You've installed.NET, so you might actually want to run a.NET application, deployed as an XBAP (embedded in the browser, sandboxed, facilitated by a seperate plugin by the way), as a clickonce app, [in a non-microsoft browser]
Hell, I installed Windows, so I might want to run Downadup/Conficker. If you've got a new whiz-bang add-on for firefox, show an ad during the.NET SP upgrade or on next login (for silent installs). I might just download and use it if I think it's good to have. Secretly installing this add-on and restricting its removal is malware behavior.
Even when FF is running under an admin account? There should never be a grayed-out uninstall button in FF. Let the filesystem determine security on the files. If the uninstall fails because the user doesn't have permission, then an error message should be displayed.
It just kills me that the Obama administration has chosen this issue to be one to focus on. Television? [...] But let's get real here. Television just isn't all that important,
If The People can't see what The Media wants them to see, then the push by The Media to get into Obama elected would be wasted. And no, I didn't vote for McCain or Barr; I just objectively agree that there was one-sided coverage.
[XP] really isn't a very good modern OS. It's very, very insecure.
Cite?
It's anecdotal, but my XP installs all ask me if I really like them about once a week. I think I'm not emotive enough.
Although, my Linux installs don't make a peep, because they know I love them.
I envision the security guys dressed up in Imperial French uniforms, with reaching-sticks moving around virtual National Guard units on the Surface board.
"If we flank the crowd here, they can't riot here"
"Yes, but they can still cut off our supply line if they turn over enough cars behind us here"
"Then we deploy Brown-note and Microwave-pain ordinance in a crossfire on that spot"
"Brilliant!"
it just bothers me that there is so much unused computing power at lying around now, with the number of thick clients my uni has running idle most of the day you could probably do some interesting simulations with all that power.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
Schedule it to run whenever the screensaver starts up. Some universities use it to make unused workstations in labs part of a research system or renderfarm.
Surely everyone who plays video games has had at least one "Tetris effect" moment in his or her life, where you see something in the real world and think about how to solve it according to the rules of the last game you were playing.
Just the other day, I cut myself at the museum, then started smashing vases to find a heart to max out my health.
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the industry will almost die in the next few years. [...] I don't think I'll ever need another computer unless the thing fries.
Which means that clamoring for cheap will mean hardware makers will design _more_ early failure into hardware, and reduce warranties to nil.
I have a Virgin Mobile that I've been using now for nearly a year and I still get calls from all sorts of telemarketers who refuse to stop calling me, claiming I owe money or that my car warranty is about to expire. I recently made a report on one of these companies whose robo calls filled up my voice mail, only to recieve a letter back saying the report was 'unfounded' and wishing me a nice day.
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm guessing that the law focuses on phone number and not on phone owner. So, since a business relationship was established with your phone number from the previous owner of the number, you might be screwed until some possible time-out period.
Who really gains by pushing this out longer other than the people who are either 1. oblivious or 2. lazy?
The "legitimate" businessmen: Digital TV Tuner companies, Advertisers
The scammers: Cable companies, Satellite companies, Best Buy Salesmen in the HDTV section, Senators being bribed by all of the above.
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You've installed .NET, so you might actually want to run a .NET application, deployed as an XBAP (embedded in the browser, sandboxed, facilitated by a seperate plugin by the way), as a clickonce app, [in a non-microsoft browser]
Hell, I installed Windows, so I might want to run Downadup/Conficker. If you've got a new whiz-bang add-on for firefox, show an ad during the .NET SP upgrade or on next login (for silent installs). I might just download and use it if I think it's good to have. Secretly installing this add-on and restricting its removal is malware behavior.
And .Net 2.0 SP2
Hyperterminal, once
Unless it was installed silently throughout the enterprise.
Even when FF is running under an admin account? There should never be a grayed-out uninstall button in FF. Let the filesystem determine security on the files. If the uninstall fails because the user doesn't have permission, then an error message should be displayed.
Updates for XP SP3. I got it installed with .Net 2.0 SP2
Which has -- and should have -- _nothing_ to do with non-Microsoft software.
With this the police can seize cell phones with evidence before the data is uploaded?
But it's too late - from the way the big 3 car manufacturers have been bailed out, I see more incompetence being rewarded.
The biggest public employer in the U.S.? The Government. I foresee them asking for the biggest bailout of them all.
Except they probably have to re-announce termination when this becomes law, so they can't switch over on the 17th.
It just kills me that the Obama administration has chosen this issue to be one to focus on. Television? [...] But let's get real here. Television just isn't all that important,
If The People can't see what The Media wants them to see, then the push by The Media to get into Obama elected would be wasted. And no, I didn't vote for McCain or Barr; I just objectively agree that there was one-sided coverage.
But still wear the Smurf costume.
[XP] really isn't a very good modern OS. It's very, very insecure.
Cite?
It's anecdotal, but my XP installs all ask me if I really like them about once a week. I think I'm not emotive enough.
Although, my Linux installs don't make a peep, because they know I love them.
I envision the security guys dressed up in Imperial French uniforms, with reaching-sticks moving around virtual National Guard units on the Surface board.
"If we flank the crowd here, they can't riot here"
"Yes, but they can still cut off our supply line if they turn over enough cars behind us here"
"Then we deploy Brown-note and Microwave-pain ordinance in a crossfire on that spot"
"Brilliant!"
it just bothers me that there is so much unused computing power at lying around now, with the number of thick clients my uni has running idle most of the day you could probably do some interesting simulations with all that power.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
Schedule it to run whenever the screensaver starts up. Some universities use it to make unused workstations in labs part of a research system or renderfarm.
Armani? I suppose other types of suits might be threatening too.
Mumbai is the renamed Bombay, which I'm sure you've heard of.
Surely everyone who plays video games has had at least one "Tetris effect" moment in his or her life, where you see something in the real world and think about how to solve it according to the rules of the last game you were playing.
Just the other day, I cut myself at the museum, then started smashing vases to find a heart to max out my health.
the industry will almost die in the next few years. [...] I don't think I'll ever need another computer unless the thing fries.
Which means that clamoring for cheap will mean hardware makers will design _more_ early failure into hardware, and reduce warranties to nil.
Wasn't there a /. article recently about MS planning a pay-per-use OS scheme?
Starter probably has no administrator privs/accounts, printing support, or CD music playback.
I have a Virgin Mobile that I've been using now for nearly a year and I still get calls from all sorts of telemarketers who refuse to stop calling me, claiming I owe money or that my car warranty is about to expire. I recently made a report on one of these companies whose robo calls filled up my voice mail, only to recieve a letter back saying the report was 'unfounded' and wishing me a nice day.
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm guessing that the law focuses on phone number and not on phone owner. So, since a business relationship was established with your phone number from the previous owner of the number, you might be screwed until some possible time-out period.
You find one Smith from Australia with no relationship to the Smith in Wales, who in turn has no relationship to the Smith in Zimbabwe.
That's because one was a blacksmith, another a silversmith, the third a pewtersmith.
Who really gains by pushing this out longer other than the people who are either 1. oblivious or 2. lazy?
The "legitimate" businessmen: Digital TV Tuner companies, Advertisers
The scammers: Cable companies, Satellite companies, Best Buy Salesmen in the HDTV section, Senators being bribed by all of the above.
Elmo knows where you live!