There was a recent article about drugs to keep you going in our uni newspaper. Ritalin was the one going around and it seems quite a few would use it... if it ever gets updated it would appear somewhere here.
... sucks. I have an X800GT. It's not recognised in the setup (R423) and this I cant boot X. Now this would be ok as there are work arounds for it with an install, but I got the desktop CD to try it out without having to mess around with my partitions (I doubt it can read an XP dynamic disk array)... but with a live cd I dont want to have to reconfigure it *every time i boot*.
But it a few more blocked than before. Sure, allowing.xxx is not the "be all and end all" of the situation, but you got to start somewhere:) Combined with a possibility of having to have all new adult domains registered.xxx or requiring a transfer off.com (etc) would obviously increase the usefulness.
And yes, AOL can do what you said, and I bet they would have done!
Why would it make it easier to find pr0n? You can type just about anything into google or similar to get something pornographic. It's *already* (too?) easy to find porn online. whatever the tld ending, it wouldnt matter from someone searching as i doubt they rarely check the url and concentrate on the "content".
However, if a large majority of sites ended.xxx, then if you were say with AOL etc, the filtering of such a site would be very easy and could be done on an account level set by the parents. This surely is a good thing ? Indeed, you might still get the same results from google, but once clicking the link it would just get blocked (so that free previews couldn't get viewed either). If you werent on AOL then perhaps the ISPs could offer it at a different way. Filters based on content of pages being viewed sometimes give false positives but with.xxx i'm sure most filters could get it right.
Sure there would be sites which wont do.xxx or try to get around it, but at least this would have been a start.
Oh, and in response to "Who cares if the US pressured them into rejecting the domain" its people like me who believe that the US should not be allowed to dictate what it wants to the world. But thats a different story...
From the original article "If it receives the required funding, the telescope is expected to begin operating in 2012."
So rather than "New telescope to do this and that" it more like "plans for new telescope". The key is that the project is not confirmed.
On other news, Seagate just signed a big new contract...:P
They couldn't resolve their differences with hd-dvd, and I'll be damned if I'm going to start buying movies that I won't be able to play at anyone else's house in a year.
Dont you know in a year's time once you play them in a drive the discs will get encoded to that machine, meaning you can't play them somewhere else - why would you want to be able to do that? Why would the other location not have its own copy.
geez - this could be the reality of DRM in the future! HA
I was going to write a long(-ish) reply, but decided against it - after all - it can be summed up easier: surely there are much weaker security issues than who made a laptop -- such as the user for example. Others have commented about windows. I say they should worry about education of their users rather than who made it.
And surely the US can't talk back at people for spying on others considering recent news.
It didnt say that it collected 100 pieces of personal data etc from your computer, more likely its all internal requests:) I mean it usually provides suggestions on your past orders, what pages you've recently viewed in the system (which isnt exactly personal data being collection IMO as its all "internal" to Amazon.
But the question is does this make for a better shopping experience?
When I've used Amazon it's always been helpful.
However, Amazon UK seem to be a little less reliable in shipping recently...
...they already have this sort of idea and have done for a long time. Their travelcards (Octopus cards - very similar to london oyster technology - RFIDS) can be used as "cashless" cash - just wave it to buy stuff and the money you put on it would go down. Its effectively a prepay cashless system - you dont need to watch out for huge bills at the end.
Indeed, closer to home, my old school used to have "smartcards" for paying for lunch without the need to produce cash. Just prepay on it and then empty it...
I guess its an old idea, but being trialled in conjunction with other technologies on a larger scale.
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The Doom movie has this, and really, you gotta laugh.
... its now too busy to view even the hopepage.
"The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to too many connections. We apolize for the inconvienience. Please try again later."
But, what happens if I click "Save" and this happens ?!?
From my [brief] experience of Xfire, it lists all your friends you've added, and what they are playing, and what multiplayer games they have installed. It also lists their friends too - to add a little more spice to it all. AFAIK you can click to invite someone to play a game with you and I imagine it will load and do some connections for you (although I dont know if it does).
Basically - imagine MSN Gaming zone combined with Friendster in a [insert favourite instant messenger] setting.
So I guess that GDrive no longer needs to wait as the storage solution for everyone's junk is here...
Perhaps those new Seagate 750GBs would be a nice swap to the standard (small) 500GB drives:P
The latest thing we're doing is getting people on campus to audit their systems, and the recommendation is to remove [sensitive information].
So I guess its back to pens and paper? Surely a disk is even easier to steal than a laptop! But at least its network secure (unless its inside the laptop!)
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... yet another place I wont be going anytime soon. Much like the States.
50,000 people are needed to debug and fix the broken vista once its out - wow! Guess it wasnt as bad as we thought...
There was a recent article about drugs to keep you going in our uni newspaper. Ritalin was the one going around and it seems quite a few would use it... if it ever gets updated it would appear somewhere here.
... sucks. I have an X800GT. It's not recognised in the setup (R423) and this I cant boot X. Now this would be ok as there are work arounds for it with an install, but I got the desktop CD to try it out without having to mess around with my partitions (I doubt it can read an XP dynamic disk array)... but with a live cd I dont want to have to reconfigure it *every time i boot*.
