Because I'm having issues with 64 bit Ubuntu running 32 bit codecs / flash / java and stuff properly it means I can run it with sound, which for some reason swiftfox won't do.
Never had a problem, using Privoxy to stop shit like that. I even have turned OFF the popup blocker in opera / firefox / swiftfox / whatever else I'm using because privoxy gets 99% of them. Any it doesn't I just amend the rules to add it in.
Then again I set it to block almost everything by default.
You complete bastard. I'm going to have to dig that game out and try to remember how many I got and how to get them all.
Yeah I remember that if you let the replicants go it pushes you in a 'you're a replicant' way, but if you kill them all you're more human. And I seem to recall something about a snake (supposedly a real snake, nasty venemous one) that can bite you but you live... suggesting you're a replicant. Or maybe that the seller was dodgy and selling a fake snake!
Where I used to work when they were switching to NT (from OS/2) which wasn't too many years ago, the machines they had in the test room ALL came with 98 disks! I believe they have (this year) finally upgraded to XP so I figure it will be many years before they bother with Vista!
Yeah I agree. I DEMAND that all versions have an automatic update function the same as windows, i.e. one that pops up bugging the hell out of you that you have new updates, demanding you reboot, and when you say 'not now' waits 10 minutes then gives you a 30 second countdown before auto-rebooting (which when you're trying to play a game fullscreen f*cks everything up)
Lets start a petition now!
(ok, I know linux has an update function. And I know you don't always have to reboot in windows but it seems that you do most of the time and I haven't had to reboot once to put an update in linux yet*)
* Disclaimer. Only been on linux a few weeks, but have installed, updated and removed several programs that if they had been on windows would have demanded a reboot
I didn't have much of a problem with Jar Jar existing but his character really doesn't have a purpose off of Naboo.
Well he was the one that put palpatine in power by demanding a vote of no confidence on the previous guy in charge. Plus that makes it more fun (to me) that the annoying character (although I didn't think he was as bad as some people here make out) screws up royally and ends up being used and helps build the empire!
If I ever start my own business I will have some line like 'voted the bestest company in the entire universe' then in little letters state that that was by me voting for it and only me. Of course I doubt most people will read that bit though...
ID card or not renewing after a set date (next year was it?) you will have to give all your information to the government. I don't care about having an ID card with photo that identifies me. I care about a f*cking huge database with every single detail about me, which is open to almost anyone to access (anyone that would need to check the ID card was genuine so I guess that means shops, pubs, police, medical, libraries... well almost everyone in fact).
And because there is a single card that is meant to be 'secure' all the bad guys will try to break it - it seems to me a few iffy stores checking details on people could quite easily grab all the details they need and make fake cards that pass the test.
Haven't you heard? You buy a computer with Windows XP. The computer dies so you buy a new box, and get the same copy of XP installed on it. You're a pirate!
And no I'm not (unfortunately) joking. A mate sells computers and got hassled by MS because if it is an OEM license that stays on the MACHINE and not the USER and when you buy a new PC you need a new license to run windows!
If you really want I can grab some of the literature for a laugh!
Personally that's the first thing I turn off on an XP machine. I don't want my computer to look like a 5 year old with crayons has been colouring on it!
I never used to lock my PC... mainly because there were better ways of breaking into the system (like the text file on the server everyone connected to with full admin rights everywhere which no user had access to, including IT, as their default account). Oh this password was also the same name as the account.
Company policy was to lock the PCs after 10 minutes but I ran a.reg file to override this on logon (this was another problem with the company allowing any user to have access to the registry).
Personally if I had cared about that job I may have done something else, but given they had a mandatory 28 days change your passwords thing on about 4 different systems almost everyone wrote them down, or simply upped a number at the end. One of the systems gave you a random 6 letter number combo that you couldn't change!
So given that almost every single user simply wrote this down, or incremented the password. The help desk had been seen asking for passwords to pass to IT to 'help' them and they had possibly the most screwed up security setup, what was the point?
From some people that I know that have cars with governers they are set at around 120 mph. This is what they told me anyway so they could have been lying.
The main problem I have with limiting you to the speed limit is what if this was done remotely, to allow changing speed limits for rush hour for example. What if someone could hack that to tell your car the maximum speed limit was 0 mph. Easy way to carjack someone. Or how about with collision avoidance, you walk in front of a car and it stops. Then your mate walks behind the car. Now the car will not move.
I'm all for computer controlled cars but I want an override switch for the very rare occasions I may need it. OK hook it in to dial the cops also if you want, just let me be able to or criminals will exploit the 'safety' devices. I know you could put more effort into stopping remote hacks by not including wireless (for example) but you KNOW that parliament / congress / your ruling bodies will do this 'for ease' of updating.
