Once Windows is compromised (by a sophisticated worm, not something that places advertisements in IE), there is very little a user can do that the worm cannot prevent or bypass.
The Windows settings assistant may nod and smile, and say the port is closed, while the worm is using it in the background. You might see that if you look at the router's logs, but inside Windows the worm can control what you see or do.
What the fuck do you mean by surrendering email to Google?
The people I mentioned earlier are using Hotmail, which not only sucks at spam filtering but also appends ad messages to outgoing messages. THAT's surrendering.
I also get about 10 times as much spam as actual email. Fortunately, Google is pretty good at filtering that - the number of false negatives in my inbox has been less than ten this month, while I got over a thousand to my spam folder.
It's hard to comprehend how people deal without that level of spam filtering - I have relatives who regularly register new accounts in order to escape their spam.
Better three thousand than sixty thousand times - but it's still way too much. Hopefully the greedy bastards at the RIAA will appeal this and get slashed even lower next time.
Careful. Dolphins are highly intelligent and sharks are death with fins. If they *do* become friendly, you're looking at Deep Blue Sea.
(Though the opportunity of Samuel L Jackson being tired of these motherfucking sharks and dolphins on this motherfucking marine biology lab is too good to pass up.)
No thanks; but for several times that price, I might pay to download a video I can play permanently.
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"Instead of sending your private information to Google directly, use my awesome proxy server to send your private information to Google anonymously. I promise I will not snoop any more than Google does!"
Especially since Iceland is essentially bankrupt. Projects like this will help get its economy on the way to recovery, and hopefully accomplish great things for the infrastructure of the internet as well. Particularly if the safe-harbor legislation gets... through...
Woah. I just realized:
Does this mean we can refer to Iceland as Kinakuta now?
... you may have a point. The uncertainty principle says that in any given quantum state of a particle, the standard deviation of the position times that of the momentum cannot be smaller than half the Planck constant.
The Planck constant is 6.63 * 10^-34 Js, the mass of your average nucleotide is roughly 300 atomic masses, and its diameter is about 0.3 nm.
If you want the standard deviation to be no larger than the particle's own diameter, that means (planck constant / 2 / (0.3 nm * 300 atomic mass units) must give us the minimum deviation of the velocity.
Plugging that into Google comes out as over 2.2 meters per second, which is pretty fast for placing something accurately... I have probably made a false assumption, though. I'm not actually a physicist, I just play one on Slashdot.
I have such a chipset and I've been cursing NVIDIA on a regular basis. After updating to any new kernel, I must boot into no-X mode, then run the proprietary driver installer.
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Absolutely! :-P
Once Windows is compromised (by a sophisticated worm, not something that places advertisements in IE), there is very little a user can do that the worm cannot prevent or bypass.
The Windows settings assistant may nod and smile, and say the port is closed, while the worm is using it in the background. You might see that if you look at the router's logs, but inside Windows the worm can control what you see or do.
What the fuck do you mean by surrendering email to Google?
The people I mentioned earlier are using Hotmail, which not only sucks at spam filtering but also appends ad messages to outgoing messages. THAT's surrendering.
I also get about 10 times as much spam as actual email. Fortunately, Google is pretty good at filtering that - the number of false negatives in my inbox has been less than ten this month, while I got over a thousand to my spam folder.
It's hard to comprehend how people deal without that level of spam filtering - I have relatives who regularly register new accounts in order to escape their spam.
... Also, from the use of the pronouns, I don't really think he's her.
Better three thousand than sixty thousand times - but it's still way too much. Hopefully the greedy bastards at the RIAA will appeal this and get slashed even lower next time.
"29.5 billion bits per square inch"
I'm sorry, what?
Could we have this in libraries of congress per furlong?
No, Bill. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to dodge lawsuits.
Careful. Dolphins are highly intelligent and sharks are death with fins. If they *do* become friendly, you're looking at Deep Blue Sea.
(Though the opportunity of Samuel L Jackson being tired of these motherfucking sharks and dolphins on this motherfucking marine biology lab is too good to pass up.)
I'll abandon both Java and MySQL before it's too late. Within a year, they'll be caught in a proprietary quagmire.
(Even more than Enterprise Java already is, I mean.)
Implies some pretty nasty DRM.
No thanks; but for several times that price, I might pay to download a video I can play permanently.
"Instead of sending your private information to Google directly, use my awesome proxy server to send your private information to Google anonymously. I promise I will not snoop any more than Google does!"
That's what that drug dealer thought. :P
Especially since Iceland is essentially bankrupt. Projects like this will help get its economy on the way to recovery, and hopefully accomplish great things for the infrastructure of the internet as well. Particularly if the safe-harbor legislation gets... through...
Woah. I just realized:
Does this mean we can refer to Iceland as Kinakuta now?
... you may have a point. The uncertainty principle says that in any given quantum state of a particle, the standard deviation of the position times that of the momentum cannot be smaller than half the Planck constant.
The Planck constant is 6.63 * 10^-34 Js, the mass of your average nucleotide is roughly 300 atomic masses, and its diameter is about 0.3 nm.
If you want the standard deviation to be no larger than the particle's own diameter, that means (planck constant / 2 / (0.3 nm * 300 atomic mass units) must give us the minimum deviation of the velocity.
Plugging that into Google comes out as over 2.2 meters per second, which is pretty fast for placing something accurately... I have probably made a false assumption, though. I'm not actually a physicist, I just play one on Slashdot.
Using Ubuntu 9.10 here, which seems not to do that automatically...
I have such a chipset and I've been cursing NVIDIA on a regular basis. After updating to any new kernel, I must boot into no-X mode, then run the proprietary driver installer.
To move to his apparent favorite country, the People's Republic of China. He'd love to see his utopia in practice, I'm sure.
The FCC is not the one asking for this, they're the ones being asked by our favorite artist charity (*snerk*), the RIAA.
I'm hoping they won't back down that easily.
Hey, Russia is planning to launch a mission to deflect Apophis.
Maybe for a little fee they'll take suggestions for the new course. :)
YES. Finally.
Kill IE6. Kill it with fire.
Guys, if you prepare for a disaster and it does not actually happen, that is a good thing.
Firefighters are generally not disappointed when there's no fire.
Clearly instead of (or at least as well as) pulling out of China, Google should stop supporting MSIE.
And declare cyber-war on Microsoft. :P
Something you can just refresh all at once. It's not a big lump of transistors.
It's a series of cathode ray tubes!
Meh, according to the German broadcasting agency I'm already stealing radio waves by owning a computer.
I'm not kidding.