I've found that I usually have to run all 3 (that I know of) spyware removers to be reasonably confident I've got all the latest bugs off: Spybot, Ad-aware & Spysweeper.
Plus, there's a few damn pieces of malware (irritatingly named variations of "*.BetterInternet") which uses a few tricks to make themselves unremoveable even after booting into safe mode - you have to use a boot disk to get rid of the randomly-named DLL files which keep it on the system (the sweeper programs can usually tell you what those random names are). Even more obnoxiously, the BetterInternet variants keep downloading & installing OTHER spy/adware packages, so until you get rid of it, you'll always have a system riddled with malware.
Let's just say that if I were a detective responsible for finding out who murdered the developers of that damn package, the case would probably never get solved.
I would really like to see him run for
President: he reminds me (historically) of Teddy Roosevelt, a populist AND conservative (in it's best definition)!
Actually, he might make a great U.S. Attorney General for a populist President - except that NYC might not want to let him go, and he'd probably be assassinated by some big-business interest before he was allowed anywhere near that level of influence...
Hear hear! I don't have any real aptitude at cooking, but corny humor aside, he explains things in such a way that stick in my mind better than any other cooking instruction that I've ever tried (at least for his simpler recipes). He also does a pretty good job at describing the equipment to get (including the expensive stuff to ignore), and when and how to use it. By describing _why_ he designed his recipes a certain way, it also gives a better chance of substituting things for some of the ingredients w/o creating a nausea-inducing result.
My only complaint about his shows are that sometimes the information density is so high, it's hard to keep up with my notes. I was killing myself until I realized I could print out his recipes from the foodnetwork.com web site & then write my notes on top of those (d'oh). I've built up a pretty good 3-ring binder with some of the easier recipes from his show, and have been getting comments from my non-immediate family wondering where I learned how to cook.
I'm sure serious runners would know how much cushioning they need, but even then it's a compromise because the stiffness is not adjustable except maybe by adding a heelpad or insole.
I've heard, at least for hiking, that _too_ much cushioning actually increases the chance of injury. Apparently, if you use too much cushioning, it makes it much harder for your brain to get enough feedback to keep your ankles adjusted properly.
As a general rule, when "everybody" is breaking the law, it's time to revise the law, not throw more people into jail.
Hear hear. I always thought that a constitutional amendment preventing "criminals" from having their right to vote taken away would be an interesting negative feedback mechanism on the creation of new laws. If your legal system and society is healthy, then you should have a small number of criminals, and their votes won't make too much of a difference in the decision-making process. If you start making too many things illegal, then you make more criminals (who presumably won't be happy with you), and they will vote you out of office ASAP.
If you don't have this kind of negative feedback on lawmaking. then the legislators are free to keep on making more and more laws which disenfranchise more and more of the population (by making them criminals, then refusing to let them vote) - which means that the laws will keep on being made for the benefit of a smaller & smaller subset of the population.
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Yeah, the freedom to copy any author's work without any respect for his/her rights.
What "rights"? The right to receive money over and over again for a single act of creation? Why should authors be treated any differently than any other craftsperson who is compensated for selling a good or performing a service?
The safest thing to do is to discard the vote as an error. Otherwise you get a repeat of the 2000 Florida fiasco with guys holding ballots up to the light to look for any slight indentation or trying to judge the "intent" of the voter.
Discarding the vote automatically isn't the safest thing either; I remember that there was some accusations that partisan vote counters in the disputed Florida election were deliberately invalidating (by surreptitiously knocking loose a few more chads) votes in the ballots of people who voted for their (the vote counters') opponents.
No evidence that such a thing actually happened, of course, but it _is_ still a possibility which has to be taken into account when designing the vote counting process - invalidating people's votes systematically can be used to steal an election the same way that miscounting them can.
This is something the Republicans need to start doing. They have far more opportunity for education and far more chances to understand the big picture
The Republican leadership doesn't _want_ an educated populace. Educated people like to ask questions. It's a lot easier to lead people around by the nose if they're uneducated.
It might have something to do with the people running the polls, and the media that reports the results.
Of course since the machines didn't leave an audit trail, you'll never know. If I wanted to set things up so that I could steal an election, I'd sure like this setup.
Hopw about punishing people for things they didn't do? It works very quickly.
Yeah, especially if you can figure out the password of someone you don't like. It's fun watching them try to explain why they were downloading child porn.
Except that these business majors never mention what the new model is supposed to be other than giving away shit for free. Yeah--that'll work.
