Whether you dislike Google's policies or not (I personally give my clients Comodo Dragon, it is Chromium based and has the speed along with some extra security features and NO Google phone home crap) I still don't see what made this deserve a front page slot on Slashdot. Is it a slow news day?
Its a false positive folks, it happens. It isn't even a truly nasty fp that trashes the system like the McAfee bug we had awhile back, and they fixed it in just a couple of hours from fp found to fp eliminated. That really isn't bad when you think about how they have to remove the fp but not the behavior the fp was detecting.
But if it truly bugs you or any of your relatives just go to ninite after removing MSE and check the little box that says Avast Free, then hit the go button at the bottom and run it. See how easy that was? They even have several browsers to choose from if you'd rather get rid of the Google phone home crap instead of MSE and they even have Revo Uninstaller to clean all the crap Chrome leaves behind.
I just don't see why this made front page, idle maybe, but how many fp screw ups are made each week? Probably more than the average tech can possibly keep up with. Would we have even seen this if it was AVG that flagged Chrome?
Uhhh...what is wrong with good old fashioned CDs and DVDs? I have CDs i burnt in the mid 90s and DVDs from around 2002 and all of them read fine because I didn't buy complete shit like Staples crap. Taiyo Yuden, Verbatim, those last the longest but I've had just as good an experience with Imation as long as you follow the rules.
Rule 1.-ALWAYS HAVE MULTIPLE BACKUPS, this can't be stressed enough. For truly important pics like my late sis I have them on 2 HDDs, multiple DVDs AND in the cloud. That way it is pretty much impossible to lose them. Rule 2- KEEP OUT OF SUNLIGHT, I keep my DVDs in a nice dry dark closet, high enough up that nobody is gonna accidently knock them off. Sunlight kills discs dead. 3.- TEST DISCS EVERY 6 MONTHS, just to be safe. I use Emsa Disc Check but there are several you can use.
With these simple rules one can have backups worry free and affordable to boot.
Well here is a page doing some comparisons but sadly no hard numbers. From what I gather as long as the CPU doesn't hit 100% it doesn't matter because the video will play smooth. This page here was written by a guy doing 720p with a Geforce 7200 and AMD XP2600 CPU so if that combo will play 720p I have no doubt the 520 PCI with a Pentium D will play it no problem.
And from what I understand once its passed to the GPU that's it, there is no further interaction with the CPU. I know I've set up AGP cards with hardware decode and AGP certainly isn't feeding data back to the CPU and it worked great. So I still say the 520 PCI plus a Pentium D would make a fine box for surfing and watching videos. Both of my nephews are running Pentium Ds and they even play MMOs with it and never drop below 30FPS, so for something less strenuous like video I think it would work just fine.
I provided links, where's yours friend? Funny how all you can do is insult while I give actual information to back my position up, isn't it? Kinda like "Because God says its so!" isn't it? Did I threaten your dogma friend?
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Uhhh...don't you guys have the cool flippin 3d windows like we do in Win 7? One of the few bling bling tricks that is actually useful that, just winkey+tab and use the mousewheel.
That said I have a question: why is it that all the DEs gotta rip off OSX or Windows? One is 2 decades old, the other a decade. With Linux you basically have a blank slate so why not do something new? Something different? Hell you could make the DE the killer app. Maybe instead of office desk you could think office building, having everything contextual based on things we humans are used to using. Like for office apps you have a whiteboard that data can be brought from one app to another in, images text math all being able to be mixed like on a whiteboard. Instead of audio sliders you have knobs like on a radio, low mid high eq and volume, or for multimedia even have a plug-able mixing board where you can just drop modules in or yank things out the board so it could be as simple or complex as you need. Oh and while you are at it get rid of files and folders, make everything metadata. That way the user don't have to play tree hunt, just type a keyword or even the start of a keyword and boom! there is their stuff. you could also have all the apps automatically know about and be able to pass data to each other based on the metadata by having the OS pipe it to the appropriate input.
This is one area where Linux could have a huge advantage, as both Apple and Windows have too much history and radical changes to the DE would be greeted with pitchforks. Hell you watch Win 8 will bomb hard because it is too different (not to mention fugly and unwieldy) and the users will hate it. with Linux radical ideas can flourish because it has the rep of an outsider OS anyway. We have been pretty much stuck on the office desk metaphor since the mid 80s, maybe Linux could usher in the next new thing?
Damned Yankees, never did know what to do on a nice warm day. Its called sweet tea, and when added with a shade tree or even better an innertube and a creek is a damned fine way to enjoy a nice sunny day son!
Just dig you a pit, have you some hobo BBQ, fire up a fatty or crack a cold one (whichever floats your boat) and you and your sweetie just float the day away. Dang Yankees just don't know what's good, that's what it is.
Cool what you did with the N900, and while I haven't seen Maemo i'll take your word for it, with so many fans it had to have something going. but the Meego? Bad iOS/Droid ripoff from what I saw. Frankly if they released it would be a touchpad sized bomb and certainly wouldn't be selling more Intel chips or challenging Wintel.
As for Chrome OS? Not even close. Imagine a machine that takes a snapshot, quickly and cleanly, every time you boot. you can install what you want, do what you want, screw something up? One button push and you can go back to yesterday. All your stuff is where its supposed to be, it is as simple as 1.-Push Home key,2.-Pick time you want to go back to, 3.;-Hit go. 4...there is no step 4, that's it.
Let me put it THIS way: My ex GF had to move nearly 5 hours away after her dad had a heart attack. She forgot to log off and her niece took a dump on WinXP, I mean she royally fucked it going to flash game sites. it wouldn't even boot, it would start to load the desktop and lock hard. it took me les than 15 minutes to have her back up and running by phone, and she knows NOTHING about PCs. All her programs, games, pics, all were perfect, all were where they were supposed to be, it is fucking brilliant I tell you, why they aren't pushing the shit out of it I have NO idea. Hell I'd pay $30 a pop for it, it is THAT good.
But at least I got the last version (and BTW if you have any relatives on windows you have to support? GET IT. It is absolutely free and will make your support as easy as the above steps) and it works on everything from XP-7, 32 and 64 bit. the only catch is it don't like dual boots with XP and 7. It don't hurt anything, it just won't run because of the way Win 7 changes drive letters around if it is placed on anything but the C: drive. But its brilliant and to me its THE killer app for home users.
Again we are talking about using a PCI card for Windows 7 Aero and for videos NOT playing games, kay? Bringing up Doom in this scenario is as pointless as saying "You can't haul a boat with a Pinto" which of course has jack to do with squat.
