'Reason' and 'rationality' don't always go hand-in-hand.
From the American Heritage Dictionary:
rational (rsh'-nl) adj.
1. Having or exercising the ability to reason. 2. Of sound mind; sane. 3. Consistent with or based on reason; logical: rational behavior 4. Mathematics. Capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers.
While I haven't seen a Mac user claim that Macs can't be infected by viruses, I see morons complaining about supposed Mac snobs in each damn article about Mac security.
Calm down, the 'dumbass' bubble on the Venn diagram overlaps with everything; don't forget the 'Joe User' crowd that misconstrues 'more secure than Windows' as 'immune to any attack'.
2. If Ford doesn't defend their Trademarks, by law they lose them. Thus, the law compels companies to act like this, whether the companies like it or not.
"Ceci n'est pas une pi-- car." How often do you see any other company 'defending their trademarks' in this manner? Trademark law is not there to encourage frivolous shotgun lawsuits, it's there to keep other car companies for making Fords clones or having the same name/logo to create confusion. I suppose you could make a case for copyright infringement, naming it a derivative work, but that would be about the same as charging a license fee to take a picture of a house.
Yes, but the social engineering requirement is more or less gone in this case. It takes substantially less work to convince someone to click a link than to download a file. (Granted, Bonzai Buddy got people by just being a purple ape.) Why, look no further than the MyMiniCity/Goatse/2girls1cup links being posted here in every thread! At least one person clicks and ends up warning others. (Either by downmodding or posting.) Why, you just need someone who's curious enough to click.
On the other hand, it requires a bit of work to get someone familiar with malware to click on a 'you just won' banner and download the mystery prize. Don't even get me started on random email attachments following nonsense messages.
That for every honest, educated person adding to this global repository of information, there are thousands more just pissing in the pool. (Whether the majority of cases are due to bladder control problems or malice is still up for debate, however.)
Except that I'm talking about shutting out customers, not replacing a private network. Save USB3 for what needs it, at least until a decent portion of consumers have upgraded.
Better idea: Put the only cockpit door on the outside of the plane, along with enough food for the flight. (What are the odds of the pilot and copilot being down at once?) Parachutes for everyone! (Maybe I'm too optimistic.) Knives strapped to every seat. (That or dropping the current insanity and just doing things like the above two.)
Sure, the passengers will stupidly rush to the parachutes in the event of a crash, and even if they all did it in an efficient manner not everyone would get off, but you wanted to give them all loaded guns.
Actually, instead of knives, how about tasers? The only problem would be if someone got too trigger-happy, but it's less likely to kill than anything else I can think of now.
extra pins mean more copper used, which means more money wasted over time.
What's another socket for a few years?
Eww. Is that an incongruity? In my post? Ah! It costs more money to include those extra pins, rather than adding 2.0 and 3.0 sockets (or just 2.0 sockets) by shrinking the target market to people with new motherboards. (Too bad I can't explain away the part about extra copper, since adding another slot involves more wires and pins.)
Right, and it would be so hard to grab a card for it. (Looks like a great use for a PCI-e 8x slot.) Even so, I'm sure manufacturers will wait a year or two, until more motherboards ship with it and more OEMs use said boards. I also expect that things won't just use USB3 for the sake of it, at least not for a while; extra pins mean more copper used, which means more money wasted over time. ("Does that gamepad/mouse/keyboard really need 4.7Gb/s of bandwidth? How many people can use this if we do this?") As for external hard drives, there are several with sockets for eSATA, USB and Firewire, and many more with some combination of the two. What's another socket for a few years?
Or it could be that the underwhelming profits most OEMs make, even after the money they make from turning machines into billboards, forces them to bundle an OS to keep the cost down. I'm pretty sure MS ended up in court over what you're describing a few years ago (that or what software could be included with Windows). Also, Dell offers Windows, Ubuntu, and FreeDOS (not sure if they still have the last option) on some machines. On the server end, they offer multiple Linux distros, as well as Windows Server 2003 or no OS at all.
