Nice strawman AC. If you were blaming Nazis for things they had nothing to do with, I would tell you the same thing. Maybe you should just take the leap and blame Nazis on Microsoft too.
Congratulations. I only had to get down half a page to see this totally unrelated in any way article being somehow connected back to being Microsoft's fault. Thanks Slashdot for not disappointing!
Well, I do give you a bonus point for at least admitting you are trolling.
It's only Slashdot people. If you get modded up or down it isn't the greatest day of your life/end of the world. At least it isn't for me. Big deal, so someone doesn't like what you said. It's a big world, best to get used to it now. Someone somewhere is always going to not like what you say.
All hail 2022! And with these new DSl speeds, we will actually be able to stream in real time the new Duke Nukem Forever game, which will also have Real Time Ray Tracing! Huzzah!
Really? So you have never needed to patch or update any of your Linux boxes? Amazing!
All computer security is an ongoing and never completed task. It isn't something with a "do this one time and you are set forever" solution. Remaining vigilant is certainly not a "fools errand", as you suggest.
Maybe, but the art lies within finding things that aren't stale even within the confines. And when you do manage to find them, it is just that much rewarding knowing you basically picked out a diamond from the garbage pile.
All you would be doing is hurting the store. On a less than $5 purchase, most smaller stores could actually be losing money with a credit transaction. Credit companies charge not only a percentage, but also a per transaction "handling" fee - the store owners I have talked to have said this is anywhere from 20 cents to 75 cents. On a $5 purchase, that could be the entire profit margin, or at least a good chunk of it. Of course the credit card companies don't want a minimum - they make their profit either way and don't give a rat's ass about the store's profit margin.
And reporting the store could result in Visa/MC yanking their right to accept credit cards at all. Is that the result you were looking for - loss of convenience at a store you presumably shop at?
Funny, but even with the 12 basic chords most rock bands are limited to, there is still a wealth of different sounds - and some bands even manage to write songs that *gasp* sound not identical to all their other ones.
Because getting major label music deals isn't about how good your music is. It's about how good you "play the game" of packaging, marketing, selling, and distributing a product. The product in this case just happens to be music.
Ahhh, but continue the math. If I save 1 minute every 8 miles I drive, and say I drive 16 miles to and from work 5 times a week, that is saving 2 minutes per day and 10 minutes per week. Multiplied times 52 weeks and I am saving 520 minutes per year, or 8 2/3 hours per year. I don't know about you, but I could use an extra 8.67 hours per year!
(I am being completely facetious. I do not advocate excessive speeding or dangerous driving. But I do hate people who drive 62 mph in the left lane.)
And neither does Symantec. Read their forum rules. In no way do they promise an open forum where no speech is banned. They only one claiming they have an "open" forum is you - they state clearly that they can remove any messages as they see fit. Why is that so hard to understand?
Everyone in China did not agree to the terms, they were forced upon them. Everyone who posts on Symantec's site has agreed to the terms Symantec has set. That is a huge difference. In addition, If you choose not to go to Symantec's site, nothing else besides Symantec's site is affected. In China your only choice would be not access the internet at all if you don't want to follow the rules.
Ditto with my experience. Even though we had computers, and the Atari or Intellivision around at my house when I was growing up, we played outside way more than we hung out indoors. I was lucky that I had 2 parks both within easy walking distance of my house and they both had baseball diamonds (and hockey rinks in the winter). Construction and development of land that had been previously fields and swamps was really taking off where I lived also, so we ended up "borrowing" a lot of materials as well to make skateboard ramps, etc. There were also about 6-7 other kids on my block that were all within a few years either way of my age, so there was always something going on on the block - softball, kickball, flashlight tag, skateboarding, BMX biking, etc. Summers were the best though when you didn't have to go to school. Most days I would be up by 8 or 9 and be outside until I got hungry around noon, stop home for a quick sandwich, and back out until dinner time. After dinner we would usually go out again until it was dark, but would usually play after dark for a bit too. I ended up being the first one on the block when cable came to my neighborhood (probably 1981 or so) and we did watch a little more tv once that happened, (especially that new MTV station that literally had about 16 videos they played over and over when they started) but still spent a great deal of time outside too.