Now as for video I doubt VERY seriously you are gonna be pushing 133 Megabytes Per second watching the new Harry Potter DVD. Don't forget we aren't talking about machines with BD here so you are looking at a MAX of DVD quality. For that? Not a problem. And I don't know about Nvidia but I know the Radeon cards take the vast majority of the load with DXVA . finally for someone saying the cost of Windows 7 would make it not worth it? Family pack dude, family pack. you get a couple of friends that want to upgrade and voila! you get Win 7 HP for $35. you keep an eye out on the specials and you'll often find the family pack for around $100, that is $33 a license. And finally like I said you can get a Pentium D which is more than powerful enough for web surfing for under $25, and that fits tons of older machines.
So I really don't see a problem here. the closest these folks would get to gaming is Farmville which I kinda doubt is gonna saturate the PCI bus.
Well first of all I think using words like truther and denier just brings in stupid partisan bullshit in what SHOULD be a healthy debate. Correct me if I'm wrong but I kinda thought science was supposed to educate, not be like religion where all that oppose dogma are labeled "other" and attacked?
Now here is what I personally have against the whole climate change, which make up your damned mind is it global warming or global cooling? Climate change is a cop out, the climate has been changing for all of recorded history!
But here is the problem: The ONLY "solution" we have been offered is carbon credits by the likes of Rev Al Gore who neglects to tell you the "inconvenient truth" that he has set himself up to be a carbon billionaire, the same ones that cooked up credit default swaps, aka economy killers are writing the rules for the carbon derivatives market and the most telling to me? notice how YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN Rev Al or his buddies come out in favor of tariffs against India and China, even though both countries have given the finger to carbon scams and said they won't play the game? Why is that? Could it be because Gore and his friends are making crazy monies in China and India, and don't give a fuck that dumping carbon credit scams on top of an already broken economy would royally buttfuck us as long as they can leech a few more sheckles before they bail?
I'm all for using less, we only have one planet and we should take care of it. but the only things i've seen is more bullshit, more scams, more bubbles, more ways for the top 1% to rob the middle class and poor before taking their money and buying another polluting factory in China. Perhaps one should watch this video that explains why you are being had. Reduction yes, carbon scamming, no. oh and lets tax the living fuck out of anything coming from factories that pollute and stop allowing designed for the dump hardware off the boat, okay? hell Newegg is still selling brand new IP V4 routers! Talk about prebuilt garbage!
The problem with ebay is you often are just getting some else's headaches. you may have had better luck but the few times i've tried getting AGP cards from there they had either pushed the card too hard and had damaged the mem or had cooked the GPU or toasted the fan. the few sellers with really high rating where you wouldn't have to worry about that want as much as a new card, so no money saved there.
And that is what it all comes down to, money. which is cheaper, $450-500+ or $175? because $450 is what I average on a new AMD build and $175 was what it cost Mr Brown to upgrade his late model P4 with windows 7 HP, new Geforce 8 PCI (I think it was an 8600, can't tell for sure without the invoice) card, and a Pentium D. Oh and pay me of course.
When all they are doing is watching videos and running Aero frankly PCI has more than enough bandwidth, by having videos offloaded to the GPU frankly even the bottom of the line Pentium D is a damned good web surfer, and $175 is a hell of a lot cheaper than $450, especially when money is tight as it was for Mr Brown. Now he can get probably another 3-5 years out of his machine with the way he runs it and by then hopefully the economy will have picked up.
And while I agree that AGP would be the way to go, I'd point out that many business machines didn't have AGP, only PCI.
We have this story on/. because its FOSS. Be honest if a developer let a big we juicy fart and wrote an article called "FOSS causes the winds" it would be front page here, as there are so many FOSSies as i call them.
Nothing against FOSS, I personally use it on Windows all the time, but the kind of FOSSies we get here are the kind that will argue up and down, totally seriously mind you, that making things easier for the users is "dumbed down" and that all should be forced to use CLI because doing things the hard way makes you smarter. of course they usually STFU when I ask if they are loading their kernel onto a PDP11 with punch cards then, because pretty much everything from high level languages to OSes have been designed to make things easier.
And the difference between Meego and what you described is each one brought something new to the table whereas Meego is just another Android/iOS ripoff cell OS from the shots I've seen. MSFT? Brought an OS to the masses, first by buying and improving DOS and offering it to all, instead of being locked to hardware like everyone else, followed by bringing the GUI to the masses because most couldn't afford Macs, Apple brought design to the forefront by focusing on user interaction instead of menus all the way down like MSFT and everyone else had done, and Google is frankly burning through a billion a quarter with Android so while its a hit I frankly don't know if that should count or if they should be busted for product dumping. After all if MSFT tried that or Apple they'd be brought up on Antitrust.
But what did Meege bring? Linux based OS? Ubuntu netbook and Linux ARM variants got that covered. Fast start? My EEE with Expressgate goes 6 seconds from button push to web. Design? Apple has that covered with the entire thing design around how users interact with the device.
So I'm sorry but I just don't see it. I'd wish them well but i personally think its gonna be another one of those abandoned projects like the corpses littering SourceForge. The bitch is I could give you THE killer feature for PCs and laptops and have been arguing with the Comodo team to push it instead of letting it wither...Time Machine, not the apple one but the Comodo one. you build THAT into your OS, where it doesn't matter what the user does, no matter how bad they fuck shit up, they can just push the home key after BIOS and be back up in 20 minutes or less? Now THAT is a killer app. System Restore frankly ain't got shit on TM my friend, its so easy your granny could work it.
Google had a similar idea with Chrome but the OEMs screwed the pooch with chrome OS by making the machines cost more than full featured laptops. Who the fuck is gonna pay $500 for an underpowered Atom netbook that won't work without net access? And ALL Linux machines have one flaw nobody seems to be willing to admit...if anything goes wrong? You are fucked. There is NO last known good config or even roll back drivers button. but make it so they can update and upgrade and do whatever without ever having to worry, because a single button push and it'll go back to like it was before with ZERO risks of losing data? Now THAT could make a difference. too bad the only one I've seen pull it off is Comodo and they look like they are abandoning it when Win 8 rolls out. oh well at least I have the last version on a thumbdrive. damned handy for normal folks to never have to worry about screwing anything up.
I actually LIKE articles like this, as it gives me info on another option for my customers that are looking to upgrade to Win 7 but whose box doesn't have PCIe. I've found Windows 7 can run quite decently on a 2.2GHz P4 with 2Gb of RAM but there are a hell of a lot of machines out there without PCIe and AGP cards are frankly crazy high now.
I just really wish someone would make some Radeon HD5xxx and 6xxx cards with AGP and make them sub $50 like they did for awhile with the HD2xxx and 3xxx cards. There are a lot of late model P4s that can easily and cheaply be upgraded to the Pentium D (I buy them all day long for less than $20 a chip) which works great even on MMOs like LOTRO and Perfect World but Windows 7 runs so much better and videos are so much smoother with a decent GPU for DXVA. With the economy still nasty having affordable options is always of the good in my book, So I like hearing about stuff like this and don't forget XP is still supported until 2014 so that is a hell of a lot of boxes out there that could run better with a GPU boost.
