Now in that window type runas/user:(username) iexplore. I don't know about Vista, but that wouldn't work in XP. You have to specify the entire path to iexplore because the IE directory is not in the PATH environment variable.
Yeah, you can. Right-click and choose "Run as..." or pull up a command prompt and use the "Runas" command specifying a separate user and pointing to "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
It may not be exactly like that in Vista but it works perfectly in XP even if explorer has been blocked for alternate users.
I'm just surprised that the various governments of the world have let so many state secrets get locked up in Microshaft's closed, insecure standards. If Microshaft ever folds, the only people that will be able to access those old documents that tell you how to turn off that automated attack system of yestercentury are the Chinese hackers.
There's this book. I'm sure you've heard of it. It's the best selling book of all time and has never been copyrighted. It talks about not being a member of this "real world" of which you speak. Perhaps you should read it sometime. It may give you a better outlook on life, and a better understanding of humanity. It may even help you develop an attitude that attaches some value to life, other than that of just continuing to live or living better than someone else.
Again, you should read it sometime. It's usually listed under the title "The Bible" though you may be able to find it with the "The" attached. It's usually in the religious section of most libraries and book stores. Is that surprising? Depends on your point of view, which is, ironically, something else that may be changed by reading it.
Then he'll make elaborate laws that restrict our rights with promises that it will stop video game-ism, only to have video games become better at hiding, stockpiling weapons, and money laundering.
Simple: They are game publishers with large coffers. The love of money (greed) encourages the breaking of many rules, even those designed to bring in more money.
In this simulation (I had a chance to play it because I used to work where they designed it.), the players are veritably invincible. The only thing realistic about it is that they are ambushed by a terrorist force of surprising size and ferocity. IEDs are blowing up all over and no players get hurt or die in any way. Also, these HMVs that you are riding in are apparently made of duranium alloy and surrounded in a force field, because the HMVs were not even affected by nearly constant rocket fire.
It supports the idea that our Army is invincible and if you join it, you will be, too. That is why it is unethical.
The administrative contact is listed as "Carlton, Danny godaddy@DannyCarlton.net"
And for you spam bots:
godaddy@DannyCarlton.net
godaddy@DannyCarlton.net
godaddy@DannyCarlton.net
godaddy@DannyCarlton.net
godaddy@DannyCarlton.net
godaddy@DannyCarlton.net
What websites should do is start hosting the ads locally.
It makes it easier to track views. It makes the site load faster.
And best of all, it cuts down on spyware and viruses.
What self-respecting website admin is going to knowingly copy a spyware- or virus-laden advertisement to his/her server, knowing full well that his/her server may get infected in the process? Spyware may eventually become a thing of porn sites and ghost stories, if ads start getting local hosting.
When I first read your post, I thought, "I'll show him. Microshaft doesn't warrant their products, else technical support would be free." But, to my suprise, Vista (Ultimate, at least) does indeed include a warranty. And it even provides remedies for Microsoft's inability to repair any errors in Vista that are not by design (such as the Digital Restrictions Management software's defectiveness by design).
I thought I'd share this information and admit to my conclusion jump so as to be an example to others:
Always check your facts.
I'm thinking it's probably a registry setting. In XP, the uninstall info is stored at HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Uninstall (I think... that's totally from memory and I'm running Linux at work and XP at home since Vista came out). I'm guessing that there is an option in each programs uninstall registry to hide the uninstall button, or they simply didn't set any uninstall method in the registry, which would serve the same end.
"CurrentVersion" Doesn't have a space in it in that registry key name, but I can't seem to make it go away in the preview. Slashdot must have a word length limit for text wrapping purposes.
I'm interested in both hardware and software so I chose Computer Engineering. My only regret, so far, has been that so few understand that a Computer Engineer (CPE) is an Electrical Engineer (EE) with emphasis in Computers and Software Processing (i.e., a EE with a CS minor).
It's tough work to pass with any semblance of a GPA, but it's extremely rewarding to have the ability to invent a processor from blank screen to final prototype and write the compiler by yourself. Granted, such a job is not likely to exist anymore, but with a CPE you are qualified to work at any major hardware vendor on their primary product. Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Dell, Gateway, etc. are all open to you. Granted these are all US companies, but you get the idea.
That is my opinion exactly, if you'll forgive my southern drawl:
If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Fix the precincts that are broken... i.e., Miami-Dade County. If they had just fixed the one precinct that screwed up, rather than force feeding these reprehensible, hack-in-a-box, miserable excuses for security holes to the states, without even funding them for the mistakes, then everyone there would feel accomplished, they'd continue to screw up the election, and Ohio wouldn't have had any trouble. As is, neither state's voting populace believes their vote was counted properly, and it's just as likely that they're right since there's barely even an electronic trail to follow and almost no paper trail.
