I'm still at school, and I can tell you that the common concept of what bullying is by adults is mostly wrong. Bullies aren't the big ugly stupid ones (at least they aren't anymore). Nearly everybody takes part in what most adults would call "bullying" at some point, and it is hardly ever physical. I have never seen anybody beaten up for their lunch money, but I have seen lots of people taunted for being different. If people differ from the norm, they don't always get taunted, but they will if they flaunt their difference. Posting on slashdot, it should be fairly obvious that I don't fit into the norm, plus I'm quite short which doesn't help, but I don't get bullied or taunted, because people respect me - I don't always strive to put my hand up first in class, I don't act like I'm a cut above the others, you just have to respect everyone else and you'll get on fine.
Trust me, if you get bullied at school now, you have brought it on yourself by making no effort to socialise.
"When you browse to a site you have not visited before, the browser sends a request for site information to our server. The requests contains the domain name of the site and a hash value of the URL. We don't send the full URL, but we need a fingerprint of the full URL in case you visit a dangerous page on a site that is otherwise harmless."
It only sends a hash of the web address. It would be difficult to extrapolate the whole address from a hash.
From TFA: "Rapiscan is developing four kinds of devices -- some based on technologies more than 10 years old". My car is based on technology more than 10 years old. In fact, the tech is more than 10,000 years old. They're called wheels. How does this make it newsworthy?
I can highly recommend freedom 2 surf (www.f2s.com) as a decent ISP. They're customer service is excellent. When I first signed up, our broadband didn't work because we were too far away from the box thing that it goes through. They sent a guy round and he switched over some wires so it worked properly, and set up all the splitter's and stuff for us.
It's reasonably cheap too, I pay £17.99 a month for 512k-2M and although they technically have a 10gig per month limit, I use about 50 gigs per month and nobody has ever said anything, and my connection has never been cut off.
Microsoft may have shot themselves in the foot with this latest crackdown on pirated windows copies:
Firstly, I would be surprised if the real pirates didn't have a crack for this less than a week after WGA is made compulsory.Secondly, the fact that people HAVE to pay for a windows version rather than just sticking on an illegal version will cause these people to migrate more and more to free OS's like linux.
People don't use windows because it is a "good" OS, they use it because everybody else does and programs are written for it. Lessen the number of people using windows, and you lessen the reason for companies/people to code specifically for it, hence you lessen the reason for using it.
...this will not work. Both sides need to ignore the reset packets, otherwise the remote web server will close the connection when it receives one. From TFA:
"However, because the original packets are passed through the firewall unscathed, if both of the endpoints were to completely ignore the firewall's reset packets, then the connection will proceed unhindered!"
True freedom can only be exercised by all when it is defined as "Freedom to do what you like as long as it does not restrict or limit the freedom of others."
The problem is, most users would buy a new system because their old p4 3ghz or whatever is choc full of spyware/malware/trojans/worms indroduced due to the previous windows version's lack of security. Advertising tells them that their old pc is slow and "If they upgrade to Vista now, with new Intel Inside Centrino technology (or whatever), the pc will be nice and fast" - until it gets clogged up with crapware again, but by that time, windows 2008 will be released.
Sam
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Lowering the voltage REDUCES current flow through the chip, reducing power consumption and heat output. The downside is, you can only lower the voltage to a certain limit before it goes below the threshold switching value for the transistors and the processor stops working. This causes no permanent damage, and is totally reversible by raising the voltage again. The lower the clock speed, the lower the voltage can be pushed. It is common practice among overclockers to try and push the voltage as low as possible for a given clock speed to reduce heat output.
It is possible that major antivirus companies could be writing a lot of malware. Firstly, it ensures that people continue to buy their product (can't sell antivirus if there are no viruses). It also gives them an advantage over their competitors (the company that writes the virus can build code into their application to stop it working). Then they can blame the competitor's antivirus app for not stopping this particular virus.
I would not be at all surprised if this was the case.
The internet was based on the principle of being open and free for anyone to use for anything. Whether that is spreading dissent, being racist or hosting an open encyclopedia.
Anybody out there who has a broadband connection and can spare some bandwidth should host a proxy server with one or two open slots. Open up the internet for everyone.
I agree. Konqueror does seem more stable than firefox usually is, for me. Perhaps it's somethign to do with konqueror being written specifically for linux/kde, whereas firefox exists for windows and other os's too.
Sam
If you take what some people say seriously, you expect firefox/linux/any open source microsoft alternative to be perfect. That simply isn't true. I opened the link in Ubuntu, running firefox and it crashed.