I'm sure I'll get hate for pointing this out, but maybe all these projects are dying because they are pointless? Apple rules the tablet, MSFT the desktop, and the phone is split between Apple and Google. So where is the market they were going to capture? Geeks that actually even know what 'free as in freedom' means much less cares about it are probably in the 0.03% range, so no real growth there. Hell the rest of the planet happily sends their data freely to Google and their money to Apple and MSFT so i can't suddenly see them going "Hey wait a tick!" and demanding the four freedoms.
So there just wasn't any real place for them to go is all. even the laptop and netbook OEMs where profits are razor thin don't really need it as MSFT sells dirt cheap Win 7 licenses to that segment and for instant on they have Splashtop AKA ExpressGate. So in an already overcrowded arena Intel looked at the writing on the wall and saw they were just wasting good money on a dead end. it certainly wasn't gonna sell more Intel CPU or "challenge the Wintel monopoly" as so many articles hinted when it first was being discussed.
Uh huh, explain that to Intel who got away with bribery for 7 years and then only had to pay a pittance compared to the massive profits from owning the market for that length of time. or tell that to the DRAM and LCD manufacturers, who also got to own the market for quite some time and then pay a pittance compared to the massive profits they made.
I hate to break the news to ya friend but bribery and collusion on a massive scale goes on every day, it is just the DoJ doesn't have any teeth anymore and all the regs have been gutted. And sure they can get an injunction, we are talking trolls, remember? trolls don't have a product to file an injunction against, they just buy paper and then use it to extort. It is just SOP in the land o' the freee. personally i think we need to stop the bullshit and just change the anthem to "mighty mighty dollar bill" and call it a day. But they'll get bit, live by the sword and all that. the only question is will they allow REAL reform, or will they pay their puppets to tweak the laws so basically the incumbents have different rules than everyone else? Who knows.
I think they nailed it perfectly in The Hunt For Red October: "I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when i'm not kissing babies I'm stealing their lollipops" pretty much sums it up. Smile pretty for the camera while backstabbing and cashing big fat checks off screen.
Citizens United only gave them the ability to take the bribes right out in the open with zero risk, which is probably advantageous what with a member of SCOTUS is looking a little shady when it comes to business dealings outside the court.
. Personally I think congress should be treated like jury duty, as that is the only way i can think of to keep career liars out of the positions. I doubt even term limits would do a bit of good as they'd just cash the big checks for a lesser time than they can do now.
And it is THIS, this right here, that is a perfect example of why we shouldn't buy into the bullshit over inhalers. I have yet to see anyone give any evidence that the trivial amount used in an asthma inhaler can actually affect squat, and we have had scientists flip flopping for years over a ton of stuff. Sunscreen good, now sunscreen bad. Coffee bad, no wait, coffee good now, helps postpartum depression. Sugar bad, no wait a tick, make that HFCS that is bad, sugar is okay.
Remember this isn't some intellectual exercise, this bullshit is gonna KILL OLD FOLKS DEAD because there are already so damned many drugs they are getting gouged on that many have to choose between food and medicine. Just another sorry pathetic example of "our" elected officials fucking over the poor and the elderly while giving another hand out to big pharma, which I bet my last dollar is making a minimum 200% markup over the previous inhalers.
Frankly with all the bickering and hand outs to big money I wouldn't piss on a congress critter is they was on fire. Just sorry backstabbing scum, the whole stinking lot.
Did you miss the "supermegacorp buried in bullshit" part of my theory? If Apple can't bring in a single iPhone, if MSFT's customers can't bring in a single windows based anything, all because the trolls have taken over the courts, who do you think has more money, IBM,MSFT,Apple, etc or the trolls?
The ONLY way you are gonna get real reforms now that citizens united means they can just write a check (and we have a member of SCOTUS taking bribes) is by having supermegacorps like Apple, MSFT, Sony, Google, etc, ALL get bit right in the ass. All the damned products are made in China now so all it takes is ONE injunction to throw a big fat monkey wrench into their quarterly earnings and you KNOW how much the day traders that rules Wall Street now hate those that miss the earnings!
You watch, once Apple,MSFT and Google all start getting giant fucking monkey wrenches thrown into their plans thanks to trolls flinging them like monkeys flinging shit THEN AND ONLY THEN will you "suddenly" have both the talking heads and the congress critters talking about how we "need real reform to get America innovating again". hell that will probably be the marketing slogan, "Reform for an innovative America".
Because if you think the people have a shot of getting anything changed I have a nice bridge you might be interested in. After all if they listened to the people we wouldn't be blowing money on THREE wars, or handing billion dollar checks to "our allies", or paying for a military that is so frankly overblown, or cutting aid for the poor and elderly, or having every politician acting like taxing a rich man is like kicking Jesus in the nads. Nope the supermegacorps call the shots, and when the trolls hit them one too many times in the pocketbooks THEN we'll see change. After all with their money they can crush the competition in a myriad of other ways besides patents and copyrights. Collusion and bribery for example.
Maybe it is different at private university but my oldest is in private and the teachers were nice enough to sidestep the whole copyright mess by simply making their own PPTs to help out the students and have them all online.
Maybe it is because they are a christian college but I have to say the amount of personal attention and help they've given my oldest really impressed me. If it even looks like he is starting to struggle with a subject they have tutors ready to go, they even found him a sponsor because he's made the Dean's list consistently and the sponsor who is an alumni is picking up ALL his books for as long as he keeps his grades up.
So while online is great for supplements like those PPTs I know that having reasonably small class sizes and the opportunity for plenty of face time with the teachers as well as having the students work in groups has really helped my oldest. we were afraid that with him being home schooled (frankly the public schools are a bad joke here) he might have trouble getting into the swing but with the great help and support of the teachers and faculty, who even had tutors for him set up and teaching him before he started his first class so he'd be prepared my oldest has been getting high As pretty solid for the past two years and those classes are anything but dumbed down!
I don't think he could have done anywhere near as well as he has if it wasn't for all the hands on time, so while the Internet is great in addition to it would really have to be balanced like they do at his school before i'd say its a good idea. I'd really hate to have students trying to learn trig or organic chemistry by online courses only.
Personally I'm all for it, let them do "in a cell phone!" like they did "on the Internet!" and let them go nuts with it. why? Because the quicker the entire system is completely saturated with BS patents the quicker the whole thing will fall down like a house of cards and hopefully we can get some damned reforms, that's why!
