Thanks, having read that I can see it's not as crazy as some people suggest.
For quick understanding, here is the ACTA FAQ
http://www.ustr.gov/acta-fact-sheet-march-2010
The FAQ is in line with the leaked document.
Page 9, under Border Agreements Section 2
"3. Where a traveler's personal baggage contains goods of a non-commercial nature within the limits of duty-free allowance and there are no material indications to suggest the goods are part of commercial traffic, each Party may consider to leave such goods, or part of such goods, outside the scope of this section]"
I agree, however, some actors can be reproduced. A CGI version of Keanu Reeves (such as the one created almost 10 years ago), would never be noticed as odd, unsettling, or surreal.
I had a laptop like this. I put Windows 95 on it and sold it on eBay to a college student for $15.
Seriously, avoid the stress man! You can get a much more worthwhile obsolete laptop for less than $100. One that you can browse the internet with, put wifi PC cards in, serve web pages with.
I recommend anything over 400mhz. Trust me, they are cheap and easy to find.
Then we should manufacture thousands of these 100mt bombs, and use them to send morse code to aliens by detonating 50 of them at once for a dot, and 100 of them for a dash.
What's more likely to happen is the RIAA/MPAA will not only survive, but they will get further legislation passed to gain further control over what you do with the internet and your computer.
I'm glad I never registered at last.fm. I always felt that it and similar sites were being used by the RIAA to create a catalog of people to sue.
Find out if your processor supports it here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization
Unless you're playing a highly demanding application, third party solutions should work just as well. Some options are free... this one from Microsoft isn't. Unless you have the right processor already and intended to get the Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows anyway, you'd be better served without it.
It can be very difficult to remove. I got it from visiting a website at work. It being my work computer, I simply couldn't just take out the hard drive and scan it from another computer - and the anti virus software couldn't do it either (Clamwin, Avast, and McAfee) - though McAfee did delete a few as there were installing.
In the end what worked was Hijackthis (to find out what files were starting up with Windows), Google search (to find out about the files listed) and Unlocker (to delete the running malware files). I did everything while keeping the work computer off the internet. For internet searches I used the laptop.
Google is useful for more than just searching for websites. Every known file can be discovered. What this virus did was create files with random names Google did not know about (such as "hgGxvwvT.dll"). So, I targeted them anyway since they were created the moment I was infected. In the end, the file I had to get rid of was a file I thought I needed - PSSDNSVC.exe - but this is something you have to specify to install, and since it was created the moment I got infected, I deleted it too.
Deleting a file in use can be an interesting thing. These files were being used by Winlogon, so when I hit it with Unlocker, the computer promptly crashed. The random dll files were actually decoys about 120k in size. So I don't think they serve much function other than to confuse you or perhaps do malicious things in spite of you. These were simply replaced when I deleted them. The real source of everything was PSSDNSVC.exe, deleting that got rid of the replicating dlls.
It's more than a money pit. It's a national pride thing. Soon, we will not have a way to take our astronauts into space. We'll have to rely on the Russians.
But I guess you could argue that pride is a bad thing, and that America needs to be humbled and focus on what's important. I'd agree with that normally, but lately it seems as though we are in a new cold war with the Russians, and the last thing I'd want to see NASA having to do is ride Soyuz capsules.
This is one of the reasons why I upgraded. My old 1.8Ghz AMD Sempron couldn't take it anymore. It was sputtering with certain videos (especially the ones on Apple's Trailer site). I'm using a 2.2Ghz Pentium Dual Core now, and I don't have that problem anymore.
I believe over time, as more and more people get onto the internet, everyone will have something to hide. When this happens, people will stop doing this out of a sense of privacy. The admissions person with his/her own 'dirty' Myspace page is much less likely to search the page of a prospective student than some old baby-boomer.
Well, it would be like walking around with one eye. So it's not too bad. They could easily get around this limitation with dual projectors and polarized glasses.
Wow. Why aren't we in the US trying to do this? We used to be so worried about the Communists beating us. But now it's like we don't even care. Where's the fire?
The funny thing is, you're a fool if you update WGA. Just set it to automatic notification instead of automatic download, then you can pick and choose which update you want. You can even tell it never to update that program again.
It depends on what you need. For gaming Windows rules the universe, so for cutting edge 3d DX is the common choice. However for 3d animation and CAD, OpenGL is preferred. Those programs don't really need any cutting edge effects or shaders, but as a bonus for supporting OpenGL, they are sometimes cross platform like Maya or Blender. If you use Linux or an Apple, you probably aren't a hardcore gamer, so you won't miss DirectX support.
