do you know how often we get people calling in because Norton Internet Security is screwing up?...These people didn't change any settings on NIS, it just caused this on its own."
I worked (till they outsourced last year) at a call center for Symantec's Norton line of products, and I can tell you from my experience, most ISP technicians are bumblefucks. Maybe you are an exception. Anyway, 99.99% of all firewall problems are caused by user ignorance of what a firewall is or how it works. They always click "Block" whenever their firewall comes up and asks whether or to Allow/Block a program, then wonder why that program can't access the internet.
I've had too many problems with firewalls from ZoneAlarm, Kerio, etc, especially with them causing XP to hang on boot, skyrocketing memory use, etc, especially compared to the extremely basic windows firewall...
Never had an issue here...maybe you should check to see if you have a gazillion programs trying to startup when you boot. It's probably a program conflict.
Karl Rove might have leaked a name, but this woman will be lucky if by the time this is all over, the media hasn't published every single last detail of her life. Seriously, you make it into the news and all the sudden it's open season on every detail about you. There isn't a little info out about her, it's all kinds of crap I've seen in news articles...like her name, her husband, where she lives, where she works, what's she's been doing, her neighbors names....etc etc etc.
Seriously, has anybody thought about the ramification of this for free speech? The recent debacle with record companies whining about the BBC releasing those free tracks has some echoes of this...
Sometimes I really feel like our "rights" and "freedoms" are being sold to the corporations...
So they are working on delivering movies encumbered with DRM, and lock people to their platform. And this is progress? I feel like we are moving back in time here...
Yeah, cuz there was loads of digital media with DRM in past right?
Whoever thought the idea of give laptops to highschoolers must never have worked with any. I remember from my days in highschool. The kids are a destructive force. If it can be broken or stolen, it will be. I mean, seriously, how long until these things start getting stolen and showing up on Ebay? How do they prevent that from happening? Also, how do you stop some hormonely charged punk from getting mad and throwing a laptop on the ground? You know that it won't take but a day for some kid to forget that he's got a laptop in his backpack when he's throwing it in his locker. Books on the other hand don't break, and aren't hot items to sell. (College books are another story)
Plus I can see all kinds of new excuses...like I got a virus! Or my batteries died! Or Windows crashed/Clippy ate my paper! Books don't lose power, don't get virus, don't crash.
In the end, considering the group in questions (Highschoolers) books seem like the better solution. Plus, if a system isn't broken, why fix it? Books have been working for a long time, and can for a long time to come.
Trying to dislodge entreched giants when you're the little guy is near impossible...?
Serious, you could have a product 100 times better than Windows, but it would barely see the light of day because Windows is known, trusted (even if wrongly trusted), and has excellent marketing that would squelch your product.
Come on people...you don't have to be a scientist to figure out that steam + discolored water = underwater volcano. I was in Hawaii a few weeks ago at Hawaii Volcanos National Park and I was lucky enough to see magma going into the ocean...that stuff puts out a buncha steam probably thousands of feet in the air and makes the water look discolored.
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And every GSM customer in (almost all parts of the world) are required to be registered with the provider. It is illegal to provide anonymous cellphone subscriptions in this country and most others.
What about "pay as you go" phone where you just buy minutes...they sell those at every Wal-Mart and 7/11 in the nation. Doesn't look illegal to me...
Turn on the TV? Which channel? Fox News, our very own version of Pravda, with red, white and blue text banners and pundits foaming at the mouth about how it's treason to disagree with our Leader in time of war, a war which conveniently will never end?
Have you really ever watched Fox News? Yeah, there are some really conservative pundits, but that have a fair number of liberals ("progressives" if you like) as well. Please leave the party line litany at home.
travel 10 years into the future and grab a copy of Windows Vista.
You mean 10 years in the future when MS releases Longhorn.
If you have the *ability* to do it, then somebody in your organization eventually will decide that it sounds like a good idea.
And so what if they do? If the said company already has your information, why does it matter if they know how often you come to their site, and where you go on the site, and which sites they get click throughs from?
Doesn't sound very sinister. You should focus your efforts on getting MasterCard to stop losing people's info, or something serious, rather than worrying about cookies.
Seriously people...would you trust someone who told you this?
"Hey man, I'll hold all of your money while you log off/on to dupe it!"
some programs leave directory structures behind sometimes with megabytes of data files in them!
That really doesn't have anything to do with Windows. Installers/uninstallers are created by whoever authored the program being uninstalled. Many times programs leave behind settings files in hopes that someday you'll reinstall.
