Posts by Tony Paulazzo 1099 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Feb 2008
Phones aren't just phones anymore, they're mobile computers. Play MP3s, update Facebook and play games. An 8 year old might not have anyone they can call, but they'll happily stare at a computer generated screen for their entire waking lives if allowed to (broken only by adult delivered refreshments, toilet breaks and demands that they're not tired yet).
Disclaimer: not a parent but will happily have an opinion on everything.
My 14 year old niece has a phone. At school if it's found to be on it's taken away until the end of school day, that seems a reasonable compromise, and maybe (unpopular anti privacy stance here), maybe the bill payer should have access to the phones log, phone calls, texts and online times recorded. Best way for parents to find out their little darlings are being bullied (and vice versa).
The best way to make money from iWhatever apps is to create something original and useful that doesn't step on any of Apples copyrighted ideas, past or future and sell for 2.99.
Or, y'know, write a crappy puzzle game and punt it for 99p (one that relays any bank information found on the iWhatever back to you).
Alternatively, if you love Apple that much, why don't you just marry them? Bazinga!
>Religion has been the major cause of wars over millenia.<
Heh, here's one, Apple are overpriced toys, Windows are spyware magnets, Linux is for beardy geeks with no life...
And go.
(point - we all suffer from the delusion that our beliefs are correct and anyone who doesn't agree must, in some way, be wrong, evil, misguided - whatever. The only reason we don't picket shops on a Sunday is because in the west we've been seduced by the dark side, have become soft and compliant and have little to no actual religious belief, we might spout the words, follow the rote, but any true belief is overshadowed by 'I'm a celebrity X factor'.
When you learn the Vatican loans money to known arms dealers you have to figure something's wrong, somewhere).
Yes, but how touch friendly is it? can you scribble directly onto Word and have it convert to text, or do they still use a stupid text recognition window floating on top? I want to scribble an appointment directly into outlook not see what inane thoughts a friend vomited into Facebook. Also, as someone above mentioned, security worries, I like Outlook being a closed system (as much as that's possible in a windows environment), not leaking out onto the interwebs.
The ribbon I'm ok with, great for touch screens, but there needs to be an easy and quick way to flip off screen when not required.
'Hi Kettle, this is Pot. You're black!'
Any truly civilised country would not do business with China. They are morally and spiritually corrupt (their government leastways).
Mind you, hah, trying to find a government in the early 21st century that isn't... there's a quest for Frodo.
Piracy icon for the party, not the deed.
Never buy any hardware or software with DRM type restrictions. I know Win7 has it built into media player, use VLC (DVDs, MKV's DivX etc), wanna run a linux server, an old PC base has got to be cheaper than Xbox360. When you buy an iPhone you know the draconian Jobsian rules surrounding its use. By buying their products you're complicitly agreeing with their closed off philosophy, and jailbreaking / modding the system isn't sticking it to the man, they still got your money, you just released them from any after sales service.
As for the copyright issue, I demand all money orientated content creators get off my internet instantly and go back to analogue production.
Problems sorted (mine is a happy world).
are MS doing this? Surely if you make your software too hard to crack you'll end up losing market share, isn't piracy what made Windows and Office the number 1 selling thing around. More and more youngsters are finding Linux and Open Office, they play their games on console, and older people, who have little interest in Fallout3 just wanna surf the web, check out their kids on Facebook and knock out a few emails / letters - all perfectly doable on Linux or Mac.
Mind you, WGA on XP was a joke, a couple of registry edits and two file deletions, set updates to inform only and you were away... er, so I was told.
A friend bought a PC from a huge shop in Manchester, legal XP and everything. Two years later the shop went into receivership (is that the right term?) and a little while later her Windows complained it wasn't a legit copy. She phoned MS and explained how it had been fine for two years and she'd bought it preinstalled and they couldn't give a crap (can't recall the reason they gave her), but they wanted £90 off her for a valid activation code. Change your MB on a fried system with OEM Windows and you're also screwed.
