Most of the major ISPs in the US are providing a free brand-name anti-virus product if users will just download it.
As I understand it, most AV vendors require a version of Windows that is reasonably patched up-to-date. As I also understand things, lots of people running pirated Windows have Windows Update disabled - So it's a vicious circle.
You could have just spoken to your neighbour about it...
I live in an urban city, not Mayberry. I have no idea who the neighbour was...
Technological solutions to your problem include setting up some rate limiting filter and/or priority system that most people would not notice but would block leeches who affect your service. Many wireless routers can do this, just navigate to the settings page..
I have a basic netgear wireless G router from maybe five or six years ago? Doesn't have any of these settings. (And interestingly, I help manage a router running DD-WRT at a little resort. I've love to block torrenting on that beastie, and have been told it isn't possible...)
Otherwise I am in my right to use what is freely available on my property, no matter where it comes from.
"It depends."
I used to have my access point open - You could tell it was used from time to time for web surfing by neighbours, and I didn't mind. Then, one day, it was saturated 24/7, presumably with torrents. So I said screw that, and locked it down. Now only I use it. In your apple tree analogy, I don't mind if someone takes a few apples, but if they pick the tree clean of every single apple I'll cut off the branches that lean over their property.
Did you read the linked blog post that explains the system? Which part of the DRM "will never work?" Frankly, I'm not even sure it's DRM in the truest sense... It's now an online game.
I guess I have gotten too old and my skills with the VCR has dropped but I don't remember being able to play live TV and hit the Pause button and had my show pause. Then Rewind play a part I missed then fast forward to the live content after say some commercials.
Sure, but this isn't "time shifting" - "Time Shifting" is "shifting the time" you watch a program. So if your VCR records SNL and you watch it the next day, you've time-shifted it. Pausing live TV and watching a show as it records and all that other business is just icing on the cake.
The VCR can simulate Time Shifting but only after it has fully recorded the program
This isn't simulating time shifting, it *is* time shifting.
It's like arguing a film camera can't "take pictures" because the pictures aren't available until you process the film.
My (c) 2005 gateway (XP) has no audio when it comes back from sleep. My Dell Inspiron PIII has a Linksys WiFi card in the PCMCIA slot. The card dies when it goes to sleep and only comes back with a reboot.
The only reason the U.S.S.R. collapsed is that the U.S. had enough of an advantage in terms of their economic output and ability to incur debt to spend them under the table
My friends who lived in the Soviet Union would disagree with you. Certainly this was a contributing factor, but was by no means "the only reason." They argue the Soviet Union collapsed because there was no motivation or reward for excellence and no environment for entrepreneurship. If you worked at Glorious State Rocket Factory #12 you were not rewarded through better salary or perks if you innovated. Compare this with the environment at Grumman where they were building the Apollo LEMs where innovation and engineering excellence were rewarded. This extended across the entire Soviet economy and was the reason the west, in your words, had an advantage in terms of "economic output."
One of the reasons my PC is a power hog is I leave it on all the time. Why?
1) Because boots take a long time. If boots were near-instant like they were on my TRS-80 in 1979 I'd turn it off. (Yeah, yeah, Macs boot fast, yeah yeah, I can 'suspend' but none of that junk ever works properly on WinTel.)
2) Because backups, patches and scans run at night time. If I didn't need those, I'd turn it off.
Figure out a solution there and I'd turn my box off.
I resent that I might be taxed more to pay for medical procedures for some of my friends that could afford health insurance
The irony with this oft-cited opinion is that in the USA you *are* already being taxed more. The USA, on a per-capita basis, pays more for health care than nations with single-payer systems, yet millions go without coverage and find themselves bankrupted if they need a heart transplant.
Yes, he can go to Canada. And wait 6 months for an MRI.
Bill O'Reilly propaganda. I'm Canadian. I have lots of friends and families who have gotten MRIs and no one has waited six months.
If you have a life threatening condition you'll get an MRI that day. Sure, access to MRIs is rationed based on need, but big deal. It ensures that if if there's an emergency and my daughter needs an MRI she can get one...
As someone who works with a variety of nonprofits which receive funding from the Gates Foundation, I must say: you are either an idiot, a troll, or a person with remarkably bad skills at satire. Hard to tell. GF funds work all over the world in ways that have nothing to do with corporate proximity or pollution.
This is slashdot. Bill Gates could sacrifice himself saving a toddler from a burning building and most of the comments on the story would likely be to the effect that the reason the building burned down in the firstplace was the firehall down the street had a computer in it running Windows.
If people were paid enough to support their families, save for their future, and still have money left over to enjoy life, then they wouldn't mind paying an extra 10% or 20% to get a fscking pillow on a flight.
Yes, but expectations were also lower back in the good ol' days. People raised a family of five in a 2000 square foot house with one television and maybe one bathroom and vacation was a roadtrip in the family truckster to Disneyland, with the family of five in a motel room in Anaheim, having a great time in the motel pool.
(I'm 43 and I remember those days.)
