Well, I do not think Jamming is the solution to the problem. Here is my solution: If I ran any kind of business, there would be signs on the front doors. Big ones. They would say: Cell phone use is not allowed in this building. Please turn off your phone completely before entering. If you use a cell phone inside this building, it will be confiscated and not returned. By entering this building, you agree to this policy. If you disagree, Please do NOT enter!
Employees would remind cell phne users of the policy, and ask them to shut off their phone. Anyone who refused would be escorted outside by a security person. Anyone refusing to leave (for any reason) when asked would of course be subject to having the police called to remove them. Someone reveiving an emergency call would be asked to step into a small room set aside for that purpose.
And yes I feel that using a cell phone in a store, restaurant, or especially a movie theater or concert hall is extremely rude and obnoxious.
Hi Guys. I save all of my personal documents in ODF, and ocassionally export to PDF if necessary. I might save in (MS office07) DOC format in addition to ODF if I might have to send that document to someone who needs that format. I have a web page editor (August) for HTML. I tried saving as an HTML document from OpenOffice.org Writer, but it doesn't do very clean HTML. I would rather copy the text from OOo, and past it into August. August is an older Linux HTML editor, which doesn't do WYSIWYG. WYSIWYG web page editors add far too much unnecessary crap to your web pages .
Rush Limbaugh: Toxic byproduct of the First Ammendment!
You read my mind! Thats the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline. Then again, I have heard that some russian hight tech items still use vacuum tubes!
So who need that document? Any intelligent person who thought about it a bit could probably figure out how to build a pipe bomb. Just a hint...black powder, a pipe with 2 caps, a model rocket igniter... I have never tried this (or tred to make any other kind of bomb or explosive device).
I am sure in the U.K. that the military trains at least some of their soldiers how to improvise weapons/explosives etc...are they going to arrest those soldiers?, Sue the military for training terrorists?
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons? Speaking of morons, Rush Limbaugh: Toxic byproduct of the first ammendment.
WHAT UNIVERSE ARE YOU LIVING IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Obviously not the same one s the rest of us! The last well made (Cr)apple product was the IIe! Every product since then has been vastly overpriced cheaply and shodily made junk! As I have said before, the only ones who bought an iPhone or an iPod and didn't return them the next day for a refund are the idiots that bought (Cr)apples marketing hype that these overpriced cheap and crappy products are some kind of status symbol.
Well, only idiots that have bought (Cr)apples hype that the iPod and Iphone are some sort of status symbol would buy these devices and not take them back the next day when they find out what utter cheap junk that they are!
Sounds more like something that ole Jerry Foulball and his moral minority would do.
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
I agree to a point. What should really happen is that venders be required not to atomatically charge for Windows whether or not it is installed (this happens because of M$ licensing aggreements). Then they should be required to offer and support at least 1 alternative OS.
Just my $10.00 worth ($.02 adjusted for inflation!);^))
The draw is that the iPod has become a status symbol for a lot of folks through (Cr)apple's marketing. This even though the iPod has ALWAYS been an infferior player that sells for a highly inflated price. There are now players out there that have better sound, play almost any music format, and are in every war better than the iPod, yet sell for a lot lower price. Oh and another thing, most players now can show up as a USB storage device without using any special software.
So people need to get smart and dump the iPod (and iPhone too!!!!!) , and get something better!
that remembers seing film and reports about the Aero car of the mid 1940s? As I remember, the wings and tail were towed in a trailer-like fashion, and attached at the airport. Lifting the license plate allowed attachment of the pusher propeller. While the Aero flew sucessfully, it never actually entered prodiction. I think I hear that one of the originals was still flying as recently as 2006.
I am sure a modern version of such a vehicle could be produced that would be easier to get ready for flight, and be more fuel efficient. Not sure how much demand there would be, as a pilots license would be required, and you would still have to drive to the airport. However, it would solve transportation problems of getting to and from the airport on both ends of the flight.
I have 2 ancient PCs here. Two Cpmpaq laptops...one is a P133 with 32 meg of ram. the other is a P166 with 48 meg of ram. Both run Win98se (not enough memory to run Linux with KDE) I can transfer files via the 10mbps pcmcia network cards, and play an MP3 file with only a very slight drop in network speed. This is more than 10 year old hardware, using an operating system that is at least 7 to 8 years old. Also, with Win98se on my AMD Athelon 1800+ system with 512 meg of ram, I cannot play an MP3 without dropouts while surfing the net via 56K dialup. In Linux on the same machine, I can play an MP3, surf the net (same 56k dialup), and have a CD being written all at the same time with no problems whatsoever.
