I hope it INCREASES Apple's market share. After they're forced to de-bundle, people can buy their fine Apple hardware at WalMart or wherever, and take it to their carrier to have a service connected to it.
The whole 'Macintosh model of customer lock-in over and over again' bit got old years and years ago. Apple needs to not be such a one-trick pony.
I'm sort of grateful for the 'Endpoint Protection' kludge they installed at work. Apparently they decided that it's far better than the McAfee they were pushing out onto the desktops. So much better that something seems to have gotten configured in the firewall to disable it. I turned off the 'proxy' in Internet Explorer and am no longer blocked from any of the huge number of sites that are blocked at the proxy. There used to be zero connectivity to the Internet unless you went through that proxy. I also recently discovered they're no longer blocking Port 22. Putty now works and I can log onto my Freeshell account from work.
So, if 'Endpoint Protection' gives them the confidence to not be nearly as anal as they used to be, all power to it. Even though it's an immense load on the machine when it decides to schedule a scan. The first few weeks after they rolled it out, before the boneheads in charge got it together, it was scheduling a full scan of my machine on Thursday afternoons at about 1:00 pm. Gee thanx.
Symantec at this point is just 'company name' that the conglomerate of thugs decided to keep when they started pulling all sorts of companies together in buyouts. It's kind of a borg thing.
I still have Symantec C++ which is a fairly useful tool.
The most recent versions of AVG have been a tad too aggressive in my experience. I keep a little set of binaries around called ps.exe and kill.exe. They are win32 utilties from way-back-when (I think from the NT 3.51 era) that work essentially like their UNIX counterparts. They will run on any Win32 platform including 95 and 98. AVG decides on it's own that kill.exe is 'malware' and deletes it, with no announcement.
Ok, so am I the only person on slashdot who thinks slashdot's "ask slashdot" system is by far the best way to solicit responses from people on a mass scale (not sarcastic)?
That would turn out to be a nightmare.
All the political poindexters from democraticunderground.com, lucianne.com, freerepublic.com, dailykos.com, etc. would crowd onto Slashdot. The site would be ruined.
We're better off with just a few of those nuts here.
I'll trust human reaction ahead of computerized flight, any day.
Well, you're out of luck there. The Airbus design is 100% fly-by-wire. It's my understanding that if and when the computers failed, there was essentially nothing that the pilots could have done. In fact, it's my understanding that the transmissions from the plane once the failure had occured were rather horrific in part because the pilots knew this for at least several minutes before the crash.
I'm not sure what design changes would have to be made to the Airbus planes to incorporate manual override functionality. I do know that it would quickly become a matter of fighting-fury Nationalism on the part of the Europeans if the outcome of this study were that the Airbus planes, like the Boeing planes that already have manual override, need a retrofit to be allowed to continue to fly over the US.
I am not an expert on any of this, and I'm sure others can add more to suppliment or refute what I say.
Being a prominent figure in a large institution impresses men.
That gives him a leg up on the rest of us in lobbying his legislators to pass the laws that he 'thinks' are needed. Other than that, he's just like any other Joe Citizen as far as the legislative process is concerned.
The part that frightens me more is that this 'judge' thinks his opinion in what laws should be enacted is more important than anybody elses. It's almost like he thinks his job is to legislate from the bench.
Get in line, Your Honor. You can lobby your Senator to get said 'law' passed just like the rest of us.
Judges can 'think' whatever they like. However, so can any other random citizen. If there are laws in place that make linking to Copyrighted Material illegal, then if a case comes before said judge, s/he can rule in that fashion. If that's how the law is written, of course.
Otherwise, the judge can lobby his representatives and senators just like the rest of us can.
No judge has any role beyond that of any other random citizen in enacting laws. There's this thing called separation of powers.
And they don't have the Bush administration to cover for them any longer. They'd better hope they've kept Obama's folks fat and happy. I don't think so, though.
Actually, nerds don't keep up much at all on PC tech. That's what the dinks in the Hardware Section of Frys are for.
Do you know how to wire in a 74182 Look-Ahead Carry Generator chip to a 74181 ALU chip? What would be the main advantage to going to the 74LS182 part?
What would be a suitable size of inductor for a small switchmode power supply, say one using a Maxim chip, that you'll be using to power a 12-bit PIC processor, a solid state relay, and four LEDs?
