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This didn't happen on any app with any nvidia drivers but this one. This one is ancient, 261.28. But HP seems to believe that if you want to use your computer for audio or video, you have to use that ancient driver because they have not bothered to test newer drivers. It's insulting. They are the most incompetent company in the history of humanity. It took 30 min of me explaining the problem in their support chat to realize that they sent me to the wrong dept. (printers!). The experience cannot be worse. I now belive HP is the most incompetent company I know.-urlwolf (May 15, 2013, 09:41 AM)
Adobe releases critical security updates for Reader, Flash Player and ColdFusion
05.14.2013 11:59 AM
Adobe has released scheduled security updates for its Reader, Acrobat, Flash Player and ColdFusion products on Tuesday in order to fix many critical vulnerabilities, including one that is already actively exploited by attackers.
AV? That stands for audiovisual. Anti-virus? Nonexistent save for virii that have already been identified. Some of the removal systems seem adequate - MalwarBytes comes to mind - but I've yet to find any anti-virus system that could be trusted. I'll set up a firewall, but it is only as effective as my imagination. To my mind, anti-virus software is totally useless - it's a safety blanket that doesn't work, that gives a false sense of security.
I read raymond.cc's review. It was comprehensive. I appreciate the amount of effort he put forth to create it. But, in the long run, it's basically useless. You never know how adequate your security system is until it fails and you know that it failed.
This is common throughout history. Examples? Hadrian's Wall, the Great Wall of China, the French Maginot Line, all were circumvented at some point. Not defeated, circumvented. And any anti-virus solution will, in like fashion, be circumvented, not by a head-on attack, but by an end run, a circumvention not anticipated by the protection authors.
It is a given. It's a challenge to some. And they will not let that gauntlet lie on the forest floor.-barney (May 13, 2013, 10:21 PM)
Sounds like a successful appeal could [start to] change the way things work.
On "the other side"
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Prenda hammered: Judge sends porn-trolling lawyers to criminal investigators (May 7th)-tomos (May 11, 2013, 04:21 PM)-tomos (May 14, 2013, 04:08 AM)
Survey: US residents oppose Internet sales tax
05.13.2013 2:03 PM
Sixty-one percent of U.S. residents surveyed by online postage vendor Endicia said they don't support the Marketplace Fairness Act, which would allow states with sales taxes to collect those taxes from large online retailers.
The proper care and feeding of SSD storage
05.13.2013 3:02 AM
Treat a solid-state drive like its mechanical cousin and you could end up in a world of pain. Here's how to handle these exotic beasts.
Porn troll case prompts ISPs to fight to protect customer IDs
05.12.2013 12:35 PM
Cox, AT&T, other ISPs are fighting a court order in a copyright case, seeking to protect BitTorrent users from a legal fishing expedition.
Several major ISPs embroiled in a copyright lawsuit with an adult film copyright holder are appealing a ruling in the case that could permit hundreds of innocent subscribers to be harassed by copyright trolls.
Perhaps a combination of the plane tumbling a bit while (quite literally) falling out of the air, and the pilot overcorrecting then freezing, as the pane gets just enough air speed (from gravity) to "amplify" the tumble.-Stoic Joker (May 13, 2013, 06:54 AM)
In any case, this episode shows that the US government is simply unfit to even have an opinion on shaping the future Internet.-IainB (May 12, 2013, 06:27 AM)
Appeals court ruling could be 'death' of software patents
05.10.2013 1:13 PM
A U.S. appeals court has ruled that an abstract idea is not patentable simply because it is tied to a computer system, signaling what one judge described as the "death" of software and business method patents.
The ruling in CLS Bank v. Alice gives "staggering breadth to what is meant to be a narrow judicial exception" on patent ineligibility, she wrote. "And let's be clear: if all of these claims, including the system claims, are not patent-eligible, this case is the death of hundreds of thousands of patents, including all business method, financial system, and software patents as well as many computer implemented and telecommunications patents."
WT... That's a joke...right? IIRC Bermuda's mystery was already solved as random methane gas pocket releases.-Stoic Joker (May 10, 2013, 10:05 PM)
When this happens, use the secondary url that gets the file directly from Avant (or wherever they have it stored)
I don't quite understand. It was Avant's own download page that I opened when I hunted it hunted down through all their multituide of options.-conceptualclarity (May 09, 2013, 08:09 PM)
I would still wash it before the first use to get the manufactoring chemicals and other contaminants out.-Tinman57 (May 09, 2013, 03:55 PM)
Of course! But not in a washing machine with laundry products.-app103 (May 09, 2013, 11:41 PM)
I'm on a memory-starved computer, and I've been looking for a new antivirus. I had narrowed it down to Avira, Avast, and AVG as quality free choices. This cinches it for Avast.-conceptualclarity (May 09, 2013, 04:18 PM)