No link to TFA? Come on now, if you're going to post tomorrow's news early you should at least put a link to the article so we can bitch about not reading it.
I agree with you about children following willingly. My father seems to have done his best over the years to discourage me from IT. Nearly every day he'd come home and I'd ask about his job he'd tell me about how moronic most of his coworkers were, how he wasn't getting enough money, and so forth.
Thing was that I didn't care in retrospect. I latched onto the best parts I could and used them and my own curiosity to fuel my own desire to be in IT. While your parents having the same profession and encouraging it can have an impact, I don't think everyone just, "does what their parents do."
I thought it was when you could teach these things to assemble into 50 Mars Rovers, trundle across the desert, then have them reconfigure themselves into a siege tank to piss off your opponent, THAT is when you'd have something to yell about.
I have to admit that I feel the same way. Oh sure, there are some nice things (Solaris Volume Manager, once you get the hang of it, is actually not bad though I still have some gripes), but on the whole it ends up feeling like I have to go and reinvent Linux from scratch just to get the system working like I think it should.
Good thing I used to run Gentoo otherwise that kind of thing might actually tick me off.;)
You know, you're right. I suppose that means we should be asking, "How come nobody else suggested this?" I mean it's not exactly a unique idea, how come Microsoft had to suggest it?
Is there some reason why Microsoft, THE largest enemy of openness in software, would suggest this and nobody else would? The same company who typically loses most when there's open development outside of their company? The same company who has a terrible track record of support in the browser space?
That's the kind of thing we worry about and hence why we're skeptical. If Google or Yahoo suggested such a thing I'm sure we wouldn't mind quite so much. It comes down to their track record and it will not be ignored. A little skepticism of a known enemy is not a Bad Thing. Who knows, maybe it's a good idea, but it'd be very prudent to be very, very careful about agreeing to anything they suggest.
I find it kind of interesting that in the same interview Gates manages to equate his own company's software to drugs by bringing up the pharmaceutical reference AND he manages to look like he's been using drugs by claiming the GPL does the exact opposite of what it does. Nice choice of analogy there, Bill.
While I will not disagree at all with your second point I know I had absolutely no trouble with the Air Force medical care. Great facilities at several bases, had zero issues getting transferred to a different facility for a procedure the one I was at was not equipped for, and with only one exception both my wife and I had some of the greatest doctors anyone in either of our families had ever even heard of.
Like everything else, it really depends on where you are, branch of service, and so forth.
Spot on. As a vegan I know I most certainly would consider that reasonable. Thing is, I honestly don't care about steak anymore so it's kind of a moot point.
Sounds nifty and all but really once you go vegan it's not like you've got a jonesing for steak after awhile...you've got so many other interesting things to try.
But hey, sounds like it would make a lot of people happy with no harm done.
I have to admit, I'm genuinely curious as to how in the hell this got not even a slap on the wrist. Seriously, a HOMELESS guy? If that's not proof of them ramrodding random people for cash I have no idea what is.
I always thought judges were supposed to be called, "your honor." Guess we can scratch one.
For me and quite a few other people around D.C. they ARE the only option. A few people have the lucky benefit of FiOS as an option but I'm even well inside the beltway (for non-native folk that's basically "inside" D.C. without being in the District itself) and they're not rolling it out any year soon here.
DSL? Closest CO even in this heavily populated area is 13,000' away. That means that even on the lowest tier of service (a lowly 768Kbps) I pick up my phone and I get cut off (yes, filters and two tech support visits later this was still a problem).
So what can I choose? Clearwire is crap for everything but web browsing and DSL is the only alternative to Comcast here. My needs are pretty modest, online gaming and some occasional live audio streaming with the odd Linux distro download now and again (oh, and some SourceForge uploads but those are minimal in network impact), and yet SOMETHING breaks if I want to move away from cable. For instance, I can't do online gaming with DSL for the reason mentioned above and I can't even stream audio with Clearwire.
I vote with my dollars as you're right, that IS the way forward in many circumstances, but sometimes for what you want it's the only option. What else can we do? To quote the song, "find your own way to hit back." Encrypted BitTorrent traffic, Tor, advise everyone you know away from it if possible, and buy as little of their service as you can live with (for me it's ONLY Internet service for instance, I don't use their TV service or phone service).