So I would argue that today many people *are* "paid enough to support their families and save for their future," they just blow all their money on cable packages with 250 High-def channels, plasma TVs in every room of their 4000 SF houses and yearly trips to Maui. If they go to Disneyworld they fly and insist on staying at a hotel where they can swim with the dolphins.
The cost of moving him to one of the empty 1st class seats would have been even less.
Southwest is the "people's airline" flown by Ma and Pa Kettle vistin' the young 'uns. In other words, they have no first class.
will eject a passenger before putting them in a seat that costs nothing to have a butt in it.
Do you fly much? If you do, you'll notice that on the mainline carriers with first class they rarely, if ever, have empty seats at the front of the plane. This is because airlines upgrade their frequent fliers (see "Up in the Air" w/George Clooney) into those seats. The next time you're waiting to board listen to the announcements - You'll almost always hear "For those passengers waiting for upgrade, our first class section has checked in full. Please board your assigned seat when we call your zone" - In other words, they've filled up their FC section.
I wonder if that is because there is no way for the customer to know. When I got to a web site to book a plane flight, it doesn't tell me any details about the amenities on the flight, or the airline
The airlines tell you when you go to *their* sites, i.e. if you go to United's site you'll learn about Economy Plus, JetBlue's site tells you about more legroom, free TV, free checked bags. However, if you go to expedia or travelocity it becomes a race to the bottom for fares, and the only way the airlines can reach out to you is via 'traditional marketing' which may or may not reach you.
What's your point? It's OK to be morbidly obese as long as your wife is hot? Does it occur to you that health might be something worth considering hot wife or no?
For many men (both heterosexual and homosexual), particularly those who are single and under the age of 40, a key motivator to get fit is not 'health reasons.' Rather, it's the desire to be more sexually attractive to a mate. In Kevin Smith's case, this motivator isn't present. He's already got an attractive mate. Therefore, in his case a key incentive to lose weight, quit smoking and reduce drug use isn't present. Usually the next driver comes after a health scare (i.e. heart attack or diabetes), and that may not happen for another 10-15 years.
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how would an entire nation manage to pay for important things like invasions of foreign countries
War Bonds.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/GiveUsTheTools.jpg
Microsoft Security Essentials is free too, and works pretty good.
AFAIK, it doesn't work on pirated Windows, nor does it work on Win2K.
Most of the major ISPs in the US are providing a free brand-name anti-virus product if users will just download it.
As I understand it, most AV vendors require a version of Windows that is reasonably patched up-to-date. As I also understand things, lots of people running pirated Windows have Windows Update disabled - So it's a vicious circle.
You could have just spoken to your neighbour about it...
I live in an urban city, not Mayberry. I have no idea who the neighbour was...
Technological solutions to your problem include setting up some rate limiting filter and/or priority system that most people would not notice but would block leeches who affect your service. Many wireless routers can do this, just navigate to the settings page..
I have a basic netgear wireless G router from maybe five or six years ago? Doesn't have any of these settings. (And interestingly, I help manage a router running DD-WRT at a little resort. I've love to block torrenting on that beastie, and have been told it isn't possible...)
Otherwise I am in my right to use what is freely available on my property, no matter where it comes from.
"It depends."
I used to have my access point open - You could tell it was used from time to time for web surfing by neighbours, and I didn't mind. Then, one day, it was saturated 24/7, presumably with torrents. So I said screw that, and locked it down. Now only I use it. In your apple tree analogy, I don't mind if someone takes a few apples, but if they pick the tree clean of every single apple I'll cut off the branches that lean over their property.
People who exaggerate are worse than Hitler
People who keep using Hitler analogies are worse than, well, Hitler.
Might I suggest that server address be 127.0.0.1 with some sort of application that emulates all the functions...
Oh I get it, I just google and download "magical game functions emulator" and install it and I'm off to the races.
Considering that DRM never works
Did you read the linked blog post that explains the system? Which part of the DRM "will never work?" Frankly, I'm not even sure it's DRM in the truest sense... It's now an online game.
Were I able to, I would mod you up, if, for no other reason than your excellent use of the word "stochastic."
I guess I have gotten too old and my skills with the VCR has dropped but I don't remember being able to play live TV and hit the Pause button and had my show pause. Then Rewind play a part I missed then fast forward to the live content after say some commercials.
Sure, but this isn't "time shifting" - "Time Shifting" is "shifting the time" you watch a program. So if your VCR records SNL and you watch it the next day, you've time-shifted it. Pausing live TV and watching a show as it records and all that other business is just icing on the cake.
The VCR can simulate Time Shifting but only after it has fully recorded the program
This isn't simulating time shifting, it *is* time shifting.
It's like arguing a film camera can't "take pictures" because the pictures aren't available until you process the film.
How many bytes was the OS on a TRS-80?
The computer 'booted' to a BASIC interpreter at the command line:
READY
>_
When's the last time you tried it?
Last week.
My (c) 2005 gateway (XP) has no audio when it comes back from sleep. My Dell Inspiron PIII has a Linksys WiFi card in the PCMCIA slot. The card dies when it goes to sleep and only comes back with a reboot.
