You bring up an interesting point. Are there any charities that accept old PCs to send to developing nations? If not why is that? I'm curious because I have a ton of computers I need to get rid of and its better that I send them to that over someplace illegal or pay to have it recycled.
Being a young person I have no problems with things like this because I simply stick to a cellphone. People will tell me it causes cancer but then again what does these days?
Well its illegal to publish such reports in the US because Microsoft would lobby against it and get them shot. We have to be careful and I think that may be why its only available for a limited time... Duck and cover.
True. The BSD people swear by it and the certain linux loves love their specific distro for a certain reason. Picking the BEST is not a real practical approach. That is the joy of Open Source OSes in that you can pick your flavor and make it what you want it to be.
Ya this is rather odd and bullshit at the same time. I don't see how a graphical map of the world displaying IPs is considered patentable. I know of a great many areas where such things are used besides just firewalls. So the patent isn't very debatable and once again US courts have created another mess for the world and for themselves.
Yep I was thinking this sounded very familar and I was right. Maybe if they keep complaining they should have an update? Its the same old news without something new happening.
If they are hiring all those firms to help them fix the problem then it seems like they have quite a lot of cash. So how badly could these attacks be affecting their business?
That is true. I have heard something about that in the past. I was more referring to the fact that other nations shouldn't follow its footsteps until they pass step one which is an actual source of energy that isn't damaging to the planet and that will last a long time.
Yes but I also remember all the car crashes involving gasoline and explosions so I can't see that this is much more of a threat in that regard. The only thing that isn't too clever about hydrogen is that it isn't renewable. You waste energy creating it and as a result you need a few source that is actually bigger in order to use it. So fusion is still the only answer unless you want windmills everywhere you look.
This is a victory for the average man over political power and should be remembered. Its news like this that gives me faith in humans even if there is few events like it.
I don't feel you have the right to comment unless you've taken classes in business. In order to run one you have to know the rules and some have great ideas but suck at running themselves. Marketing is an aspect of business obviously and all those ads are a good thing to them because they make money.
Me neither. Well I've heard of them but neve known anything about their product. To run a good business, you have to not only have something people want but you have to actually market it with skill and have good business practices. For instance Krispy Kreme the donut maker that is pretty famous these days has always enjoyed long lines and an incredibly high yield of demand. Yet according to a report I heard they may not make it because they spent the money in the wrong places and now they are going to be struggling to survive. Just goes to show you have to have people who know how to market it correctly...
Both have failed in my mind. Its not like google has released a tool to the unix world either, which shows that they still put the market above the glory. Microsoft has always sucked at producing its own quality software and its nothing new but it is sad. When the biggest company in the world with thousands of programmers can't create an efficient indexing tool for searching, you have some problems. I just wonder about the quality of longhorn and I will continue to use linux for years to come most likely. It would appear that locate is a tool that the windows world is badly in need of the fact that its been around as long as it has should be humiliating to windows developers. Just now they are figuring out how to create indexed searches on hard drives and the media makes it a huge deal. Well they lost to unix based systems by a matter of years.
If you run a good enough system you would be running a firewall that would prevent the application from making any outgoing connections and then it won't invade anything. Then if you get scared at some point just find where the tool stores the data and delete it.
That is the point of my post. They hope to find that which is not known. Every rock is different and you never know if the next one will have something previously never seen before by human eyes.
I find this funny because I knew about topsites for awhile. I know of people involved and that they exist but I myself don't have any access. I just communicate with a few of them. They are very careful and these aren't your average hackers or wannabes. These people have been in the game for a long time. You have to have something of value to get access. Writing encryption algorythms from scratch that law enforcement can't crack is one example of something they like to see. They bury themselves quickly and most topsites exist outside the US in places like China. There is a group of them located in California mainly for the purpose of getting the content but once its been stolen its uploaded to locations outside the control of US law enforcement for a very good reason.
I think you are thinking about it the wrong way. NASA doesn't like to spend more money to send crafts over 1000 times the distance or greater (where other comets might be) but rather would spend money on analyzing a comet right near by. It saves them money actually and because they have never seen the comet up close its possible that its something besides just a big rock. NASA is full of optimists who think that something amazing to learn could be anywhere in the cosmos so they will take the time to look at anything they can.
Waste of time, I don't think so.