If you're in one of those platforms, it's more likely that you're a designer. Designers don't need DirectX, they get along fine if their program is OpenGL. As a result, developers of OpenGL design applications continue to get along fine so long as there is continued interest in their product. I don't see any company or foundation abandoning OpenGL all because 3 wasn't as good as they hoped. They are miffed, but they're not going to abandon ship in any noticeable numbers.
I remember the August 14 blackout, I don't remember the year exactly, maybe 2003. There was absolutely no
panic. The government and utilities people said it wasn't a terrorist attack, just a random chain reaction. No one died. The hospitals ran their backup generators, and the people decided to take a walk outside for much needed fresh air and maybe buy some bottled water.
Attacking refineries, water treatment plants, and/or power plants for a day or two might cause a few stocks to fall. But still no large group of people are going to die. I stand by my assertion that nothing on the internet can kill thousands of people.
However, if there were a tower built, in which the floors were levitated by the current running through the internet, and if the internet were attacked, I'd agree that a few floors pancaking would probably cause a large number of deaths.
Thanks, it's just every time I try it I end up struggling. Last time I used it I had a lot of fun figuring out why my Nvidia driver wasn't working, despite being "installed" I couldn't seem to enable it. Eventually it randomly chose to work... possibly the result of an update. Additionally I have yet to get it to work with two monitors... I know there is a tutorial somewhere on the internet, but I haven't had the time to find it. I'm all for the promotion of Linux as a replacement for $200 Windows and $3000 Apple Mac. I think pushing it into the mainstream will force the developers - especially vendors like IBM and Asus - to make easy to use Linux distros that can put Windows to shame in all aspects.
That said, I am seriously considering buying a new laptop for school! It will either be an Asus EeePC running Xandros, or a System 76 laptop running Ubuntu. I use Windows XP... I've used it for 7 years. I will NOT be upgrading to Vista. I have personally experienced how terrible Vista is. As a digital artist and programmer who uses his computer for productive tasks, I will be having none of that.
As a final note, I really love Ubuntu's ability to run in a virtual disk on a windows partition! That is really nice. No partitioning for me!
There won't be an e-9/11. This is just hype. Nothing on the internet can cause thousands of people to die.
Oh wait, they weren't thinking about people where they?
I guess I should start learning linux. Maybe buy a few books to study and frequent the irc channels. It finally looks like it might have a shot at replacing Windows.
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Thanks, having read that I can see it's not as crazy as some people suggest. For quick understanding, here is the ACTA FAQ http://www.ustr.gov/acta-fact-sheet-march-2010 The FAQ is in line with the leaked document. Page 9, under Border Agreements Section 2 "3. Where a traveler's personal baggage contains goods of a non-commercial nature within the limits of duty-free allowance and there are no material indications to suggest the goods are part of commercial traffic, each Party may consider to leave such goods, or part of such goods, outside the scope of this section]"
Anonymity is power.
I agree, however, some actors can be reproduced. A CGI version of Keanu Reeves (such as the one created almost 10 years ago), would never be noticed as odd, unsettling, or surreal.
- because he already looks that way.
I had a laptop like this. I put Windows 95 on it and sold it on eBay to a college student for $15. Seriously, avoid the stress man! You can get a much more worthwhile obsolete laptop for less than $100. One that you can browse the internet with, put wifi PC cards in, serve web pages with. I recommend anything over 400mhz. Trust me, they are cheap and easy to find.
Then we should manufacture thousands of these 100mt bombs, and use them to send morse code to aliens by detonating 50 of them at once for a dot, and 100 of them for a dash.
In all seriousness, that's not a bad idea.
What's more likely to happen is the RIAA/MPAA will not only survive, but they will get further legislation passed to gain further control over what you do with the internet and your computer.
I'm glad I never registered at last.fm. I always felt that it and similar sites were being used by the RIAA to create a catalog of people to sue.
Evil anti-capitalist politicians disagree.
Find out if your processor supports it here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization Unless you're playing a highly demanding application, third party solutions should work just as well. Some options are free... this one from Microsoft isn't. Unless you have the right processor already and intended to get the Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows anyway, you'd be better served without it.
The urgency died along with the Soviet Union.
It is whatever version they want to make it. When the Winamp coders skipped from 3 to 5 nobody cared.
No, but starting next year instead of saying two-thousand ten, we'll be saying twenty-ten. ONLY THEN it will be the future.
It can be very difficult to remove. I got it from visiting a website at work. It being my work computer, I simply couldn't just take out the hard drive and scan it from another computer - and the anti virus software couldn't do it either (Clamwin, Avast, and McAfee) - though McAfee did delete a few as there were installing.
In the end what worked was Hijackthis (to find out what files were starting up with Windows), Google search (to find out about the files listed) and Unlocker (to delete the running malware files). I did everything while keeping the work computer off the internet. For internet searches I used the laptop.