Oh well, I wasn't planning on ever downgrading to Vista anyway!;^))
ALL patents and copyrights expire after 5 to 7 years and are NOT renewable by amyone. After 5 to 7 years EVERYTHING is in the public domain. And software/business process pattents are eliminated completely. AND, if a corporation buys a patent, or a copyrighted work, that does NOT extend the patent/copyright period...it still goes public domain 5 to 7 years after the ORIGINAL release/publishing/grant date, NO MATTER WHAT. Patented inventions must be in production within 2 years of the grant date, and within 1 year of a purchase date.
When a patent expires, full details must be published/released by the patent holder, and must be easily available to the general public at no cost. Published books and other written work will be made available to the general public in ODF format at no charge when copyrights expire.
Music will be made available to the general public as lirics on ODF format, and as high quality MP3 and OGG music files that are freely available at no charge.
This would help prevent large corporations from buying and suppressing inventions that could be beneficial to society as a whole, but might reduce their profits. (can you say Big Oil?)
Micro$haft hit my limit a long time ago with the huge stinking turd that was called Windows ME. Xp and Vista are even worse. Now they want to ram an OS with built-in addware and spyware down user's throats!?!? Micro$haft, may the fleas from a thousand camels infest the armpits of every employee responsible for this crappiest of ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!
Boy am I glad I have been using Linux for the last few years!. You can try Ubuntu, but I would recommend Sidux.
Hi. There is a distinction that is being missed here. These infected file are not and should not be identified as viruses. They SHOULD however be identified as infected files. If the anti-virus software cannot remove the virus from the file, and/or the file has been corrupted, the software needs to inform the user that the file may need to be replaced, or the operating systen re-installed.
One of the biggest bugs in Winjdows has always been that it has allowed installers etc... to install files to the system folders, and even overwrite files in the system folders. This was a HUGE mistake, that should have been correected long ago! When a program is installed files should only be allowed to be written to folders created for that program. Anytime that any program tries to write files to the system folders, they should be re-directed to the program's own folder, and a coresponding entry in the registry should redirect any attempts of the program to access these files to the file's true location. Also, a warning message should be displayed to the user that the program has attempted to install files into the system folder, and that this is not allowed.
Despite recent articals to the contrary, Vista is NOT secure at all for the average user, because the security "features"are so annoying that the average user turns them off after a very short time. To bad the DRM crap imbedded in Vista cannot be disable so easily!
As to the common practice of an anti-virus program identifying the files of a competing product (that are not viruses nor infected with a virus) as viruses or infected is just plain wrong. This practice is in the Micro$haft tradition of anti-competitive, monopolistic behavior.
I have to agree. If problems are not resolved in a timely fashion, it is justified to keep calling until they are resolved. I do not know about other states, but here in Iowa we have an entity called the Iowa Utilities Board. One of their functions is to decide whether phone and/or utility rate increases are going to happen. Iowans can write or email the Utilities Board, and complain about problems with phone and/or utility services, and recomend against rate increases until problems are resolved. The Utilities Board is required to consider all such input in its decisions, and when people write or email the Utilities Board, the offending phone or utility company gets a copy of the complaint. This usually has the effect of the problem being resolved quickly.
I had a phone problem resolved some years ago this way. We kept getting switched onto a very niosy phone line. A phone company repair employee told us (off the record and on the condition we would never reveal his name) that the phone company did not have enough good lines in our area, and would not spend the money to fix the bad ones. So whenever someone complained about a noisy line, they were switched to one of the good lines, and someone else was switched on to a noisy line. I wrote to the Utilities Board, explaining the situation and recommending against any rate increases until such practices were ended and the lines repaired. Within 48 hours the problem was solved and we were in contact with the phone company. Not via one of the regular customer service operators but someone higher up who gave us her 800 number to call if we had any more problems.
So I would recommend that anyone with problems that are not resolved quickly to contact any state regulatory agencies that may exist. It can't hurt!
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Bottom line...serious PC Gamers are stuck with Windows....NOT!!!!! Simply set up a dual-boot system, and only boot into windows to play games and use Linux to go online and do anything else but your games. BTW, I am not what most would consider a "serious" gamer, but I notice that RTC Wolfenstein, and Medal of Honor Allied Assault both run better in Linux under Cedega than they run in Windows here on my modest system (1800+ AMD Athelon with 512 meg of ram, and an nVidia Geforce 4 MX video card) The more that people demand games to be written for Linux, the more the gaming indistry will listen.