I like the optical scan ballot (paper with arrows to be joined by marker and scanned into the database). We use them here in Madison County (Huntsville), AL, too. There's a voter verified paper trail and an electronic tally without the mistake that is magnetic digital storage. All it would take to wipe an election record on those "ATMs" is a well placed EMP. You wouldn't even have to get into the building in some places.
If you want to stay and try to change a culture based on rugged individualism and rampant Puritanical attitudes, go for it. I have better things to do with my life.
Good point. But still, something bothers me about watching the people with real, open-minded, intelligent ideas leaving the most powerful nation in the world for other nations which may end up trampled by that most powerful nation later because it was lacking in real, open-minded, intelligent ideas. Granted, not everyone can be heroes, and most heroes only become such because they died, and it is no individual person's job to "save the world," as it were, but at what point does leaving rather than fighting injustice become just as bad as that injustice?
*shiver*twitch*... Running the risk of ruining my point... *twitch*... I think I just made an argument to stay in Iraq... *twitch*convulse*
Now I've just given myself two things to think about instead of just the one I expected.
I notice in this discussion hundreds of comments (perhaps thousands) in which someone posts a "fact" and the opinion that they have generated from that "fact" without any reference to the source of that "fact," not even a link.
Be careful with such discussion as it is a very good sign of brainwashing. (And here I go doing the same thing.)
My point is, if you can't back up your "facts" then you shouldn't be formulating opinions based on those facts. And some talk show or news host's rantings are not backup for facts. That's the kind of thinking that got us into the quagmire that is the US two party system in the first place. (And I did it again.)
I guess the jury who heard all the evidence didn't get your memo.
Yeah, it was sent to georgewbush.com by mistake. And the georgewbush.com IT staff were trying so hard to make sure that no email was saved that it was deleted before it could get forwarded to the jury.
CMA: It's a joke. If you can't take jokes about your clandestine (or illegal) activity, don't participate in clandestine (or illegal) activity... or don't get caught, but I'd prefer the former.
But if you don't like it, you're perfectly capable of moving to a place where there's only one political party who can "just fix the problem" with no opposition.
You clearly do not understand the way our government is structured. It is designed to be modified by the people when the people disagree with it. To say, "If you don't like it, leave," is to say, "Clearly our government doesn't work so we shouldn't work to fix it. We should just give up."
If you disagree with the government, change it! Don't leave. If you leave, and if you advocate that those who disagree should leave, then you are either a fascist or communist who hates democracy, and thus worse than a terrorist, or just not able to conceptualize the intricacies that a true democratic-republic entails.
I just hope that any local civilizations had advanced far enough to escape that horrible fate.
At the rate we're going, what with news of Congress living up to their name (opposite of progress) with regard to exploration the exploration of Mars, we won't escape the fate of our solar system.
Says the lemming? How many Microsoft products do you own?
That fact that a majority of Slashdot readers consider Microsoft to be breaking the law does not mean we think that the corporation is evil.
A corporation can only be as evil as it's actions and it's human counterparts. IBM was once considered evil by far, but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone other than Microsoft who still believes that today. We Slashdotters hope for the day that either Microsoft discontinues it's illegal activities and becomes a fair player in the free market or dies a miserable, hated death. Whichever the company chooses, either will make us happy.
I'm sorry, but the last time I bought a CD (pre-RIAA lawsuit BS), there was no license listed on it beyond "Do not make illegal copies of this disc."
You don't have to make a copy of a music CD to share it to yourself over a network. And encoding mp3s from a music CD which contains no encryption is not the same as making an illegal copy of the disc. It's called "making the content accessible through multiple devices" or "format-shifting" for short.
But if he password locked the file, which software would he use? If he locked it using NTFS encryption in Windows, how would he then unlock it on a Linux computer across campus? In order to have access to his content in all places, it had to be open.
Now the directory could have been user restricted over CIFS, but does he have the technical expertise to know how to do that. From personal experience in the IT sector, I can give you 90% odds that he does not.
An example of what you're suggesting is that you should be held liable if your car electrocutes someone when they try to hotwire it because you didn't add a grounding system to your car's wiring box.
It is suing the people who would have been its future customers, given the time to earn a living to pay for their product. But now they are going to be looking for a legal means of getting good music without paying the RIAA for it.
The RIAA is basically driving its future customers into the inviting arms of its competitors: independent developers.
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Yeah, you can. Right-click and choose "Run as..." or pull up a command prompt and use the "Runas" command specifying a separate user and pointing to "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
It may not be exactly like that in Vista but it works perfectly in XP even if explorer has been blocked for alternate users.
I'm just surprised that the various governments of the world have let so many state secrets get locked up in Microshaft's closed, insecure standards. If Microshaft ever folds, the only people that will be able to access those old documents that tell you how to turn off that automated attack system of yestercentury are the Chinese hackers.
