I logged into my box as root, did a 'find / -name PIFTS.exe -exec ls -l {} \;' and got no results back, which means my Linux box apparently isn't vulnerable to whatever exploit that file makes possible.
I did similar from my 'nix partition for my 'doze partition which does have Symantec AV, but pifts / PIFTS etc don't exist. My guess is a lot of people got third-party rootkits, and they think Norton did it just because it's in Symantec's folder and polls Symantec. Could be an attempt to DDOS and smear Symantec. Of course Symantec isn't helping with the deletions. Given the time of day, it's probably Indian customer service managing the forum deletions, and overreacting.
I haven't really used Windows much since about 1996. Didn't everybody already switch to Linux back then anyway?
Nah, I started using Solaris, Mac in 1994 off and on with primarily Windows. A lot more Solaris in 1998; didn't make the Mostly-Linux switch until ~2000. I know a lot of IT folk that are just now switching to Linux and/or MacOSX.
...and just assuming the summary isn't stupid [...] 65 TB of files is... fucking huge.
Which is why TFA or at least TFS was stupid. One server with 65TB of files (presumably more space)? I can't imagine one rack with that much space unless it's JBOD/RAID0 or using 1TB SATA disks. To say it's one server implies either a very specialized server or a poor understanding of the difference between a server and a cluster.
TV is not there to entertain you. It is there to sell advertisement. At least the majority of TV is. You are not the customer, you are the product.
They're making a terrible product. People _want_ to skip the advertisements. Unfortunately, the ads are made by the customers, not the TV companies, so there's nothing they can do about that.
They should do this with television so I'm not paying for 3 fucking sports channels, Cartoon Network, 2 Disney channels, 2 VH1s, 2 MTVs, TLC, and the Weather Channel.
No Joke. What strikes me from the Summary: "The technology requires no hardware or installation in a subscriber's home" So they're lying about the technological limitations of a la carte cable channels?
They should keep UAC restrictive, but launch education campaigns for developers, teaching them that not _every_ setting needs to exist in HKLM, or in a file in "C:\program files\".
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Seems like you only read the first couple sentences or something.
Sometimes I only read the last sentence.;D
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So [...] all individuals rights to view films need be restricted to "protect" a few? [...] MOST Americans are over the age of 18
Then an NC-17 rating wouldn't do much to censor anything. MOST Americans could go see the movie, and with better fellow audience members. I didn't get enjoy the Dark Knight the first time I saw it because someone _else_ brought their preschool kids to a movie that was not appropriate for them. They were screaming bloody murder for an extended period before an usher finally removed them. "R" doesn't tell enough about content to the stupid parents for them to figure out what's going to be in the movie. It doesn't prevent them from bringing crybabies to "toughen" them up or because they couldn't find a babysitter.
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And by the way, you sucker subscribers even paid for my popcorn and gas to drive to the theater.
Well, they also pay his rent, grocery bill, etc.
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It does miss the whole point. The post right above yours (replying to same parent) hits the nail on the head. With the new ending, there is fear and little hope. Eventually once people realize Dr. M is gone for good, they'll squabble again. With the original ending, there is a little fear, but there's also a lot of hope! Also, the Dimension X, being fake, will lead people to continue searching for it.
That said, both endings are nullified by the _very_ end and the crank file.
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It's rated R for a reason, and several plot summaries I've read use words like "dystopian" and "gritty" so it boggles the mind how so many people are upset the movie isn't "family friendly", like they somehow expect an R rated movie to have fluffy bunnies farting rainbows or something.
The problems with R ratings, is that they're "Adult supervision required", and are usually applied when only one of "graphic sex" "full frontal nudity" "realistic sadism" "exploding bloody messes" "attempted rape" "adult language" or "soft-core porn" exists. _All_ of these exist throughout Watchmen, so it really should have been rated NC-17 "No one under 17, ever". Parents routinely take kids to movies where only one or two of the above things exist because it's not too much trouble to explain to a 12 y/o: "we don't say those words in public" or "that's a bad man, and he'll go to jail". Extra bad: the "heroes" were doing all of the above, not the villains (except in rare cases).