I have a $120,000 house that is over 100 years old and on 5 acres of land, including a mini-orchard. I paid less for my home probably in part because I live in an area where I can't get 100/100 for $15/month.
All I have is DSL although a local provider sells a directional RF beam connection for about $30 a month.
I have Windows 98 on 3-1/2" floppies. It's a huge pile. I've never opened it. The way to get it was to buy the full 'retail box' ('Install on any new PC') version of Windows 98. There was a coupon inside the manual that came with it to order the diskette set for a nominal fee. I think it was $10. Then they by mistake shipped me two copies.
I have Windows 95 on 5-1/4" floppies, too. Another thing you had to order. It ended up being handy because you copy all of the files off the floppies into a folder, burn it to a CD, and get the most bare-bones version of Windows 95, and one that installs without prompting for a CD key. The 3-1/2" version prompts for user info and then 'fingerprints' the install media.
Security Vendors need people with 'the cracker mentality' to join their ranks. Without 'morally gray' staffers, how could they supply regimes like the ones in Iran and China with the 'tools' they need to operate their repressive regimes? Morally blind nihilists, while not necessarily those to fill the ranks of the Ideologically 'pure' elite inside the regime, will always be necessary force.
The people that they can't EVER become involved with are the real hackers.
Green energy is a hot topic, so cybersquatters have been targeting wind and solar energy start-ups. And malicious sites can create havoc with a brand's reputation.
Startups, by definition, don't have a brand, or a reputation.
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I hope it INCREASES Apple's market share. After they're forced to de-bundle, people can buy their fine Apple hardware at WalMart or wherever, and take it to their carrier to have a service connected to it.
The whole 'Macintosh model of customer lock-in over and over again' bit got old years and years ago. Apple needs to not be such a one-trick pony.
Another word for 'dumb pipe' is Common Carrier. A role they need to start taking more seriously.
Peter Norton has been reduced to 'Bitmap on a box' status for more than a decade now. I refer to him as 'Peter Bitmap' in ordinary conversation.
I'm sort of grateful for the 'Endpoint Protection' kludge they installed at work. Apparently they decided that it's far better than the McAfee they were pushing out onto the desktops. So much better that something seems to have gotten configured in the firewall to disable it. I turned off the 'proxy' in Internet Explorer and am no longer blocked from any of the huge number of sites that are blocked at the proxy. There used to be zero connectivity to the Internet unless you went through that proxy. I also recently discovered they're no longer blocking Port 22. Putty now works and I can log onto my Freeshell account from work.
So, if 'Endpoint Protection' gives them the confidence to not be nearly as anal as they used to be, all power to it. Even though it's an immense load on the machine when it decides to schedule a scan. The first few weeks after they rolled it out, before the boneheads in charge got it together, it was scheduling a full scan of my machine on Thursday afternoons at about 1:00 pm. Gee thanx.
Symantec at this point is just 'company name' that the conglomerate of thugs decided to keep when they started pulling all sorts of companies together in buyouts. It's kind of a borg thing.
I still have Symantec C++ which is a fairly useful tool.
The most recent versions of AVG have been a tad too aggressive in my experience. I keep a little set of binaries around called ps.exe and kill.exe. They are win32 utilties from way-back-when (I think from the NT 3.51 era) that work essentially like their UNIX counterparts. They will run on any Win32 platform including 95 and 98. AVG decides on it's own that kill.exe is 'malware' and deletes it, with no announcement.
These little binaries, btw, seem to be increasingly harder to find as time goes on. You can still download them here: ftp://ftp.uni-potsdam.de/pub/systems/winnt/WINNT/littles.zip .
Ok, so am I the only person on slashdot who thinks slashdot's "ask slashdot" system is by far the best way to solicit responses from people on a mass scale (not sarcastic)?
That would turn out to be a nightmare.
All the political poindexters from democraticunderground.com, lucianne.com, freerepublic.com, dailykos.com, etc. would crowd onto Slashdot. The site would be ruined.
We're better off with just a few of those nuts here.
"Dissent is the Highest Form of Patriotism"
I remember that one....
Those people kneeling behind their cars with razor blades look pretty silly now.
I'll trust human reaction ahead of computerized flight, any day.
Well, you're out of luck there. The Airbus design is 100% fly-by-wire. It's my understanding that if and when the computers failed, there was essentially nothing that the pilots could have done. In fact, it's my understanding that the transmissions from the plane once the failure had occured were rather horrific in part because the pilots knew this for at least several minutes before the crash.
