Have you read a post by an anonymous person before? It says "by Anonymous Coward"... I'm not calling someone a coward, it's just the nickname/. gives anonymous posts.
Report them to your bank/card issuer! Nobody will stop doing it if we let them get away with it.
I was once told I couldn't use my credit card for a small transaction (there was no posted minimum either). I wasn't sure at the time about these things so I didn't put up a fuss and paid cash. I checked into it, once I learned that they were violating the merchant rules I filed a complaint with my bank (the card issuer).
I received a reply a few days later that Visa was looking into it. Strangely enough, I haven't had any issues using my card there since.
RBC Royal Bank has a web based form to send them your thoughts. I'm sure other banks have similar contact forms, but even if they don't, pick up the phone and complain. They (the merchants) are the ones breaking the rules, why should we let them get away with it?
Merchants are not allowed to set minimum or maximum amounts for transactions on Visa. I'm too lazy to find it, but I know Mastercard has a similar rule.
In response to the Anonymous Coward, they are allowed to give cash discounts, but it has to be clearly stated to the customer before hand. A couple of the local computer stores here do this, but they have labels all over the store saying "All prices are 2% cash or debit discounted"
Ideally I would run the scan by unplugging the network cable and booting from directly the malware-scanner CD. Unfortunately nobody makes such a thing -- it's like the "antivirus" companies don't really care about reliability. Symantec disagrees
Or... if you don't want those, you can just make a "live cd" using any of the countless utilities out there for it.
Or if you're feeling crazy, toss vmware onto a knoppix dvd and boot windows from either an image on the dvd or boot it straight from the drive, isolated in vmware. I really don't mean to nitpick. I fully agree running an Antivirus on a compromised system is definitely not to be trusted. Even if the virus doesn't interfere or play with the results, Windows probably won't let you clean it if it is in memory.
Symantec disagrees Says it doesn't support NTFS.
Mcafee disagrees. Says it doesn't support NTFS.
AVG disagrees. Runs Windows PE (Pre-installation Environment?). I assume this means it'll do NTFS, but I can't say anything here.
I remember a few years back (pre-Windows 98) a bunch of friends and I had a boot sector virus. I don't recall what it was called, but it transmitted itself by floppy disk. If you simply accessed the disk you became infected. We all had AV software, even if it wasn't 100% up to date, it was harder to do since none of us had the internet at the time.
We knew about the virus, but we couldn't do a damn thing about it because when we had AV software to clean it, it would not go away since it was already in memory!
The fix was when one went out an bought a new copy of McAfee which included a system boot floppy to scan at boot time. Cleaned it up in a jiffy. Passed this around (with the write protect tab switched to On) to clean up. Once we had it off the hard disk, cleaning the infected floppies was done by the resident scanner whenever it encountered one.
Typing the words "web page" into Google (first term that came into my head) brings up the following sizes for the first pages returned (44k, 52k, 13k, 17k, 76k, 12k, 37k, 52k, 21k). The definition of page size in this case is: "the sum of the file sizes for all the elements that make up a page, including the defining HTML file as well as all embedded objects (e.g., image files with GIF and JPG pictures)." Try it with as many terms as you want, I'm sure you'll get similar results. Plenty of headroom there before we even get close to 100k. Right now it looks like reality is on my side. I don't "only wish" anything, except in your imagination... Those sizes you're listing, they're all text and compressed images. They aren't representative of the screen the user sees. A 30kb JPEG might actually be 200KB uncompressed, and browsing a site like Flikr or other sites with heavy images that will add up, fast.
Firefox isn't just remembering some HTML code and images, that's what the cache is for, it's remembering the STATE of the web page. When you hit the back button, it (usually) remembers what you've entered in the form, where you were scrolled to on the page, etc. It remembers the page as it was when you left it so it doesn't need to render it all over again. This includes rendered CSS, Javascript states, uncompressed images, the DOM tree (as the GP mentioned). They wouldn't be able to call it "Instant Back" if it had to render the page again, because that wouldn't be very instant.
You forgot about the practical joke possibilities. Such as borrow the mp3 player of a coworker/boss/ex-girlfriend, copy the watermarked tunes out, post them on a P2P network, then sit back and watch a squadron of RIAA attack lawyers ruin his/her life...
