They didn't "think of it", they simply borrowed the idea from Japanese deep fryers and applied it to laptops. So yeah, that too is so totally innovative.
A little context: officially, the sanctions are little more than travel sanctions that are targetted at specific individuals (ruling elite in Zimbabwe). They are not Economic sanctions aimed at the whole country. Also, Tsvangirai's support for sanctions is well known - nothing private about it. Sometime in 2002/3, Tsvangirai was advocating for Economic sanctions on Live TV (as an example of the kind of 'pressure' South Africa could exert on Zimbabwe). Zanu-PF (the 'ruling' party, to which Mugabe belongs) had a field day with this - calling him a traitor & looping it every 15 minutes or so, but it had 0-effect on the population's view of Tsvangirai. This cable is nothing in comparison, and won't make any change at all.
If anything, Tsangirai's 'public' stance against the sanctions is nothing more than lip-service aimed towards Zanu-PF hardliners, who are using the issue as a bargaining chip to stall progress of negotiations.
There's no special flag to enable autorun - it's in the registry & enabled by default. Autorun.inf can replace the default action for double-clicking on the removable drive from simply opening the contents to launching a specific executable file.
My USB thumbdrive goes plugs into a lot of untrusted computers, and there's a trick I use to find out when it has been infected by worms that use autorun.inf as a vector. I use autorun.inf to set an icon for my drive. When infected, the drive will show up as the default removable disk icon & not my custom icon.
My autorun.inf is shown below [autorun]
shellexecute=XDrive\Programs\winPenPack.exe
icon=autorun\lock.ico
Oh, and the second line is similar to the one used by worms, only that I use mine to launch a 'start menu'-like app for portable apps on my flash disk (see Portable apss, Win Pen Pack )
Am I the only one who read the headline the wrong way? I was expecting the first line to say "Steve Jobs filed charges for aggravated assault after an altercation with Tim O'Reilly..."
Rebooting is something you do only after a kernel upgrade...
No, here in the third world, we have to switch on our boxen after powercuts, you insensitive clod!.
And after watching that Al Gore documentary, don't you feel a little guilty not shutting down your box when not using it - think of the glaciers and the penguins.
The irony here is that by requiring signed binaries, TiVO is both restricting and protecting users.
Sure, by requiring signed binaries, you are restricted to run code only from TiVO. This restricts what users can do with their own hardware.
At the same time, since these devices are now on networks, there is a real possibility of them getting hacked. If TiVO ran untrusted binaries, this probably would have already happened. Of course, this happens now with Series 1 TiVO's, but you can't put them on the net without hacking, and if you are smart enough to do that, you probably have a firewall. So in some ways TiVO is doing a good thing by only running trusted code.
It is an interesting tradeoff.
Wow - i wonder if apache.org should follow that pearl of wisdom ans start releasing binary-only versions of it's webserver, because as you know the servers are on networks, and they could be hacked *gasp*. Protecting the users? I don't think so.
I would have to say that science is the new religion: science cannot be wrong, and everything must make way for the 'almighty' science. Look at the melee over stem cell research - there are zealots on boths sides.
Nevertheless, science is NOT infalliable. Not just the cooked up experiment result scandals that have recently occurred, but widely held beliefs in the 'scientific community'. Being a pentecostal Christian myself, there have been several events that have cemented my faith, phenomenon that science cannot explain. I beleive they group most of that into that mysterious field called 'ESP'
The more secular a country is, the less likely it is to go to war.
How secular is the US? And how many wars has it engaged? But then again we may throw Israel into the mix. There are extremes, I guess, because the Vatican has just popped into mind...
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They didn't "think of it", they simply borrowed the idea from Japanese deep fryers and applied it to laptops. So yeah, that too is so totally innovative.
A little context: officially, the sanctions are little more than travel sanctions that are targetted at specific individuals (ruling elite in Zimbabwe). They are not Economic sanctions aimed at the whole country. Also, Tsvangirai's support for sanctions is well known - nothing private about it. Sometime in 2002/3, Tsvangirai was advocating for Economic sanctions on Live TV (as an example of the kind of 'pressure' South Africa could exert on Zimbabwe). Zanu-PF (the 'ruling' party, to which Mugabe belongs) had a field day with this - calling him a traitor & looping it every 15 minutes or so, but it had 0-effect on the population's view of Tsvangirai. This cable is nothing in comparison, and won't make any change at all. If anything, Tsangirai's 'public' stance against the sanctions is nothing more than lip-service aimed towards Zanu-PF hardliners, who are using the issue as a bargaining chip to stall progress of negotiations.
There's no special flag to enable autorun - it's in the registry & enabled by default. Autorun.inf can replace the default action for double-clicking on the removable drive from simply opening the contents to launching a specific executable file.
My USB thumbdrive goes plugs into a lot of untrusted computers, and there's a trick I use to find out when it has been infected by worms that use autorun.inf as a vector. I use autorun.inf to set an icon for my drive. When infected, the drive will show up as the default removable disk icon & not my custom icon.
My autorun.inf is shown below
[autorun]
shellexecute=XDrive\Programs\winPenPack.exe
icon=autorun\lock.ico
Oh, and the second line is similar to the one used by worms, only that I use mine to launch a 'start menu'-like app for portable apps on my flash disk (see Portable apss, Win Pen Pack )
There, fixed it for you
Am I the only one who read the headline the wrong way? I was expecting the first line to say "Steve Jobs filed charges for aggravated assault after an altercation with Tim O'Reilly..."
was continue bashing nokia? or you thing touch sensitivity and a a higher res is a bad thing?
I would have to say that science is the new religion: science cannot be wrong, and everything must make way for the 'almighty' science. Look at the melee over stem cell research - there are zealots on boths sides.
Nevertheless, science is NOT infalliable. Not just the cooked up experiment result scandals that have recently occurred, but widely held beliefs in the 'scientific community'. Being a pentecostal Christian myself, there have been several events that have cemented my faith, phenomenon that science cannot explain. I beleive they group most of that into that mysterious field called 'ESP'
How secular is the US? And how many wars has it engaged? But then again we may throw Israel into the mix. There are extremes, I guess, because the Vatican has just popped into mind...cables? what cables. I am waiting for the 500Gb wifi Seagate HDD. forget ATA/SATA. say hello to the future.