I was curious enough to look this up, thought I would share.
Climbers average Average 123.6 death per 100k from 2003 to 2011 with around 8-9 thousand workers. Since 2009 the number dropped to 58, then 81 in 2010 and 81 again in 2010.
In comparison to other high risk professions tower climbing jumps is the 3rd most dangerous most years, but quickly jumps to the top of the list when demand is high and there is pressure to skip safety precautions.
This is malware they can generate any CTR they want, or use any trick they want to enhance the CTR. The only reason its not 100% is they are trying to go undetected by both the affiliate program and the end user.
They got it half right. People are writing angry emails to Wikipedia over their horrible ads rather than running security scans.
The police in general can't be bothered with minor crimes so I'm betting the real crime is messing with an important person.
I'm also guessing that if said important person had their house broken into, mobile phone stolen, punched in the face ... the police response would also be much different than when the same crime happens to us ordinary unimportant folk.
I'm officially boycotting any and all Danish comedians as providers of IT equipment, support or services and I strongly urge everyone else to do the same.
The ITU has decided that anything significantly faster than 3G can be marketed as 4G. This is considered an acceptable compromise in the US but not in other countries with a tradition of enforcing stricter advertising and marketing regulations.
Now we got a situation where its 4G in one country, 3G in the next. If I were in charge I would have created a new and more relaxed standard called 3.5G, leaving the original 4G standard as originally specified.
I love cloud .. but only when its used as a backup and syncing mechanism for data that resides on my own computer, data that I can chose to back up locally.
At my local US post office they will refuse to accept an unsigned credit card until you sign it. They also compare the signature on your credit card to the signature on your ID. Its rare but it does happen.
Women are drawn to Pinterest the way men are to pornography.
I was told that Pinterest appeal to women can only be likened to a male's interest in pornography.
The flexibility these cloud services offer is amazing and is perfect for start-ups. You only pay for what you use as you are using it. If the site is successful you can instantly scale to meet the demand and then choose to invest in a more cost effective, but less flexible data center.
What I would really like to see on those charts is Pinterest's advertising revenues. I have no clue if they are hemorrhaging money or raking it in hand over fist.
I'm also curious if it is at all cost effective to maintain some on demand capacity in the cloud or whether its better to have a dedicated data center which is operating at a fraction of its potential most of the time.
You can't just go by your personal experiences when judging reliability. Random data produces lots of meaningless patterns. For example I've never had a problem with a drive evenly divisible by 12.
For any drive manufacturer X there is someone whose has first hand experience with horrible reliability from brand X.
Even if you look up long term reliability data, reliability is going to vary greatly within a manufacturer model to model. By the time there is enough information the drive is obsolete and no longer sold.
I just assume that any drive is going to die at any time, and plan your backup and recovery strategies accordingly. I always buy twice as much capacity as I need, so that I will always have room on an external for my weekly backups.
Anyone logging in as me not only violates my privacy, but also gets access to chat logs of confidential conversations of my close friends.
I actually prefer to talk to my friends in person or on the phone, but at least half my friends use facebook for Instant messaging and as a replacement for email.
@dssf re Interactive text books .. .multiple formats
"But then there was the small print: In order to buy and read these textbooks, each student will have to own an Apple iPad. No computer, off-brand tablet, or even iPhone or iPod touch will work."
Or you just buy the kindle or epub version of the same textbook, which won't have all the interactive bells and whistles, but that's hardly Apple's fault.
No one sells open books, they DRM protected books. If you have a problem with DRM your problem is with the entire digital publishing industry not Apple.
Before any government contract is awarded there needs to be an mandatory statement read about how the technology commonly seen on TV and Movies isn't real and doesn't work like that.
The first Apple product I purchased was an iPod touch. I played with my friends for a bit, and he was just as happy with it after owning it for several months, so I bought one. I've used it daily every since.
Pretty much the same story with the iPad. I knew people who owned one, and still felt good about the purchase months latter when the newness factor wore off.
I didn't buy either product to be fashionable or because I am an Apple fan. I bought them because I thought they would provide good value for the money, and I was not wrong.
What would the government infrastructure look like.
I think a government monopoly would be far worse than what we have now. Business decisions would be based on votes and election cycles rather than reality. Companies would lobby to have everything standardized around their hardware and software.
I think what we needed is some changes that would make the market work more efficiently.