Google is useful for more than just searching for websites. Every known file can be discovered. What this virus did was create files with random names Google did not know about (such as "hgGxvwvT.dll"). So, I targeted them anyway since they were created the moment I was infected. In the end, the file I had to get rid of was a file I thought I needed - PSSDNSVC.exe - but this is something you have to specify to install, and since it was created the moment I got infected, I deleted it too.
Deleting a file in use can be an interesting thing. These files were being used by Winlogon, so when I hit it with Unlocker, the computer promptly crashed. The random dll files were actually decoys about 120k in size. So I don't think they serve much function other than to confuse you or perhaps do malicious things in spite of you. These were simply replaced when I deleted them. The real source of everything was PSSDNSVC.exe, deleting that got rid of the replicating dlls.
It's more than a money pit. It's a national pride thing. Soon, we will not have a way to take our astronauts into space. We'll have to rely on the Russians.
But I guess you could argue that pride is a bad thing, and that America needs to be humbled and focus on what's important. I'd agree with that normally, but lately it seems as though we are in a new cold war with the Russians, and the last thing I'd want to see NASA having to do is ride Soyuz capsules.
The geeks are the people who develop the software. Piss off enough of them and you're in trouble.
This is one of the reasons why I upgraded. My old 1.8Ghz AMD Sempron couldn't take it anymore. It was sputtering with certain videos (especially the ones on Apple's Trailer site). I'm using a 2.2Ghz Pentium Dual Core now, and I don't have that problem anymore.
I believe over time, as more and more people get onto the internet, everyone will have something to hide. When this happens, people will stop doing this out of a sense of privacy. The admissions person with his/her own 'dirty' Myspace page is much less likely to search the page of a prospective student than some old baby-boomer.
Well, it would be like walking around with one eye. So it's not too bad. They could easily get around this limitation with dual projectors and polarized glasses.
Wow. Why aren't we in the US trying to do this? We used to be so worried about the Communists beating us. But now it's like we don't even care. Where's the fire?
The funny thing is, you're a fool if you update WGA. Just set it to automatic notification instead of automatic download, then you can pick and choose which update you want. You can even tell it never to update that program again.
It depends on what you need. For gaming Windows rules the universe, so for cutting edge 3d DX is the common choice. However for 3d animation and CAD, OpenGL is preferred. Those programs don't really need any cutting edge effects or shaders, but as a bonus for supporting OpenGL, they are sometimes cross platform like Maya or Blender. If you use Linux or an Apple, you probably aren't a hardcore gamer, so you won't miss DirectX support.
If you're in one of those platforms, it's more likely that you're a designer. Designers don't need DirectX, they get along fine if their program is OpenGL. As a result, developers of OpenGL design applications continue to get along fine so long as there is continued interest in their product. I don't see any company or foundation abandoning OpenGL all because 3 wasn't as good as they hoped. They are miffed, but they're not going to abandon ship in any noticeable numbers.
panic. The government and utilities people said it wasn't a terrorist attack, just a random chain reaction. No one died. The hospitals ran their backup generators, and the people decided to take a walk outside for much needed fresh air and maybe buy some bottled water.
Attacking refineries, water treatment plants, and/or power plants for a day or two might cause a few stocks to fall. But still no large group of people are going to die. I stand by my assertion that nothing on the internet can kill thousands of people.
However, if there were a tower built, in which the floors were levitated by the current running through the internet, and if the internet were attacked, I'd agree that a few floors pancaking would probably cause a large number of deaths.
Thanks, it's just every time I try it I end up struggling. Last time I used it I had a lot of fun figuring out why my Nvidia driver wasn't working, despite being "installed" I couldn't seem to enable it. Eventually it randomly chose to work... possibly the result of an update. Additionally I have yet to get it to work with two monitors... I know there is a tutorial somewhere on the internet, but I haven't had the time to find it. I'm all for the promotion of Linux as a replacement for $200 Windows and $3000 Apple Mac. I think pushing it into the mainstream will force the developers - especially vendors like IBM and Asus - to make easy to use Linux distros that can put Windows to shame in all aspects.
That said, I am seriously considering buying a new laptop for school! It will either be an Asus EeePC running Xandros, or a System 76 laptop running Ubuntu. I use Windows XP... I've used it for 7 years. I will NOT be upgrading to Vista. I have personally experienced how terrible Vista is. As a digital artist and programmer who uses his computer for productive tasks, I will be having none of that.
As a final note, I really love Ubuntu's ability to run in a virtual disk on a windows partition! That is really nice. No partitioning for me!
There won't be an e-9/11. This is just hype. Nothing on the internet can cause thousands of people to die.
Oh wait, they weren't thinking about people where they?
I guess I should start learning linux. Maybe buy a few books to study and frequent the irc channels. It finally looks like it might have a shot at replacing Windows.