Disclaimer: Desktop running Win7RC and new HP laptop with Win7 premium (and dualboot Ubunto for online security and learning). Come March probably gonna put an old XP back on desktop (basically games and ... well nothing), and dualboot Ubuntu for everything else.
Six months ago I'd forgotten Linux even existed. (can't believe I used 'that' icon;)
Saw that in 3D at the ICA, best bit - Joe Dellasandra's arse bouncing up and down over the audience, but Chanel4 3D week, awesome fail. How about 50's it came from outer space (packaged flat in the DVD release but supposedly the 3D effect was subtle rather than things poking out the screen), The ant bully, Avatar preview (in 3D) with maybe a 'short' interview with Cameron, Beowulf, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (terrible 80s film but fun), even Jaws 3D would've been better than Friday 13th 3D and would've gotten a bigger audience.
In fact, whoever programmed that awful lineup...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_3-D_films
and use red/blue tech next time - Jeez! Hannah Montana, T4, Paul O Grady, Derren Brown - shudder. The queen thing sounds interesting from an historical perspective, shame I can't watch, Morrisons is the only local supermarket and I'm not driving 24 miles on the off chance they're not out of stock (love me some double negatives).
>where the users of the web become consumers of content who sit in front of commercial advertising all day long and have no control over their experience.<
True dat. Unfortunately, it's what the vast majority want, reruns of Eastenders and X talent unreality shows. Content creators are slicing up what was a global internet, BBC for the UK, Fox for the yanks. They don't give a crap about the bettterment of humanity, just filling their pockets.
It does make me cross!
this is why governments do nothing about all the malware running rife thru the internet, most of it probably leads back to various government databases.
Anyway, I thought the Mossad were America's friend - when not being sneaky shits and assassinating their enemies... course, all that information is gleaned from NCIS, couldn't be bothered looking at Wikiwrong.
Should really be anon, but really can't be bothered, they know who I am and where I'm at.
http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=26758&start=20
>It blew up. :shocked smiley
This is the first consumer I could find via Google to receive one (and he's a member of Archos Fans). The Yanks are now saying mid November for stock to arrive, Archos are saying nothing. play.com have a shipping date 4th Nov.
Looks like the TV tuner advertised will only be in certain (more expensive?) models (not confirmed or denied by Archos), 1080p HiDef playback, check, as long as you buy the VGA output addon (cost?) and the 1GB RAM, soldered into the MB, cannot be upgraded.
I give this tablet future a fail.
And they have it up for sale on their website. Click the buy button and this comes up:
>The page you tried was not found. You may have used an outdated link or may have typed the address (URL) incorrectly. You might find what you’re looking for in the left menu.<
(there is no left menu helpfully).
Worst product launch in history.
Seriously, UK, France, Germany, USA, China, nowhere. play.com are offering it for £399, but not in stock, and Expansys still have a preorder, no price option, no other outlet on Archos' site even have it listed. That's some selling tactic there, I can see why PCWorld didn't open their doors at midnight, they don't have any.
And what's with the USA favouritism? $499 according to Google currency converter equates to £301.some change, not £449.
Anyway, with the not great battery life (something like that I'd expect a minimum 6 to 8 hours hard use), extra expense of VGA (vga, really, no hdmi?) output, lack of hardware portrait mode and rumblings of bad after sales support (on the 'net, natch), I went out and for an extra £300 pound got myself an HP TX2.
Heavier, true, but tablet style and laptop style, with true multi (four fingers) touch and pen pressure (not yet in Photoshop but amazing in Artrage). It's also got VGA output (why?), but it comes with a duo core CPU, 320 GB HD, 3GB RAM, Win7 Home Premium (Starter - pah), hardware tablet rotate, two batteries (the small one about hour and a half with bright screen and wireless on, the larger one offering decent time, but still not sure how long). It's basically replaced my Office laptop and I can still read in bed (in potrait mode my egraphics novel collection - they're not comics! have come alive;). And if the extra weight puts some muscle on my arm, I'm not gonna complain...