The ONLY way we are gonna get any kind of reforms after citizen united is if supermegacorp gets so buried in patent bullshit that they can't even release a single product here for having it tied up in court for a decade. Meanwhile we are already seeing that the Indians and Chinese don't have these problems and can build upon the ideas of others, such as those cool handhelds that are game emulators, PMPs, you name it they play it. I have no doubt they'll just add some modular plug in controls like thumbpads to one of their iPhone ripoffs and tell MSFT to suck it.
The way the tech industry has grown and come up with so many new ideas has always been to "stand on the shoulders of giants" but the supermegacorps are so damned afraid of anyone competing or not having an insane barrier to entry they are just crippling the entire process. Just as the insane copyrights are locking more and more of our history behind paywalls so too is insane patents locking up more and more of our ideas behind intellectual tollbooths. But in a global market all it takes is one that doesn't play your reindeer games for all that IP shit to fall apart, and currently we have at least two markets that are growing that don't play the game and I'm sure there will be more to follow.
Let the country drown in bullshit IP wars I say, the quicker we can toss this madness and work on something a little more sensible.
But I'm not talking about free energy, I'm talking about using the energy of the earth to slingshot it out. Just like being on the end of a spinning whip you use the gravity of a partial fall to give you momentum followed by a burn out, like going downhill to pick up speed followed by gunning it to shoot up a hill.
Meh I think our entire system when it comes to sats is dumb anyway. I mean here we are still using the tech they used when Von Braun was lobbying V2s at London. I think Gerald Bull's idea was the way to go, the supergun, only he didn't have the correct technology at the time. Instead of explosives you use a coil gun mounted on the side of a mountain, maybe one of those we've kept since taking them from the Japanese in WWII? You would have a long flat straightaway followed by a curve up the mountain and use a nuclear plant for power.
If one wanted to have it man rated the straightaway would have to be huge to keep the g forces from hitting too hard but for dumb cargo and sats I bet it would work just fine, and because you would only need to fire your rockets at the very top of the arc one could save a hell of a lot of fuel which could then be used not only for extending the maneuvering life of the sat but still give it ample fuel to get rid of it when it was EOL.
Ultimately if we are ever gonna get off this rock we'll have to find a new way to do it such as the supergun, because chemical rockets simply take too much fuel for too little payload. If one used the supergun with a modular design one could send the rocket up in stage and put it together in space and fly it out from there.
Either way just dumping tons of crap in the pacific still seems like a BAD idea. We can't just keep using the ocean as our personal garbage dump without it eventually coming back to bite us in the ass. Hell maybe we should be looking at smaller and cheaper modular designs that could just burn up on the way down, who knows. I just know we humans seem to be lousy at looking at the long term, which is how we ended up with so much dead crap in orbit in the first place.
I read a book years and years ago on various weirdness and the ones researching it had a pretty good explanation. According to their findings nearly 97% of SHC cases all have these things in common: 1.-They are elderly, 2.-They drank regularly, 3.- They were to some degree overweight.
Their theory was the right mixture of gases in the body plus body fat to work as fuel would cause SHC which is why it is so rare. but according to their research it was pretty easy to spot the difference between SHC and say someone who burnt to death by falling asleep with a cigarette. With SHC everything is covered by an oily soot (The body fat being burned as fuel), there is little to no damage to the surrounding area, yet the body itself is almost completely burned up in the center mass, often with bones destroyed.
Finally as for what sets them off their theory was electrical, which is as good as any I suppose. they based it on the one case they could find of someone who survived it in I believe it was the 30s, thanks to having her daughter at home. the daughter reported her mother appeared to have some sort of fit followed by an almost static charge making the daughter's hairs stand on end, finally a white hot spot appeared on her mother and began smoking. The daughter dumped an entire jug of tea on her mother and managed to get her cooled enough to stop it, although with heavy burns down to the fat layer.
anyway as complex an organism as is the human it wouldn't surprise me that if the conditions are just right someone could SHC. After all look at the cases we have of people doing feats of strength that should have been physically impossible for their size, and without doing major damage to themselves. If you looked at it logically they should have had broken bones, ripped muscles, etc, yet they don't because the exact right combination of hormones and chemicals released by fear somehow overcome their natural limitations. So given what we know so far about the phenomenon I'd say its at least possible but extremely rare.
What happened to the whole "rock skipping off a pond' thing we heard about like a bazillion times when NASA had a ship coming in? could you just use that to skip the sucker right on out of here? i know we use gravity assists to gain speed for long missions, why not use that on the birds before they run out of gas?
It STILL seems like a better idea to me that dumping ton after ton into the Pacific, especially with all the toxic crap that can be in some of those sats. We really shouldn't use the ocean as a garbage dump, i don't care how big the thing is. its that kind of thinking that has that huge floating garbage pile in the pacific right now.
Uhhh...if they have root they'll HAVE the keys, so I don't even know if you could call it a MITM, more like "we own this thing" because with the root keys anything encrypted using that key could be decrypted by them since they have the private key, or am I wrong?
Either way i think the answer will come from hackers, tools like Freenet and Tor are just the beginning. Frankly the corruption is so thick in the USA right now I wouldn't trust the gov with privacy as far as i could throw your average lobbyist. I mean for the love of Pete they gave retroactive immunity for basically copying every bit that went through the AT&T networks!
But if you are using DNSSEC aren't you just trading Chinese certs for American servers? Don't think I really like our record right now when it comes to things like privacy or rights or...well pretty much anything that doesn't give a handjob to a corporation. According to the Wiki DNSSEC all starts with and is tied to the root zone DNS which is currently controlled by US Department of Commerce NTIA
I'm sorry but after the whole "AT&T secret room" bit came out I wouldn't trust our government with jack shit when it comes to privacy, as obviously they don't give a fuck. We just don't have a track record post PATRIOT worthy of having that kind of power sadly.
Well you can clearly see this company is completely worthless and will hopefully go the way of the 8-track when they say right there in their little excuse they retain logs to prevent "abuses" such as those that " cases involve terrorism and child porn."
If anyone hasn't figured out by now that "for teh childrenz/get teh terristz" isn't a codeword for "we give anything and everything to big bro cause we down with that" they deserve to be in PMITA prison. Moral of the story is this company needs to be DOA. Everyone that uses it needs to close their accounts and cancel the checks NOW, because they have just proven beyond all doubt that you are "paying" for absolutely nothing but the smoke being blown up your ass.
And to answer your question YES IT IS FRAUD but good luck on seeing someone get busted for kissing big bro booty. See how AT&T got an entire congress to write a law covering their ass for being down with big bro. But the best lesson this bunch of bozos could be taught won't be in a court, it should be in their bank account.
Hey Anons, if you are out there? get a list of everyone that uses that service and send them a copy of TFA. Let them know they have bought NOTHING. This is a case where voting with your wallet could do some real good, because if these clowns go out of business less than a month after this hits it'll teach a BIG lesson to others in this business: you keep logs? I hope you have another business lined up.