My suggestion would be to require a separation of hardware and services. If they want to finance your next phone, that would be separate from your service agreement. You'd owe each month for your plan, and for the phone (unless you already had one or chose to buy one outright). If you switch providers you'll still have to make payments on the phone or buy out the balance.
They will have to focus on providing the best possible service to keep their customers happy, instead of trying to lock them in.
This is beyond what I was taught or have worked with, but the main point about traditional databases were that they always guaranteed consistency, ACID and all that. Very important for most data storage.
However once you start breaking a database into multiple servers distributed across the globe, the costs of maintaining consistency between those individual database servers rises exponentially, until it becomes impossible to have something like Google or Facebook work in anything close to real time.
So you have distributed storage where changes propagate throughout the system but the database servers are never 100% consistent with each other.
I'd be very unhappy if my bank balance varied according to which ATM machine I was using at the moment, but if some of my friends see my status update immediately and others see it a few minutes latter, or if I get slightly different google results ... its not a big deal.
Apps being useless wastes of time? the same was said about ...
Websites
Internet
Cell Phones
Personal Computers
Computer Aided Design
Held Held Calculators
Punch cards
Home Phones
Today I Checked my bank account, paid my bills online, cashed a check by taking a picture of it, ordered a prescription refill, read my email, got an alert that my prescription, was ready, used a time tracker app to record the hours worked, and send a invoice to the client, used another app to identify a song I liked, quickly helped a friend by controlling their computer with team viewer, surfed the internet for a product manual, saved it in dropbox, then opened it for viewing in stanza. Read a programming manual in stanza. Checked the weather and tracked a 3 mile walk. Right now I'm on my iPad updating my grocery list which will then automatically sync with my iPod touch which I'll have with me at the store. Latter when I cook it will be open to the website with the recipe.
Its a rumor passed down from generation to generation?
When you carefully examine the evidence, its equally likely Atlantis was the largest sandcastle ever constructed by board children. Repeat the story via word of mouth for a few generations and you get what Plato heard.
Yes this has been proven possible for quite some time, but now its not only possible but quick and easy, and probably soon to be available on the pirate bay for the black hats who won't pay for software.
I got an iPad because for a vary narrow usage, cramming dozens of programming pdf's into an ebook reader. Kindle sucks at anything other than fiction, I read fiction on my kindle on an almost daily basis, but trying to read a technical manual on it is horrid. Carrying a dozen physical books is kind of bulky, reading on a laptop just doesn't cut it for me.
I didn't expect to like the iPad much, was presently surprised and now its my favorite computer product.
I'm really glad I bought the iPad before the $100 HP Tablet sell off, because I would have stuck with that and likely never tried and iPad. I wouldn't know what I was missing.
I see the Fire more as competition for the iPod Touch than an iPad.
Personally I think what you do is more important than what you see.
I'm all for anything that gives parents a better/easier option to control what their child is exposed to but mostly it's pointless. Kids are crude, vulgar and nasty by default. When their young it's boogers and farts, then it becomes dirty jokes, stashes of adult magazines, and two girls and a cup style videos. And guess what, chances are they are experimenting with sex much earlier than you would think possible.
In my opinion the best thing you can do is be a good role model for your kids. A real world example is far more powerful than a you tube video. Show them healthy respectful relationships, mature conflict resolution, responsible alcohol use. If you want them to read more let them see you with a book in your hand. If you want them to take school seriously, let them see you exhibit a love of learning.
However it would be really appreciated if their is was a could friendly, curated you tube spin off. :)
When I did web programming I had my entire work environment in a Windows XP virtual machine, which lived on a 2.5" external.
Now I'm back to being religious about my backups. Every system has a image made when windows is first setup and one done before any major changes in case something goes wrong.
I could definitely see myself going virtual again if my work needs warranted it. Its very nice to have a 100% stable work environment, that works on any computer you own or can install software on. Not sure if I'd take it as far as the author has, the external hard drive solution was simple and portable.
The best option isn't a clean install, its restoring from a recent full system partition backup, followed by extracting and disinfecting the user's files from a backup of the infected made prior to the restoration. Better yet the user has an external hard drive and software which syncs their personal files on a regular basis.
Unfortunately what I normally see is someone with no backup, who has critical software installed which cannot be reinstalled because they can't find the discs, and needs their PC up and running in about an hour because even though its been unusable for a week they waited until the day before their work assignment/homework/whatever is due to take care of it.