I even streamed a HiDef movie over the network from my desktop and nary a stutter.
Personal opinion: Windows 7 comes alive with touch computers.
So, I installed Windows7 two weeks ago, fresh, and ran Secunia today, not expecting to find any problems. But no, Adobe flash already out of date, even though it installed a Firefox plugin, which I assumed would let me know about any updates released.
Stupid Adobe. I wish some one would release an alt Flash plugin, thank God for Noscript and Adblock.
At least Mozilla let you know when updates are available.
>It is claimed it will be bigger than an iPhone but smaller than an MacBook, and will cost around $700<
So, about £700 then, sweet! /irony... not that I'm gonna get one (I have no iPhone, iPod, iMac, iTunes or quicktime), but it does mean that by this time next year, the tablet form factor should be a viable PC base - assuming they release early next year, at a much nicer price point and with upgradeable possibilities.
All we have to wait for now is Adobe to use the Win7 pressure drivers (which according to their dev team might happen in CS5, maybe CS6), so no rush guys, as the specs for MS Touch have only been available to dev teams since before Vista was released.
>But according to JC it's the other way around - you'll get to Heaven whether you follow a religion or not, so long as you behave well. And if there isn't a Heaven, you've still led a good life which has generally improved the world as a whole (even if only in a small way).<
Well spoken sir!
ie. using a stylus to write, can you do it directly on the Word page, or is there still that stupid window that pops up? Also, changed my mind about the ribbon, it's infinitely better using fingers with it. Wish they'd release a decent art package as part of it, Adobe is getting too big for its boots (personal opinion only).
>"exciting" new features you’ll find in Windows 7CBS<
Here's one I'd like, that my Bluetooth (frigging) Microsoft mouse would still work after the laptop wakes up from sleep mode... when it wakes up, so far (HP laptop so it may be HP drivers at fault here), sleep mode has caused one BSOD, a couple of unexplained shutdowns and the screen refusing to come back to life.
>a major network in the US known for such highbrow programming as the CSI franchise and Two and a Half Men, will integrate its content with Windows Media Center. Users will be able to access all the CBS primetime shows on demand from within Media Center.<
Globally, or just for Americans? Guess we UK residents get Sky news.
>they showed how a laptop could boot in just 15 seconds and wake from sleep nearly instantaneously.Let’s see how responsive Windows 7 is after it’s been running for months loaded with apps<
Well my desktop's been running the RC since almost day of release, games, multimedia, 3d rendering etc, programs installed and uninstalled, virtXP etc and not only have I noticed no slowdown, but it's been remarkably well behaved, no BSODs, sleep to wake is seconds (I barely turn it off these days), games that would crash in Vista are rock solid in 7, colour me impressed...
Except for the price.
>and there's one person that doesn't even have children, but feels the need to tell everyone how shocking it is, and stands up to complain for the sake all the children worldwide because it makes them feel better about the empty sad life that they must lead<
Twat! Sorry, had to say it, and for all those fullfilled adults mindlessly giving birth...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulation
>Overpopulation is a condition where an organism's numbers exceed the carrying capacity of its habitat.
# At over 6.7 billion[4] World Population is approximately 3 times higher in 2009 than it was at approximately 2.3 billion or less[5] in 1939, despite loss of life during World War II (an upper estimate of which is some 72 million).
# Dramatic growth since around 1950 coinciding with greatly increased food production as a result of the heavy industrialisation of agriculture (known as the Green Revolution). Population is forecast to carry on growing to 8.9 billion, 9.2 billion[3], 9.5 billion[4] or perhaps even 11 billion by 2050.<
Plus, of course, the old nursery rythmes and stories were for old style living (don't leave the forest path - what forests the modern kid is thinking, the only forests they see is SpeedTree in a computer game). What the (other peoples) children need, is some modern cautionary tales, like not accepting sweets or kindness from strangers, or, how it's not generally wolves but kindly uncles who will kill them, and how staring slackjawed at games consoles will totally prepare them for that coming zombie holocaust.