There's this book. I'm sure you've heard of it. It's the best selling book of all time and has never been copyrighted. It talks about not being a member of this "real world" of which you speak. Perhaps you should read it sometime. It may give you a better outlook on life, and a better understanding of humanity. It may even help you develop an attitude that attaches some value to life, other than that of just continuing to live or living better than someone else.
Again, you should read it sometime. It's usually listed under the title "The Bible" though you may be able to find it with the "The" attached. It's usually in the religious section of most libraries and book stores. Is that surprising? Depends on your point of view, which is, ironically, something else that may be changed by reading it.
Then he'll make elaborate laws that restrict our rights with promises that it will stop video game-ism, only to have video games become better at hiding, stockpiling weapons, and money laundering.
Simple: They are game publishers with large coffers. The love of money (greed) encourages the breaking of many rules, even those designed to bring in more money.
It's unethical because it is a lie.
In this simulation (I had a chance to play it because I used to work where they designed it.), the players are veritably invincible. The only thing realistic about it is that they are ambushed by a terrorist force of surprising size and ferocity. IEDs are blowing up all over and no players get hurt or die in any way. Also, these HMVs that you are riding in are apparently made of duranium alloy and surrounded in a force field, because the HMVs were not even affected by nearly constant rocket fire.
It supports the idea that our Army is invincible and if you join it, you will be, too. That is why it is unethical.
The User Agent extension is perfect for this. 'nuff said.
I had been using it a while back, the last time somebody tried this unintelligent stunt.
I did a quick whois on whyfirefoxisblocked.com at http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIsVerify.aspx?domain=why firefoxisblocked.com&prog_id=godaddy
The administrative contact is listed as "Carlton, Danny godaddy@DannyCarlton.net"
And for you spam bots:
godaddy@DannyCarlton.net
godaddy@DannyCarlton.net
godaddy@DannyCarlton.net
godaddy@DannyCarlton.net
godaddy@DannyCarlton.net
godaddy@DannyCarlton.net
:p
What websites should do is start hosting the ads locally.
It makes it easier to track views. It makes the site load faster.
And best of all, it cuts down on spyware and viruses.
What self-respecting website admin is going to knowingly copy a spyware- or virus-laden advertisement to his/her server, knowing full well that his/her server may get infected in the process? Spyware may eventually become a thing of porn sites and ghost stories, if ads start getting local hosting.
http://download.microsoft.com/documents/useterms/W indows%20Vista_Ultimate_English_36d0fe99-75e4-4875 -8153-889cf5105718.pdf
When I first read your post, I thought, "I'll show him. Microshaft doesn't warrant their products, else technical support would be free." But, to my suprise, Vista (Ultimate, at least) does indeed include a warranty. And it even provides remedies for Microsoft's inability to repair any errors in Vista that are not by design (such as the Digital Restrictions Management software's defectiveness by design).
I thought I'd share this information and admit to my conclusion jump so as to be an example to others:
Always check your facts.
I'm thinking it's probably a registry setting. In XP, the uninstall info is stored at HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Uninstall (I think... that's totally from memory and I'm running Linux at work and XP at home since Vista came out). I'm guessing that there is an option in each programs uninstall registry to hide the uninstall button, or they simply didn't set any uninstall method in the registry, which would serve the same end.
"CurrentVersion" Doesn't have a space in it in that registry key name, but I can't seem to make it go away in the preview. Slashdot must have a word length limit for text wrapping purposes.
I'm interested in both hardware and software so I chose Computer Engineering. My only regret, so far, has been that so few understand that a Computer Engineer (CPE) is an Electrical Engineer (EE) with emphasis in Computers and Software Processing (i.e., a EE with a CS minor).
It's tough work to pass with any semblance of a GPA, but it's extremely rewarding to have the ability to invent a processor from blank screen to final prototype and write the compiler by yourself. Granted, such a job is not likely to exist anymore, but with a CPE you are qualified to work at any major hardware vendor on their primary product. Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Dell, Gateway, etc. are all open to you. Granted these are all US companies, but you get the idea.
That is my opinion exactly, if you'll forgive my southern drawl:
If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
Fix the precincts that are broken... i.e., Miami-Dade County. If they had just fixed the one precinct that screwed up, rather than force feeding these reprehensible, hack-in-a-box, miserable excuses for security holes to the states, without even funding them for the mistakes, then everyone there would feel accomplished, they'd continue to screw up the election, and Ohio wouldn't have had any trouble. As is, neither state's voting populace believes their vote was counted properly, and it's just as likely that they're right since there's barely even an electronic trail to follow and almost no paper trail.