I normally try to boot into safe mode with networking with a fresh download of malware bytes on a usb stick. If that doesn't work I pop the drive into an eSATA dock and clean it up with from my PC.
Hopefully this will work in situations where booting from safe mode isn't an option or where I don't have access to a 2nd computer and the right adapter to connect a drive to it.
Good competitionf or the ipod touch if it had a camera.
I wouldn't consider replacing my iPad with a Kindle Fire, however I could see it replacing my iPod touch. For that however I'd want a camera.
Its not a feature I thought was important, but I've gotten used to doing my grocery list by using my iPod to scan bar codes, using it to take pictures of my checks so I can cash them online via my banks app, taking quick pictures and videos while I'm taking something complicated apart ....
Like my iPad, a camera on my mp3 player was something I didn't know I needed until I had one.
I carry a dirt cheap prepaid phone that's only good for making calls and a 4th gen iPod touch for entertaining myself and free texts when wifi is available. Its not just about saving money, when my iPod's battery is low, my dumb phone is still good for a couple more days.
Since it effects the behavior of mice, there is constant speculation that it can affect the behavior of humans, however no one has actually been able to provide any evidence.
This study shows that it affects the brain chemistry of mice, They didn't even study any potential effects on human.
A friend of mine bought 4 at full price from a store that has a good price matching policy. It doesn't seem very bright to do the same from a store that has no such policy.
Everyone I know who has one is a very happy customer.
I initially thought the iPad was stupid, so did my friends. They they started buying iPad2's and seemed very happy with the purchase even months latter. So I bought one and I'm still using mine on a daily basis.
Apple's selling them as fast as they can make them, surveys indicate that customer satisfaction is both high and doesn't diminish much over time.
Hopefully by the time I'm ready for my next tablet purchase there will be some compelling and highly successful alternatives.
There are inherent design constraints in any mechanism (viruses included). An adaptation that helps a virus in one respect will likely weaken it another. That's why we haven't yet all died from from some fast spreading airborn flesh eating antibiotic resistant superbug.
These corporations have billions invested in software patents. If they lobbied for reform the software patent bubble will burst and they will instantly lose billions in assets, not to mention revenue from royalty payments. Wall street would freak out as usual and It would get real ugly real fast.
What company is going to lobby to destroy billions of its own assets. What politician is going to vote for finical turmoil in the tech industry?
AT&T is implementing a 150 GB cap for DSL and 250 GB for Cable. The first two months they warn you, then after that they automatically bill you $10 per 50 GB overage pack.
A friend of mine was an early adopter of Google TV (built into his new tv) and he said that at first it was great, then one by one content providers blocked streaming to the device. Not enough big content players are were willing to partner with Google to make Google TV a success.
You can't fault Logitech for betting on Google.
Anyway Logitech makes excellent keyboard and mice and when the usb dongle for my fancy mouse broke out of warranty they were able to sell me a cheap replacement part.
It used to be that when something important happened in a friend or family members life they picked up a phone and called. Now they just post on Facebook. If I don't check my facebook page, I end up socially excluded.
Its not that bad as long as you steer clear of the games and ban messages from all those stupid apps and remember to check for new privacy settings.
Have you ever considered the possibility that software development is very difficult and there there is only an exceptional few who have the skill and intelligence to program at your level?
I used to feel that to be a "real" programmer you must at minimum
-be competent in more than one language
-be comfortable working with pointers
-be comfortable working with a language that requires them to do their own memory management
-make proper use of version control
-make proper use of their IDE's debugger
-have a basic understanding of design patterns
-have a frim grasp of algorithmic complexity
-have a basic understanding of assembly language/compilers
The I realized that by that definition at least 85% of programmers are not "real" programmers, which doesn't make much sense.
Theoretically, a quick review of the history of the Pwn2Own contest will convince most that researches are always to find and exploit vulnerabilities, no matter what OS you use.
On a practical level, I've disinfected hundreds of Windows Computers, I've have yet to see a virus infected Mac.
I fully expect things to change if OSX's market share continues to rise, at which point I just start doing my online shopping and banking using Linux.
When a company releases a product/service and its value is immediately clear, then that company is merely being clever.
When a company releases a product/service and no one knows what to think because its exploring uncharted waters, then that company is being innovative.