How is that a practical joke? Remind me never to lend my MP3 player to you. For that
matter, why would you do that to someone who would lend your their MP3 to you in the
first place?
The *only* ones who benefit from watermarking are the content distributors - it gives them traceability so they know who to sue. It *does* give the consumer a less restricted product, but at the cost of making said consumer liable if the "wrong person" ever get hold of those watermarked tunes. I don't consider that to be a fair trade...
This part is bound to have a more negative impact that I haven't seen posted yet...
What happens when someone ends up in court and uses the
"My computer was hacked!! omgz!" defense and wins? The music industry might
then use this as a defense for DRM, saying it prevents people from stealing
the music you bought.
Suddenly they're the heroes in the mind of the person
who got brought to court because a bot copied their music onto a P2P network.
Her husband is in the Canadian military and he sent it to her from an assignment he was on in the middle east (pre-Iraq war), included only some Linux distro that I'd never heard of (don't recall what it was to this day)...
It was quite a bargain as I recall, but was very bare bones. No battery, no OS, VIA C3 CPU at 700MHz, 256mb RAM, 10gb hard disk. I would've loved to get one, but I was never able to scrounge up the money to get him to send another, just finishing up high school at the time.
Who is to say this one can't be something like that?
I believe the problem with these codecs to play MP3 and things like that is not that they are closed source, but that they are illegal for two reasons...
First: Technically, they circumvent copy protection (libdvdcss2 for example) which in the US at least is illegal under the DMCA
Second: Patents. MP3 among others is not a free format, in that it requires royalties to be paid for the distribution of decoders/encoders. To whom I'm not exactly sure, A quick look at Wikipedia just made things even more confusing.
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What? Get with the times man!
What about HAMMER-relatime?
VirtualBox has some issues with FreeBSD.
I tried to install a recent release of FreeBSD which ended up in frequent hangs related to the network adapter.
Changing the network adapter type seems to fix the problem.
Have you read a post by an anonymous person before? It says "by Anonymous Coward" ... I'm not calling someone a coward, it's just the nickname /. gives anonymous posts.
Report them to your bank/card issuer! Nobody will stop doing it if we let them get away with it.
I was once told I couldn't use my credit card for a small transaction (there was no posted minimum either). I wasn't sure at the time about these things so I didn't put up a fuss and paid cash. I checked into it, once I learned that they were violating the merchant rules I filed a complaint with my bank (the card issuer).
I received a reply a few days later that Visa was looking into it. Strangely enough, I haven't had any issues using my card there since.
RBC Royal Bank has a web based form to send them your thoughts. I'm sure other banks have similar contact forms, but even if they don't, pick up the phone and complain. They (the merchants) are the ones breaking the rules, why should we let them get away with it?
Merchants are not allowed to set minimum or maximum amounts for transactions on Visa. I'm too lazy to find it, but I know Mastercard has a similar rule.
In response to the Anonymous Coward, they are allowed to give cash discounts, but it has to be clearly stated to the customer before hand. A couple of the local computer stores here do this, but they have labels all over the store saying "All prices are 2% cash or debit discounted"
Source:
For the US (I'm in Canada, but I can't find the doc on visa.ca). See Page 9/10:
http://usa.visa.com/download/merchants/card_acceptance_guide.pdf
"AssTard", you make an excellent point! Thank you for your input!
Are you saying traffic jams are a problem at those times?
Take the bus when necessary, use your car any other time.
Unfortunately, you can't use the Group Policy Editor on Windows XP Home Edition.
In addition, it's nice to have the autorun. Having a dialog asking permission is a nice balance I find.
Mcafee disagrees.
AVG disagrees.
Or... if you don't want those, you can just make a "live cd" using any of the countless utilities out there for it.
Or if you're feeling crazy, toss vmware onto a knoppix dvd and boot windows from either an image on the dvd or boot it straight from the drive, isolated in vmware. I really don't mean to nitpick. I fully agree running an Antivirus on a compromised system is definitely not to be trusted. Even if the virus doesn't interfere or play with the results, Windows probably won't let you clean it if it is in memory. Symantec disagrees Says it doesn't support NTFS. Mcafee disagrees. Says it doesn't support NTFS. AVG disagrees. Runs Windows PE (Pre-installation Environment?). I assume this means it'll do NTFS, but I can't say anything here.
