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Comment Re:Considering their positions (Score 2) 39

...monitoring of you, your family, and anyone else close to you, by your friendly neighborhood FBI field office for the remainder of your life.

Come join the NSA where you get paid a fraction of what private companies do AND monitoring of you, your family, and anyone else close to you, by your friendly neighborhood FBI field office for the remainder of your life. What a recruitment pitch.
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How To Diagnose a Suddenly Slow Windows Computer? 835

Posted by timothy from the ineffably-inexplicable dept.
Ensign Taco writes "I'm sure nearly every one of us has had it happen. All of a sudden your Windows PC slows to a crawl for no apparent reason. Yeah, we all like Linux because it doesn't do annoying things like this, but the Windows desktop still reigns supreme in most managed LAN work environments. I'm running XP with 4G of RAM and a decent CPU, and everything was fine, until one day — it wasn't. I've run spybot, antivirus, and looked at proc explorer — no luck. There is no one offending, obvious process. It seems every process decides to spike at once at random intervals. So I'm wondering if there's a few wizards out there that know what to look at. Could this be a very clever virus that doesn't run as a process? Or could this just be some random application error that's causing bad behavior? I've encountered this a few times with Windows PCs, but the solution has always been to just add more hardware. Has anyone ever successfully diagnosed this kind of issue?" And whether such a problem is related to malware or not, what steps would you take next?
Communications

Adobe To Open Real-Time Messaging Protocol 108

Posted by timothy from the after-jabber dept.
synodinos writes "Adobe has announced plans to publish the Real-Time Messaging Protocol specification, which is designed for high-performance transmission of audio, video, and data between Adobe Flash Platform technologies. This move that has followed the opening of the AMF spec has been received with varying degrees of enthusiasm from the RIA community."

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