I can't believe I posted "You didn't state the OS you were asking about" when it was in the title. This is what I get for posting before I've had my caffeine.:^p
Yes, I know... it failed certification. But often what is used in certification is proof-of-concept or old and very rare samples that may not be "in the wild". It deliberately doesn't detect them to have a lighter footprint and be easier on resources. I use it on 1 GHz machines with 512MB of RAM with no noticeable slowdown. It doesn't miss the stuff that you're actually going to be at risk of getting infected with, in my experience.
You didn't state the OS you were asking about, but IIRC Avast is Windows-only. MSE may fit your requirements.
SCOTUS doesn't need to make a ruling upholding a constitutional right, as the constitution already does.
The Justice Department affirmed this strongly when they sent a letter to the Baltimore PD which asserted that it is a first amendment right to record, and a violation of the fourth and fourteenth amendments to access and/or destroy such recordings without due process and/or a warrant.
This made national headlines and so it's assured every police department in the U.S. is well aware of this.
The victim should be contacting the DOJ and ACLU in short order.
Only if you use a weak password. There's no known attacks against WPA other than dictionary and brute-force which will work on anything. It allows a 63-character password, so for all practical purposes a 63-character WPA password of random mixed-case letters, numbers and punctuation is unbreakable (currently.)
WEP, of course, is cryptographically weak and crackable
Wow.. modded troll for mentioning this. I wonder what the response would have been if he started the article with "In white people's attempts to gain some understanding..." Would I have been a troll then for pointing out that it might disrespect some of the readers to assume that they don't have the intelligence or initiative to want to want to understand the cosmos? For a supposedly intelligent and educated community, there are still a few prejudices that are easily exposed. And then some will wonder why there still are women who are pissed off, and there are proportionally few of them in the sciences (and IT.)
This must be a belated April Fools' joke, like the petition to ban DHMO. How can the worldwide ocean's surface level rise more in one area than another?
I mean, it's liquid water. Won't any tiny local variation in average surface height be quickly spead out and normalized by our old friend: Mr. Gravity?
The majority Conservatives already dropped all of these provisions from C-11 as they're highly unpopular. Recent polls are now in the news showing that the New Democrats are tied with them, and may even be slightly leading. I really doubt they will back this and risk the next election over it.
"However, just because something can save the lives of millions is not a reason to not allow it to be patented. Pretty much every safety feature in cars is covered by numerous patents. "
This comparison is invalid. A car is already an expensive, in many cases unnecessary, and arguably luxury item. Patented safety features add a small fraction to its cost, so it's likely if the car can be afforded then so can the safety features. In contrast, alternatives to patented pharma, tests, procedures etc. may not be available to lower-income people in any form, and may be life-or-death necessary.
- I wrote a former (NDP) MP in my previous district, and got back a really great "100% with you on this, but unfortunately they've got a majority so all we can do is whine and complain in the house" e-mail. What the frig else should I do?
Harper was found in Contempt of Parliament years ago and nothing was ever done about it. This should be reopened and actioned.
I support a locked-down corporate image. I'm surprised at the number of people I support that I've found using Chrome.
Yesterday I talked to someone and asked how she got it and she said that a site prompted her to install it so she did. I just tried this and was able to install it on the locked-down image, including setting it as default, etc. It may have put its settings in the user-writable area of the registry but it's very sneaky to do so whereas other browsers will refuse to install without admin. privileges. Hey, whatever leads to higher market share, right?
You answered your own question: 99 cents a track. For what they're paying the artists, plus distribution costs, 10 cents a track would be fair. But they're still charging the same for a bunch of bits from a server that costs a fraction of a cent to deliver as they did when that music was pressed onto a big vinyl disc by a multi-ton press, packaged with a printed cardboard sleeve and trucked to the store.
And the artist still gets 5% of it if they're lucky.
You probably won't ever see this, but I had someone verify, and Fallout 3 (GFWL) is like this, but New Vegas (SteamWorks) is not. If you launch New Vegas' main EXE, it launches the Steam client as would be expected. So Skyrim is definitely special, and I won't be surprised if they "despecial" it soon.
This is phenomenal, because the Steam version of Oblivion was tied to the Steam client and required Valve's assistance to get it working with the script extender. It was using the basic Steam wrapper. There were worries that Skyrim would be using the new Valve CEG encryption, which would have probably, nixed a script extender completely but Bethesda's VP confirmed otherwise.
I've seen several trustworthy people (have yet to get my activation code to verify this) that said that the main executable TESV.EXE is not tied to the Steam client; only the launcher is.
So, briefly, until they very possibly patch that out, once installed it can be run stand-alone with no Steam client, so no DRM.
They were successfully sued (albeit more of a slap on the wrist) for antitrust violations simply for bundling a browser with an operating system.
Colluding with hardware manufacturers to actually lock out rival operating systems making them an enforced monopoly is several orders of magnitude more severe. Why would they risk that when other operating systems have such a tiny market share anyways? The possible penalties are not worth it for a small increase.
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I can't believe I posted "You didn't state the OS you were asking about" when it was in the title. This is what I get for posting before I've had my caffeine. :^p
Yes, I know... it failed certification. But often what is used in certification is proof-of-concept or old and very rare samples that may not be "in the wild". It deliberately doesn't detect them to have a lighter footprint and be easier on resources. I use it on 1 GHz machines with 512MB of RAM with no noticeable slowdown. It doesn't miss the stuff that you're actually going to be at risk of getting infected with, in my experience.
You didn't state the OS you were asking about, but IIRC Avast is Windows-only. MSE may fit your requirements.
