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me too
get win98 or win98se and run ROM or ROM2se on it (ROM = Revenge of Mozilla) it is basically a tool that strips out IE & OE and the win98 windows explorer and replaces it with a hacked/patched win95 windows explorer, and it is much more stable than win95 & more stable than a stock win98/win98se (i have to say it makes the best win9x possible but the only caveat is any application that requires internet explorer will not function. but anything else works great.
after doing a quick google search i think this app is nowhere to be found, i bet i can dig up a copy on an old CD-r that i kept with lots of ancient third party applications for win9x
make it illegal for Apple & Microsoft and any other company to shutdown or "brick" a cellphone or game console any other product...
now as far as any modded product if someone mods the hardware that is legal but they might void the warranty and apple or microsoft or whoever can block it from their online service but they can not legally sabotage the product when it trys to connect, (just block it from connecting) the owner of the modded hardware are free to use some other service (which jailbreaking and modding was intended to accomplish anyway)
i agree, thats why i would use Slackware as a first choice in the Linux department, if i needed a Debianish distro i would just use Debian, (ubuntu is a disobedient bastardized child of Debian and is in need of a good spanking or a timeout in the corner)
he is guilty of embezzlement and using the money to pay for a prostitute, he is pretty damn lucky to get 28 million and forced to leave, if i had anything to do with it he would be looking at a long prison sentence.
the slashdot submission summary says it is a cronjob, it would be easy to look in/etc/cron.* and remove the entries for it, check Top for any running dameons for it, and remove the binary from/bin/sbin/usr/bin/usr/sbin (where they installed it) or apt-get remove "package_name" could do it all for you automagically
is this enough evidence to convince you otherwise, this is a paste from some recent DNA studies of humans and our closest living relative:
So here's the thing: We have 46 chromosomes. Our nearest great ape relatives have 48. On the surface, it looks like we must have lost two. But that's actually a huge problem. Made up of organized packs of DNA and proteins, chromosomes don't just up and vanish. In fact, it's doubtful any primate could survive a mutation that simply deleted a pair of chromosomes. That's because chromosomes are to the human body what instruction sheets are to inexpensive, Swedish flat-pack furniture. If you're missing one screw, you can still put that bookcase together pretty easily. But if the how-to guide suddenly jumps from page 1 (take plywood panels out of box--uff da) to page 5 (enjoy bookcäse!), you're likely to end up missing something pretty vital. All this left scientists with a thorny dilemma: How could we have a common ancestor with great apes, but fewer chromosomes?
Turns out: The chromosomes aren't missing at all.
Genetic investigators caught the first whiff of the prodigal chromosomes' scent in 1982. That year, a paper published in the journal Science described a very funny phenomenon. Researchers knew all chromosomes had distinctive signatures; patterns of DNA sequences that can be reliably found in specific spots, including in the center and on the ends. These end-cap sequences are called telomeres. Molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn says telomeres are like the little plastic tips that keep your shoelaces from unravelling. They protect the ends of chromosomes and hold things together. Given that important function, you wouldn't expect to find telomeres hanging out on other parts of the chromosome. But that's exactly what the 1982 study reported. Looking at human chromosome 2, the scientists found telomeres snuggled up against the centromere--the central sequence. What's more, these out-of-place human telomeres were strikingly similar to telomeres that can be found, in their proper location, on two great ape chromosomes.
This evidence laid the groundwork for a brilliant discovery. Rather than falling apart, the two missing chromosomes had fused together. Their format changed, but they didn't lose any information, so the mutation wasn't deadly. Instead, scientists now think, the fusion made it difficult for our ancestors to mate with the ancestors of chimpanzees, leading our two species to strike out alone. In the two decades since the original study, more evidence has surfaced backing this up, which leads us to 2005, when the chimpanzee genome was sequenced around the same time that the National Human Genome Research Institute published a detailed survey of human chromosome 2. According to Kenneth Miller, we can now see extra centromeres in chromosome 2 and trace how its genes neatly line up with those on chimpanzee chromosomes 12 and 13. It's a great example of evidence supporting the common descent of man and ape.
when they get crushed by a large truck or slammed in to a concrete wall or structure like a bridge abutment at 70+ MPH nobody is going to survive that, the integrity of the car itself just cant stand up to such impacts and neither can the human body.
