They'll only be reduced at a rate that corresponds with the [expiration date + x number of months] of patents that are held on various parts of the full "binary" driver.
Another fun trick is how easy it is to catch spambots by using "invisible" form fields. Bots are too "stupid" to negotiate around these traps. They fill in those fields just like they do the visible ones, allowing you, the site operator, to instantly bin their nonsense to/dev/null with scripts and ban their IP addresses.
The tool who keeps going on and on about HOSTS files is turning himself into a bad Slashdot-centric meme.
A) HOSTS files are vulnerable to being overwritten. B) HOSTS files are vulnerable to being overwritten. C) Only complete idiots rely on just a HOSTS file.
It wasn't phoning home. It was scanning the contents of the directory for things that may be triggered "on load", namely, malware that triggers itself into action when the directory is opened and read for a listing of contents. Such malware exists and has since at least 2002, and probably even way earlier than that in cruder forms for Win 95/98/ME. Works as intended.
See, the thing with this tired old argument is, is that all of these telcos were, are, and will be given massive subsidies via our tax dollars to improve their infrastructure.
Instead they wasted it on deep-packet-inspection units, advertising, and unnecessary corporate bonuses.
Chrome/Chromium is being developed and marketed to work on PCs and smart devices. Guess which miniscule marketshare OS doesn't follow the conventions of the entire rest of the market and won't be supported by Chrome/Chromium devs because this OS uses ass-backwards "conventions".
Or audio/video/photo editing. Or commercial publishing.
Essentially, anything that doesn't involve databases, email, webservers, specialized machine control (routers, cnc machines, etc), or number crunching.
I think by now everyone knows that answer to "When will Linux be ready for the desktop?", is never. It's not an insult, it's just a fact. Linux just works better for certain workstations, embedded systems, and most servers. It falls down flat when it attempts to disguise itself as a desktop OS. The developers would be better off forgetting things like laptops and desktop systems and pour their resources into mobile versions of the operating system and the back-end that would serve and control those mobile systems. This includes future control/communications platforms that are starting to appear in mass-market transportation. It's missed the boat for being ready for the desktop by a longshot when so much of computing is already moving away from it.
BSD is a better desktop OS than Linux for that matter anyhow (just look at MacOSX for a prime example), and isn't in a state of fractured chaos like Linux (Too many flavors: great for choice, bottom-barrel for support and quality control).
So very true. I am always grateful to the Fates that those EDS suit & tie folks gave me the heebie-jeebies when they came recruiting at my school. Out of my class of 50, only two people took on jobs there, with many of my fellow classmates picking up on the same vibe and totally NOT digging the ridiculous blue/blue/tie dress code they had at the time.
The reason this is so, is because Direct2Drive has no built-in Achievement or Social (game stats, communications, etc) platforms, and both of those were explicitly programmed components of the game itself. While the game may be installed via Steam, I can almost guarantee you that the executable file for the game itself has been compiled with hooks especially for Direct2Drive (hence why many game trainers, cracks, etc specify now which version of the software from which service they work on).
He never mentioned national anything. There however, as he said, should be tighter rules as to how many and what type of media companies these giant conglomerates may own and operate.
Sooo...how does anyone in Italy play any Pay 2 Play MMOs then?
A) Transactions required before you can log in B) EULAs not presented until installation of software + payment transactions are completed in most cases C) EULA is contained on a sheet of paper inside of software boxes, or is contained in the software itself D) Good luck getting any Asian MMO company (aka 99% of MMO companies) to abide by that law
Part of the problems showing up with plagiarism though in schools, are that there are only so many ways to write about a given subject. We've more than likely already crossed the threshold where there is no more way at all to write an original work on such topics, especially since most everyone is using the exact same research materials across the board.
I don't think too many people are taking this into account.
Until they sell that information to an unscrupulous company or other group of individuals, who then come and rob your house while you're away on vacation.