This movie wasn't family-friendly for a lot of families of all-adults. It was not marketed as it should have been (as the gruesome and ugly story it is). Every trailer I saw looked nice; not quite fluffy bunnies farting rainbows, but maybe real, slightly dirty bunnies pooping real rabbit poop. It should have been marketed as vampire bunnies let loose in a movie theater, biting people's heads off. Then parents would know not to bring their kids.
The above was me being objective. The subjective-me is a fan of the book, so I liked the movie, but need to remember not to eat anything while watching it the second time. I agree with Taco that the alterations change the entire meaning of the story.
It's totally the other way around. A French man or woman in the US is treated well. A US citizen in France has _always_ been an object of ridicule unless they were born in France and speak perfect French.
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Some businesses require high degrees of personal computing freedom. Thankfully, this often translates into "you break it, you bought it", but I kind of feel like a doctor watching his patients go against sound medical advice.
Put it this way - if you change your retirement plan to now take 6% of your total paycheck rather than 3%, do you go on bragging about "how much more money you're getting now".
Yes, yes I do. Taxes matter, and a lot of people's retirement plans are pre-tax. To use a memory analogy, it's like having a BIOS mandated 256MB of system RAM allocated as "graphics" RAM, but working on a system where malware (or Firefox) eats up 50% of the leftover system RAM that the OS can see. At least my GPU still runs zippy.;)
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I logged into my box as root, did a 'find / -name PIFTS.exe -exec ls -l {} \;' and got no results back, which means my Linux box apparently isn't vulnerable to whatever exploit that file makes possible.
I did similar from my 'nix partition for my 'doze partition which does have Symantec AV, but pifts / PIFTS etc don't exist. My guess is a lot of people got third-party rootkits, and they think Norton did it just because it's in Symantec's folder and polls Symantec. Could be an attempt to DDOS and smear Symantec. Of course Symantec isn't helping with the deletions. Given the time of day, it's probably Indian customer service managing the forum deletions, and overreacting.
Only away from the Equator.
I haven't really used Windows much since about 1996. Didn't everybody already switch to Linux back then anyway?
Nah, I started using Solaris, Mac in 1994 off and on with primarily Windows. A lot more Solaris in 1998; didn't make the Mostly-Linux switch until ~2000. I know a lot of IT folk that are just now switching to Linux and/or MacOSX.
We've been using them on countries for decades. Nuclear Deterrence. Perhaps you thought their intended use was to blow up?
...and just assuming the summary isn't stupid [...] 65 TB of files is... fucking huge.
Which is why TFA or at least TFS was stupid. One server with 65TB of files (presumably more space)? I can't imagine one rack with that much space unless it's JBOD/RAID0 or using 1TB SATA disks. To say it's one server implies either a very specialized server or a poor understanding of the difference between a server and a cluster.
TV is not there to entertain you. It is there to sell advertisement. At least the majority of TV is. You are not the customer, you are the product.
They're making a terrible product. People _want_ to skip the advertisements. Unfortunately, the ads are made by the customers, not the TV companies, so there's nothing they can do about that.
I remember when commercials were entertaining and were trying to sell a real product.
The snugee _is_ real. I've seen it. I'll let the mods decide if I'm being funny.
They should do this with television so I'm not paying for 3 fucking sports channels, Cartoon Network, 2 Disney channels, 2 VH1s, 2 MTVs, TLC, and the Weather Channel.
No Joke. What strikes me from the Summary: "The technology requires no hardware or installation in a subscriber's home" So they're lying about the technological limitations of a la carte cable channels?
So what should Microsoft be doing?
They should keep UAC restrictive, but launch education campaigns for developers, teaching them that not _every_ setting needs to exist in HKLM, or in a file in "C:\program files\".
Seems like you only read the first couple sentences or something.