Hi. I use clorox disenfectent wipes, and/or cleaning swabs with alcohol to clean my keyboards and mice. Cleans and kills the bacteria at the same time. I have also used alcohol wipes, and they work well also. I suggest making sure that you power down the computer and disconnect the keyboard and/or mouse, or with a wireless device, remove the batteries. Just in case some fluid should drip into the switches. Usually these will dry in a few minutes, and i try to take care not to use so much alcohol that it will drip down inside. I have in the past removed the key caps, but since not all keyboards are quite the same, a few keys may get put back in the wrong places.
MS keeps saying that lots of Free and Open Source Software violates their patents , but THEY NEVER SHOW US THE CODE! Come on MS, quit bullshitting and show us which specific code in which specific FOSS products violates your patents, OR SHUT THE F*** UP!!!!! I do not believe that there have been any intentional violations (if there are ANY violations), and that if you show us the code, the developers of the products in question would gladly remove any such code.
In other words, this is mere FUD, trying to scare MS's corporate users away from a switch to superior but non-MS operating systems and software. Again we see that MS will do ANYTHING to try to keep its monopoly.!
MIcrosoft gets "demonized" because of its deceptive and illegal (I could add many more descriptive terms here!) business practices, and its outright strongarm tactics. The "demonizing" of Microsoft will (maybe) cease when they learn to compete by producing better operating systems and software instead of using every dirty trick and illegal practice that they can to push bug-ridden crap, and when they stop using FUD and outright lies to discredit and discourage the use of any products but their own.
Until then, intelligent people will continue to distrust Microsoft, and refuse to buy their products. And they will continue to speak out about what they think of as wrong, or evil about Microsoft.
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Well, I do not think Jamming is the solution to the problem. Here is my solution: If I ran any kind of business, there would be signs on the front doors. Big ones. They would say: Cell phone use is not allowed in this building. Please turn off your phone completely before entering. If you use a cell phone inside this building, it will be confiscated and not returned. By entering this building, you agree to this policy. If you disagree, Please do NOT enter!
Employees would remind cell phne users of the policy, and ask them to shut off their phone. Anyone who refused would be escorted outside by a security person. Anyone refusing to leave (for any reason) when asked would of course be subject to having the police called to remove them. Someone reveiving an emergency call would be asked to step into a small room set aside for that purpose.
And yes I feel that using a cell phone in a store, restaurant, or especially a movie theater or concert hall is extremely rude and obnoxious.
Hi Guys. I save all of my personal documents in ODF, and ocassionally export to PDF if necessary. I might save in (MS office07) DOC format in addition to ODF if I might have to send that document to someone who needs that format. I have a web page editor (August) for HTML. I tried saving as an HTML document from OpenOffice.org Writer, but it doesn't do very clean HTML. I would rather copy the text from OOo, and past it into August. August is an older Linux HTML editor, which doesn't do WYSIWYG. WYSIWYG web page editors add far too much unnecessary crap to your web pages .
Rush Limbaugh: Toxic byproduct of the First Ammendment!
You read my mind! Thats the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline. Then again, I have heard that some russian hight tech items still use vacuum tubes!
So who need that document? Any intelligent person who thought about it a bit could probably figure out how to build a pipe bomb. Just a hint...black powder, a pipe with 2 caps, a model rocket igniter...
I have never tried this (or tred to make any other kind of bomb or explosive device).
I am sure in the U.K. that the military trains at least some of their soldiers how to improvise weapons/explosives etc...are they going to arrest those soldiers?, Sue the military for training terrorists?
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons? Speaking of morons, Rush Limbaugh: Toxic byproduct of the first ammendment.
WHAT UNIVERSE ARE YOU LIVING IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Obviously not the same one s the rest of us! The last well made (Cr)apple product was the IIe! Every product since then has been vastly overpriced cheaply and shodily made junk! As I have said before, the only ones who bought an iPhone or an iPod and didn't return them the next day for a refund are the idiots that bought (Cr)apples marketing hype that these overpriced cheap and crappy products are some kind of status symbol.
Well, only idiots that have bought (Cr)apples hype that the iPod and Iphone are some sort of status symbol would buy these devices and not take them back the next day when they find out what utter cheap junk that they are!