Oh come on, 12MB/s is just fine for a normal home network, unless you have a SAN set up. Cheap fiber could be a boon to those with relatively large clusters, however.
As for the topic, I just finished replacing my old 100Base-T network a few weeks ago, so I'm sticking with this for a few years. When I do upgrade again, however, I would more likely switch to 10 Gigabit ethernet (after the price goes down) than use plastic fibers, which could bend too much and become opaque; klutzproofing before futureproofing and all that good stuff.
Oh, I don't know, people using BitTorrent to download legal things, like Linux distros, OpenOffice.org, World of Warcraft patches, or anything else that offers BitTorrent downloads.
There's plenty of FTP/HTTP mirrors for Linux distros, same for OO.o, and WoW patches. (Speaking of which, the Blizzard downloader always closed right after finishing. How exactly is that helping anyone?) So yes, there are plenty of legal uses, but it's not exactly necessary to use BT for many of them.
Sure, somewhere, once in a blue moon, someone downloads a public-domain movie/book using BT, but that doesn't make it the norm by any means.
(And, of course, things like, uh, porn and fansubs may not be available on demand. Not that I'd know anything about that. Oh, and indie films and less popular films and all sorts of digital things that aren't likely to be available on demand.)
Not that any of those are legal uses of BT.
I'm not against torrenting stuff (Or even piracy. *cough*), I just hate the 'people download Linux' argument.
At this point, I couldn't care less about downstream. I haven't needed more downstream bandwidth since I got rid of the ISDN connection, on the other hand, I'm paying out the nose for Cox's 'business service' so I can enjoy little things like having port 80 open, not being throttled down when torrenting something, and having more than the 1Mb/s upstream offered in their 'premium' plan. I don't need or even want a.25 Batmans per minute connection, I just want a nice connection that I'm allowed to use.
On the consumer side, they'll probably roll out speeds and pricing only comparable to FIOS and not get anywhere near the higher end speeds at all, or they'll offer 50-100 megabit speeds on business accounts for $200-300 a month.
Then again, maybe we'll see a much-needed price war. (Half of me is expecting more colluding and price gouging, while the other is thinking about how Verizon started rolling out fiber and 15Mb symmetric connections, instead of just matching everyone else's offers.)
Ah, but there's still the 'risk versus benefit' part; if you cheat Google for a spike in ad revenue and get caught, you'll get bitchslapped a few pages down and make less money, but it isn't the end of the world. On the other hand, if you screw up when trying to minimize taxes, you're could be in deep shit. Not to say that success as an SEO couldn't encourage branching out into other, more ilicit fields, but spending $10/year on a domain and $40/year on a cheap host, then plastering a page with ads and gaming a search engine is a very low-risk investment. A lot of the other stuff requires a spine and more effort.
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And we are now one step closer to that robot monkey butler!
adj.
1. Having or exercising the ability to reason.
2. Of sound mind; sane.
3. Consistent with or based on reason; logical: rational behavior
4. Mathematics. Capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers.
Calm down, the 'dumbass' bubble on the Venn diagram overlaps with everything; don't forget the 'Joe User' crowd that misconstrues 'more secure than Windows' as 'immune to any attack'.
And corporations lobby their way out of it. Crisis averted.
But who harvests crops with guns?
What good is that? $LOCAL_MONOPOLY could start molesting people with gardening equipment as long as the only other option was dial-up.
Hindenballoons?
Yes, but the social engineering requirement is more or less gone in this case. It takes substantially less work to convince someone to click a link than to download a file. (Granted, Bonzai Buddy got people by just being a purple ape.)
Why, look no further than the MyMiniCity/Goatse/2girls1cup links being posted here in every thread! At least one person clicks and ends up warning others. (Either by downmodding or posting.) Why, you just need someone who's curious enough to click.
On the other hand, it requires a bit of work to get someone familiar with malware to click on a 'you just won' banner and download the mystery prize. Don't even get me started on random email attachments following nonsense messages.
And using corn for ethanol raises prices for those of us who eat it. Take the damn grass and let me have my corn on the cheap.