naw, i am semi-retired, i own a 10 wheeler dump truck that can haul 10 square yards of sand, gravel or dirt/top-soil, i work it when i want to so i am not desperate for money, if i found a bug or vulnerability in any open source software that is free i will submit a bug report through the usual channels for free, since they are good enough to give me free software i will return the favor to help them improve the product for free, (sounds fair to me and most everyone else)
a CD that costs about 25 cents each, when i bought a new laptop with win7 earlier this year it was like that = no OEM or recovery disk, the laptop was loaded with gobs of trial software wanting me to buy full versions, so i wiped the drive and put a retail version of win7 i bought at a local brick & mortar PC store, i tried Linux on it but xorg really sucked when it came to supporting the graphics, i did manage to get it to work but the performance was terrible, i will try linux on it again in a couple of years (giving time to the xorg developers to work the bugs out of it)
still the same issue, they could kill everyone involved with wikileaks and i am sure somebody else in the future will leak information if they feel the public needs to know about it, and i am sure the lessons of wikileaks will just force them to do it anonymously, (plenty of open wifi APs would make that really easy)
the cat is out of the bag, even if they killed wikileaks the information they posted is most likely on other people's computers already and it would be a trivial task to setup another server somewhere else with that same info or the very least seed some torrents of it all at various bittorrent sites.
if i ever run across a vulnerability in any closed source software i will submit that information anonymously to prevent the authorities from treating me as if i was a criminal or terrorist, the only exception to that rule would be if i found a vulnerability in something licensed under the GNU/GPL then i will simply submit a bug report through the regular channels or email the author of the software directly.
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me too
get win98 or win98se and run ROM or ROM2se on it (ROM = Revenge of Mozilla) it is basically a tool that strips out IE & OE and the win98 windows explorer and replaces it with a hacked/patched win95 windows explorer, and it is much more stable than win95 & more stable than a stock win98/win98se (i have to say it makes the best win9x possible but the only caveat is any application that requires internet explorer will not function. but anything else works great.
after doing a quick google search i think this app is nowhere to be found, i bet i can dig up a copy on an old CD-r that i kept with lots of ancient third party applications for win9x
i gotta know what time it is, so fix your crappy software!
Sci/fi to sci/fact?
http://i.imgur.com/twXeS.jpg yup, its one big old dirty bird
make it illegal for Apple & Microsoft and any other company to shutdown or "brick" a cellphone or game console any other product...
now as far as any modded product if someone mods the hardware that is legal but they might void the warranty and apple or microsoft or whoever can block it from their online service but they can not legally sabotage the product when it trys to connect, (just block it from connecting) the owner of the modded hardware are free to use some other service (which jailbreaking and modding was intended to accomplish anyway)
if i see some little drones buzzing my home i will turn the garden hose on it.
RE:"Orwell and Huxley were right"
yup, i see elements of both.
Huxley feared we would be drowned by a sea of irrelevance
take that self aggrandizing pompous ass down a notch or two.
i agree, thats why i would use Slackware as a first choice in the Linux department, if i needed a Debianish distro i would just use Debian, (ubuntu is a disobedient bastardized child of Debian and is in need of a good spanking or a timeout in the corner)
he is guilty of embezzlement and using the money to pay for a prostitute, he is pretty damn lucky to get 28 million and forced to leave, if i had anything to do with it he would be looking at a long prison sentence.
the slashdot submission summary says it is a cronjob, it would be easy to look in /etc/cron.* and remove the entries for it, check Top for any running dameons for it, and remove the binary from /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin (where they installed it) or apt-get remove "package_name" could do it all for you automagically
is this enough evidence to convince you otherwise, this is a paste from some recent DNA studies of humans and our closest living relative:
So here's the thing: We have 46 chromosomes. Our nearest great ape relatives have 48. On the surface, it looks like we must have lost two. But that's actually a huge problem. Made up of organized packs of DNA and proteins, chromosomes don't just up and vanish. In fact, it's doubtful any primate could survive a mutation that simply deleted a pair of chromosomes. That's because chromosomes are to the human body what instruction sheets are to inexpensive, Swedish flat-pack furniture. If you're missing one screw, you can still put that bookcase together pretty easily. But if the how-to guide suddenly jumps from page 1 (take plywood panels out of box--uff da) to page 5 (enjoy bookcäse!), you're likely to end up missing something pretty vital. All this left scientists with a thorny dilemma: How could we have a common ancestor with great apes, but fewer chromosomes?