I'm not sure what design changes would have to be made to the Airbus planes to incorporate manual override functionality. I do know that it would quickly become a matter of fighting-fury Nationalism on the part of the Europeans if the outcome of this study were that the Airbus planes, like the Boeing planes that already have manual override, need a retrofit to be allowed to continue to fly over the US.
I am not an expert on any of this, and I'm sure others can add more to suppliment or refute what I say.
Being a prominent figure in a large institution impresses men.
That gives him a leg up on the rest of us in lobbying his legislators to pass the laws that he 'thinks' are needed. Other than that, he's just like any other Joe Citizen as far as the legislative process is concerned.
Judges have no role whatsoever in enacting laws.
The part that frightens me more is that this 'judge' thinks his opinion in what laws should be enacted is more important than anybody elses. It's almost like he thinks his job is to legislate from the bench.
Get in line, Your Honor. You can lobby your Senator to get said 'law' passed just like the rest of us.
Judges can 'think' whatever they like. However, so can any other random citizen. If there are laws in place that make linking to Copyrighted Material illegal, then if a case comes before said judge, s/he can rule in that fashion. If that's how the law is written, of course.
Otherwise, the judge can lobby his representatives and senators just like the rest of us can.
No judge has any role beyond that of any other random citizen in enacting laws. There's this thing called separation of powers.
And they don't have the Bush administration to cover for them any longer. They'd better hope they've kept Obama's folks fat and happy. I don't think so, though.
Clearly his paper should be shredded and nobody should EVER be allowed to read it.
There shouldn't BE a goal. Well, we all have goals and objectives, and should all care about the future and try our best to take care of the earth.
But there shouldn't be any all-powerful entity setting goals that we are all required to strive toward in unison.
The 'Big Fix' is generally a power grab, and the power is what it's about. That's how Politicians work. Same as always.
The opportunity to make that distinction matters, too. But now we don't have that opportunity, do we? The report has been censored.
Actually, nerds don't keep up much at all on PC tech. That's what the dinks in the Hardware Section of Frys are for.
Do you know how to wire in a 74182 Look-Ahead Carry Generator chip to a 74181 ALU chip? What would be the main advantage to going to the 74LS182 part?
What would be a suitable size of inductor for a small switchmode power supply, say one using a Maxim chip, that you'll be using to power a 12-bit PIC processor, a solid state relay, and four LEDs?
I have a $120,000 house that is over 100 years old and on 5 acres of land, including a mini-orchard. I paid less for my home probably in part because I live in an area where I can't get 100/100 for $15/month.
All I have is DSL although a local provider sells a directional RF beam connection for about $30 a month.
I'm pretty happy with what I've got going here.
The codeword is 'captured.'
Windows 98 could be ordered on 3-1/2" floppies. A lot more than 20 of them.
I have Windows 98 on 3-1/2" floppies. It's a huge pile. I've never opened it. The way to get it was to buy the full 'retail box' ('Install on any new PC') version of Windows 98. There was a coupon inside the manual that came with it to order the diskette set for a nominal fee. I think it was $10. Then they by mistake shipped me two copies.
I have Windows 95 on 5-1/4" floppies, too. Another thing you had to order. It ended up being handy because you copy all of the files off the floppies into a folder, burn it to a CD, and get the most bare-bones version of Windows 95, and one that installs without prompting for a CD key. The 3-1/2" version prompts for user info and then 'fingerprints' the install media.
It does sound like he went to public school, and you went to private school.
Here's a clue: in public school, the really, really disruptive kids didn't 'disappear' from time to time.
Security Vendors need people with 'the cracker mentality' to join their ranks. Without 'morally gray' staffers, how could they supply regimes like the ones in Iran and China with the 'tools' they need to operate their repressive regimes? Morally blind nihilists, while not necessarily those to fill the ranks of the Ideologically 'pure' elite inside the regime, will always be necessary force.
The people that they can't EVER become involved with are the real hackers.
Green energy is a hot topic, so cybersquatters have been targeting wind and solar energy start-ups. And malicious sites can create havoc with a brand's reputation.
Startups, by definition, don't have a brand, or a reputation.
I use conventional flowcharts.
It's really a valuable aid.
Then you turn that into blocks of comments and add the assembly language statements around the comments.