Except that I'm talking about shutting out customers, not replacing a private network. Save USB3 for what needs it, at least until a decent portion of consumers have upgraded.
"All in favor, start shooting!"
Actually, that's probably how 'voting it in' would work, too.
It counts for a lot, provided you have enough to file a patent.
Better idea:
Put the only cockpit door on the outside of the plane, along with enough food for the flight. (What are the odds of the pilot and copilot being down at once?)
Parachutes for everyone! (Maybe I'm too optimistic.)
Knives strapped to every seat. (That or dropping the current insanity and just doing things like the above two.)
Sure, the passengers will stupidly rush to the parachutes in the event of a crash, and even if they all did it in an efficient manner not everyone would get off, but you wanted to give them all loaded guns.
Actually, instead of knives, how about tasers? The only problem would be if someone got too trigger-happy, but it's less likely to kill than anything else I can think of now.
Ah! It costs more money to include those extra pins, rather than adding 2.0 and 3.0 sockets (or just 2.0 sockets) by shrinking the target market to people with new motherboards. (Too bad I can't explain away the part about extra copper, since adding another slot involves more wires and pins.)
Right, and it would be so hard to grab a card for it. (Looks like a great use for a PCI-e 8x slot.)
Even so, I'm sure manufacturers will wait a year or two, until more motherboards ship with it and more OEMs use said boards. I also expect that things won't just use USB3 for the sake of it, at least not for a while; extra pins mean more copper used, which means more money wasted over time. ("Does that gamepad/mouse/keyboard really need 4.7Gb/s of bandwidth? How many people can use this if we do this?")
As for external hard drives, there are several with sockets for eSATA, USB and Firewire, and many more with some combination of the two. What's another socket for a few years?
Or it could be that the underwhelming profits most OEMs make, even after the money they make from turning machines into billboards, forces them to bundle an OS to keep the cost down. I'm pretty sure MS ended up in court over what you're describing a few years ago (that or what software could be included with Windows).
Also, Dell offers Windows, Ubuntu, and FreeDOS (not sure if they still have the last option) on some machines. On the server end, they offer multiple Linux distros, as well as Windows Server 2003 or no OS at all.
Oh come on, 12MB/s is just fine for a normal home network, unless you have a SAN set up. Cheap fiber could be a boon to those with relatively large clusters, however.
As for the topic, I just finished replacing my old 100Base-T network a few weeks ago, so I'm sticking with this for a few years. When I do upgrade again, however, I would more likely switch to 10 Gigabit ethernet (after the price goes down) than use plastic fibers, which could bend too much and become opaque; klutzproofing before futureproofing and all that good stuff.
"The Windows is broken"?
So yes, there are plenty of legal uses, but it's not exactly necessary to use BT for many of them.
Sure, somewhere, once in a blue moon, someone downloads a public-domain movie/book using BT, but that doesn't make it the norm by any means.Not that any of those are legal uses of BT.
I'm not against torrenting stuff (Or even piracy. *cough*), I just hate the 'people download Linux' argument.
At this point, I couldn't care less about downstream. I haven't needed more downstream bandwidth since I got rid of the ISDN connection, on the other hand, I'm paying out the nose for Cox's 'business service' so I can enjoy little things like having port 80 open, not being throttled down when torrenting something, and having more than the 1Mb/s upstream offered in their 'premium' plan. .25 Batmans per minute connection, I just want a nice connection that I'm allowed to use.
I don't need or even want a
Ah, but there's still the 'risk versus benefit' part; if you cheat Google for a spike in ad revenue and get caught, you'll get bitchslapped a few pages down and make less money, but it isn't the end of the world. On the other hand, if you screw up when trying to minimize taxes, you're could be in deep shit.
Not to say that success as an SEO couldn't encourage branching out into other, more ilicit fields, but spending $10/year on a domain and $40/year on a cheap host, then plastering a page with ads and gaming a search engine is a very low-risk investment. A lot of the other stuff requires a spine and more effort.