I like the optical scan ballot (paper with arrows to be joined by marker and scanned into the database). We use them here in Madison County (Huntsville), AL, too. There's a voter verified paper trail and an electronic tally without the mistake that is magnetic digital storage. All it would take to wipe an election record on those "ATMs" is a well placed EMP. You wouldn't even have to get into the building in some places.
Good point. But still, something bothers me about watching the people with real, open-minded, intelligent ideas leaving the most powerful nation in the world for other nations which may end up trampled by that most powerful nation later because it was lacking in real, open-minded, intelligent ideas. Granted, not everyone can be heroes, and most heroes only become such because they died, and it is no individual person's job to "save the world," as it were, but at what point does leaving rather than fighting injustice become just as bad as that injustice?
*shiver*twitch* ... Running the risk of ruining my point ... *twitch* ... I think I just made an argument to stay in Iraq ... *twitch*convulse*
Now I've just given myself two things to think about instead of just the one I expected.
I notice in this discussion hundreds of comments (perhaps thousands) in which someone posts a "fact" and the opinion that they have generated from that "fact" without any reference to the source of that "fact," not even a link.
Be careful with such discussion as it is a very good sign of brainwashing. (And here I go doing the same thing.)
My point is, if you can't back up your "facts" then you shouldn't be formulating opinions based on those facts. And some talk show or news host's rantings are not backup for facts. That's the kind of thinking that got us into the quagmire that is the US two party system in the first place. (And I did it again.)
Yeah, it was sent to georgewbush.com by mistake. And the georgewbush.com IT staff were trying so hard to make sure that no email was saved that it was deleted before it could get forwarded to the jury.
CMA: It's a joke. If you can't take jokes about your clandestine (or illegal) activity, don't participate in clandestine (or illegal) activity... or don't get caught, but I'd prefer the former.
You clearly do not understand the way our government is structured. It is designed to be modified by the people when the people disagree with it. To say, "If you don't like it, leave," is to say, "Clearly our government doesn't work so we shouldn't work to fix it. We should just give up."
If you disagree with the government, change it! Don't leave. If you leave, and if you advocate that those who disagree should leave, then you are either a fascist or communist who hates democracy, and thus worse than a terrorist, or just not able to conceptualize the intricacies that a true democratic-republic entails.
Didn't that happen once in the dark ages: a major supernova had people thinking Christ had returned or Satan was reigning, or something?
I just hope that any local civilizations had advanced far enough to escape that horrible fate.
At the rate we're going, what with news of Congress living up to their name (opposite of progress) with regard to exploration the exploration of Mars, we won't escape the fate of our solar system.
Says the lemming? How many Microsoft products do you own?
That fact that a majority of Slashdot readers consider Microsoft to be breaking the law does not mean we think that the corporation is evil.
A corporation can only be as evil as it's actions and it's human counterparts. IBM was once considered evil by far, but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone other than Microsoft who still believes that today. We Slashdotters hope for the day that either Microsoft discontinues it's illegal activities and becomes a fair player in the free market or dies a miserable, hated death. Whichever the company chooses, either will make us happy.
Here's 50 "donations" to start with:D 000000128&ContribID=U0000000007&Display=ID
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/topindivs.asp?ID=
More:p ?txtName=Walt+Disney+Co&txtUltOrg=y&txtCycle=2005& txtSort=name
http://www.opensecrets.org/softmoney/softcomp2.as
http://www.opensecrets.org/ is full of such records of "donations" made on behalf of Disney.
And that's just one website.
Now ask for something hard to find.
;)
I don't mean to deflate the "That's Preposterous!" bubble (because I totally agree that all businesses should take cash for privacy reasons), but...
Money Orders are $0.75 at a US Post Office, last I checked.
So spend 15 minutes, pay an extra 75 cents, and secure your on-campus housing.
Then, come back and continue the conversation.
I'm sorry, but the last time I bought a CD (pre-RIAA lawsuit BS), there was no license listed on it beyond "Do not make illegal copies of this disc."
You don't have to make a copy of a music CD to share it to yourself over a network. And encoding mp3s from a music CD which contains no encryption is not the same as making an illegal copy of the disc. It's called "making the content accessible through multiple devices" or "format-shifting" for short.
But if he password locked the file, which software would he use? If he locked it using NTFS encryption in Windows, how would he then unlock it on a Linux computer across campus? In order to have access to his content in all places, it had to be open.
Now the directory could have been user restricted over CIFS, but does he have the technical expertise to know how to do that. From personal experience in the IT sector, I can give you 90% odds that he does not.
An example of what you're suggesting is that you should be held liable if your car electrocutes someone when they try to hotwire it because you didn't add a grounding system to your car's wiring box.
I almost pity the RIAA.
It is suing the people who would have been its future customers, given the time to earn a living to pay for their product. But now they are going to be looking for a legal means of getting good music without paying the RIAA for it.
The RIAA is basically driving its future customers into the inviting arms of its competitors: independent developers.