All right, I thought it was just a temporary thing before but now I'm certain. Every single time I hear, "post 9/11 world," I keep thinking, "twilight zone."
No such luck, our broadband is horrendous. I live inside the beltway and I'm still over 13,000' from the nearest CO for DSL. The only cable here is Comcast, end of story.
Are either any good? As I suspect most people here already know, it's terrible. If you're very, very lucky you can get FiOS, but Verizon seems to have no real rhyme or reason to where they roll it out. One block away from me has FiOS, my neighborhood isn't even scheduled to get it last time I checked. What's the difference between the two? One's directly across from the police station, mine's a block away, other than that it's identical.
I think it's pretty obvious what the boys and girls in Washington have been smoking: dollar bills and corporate hand-waving.
I am not an expert, mind you, but I would suggest an encryption key, possibly passwordless for now.
Why? Well, you could modify PAM to check for the key instead of a conventional login I believe and then give her something like a USB thumb drive to store the key on. Just have it read from the UUID of the thumb drive so only that one could be used, drop her key on it, and whenever she wants to get in she just has to plug it in. Not such a bad idea though it would still require a little bit of research into modifying PAM behavior.
You could also check out thumbprint scanning if the laptop has one built-in or you do not mind getting one for her to use. Just a few ideas to get you rolling.
I'm a little curious about this myself. I know that technically they don't mean our law but rather that Canada doesn't just have their own wholesale-copied version but seriously, why would they possibly expect different countries with different cultures to react to issues identically?
The only thing I can fathom is that they're so ungodly arrogant that they're blinded by their own greedy rhetoric. If there's a better, more "PC" reason I'd love to hear it.
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No link to TFA? Come on now, if you're going to post tomorrow's news early you should at least put a link to the article so we can bitch about not reading it.
Agreed. Some people collaborate with each other, the rest of us just clobber each other.
"You play the games. Computers get smarter. Everyone benefits!"
Yeah, that's EXACTLY the kind of line I'd expect Skynet to use.
I agree with you about children following willingly. My father seems to have done his best over the years to discourage me from IT. Nearly every day he'd come home and I'd ask about his job he'd tell me about how moronic most of his coworkers were, how he wasn't getting enough money, and so forth.
Thing was that I didn't care in retrospect. I latched onto the best parts I could and used them and my own curiosity to fuel my own desire to be in IT. While your parents having the same profession and encouraging it can have an impact, I don't think everyone just, "does what their parents do."
Or a meta-meta-beast.
Perhaps a beast-net?I thought it was when you could teach these things to assemble into 50 Mars Rovers, trundle across the desert, then have them reconfigure themselves into a siege tank to piss off your opponent, THAT is when you'd have something to yell about.
I thought in the Soviet USA the USSR came to you. Problem solved!
A secure user...so, like, one with handcuffs, right? Chained to his/her desk?
I'd still have to call it the iProduct.
Or at least they would but their filters are all clogged. ;)
Of course it'll run in Windows! You just need to apply the patch first. It's available for free at here.
I have to admit that I feel the same way. Oh sure, there are some nice things (Solaris Volume Manager, once you get the hang of it, is actually not bad though I still have some gripes), but on the whole it ends up feeling like I have to go and reinvent Linux from scratch just to get the system working like I think it should.
;)
Good thing I used to run Gentoo otherwise that kind of thing might actually tick me off.
You know, you're right. I suppose that means we should be asking, "How come nobody else suggested this?" I mean it's not exactly a unique idea, how come Microsoft had to suggest it?
Is there some reason why Microsoft, THE largest enemy of openness in software, would suggest this and nobody else would? The same company who typically loses most when there's open development outside of their company? The same company who has a terrible track record of support in the browser space?
That's the kind of thing we worry about and hence why we're skeptical. If Google or Yahoo suggested such a thing I'm sure we wouldn't mind quite so much. It comes down to their track record and it will not be ignored. A little skepticism of a known enemy is not a Bad Thing. Who knows, maybe it's a good idea, but it'd be very prudent to be very, very careful about agreeing to anything they suggest.