What does give open source the advantage is that you can download the bug fixes/updates for nothing, and you know there will be one (if there isn't an update, hell, at least you're allowed to write your own).
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I'm still at school, and I can tell you that the common concept of what bullying is by adults is mostly wrong. Bullies aren't the big ugly stupid ones (at least they aren't anymore). Nearly everybody takes part in what most adults would call "bullying" at some point, and it is hardly ever physical. I have never seen anybody beaten up for their lunch money, but I have seen lots of people taunted for being different. If people differ from the norm, they don't always get taunted, but they will if they flaunt their difference. Posting on slashdot, it should be fairly obvious that I don't fit into the norm, plus I'm quite short which doesn't help, but I don't get bullied or taunted, because people respect me - I don't always strive to put my hand up first in class, I don't act like I'm a cut above the others, you just have to respect everyone else and you'll get on fine.
Trust me, if you get bullied at school now, you have brought it on yourself by making no effort to socialise.
"When you browse to a site you have not visited before, the browser sends a request for site information to our server. The requests contains the domain name of the site and a hash value of the URL. We don't send the full URL, but we need a fingerprint of the full URL in case you visit a dangerous page on a site that is otherwise harmless."
It only sends a hash of the web address. It would be difficult to extrapolate the whole address from a hash.
From TFA: "Rapiscan is developing four kinds of devices -- some based on technologies more than 10 years old". My car is based on technology more than 10 years old. In fact, the tech is more than 10,000 years old. They're called wheels. How does this make it newsworthy?
" Bob Grim, Vice President of Marketing, has a wealth of sales and marketing experience from his time in Marketing at AMD"
Well this product is practically guaranteed tobe a complete commercial success then...
It's reasonably cheap too, I pay £17.99 a month for 512k-2M and although they technically have a 10gig per month limit, I use about 50 gigs per month and nobody has ever said anything, and my connection has never been cut off.
Firstly, I would be surprised if the real pirates didn't have a crack for this less than a week after WGA is made compulsory.Secondly, the fact that people HAVE to pay for a windows version rather than just sticking on an illegal version will cause these people to migrate more and more to free OS's like linux.
People don't use windows because it is a "good" OS, they use it because everybody else does and programs are written for it. Lessen the number of people using windows, and you lessen the reason for companies/people to code specifically for it, hence you lessen the reason for using it.
"However, because the original packets are passed through the firewall unscathed, if both of the endpoints were to completely ignore the firewall's reset packets, then the connection will proceed unhindered!"
So we're all gonna feel really foolish while your the one laughing... yeah that's it... lmao...
True freedom can only be exercised by all when it is defined as "Freedom to do what you like as long as it does not restrict or limit the freedom of others."
Otherwise it is not freedom, it is oppression.
The problem is, most users would buy a new system because their old p4 3ghz or whatever is choc full of spyware/malware/trojans/worms indroduced due to the previous windows version's lack of security. Advertising tells them that their old pc is slow and "If they upgrade to Vista now, with new Intel Inside Centrino technology (or whatever), the pc will be nice and fast" - until it gets clogged up with crapware again, but by that time, windows 2008 will be released.
Sam
Lowering the voltage REDUCES current flow through the chip, reducing power consumption and heat output. The downside is, you can only lower the voltage to a certain limit before it goes below the threshold switching value for the transistors and the processor stops working. This causes no permanent damage, and is totally reversible by raising the voltage again. The lower the clock speed, the lower the voltage can be pushed. It is common practice among overclockers to try and push the voltage as low as possible for a given clock speed to reduce heat output.
I would not be at all surprised if this was the case.
The internet was based on the principle of being open and free for anyone to use for anything. Whether that is spreading dissent, being racist or hosting an open encyclopedia. Anybody out there who has a broadband connection and can spare some bandwidth should host a proxy server with one or two open slots. Open up the internet for everyone.
Seems to me like everybody loses except the lawyers.
I agree. Konqueror does seem more stable than firefox usually is, for me. Perhaps it's somethign to do with konqueror being written specifically for linux/kde, whereas firefox exists for windows and other os's too. Sam
If you take what some people say seriously, you expect firefox/linux/any open source microsoft alternative to be perfect. That simply isn't true. I opened the link in Ubuntu, running firefox and it crashed.
What does give open source the advantage is that you can download the bug fixes/updates for nothing, and you know there will be one (if there isn't an update, hell, at least you're allowed to write your own).