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Whether you dislike Google's policies or not (I personally give my clients Comodo Dragon, it is Chromium based and has the speed along with some extra security features and NO Google phone home crap) I still don't see what made this deserve a front page slot on Slashdot. Is it a slow news day?
Its a false positive folks, it happens. It isn't even a truly nasty fp that trashes the system like the McAfee bug we had awhile back, and they fixed it in just a couple of hours from fp found to fp eliminated. That really isn't bad when you think about how they have to remove the fp but not the behavior the fp was detecting.
But if it truly bugs you or any of your relatives just go to ninite after removing MSE and check the little box that says Avast Free, then hit the go button at the bottom and run it. See how easy that was? They even have several browsers to choose from if you'd rather get rid of the Google phone home crap instead of MSE and they even have Revo Uninstaller to clean all the crap Chrome leaves behind.
I just don't see why this made front page, idle maybe, but how many fp screw ups are made each week? Probably more than the average tech can possibly keep up with. Would we have even seen this if it was AVG that flagged Chrome?
Uhhh...what is wrong with good old fashioned CDs and DVDs? I have CDs i burnt in the mid 90s and DVDs from around 2002 and all of them read fine because I didn't buy complete shit like Staples crap. Taiyo Yuden, Verbatim, those last the longest but I've had just as good an experience with Imation as long as you follow the rules.
Rule 1.-ALWAYS HAVE MULTIPLE BACKUPS, this can't be stressed enough. For truly important pics like my late sis I have them on 2 HDDs, multiple DVDs AND in the cloud. That way it is pretty much impossible to lose them. Rule 2- KEEP OUT OF SUNLIGHT, I keep my DVDs in a nice dry dark closet, high enough up that nobody is gonna accidently knock them off. Sunlight kills discs dead. 3.- TEST DISCS EVERY 6 MONTHS, just to be safe. I use Emsa Disc Check but there are several you can use.
With these simple rules one can have backups worry free and affordable to boot.
Well here is a page doing some comparisons but sadly no hard numbers. From what I gather as long as the CPU doesn't hit 100% it doesn't matter because the video will play smooth. This page here was written by a guy doing 720p with a Geforce 7200 and AMD XP2600 CPU so if that combo will play 720p I have no doubt the 520 PCI with a Pentium D will play it no problem.
And from what I understand once its passed to the GPU that's it, there is no further interaction with the CPU. I know I've set up AGP cards with hardware decode and AGP certainly isn't feeding data back to the CPU and it worked great. So I still say the 520 PCI plus a Pentium D would make a fine box for surfing and watching videos. Both of my nephews are running Pentium Ds and they even play MMOs with it and never drop below 30FPS, so for something less strenuous like video I think it would work just fine.
I provided links, where's yours friend? Funny how all you can do is insult while I give actual information to back my position up, isn't it? Kinda like "Because God says its so!" isn't it? Did I threaten your dogma friend?
Uhhh...don't you guys have the cool flippin 3d windows like we do in Win 7? One of the few bling bling tricks that is actually useful that, just winkey+tab and use the mousewheel.
That said I have a question: why is it that all the DEs gotta rip off OSX or Windows? One is 2 decades old, the other a decade. With Linux you basically have a blank slate so why not do something new? Something different? Hell you could make the DE the killer app. Maybe instead of office desk you could think office building, having everything contextual based on things we humans are used to using. Like for office apps you have a whiteboard that data can be brought from one app to another in, images text math all being able to be mixed like on a whiteboard. Instead of audio sliders you have knobs like on a radio, low mid high eq and volume, or for multimedia even have a plug-able mixing board where you can just drop modules in or yank things out the board so it could be as simple or complex as you need. Oh and while you are at it get rid of files and folders, make everything metadata. That way the user don't have to play tree hunt, just type a keyword or even the start of a keyword and boom! there is their stuff. you could also have all the apps automatically know about and be able to pass data to each other based on the metadata by having the OS pipe it to the appropriate input.
This is one area where Linux could have a huge advantage, as both Apple and Windows have too much history and radical changes to the DE would be greeted with pitchforks. Hell you watch Win 8 will bomb hard because it is too different (not to mention fugly and unwieldy) and the users will hate it. with Linux radical ideas can flourish because it has the rep of an outsider OS anyway. We have been pretty much stuck on the office desk metaphor since the mid 80s, maybe Linux could usher in the next new thing?
Damned Yankees, never did know what to do on a nice warm day. Its called sweet tea, and when added with a shade tree or even better an innertube and a creek is a damned fine way to enjoy a nice sunny day son!
Just dig you a pit, have you some hobo BBQ, fire up a fatty or crack a cold one (whichever floats your boat) and you and your sweetie just float the day away. Dang Yankees just don't know what's good, that's what it is.
Cool what you did with the N900, and while I haven't seen Maemo i'll take your word for it, with so many fans it had to have something going. but the Meego? Bad iOS/Droid ripoff from what I saw. Frankly if they released it would be a touchpad sized bomb and certainly wouldn't be selling more Intel chips or challenging Wintel.
As for Chrome OS? Not even close. Imagine a machine that takes a snapshot, quickly and cleanly, every time you boot. you can install what you want, do what you want, screw something up? One button push and you can go back to yesterday. All your stuff is where its supposed to be, it is as simple as 1.-Push Home key,2.-Pick time you want to go back to, 3.;-Hit go. 4...there is no step 4, that's it.
Let me put it THIS way: My ex GF had to move nearly 5 hours away after her dad had a heart attack. She forgot to log off and her niece took a dump on WinXP, I mean she royally fucked it going to flash game sites. it wouldn't even boot, it would start to load the desktop and lock hard. it took me les than 15 minutes to have her back up and running by phone, and she knows NOTHING about PCs. All her programs, games, pics, all were perfect, all were where they were supposed to be, it is fucking brilliant I tell you, why they aren't pushing the shit out of it I have NO idea. Hell I'd pay $30 a pop for it, it is THAT good.
But at least I got the last version (and BTW if you have any relatives on windows you have to support? GET IT. It is absolutely free and will make your support as easy as the above steps) and it works on everything from XP-7, 32 and 64 bit. the only catch is it don't like dual boots with XP and 7. It don't hurt anything, it just won't run because of the way Win 7 changes drive letters around if it is placed on anything but the C: drive. But its brilliant and to me its THE killer app for home users.
Again we are talking about using a PCI card for Windows 7 Aero and for videos NOT playing games, kay? Bringing up Doom in this scenario is as pointless as saying "You can't haul a boat with a Pinto" which of course has jack to do with squat.