Also what if you have perfect encryption on your car, that would take forever to break into. If you drive your car for 20 years do you have to get upgrades on the hardware because I'm sure mobile phones nowadays could crack encryption from 20 years ago!
You ever heard of an animal called the Iranian jerd? It can do 150 pelvic thrusts a second. That's me in slo-mo. Put a Black and Decker drill on the end, I can make it through walls!
Presumably one of these 'associates' is forcing a click on one of the original yahoo ads so they pay their aassociate, who pays their associate who pays their associate?
Seems weird. OK lets assume yahoo are paying 1 dollar per click from one of their associates (I know this is WAY more, but I'm not going to work through figures with thousanths of pennies!). Their associates pay 50 cents to one of THEIR associates who pays 25 cents to another who (through spam) forces yahoo to pay for an extra million clicks. That means they get 250,000 (if I can add up - it's late and I was down the pub earlier!)
So it seems that all the associates gain and yahoo lose (from TFA costing the company roughly $6.7 million in revenue). I think the problem is ANY of the associates gain to stand so they have no idea which one could be doing it.
At least that is how I read the article, but please re-read my line about being tired and drunk:) And I know my figures suck (and you shouldn't start sentences with 'and'), but hopefully this makes sense.
If each associate has 4 others the cash is diluted through all the associates (who all have the incentive of extra cash to not bother investigating to much) and suddenly with only 3 or 4 links down you have hundreds of possible companies that did it and that is presumably why Yahoo are having such a problem tracking it down.
Erm, I think we're losing sight of the real issue here, which is 'What are we gonna call ourselves?', and I think it comes down to a choice between 'The League Against Salivating Monsters' or my own personal preference, which is 'The Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society'.
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Because I'm having issues with 64 bit Ubuntu running 32 bit codecs / flash / java and stuff properly it means I can run it with sound, which for some reason swiftfox won't do.
:)
So thanks for the link
Well I figured either they are picking on innocent people or they aren't a good source... either way it's bad news for us :(
Or there are no trustworthy air marshals and thus no-one wants to speak out...
Never had a problem, using Privoxy to stop shit like that. I even have turned OFF the popup blocker in opera / firefox / swiftfox / whatever else I'm using because privoxy gets 99% of them. Any it doesn't I just amend the rules to add it in.
Then again I set it to block almost everything by default.
You know you CAN change it from the snap...
in 3... 2... 1... SPIKE.
OK where is my medication... must relax... it's not real.... *deep breath*
Yeah I mean how dumb. It's MATHS. At least in the UK anyway :P
Actually the funny bit would be all those IT managers doing a 'find and replace' to change all the 8's back to 3's to fix it...
You complete bastard. I'm going to have to dig that game out and try to remember how many I got and how to get them all.
Yeah I remember that if you let the replicants go it pushes you in a 'you're a replicant' way, but if you kill them all you're more human. And I seem to recall something about a snake (supposedly a real snake, nasty venemous one) that can bite you but you live... suggesting you're a replicant. Or maybe that the seller was dodgy and selling a fake snake!
Dammit, now I have even less free time!
So you need something that would work against stupid people... didn't they have something like that in the days of the vikings?
Where I used to work when they were switching to NT (from OS/2) which wasn't too many years ago, the machines they had in the test room ALL came with 98 disks! I believe they have (this year) finally upgraded to XP so I figure it will be many years before they bother with Vista!
Yeah I agree. I DEMAND that all versions have an automatic update function the same as windows, i.e. one that pops up bugging the hell out of you that you have new updates, demanding you reboot, and when you say 'not now' waits 10 minutes then gives you a 30 second countdown before auto-rebooting (which when you're trying to play a game fullscreen f*cks everything up)
Lets start a petition now!
(ok, I know linux has an update function. And I know you don't always have to reboot in windows but it seems that you do most of the time and I haven't had to reboot once to put an update in linux yet*)
* Disclaimer. Only been on linux a few weeks, but have installed, updated and removed several programs that if they had been on windows would have demanded a reboot
I'll just hand in my geek card then :(
No running ROT13 doesn't take too long...
Would anyone argue with Lord Vader even if he wasn't right? ;) Just look at that General guy who got choked (ok I suck at the names!)
hmm... OK so it's been a while since I watched them. They both helped make the empire then.
I didn't have much of a problem with Jar Jar existing but his character really doesn't have a purpose off of Naboo.
Well he was the one that put palpatine in power by demanding a vote of no confidence on the previous guy in charge. Plus that makes it more fun (to me) that the annoying character (although I didn't think he was as bad as some people here make out) screws up royally and ends up being used and helps build the empire!