The "new" model is actually the old model, which is what we were using before government-mandated monopolies over "intellectual property" - you get paid what the buyer thinks is fair for providing desired goods or services.
Nice and simple, no regulation required, and it doesn't set up the I-deserve-money expectation that companies should be paid over and over and over again for something that someone created only once.
Or, you enforce password rotation, minimal password lengths, past histories, and minimum times between changes so they can't recycle between a few.
Every place that I worked at which enforced these kinds of rules, ended up with Post-It notes with passwords scattered all over the work area. Plus, the users didn't like to ask the admins for help because the "stupid IT-guys are assholes who cause more pain than they solve".
I haven't met too many users that mind getting some help picking a good initial password, but once they've picked it, they don't want to change it unless it is demonstrated that it has been stolen by someone else. Forcing people to constantly change their passwords is pure mental overhead that interferes with their jobs, and will cause them to behave in ways which will undermine your goal of security.
Heh - I had more fun with those minor "cantrips" - on the level of "tying your opponent's shoelaces together" - than I did with a most of the standard spells.
I call dibs on the numeric digits 6 and 9. The porn industry will pay me millions...
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Now if people actually paid for what they use, it would be a different story.
Yeah, because it's totally obvious that somebody should be paid over and over and over for something that they only did the work to create once. People should be paid for providing goods or services, not because they think they "deserve it".
Those women, those "witches" were probably prostitutes. Or perhaps they simply didn't attend church. Maybe they were of another belief and were waiting for a church of that belief to be built in the area. Who knows.
In some cases, it was because the accuser ended up receiving the property of the "witch" after her death. Gee, no conflict of interest there, right?
Unfortunately, Wal-Mart can't build the road in a Libertarian paradise, because there will be some farmer somewhere who refuses to sell his back 40 to make room for the highway.
Not a problem - Wally would just hire a bunch of local thugs to beat the crap out of the farmer regularly until he gave in.
The vast majority don't want our taxes raised. Together, we can prevent it most of the time at the ballot box.
The vast majority don't want to pay more taxes - but they still want all the services. At the moment, they're trying to achieve this fantasy by borrowing.
In other words, the vast majority are selfish idiots who are setting up their descendants for a generation or two of hell.
The force of gravity on a massless photon is zero.
One of the things I remember learning about general relativity was, although gravity didn't have a direct effect on the "massless" photon, the photon would still be affected by the distortion in space-time of the object with mass.
Not sure if it worked the other way around - if you could lock a photon in a box with perfect internal reflection (so that the photon couldn't escape), would the "effective mass" of the box be increased by the energy of the photon ala the E=mc^2 relation (where the E of the photon is determined by its wavelength)? If true, then wouldn't you be able to say that the photon had an "effective mass"?
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I've found that I usually have to run all 3 (that I know of) spyware removers to be reasonably confident I've got all the latest bugs off: Spybot, Ad-aware & Spysweeper.
Plus, there's a few damn pieces of malware (irritatingly named variations of "*.BetterInternet") which uses a few tricks to make themselves unremoveable even after booting into safe mode - you have to use a boot disk to get rid of the randomly-named DLL files which keep it on the system (the sweeper programs can usually tell you what those random names are). Even more obnoxiously, the BetterInternet variants keep downloading & installing OTHER spy/adware packages, so until you get rid of it, you'll always have a system riddled with malware.
Let's just say that if I were a detective responsible for finding out who murdered the developers of that damn package, the case would probably never get solved.
Actually, he might make a great U.S. Attorney General for a populist President - except that NYC might not want to let him go, and he'd probably be assassinated by some big-business interest before he was allowed anywhere near that level of influence...
Hear hear! I don't have any real aptitude at cooking, but corny humor aside, he explains things in such a way that stick in my mind better than any other cooking instruction that I've ever tried (at least for his simpler recipes). He also does a pretty good job at describing the equipment to get (including the expensive stuff to ignore), and when and how to use it. By describing _why_ he designed his recipes a certain way, it also gives a better chance of substituting things for some of the ingredients w/o creating a nausea-inducing result.
My only complaint about his shows are that sometimes the information density is so high, it's hard to keep up with my notes. I was killing myself until I realized I could print out his recipes from the foodnetwork.com web site & then write my notes on top of those (d'oh). I've built up a pretty good 3-ring binder with some of the easier recipes from his show, and have been getting comments from my non-immediate family wondering where I learned how to cook.