Now as for video I doubt VERY seriously you are gonna be pushing 133 Megabytes Per second watching the new Harry Potter DVD. Don't forget we aren't talking about machines with BD here so you are looking at a MAX of DVD quality. For that? Not a problem. And I don't know about Nvidia but I know the Radeon cards take the vast majority of the load with DXVA . finally for someone saying the cost of Windows 7 would make it not worth it? Family pack dude, family pack. you get a couple of friends that want to upgrade and voila! you get Win 7 HP for $35. you keep an eye out on the specials and you'll often find the family pack for around $100, that is $33 a license. And finally like I said you can get a Pentium D which is more than powerful enough for web surfing for under $25, and that fits tons of older machines.
So I really don't see a problem here. the closest these folks would get to gaming is Farmville which I kinda doubt is gonna saturate the PCI bus.
Well first of all I think using words like truther and denier just brings in stupid partisan bullshit in what SHOULD be a healthy debate. Correct me if I'm wrong but I kinda thought science was supposed to educate, not be like religion where all that oppose dogma are labeled "other" and attacked?
Now here is what I personally have against the whole climate change, which make up your damned mind is it global warming or global cooling? Climate change is a cop out, the climate has been changing for all of recorded history!
But here is the problem: The ONLY "solution" we have been offered is carbon credits by the likes of Rev Al Gore who neglects to tell you the "inconvenient truth" that he has set himself up to be a carbon billionaire, the same ones that cooked up credit default swaps, aka economy killers are writing the rules for the carbon derivatives market and the most telling to me? notice how YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN Rev Al or his buddies come out in favor of tariffs against India and China, even though both countries have given the finger to carbon scams and said they won't play the game? Why is that? Could it be because Gore and his friends are making crazy monies in China and India, and don't give a fuck that dumping carbon credit scams on top of an already broken economy would royally buttfuck us as long as they can leech a few more sheckles before they bail?
I'm all for using less, we only have one planet and we should take care of it. but the only things i've seen is more bullshit, more scams, more bubbles, more ways for the top 1% to rob the middle class and poor before taking their money and buying another polluting factory in China. Perhaps one should watch this video that explains why you are being had. Reduction yes, carbon scamming, no. oh and lets tax the living fuck out of anything coming from factories that pollute and stop allowing designed for the dump hardware off the boat, okay? hell Newegg is still selling brand new IP V4 routers! Talk about prebuilt garbage!
The problem with ebay is you often are just getting some else's headaches. you may have had better luck but the few times i've tried getting AGP cards from there they had either pushed the card too hard and had damaged the mem or had cooked the GPU or toasted the fan. the few sellers with really high rating where you wouldn't have to worry about that want as much as a new card, so no money saved there.
And that is what it all comes down to, money. which is cheaper, $450-500+ or $175? because $450 is what I average on a new AMD build and $175 was what it cost Mr Brown to upgrade his late model P4 with windows 7 HP, new Geforce 8 PCI (I think it was an 8600, can't tell for sure without the invoice) card, and a Pentium D. Oh and pay me of course.
When all they are doing is watching videos and running Aero frankly PCI has more than enough bandwidth, by having videos offloaded to the GPU frankly even the bottom of the line Pentium D is a damned good web surfer, and $175 is a hell of a lot cheaper than $450, especially when money is tight as it was for Mr Brown. Now he can get probably another 3-5 years out of his machine with the way he runs it and by then hopefully the economy will have picked up.
And while I agree that AGP would be the way to go, I'd point out that many business machines didn't have AGP, only PCI.
We have this story on /. because its FOSS. Be honest if a developer let a big we juicy fart and wrote an article called "FOSS causes the winds" it would be front page here, as there are so many FOSSies as i call them.
Nothing against FOSS, I personally use it on Windows all the time, but the kind of FOSSies we get here are the kind that will argue up and down, totally seriously mind you, that making things easier for the users is "dumbed down" and that all should be forced to use CLI because doing things the hard way makes you smarter. of course they usually STFU when I ask if they are loading their kernel onto a PDP11 with punch cards then, because pretty much everything from high level languages to OSes have been designed to make things easier.
And the difference between Meego and what you described is each one brought something new to the table whereas Meego is just another Android/iOS ripoff cell OS from the shots I've seen. MSFT? Brought an OS to the masses, first by buying and improving DOS and offering it to all, instead of being locked to hardware like everyone else, followed by bringing the GUI to the masses because most couldn't afford Macs, Apple brought design to the forefront by focusing on user interaction instead of menus all the way down like MSFT and everyone else had done, and Google is frankly burning through a billion a quarter with Android so while its a hit I frankly don't know if that should count or if they should be busted for product dumping. After all if MSFT tried that or Apple they'd be brought up on Antitrust.
But what did Meege bring? Linux based OS? Ubuntu netbook and Linux ARM variants got that covered. Fast start? My EEE with Expressgate goes 6 seconds from button push to web. Design? Apple has that covered with the entire thing design around how users interact with the device.
So I'm sorry but I just don't see it. I'd wish them well but i personally think its gonna be another one of those abandoned projects like the corpses littering SourceForge. The bitch is I could give you THE killer feature for PCs and laptops and have been arguing with the Comodo team to push it instead of letting it wither...Time Machine, not the apple one but the Comodo one. you build THAT into your OS, where it doesn't matter what the user does, no matter how bad they fuck shit up, they can just push the home key after BIOS and be back up in 20 minutes or less? Now THAT is a killer app. System Restore frankly ain't got shit on TM my friend, its so easy your granny could work it.
Google had a similar idea with Chrome but the OEMs screwed the pooch with chrome OS by making the machines cost more than full featured laptops. Who the fuck is gonna pay $500 for an underpowered Atom netbook that won't work without net access? And ALL Linux machines have one flaw nobody seems to be willing to admit...if anything goes wrong? You are fucked. There is NO last known good config or even roll back drivers button. but make it so they can update and upgrade and do whatever without ever having to worry, because a single button push and it'll go back to like it was before with ZERO risks of losing data? Now THAT could make a difference. too bad the only one I've seen pull it off is Comodo and they look like they are abandoning it when Win 8 rolls out. oh well at least I have the last version on a thumbdrive. damned handy for normal folks to never have to worry about screwing anything up.
I actually LIKE articles like this, as it gives me info on another option for my customers that are looking to upgrade to Win 7 but whose box doesn't have PCIe. I've found Windows 7 can run quite decently on a 2.2GHz P4 with 2Gb of RAM but there are a hell of a lot of machines out there without PCIe and AGP cards are frankly crazy high now.
I just really wish someone would make some Radeon HD5xxx and 6xxx cards with AGP and make them sub $50 like they did for awhile with the HD2xxx and 3xxx cards. There are a lot of late model P4s that can easily and cheaply be upgraded to the Pentium D (I buy them all day long for less than $20 a chip) which works great even on MMOs like LOTRO and Perfect World but Windows 7 runs so much better and videos are so much smoother with a decent GPU for DXVA. With the economy still nasty having affordable options is always of the good in my book, So I like hearing about stuff like this and don't forget XP is still supported until 2014 so that is a hell of a lot of boxes out there that could run better with a GPU boost.