"It is bad enough that insulated cups have warnings about the contents being hot..."
You have a point: Hallowe'en Superman costumes contain the disclaimer "Costume does not enable wearer to fly."
http://www.wral.com/man-charged-in-durham-hit-and-run-that-killed-bicyclist/12644209/
SCOTUS doesn't need to make a ruling upholding a constitutional right, as the constitution already does.
The Justice Department affirmed this strongly when they sent a letter to the Baltimore PD which asserted that it is a first amendment right to record, and a violation of the fourth and fourteenth amendments to access and/or destroy such recordings without due process and/or a warrant.
This made national headlines and so it's assured every police department in the U.S. is well aware of this.
The victim should be contacting the DOJ and ACLU in short order.
Only if you use a weak password. There's no known attacks against WPA other than dictionary and brute-force which will work on anything. It allows a 63-character password, so for all practical purposes a 63-character WPA password of random mixed-case letters, numbers and punctuation is unbreakable (currently.)
WEP, of course, is cryptographically weak and crackable
Wow.. modded troll for mentioning this.
I wonder what the response would have been if he started the article with "In white people's attempts to gain some understanding..." Would I have been a troll then for pointing out that it might disrespect some of the readers to assume that they don't have the intelligence or initiative to want to want to understand the cosmos?
For a supposedly intelligent and educated community, there are still a few prejudices that are easily exposed. And then some will wonder why there still are women who are pissed off, and there are proportionally few of them in the sciences (and IT.)
From TFA:
"In mankind's attempts to gain some understanding of this marvelous place in which we live,..."
Hey Brian... the 1950s are deservedly over. Stick an "hu" at the beginning and you won't alienate half your readers.
(From one guy to another before you get in trouble over it.)
"School of fish" is no longer just a collective noun.
This must be a belated April Fools' joke, like the petition to ban DHMO. How can the worldwide ocean's surface level rise more in one area than another?
I mean, it's liquid water. Won't any tiny local variation in average surface height be quickly spead out and normalized by our old friend: Mr. Gravity?
Am I missing something?
The majority Conservatives already dropped all of these provisions from C-11 as they're highly unpopular. Recent polls are now in the news showing that the New Democrats are tied with them, and may even be slightly leading. I really doubt they will back this and risk the next election over it.
"...every integer can be expressed as the sum of two primes."
It should be every even integer. Note TFA has sums for 52, 54, 56, 58 and 60.
... is when the birds sing."
He picked a particularly ironic example.
"However, just because something can save the lives of millions is not a reason to not allow it to be patented. Pretty much every safety feature in cars is covered by numerous patents. "
This comparison is invalid. A car is already an expensive, in many cases unnecessary, and arguably luxury item. Patented safety features add a small fraction to its cost, so it's likely if the car can be afforded then so can the safety features. In contrast, alternatives to patented pharma, tests, procedures etc. may not be available to lower-income people in any form, and may be life-or-death necessary.
"When placed on a scale at the South Pole, the intrepid ornament weighed 309.82 grams versus 307.86 grams at the equator..."
The grams is a unit of mass, which is invariant depending on gravity. The metric unit of weight is the kilopond.
... Shire Art?
Pfft... .53 is so last-second. Why can't you splitters update to .54 like the rest of us?
- I wrote a former (NDP) MP in my previous district, and got back a really great "100% with you on this, but unfortunately they've got a majority so all we can do is whine and complain in the house" e-mail.
What the frig else should I do?
Harper was found in Contempt of Parliament years ago and nothing was ever done about it. This should be reopened and actioned.
I support a locked-down corporate image. I'm surprised at the number of people I support that I've found using Chrome.
Yesterday I talked to someone and asked how she got it and she said that a site prompted her to install it so she did. I just tried this and was able to install it on the locked-down image, including setting it as default, etc. It may have put its settings in the user-writable area of the registry but it's very sneaky to do so whereas other browsers will refuse to install without admin. privileges. Hey, whatever leads to higher market share, right?
You answered your own question: 99 cents a track. For what they're paying the artists, plus distribution costs, 10 cents a track would be fair. But they're still charging the same for a bunch of bits from a server that costs a fraction of a cent to deliver as they did when that music was pressed onto a big vinyl disc by a multi-ton press, packaged with a printed cardboard sleeve and trucked to the store.
And the artist still gets 5% of it if they're lucky.
Yahoo will now be known as Yang Who?
You probably won't ever see this, but I had someone verify, and Fallout 3 (GFWL) is like this, but New Vegas (SteamWorks) is not. If you launch New Vegas' main EXE, it launches the Steam client as would be expected. So Skyrim is definitely special, and I won't be surprised if they "despecial" it soon.
This is phenomenal, because the Steam version of Oblivion was tied to the Steam client and required Valve's assistance to get it working with the script extender. It was using the basic Steam wrapper. There were worries that Skyrim would be using the new Valve CEG encryption, which would have probably, nixed a script extender completely but Bethesda's VP confirmed otherwise.
This is much better than expected!
I've seen several trustworthy people (have yet to get my activation code to verify this) that said that the main executable TESV.EXE is not tied to the Steam client; only the launcher is.
So, briefly, until they very possibly patch that out, once installed it can be run stand-alone with no Steam client, so no DRM.
They were successfully sued (albeit more of a slap on the wrist) for antitrust violations simply for bundling a browser with an operating system.
Colluding with hardware manufacturers to actually lock out rival operating systems making them an enforced monopoly is several orders of magnitude more severe. Why would they risk that when other operating systems have such a tiny market share anyways? The possible penalties are not worth it for a small increase.