I'd strongly argue that the whole Google Wave experiment is proof that Google is a company that isn't afraid to innovate.
1) Astonishment at something different in another culture isn't necessarily criticism
2) Criticism isn't necessarily the result of Prejudice
3) Prejudice directed at anything other than an race/ethnicity isn't Racism.
For example if someone is critical of an NGO but that criticism isn't based on prejudice, then its definitely not racist. Being prejudiced against an NGO because of its national origin is xenophobic. Being prejudiced against an NGO because based on its ethnic makup would be racist.
Its also important to note that not all remarks that on the surface seem Xenophobic remarks are actually Xenophobic. For example if someone makes a remark about 'Merkins', its more likely thank not an expression of reasonable criticism of some narrow aspect of American culture and society rather than an expression of xenophobic prejudice.
It would be very hard and expensive to realistically to fake an entire search engine, but its very easy for the malware to perform a real search, modify the results, then display that to the infected user.
Currently Google is able to detect this, because the malware writers didn't put enough effort into making their activity look like a normal search. It shouldn't take them very long to figure out how to made their searches seem completely normal.
Thumbs up for recommending three excellent free AV options. (My favorite is Avast).
Now in addition to feeling guilty about not eating better, not exercising more, I now have to feel bad about the fact that at best I only drink a couple times a month.
I understood why a upper level computer science textbook weighing in at over 1000 pages and containing information which became out of date the moment it was printed would be expensive.
What upset me was why all my low level books in other fields were shorter, less time sensitive, required less research, had a larger audience, were still just as expensive.
I think the real problem is that those making the purchasing decisions are not the ones paying, so there is no real competition on price.
You could change this by including the cost of books in with tuition. But then you'd end up with the opposite problem, with courses being handicapped because the university doesn't budget enough money pay for up to date course materials.
I think the best solution would be a migration to open text books and other open educational resources. Instead of having thousands of people writing thousands of textbooks you have everyone collaborating on a few, which can be freely updated, supplemented, customized and printed and bound at cost.
What I want from "the cloud" is an online backup, and a means of automatically keeping the data stored on my local machines in sync. Since everything exists on my local machines I get to backup everything in case the cloud screws up and eats my data during a sync.
Evernotes, Dropbox, and Gmail (when using IMAP and paired with an email client like Thunderbird or Mail) all give me this.
Google would have to
1) Have all the apps work offline on my desktop where all my data is 100% local, kept in sync with with the cloud.
2) All the apps work offline on the chrome books with local caching or recently accessed data and the ability to create new data.
It wouldn't be hard, my iOS devices do this with dropbox, evernotes, and email already.
The problem is Google wants to make local storage obsolete :(
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Most dangerous job? Out of how many workers?
I was curious enough to look this up, thought I would share.
Climbers average Average 123.6 death per 100k from 2003 to 2011 with around 8-9 thousand workers. Since 2009 the number dropped to 58, then 81 in 2010 and 81 again in 2010.
In comparison to other high risk professions tower climbing jumps is the 3rd most dangerous most years, but quickly jumps to the top of the list when demand is high and there is pressure to skip safety precautions.
Fisherman
Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 116
Median wage: $27,880
Logger
Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 92
Median wage: $38,660
Airplane pilot
Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 71
Median wage: $115,300
Farmer and rancher
Fatality rate per 100,000 workers: 41
Median wage: $65,960
Re: CTR?
This is malware they can generate any CTR they want, or use any trick they want to enhance the CTR. The only reason its not 100% is they are trying to go undetected by both the affiliate program and the end user.
They got it half right. People are writing angry emails to Wikipedia over their horrible ads rather than running security scans.
I bet the real crime was ..
The police in general can't be bothered with minor crimes so I'm betting the real crime is messing with an important person.
I'm also guessing that if said important person had their house broken into, mobile phone stolen, punched in the face ... the police response would also be much different than when the same crime happens to us ordinary unimportant folk.
I'm outraged.
I'm officially boycotting any and all Danish comedians as providers of IT equipment, support or services and I strongly urge everyone else to do the same.
Don't blame Apple.
The ITU has decided that anything significantly faster than 3G can be marketed as 4G. This is considered an acceptable compromise in the US but not in other countries with a tradition of enforcing stricter advertising and marketing regulations.
Now we got a situation where its 4G in one country, 3G in the next. If I were in charge I would have created a new and more relaxed standard called 3.5G, leaving the original 4G standard as originally specified.