I was over at a friend's house last summer, and his little brother was visiting. He was parked in front of the Xbox 360 playing some game. I noticed a soccer ball near his other stuff and asked him if he wanted to play some soccer. Without even looking up from the game he was playing, he replied "I don't have FIFA for Xbox." I think everything has been reduced to a console game now. I wonder when they are going to just come out with a video game where all you do in the game is play video games....
Well, when I was in high school (this was 1987 mind you), I took the only offered computer programming course at my school. We got to code up a payroll program in COBOL. Really prepared me for life as a modern day programmer.
I am using their software, this isn't happening to me, I have no problems with it.
I am not surprised at all either.
But seriously, how can an antivirus software company be fascist? I don't think that word means what you think it means. Norton != a government.
Main Entry: fascism
Pronunciation: \fa-shi-zm also fa-si-\
Function: noun
Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
Date: 1921
1 : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
Interesting comments indeed. And I thought tin foil hats were prevalent here....
Besides the other article on the site claiming Mexico was under martial law, there are comments from people who are 100% positive that the US government is involved with removing posts in other forums besides the Norton ones.
Note: I am not saying that the US government is or isn't behind this, just that it would take a little more proof than anonymous posters on random blogs for me to arrive at any decisions like that.
Whatever works best for you. For any given product there will always be people that claim -
A) it is the best
B) it is the worst
Personally I use Symantec AV Corporate which doesn't seem to be a huge resource hog, and has saved me more headaches than it has caused. I am not sure what people expect - any memory resident program is going to use resources. Any memory resident program that has to constantly scan the memory is going to use a fair bit of resources. It's called a trade off folks. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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Nice strawman AC. If you were blaming Nazis for things they had nothing to do with, I would tell you the same thing. Maybe you should just take the leap and blame Nazis on Microsoft too.
Congratulations. I only had to get down half a page to see this totally unrelated in any way article being somehow connected back to being Microsoft's fault. Thanks Slashdot for not disappointing!
Well, I do give you a bonus point for at least admitting you are trolling.
It's only Slashdot people. If you get modded up or down it isn't the greatest day of your life/end of the world. At least it isn't for me. Big deal, so someone doesn't like what you said. It's a big world, best to get used to it now. Someone somewhere is always going to not like what you say.
All hail 2022! And with these new DSl speeds, we will actually be able to stream in real time the new Duke Nukem Forever game, which will also have Real Time Ray Tracing! Huzzah!
Really? So you have never needed to patch or update any of your Linux boxes? Amazing!
All computer security is an ongoing and never completed task. It isn't something with a "do this one time and you are set forever" solution. Remaining vigilant is certainly not a "fools errand", as you suggest.
"I can potentially power a car for miles with twisted up rubberbands"
So you bought a Yugo too, eh?
That's like saying herpes is the cure for AIDS.
Maybe, but the art lies within finding things that aren't stale even within the confines. And when you do manage to find them, it is just that much rewarding knowing you basically picked out a diamond from the garbage pile.
All you would be doing is hurting the store. On a less than $5 purchase, most smaller stores could actually be losing money with a credit transaction. Credit companies charge not only a percentage, but also a per transaction "handling" fee - the store owners I have talked to have said this is anywhere from 20 cents to 75 cents. On a $5 purchase, that could be the entire profit margin, or at least a good chunk of it. Of course the credit card companies don't want a minimum - they make their profit either way and don't give a rat's ass about the store's profit margin.
And reporting the store could result in Visa/MC yanking their right to accept credit cards at all. Is that the result you were looking for - loss of convenience at a store you presumably shop at?
Funny, but even with the 12 basic chords most rock bands are limited to, there is still a wealth of different sounds - and some bands even manage to write songs that *gasp* sound not identical to all their other ones.
Because getting major label music deals isn't about how good your music is. It's about how good you "play the game" of packaging, marketing, selling, and distributing a product. The product in this case just happens to be music.
Objection! I move for immediate dismissal on the grounds of He Who Said the Rhyme Did the Crime!