I find it kind of interesting that in the same interview Gates manages to equate his own company's software to drugs by bringing up the pharmaceutical reference AND he manages to look like he's been using drugs by claiming the GPL does the exact opposite of what it does. Nice choice of analogy there, Bill.
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Sorry, had to do it.
While I will not disagree at all with your second point I know I had absolutely no trouble with the Air Force medical care. Great facilities at several bases, had zero issues getting transferred to a different facility for a procedure the one I was at was not equipped for, and with only one exception both my wife and I had some of the greatest doctors anyone in either of our families had ever even heard of.
Like everything else, it really depends on where you are, branch of service, and so forth.
Spot on. As a vegan I know I most certainly would consider that reasonable. Thing is, I honestly don't care about steak anymore so it's kind of a moot point.
Sounds nifty and all but really once you go vegan it's not like you've got a jonesing for steak after awhile...you've got so many other interesting things to try.
But hey, sounds like it would make a lot of people happy with no harm done.
I have to admit, I'm genuinely curious as to how in the hell this got not even a slap on the wrist. Seriously, a HOMELESS guy? If that's not proof of them ramrodding random people for cash I have no idea what is.
I always thought judges were supposed to be called, "your honor." Guess we can scratch one.
For me and quite a few other people around D.C. they ARE the only option. A few people have the lucky benefit of FiOS as an option but I'm even well inside the beltway (for non-native folk that's basically "inside" D.C. without being in the District itself) and they're not rolling it out any year soon here.
DSL? Closest CO even in this heavily populated area is 13,000' away. That means that even on the lowest tier of service (a lowly 768Kbps) I pick up my phone and I get cut off (yes, filters and two tech support visits later this was still a problem).
So what can I choose? Clearwire is crap for everything but web browsing and DSL is the only alternative to Comcast here. My needs are pretty modest, online gaming and some occasional live audio streaming with the odd Linux distro download now and again (oh, and some SourceForge uploads but those are minimal in network impact), and yet SOMETHING breaks if I want to move away from cable. For instance, I can't do online gaming with DSL for the reason mentioned above and I can't even stream audio with Clearwire.
I vote with my dollars as you're right, that IS the way forward in many circumstances, but sometimes for what you want it's the only option. What else can we do? To quote the song, "find your own way to hit back." Encrypted BitTorrent traffic, Tor, advise everyone you know away from it if possible, and buy as little of their service as you can live with (for me it's ONLY Internet service for instance, I don't use their TV service or phone service).
All right, I thought it was just a temporary thing before but now I'm certain. Every single time I hear, "post 9/11 world," I keep thinking, "twilight zone."
I second this. This is complete and total BULLSHIT. There are no if's, and's, or but's, it's JUST bullshit.
No such luck, our broadband is horrendous. I live inside the beltway and I'm still over 13,000' from the nearest CO for DSL. The only cable here is Comcast, end of story.
Are either any good? As I suspect most people here already know, it's terrible. If you're very, very lucky you can get FiOS, but Verizon seems to have no real rhyme or reason to where they roll it out. One block away from me has FiOS, my neighborhood isn't even scheduled to get it last time I checked. What's the difference between the two? One's directly across from the police station, mine's a block away, other than that it's identical.
I think it's pretty obvious what the boys and girls in Washington have been smoking: dollar bills and corporate hand-waving.
I am not an expert, mind you, but I would suggest an encryption key, possibly passwordless for now.
Why? Well, you could modify PAM to check for the key instead of a conventional login I believe and then give her something like a USB thumb drive to store the key on. Just have it read from the UUID of the thumb drive so only that one could be used, drop her key on it, and whenever she wants to get in she just has to plug it in. Not such a bad idea though it would still require a little bit of research into modifying PAM behavior.
You could also check out thumbprint scanning if the laptop has one built-in or you do not mind getting one for her to use. Just a few ideas to get you rolling.
I'm a little curious about this myself. I know that technically they don't mean our law but rather that Canada doesn't just have their own wholesale-copied version but seriously, why would they possibly expect different countries with different cultures to react to issues identically?
The only thing I can fathom is that they're so ungodly arrogant that they're blinded by their own greedy rhetoric. If there's a better, more "PC" reason I'd love to hear it.
Naturally it'll respond with, "Thank you, sir, may I have another?"