I use 9 out of 10
Most of these can be automatically installed via ninite.com, otherwise I'd probably only be using 7 out of 10 :)
I love clouds ...
I love cloud .. but only when its used as a backup and syncing mechanism for data that resides on my own computer, data that I can chose to back up locally.
Signing the back of the card.
At my local US post office they will refuse to accept an unsigned credit card until you sign it. They also compare the signature on your credit card to the signature on your ID. Its rare but it does happen.
Women are drawn to Pinterest the way men are to pornography.
I was told that Pinterest appeal to women can only be likened to a male's interest in pornography.
The flexibility these cloud services offer is amazing and is perfect for start-ups. You only pay for what you use as you are using it. If the site is successful you can instantly scale to meet the demand and then choose to invest in a more cost effective, but less flexible data center.
What I would really like to see on those charts is Pinterest's advertising revenues. I have no clue if they are hemorrhaging money or raking it in hand over fist.
I'm also curious if it is at all cost effective to maintain some on demand capacity in the cloud or whether its better to have a dedicated data center which is operating at a fraction of its potential most of the time.
Reliable Reliability Data?
You can't just go by your personal experiences when judging reliability. Random data produces lots of meaningless patterns. For example I've never had a problem with a drive evenly divisible by 12.
For any drive manufacturer X there is someone whose has first hand experience with horrible reliability from brand X.
Even if you look up long term reliability data, reliability is going to vary greatly within a manufacturer model to model. By the time there is enough information the drive is obsolete and no longer sold.
I just assume that any drive is going to die at any time, and plan your backup and recovery strategies accordingly. I always buy twice as much capacity as I need, so that I will always have room on an external for my weekly backups.
Direct people to the main website.
Personally I feel security warning emails should never encourage bad practices like asking people to click a link to log into their account.
Instead of a link they should instruct and encourage people to log in normally, and maybe enter a code from the email when prompted.
Otherwise you are simply training people to fall for email phishing scams.
This is how science works.
You make a bunch of guesses and then come up with experiments that create evidence for and against your guesses.
In Science being able to disprove something is just as important an accomplishment as being able to prove something.
It also violates all your friends privacy.
Anyone logging in as me not only violates my privacy, but also gets access to chat logs of confidential conversations of my close friends.
I actually prefer to talk to my friends in person or on the phone, but at least half my friends use facebook for Instant messaging and as a replacement for email.
@dssf re Interactive text books .. .multiple formats
"But then there was the small print: In order to buy and read these textbooks, each student will have to own an Apple iPad. No computer, off-brand tablet, or even iPhone or iPod touch will work."
Or you just buy the kindle or epub version of the same textbook, which won't have all the interactive bells and whistles, but that's hardly Apple's fault.
No one sells open books, they DRM protected books. If you have a problem with DRM your problem is with the entire digital publishing industry not Apple.
Computers suck at any kind of recognition.
Before any government contract is awarded there needs to be an mandatory statement read about how the technology commonly seen on TV and Movies isn't real and doesn't work like that.
The iPad is actually worth the price.
The first Apple product I purchased was an iPod touch. I played with my friends for a bit, and he was just as happy with it after owning it for several months, so I bought one. I've used it daily every since.
Pretty much the same story with the iPad. I knew people who owned one, and still felt good about the purchase months latter when the newness factor wore off.
I didn't buy either product to be fashionable or because I am an Apple fan. I bought them because I thought they would provide good value for the money, and I was not wrong.
What would the government infrastructure look like.
I think a government monopoly would be far worse than what we have now. Business decisions would be based on votes and election cycles rather than reality. Companies would lobby to have everything standardized around their hardware and software.
I think what we needed is some changes that would make the market work more efficiently.
My suggestion would be to require a separation of hardware and services. If they want to finance your next phone, that would be separate from your service agreement. You'd owe each month for your plan, and for the phone (unless you already had one or chose to buy one outright). If you switch providers you'll still have to make payments on the phone or buy out the balance.
They will have to focus on providing the best possible service to keep their customers happy, instead of trying to lock them in.
This is all new to me.
This is beyond what I was taught or have worked with, but the main point about traditional databases were that they always guaranteed consistency, ACID and all that. Very important for most data storage.