All IMHO of course.
>Users on other platforms can insulate themselves from the current attack by disabling javascript from running inside the application, but Adobe warned it's possible to design an exploit that works around that measure.<
:facepalm
Adobe should find the programmer responsible for writing all these vulnerabilities into their <expletive deleted> software, move him away from the herd (so as not to startle them) and <humanely> shoot him in the head - alternatively, take off and nuke the entire site from orbit...
I have quicktime/Realtime alternative and VLC for video with Foxit reader to read PDFs, but there is no (to my awareness), Flash replacement.
>"We've learned a lesson from Vista," she said. "We wouldn't have been able to make the step-change we have without it."<
Lesson I learned from not being offered an upgrade price from Vista is learn to love the penguin.
1) Themes make it not so awful to look at.
2) Better online security
3) Wine runs Dreamweaver 8 very nicely.
4) Open Office not so awful once you learn its peccadilloes (faster than the move from MS Office 2003 to 2007), does everything I require from it (so far).
5) Gimp replaces Photoshop (still learning so unsure if it's as good, but it opens PSD files no problems, with all layers intact).
6) Evolution replaces Outlook, not terrible but no synch with my phone... as yet. When new phone time, looking for one that works with Ubuntu.
7) Better online security.
8) Ubuntu 9.04 offers much better hardware recognition at install (inc Belkin wireless adaptor, Aiptek graphics tablet, two Epson printers and a USB mouse).
9) Everything (even Wine ran Dreamweaver) feels so much more responsive.
10) And finally, better online security.
So, congratulations Microsoft, you've pushed one loyal (albeit unwilling), customer of 27 years (MSDOS 3.3 1987) over to the dark side... and I've never been happier.
Too little, too late, too expensive.
Erroneous 1984 quote:
>"Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain."<
(Big Brother: Obvious)
>The restriction will apply ... between 8pm and 11pm<
Seems perfectly reasonable to me, I think BT do it from about 6pm to midnight. P2P was never meant to be about streaming in realtime, and it seems that broadband demand (online TV, Youtube etc) has outstripped capacity. I prefer traffic shaping to all out ban.
>The bigest problem for with voting for me is lack of knolage. I don't know enough about the partys to be able to make up my mind. There is to much fluff and media rubbish from them.<
Here is the truth badly spelled.
When I hear Cameron or Brown or Clegg saying what they're going to do I just think, 'liar' and carry on with my day. Reform is needed but not in the way you think. A manifesto should be what they are going to do, not just promises and fluffy wuffy assurances, but a legally binding contract between the chosen government and its people. Failure to enact the contract or attempts to add to it after power is attained should be seen as treason and punished accordingly. The government must be held answerable just as its citizens are.
Who watches the watchmen? 'quote from some guy'
>command and control server hosted in the Ukraine.<
Start bombing the country until the government finds those responsible and hands them over to the international community who can then put them in stocks and let people pelt them with rotten fruit - and cut their hands off (and tongue so they can't use Dragon Dictate) humanely of course.
>Do we have to stop internet banking completely now? Or shall I install a linux machine at home solely for banking purposes?<
Heh, that's exactly what I've done, Ubuntu at the office (about to try my luck with Wine and Dreamweaver - only win program I can't find decent Linux replacement for), Windows at home for surfing and games only (still running Bitdefender and weekly Malwarebytes scans).
Obvious paragraph warning: Also, change all financial passwords regularly (inc Ebay, Paypal etc) and different passwords for each not saved in the browser (if you must keep a record have a physical copy of random words in your wallet - not like a customer of mine who had a text file on her desktop called passwords.txt). Check your funds on a regular basis, not just online but by physical checks and or telephony, and never ever click on links in emails or surf with noscript. None of these are 100%, but every little helps.
But in reality, the situation is becoming untenable and banks need to reassess their security protocols. I'd rather have it be a pain logging into financial transactions and feel safe than sail straight into an account knowing Blackhats can do so as well.
