Speaking of being stretched thin, recently there was another incident where a new RCMP officer was killed while alone without backup: (here). It's not the first time, either, as there have been several incidents like this in the past, including one where four (one of whom had been on the force for only 17 days) were killed while seizing property. There's been a lot of controversy about this.
What happens when the person next to you looks and sees what you're drawing? The advantage of text-based passwords is that you can have them as stars or whatever onscreen. And if the users are unwilling / too stupid to make secure passwords (with numbers/letters/symbols), a drawing isn't going to be fundamentally more secure anyways, it's just a gimmick.
You can build your own homemade projectors for a fraction of the price of a commercial one. Check out http://www.lumenlab.com/. Their forums are excellent.
That's odd. My experience was actually quite the opposite: When doing an reinstall of OEM Vista, I had to spend 2 hours poring through howtos, manuals, etc, getting drivers and trying to get everything to work, but installing off the Kubuntu 7.10 alpha 5 worked flawlessly. I'm not going to flame you, because if that was your experience, that was your experience. But it's quite different than what happened to me.
Note: this was an OEM disc, supplied by Dell itself, so I would have to wonder why it wouldn't work..
I don't want to be a defeatist, but...
In my opinion, it doesn't really matter whether ubuntu is better, because Microsoft already has >90% of the market. Be realistic: 2008 will not be the year of the Linux Desktop. Neither will 2009. Or 2010. When a company has that much marketshare and actively tries to keep others from entering the playing field, it's not really going to happen. Most people just want to sit at the computer and do their work. I use the Vista on my laptop only about 3% of the time; otherwise I'm using Kubuntu. When I'm on the bus and the person asks me about compiz, I happily tell them about Linux. But the momentum of Microsoft Windows is so large that Linux will not become a widely-used desktop OS.
Why is this modded troll? It's obviosly a joke.
Note to self: E-mail samzenpus about how the/. mod system sucks and he should really improve it. Bitch obsessively for three paragraphs designed to take him down a peg. Who does he think he is? Offering me aggregated news at no cost!? The very nerve!
As has been said many times; it's not the size that counts, it's how you use it (to a degree). Because the emissions are released high in the atmosphere, they do more damage.
I'd sure they could do something about those people (possibly involving gasses) and really make the world a better place. Yes, but what to do with all the bodies? Burning them is no good, that just makes more greenhouse gasses... Perhaps they could be used as landfill?
You're wrong. According to wikipedia, contrails have a negative effect. Anyways, the effect of the contrails is vastly outweighed by the carbon emissions. I remember hearing about a study that was saying that after the 9/11 attacks, when there was no air traffic, the temperature dropped. Of course, it's a small sample size, but you can't shut down all air traffic for a month to do a science experiment.
UAC is set up by default. Even if user foobar is in the admin group, they still get to use UAC, they just don't have to put in their password.
The problem is that so many legacy apps need to run as root that many users will become accustomed to just clicking yes every time. See the user education bit in my post.
IMO, Windows Vista is the most secure Windows yet (because of UAC). That said, compared to other systems, is Windows secure? It is certainly less secure than my Linux box. But OS security is only one half of the equation. IMO, many viruses are PICNIC (Problem in Chair, Not In Computer) problems. I think that the problem of viruses would be greatly reduced if people were less ignorant about viruses.
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Speaking of being stretched thin, recently there was another incident where a new RCMP officer was killed while alone without backup: (here). It's not the first time, either, as there have been several incidents like this in the past, including one where four (one of whom had been on the force for only 17 days) were killed while seizing property. There's been a lot of controversy about this.
Damn kids! Get off my lawn!
What happens when the person next to you looks and sees what you're drawing? The advantage of text-based passwords is that you can have them as stars or whatever onscreen. And if the users are unwilling / too stupid to make secure passwords (with numbers/letters/symbols), a drawing isn't going to be fundamentally more secure anyways, it's just a gimmick.
Wine Is Not an Emulator. Programs running with wine do run natively. Read their Web Sight - the section on debunking WINE myths.
to be able to see who controls a domain, so you can contact them if there's an issue? (eg they're typosquatting)
You can build your own homemade projectors for a fraction of the price of a commercial one. Check out http://www.lumenlab.com/. Their forums are excellent.
What is Nyquist's theorem, and how does it relate to this?
In that case, you would still lose $0.30.
Why is it that any product made by Apple is automatically the most super-fantastic thing ever?
That's odd. My experience was actually quite the opposite: When doing an reinstall of OEM Vista, I had to spend 2 hours poring through howtos, manuals, etc, getting drivers and trying to get everything to work, but installing off the Kubuntu 7.10 alpha 5 worked flawlessly. I'm not going to flame you, because if that was your experience, that was your experience. But it's quite different than what happened to me.
Note: this was an OEM disc, supplied by Dell itself, so I would have to wonder why it wouldn't work..
User Account Control
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I don't want to be a defeatist, but...
In my opinion, it doesn't really matter whether ubuntu is better, because Microsoft already has >90% of the market. Be realistic: 2008 will not be the year of the Linux Desktop. Neither will 2009. Or 2010. When a company has that much marketshare and actively tries to keep others from entering the playing field, it's not really going to happen. Most people just want to sit at the computer and do their work. I use the Vista on my laptop only about 3% of the time; otherwise I'm using Kubuntu. When I'm on the bus and the person asks me about compiz, I happily tell them about Linux. But the momentum of Microsoft Windows is so large that Linux will not become a widely-used desktop OS.
So, where's the link to the torrent?
Why is this modded troll? It's obviosly a joke. /. mod system sucks and he should really improve it. Bitch obsessively for three paragraphs designed to take him down a peg. Who does he think he is? Offering me aggregated news at no cost!? The very nerve!
Note to self: E-mail samzenpus about how the
As has been said many times; it's not the size that counts, it's how you use it (to a degree). Because the emissions are released high in the atmosphere, they do more damage.
You're wrong. According to wikipedia, contrails have a negative effect. Anyways, the effect of the contrails is vastly outweighed by the carbon emissions. I remember hearing about a study that was saying that after the 9/11 attacks, when there was no air traffic, the temperature dropped. Of course, it's a small sample size, but you can't shut down all air traffic for a month to do a science experiment.
UAC is set up by default. Even if user foobar is in the admin group, they still get to use UAC, they just don't have to put in their password.
The problem is that so many legacy apps need to run as root that many users will become accustomed to just clicking yes every time. See the user education bit in my post.
IMO, Windows Vista is the most secure Windows yet (because of UAC). That said, compared to other systems, is Windows secure? It is certainly less secure than my Linux box. But OS security is only one half of the equation. IMO, many viruses are PICNIC (Problem in Chair, Not In Computer) problems. I think that the problem of viruses would be greatly reduced if people were less ignorant about viruses.
It looks like you're trying to raid the Redmond campus. Would you like to:
- Hunt and kill all the employees
- Destroy the supercomputer cores
- Uncover the secret plot for world domination
- Just raid the campus without help
# Don't show me this tip againI for one welcome our new all-knowing encyclopedic overlords!
Nope. You can't use more than 26 pennies in a single purchase. It's the LAW here.
This sounds like a bad scifi film where they have to mine some tachyon fracture fault or the universe will explode.