However once you start breaking a database into multiple servers distributed across the globe, the costs of maintaining consistency between those individual database servers rises exponentially, until it becomes impossible to have something like Google or Facebook work in anything close to real time.
So you have distributed storage where changes propagate throughout the system but the database servers are never 100% consistent with each other.
I'd be very unhappy if my bank balance varied according to which ATM machine I was using at the moment, but if some of my friends see my status update immediately and others see it a few minutes latter, or if I get slightly different google results ... its not a big deal.
Apps not userful?
Apps being useless wastes of time? the same was said about ...
Websites
Internet
Cell Phones
Personal Computers
Computer Aided Design
Held Held Calculators
Punch cards
Home Phones
Today I Checked my bank account, paid my bills online, cashed a check by taking a picture of it, ordered a prescription refill, read my email, got an alert that my prescription, was ready, used a time tracker app to record the hours worked, and send a invoice to the client, used another app to identify a song I liked, quickly helped a friend by controlling their computer with team viewer, surfed the internet for a product manual, saved it in dropbox, then opened it for viewing in stanza. Read a programming manual in stanza. Checked the weather and tracked a 3 mile walk. Right now I'm on my iPad updating my grocery list which will then automatically sync with my iPod touch which I'll have with me at the store. Latter when I cook it will be open to the website with the recipe.
Ice Pirates
Seriously, no reference in the article or comments to the 1984 cult Sci FI classic "Ice Pirates"?
www.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/
Its a rumor passed down from generation to generation?
When you carefully examine the evidence, its equally likely Atlantis was the largest sandcastle ever constructed by board children. Repeat the story via word of mouth for a few generations and you get what Plato heard.
Valid concern
Yes this has been proven possible for quite some time, but now its not only possible but quick and easy, and probably soon to be available on the pirate bay for the black hats who won't pay for software.
iPad is great for web browsing ..
I got an iPad because for a vary narrow usage, cramming dozens of programming pdf's into an ebook reader. Kindle sucks at anything other than fiction, I read fiction on my kindle on an almost daily basis, but trying to read a technical manual on it is horrid. Carrying a dozen physical books is kind of bulky, reading on a laptop just doesn't cut it for me.
I didn't expect to like the iPad much, was presently surprised and now its my favorite computer product.
I'm really glad I bought the iPad before the $100 HP Tablet sell off, because I would have stuck with that and likely never tried and iPad. I wouldn't know what I was missing.
I see the Fire more as competition for the iPod Touch than an iPad.
Lobbying is to Bribery as Dating is to Prositution.
I'm not exactly sure when lobbying becomes bribery, but there is definitely a legal line there to be crossed.
Personally I think what you do is more important than what you see.
I'm all for anything that gives parents a better/easier option to control what their child is exposed to but mostly it's pointless. Kids are crude, vulgar and nasty by default. When their young it's boogers and farts, then it becomes dirty jokes, stashes of adult magazines, and two girls and a cup style videos. And guess what, chances are they are experimenting with sex much earlier than you would think possible.
In my opinion the best thing you can do is be a good role model for your kids. A real world example is far more powerful than a you tube video. Show them healthy respectful relationships, mature conflict resolution, responsible alcohol use. If you want them to read more let them see you with a book in your hand. If you want them to take school seriously, let them see you exhibit a love of learning.
However it would be really appreciated if their is was a could friendly, curated you tube spin off. :)
I used to do virtualization.
When I did web programming I had my entire work environment in a Windows XP virtual machine, which lived on a 2.5" external.
Now I'm back to being religious about my backups. Every system has a image made when windows is first setup and one done before any major changes in case something goes wrong.
I could definitely see myself going virtual again if my work needs warranted it. Its very nice to have a 100% stable work environment, that works on any computer you own or can install software on. Not sure if I'd take it as far as the author has, the external hard drive solution was simple and portable.
Criminal Charges?
WTF? Where are the criminal charges?
Might save me some effort.
The best option isn't a clean install, its restoring from a recent full system partition backup, followed by extracting and disinfecting the user's files from a backup of the infected made prior to the restoration. Better yet the user has an external hard drive and software which syncs their personal files on a regular basis.
Unfortunately what I normally see is someone with no backup, who has critical software installed which cannot be reinstalled because they can't find the discs, and needs their PC up and running in about an hour because even though its been unusable for a week they waited until the day before their work assignment/homework/whatever is due to take care of it.