The only reason the U.S.S.R. collapsed is that the U.S. had enough of an advantage in terms of their economic output and ability to incur debt to spend them under the table
My friends who lived in the Soviet Union would disagree with you. Certainly this was a contributing factor, but was by no means "the only reason." They argue the Soviet Union collapsed because there was no motivation or reward for excellence and no environment for entrepreneurship. If you worked at Glorious State Rocket Factory #12 you were not rewarded through better salary or perks if you innovated. Compare this with the environment at Grumman where they were building the Apollo LEMs where innovation and engineering excellence were rewarded. This extended across the entire Soviet economy and was the reason the west, in your words, had an advantage in terms of "economic output."
One of the reasons my PC is a power hog is I leave it on all the time. Why?
1) Because boots take a long time. If boots were near-instant like they were on my TRS-80 in 1979 I'd turn it off. (Yeah, yeah, Macs boot fast, yeah yeah, I can 'suspend' but none of that junk ever works properly on WinTel.)
2) Because backups, patches and scans run at night time. If I didn't need those, I'd turn it off.
Figure out a solution there and I'd turn my box off.
I haven't read it in 20+ years, but in the book, didn't the Chinese attempt a landing, with resultant Really Bad Stuff?
All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landings there.
I resent that I might be taxed more to pay for medical procedures for some of my friends that could afford health insurance
The irony with this oft-cited opinion is that in the USA you *are* already being taxed more. The USA, on a per-capita basis, pays more for health care than nations with single-payer systems, yet millions go without coverage and find themselves bankrupted if they need a heart transplant.
Yes, he can go to Canada. And wait 6 months for an MRI.
Bill O'Reilly propaganda. I'm Canadian. I have lots of friends and families who have gotten MRIs and no one has waited six months.
If you have a life threatening condition you'll get an MRI that day. Sure, access to MRIs is rationed based on need, but big deal. It ensures that if if there's an emergency and my daughter needs an MRI she can get one...
Fuck, I can even run multi user ssh sessions, DB servers and web sites on it
Maddox, is that you?
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone
As someone who works with a variety of nonprofits which receive funding from the Gates Foundation, I must say: you are either an idiot, a troll, or a person with remarkably bad skills at satire. Hard to tell. GF funds work all over the world in ways that have nothing to do with corporate proximity or pollution.
This is slashdot. Bill Gates could sacrifice himself saving a toddler from a burning building and most of the comments on the story would likely be to the effect that the reason the building burned down in the firstplace was the firehall down the street had a computer in it running Windows.
Don't a lot of pr0n sites still depend on flash? I presume n00die vids are still a large percentage of web traffic?
If people were paid enough to support their families, save for their future, and still have money left over to enjoy life, then they wouldn't mind paying an extra 10% or 20% to get a fscking pillow on a flight.
Yes, but expectations were also lower back in the good ol' days. People raised a family of five in a 2000 square foot house with one television and maybe one bathroom and vacation was a roadtrip in the family truckster to Disneyland, with the family of five in a motel room in Anaheim, having a great time in the motel pool.
(I'm 43 and I remember those days.)
So I would argue that today many people *are* "paid enough to support their families and save for their future," they just blow all their money on cable packages with 250 High-def channels, plasma TVs in every room of their 4000 SF houses and yearly trips to Maui. If they go to Disneyworld they fly and insist on staying at a hotel where they can swim with the dolphins.
The cost of moving him to one of the empty 1st class seats would have been even less.
Southwest is the "people's airline" flown by Ma and Pa Kettle vistin' the young 'uns. In other words, they have no first class.
will eject a passenger before putting them in a seat that costs nothing to have a butt in it.
Do you fly much? If you do, you'll notice that on the mainline carriers with first class they rarely, if ever, have empty seats at the front of the plane. This is because airlines upgrade their frequent fliers (see "Up in the Air" w/George Clooney) into those seats. The next time you're waiting to board listen to the announcements - You'll almost always hear "For those passengers waiting for upgrade, our first class section has checked in full. Please board your assigned seat when we call your zone" - In other words, they've filled up their FC section.
I wonder if that is because there is no way for the customer to know. When I got to a web site to book a plane flight, it doesn't tell me any details about the amenities on the flight, or the airline
The airlines tell you when you go to *their* sites, i.e. if you go to United's site you'll learn about Economy Plus, JetBlue's site tells you about more legroom, free TV, free checked bags. However, if you go to expedia or travelocity it becomes a race to the bottom for fares, and the only way the airlines can reach out to you is via 'traditional marketing' which may or may not reach you.
What's your point? It's OK to be morbidly obese as long as your wife is hot? Does it occur to you that health might be something worth considering hot wife or no?
For many men (both heterosexual and homosexual), particularly those who are single and under the age of 40, a key motivator to get fit is not 'health reasons.' Rather, it's the desire to be more sexually attractive to a mate. In Kevin Smith's case, this motivator isn't present. He's already got an attractive mate. Therefore, in his case a key incentive to lose weight, quit smoking and reduce drug use isn't present. Usually the next driver comes after a health scare (i.e. heart attack or diabetes), and that may not happen for another 10-15 years.