Well lets consider that it did only allow authorized people to install adware, then what gives people authorization? In the case of the RIAA and MPAA, I'm assuming they wouldn't... but what if someone installed software that had it but didn't mention it on their site or anywhere? Would this bill protect them because you agreed to install their product even if you didn't know about the entire product? If this bill works for only California what would happen if the person targetting you was in another country? How would they get the money? It seems this bill brings up a lot of questions that I haven't seen answered yet.
Will there be some way to provide a view beyond just zoom? Will it be possible to create a tool that allows you to have better horizontal coverage and be more aware of stuff that isn't right infront of us?
Seriously. It sounds illegal when it mentions trojans (beacuse there is nothing legal about them) and installing adware without any permission from the user is illegal as well.
So are do they think its ok to murder someone if they already stole something from them? You can't break the law if they broke the law by stealing your music. Thats not how it works. Two wrongs don't make a right according to US law at least.
Also lets consider the fact that I doubt any BitTorrent site will start hosting.wma files that point to adware. I also doubt that Microsoft will give the go ahead for their technology to be insecure so that the MPAA and RIAA can illegally screw file sharing computers.
So what does this boil down to? It basically means that it will do more harm to their PR then it will help them with their never ending war that isn't possible to win.
It seems that EA can't stay out of the news these days but most of it isn't pleasant news either. It will be interesting to see what EA does and where its going in the near future.
Doesn't it make you prowd to be an American when we spend millions or even billions on projects like this that really don't matter too much in the long run when we could be spending money on research that matters. Well we won't have fusion but we will have a really long highway that can carry oil and other fossil fuels. Then again I guess this is what you would expect from a wasteful state such as Texas.
Well I'm guessing this is why people were waiting for a site to take it to court. All the torrent sites besides this one have given up hope before even trying to fight back. To the best of my knowledge there hasn't been an outcome yet regarding torrent files and their legality. Just a bunch of threats from corporations doesn't make it illegal remember. Its up to a judge to decide if this counts and that hasn't happened (again to the best of my knowledge). So good luck to lokitorrent on this one.
Yes I agree with you. It doesn't make sense to have a discussion comparing the advantages of each OS when the two people discussing it work for Microsoft. Thats a completely impartial view. I feel like I'm watching Fox where two republicans debate about the political races. Would you turn to them for a fair view?
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You bring up an interesting point. Are there any charities that accept old PCs to send to developing nations? If not why is that? I'm curious because I have a ton of computers I need to get rid of and its better that I send them to that over someplace illegal or pay to have it recycled.
Being a young person I have no problems with things like this because I simply stick to a cellphone. People will tell me it causes cancer but then again what does these days?
Well its illegal to publish such reports in the US because Microsoft would lobby against it and get them shot. We have to be careful and I think that may be why its only available for a limited time... Duck and cover.
True. The BSD people swear by it and the certain linux loves love their specific distro for a certain reason. Picking the BEST is not a real practical approach. That is the joy of Open Source OSes in that you can pick your flavor and make it what you want it to be.
Ya this is rather odd and bullshit at the same time. I don't see how a graphical map of the world displaying IPs is considered patentable. I know of a great many areas where such things are used besides just firewalls. So the patent isn't very debatable and once again US courts have created another mess for the world and for themselves.
Thats the basis of a conspiracy theory. Somehow I don't believe any of what you said just because you have no reason to believe that.
Yep I was thinking this sounded very familar and I was right. Maybe if they keep complaining they should have an update? Its the same old news without something new happening.
If they are hiring all those firms to help them fix the problem then it seems like they have quite a lot of cash. So how badly could these attacks be affecting their business?
That is true. I have heard something about that in the past. I was more referring to the fact that other nations shouldn't follow its footsteps until they pass step one which is an actual source of energy that isn't damaging to the planet and that will last a long time.
Yes but I also remember all the car crashes involving gasoline and explosions so I can't see that this is much more of a threat in that regard. The only thing that isn't too clever about hydrogen is that it isn't renewable. You waste energy creating it and as a result you need a few source that is actually bigger in order to use it. So fusion is still the only answer unless you want windmills everywhere you look.
This is a victory for the average man over political power and should be remembered. Its news like this that gives me faith in humans even if there is few events like it.
I don't feel you have the right to comment unless you've taken classes in business. In order to run one you have to know the rules and some have great ideas but suck at running themselves. Marketing is an aspect of business obviously and all those ads are a good thing to them because they make money.