Turns out: The chromosomes aren't missing at all. Genetic investigators caught the first whiff of the prodigal chromosomes' scent in 1982. That year, a paper published in the journal Science described a very funny phenomenon. Researchers knew all chromosomes had distinctive signatures; patterns of DNA sequences that can be reliably found in specific spots, including in the center and on the ends. These end-cap sequences are called telomeres. Molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn says telomeres are like the little plastic tips that keep your shoelaces from unravelling. They protect the ends of chromosomes and hold things together. Given that important function, you wouldn't expect to find telomeres hanging out on other parts of the chromosome. But that's exactly what the 1982 study reported. Looking at human chromosome 2, the scientists found telomeres snuggled up against the centromere--the central sequence. What's more, these out-of-place human telomeres were strikingly similar to telomeres that can be found, in their proper location, on two great ape chromosomes.
This evidence laid the groundwork for a brilliant discovery. Rather than falling apart, the two missing chromosomes had fused together. Their format changed, but they didn't lose any information, so the mutation wasn't deadly. Instead, scientists now think, the fusion made it difficult for our ancestors to mate with the ancestors of chimpanzees, leading our two species to strike out alone. In the two decades since the original study, more evidence has surfaced backing this up, which leads us to 2005, when the chimpanzee genome was sequenced around the same time that the National Human Genome Research Institute published a detailed survey of human chromosome 2. According to Kenneth Miller, we can now see extra centromeres in chromosome 2 and trace how its genes neatly line up with those on chimpanzee chromosomes 12 and 13. It's a great example of evidence supporting the common descent of man and ape.
A 100 square mile chunk of ice, at the most a mile or two, maybe three miles thick at most, the Atlantic ocean alone is 31,830,000 square miles.
A 100 square mile chunk of ice is not enough to even make a noticeable difference in the sea level or temperature when it melts.
then start collecting usb thumbdrives and make a RAID array with them.
when they get crushed by a large truck or slammed in to a concrete wall or structure like a bridge abutment at 70+ MPH nobody is going to survive that, the integrity of the car itself just cant stand up to such impacts and neither can the human body.
naw, i am semi-retired, i own a 10 wheeler dump truck that can haul 10 square yards of sand, gravel or dirt/top-soil, i work it when i want to so i am not desperate for money, if i found a bug or vulnerability in any open source software that is free i will submit a bug report through the usual channels for free, since they are good enough to give me free software i will return the favor to help them improve the product for free, (sounds fair to me and most everyone else)
a CD that costs about 25 cents each, when i bought a new laptop with win7 earlier this year it was like that = no OEM or recovery disk, the laptop was loaded with gobs of trial software wanting me to buy full versions, so i wiped the drive and put a retail version of win7 i bought at a local brick & mortar PC store, i tried Linux on it but xorg really sucked when it came to supporting the graphics, i did manage to get it to work but the performance was terrible, i will try linux on it again in a couple of years (giving time to the xorg developers to work the bugs out of it)
still the same issue, they could kill everyone involved with wikileaks and i am sure somebody else in the future will leak information if they feel the public needs to know about it, and i am sure the lessons of wikileaks will just force them to do it anonymously, (plenty of open wifi APs would make that really easy)
the cat is out of the bag, even if they killed wikileaks the information they posted is most likely on other people's computers already and it would be a trivial task to setup another server somewhere else with that same info or the very least seed some torrents of it all at various bittorrent sites.
greed always trumps prudence in for-profit company's products
yup, shuttleworth & ubuntu is an interloper
thats what Shuttleworth wants = to be the "Bill Gates" of Linux, but thats not going to happen.
if i ever run across a vulnerability in any closed source software i will submit that information anonymously to prevent the authorities from treating me as if i was a criminal or terrorist, the only exception to that rule would be if i found a vulnerability in something licensed under the GNU/GPL then i will simply submit a bug report through the regular channels or email the author of the software directly.
of developers he can depend on and trust to do what he does when he needs a vacation or leave of absence. even if it is just two or three people.