Obviously Norton Internet Security!
Norton Internet Security provides a COMPLETE security solution for your machine by promptly blocking all programs on your machine from having any internet access, AT ALL! Buy it today!
This is advice from an idiot for other idiots. I'm sure the worms and other malware you invite onto this system will make great use of the "more than 10 MB RAM left for your applications."
Or maybe he's behind a hardware firewall and doesn't have to worry about worms, and he maybe he disabled ActiveX and no longer has to worry about malware either.
But the guy in the article apparently couldn't get the spellcheck to work...
I believe they're more commonly referred to as "Menus".
If you are selling internet security to non-technical users, then it becomes your responsibility to see that everything works properly.
Since when is the seller of a product responsible for teaching the buyer how to use it? The users should know how to use what they're are buying, or else why are they buying it?
"I work in a call center for a major US ISP. Do you know how often we get people calling in because Norton Internet Security is screwing up?...These people didn't change any settings on NIS, it just caused this on its own."
I worked (till they outsourced last year) at a call center for Symantec's Norton line of products, and I can tell you from my experience, most ISP technicians are bumblefucks. Maybe you are an exception. Anyway, 99.99% of all firewall problems are caused by user ignorance of what a firewall is or how it works. They always click "Block" whenever their firewall comes up and asks whether or to Allow/Block a program, then wonder why that program can't access the internet.
I've had too many problems with firewalls from ZoneAlarm, Kerio, etc, especially with them causing XP to hang on boot, skyrocketing memory use, etc, especially compared to the extremely basic windows firewall...
Never had an issue here...maybe you should check to see if you have a gazillion programs trying to startup when you boot. It's probably a program conflict.
If you are using a router to share an internet connect, it probably has a firewall on it that you can enable.
Karl Rove might have leaked a name, but this woman will be lucky if by the time this is all over, the media hasn't published every single last detail of her life. Seriously, you make it into the news and all the sudden it's open season on every detail about you. There isn't a little info out about her, it's all kinds of crap I've seen in news articles...like her name, her husband, where she lives, where she works, what's she's been doing, her neighbors names....etc etc etc.
What is a secure monitor?
There's just one word that sums up this whole SCO ordeal:
LMFAO!!
Seriously, has anybody thought about the ramification of this for free speech? The recent debacle with record companies whining about the BBC releasing those free tracks has some echoes of this...
Sometimes I really feel like our "rights" and "freedoms" are being sold to the corporations...
So they are working on delivering movies encumbered with DRM, and lock people to their platform. And this is progress? I feel like we are moving back in time here...
Yeah, cuz there was loads of digital media with DRM in past right?
Whoever thought the idea of give laptops to highschoolers must never have worked with any. I remember from my days in highschool. The kids are a destructive force. If it can be broken or stolen, it will be. I mean, seriously, how long until these things start getting stolen and showing up on Ebay? How do they prevent that from happening? Also, how do you stop some hormonely charged punk from getting mad and throwing a laptop on the ground? You know that it won't take but a day for some kid to forget that he's got a laptop in his backpack when he's throwing it in his locker. Books on the other hand don't break, and aren't hot items to sell. (College books are another story)
Plus I can see all kinds of new excuses...like I got a virus! Or my batteries died! Or Windows crashed/Clippy ate my paper! Books don't lose power, don't get virus, don't crash.
In the end, considering the group in questions (Highschoolers) books seem like the better solution. Plus, if a system isn't broken, why fix it? Books have been working for a long time, and can for a long time to come.
Honestly...is anyone surprised by this? We all saw this coming.
Actually, I don't think anyone saw this coming. It seems low...even for Microsoft.
Trying to dislodge entreched giants when you're the little guy is near impossible...?
Serious, you could have a product 100 times better than Windows, but it would barely see the light of day because Windows is known, trusted (even if wrongly trusted), and has excellent marketing that would squelch your product.
It really isn't a volcano. It's actually the site where a tanker carrying Thai Hot Chilli Sauce went down!
Maybe it's not a volcano at all. I'll bet a tanker full of Thai Hot Chili Sauce went down there.
Come on people...you don't have to be a scientist to figure out that steam + discolored water = underwater volcano. I was in Hawaii a few weeks ago at Hawaii Volcanos National Park and I was lucky enough to see magma going into the ocean...that stuff puts out a buncha steam probably thousands of feet in the air and makes the water look discolored.