I normally try to boot into safe mode with networking with a fresh download of malware bytes on a usb stick. If that doesn't work I pop the drive into an eSATA dock and clean it up with from my PC.
Hopefully this will work in situations where booting from safe mode isn't an option or where I don't have access to a 2nd computer and the right adapter to connect a drive to it.
@Destory All Monsters RE pot calling kettle black
Some random childish whinny bloggers jump to silly unfounded conclusions to push some ideological agenda.
You then jump to silly unfounded conclusions to push your own ideological agenda and start whining about it in a childish manner.
Please identify what political ideology you identify with the most so I can
1) Conclude that you speak for all of them.
2) Commence a Straw Man attack upon that ideology.
Or we can both chill and have a relaxing cup of tea.
Good competitionf or the ipod touch if it had a camera.
I wouldn't consider replacing my iPad with a Kindle Fire, however I could see it replacing my iPod touch. For that however I'd want a camera.
Its not a feature I thought was important, but I've gotten used to doing my grocery list by using my iPod to scan bar codes, using it to take pictures of my checks so I can cash them online via my banks app, taking quick pictures and videos while I'm taking something complicated apart ....
Like my iPad, a camera on my mp3 player was something I didn't know I needed until I had one.
Yet another reason for me to resist smart phones.
I carry a dirt cheap prepaid phone that's only good for making calls and a 4th gen iPod touch for entertaining myself and free texts when wifi is available. Its not just about saving money, when my iPod's battery is low, my dumb phone is still good for a couple more days.
No evidence just speculation.
Since it effects the behavior of mice, there is constant speculation that it can affect the behavior of humans, however no one has actually been able to provide any evidence.
This study shows that it affects the brain chemistry of mice, They didn't even study any potential effects on human.
So basically they are just guessing.
Some stores advertise price matching
A friend of mine bought 4 at full price from a store that has a good price matching policy. It doesn't seem very bright to do the same from a store that has no such policy.
Everyone I know who has one is a very happy customer.
I initially thought the iPad was stupid, so did my friends. They they started buying iPad2's and seemed very happy with the purchase even months latter. So I bought one and I'm still using mine on a daily basis.
Apple's selling them as fast as they can make them, surveys indicate that customer satisfaction is both high and doesn't diminish much over time.
Hopefully by the time I'm ready for my next tablet purchase there will be some compelling and highly successful alternatives.
Design constraints
There are inherent design constraints in any mechanism (viruses included). An adaptation that helps a virus in one respect will likely weaken it another. That's why we haven't yet all died from from some fast spreading airborn flesh eating antibiotic resistant superbug.
Software Patent Bubble
These corporations have billions invested in software patents. If they lobbied for reform the software patent bubble will burst and they will instantly lose billions in assets, not to mention revenue from royalty payments. Wall street would freak out as usual and It would get real ugly real fast.
What company is going to lobby to destroy billions of its own assets. What politician is going to vote for finical turmoil in the tech industry?
Throttling is better than hidden fees.
AT&T is implementing a 150 GB cap for DSL and 250 GB for Cable. The first two months they warn you, then after that they automatically bill you $10 per 50 GB overage pack.
Logitech still makes good keyboard and Mice.
A friend of mine was an early adopter of Google TV (built into his new tv) and he said that at first it was great, then one by one content providers blocked streaming to the device. Not enough big content players are were willing to partner with Google to make Google TV a success.
You can't fault Logitech for betting on Google.
Anyway Logitech makes excellent keyboard and mice and when the usb dongle for my fancy mouse broke out of warranty they were able to sell me a cheap replacement part.
Great move by RIM
There is plenty of room in the government and business markets for a tablet that makes security its number one priority.
I'm sure Android fans will disagree, but right now I feel that the only company that can defeat Apple in the consumer tablet market is Apple.
Right now Apple is neglecting users who want a tablet larger than a phone, but still small enough to carry with you.
Also I find the Asus Eee Pad Transformer to be a very interesting product.
Facebook is now a non optional social obligation.
It used to be that when something important happened in a friend or family members life they picked up a phone and called. Now they just post on Facebook. If I don't check my facebook page, I end up socially excluded.
Its not that bad as long as you steer clear of the games and ban messages from all those stupid apps and remember to check for new privacy settings.
My opinion is slowly shifting,
The more I learn, the more I come to leaning toward viewing these "crimes" as a morally justifiable act of civil disobedience.