Sounds more like something that ole Jerry Foulball and his moral minority would do. If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
Don't like the "lengthy contract with AT&T"? Don't buy the extremely overpriced cheap junk iPhone!!!!!
I agree to a point. What should really happen is that venders be required not to atomatically charge for Windows whether or not it is installed (this happens because of M$ licensing aggreements). Then they should be required to offer and support at least 1 alternative OS.
;^))
Just my $10.00 worth ($.02 adjusted for inflation!)
How about for (Cr)apple to admit that the iPhone is vastly overpriced junk, that they are discontinuing it, and that there won't be an iPhone 2.0?
Same for the iPod would be cool too!
Hmmm...better not read some of those Tom Clancy novels then huh? Like Debt of Honor. The Sum of all Fears, Patriot Games...
The draw is that the iPod has become a status symbol for a lot of folks through (Cr)apple's marketing. This even though the iPod has ALWAYS been an infferior player that sells for a highly inflated price. There are now players out there that have better sound, play almost any music format, and are in every war better than the iPod, yet sell for a lot lower price. Oh and another thing, most players now can show up as a USB storage device without using any special software.
So people need to get smart and dump the iPod (and iPhone too!!!!!) , and get something better!
I don't see Rush Limbaugh on the list! He should be #1 on the cleanup list!
Rush Limbaugh...toxic byproduct of the First Amendment.
Slow news day!
that remembers seing film and reports about the Aero car of the mid 1940s? As I remember, the wings and tail were towed in a trailer-like fashion, and attached at the airport. Lifting the license plate allowed attachment of the pusher propeller. While the Aero flew sucessfully, it never actually entered prodiction. I think I hear that one of the originals was still flying as recently as 2006.
I am sure a modern version of such a vehicle could be produced that would be easier to get ready for flight, and be more fuel efficient. Not sure how much demand there would be, as a pilots license would be required, and you would still have to drive to the airport. However, it would solve transportation problems of getting to and from the airport on both ends of the flight.
I have 2 ancient PCs here. Two Cpmpaq laptops...one is a P133 with 32 meg of ram. the other is a P166 with 48 meg of ram. Both run Win98se (not enough memory to run Linux with KDE) I can transfer files via the 10mbps pcmcia network cards, and play an MP3 file with only a very slight drop in network speed. This is more than 10 year old hardware, using an operating system that is at least 7 to 8 years old. Also, with Win98se on my AMD Athelon 1800+ system with 512 meg of ram, I cannot play an MP3 without dropouts while surfing the net via 56K dialup. In Linux on the same machine, I can play an MP3, surf the net (same 56k dialup), and have a CD being written all at the same time with no problems whatsoever.
;^))
Oh well, I wasn't planning on ever downgrading to Vista anyway!
Loke the song says...Shock the Monkey(s)!
A better iea than #3:
ALL patents and copyrights expire after 5 to 7 years and are NOT renewable by amyone. After 5 to 7 years EVERYTHING is in the public domain. And software/business process pattents are eliminated completely. AND, if a corporation buys a patent, or a copyrighted work, that does NOT extend the patent/copyright period...it still goes public domain 5 to 7 years after the ORIGINAL release/publishing/grant date, NO MATTER WHAT. Patented inventions must be in production within 2 years of the grant date, and within 1 year of a purchase date.
When a patent expires, full details must be published/released by the patent holder, and must be easily available to the general public at no cost. Published books and other written work will be made available to the general public in ODF format at no charge when copyrights expire.
Music will be made available to the general public as lirics on ODF format, and as high quality MP3 and OGG music files that are freely available at no charge.
This would help prevent large corporations from buying and suppressing inventions that could be beneficial to society as a whole, but might reduce their profits. (can you say Big Oil?)
Micro$haft hit my limit a long time ago with the huge stinking turd that was called Windows ME. Xp and Vista are even worse. Now they want to ram an OS with built-in addware and spyware down user's throats!?!?
Micro$haft, may the fleas from a thousand camels infest the armpits of every employee responsible for this crappiest of ideas!!!!!!!!!!!!
Boy am I glad I have been using Linux for the last few years!. You can try Ubuntu, but I would recommend Sidux.
Hi. There is a distinction that is being missed here. These infected file are not and should not be identified as viruses. They SHOULD however be identified as infected files. If the anti-virus software cannot remove the virus from the file, and/or the file has been corrupted, the software needs to inform the user that the file may need to be replaced, or the operating systen re-installed.
