Its a real country. I just got a very lucrative mail from their prince. I'm heading there and soon will be laughing at your mistake in Niger's regal luxury. muah-ahahaha.
Usually, aren't the only people that care people running servers? Laptops hardly qualify. I only glanced at the article, but I'm willing to bet that they couldn't be bothered to test each operating system repeatedly and scientifically. I'm willing to bet that if they had the difference would have been statistically negligible. A few seconds of battery life isn't much to write home about, unless your running back to it because you forgot to save something...
Not as painless as the opt-in that we apparently all did... oh wait..
Anything that is like this should always be opt in. No one would do it though, unless they gave you some kinda bonus for doing it. As long as they make more money for doing it then they lose from angering people about it, they'll do it.
Actually we all have through 9-11 (it affects you financially even if it doesn't personally). And if you think Christian extremists are worse, I'm guessing its only because there is probably not very many Islamic extremists in your neighborhood. Its kinda the same thing as risk... likelihood x cost of occurrence.
Plus I think most Christians and most Islamic people would take offense to either term being tied in with extremism. Extreme religion should be correctly called piety, not terrorism.
I agree. If you read the article, you'll notice that such attacks as "This was possible on both uniprocessor systems and multiprocessor systems." Also, it has been known since at least 1998. I'm guessing its not that big of a deal, because exploit code would be difficult, there are easier targets, and lastly because anti-virus software could probably still look for the code(not in real time, but only when its infected on disk or transit).
This is why when I want new music I try to get them directly from the artist, or through a website like cdbaby.com which seems to have better service than big labels and hopefully gives more money to artists. It also seems to promote a lot of the little guys which is a nice bonus.
I'm as much of a fanboy of the stick it to malware developers movement, but this is kind of sets off a few flags.
Kaspersky was immune from liability under the Communications Decency Act, part of which states: "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected, or any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to [such] material."
It will be interesting to see two things: 1) how this cause stands up when something like Nortan AV "accidentally" gets blocked; 2)IANAL, but shouldn't this cover DRM? It falls under otherwise objectionable at the very least (filthy too, IMHO).
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It still works for electronics though! (you'll prove something is dense)
to submit your campaign donations for the senators on the FCC oversight committee.
Try out lobbying Walmart and maybe you'll have a snowball's chance of getting this legislation passed.
You can't just change the bacteria to suit the cows, you insensitive clod. The only solution is to modify the cows to live in 60C acidic water!
Worst misspelling of beer ever!
And for your added convenience, these highlights would automatically be updated hourly to youtube.
It was tested with 100% accuracy in Los Vegas. Seriously though, isn't emitting light the opposite of stealth?
Its a real country. I just got a very lucrative mail from their prince. I'm heading there and soon will be laughing at your mistake in Niger's regal luxury. muah-ahahaha.
Actually as long as there aren't holes in the vest....
I don't think it is even the biggest bomb. That would probably be Vista, judging by sales and how often it makes my computer explode.
Yes, I realize the joke is on me for having Vista.
Have you seen the prices of Microsoft's latest products?
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Now I can watch High Def. streams in boring powerpoint slides.
Usually, aren't the only people that care people running servers? Laptops hardly qualify. I only glanced at the article, but I'm willing to bet that they couldn't be bothered to test each operating system repeatedly and scientifically. I'm willing to bet that if they had the difference would have been statistically negligible. A few seconds of battery life isn't much to write home about, unless your running back to it because you forgot to save something...
Not as painless as the opt-in that we apparently all did... oh wait..
Anything that is like this should always be opt in. No one would do it though, unless they gave you some kinda bonus for doing it. As long as they make more money for doing it then they lose from angering people about it, they'll do it.
Neither do most slashdotters :-p. Sorry Mods, couldn't resist.
Just wait until you hear about my solution for server rooms...
Actually we all have through 9-11 (it affects you financially even if it doesn't personally). And if you think Christian extremists are worse, I'm guessing its only because there is probably not very many Islamic extremists in your neighborhood. Its kinda the same thing as risk... likelihood x cost of occurrence.
Plus I think most Christians and most Islamic people would take offense to either term being tied in with extremism. Extreme religion should be correctly called piety, not terrorism.
I agree. If you read the article, you'll notice that such attacks as "This was possible on both uniprocessor systems and multiprocessor systems." Also, it has been known since at least 1998. I'm guessing its not that big of a deal, because exploit code would be difficult, there are easier targets, and lastly because anti-virus software could probably still look for the code(not in real time, but only when its infected on disk or transit).
You mean it doesn't all go to the artist?
This is why when I want new music I try to get them directly from the artist, or through a website like cdbaby.com which seems to have better service than big labels and hopefully gives more money to artists. It also seems to promote a lot of the little guys which is a nice bonus.
It will be interesting to see two things: 1) how this cause stands up when something like Nortan AV "accidentally" gets blocked; 2)IANAL, but shouldn't this cover DRM? It falls under otherwise objectionable at the very least (filthy too, IMHO).
And what exactly do you consider running Vista to be?
Well, its only got around 8% of the testers it wants so far...
What sig?