I've heard, at least for hiking, that _too_ much cushioning actually increases the chance of injury. Apparently, if you use too much cushioning, it makes it much harder for your brain to get enough feedback to keep your ankles adjusted properly.
Hear hear. I always thought that a constitutional amendment preventing "criminals" from having their right to vote taken away would be an interesting negative feedback mechanism on the creation of new laws. If your legal system and society is healthy, then you should have a small number of criminals, and their votes won't make too much of a difference in the decision-making process. If you start making too many things illegal, then you make more criminals (who presumably won't be happy with you), and they will vote you out of office ASAP.
If you don't have this kind of negative feedback on lawmaking. then the legislators are free to keep on making more and more laws which disenfranchise more and more of the population (by making them criminals, then refusing to let them vote) - which means that the laws will keep on being made for the benefit of a smaller & smaller subset of the population.
What "rights"? The right to receive money over and over again for a single act of creation? Why should authors be treated any differently than any other craftsperson who is compensated for selling a good or performing a service?
Discarding the vote automatically isn't the safest thing either; I remember that there was some accusations that partisan vote counters in the disputed Florida election were deliberately invalidating (by surreptitiously knocking loose a few more chads) votes in the ballots of people who voted for their (the vote counters') opponents.
No evidence that such a thing actually happened, of course, but it _is_ still a possibility which has to be taken into account when designing the vote counting process - invalidating people's votes systematically can be used to steal an election the same way that miscounting them can.
The Republican leadership doesn't _want_ an educated populace. Educated people like to ask questions. It's a lot easier to lead people around by the nose if they're uneducated.
Of course since the machines didn't leave an audit trail, you'll never know. If I wanted to set things up so that I could steal an election, I'd sure like this setup.
I hope you mean from the root user - giving normal users the ability to update the firmware would scare the helloutame...
Yeah, especially if you can figure out the password of someone you don't like. It's fun watching them try to explain why they were downloading child porn.
Americans get neighbors like bullies get "friends" - they're friends as long as they do what we tell them to do.
Yes, I am ashamed of the people currently in charge of our government.
Ah, so you worked with fluidics too! (There _are_ actually logic gates based on fluids...)
The "new" model is actually the old model, which is what we were using before government-mandated monopolies over "intellectual property" - you get paid what the buyer thinks is fair for providing desired goods or services.
Nice and simple, no regulation required, and it doesn't set up the I-deserve-money expectation that companies should be paid over and over and over again for something that someone created only once.
Actually, "negligent homicide" might be more appropriate...
Every place that I worked at which enforced these kinds of rules, ended up with Post-It notes with passwords scattered all over the work area. Plus, the users didn't like to ask the admins for help because the "stupid IT-guys are assholes who cause more pain than they solve".
I haven't met too many users that mind getting some help picking a good initial password, but once they've picked it, they don't want to change it unless it is demonstrated that it has been stolen by someone else. Forcing people to constantly change their passwords is pure mental overhead that interferes with their jobs, and will cause them to behave in ways which will undermine your goal of security.
Heh - I had more fun with those minor "cantrips" - on the level of "tying your opponent's shoelaces together" - than I did with a most of the standard spells.
I call dibs on the numeric digits 6 and 9. The porn industry will pay me millions...
Yeah, because it's totally obvious that somebody should be paid over and over and over for something that they only did the work to create once. People should be paid for providing goods or services, not because they think they "deserve it".
In some cases, it was because the accuser ended up receiving the property of the "witch" after her death. Gee, no conflict of interest there, right?
Not a problem - Wally would just hire a bunch of local thugs to beat the crap out of the farmer regularly until he gave in.
The vast majority don't want to pay more taxes - but they still want all the services. At the moment, they're trying to achieve this fantasy by borrowing.
In other words, the vast majority are selfish idiots who are setting up their descendants for a generation or two of hell.
Really? You wouldn't mind if they got rid of all the fire departments around your home?
One of the things I remember learning about general relativity was, although gravity didn't have a direct effect on the "massless" photon, the photon would still be affected by the distortion in space-time of the object with mass.
Not sure if it worked the other way around - if you could lock a photon in a box with perfect internal reflection (so that the photon couldn't escape), would the "effective mass" of the box be increased by the energy of the photon ala the E=mc^2 relation (where the E of the photon is determined by its wavelength)? If true, then wouldn't you be able to say that the photon had an "effective mass"?
Dunno, if you rake the pins across your skin hard enough to draw blood, it kind of feels like Windows XP...