I remember a few years back (pre-Windows 98) a bunch of friends and I had a boot sector virus. I don't recall what it was called, but it transmitted itself by floppy disk. If you simply accessed the disk you became infected. We all had AV software, even if it wasn't 100% up to date, it was harder to do since none of us had the internet at the time.
We knew about the virus, but we couldn't do a damn thing about it because when we had AV software to clean it, it would not go away since it was already in memory!
The fix was when one went out an bought a new copy of McAfee which included a system boot floppy to scan at boot time. Cleaned it up in a jiffy. Passed this around (with the write protect tab switched to On) to clean up. Once we had it off the hard disk, cleaning the infected floppies was done by the resident scanner whenever it encountered one.
sorry - meant to mod this to funny, undoing it.
Your link is very broken ... Took a few tries to figure out this link.
Perhaps they're labeling it Ubuntu 7 because it is the 7th release? Warty, Hoary, Breezy, Dapper, Edgy, Feisty, Gutsy = 7.
I suppose it isn't likely, since I've never heard of it this way, but it does make sense in a way.
Why is this modded troll? As a regular cyclist, it's all true stuff.
Firefox isn't just remembering some HTML code and images, that's what the cache is for, it's remembering the STATE of the web page. When you hit the back button, it (usually) remembers what you've entered in the form, where you were scrolled to on the page, etc. It remembers the page as it was when you left it so it doesn't need to render it all over again. This includes rendered CSS, Javascript states, uncompressed images, the DOM tree (as the GP mentioned). They wouldn't be able to call it "Instant Back" if it had to render the page again, because that wouldn't be very instant.
DoubleSpace came in DOS 6.0 and 6.2. It was absent from 6.21 due to some patent disputes.
DriveSpace was introduced in DOS 6.22.
How is that a practical joke? Remind me never to lend my MP3 player to you. For that matter, why would you do that to someone who would lend your their MP3 to you in the first place?
The *only* ones who benefit from watermarking are the content distributors - it gives them traceability so they know who to sue. It *does* give the consumer a less restricted product, but at the cost of making said consumer liable if the "wrong person" ever get hold of those watermarked tunes. I don't consider that to be a fair trade...This part is bound to have a more negative impact that I haven't seen posted yet...
What happens when someone ends up in court and uses the "My computer was hacked!! omgz!" defense and wins? The music industry might then use this as a defense for DRM, saying it prevents people from stealing the music you bought.
Suddenly they're the heroes in the mind of the person who got brought to court because a bot copied their music onto a P2P network.
Heh.. missed that.
I didn't look past the key features...
Nobody else has mentioned this yet, but had it occurred to anyone that (if real) it doesn't include a battery?
I know of at least one Elitegroup Computer System (ECS) laptop that I set up for a friend didn't have one.
Her husband is in the Canadian military and he sent it to her from an assignment he was on in the middle east (pre-Iraq war), included only some Linux distro that I'd never heard of (don't recall what it was to this day)...
It was quite a bargain as I recall, but was very bare bones. No battery, no OS, VIA C3 CPU at 700MHz, 256mb RAM, 10gb hard disk. I would've loved to get one, but I was never able to scrounge up the money to get him to send another, just finishing up high school at the time.
Who is to say this one can't be something like that?
(Someone correct me if I'm wrong...)
I believe the problem with these codecs to play MP3 and things like that is not that they are closed source, but that they are illegal for two reasons...
First: Technically, they circumvent copy protection (libdvdcss2 for example) which in the US at least is illegal under the DMCA
Second: Patents. MP3 among others is not a free format, in that it requires royalties to be paid for the distribution of decoders/encoders. To whom I'm not exactly sure, A quick look at Wikipedia just made things even more confusing.
That's ok, anyone who was a real Empornium member has moved onto Cheggit.net since Targetpoint bought E. ... so I've been told.
Lets not forget that U is a vowel... just saying.
Lacuna Inc. anyone?
So let me get this straight, they give people a drug and it reduces their bad memories? Seems pretty dangerous to me.
And in comparison to us, the regular joes, his level of wealth hasn't changed at all.
Hey cut me some slack. I'm a PHP developer.