Now the answers for everything are downloadable. You don't need to come up with your own answers because the internet has the answers for you. The change in where our information comes from has changed our opinions.
The problem is someone has to put those answers on the internet in the first place. Information doesn't magically appear on the internet, the grunt work still has to be done. Hopefully people would realize that...
A virtual registry/file directory structure stored in each users profile, under the local settings folder.
Gee, I thought they had this in 2k (well, 95 even I think, but I KNOW 2k at least did it right)... called "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%" and HKEY_Current_User... Who needs VIRTUAL stuff? It's BUILT IN.
The problem is every bloody program wants to install, by default, to 'C:\Program Files' and HKLM which is 755 by default, instead of Docume~1 and HKCU which is 707.
(Side note, yea, I know Vista's C:\Users\%username%...I'm sure there's still some environment variable that shows the user's home dir. I'm just too knackered to bother looking for it.)
If IT locks down USB ports, I'm sure they'd have gone over the possibility that they could be locking out legit reasons and have planned for it. No IT department worth its carbon would lock down something that close to the user without preparing for the eventual onslaught of calls asking "Why is my USB drive is broken?!"...that or their admin is a sadistic bastard and goes on unreachable vacation the next two weeks...
There's no problem with some monopolies. Major league sports for one example. MLB is a monopoly. So what?
Apparently the same can be said with satellite radio: both companies are reporting losses. The market has spoken and the market has said "well, some of us want satellite radio, but not enough to warrant two seperate companies."
In their defence, the dictionary definition of 'entrapment' is much more general than the legal defintion. I was thinking 'collusion' but that appears to require a third party.
Main Entry: entrapment 1 a : the action or process of entrapping b : the condition of being entrapped 2 : the action of luring an individual into committing a crime in order to prosecute the person for it
Believe it or not, some people are just brainwashed.
We had someone (not a techie, but a user with a silent L) verbally call Vista the "latest and greatest." (Personal aside, I want to find whoever coined that term and just beat them to a bloody pulp.)
Never mind we're having nothing but problems getting it working for them; they seem oblivious to this. (And no AV support until May...)
MS should just cut to the chase and call the next Windows what it is... "Windows Shiny Car Keys" *dingle, dangle* You like the new shiny, don't ya? Shiny shiny!
She wasn't even looking for a cure for cancer, but rather a cure for an intestinal disease. She just used cancerous cells in the trials because they're quicker to grow and more resistant to experiment.
Re:did yall check the whois for groklaw?
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Not to mention the speed at which you were quick to deny this claim is suspect.
Re:did yall check the whois for groklaw? (Score:5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13, @08:21PM (#18007724)
Re:did yall check the whois for groklaw? (Score:3, Informative) by pjones (10800) on Wednesday February 14, @05:53AM (#18010802)
One thing that stood out in Russinovich's explanation is an admission of sorts that the default configuration of UAC puts the user at risk of a sophisticated code execution attack.
Sophisticated? SOPHISTICATED? Isn't this the guy that sniffed out the Sony Rootkit? I don't think that word means what you think it means, Mr Sysinternals.
You're giving admin privileges to an installer. It can do whatever it bloody well wants and you can't stop it. Hardly sophisticated code needed there. All you need is a user to hit 'Allow' after they try running 'IAmNotAVirus-2.0.1.exe.'
Course, UAC's getting disabled by default anyway, so I don't see what the problem is... Anyone who actually wants to get stuff done will turn it off cause Limited users are still basically worthless outside of maybe surfing the net...
if netflix is able to provide an "on demand" service where i just download the movie, that would be incredible. i would pay for it, and i think most people would.
Actually, they are. June or July this year. No details on it though on their site. Call me crazy though, but I don't think it'll apply to the likes of Armacord or Battleship Potemkin...
Well, the official death of something is long after the general public stops dealing with it. Look at VHS. That's been "dead" for years, but it's still kicking.
That's not an reason. Just pull off a freeware tester. I've used http://www.memtest.org/ using the bootable CD version on a few occassions and had it pick up problems on two seperate occassions.
Now is that prey(n) or prey(v), because prey(v) would still fit, as in 'People in Microsoft's patent department prey on tiny companies for sustenance.'
They care about the fact that right now, it costs less than 5 cents to make a nickel. That means the Mint makes money on every nickel they sell to the banks.
Actually, nickels cost 8.74 cents to make, so they're losing money on nickels too. Check out the previous story on this.
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Now the answers for everything are downloadable. You don't need to come up with your own answers because the internet has the answers for you. The change in where our information comes from has changed our opinions.
The problem is someone has to put those answers on the internet in the first place. Information doesn't magically appear on the internet, the grunt work still has to be done. Hopefully people would realize that...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/07/microsoft_ pays_excel_man/
There's precidence in MS losing a patent case. It can happen.
A virtual registry/file directory structure stored in each users profile, under the local settings folder.
...I'm sure there's still some environment variable that shows the user's home dir. I'm just too knackered to bother looking for it.)