And that man was LEEEROY JENKINNNSSS!!!
(lower case text added to defeat caps filter)
Really? My keyboard has 104 keys. How many buttons does your controller have?
Ahhh, but continue the math. If I save 1 minute every 8 miles I drive, and say I drive 16 miles to and from work 5 times a week, that is saving 2 minutes per day and 10 minutes per week. Multiplied times 52 weeks and I am saving 520 minutes per year, or 8 2/3 hours per year. I don't know about you, but I could use an extra 8.67 hours per year!
(I am being completely facetious. I do not advocate excessive speeding or dangerous driving. But I do hate people who drive 62 mph in the left lane.)
And neither does Symantec. Read their forum rules. In no way do they promise an open forum where no speech is banned. They only one claiming they have an "open" forum is you - they state clearly that they can remove any messages as they see fit. Why is that so hard to understand?
Everyone in China did not agree to the terms, they were forced upon them. Everyone who posts on Symantec's site has agreed to the terms Symantec has set. That is a huge difference. In addition, If you choose not to go to Symantec's site, nothing else besides Symantec's site is affected. In China your only choice would be not access the internet at all if you don't want to follow the rules.
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That's why I always drive at least 20+ mph more than the speed limit. I don't want to have to go 8 miles to save one minute!
..it was a wrong number.
"What's the point of promiscuity if it doesn't make babies?"
If you really need to ask this question, you are truly a Slashdotter.
Ditto with my experience. Even though we had computers, and the Atari or Intellivision around at my house when I was growing up, we played outside way more than we hung out indoors. I was lucky that I had 2 parks both within easy walking distance of my house and they both had baseball diamonds (and hockey rinks in the winter). Construction and development of land that had been previously fields and swamps was really taking off where I lived also, so we ended up "borrowing" a lot of materials as well to make skateboard ramps, etc. There were also about 6-7 other kids on my block that were all within a few years either way of my age, so there was always something going on on the block - softball, kickball, flashlight tag, skateboarding, BMX biking, etc. Summers were the best though when you didn't have to go to school. Most days I would be up by 8 or 9 and be outside until I got hungry around noon, stop home for a quick sandwich, and back out until dinner time. After dinner we would usually go out again until it was dark, but would usually play after dark for a bit too. I ended up being the first one on the block when cable came to my neighborhood (probably 1981 or so) and we did watch a little more tv once that happened, (especially that new MTV station that literally had about 16 videos they played over and over when they started) but still spent a great deal of time outside too.
I was over at a friend's house last summer, and his little brother was visiting. He was parked in front of the Xbox 360 playing some game. I noticed a soccer ball near his other stuff and asked him if he wanted to play some soccer. Without even looking up from the game he was playing, he replied "I don't have FIFA for Xbox." I think everything has been reduced to a console game now. I wonder when they are going to just come out with a video game where all you do in the game is play video games....
Well, when I was in high school (this was 1987 mind you), I took the only offered computer programming course at my school. We got to code up a payroll program in COBOL. Really prepared me for life as a modern day programmer.
I am using their software, this isn't happening to me, I have no problems with it.
I am not surprised at all either.
But seriously, how can an antivirus software company be fascist? I don't think that word means what you think it means. Norton != a government.
Main Entry: fascism
Pronunciation: \fa-shi-zm also fa-si-\
Function: noun
Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
Date: 1921
1 : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
Interesting comments indeed. And I thought tin foil hats were prevalent here....
Besides the other article on the site claiming Mexico was under martial law, there are comments from people who are 100% positive that the US government is involved with removing posts in other forums besides the Norton ones.
Note: I am not saying that the US government is or isn't behind this, just that it would take a little more proof than anonymous posters on random blogs for me to arrive at any decisions like that.
Whatever works best for you. For any given product there will always be people that claim -
A) it is the best
B) it is the worst
Personally I use Symantec AV Corporate which doesn't seem to be a huge resource hog, and has saved me more headaches than it has caused. I am not sure what people expect - any memory resident program is going to use resources. Any memory resident program that has to constantly scan the memory is going to use a fair bit of resources. It's called a trade off folks. There is no such thing as a free lunch.