It's happened more than once now and was made note of in the MSM, which is why several Senators and House members on Judicial + FCC/FTC oversight committees are starting to poke into the entire privacy affair concerning Facebook.
I strongly suspect you wouldn't be singing the same tune if it happened to you.
Correlating your Facebook info along with a service like PeekYou and Google Street View, will make it even easier for them to know exactly which house is yours, and who to expect to find there, when to expect them, and quite possibly what the expected contents of your house are.
I think that's because they finally realized that attempting to keep pounding down the same route concerning access to the video layer as before was a losing proposition, and instead just made it into direct hardware access like they do with modems, etc. Basically, they gave up trying to emulate the video layers, which is good. Now maybe the rest of the "VM" companies can manage to do the same.
That list would be pointless, as OTA DTV transmissions ignore any arbitrary boundaries shown on maps, just like the analog transmissions did. I can pick up channels from as far away as Maryland, Delaware, eastern New York (think NYC), Canada, western Ohio, etc. depending upon time of day and weather conditions, and I live in northwestern Pennsylvania. I can actually pick up more Canadian transmissions than American ones, sadly.
Outside of southern California, the mid-Atlantic region is more densely packed than anywhere else in the Northern Hemisphere. There is overlap, etc constantly, no matter what the FCC wants.
And that would be Windows 95, since malware written for Win98 and above is incapable of running on it, whereas every piece of malware from Windows 95 on is capable of running on Windows 7.
Gotta love compatibility mode and the APIs it exposes.
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Yes, it's nice if you don't mind every 5th web page not rendering.
Chrome > Opera just for rendering reliability alone. What use is the rest if it can't even do THAT? /endrant
This is also due in part to manufacturers churning out ever more disparate disposable computing "devices" that aren't at all like a PC.
I still await reports on the long-term failure rates of things like the iPad.
LOL, yet, time and time again, nVidia does the same stunts with their drivers as they did at the release of Vista, or did you forget all of that?
We won't even go into having to use our ovens at home to re-flow the shitty soldering on their video cards.
They'll only be reduced at a rate that corresponds with the [expiration date + x number of months] of patents that are held on various parts of the full "binary" driver.
See also: Intel drivers being "reference" in nature, and not "performance" in nature.
Another fun trick is how easy it is to catch spambots by using "invisible" form fields. Bots are too "stupid" to negotiate around these traps. They fill in those fields just like they do the visible ones, allowing you, the site operator, to instantly bin their nonsense to /dev/null with scripts and ban their IP addresses.
And make sure the trash bin you use for disposal is not your own, nor anyplace within 150 miles of the incident in question.
The tool who keeps going on and on about HOSTS files is turning himself into a bad Slashdot-centric meme.
A) HOSTS files are vulnerable to being overwritten.
B) HOSTS files are vulnerable to being overwritten.
C) Only complete idiots rely on just a HOSTS file.
Tyson Chicken Strips. Oddly enough, they are very representative of the moral fortitude of the entire U.S. Congress.
It wasn't phoning home. It was scanning the contents of the directory for things that may be triggered "on load", namely, malware that triggers itself into action when the directory is opened and read for a listing of contents. Such malware exists and has since at least 2002, and probably even way earlier than that in cruder forms for Win 95/98/ME. Works as intended.
See, the thing with this tired old argument is, is that all of these telcos were, are, and will be given massive subsidies via our tax dollars to improve their infrastructure.
Instead they wasted it on deep-packet-inspection units, advertising, and unnecessary corporate bonuses.
Chrome/Chromium is being developed and marketed to work on PCs and smart devices. Guess which miniscule marketshare OS doesn't follow the conventions of the entire rest of the market and won't be supported by Chrome/Chromium devs because this OS uses ass-backwards "conventions".
Probably because Ask and Yahoo no longer run their own search engines. They use Bing on the backend.
Except when it comes to games.
Or audio/video/photo editing. Or commercial publishing.
Essentially, anything that doesn't involve databases, email, webservers, specialized machine control (routers, cnc machines, etc), or number crunching.