Gee, I thought they had this in 2k (well, 95 even I think, but I KNOW 2k at least did it right)... called "C:\Documents and Settings\%username%" and HKEY_Current_User... Who needs VIRTUAL stuff? It's BUILT IN.
The problem is every bloody program wants to install, by default, to 'C:\Program Files' and HKLM which is 755 by default, instead of Docume~1 and HKCU which is 707.
(Side note, yea, I know Vista's C:\Users\%username%
Well, the IT department would be getting "why doesn't my USB drive work?" from users.
IT would then answer to the caller with "didn't you read the memo? why are you even bringing a USB drive in?"
If IT locks down USB ports, I'm sure they'd have gone over the possibility that they could be locking out legit reasons and have planned for it. No IT department worth its carbon would lock down something that close to the user without preparing for the eventual onslaught of calls asking "Why is my USB drive is broken?!" ...that or their admin is a sadistic bastard and goes on unreachable vacation the next two weeks...
There's no problem with some monopolies. Major league sports for one example. MLB is a monopoly. So what?
Apparently the same can be said with satellite radio: both companies are reporting losses. The market has spoken and the market has said "well, some of us want satellite radio, but not enough to warrant two seperate companies."
In their defence, the dictionary definition of 'entrapment' is much more general than the legal defintion. I was thinking 'collusion' but that appears to require a third party.
Main Entry: entrapment
1 a : the action or process of entrapping b : the condition of being entrapped
2 : the action of luring an individual into committing a crime in order to prosecute the person for it
It's due to the particular suite we use:? ContentID=EN-1034059&id=EN-1034059
http://esupport.trendmicro.com/support/viewxml.do
Apparently the SMB software gets the scraps of the coding team.
Believe it or not, some people are just brainwashed.
We had someone (not a techie, but a user with a silent L) verbally call Vista the "latest and greatest." (Personal aside, I want to find whoever coined that term and just beat them to a bloody pulp.)
Never mind we're having nothing but problems getting it working for them; they seem oblivious to this. (And no AV support until May...)
MS should just cut to the chase and call the next Windows what it is... "Windows Shiny Car Keys" *dingle, dangle* You like the new shiny, don't ya? Shiny shiny!
MS has re-trained many of their user base not to need the newest thing.
Only the smart ones. One of our users went out and bought Vista day one because it's the latest and greatest. They actually called it that. Scary.
Pity the AV software we use doesn't work on Vista yet... Oh well.
Apparently you're unfamiliar with the doors on the Heart of Gold... (and hence the Douglas Adams reference...)
I thought the joke was that someone just needs to swap the cables powering the Earth and the hum goes away.
In this forum we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
She wasn't even looking for a cure for cancer, but rather a cure for an intestinal disease. She just used cancerous cells in the trials because they're quicker to grow and more resistant to experiment.
Not to mention the speed at which you were quick to deny this claim is suspect.
Re:did yall check the whois for groklaw? (Score:5, Interesting)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13, @08:21PM (#18007724)
Re:did yall check the whois for groklaw? (Score:3, Informative)
by pjones (10800) on Wednesday February 14, @05:53AM (#18010802)
If you call 'quick' 9 and a half hours...
One thing that stood out in Russinovich's explanation is an admission of sorts that the default configuration of UAC puts the user at risk of a sophisticated code execution attack.
Sophisticated? SOPHISTICATED? Isn't this the guy that sniffed out the Sony Rootkit? I don't think that word means what you think it means, Mr Sysinternals.
You're giving admin privileges to an installer. It can do whatever it bloody well wants and you can't stop it. Hardly sophisticated code needed there. All you need is a user to hit 'Allow' after they try running 'IAmNotAVirus-2.0.1.exe.'
Course, UAC's getting disabled by default anyway, so I don't see what the problem is... Anyone who actually wants to get stuff done will turn it off cause Limited users are still basically worthless outside of maybe surfing the net...
if netflix is able to provide an "on demand" service where i just download the movie, that would be incredible. i would pay for it, and i think most people would.
Actually, they are. June or July this year. No details on it though on their site. Call me crazy though, but I don't think it'll apply to the likes of Armacord or Battleship Potemkin...
Plus, if the same holds from Episode One, you can buy a retail copy cheaper than getting it through Steam.
($10 retail vs. $20 online if I remember right.)
What's wrong with the box artwork? It's just as creative as the cover of The Beatles' 'White Album'.
Sad that one of the better titles for a game system is simply a repackage of an older title...
Well, the official death of something is long after the general public stops dealing with it. Look at VHS. That's been "dead" for years, but it's still kicking.
is the memory tester...
That's not an reason. Just pull off a freeware tester. I've used http://www.memtest.org/ using the bootable CD
version on a few occassions and had it pick up problems on two seperate occassions.
Now is that prey(n) or prey(v), because prey(v) would still fit, as in 'People in Microsoft's patent department prey on tiny companies for sustenance.'
The 5c still exists. It's the 1c and 2c that were phased out.
They care about the fact that right now, it costs less than 5 cents to make a nickel. That means the Mint makes money on every nickel they sell to the banks.
Actually, nickels cost 8.74 cents to make, so they're losing money on nickels too. Check out the previous story on this.