One of the biggest bugs in Winjdows has always been that it has allowed installers etc... to install files to the system folders, and even overwrite files in the system folders. This was a HUGE mistake, that should have been correected long ago! When a program is installed files should only be allowed to be written to folders created for that program. Anytime that any program tries to write files to the system folders, they should be re-directed to the program's own folder, and a coresponding entry in the registry should redirect any attempts of the program to access these files to the file's true location. Also, a warning message should be displayed to the user that the program has attempted to install files into the system folder, and that this is not allowed.
Despite recent articals to the contrary, Vista is NOT secure at all for the average user, because the security "features"are so annoying that the average user turns them off after a very short time. To bad the DRM crap imbedded in Vista cannot be disable so easily!
As to the common practice of an anti-virus program identifying the files of a competing product (that are not viruses nor infected with a virus) as viruses or infected is just plain wrong. This practice is in the Micro$haft
tradition of anti-competitive, monopolistic behavior.
I have to agree. If problems are not resolved in a timely fashion, it is justified to keep calling until they are resolved. I do not know about other states, but here in Iowa we have an entity called the Iowa Utilities Board.
One of their functions is to decide whether phone and/or utility rate increases are going to happen. Iowans can write or email the Utilities Board, and complain about problems with phone and/or utility services, and recomend against rate increases until problems are resolved. The Utilities Board is required to consider all such input in its decisions, and when people write or email the Utilities Board, the offending phone or utility company gets a copy of the complaint. This usually has the effect of the problem being resolved quickly.
I had a phone problem resolved some years ago this way. We kept getting switched onto a very niosy phone line. A phone company repair employee told us (off the record and on the condition we would never reveal his name) that the phone company did not have enough good lines in our area, and would not spend the money to fix the bad ones. So whenever someone complained about a noisy line, they were switched to one of the good lines, and someone else was switched on to a noisy line. I wrote to the Utilities Board, explaining the situation and recommending against any rate increases until such practices were ended and the lines repaired.
Within 48 hours the problem was solved and we were in contact with the phone company. Not via one of the regular customer service operators but someone higher up who gave us her 800 number to call if we had any more problems.
So I would recommend that anyone with problems that are not resolved quickly to contact any state regulatory agencies that may exist. It can't hurt!
Bottom line...serious PC Gamers are stuck with Windows....NOT!!!!! Simply set up a dual-boot system, and only boot into windows to play games and use Linux to go online and do anything else but your games. BTW, I am not what most would consider a "serious" gamer, but I notice that RTC Wolfenstein, and Medal of Honor Allied Assault both run better in Linux under Cedega than they run in Windows here on my modest system (1800+ AMD Athelon with 512 meg of ram, and an nVidia Geforce 4 MX video card) The more that people demand games to be written for Linux, the more the gaming indistry will listen.
Hi. I use clorox disenfectent wipes, and/or cleaning swabs with alcohol to clean my keyboards and mice. Cleans and kills the bacteria at the same time. I have also used alcohol wipes, and they work well also. I suggest making sure that you power down the computer and disconnect the keyboard and/or mouse, or with a wireless device, remove the batteries. Just in case some fluid should drip into the switches. Usually these will dry in a few minutes, and i try to take care not to use so much alcohol that it will drip down inside. I have in the past removed the key caps, but since not all keyboards are quite the same, a few keys may get put back in the wrong places.
MS keeps saying that lots of Free and Open Source Software violates their patents , but THEY NEVER SHOW US THE CODE! Come on MS, quit bullshitting and show us which specific code in which specific FOSS products violates your patents, OR SHUT THE F*** UP!!!!! I do not believe that there have been any intentional violations (if there are ANY violations), and that if you show us the code, the developers of the products in question would gladly remove any such code.
In other words, this is mere FUD, trying to scare MS's corporate users away from a switch to superior but non-MS operating systems and software. Again we see that MS will do ANYTHING to try to keep its monopoly.!
MIcrosoft gets "demonized" because of its deceptive and illegal (I could add many more descriptive terms here!) business practices, and its outright strongarm tactics. The "demonizing" of Microsoft will (maybe) cease when they learn to compete by producing better operating systems and software instead of using every dirty trick and illegal practice that they can to push bug-ridden crap, and when they stop using FUD and outright lies to discredit and discourage the use of any products but their own.
Until then, intelligent people will continue to distrust Microsoft, and refuse to buy their products. And they will continue to speak out about what they think of as wrong, or evil about Microsoft.