I think by now everyone knows that answer to "When will Linux be ready for the desktop?", is never. It's not an insult, it's just a fact. Linux just works better for certain workstations, embedded systems, and most servers. It falls down flat when it attempts to disguise itself as a desktop OS. The developers would be better off forgetting things like laptops and desktop systems and pour their resources into mobile versions of the operating system and the back-end that would serve and control those mobile systems. This includes future control/communications platforms that are starting to appear in mass-market transportation. It's missed the boat for being ready for the desktop by a longshot when so much of computing is already moving away from it.
BSD is a better desktop OS than Linux for that matter anyhow (just look at MacOSX for a prime example), and isn't in a state of fractured chaos like Linux (Too many flavors: great for choice, bottom-barrel for support and quality control).
So very true. I am always grateful to the Fates that those EDS suit & tie folks gave me the heebie-jeebies when they came recruiting at my school. Out of my class of 50, only two people took on jobs there, with many of my fellow classmates picking up on the same vibe and totally NOT digging the ridiculous blue/blue/tie dress code they had at the time.
The reason this is so, is because Direct2Drive has no built-in Achievement or Social (game stats, communications, etc) platforms, and both of those were explicitly programmed components of the game itself. While the game may be installed via Steam, I can almost guarantee you that the executable file for the game itself has been compiled with hooks especially for Direct2Drive (hence why many game trainers, cracks, etc specify now which version of the software from which service they work on).
He never mentioned national anything. There however, as he said, should be tighter rules as to how many and what type of media companies these giant conglomerates may own and operate.
Value Meal. McDonald's. Television.
Sooo...how does anyone in Italy play any Pay 2 Play MMOs then?
A) Transactions required before you can log in
B) EULAs not presented until installation of software + payment transactions are completed in most cases
C) EULA is contained on a sheet of paper inside of software boxes, or is contained in the software itself
D) Good luck getting any Asian MMO company (aka 99% of MMO companies) to abide by that law
Part of the problems showing up with plagiarism though in schools, are that there are only so many ways to write about a given subject. We've more than likely already crossed the threshold where there is no more way at all to write an original work on such topics, especially since most everyone is using the exact same research materials across the board.
I don't think too many people are taking this into account.
Until they sell that information to an unscrupulous company or other group of individuals, who then come and rob your house while you're away on vacation.
It's happened more than once now and was made note of in the MSM, which is why several Senators and House members on Judicial + FCC/FTC oversight committees are starting to poke into the entire privacy affair concerning Facebook.
I strongly suspect you wouldn't be singing the same tune if it happened to you.
Correlating your Facebook info along with a service like PeekYou and Google Street View, will make it even easier for them to know exactly which house is yours, and who to expect to find there, when to expect them, and quite possibly what the expected contents of your house are.
Except on Slashdot, where no matter what browser you use, the crappy javascript and calls to Google Analytics slow the entire thing to a crawl.
I think that's because they finally realized that attempting to keep pounding down the same route concerning access to the video layer as before was a losing proposition, and instead just made it into direct hardware access like they do with modems, etc. Basically, they gave up trying to emulate the video layers, which is good. Now maybe the rest of the "VM" companies can manage to do the same.
That list would be pointless, as OTA DTV transmissions ignore any arbitrary boundaries shown on maps, just like the analog transmissions did. I can pick up channels from as far away as Maryland, Delaware, eastern New York (think NYC), Canada, western Ohio, etc. depending upon time of day and weather conditions, and I live in northwestern Pennsylvania. I can actually pick up more Canadian transmissions than American ones, sadly.
Outside of southern California, the mid-Atlantic region is more densely packed than anywhere else in the Northern Hemisphere. There is overlap, etc constantly, no matter what the FCC wants.
And that would be Windows 95, since malware written for Win98 and above is incapable of running on it, whereas every piece of malware from Windows 95 on is capable of running on Windows 7.
Gotta love compatibility mode and the APIs it exposes.