@ A man from Mars: Are you saying this is all the banks doing? I hope not because that would mean I've begun to understand you and should probably commit myself immediately. <smiley>
>Miami’s recent deployment of Windows 7. The result: it expects to save nearly $400,000 a year in reduced security, management, and energy costs<
is this possible? You still need to buy a decent anti virus/malware/firewall suite and unless the users are on standard user logins (which were available in XP), the UAC won't actually stop them installing anything (stupid is as stupid does), and energy costs... wtf are they going to be timesharing computers? or maybe, when they've completed their actual two hours of daily work, instead of surfing Facebook / porn / whatever, they allow the pc to go into sleep mode (also available in XP), and sit around the coffee machine bitching about photoshopped celebrities.
Oh, unless they've changed from Macs and iPhones, but think how much more they'd save in going to Linux (bearing in mind the loss of productivity and blah blah in the beginning).
What's the big deal about multi touch? I mean, apart from zooming in and out of photo's, what else does it do? People make it sound like the coming of the holy grail, but unless you work for CSI, zooming in on suspects faces, what's the big kerfuffle?
As for the popularity thing, you watch how many American shows have their actors caressing iPhones - maybe even a few Brit shows (hide the logo, you still know what you're looking at), and you try giving your kid an MP3 player when everyone at their school has an iPod - his love will turn to hate in milli seconds.
Plus, of course, you've got the dumbing down of Western civilisation to look at too.
Hur dur, Catherine Willows got iPhone, pretty. Me want...
This would be the government that is going to reign in overspending, force banks to not have such obscene bonuses, make sweeping cuts in public spending and make government more answerable to the general public by reintroducing democracy - much as they've been doing these past ten years then.
>and know how to check the security features.< you just flick it, yea?
Labour: Promises as above if they get back in, in actuality, trying to force thru ID cards, extra tax on broadband and kicking off the very people who made broadband popular in the first place. Of course, the general populace now require broadband to watch the flash adverts and rewatch Eastenders 'cos 'this week it was bloody good!'
Thanks for ruining my broadband general populace!
But win7 starter (no aero, not important, or changing wallpaper - why?), the mass of online complaints about Archos after sales service, and a hand on guys review where he showed how long it took Firefox to load - dog slow, felt like about 7 seconds, make me less interested. Why bother making a computer (it's priced as such) that can't run anything other than the OS (notepad and media player)? A tablet perfect for graphics use that won't run Photoshop (tho maybe it'll run Gimp).
What I want from a Tablet: Hard disk, read my ebooks and egraphic novels of which I've got a tidy library, watch divx films, surf and email, play music, text recognition, decent art package and play mahjong.
What was a day one buy for me has become a wait and see, read reviews of real world usage and wait to see how the hardware holds up.
When El Reg does a review, how about sticking some software, Office, old photoshop etc to see how it copes. Cheers.
>Complex systems can be prone to problems with feedback. And when these predictive systems are combined with society, they form truly complex systems. How will these predictive systems deal with the inevitability that some people will change their behaviour as a result of learning of such systems' existence and use?<
It'll come to life, won't it? call itself Skynet, scorch the sky and use the human survivor as batteries (because it wouldn't occur to it to launch sunlight collecting satellites - garbage in, human programming, garbage out, Skynet AI).
Meanwhile Kaneda is trying to stop Akira from blowing the matrix wide open, whilst Blakes seven tries to destroy the Federation with an alien starship. Picard isn't taking this lying down, having been abused by the borg (Skynets bigger brother), and they have a huge JJ Abrams space battle with sweeping camera moves, gorgeous lens flares and multi coloured nebulae.
It ends with the precogs, Martians and Scientologists taking a hit out on Tom Cruise, so happy ending all round really.
FOAD!
>Future contributors to this thread should note that voicing ANY opinion on future government plans for control of subjects is grounds for entry on our surveillance systems and a disciplinary mark on your state record. We assume that any positive comments are sarcastic.<
Entropy is a wonderful thing.