@deegee
Have you ever considered the possibility that software development is very difficult and there there is only an exceptional few who have the skill and intelligence to program at your level?
I used to feel that to be a "real" programmer you must at minimum
-be competent in more than one language
-be comfortable working with pointers
-be comfortable working with a language that requires them to do their own memory management
-make proper use of version control
-make proper use of their IDE's debugger
-have a basic understanding of design patterns
-have a frim grasp of algorithmic complexity
-have a basic understanding of assembly language/compilers
The I realized that by that definition at least 85% of programmers are not "real" programmers, which doesn't make much sense.
Theoretical vs Actual Risks.
Theoretically, a quick review of the history of the Pwn2Own contest will convince most that researches are always to find and exploit vulnerabilities, no matter what OS you use.
On a practical level, I've disinfected hundreds of Windows Computers, I've have yet to see a virus infected Mac.
I fully expect things to change if OSX's market share continues to rise, at which point I just start doing my online shopping and banking using Linux.
Innoavation always involve risks.
When a company releases a product/service and its value is immediately clear, then that company is merely being clever.
When a company releases a product/service and no one knows what to think because its exploring uncharted waters, then that company is being innovative.
I'd strongly argue that the whole Google Wave experiment is proof that Google is a company that isn't afraid to innovate.
How would that at all be rasism?
1) Astonishment at something different in another culture isn't necessarily criticism
2) Criticism isn't necessarily the result of Prejudice
3) Prejudice directed at anything other than an race/ethnicity isn't Racism.
For example if someone is critical of an NGO but that criticism isn't based on prejudice, then its definitely not racist. Being prejudiced against an NGO because of its national origin is xenophobic. Being prejudiced against an NGO because based on its ethnic makup would be racist.
Its also important to note that not all remarks that on the surface seem Xenophobic remarks are actually Xenophobic. For example if someone makes a remark about 'Merkins', its more likely thank not an expression of reasonable criticism of some narrow aspect of American culture and society rather than an expression of xenophobic prejudice.
Samsung M8 1TB vs Scorpio Blue 1TB
Using Google.com Shopping ...
About 200 stores are selling the Scorpio Blue 1TB, including all the big names like Amazon, Newegg Only about 10 are selling the Samsung M8 1TB.
I get similar numbers for Google.co.uk
The most likely explanation is that Scorpio Blue 1TB started shipping first.
This won't work for long.
It would be very hard and expensive to realistically to fake an entire search engine, but its very easy for the malware to perform a real search, modify the results, then display that to the infected user.
Currently Google is able to detect this, because the malware writers didn't put enough effort into making their activity look like a normal search. It shouldn't take them very long to figure out how to made their searches seem completely normal.
Thumbs up for recommending three excellent free AV options. (My favorite is Avast).
Great
Now in addition to feeling guilty about not eating better, not exercising more, I now have to feel bad about the fact that at best I only drink a couple times a month.
Thank you science.
Why we need open textbooks.
I understood why a upper level computer science textbook weighing in at over 1000 pages and containing information which became out of date the moment it was printed would be expensive.
What upset me was why all my low level books in other fields were shorter, less time sensitive, required less research, had a larger audience, were still just as expensive.
I think the real problem is that those making the purchasing decisions are not the ones paying, so there is no real competition on price.
You could change this by including the cost of books in with tuition. But then you'd end up with the opposite problem, with courses being handicapped because the university doesn't budget enough money pay for up to date course materials.
I think the best solution would be a migration to open text books and other open educational resources. Instead of having thousands of people writing thousands of textbooks you have everyone collaborating on a few, which can be freely updated, supplemented, customized and printed and bound at cost.
I don't like using "the cloud" this way.
What I want from "the cloud" is an online backup, and a means of automatically keeping the data stored on my local machines in sync. Since everything exists on my local machines I get to backup everything in case the cloud screws up and eats my data during a sync.
Evernotes, Dropbox, and Gmail (when using IMAP and paired with an email client like Thunderbird or Mail) all give me this.
Google would have to
1) Have all the apps work offline on my desktop where all my data is 100% local, kept in sync with with the cloud.
2) All the apps work offline on the chrome books with local caching or recently accessed data and the ability to create new data.
It wouldn't be hard, my iOS devices do this with dropbox, evernotes, and email already.
The problem is Google wants to make local storage obsolete :(
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