If I ever start my own business I will have some line like 'voted the bestest company in the entire universe' then in little letters state that that was by me voting for it and only me. Of course I doubt most people will read that bit though...
(note: bestest is part of the joke)
ID card or not renewing after a set date (next year was it?) you will have to give all your information to the government. I don't care about having an ID card with photo that identifies me. I care about a f*cking huge database with every single detail about me, which is open to almost anyone to access (anyone that would need to check the ID card was genuine so I guess that means shops, pubs, police, medical, libraries... well almost everyone in fact).
And because there is a single card that is meant to be 'secure' all the bad guys will try to break it - it seems to me a few iffy stores checking details on people could quite easily grab all the details they need and make fake cards that pass the test.
Haven't you heard? You buy a computer with Windows XP. The computer dies so you buy a new box, and get the same copy of XP installed on it. You're a pirate!
And no I'm not (unfortunately) joking. A mate sells computers and got hassled by MS because if it is an OEM license that stays on the MACHINE and not the USER and when you buy a new PC you need a new license to run windows!
If you really want I can grab some of the literature for a laugh!
...win 2000 has the old win98 like gui...
Personally that's the first thing I turn off on an XP machine. I don't want my computer to look like a 5 year old with crayons has been colouring on it!
I never used to lock my PC... mainly because there were better ways of breaking into the system (like the text file on the server everyone connected to with full admin rights everywhere which no user had access to, including IT, as their default account). Oh this password was also the same name as the account.
.reg file to override this on logon (this was another problem with the company allowing any user to have access to the registry).
Company policy was to lock the PCs after 10 minutes but I ran a
Personally if I had cared about that job I may have done something else, but given they had a mandatory 28 days change your passwords thing on about 4 different systems almost everyone wrote them down, or simply upped a number at the end. One of the systems gave you a random 6 letter number combo that you couldn't change!
So given that almost every single user simply wrote this down, or incremented the password. The help desk had been seen asking for passwords to pass to IT to 'help' them and they had possibly the most screwed up security setup, what was the point?
From some people that I know that have cars with governers they are set at around 120 mph. This is what they told me anyway so they could have been lying.
The main problem I have with limiting you to the speed limit is what if this was done remotely, to allow changing speed limits for rush hour for example. What if someone could hack that to tell your car the maximum speed limit was 0 mph. Easy way to carjack someone. Or how about with collision avoidance, you walk in front of a car and it stops. Then your mate walks behind the car. Now the car will not move.
I'm all for computer controlled cars but I want an override switch for the very rare occasions I may need it. OK hook it in to dial the cops also if you want, just let me be able to or criminals will exploit the 'safety' devices. I know you could put more effort into stopping remote hacks by not including wireless (for example) but you KNOW that parliament / congress / your ruling bodies will do this 'for ease' of updating.
Also what if you have perfect encryption on your car, that would take forever to break into. If you drive your car for 20 years do you have to get upgrades on the hardware because I'm sure mobile phones nowadays could crack encryption from 20 years ago!
Anyway just my thoughts
You ever heard of an animal called the Iranian jerd? It can do 150 pelvic thrusts a second. That's me in slo-mo. Put a Black and Decker drill on the end, I can make it through walls!
Presumably one of these 'associates' is forcing a click on one of the original yahoo ads so they pay their aassociate, who pays their associate who pays their associate?
:) And I know my figures suck (and you shouldn't start sentences with 'and'), but hopefully this makes sense.
Seems weird. OK lets assume yahoo are paying 1 dollar per click from one of their associates (I know this is WAY more, but I'm not going to work through figures with thousanths of pennies!). Their associates pay 50 cents to one of THEIR associates who pays 25 cents to another who (through spam) forces yahoo to pay for an extra million clicks. That means they get 250,000 (if I can add up - it's late and I was down the pub earlier!)
So it seems that all the associates gain and yahoo lose (from TFA costing the company roughly $6.7 million in revenue). I think the problem is ANY of the associates gain to stand so they have no idea which one could be doing it.
At least that is how I read the article, but please re-read my line about being tired and drunk
If each associate has 4 others the cash is diluted through all the associates (who all have the incentive of extra cash to not bother investigating to much) and suddenly with only 3 or 4 links down you have hundreds of possible companies that did it and that is presumably why Yahoo are having such a problem tracking it down.
Erm, I think we're losing sight of the real issue here, which is 'What are we gonna call ourselves?', and I think it comes down to a choice between 'The League Against Salivating Monsters' or my own personal preference, which is 'The Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society'.
(I'll let someone else finish this)