Me neither. Well I've heard of them but neve known anything about their product. To run a good business, you have to not only have something people want but you have to actually market it with skill and have good business practices. For instance Krispy Kreme the donut maker that is pretty famous these days has always enjoyed long lines and an incredibly high yield of demand. Yet according to a report I heard they may not make it because they spent the money in the wrong places and now they are going to be struggling to survive. Just goes to show you have to have people who know how to market it correctly...
Both have failed in my mind. Its not like google has released a tool to the unix world either, which shows that they still put the market above the glory. Microsoft has always sucked at producing its own quality software and its nothing new but it is sad. When the biggest company in the world with thousands of programmers can't create an efficient indexing tool for searching, you have some problems. I just wonder about the quality of longhorn and I will continue to use linux for years to come most likely. It would appear that locate is a tool that the windows world is badly in need of the fact that its been around as long as it has should be humiliating to windows developers. Just now they are figuring out how to create indexed searches on hard drives and the media makes it a huge deal. Well they lost to unix based systems by a matter of years.
If you run a good enough system you would be running a firewall that would prevent the application from making any outgoing connections and then it won't invade anything. Then if you get scared at some point just find where the tool stores the data and delete it.
That is the point of my post. They hope to find that which is not known. Every rock is different and you never know if the next one will have something previously never seen before by human eyes.
I find this funny because I knew about topsites for awhile. I know of people involved and that they exist but I myself don't have any access. I just communicate with a few of them. They are very careful and these aren't your average hackers or wannabes. These people have been in the game for a long time. You have to have something of value to get access. Writing encryption algorythms from scratch that law enforcement can't crack is one example of something they like to see. They bury themselves quickly and most topsites exist outside the US in places like China. There is a group of them located in California mainly for the purpose of getting the content but once its been stolen its uploaded to locations outside the control of US law enforcement for a very good reason.
I think you are thinking about it the wrong way. NASA doesn't like to spend more money to send crafts over 1000 times the distance or greater (where other comets might be) but rather would spend money on analyzing a comet right near by. It saves them money actually and because they have never seen the comet up close its possible that its something besides just a big rock. NASA is full of optimists who think that something amazing to learn could be anywhere in the cosmos so they will take the time to look at anything they can. Waste of time, I don't think so.
Well lets consider that it did only allow authorized people to install adware, then what gives people authorization? In the case of the RIAA and MPAA, I'm assuming they wouldn't... but what if someone installed software that had it but didn't mention it on their site or anywhere? Would this bill protect them because you agreed to install their product even if you didn't know about the entire product? If this bill works for only California what would happen if the person targetting you was in another country? How would they get the money? It seems this bill brings up a lot of questions that I haven't seen answered yet.
Will there be some way to provide a view beyond just zoom? Will it be possible to create a tool that allows you to have better horizontal coverage and be more aware of stuff that isn't right infront of us?
Seriously. It sounds illegal when it mentions trojans (beacuse there is nothing legal about them) and installing adware without any permission from the user is illegal as well. So are do they think its ok to murder someone if they already stole something from them? You can't break the law if they broke the law by stealing your music. Thats not how it works. Two wrongs don't make a right according to US law at least. Also lets consider the fact that I doubt any BitTorrent site will start hosting .wma files that point to adware. I also doubt that Microsoft will give the go ahead for their technology to be insecure so that the MPAA and RIAA can illegally screw file sharing computers.
So what does this boil down to? It basically means that it will do more harm to their PR then it will help them with their never ending war that isn't possible to win.
It seems that EA can't stay out of the news these days but most of it isn't pleasant news either. It will be interesting to see what EA does and where its going in the near future.
Doesn't it make you prowd to be an American when we spend millions or even billions on projects like this that really don't matter too much in the long run when we could be spending money on research that matters. Well we won't have fusion but we will have a really long highway that can carry oil and other fossil fuels. Then again I guess this is what you would expect from a wasteful state such as Texas.
Well I'm guessing this is why people were waiting for a site to take it to court. All the torrent sites besides this one have given up hope before even trying to fight back. To the best of my knowledge there hasn't been an outcome yet regarding torrent files and their legality. Just a bunch of threats from corporations doesn't make it illegal remember. Its up to a judge to decide if this counts and that hasn't happened (again to the best of my knowledge). So good luck to lokitorrent on this one.
Yes I agree with you. It doesn't make sense to have a discussion comparing the advantages of each OS when the two people discussing it work for Microsoft. Thats a completely impartial view. I feel like I'm watching Fox where two republicans debate about the political races. Would you turn to them for a fair view?