// Ubuntu -10.
the cd went in the bin.
Result:
XP64 0.1
Due to high demand the site is temporarily unavailable. Please try it again later.
But it a few more blocked than before. Sure, allowing .xxx is not the "be all and end all" of the situation, but you got to start somewhere :) Combined with a possibility of having to have all new adult domains registered .xxx or requiring a transfer off .com (etc) would obviously increase the usefulness.
And yes, AOL can do what you said, and I bet they would have done!
Why would it make it easier to find pr0n? You can type just about anything into google or similar to get something pornographic. It's *already* (too?) easy to find porn online. whatever the tld ending, it wouldnt matter from someone searching as i doubt they rarely check the url and concentrate on the "content".
.xxx, then if you were say with AOL etc, the filtering of such a site would be very easy and could be done on an account level set by the parents. This surely is a good thing ? Indeed, you might still get the same results from google, but once clicking the link it would just get blocked (so that free previews couldn't get viewed either). If you werent on AOL then perhaps the ISPs could offer it at a different way. Filters based on content of pages being viewed sometimes give false positives but with .xxx i'm sure most filters could get it right.
.xxx or try to get around it, but at least this would have been a start.
However, if a large majority of sites ended
Sure there would be sites which wont do
Oh, and in response to "Who cares if the US pressured them into rejecting the domain" its people like me who believe that the US should not be allowed to dictate what it wants to the world. But thats a different story...
From the original article "If it receives the required funding, the telescope is expected to begin operating in 2012." So rather than "New telescope to do this and that" it more like "plans for new telescope". The key is that the project is not confirmed. On other news, Seagate just signed a big new contract... :P
Dunno who you think I am, but this is only post of 3 today that ends in a question. Why don't you get your facts straight?
Where's the lawsuit...?
I've written loads of games too but of course if I told you which I'd have to kill you.
They couldn't resolve their differences with hd-dvd, and I'll be damned if I'm going to start buying movies that I won't be able to play at anyone else's house in a year.
Dont you know in a year's time once you play them in a drive the discs will get encoded to that machine, meaning you can't play them somewhere else - why would you want to be able to do that? Why would the other location not have its own copy.
geez - this could be the reality of DRM in the future! HA
Depends if you're a lawyer or not ;-)
But I guess it doesnt help us lowly users directly if it involves pushing up prices (this may or may not happen!) as a result of rising legal costs.
I was going to write a long(-ish) reply, but decided against it - after all - it can be summed up easier: surely there are much weaker security issues than who made a laptop -- such as the user for example. Others have commented about windows. I say they should worry about education of their users rather than who made it.
And surely the US can't talk back at people for spying on others considering recent news.
But does your palm have 80GB of memory :P
My PDA does more than iPods - and has a bigger screen than the video. Pity about the battery life though!
Judging by the number of lawsuits cropping up recently, the only winners seem to be the lawyers who are lapping it up!
It does not work on Windows XP 64bit edition, 'cause it really gets id'd as Windows Server 2003. Stupidity on multiple levels (as expected!).
It didnt say that it collected 100 pieces of personal data etc from your computer, more likely its all internal requests :) I mean it usually provides suggestions on your past orders, what pages you've recently viewed in the system (which isnt exactly personal data being collection IMO as its all "internal" to Amazon.
But the question is does this make for a better shopping experience?
When I've used Amazon it's always been helpful.
However, Amazon UK seem to be a little less reliable in shipping recently...
...they already have this sort of idea and have done for a long time. Their travelcards (Octopus cards - very similar to london oyster technology - RFIDS) can be used as "cashless" cash - just wave it to buy stuff and the money you put on it would go down. Its effectively a prepay cashless system - you dont need to watch out for huge bills at the end.
Indeed, closer to home, my old school used to have "smartcards" for paying for lunch without the need to produce cash. Just prepay on it and then empty it...
I guess its an old idea, but being trialled in conjunction with other technologies on a larger scale.
The Doom movie has this, and really, you gotta laugh.
... its now too busy to view even the hopepage. "The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to too many connections. We apolize for the inconvienience. Please try again later." But, what happens if I click "Save" and this happens ?!?
It is good to see that an x64 build is now available with IE7B2.
a ult.mspx (where you can choose your desired poison) as opposed to the one in the stub (which links to the technology overview document).
Shame that as usual the phone support feature is not available in the UK...(not that I really care, FF is fine).
Note that the download link is http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/def
From my [brief] experience of Xfire, it lists all your friends you've added, and what they are playing, and what multiplayer games they have installed. It also lists their friends too - to add a little more spice to it all. AFAIK you can click to invite someone to play a game with you and I imagine it will load and do some connections for you (although I dont know if it does).
Basically - imagine MSN Gaming zone combined with Friendster in a [insert favourite instant messenger] setting.
So I guess that GDrive no longer needs to wait as the storage solution for everyone's junk is here... :P
Perhaps those new Seagate 750GBs would be a nice swap to the standard (small) 500GB drives
The latest thing we're doing is getting people on campus to audit their systems, and the recommendation is to remove [sensitive information].
So I guess its back to pens and paper? Surely a disk is even easier to steal than a laptop! But at least its network secure (unless its inside the laptop!)