Comment but that only affects winders sissies!! (Score 1) 3
run a real OS like mac or linux and this crap goes TINK and bounces off.
Submission + - US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits (boingboing.net) 3
An anonymous reader writes: The hilariously named "Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property" has finally released its report, an 84-page tome that's pretty bonkers. But amidst all that crazy, there's a bit that stands out as particularly insane: a proposal to legalize the use of malware in order to punish people believed to be copying illegally. The report proposes that software would be loaded on computers that would somehow figure out if you were a pirate, and if you were, it would lock your computer up and take all your files hostage until you call the police and confess your crime. This is the mechanism that crooks use when they deploy ransomware.
Comment Re:Considering who this is talking about, so what? (Score 1) 377
but only after sudo apt-get update... could be
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
for those pesky kernel updates that get "held back" :D
Comment looking for alternative to monkey-b nightmare (Score 1) 739
Distro: Redhat 5.2 Apollo
Hardware: p2 300 128mb ram 100mhz bus on asus p2b. used pin b21 cut hack to get 100mhz bus on 66mhz klamath.
What I did? : Web browse and just poke around. I played chess, learned shell scripting and file sharing. This experience showed me that this was Where It's At. I switched completely with 6.2 Zoot.
Hardware: p2 300 128mb ram 100mhz bus on asus p2b. used pin b21 cut hack to get 100mhz bus on 66mhz klamath.
What I did? : Web browse and just poke around. I played chess, learned shell scripting and file sharing. This experience showed me that this was Where It's At. I switched completely with 6.2 Zoot.
Comment Re:New! with 50% less stink! (Score 1, Interesting) 746
M$ Vista PluS Pack!
Comment Re:Expected (Score 1) 1654
hook pins 1,3 to neutral, and 2,6 to hot of a 220 compatible plug and find your nearest 220 outlet. should do nicely
Comment Re:a way to make money (Score 0, Flamebait) 484
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin
Not to mention that implementations denying users privileges has been annoying at best (UAC on Fista (VISTA), destroyed and removed while OS still called Longhorn LOL ) and often disastrous (the crypto used on DVD and BluRay (cracked a few months and a few weeks post release, respectively).
Doing these things makes ordinarily whitehat power users seethe. We then violently crack the protection on general principal. Some two-bit weenie in Redmond or Cupertino is NOT going to tell me what I can and can't do with MY system!
-Benjamin Franklin
Not to mention that implementations denying users privileges has been annoying at best (UAC on Fista (VISTA), destroyed and removed while OS still called Longhorn LOL ) and often disastrous (the crypto used on DVD and BluRay (cracked a few months and a few weeks post release, respectively).
Doing these things makes ordinarily whitehat power users seethe. We then violently crack the protection on general principal. Some two-bit weenie in Redmond or Cupertino is NOT going to tell me what I can and can't do with MY system!
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