The problem with defining abnormality (or 'Freedom defined is freedom denied.'), is that you have to have a baseline normality, and how thick that line is. Is S&M abnormal, or the guy who goes for a walk at 3am for quiet time, the group who hate Britain has <no> talent, people who hate Tom Cruise in Minority report and think he and the kids ruined 'War of the worlds'? Is murdering abnormal? governments appear to love doing it in the guise of freedom, oil or whatever.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Hassan i Sabbah, 10th century. Crap! I'm quoting a Middle East terrorist.
Iching: Things fall apart from the centre (or something).
The bankers (paranoid conspiracy coming up), think they can control the worlds population for their own use, chips in brains, global government etc etc etc, but this too shall pass.
Terry Pratchet insult: May you live in interesting times.
And finally: Rocky horror picture show: Don't dream it, be it.
Peace out. Don't try to be normal, be abnormal and fuck 'em!
>Switch to Linux - kill productivity, supportability and maintainability<
Heh, got to my office at 9 this morning (Tuesday), self employed engineer, booted up and installed Ubuntu, everything worked, my Belkin wireless dongle - connected straight to the router in the office downstairs after filling in the WPA, sound, video, two Epson printers and USB drives. It then updated and rebooted, I installed VLC (media player of choice even on windows). Set up the Evolution email prog, imported my Firefox bookmarks from my windows installation (backup and import), and was up and running by 11.
Open office opened all my docs and my 12 month/12 sheet excel finances, and Gimp opened up my photoshop files (gonna be a learning process there but so was Photoshop), and my God! I'd forgotten how fast broadband actually is. Programs snapped up like I was running Win98 on a highspec machine. The only thing I haven't found yet is a Dreamweaver replacement - oh yea, I haven't tried opening a PDF file yet.
On Firefox I've reinstalled adblocker and noscript (is that even necessary on Linux?), plus a few other favourite addins. and Evolution (tho' I'm guessing no synch with my phone - unfortunate) has my imported from Outlook contacts and calender.
Complaints: Aesthetics, are there no artistic types in the Linux world? that orange is just awful, and compare Win7 Mahjong to Ubuntu Mahjong... shudder. But for work, apart from Dreamweaver, it does everything I use my office PC for (still got my Win7 games machine at home), and the speed increase, a plus point for productivity I'd have said.
Anyway, gonna give it a whirl for a few months (may even learn some new stuff :-).
This is a country (state?), that gave the world The Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, culminating in the deaths of hundreds of civilian protestors, that cheated when hosting the Olympics, that invaded Tibet with global immunity (no oil there sadly).
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sdc/hr_facts.html
They torture they're own dissidents (writers, journalists etc), permit trafficing of women, and the one child policy has created an army of mostly female and or handicapped orphans with no legal existence. Reports of forced sterilisation on Tibetan women who have given birth once (since the one child policy doesn't exist in Tibet), and read the stuff on their death penalty (for non violent crimes) and Tibet.
They are an evil (not too strong a word), ruling elite, and any government that does business with them is as morally bankrupt (unfortunately including our own sceptred isle and the great US of A).
Blue Shield is the only logical conclusion to the extermination of freedom of thought and expression, and, seeing as how the copyright mafia love to divide the globe up into seperate paying entities, will probably be trying to lobby other governments into following suit.
They're not too concerned about child abuse though...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/17/content_2964584.htm
Because, apparently, pictures of cats with humourous quotes are teh funny.
News just in, El Reg contributes to general paranioa of the internet by reporting that Google is doing what Google have always done, making the best search engine they can by trawling public web pages.
Commentards, as usual, read the first few lines then misinterpret the article and pass summary judgement on the evil overlords of the internet.
Garfield lolcat: 'Gravity, why fight it?' Hey, where's the lolcat icon?