I'm sure I'll get hate for pointing this out, but maybe all these projects are dying because they are pointless? Apple rules the tablet, MSFT the desktop, and the phone is split between Apple and Google. So where is the market they were going to capture? Geeks that actually even know what 'free as in freedom' means much less cares about it are probably in the 0.03% range, so no real growth there. Hell the rest of the planet happily sends their data freely to Google and their money to Apple and MSFT so i can't suddenly see them going "Hey wait a tick!" and demanding the four freedoms.
So there just wasn't any real place for them to go is all. even the laptop and netbook OEMs where profits are razor thin don't really need it as MSFT sells dirt cheap Win 7 licenses to that segment and for instant on they have Splashtop AKA ExpressGate. So in an already overcrowded arena Intel looked at the writing on the wall and saw they were just wasting good money on a dead end. it certainly wasn't gonna sell more Intel CPU or "challenge the Wintel monopoly" as so many articles hinted when it first was being discussed.
Uh huh, explain that to Intel who got away with bribery for 7 years and then only had to pay a pittance compared to the massive profits from owning the market for that length of time. or tell that to the DRAM and LCD manufacturers, who also got to own the market for quite some time and then pay a pittance compared to the massive profits they made.
I hate to break the news to ya friend but bribery and collusion on a massive scale goes on every day, it is just the DoJ doesn't have any teeth anymore and all the regs have been gutted. And sure they can get an injunction, we are talking trolls, remember? trolls don't have a product to file an injunction against, they just buy paper and then use it to extort. It is just SOP in the land o' the freee. personally i think we need to stop the bullshit and just change the anthem to "mighty mighty dollar bill" and call it a day. But they'll get bit, live by the sword and all that. the only question is will they allow REAL reform, or will they pay their puppets to tweak the laws so basically the incumbents have different rules than everyone else? Who knows.
I think they nailed it perfectly in The Hunt For Red October: "I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and a liar, and when i'm not kissing babies I'm stealing their lollipops" pretty much sums it up. Smile pretty for the camera while backstabbing and cashing big fat checks off screen.
Citizens United only gave them the ability to take the bribes right out in the open with zero risk, which is probably advantageous what with a member of SCOTUS is looking a little shady when it comes to business dealings outside the court.
. Personally I think congress should be treated like jury duty, as that is the only way i can think of to keep career liars out of the positions. I doubt even term limits would do a bit of good as they'd just cash the big checks for a lesser time than they can do now.
And it is THIS, this right here, that is a perfect example of why we shouldn't buy into the bullshit over inhalers. I have yet to see anyone give any evidence that the trivial amount used in an asthma inhaler can actually affect squat, and we have had scientists flip flopping for years over a ton of stuff. Sunscreen good, now sunscreen bad. Coffee bad, no wait, coffee good now, helps postpartum depression. Sugar bad, no wait a tick, make that HFCS that is bad, sugar is okay.
Remember this isn't some intellectual exercise, this bullshit is gonna KILL OLD FOLKS DEAD because there are already so damned many drugs they are getting gouged on that many have to choose between food and medicine. Just another sorry pathetic example of "our" elected officials fucking over the poor and the elderly while giving another hand out to big pharma, which I bet my last dollar is making a minimum 200% markup over the previous inhalers.
Frankly with all the bickering and hand outs to big money I wouldn't piss on a congress critter is they was on fire. Just sorry backstabbing scum, the whole stinking lot.
Did you miss the "supermegacorp buried in bullshit" part of my theory? If Apple can't bring in a single iPhone, if MSFT's customers can't bring in a single windows based anything, all because the trolls have taken over the courts, who do you think has more money, IBM,MSFT,Apple, etc or the trolls?
The ONLY way you are gonna get real reforms now that citizens united means they can just write a check (and we have a member of SCOTUS taking bribes) is by having supermegacorps like Apple, MSFT, Sony, Google, etc, ALL get bit right in the ass. All the damned products are made in China now so all it takes is ONE injunction to throw a big fat monkey wrench into their quarterly earnings and you KNOW how much the day traders that rules Wall Street now hate those that miss the earnings!
You watch, once Apple,MSFT and Google all start getting giant fucking monkey wrenches thrown into their plans thanks to trolls flinging them like monkeys flinging shit THEN AND ONLY THEN will you "suddenly" have both the talking heads and the congress critters talking about how we "need real reform to get America innovating again". hell that will probably be the marketing slogan, "Reform for an innovative America".
Because if you think the people have a shot of getting anything changed I have a nice bridge you might be interested in. After all if they listened to the people we wouldn't be blowing money on THREE wars, or handing billion dollar checks to "our allies", or paying for a military that is so frankly overblown, or cutting aid for the poor and elderly, or having every politician acting like taxing a rich man is like kicking Jesus in the nads. Nope the supermegacorps call the shots, and when the trolls hit them one too many times in the pocketbooks THEN we'll see change. After all with their money they can crush the competition in a myriad of other ways besides patents and copyrights. Collusion and bribery for example.
Maybe it is different at private university but my oldest is in private and the teachers were nice enough to sidestep the whole copyright mess by simply making their own PPTs to help out the students and have them all online.
Maybe it is because they are a christian college but I have to say the amount of personal attention and help they've given my oldest really impressed me. If it even looks like he is starting to struggle with a subject they have tutors ready to go, they even found him a sponsor because he's made the Dean's list consistently and the sponsor who is an alumni is picking up ALL his books for as long as he keeps his grades up.
So while online is great for supplements like those PPTs I know that having reasonably small class sizes and the opportunity for plenty of face time with the teachers as well as having the students work in groups has really helped my oldest. we were afraid that with him being home schooled (frankly the public schools are a bad joke here) he might have trouble getting into the swing but with the great help and support of the teachers and faculty, who even had tutors for him set up and teaching him before he started his first class so he'd be prepared my oldest has been getting high As pretty solid for the past two years and those classes are anything but dumbed down!
I don't think he could have done anywhere near as well as he has if it wasn't for all the hands on time, so while the Internet is great in addition to it would really have to be balanced like they do at his school before i'd say its a good idea. I'd really hate to have students trying to learn trig or organic chemistry by online courses only.
Personally I'm all for it, let them do "in a cell phone!" like they did "on the Internet!" and let them go nuts with it. why? Because the quicker the entire system is completely saturated with BS patents the quicker the whole thing will fall down like a house of cards and hopefully we can get some damned reforms, that's why!