Sometimes I only read the last sentence. ;D
So [...] all individuals rights to view films need be restricted to "protect" a few? [...] MOST Americans are over the age of 18
Then an NC-17 rating wouldn't do much to censor anything. MOST Americans could go see the movie, and with better fellow audience members. I didn't get enjoy the Dark Knight the first time I saw it because someone _else_ brought their preschool kids to a movie that was not appropriate for them. They were screaming bloody murder for an extended period before an usher finally removed them. "R" doesn't tell enough about content to the stupid parents for them to figure out what's going to be in the movie. It doesn't prevent them from bringing crybabies to "toughen" them up or because they couldn't find a babysitter.
And by the way, you sucker subscribers even paid for my popcorn and gas to drive to the theater.
Well, they also pay his rent, grocery bill, etc.
It does miss the whole point. The post right above yours (replying to same parent) hits the nail on the head. With the new ending, there is fear and little hope. Eventually once people realize Dr. M is gone for good, they'll squabble again. With the original ending, there is a little fear, but there's also a lot of hope! Also, the Dimension X, being fake, will lead people to continue searching for it.
That said, both endings are nullified by the _very_ end and the crank file.
It's rated R for a reason, and several plot summaries I've read use words like "dystopian" and "gritty" so it boggles the mind how so many people are upset the movie isn't "family friendly", like they somehow expect an R rated movie to have fluffy bunnies farting rainbows or something.
The problems with R ratings, is that they're "Adult supervision required", and are usually applied when only one of "graphic sex" "full frontal nudity" "realistic sadism" "exploding bloody messes" "attempted rape" "adult language" or "soft-core porn" exists. _All_ of these exist throughout Watchmen, so it really should have been rated NC-17 "No one under 17, ever". Parents routinely take kids to movies where only one or two of the above things exist because it's not too much trouble to explain to a 12 y/o: "we don't say those words in public" or "that's a bad man, and he'll go to jail". Extra bad: the "heroes" were doing all of the above, not the villains (except in rare cases).
This movie wasn't family-friendly for a lot of families of all-adults. It was not marketed as it should have been (as the gruesome and ugly story it is). Every trailer I saw looked nice; not quite fluffy bunnies farting rainbows, but maybe real, slightly dirty bunnies pooping real rabbit poop. It should have been marketed as vampire bunnies let loose in a movie theater, biting people's heads off. Then parents would know not to bring their kids.
The above was me being objective. The subjective-me is a fan of the book, so I liked the movie, but need to remember not to eat anything while watching it the second time. I agree with Taco that the alterations change the entire meaning of the story.
why do the yanks hate the french so much?
It's totally the other way around. A French man or woman in the US is treated well. A US citizen in France has _always_ been an object of ridicule unless they were born in France and speak perfect French.
Take a heavy dose of pain medication. You'll be dribbling in no time.
Now they removed "(We like Firefox too...and safari.....and chrome...)"
Microsoft must have wanted their money back.
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No reason to come across as a raving nutter
Except that the website itself seems to have been written by a raving nutter with the POINTLESS CAPITALIZATION and silly assertions.
Some businesses require high degrees of personal computing freedom. Thankfully, this often translates into "you break it, you bought it", but I kind of feel like a doctor watching his patients go against sound medical advice.
I would be laughing if I didn't have to support MS Office users occasionally. Did they really have to announce that they weren't going to patch excel?
That was my point. Potatoes and bananas are the two poster children for why cloning/cutting is bad.
Actually nowadays, it's catch the biggest and tastiest and clone them... ALOT!!!
Indeed. See Potatoes and Bananas.
Put it this way - if you change your retirement plan to now take 6% of your total paycheck rather than 3%, do you go on bragging about "how much more money you're getting now".
Yes, yes I do. Taxes matter, and a lot of people's retirement plans are pre-tax. To use a memory analogy, it's like having a BIOS mandated 256MB of system RAM allocated as "graphics" RAM, but working on a system where malware (or Firefox) eats up 50% of the leftover system RAM that the OS can see. At least my GPU still runs zippy. ;)
So... an insanity plea, then? ;) :p
You quoted the wrong text:
Disclaimer: The wife mostly watches Sex and the City and Friends.
(Emphasis mine) Yes, clearly insane.