> Not been funny, I Could be very wrong but everyone seems preoccupied with how they can protect themselves from this great big evil virus. Well in short, don't go to dubious websites etc and that way you reduce the risk of getting infected in the first place.<
Good thinking... only one of the Zeus variants infecting systems was coming from the Paul McCartney site (just re released all the Beatles library in cleaned up Mono and new Stereo - not him, but you can bet his website has surged with visits).
Unless you consider him dubious, which is fair enough.
>Oh, and I only use Linux for accessing my bank. Just in case.<
Well I installed a dual boot of Ubuntu a few months ago, got it all working and everything, but then never used it after I sussed out how it all worked. But this is making me rethink, and thanks for the pointer to Evolution - it looks good.
As for, 'why Outlook?' Shrug, devil you know and all that, but, the windows vulnerabilities (assuming this doesn't affect Linux and Macs), is getting ridiculous. I pay Bitdefender £25 a year to slow my system down, lockup when the PC goes to sleep sometimes (just guesswork here), and slow my surfing to a crawl.
Time for a change. (First time I've used the penguin I think).
This is scary stuff... From http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2008/04/crimeware-in-middle-zeus.html
>Written in VC + + 8.0... this is achieved at the expense of small size (10-25 Kb), it can work around most firewalls, works in limited accounts, steal browser passwords, takes snapshots of users machine and can be bought for about $700<
You wrote >is detected just 23 per cent of time by AV programs<
And after googling about it, found lots of what it can do, but nothing on how to detect and destroy it. Even the PDF report leaves out the 23% that do detect it and offers no advice as to how they so easily find it on their customers machine.
Something this capable, which is only going to get better, needs decisive action taken, and not by profit driven anti malware suites, but by governments and police globally working together and smacking these fraudsters with real jail time (what is it, 5 or 6 years for bank robbery?).
So, does MS Office 2003 run in Wine? can't live without my Outlook.
Top 5 Pertwee IMHO
The Green Death (I cried with the Doctor at Joe leaving)
Brain of Morbius (scared the bejesus out of me)
TOW The demon in the cornish village (witchcraft, ancient alien science being like magic to us - mind expanding stuff to a kid)
The Axons (golden coloured people?) and the Nestens (plastic people horror)
Pyramids of Mars (birthed my fascination with Egyptology)
It's exactly the same hardware and software. How can it bork only certain iPhones / iPods? I'm not sure how the apologist's can blame user stupidity tho', surely you tell the device to update and it does (just works), or it doesn't (brick).
Or maybe... they're not all made with the same precise components, when gold plated chip A runs out they use slightly inferior chip B, then, because the only phones at HQ use A they forget to test the update on devices using B.
>UK Music suggested that on their third warning, illegal filesharers should be cut off for 72 hours, for a month on their fourth warning, and on their fifth for two months.<
Heh, that sounds fair to me, second warning go virtual encrypted whatever it is, third warning visit a friends for two days, fourth and fifth warning rent a dongle for email and surfing then go usenet. It's kind'a like a bad joke. If the copyright mafia are serious, they should simply take the filesharer to court where the burden of proof is on them. I'm assuming they hope the first warning will frighten most filesharers into stopping.
I mean, this is obviously so very much more important than innocent civilians dying in Afghanistan and Iraq, people still starving to death in third world countries, Chinese human rights abuses, rape of the natural world, loss of basic freedoms and the rapidly diminishing oil reserves.
@ Dunncha
>I would rather get a 'tap' on the shoulder and be told to stop than to get a court summons which I have little chance of defending myself against.<
Don't ever do this, it's just a logic exercise...
borrow a laptop and change its name to Hakerun1te, log onto your router and do some surfing, bingo, proof that someone hacked your router (the laptops name will appear on the routers list of connected PCs). This will also allow you to query the validity of access being suspended too. Maybe.
TPB is still up and running. I'm starting to feel sorry for the copyright mafia, not only are they losing all this money from the filthy pirates, but they're haemoraging cash on court cases - and whilst they got a 3 million award from that unemployed mother (or however much it was), the cost of buying a completely new identity and life would be so much cheaper they're not likely to see any of it.
/irony
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