The ONLY way we are gonna get any kind of reforms after citizen united is if supermegacorp gets so buried in patent bullshit that they can't even release a single product here for having it tied up in court for a decade. Meanwhile we are already seeing that the Indians and Chinese don't have these problems and can build upon the ideas of others, such as those cool handhelds that are game emulators, PMPs, you name it they play it. I have no doubt they'll just add some modular plug in controls like thumbpads to one of their iPhone ripoffs and tell MSFT to suck it.
The way the tech industry has grown and come up with so many new ideas has always been to "stand on the shoulders of giants" but the supermegacorps are so damned afraid of anyone competing or not having an insane barrier to entry they are just crippling the entire process. Just as the insane copyrights are locking more and more of our history behind paywalls so too is insane patents locking up more and more of our ideas behind intellectual tollbooths. But in a global market all it takes is one that doesn't play your reindeer games for all that IP shit to fall apart, and currently we have at least two markets that are growing that don't play the game and I'm sure there will be more to follow.
Let the country drown in bullshit IP wars I say, the quicker we can toss this madness and work on something a little more sensible.
But I'm not talking about free energy, I'm talking about using the energy of the earth to slingshot it out. Just like being on the end of a spinning whip you use the gravity of a partial fall to give you momentum followed by a burn out, like going downhill to pick up speed followed by gunning it to shoot up a hill.
Meh I think our entire system when it comes to sats is dumb anyway. I mean here we are still using the tech they used when Von Braun was lobbying V2s at London. I think Gerald Bull's idea was the way to go, the supergun, only he didn't have the correct technology at the time. Instead of explosives you use a coil gun mounted on the side of a mountain, maybe one of those we've kept since taking them from the Japanese in WWII? You would have a long flat straightaway followed by a curve up the mountain and use a nuclear plant for power.
If one wanted to have it man rated the straightaway would have to be huge to keep the g forces from hitting too hard but for dumb cargo and sats I bet it would work just fine, and because you would only need to fire your rockets at the very top of the arc one could save a hell of a lot of fuel which could then be used not only for extending the maneuvering life of the sat but still give it ample fuel to get rid of it when it was EOL.
Ultimately if we are ever gonna get off this rock we'll have to find a new way to do it such as the supergun, because chemical rockets simply take too much fuel for too little payload. If one used the supergun with a modular design one could send the rocket up in stage and put it together in space and fly it out from there.
Either way just dumping tons of crap in the pacific still seems like a BAD idea. We can't just keep using the ocean as our personal garbage dump without it eventually coming back to bite us in the ass. Hell maybe we should be looking at smaller and cheaper modular designs that could just burn up on the way down, who knows. I just know we humans seem to be lousy at looking at the long term, which is how we ended up with so much dead crap in orbit in the first place.
I read a book years and years ago on various weirdness and the ones researching it had a pretty good explanation. According to their findings nearly 97% of SHC cases all have these things in common: 1.-They are elderly, 2.-They drank regularly, 3.- They were to some degree overweight.
Their theory was the right mixture of gases in the body plus body fat to work as fuel would cause SHC which is why it is so rare. but according to their research it was pretty easy to spot the difference between SHC and say someone who burnt to death by falling asleep with a cigarette. With SHC everything is covered by an oily soot (The body fat being burned as fuel), there is little to no damage to the surrounding area, yet the body itself is almost completely burned up in the center mass, often with bones destroyed.
Finally as for what sets them off their theory was electrical, which is as good as any I suppose. they based it on the one case they could find of someone who survived it in I believe it was the 30s, thanks to having her daughter at home. the daughter reported her mother appeared to have some sort of fit followed by an almost static charge making the daughter's hairs stand on end, finally a white hot spot appeared on her mother and began smoking. The daughter dumped an entire jug of tea on her mother and managed to get her cooled enough to stop it, although with heavy burns down to the fat layer.
anyway as complex an organism as is the human it wouldn't surprise me that if the conditions are just right someone could SHC. After all look at the cases we have of people doing feats of strength that should have been physically impossible for their size, and without doing major damage to themselves. If you looked at it logically they should have had broken bones, ripped muscles, etc, yet they don't because the exact right combination of hormones and chemicals released by fear somehow overcome their natural limitations. So given what we know so far about the phenomenon I'd say its at least possible but extremely rare.
What happened to the whole "rock skipping off a pond' thing we heard about like a bazillion times when NASA had a ship coming in? could you just use that to skip the sucker right on out of here? i know we use gravity assists to gain speed for long missions, why not use that on the birds before they run out of gas?
It STILL seems like a better idea to me that dumping ton after ton into the Pacific, especially with all the toxic crap that can be in some of those sats. We really shouldn't use the ocean as a garbage dump, i don't care how big the thing is. its that kind of thinking that has that huge floating garbage pile in the pacific right now.
Uhhh...if they have root they'll HAVE the keys, so I don't even know if you could call it a MITM, more like "we own this thing" because with the root keys anything encrypted using that key could be decrypted by them since they have the private key, or am I wrong?
Either way i think the answer will come from hackers, tools like Freenet and Tor are just the beginning. Frankly the corruption is so thick in the USA right now I wouldn't trust the gov with privacy as far as i could throw your average lobbyist. I mean for the love of Pete they gave retroactive immunity for basically copying every bit that went through the AT&T networks!
But if you are using DNSSEC aren't you just trading Chinese certs for American servers? Don't think I really like our record right now when it comes to things like privacy or rights or...well pretty much anything that doesn't give a handjob to a corporation. According to the Wiki DNSSEC all starts with and is tied to the root zone DNS which is currently controlled by US Department of Commerce NTIA
I'm sorry but after the whole "AT&T secret room" bit came out I wouldn't trust our government with jack shit when it comes to privacy, as obviously they don't give a fuck. We just don't have a track record post PATRIOT worthy of having that kind of power sadly.
Well you can clearly see this company is completely worthless and will hopefully go the way of the 8-track when they say right there in their little excuse they retain logs to prevent "abuses" such as those that " cases involve terrorism and child porn."
If anyone hasn't figured out by now that "for teh childrenz/get teh terristz" isn't a codeword for "we give anything and everything to big bro cause we down with that" they deserve to be in PMITA prison. Moral of the story is this company needs to be DOA. Everyone that uses it needs to close their accounts and cancel the checks NOW, because they have just proven beyond all doubt that you are "paying" for absolutely nothing but the smoke being blown up your ass.
And to answer your question YES IT IS FRAUD but good luck on seeing someone get busted for kissing big bro booty. See how AT&T got an entire congress to write a law covering their ass for being down with big bro. But the best lesson this bunch of bozos could be taught won't be in a court, it should be in their bank account.
Hey Anons, if you are out there? get a list of everyone that uses that service and send them a copy of TFA. Let them know they have bought NOTHING. This is a case where voting with your wallet could do some real good, because if these clowns go out of business less than a month after this hits it'll teach a BIG lesson to others in this business: you keep logs? I hope you have another business lined up.