Bullshit. Just because you believe something, doesn't make it true.
If you put the phone on your lap you're still going to be picked up by the police. Your argument doesn't even stand up to the basic tests of logic. By your rationale, murder laws make it harder for people to murder, so it makes it worse. Seriously, are you off your face? Do you neocon/libertarians even get how laws work?
If you want to live in a country with no laws, go spend some time in DRC or another war torn country, you can text to your heart's content while driving, just mind the rifles being fired at your face.
But on the other hand now it seems that the software industry has put enough pressure on the illegal file sharers that doing it that way is harder, or at least slower than it was.
This is a myth being propagated by MPAA & RIAA. As someone who's been around since the days of Hotline & IRC sharing, if anything, it's easier these days than before. Torrents are fast & there's not much you can't get from ISOHunt or TPB or the likes.
Exactly. Most of my traffic is HTTPS these days - mail, search, twitter, work, the list goes on. Any ISP trying to bar encrypted traffic will lose customers quicker than they can ban them.
I concur, having watched all 7 seasons recently back to back (I get a bit of free time while working from home).
I must say, though, that the GP is talking out of his or her arse with regard to B5. There's some great acting (true, some of the lesser actors couldn't act their way out of a paper bag), and the story is quite involved until season 5 when Sheridan becomes "president". Again, I watched the series back to back just last week while working.
If you want to talk bad Sci-Fi, look no further than the 2009 Star Trek film & Enterprise. Both are just as bad at throwing Gene Roddenberry's utopian future out the window in favour of fear. DS9 does the same, but at least they stole decent stories (and character names) from B5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine#Deep_Space_Nine_and_Babylon_5
I've been supporting Dell business machines for about 10 years, and I concur, never had to wait with business support (even basic tier business support). Conversely, HP's business support is total shite. Even with a carepack you get phone queues and delays of days (HP's idea of "24hrs response time" is a phone call, not a visit).
I have a feeling that this will be a painful loss for HP, nothing more.
Not so. If you use ANY other passport account attached to your hotmail it stays active. I checked mine the other day for the first time in about 1 year... Over 1000 spam mails.
No fucking idea where MS gets their data from. With gmail I get 1 spam message through the filter once every few months if that, looks like hotmail is closer to 100 per month. I smell astroturfing.
I actually think it's a big deal, but not for the reason most people are crying about.
It's a bit deal that they have been open, honest, & cautious about the intrusion. Having seen so many high profile companies take the opposite stance lately, the DH intrusion should be made a big deal of, if anything, to show other companies how you react to being hacked without losing face with customers.
For me, there is only one chance when it comes to security to get it right. If you try to hide intrusions, lie to customers, or stonewall tech sites trying to get more information, you aren't a company to be trusted with my data.
Having worked for a newspaper, I can assure you that they still make mistakes. Hell, the paper I worked for even got the date on the front page wrong (a year out) once due to a typo.
There are reasons NOT to use XP, the biggest I have already stated: It's EOL, updates are less frequent & will stop later this year.
If you're using XP on a new machine there's a good chance you won't be able to get drivers for the machine. Not only that, there's a good chance you're not using a legitimate version, so the cost is irrelevant.
Cheap PCs also run Linux, but that's not always a reson to run it.
I, personally, don't run XP except under a VM on my server at home for the rare occasions that I do need to run insanely legacy apps. I've been using 7 since RC2 & haven't looked back.
At work we have to run XP due to them refusing to upgrade legacy apps that refuse to play nice with 7.
The cheap PC excuse doesn't hold up when you look at the scalability of 7. It can run on cheap, even old PCs with no problems. Sure, your PIII from the 90's won't run it well, but it also won't run XP well.
If it's really that much of a problem, run Linux with wine or the like. Nothing worse than running an EOL OS with massive security problems.
As a non-American, the US is viewed as repressive, & we all assume the dictatorship bit will come soon (not that it's really needed). More & more the US is looking like 1920's Germany.
This really makes it hard to get excited about the Atom range these days. With Intels own ULV chips sitting just above the Atom, & ARM's offerings evolving at a far faster rate than the Atom, why do I really want a device with one?
Many other countries in the world have heavy religious influence in their founding or building of their culture. name one that doesn't.
Australia. We were founded on sending prisoners as far away from Britan as possible. While the US is similar, you guys had a revolution to install god as your mascot.
Just because you don't understand the request doesn't mean it's gobbledegooke, it means your knowledge is limited.
Personally, I don't trust any auto-encoding solutions as they easily go haywire. I'd suggest doing that all by hand.
Ext3 is fine, & a rack mount is a necessity. If you want smooth operation of the system, at least 2 network cards are a must (I run 3, 2 bonded for media/SMB, 1 for management & VPN). I'd suggest having a decent 16 port switch in the house & running the 2 (or more) cables to the box.
For DLNA I just run miniDLNA & for torrents I've just set up uTorrent with a web interface. There's very little my desktop actually does.
That's some funny shit. If you'd worked in IT in the 90's you'd know how bad WD were (and still are). Everything from 40% of drives being DOA or early failures, to their abysmal warranty system (send the drive back & they "fix" it, no swap outs), to serious defects in the drives requiring replacement. I died a little inside when WD bought Quantum.
I haven't trusted WD with important data for a long time. Seagate have had bad periods, before they started using the same platters in their IDE drives as their SCSI, but as a whole, Seagate have always come out on top for reliability.
Not sure where you go when you're "out & about", but every second person on the train to work in the morning & home in the afternoon has an iPad. Not just a tablet, an iPad. I rarely see kindles or android tablets.
The only people who have any form of *book are business people with full sized laptops, not netbooks, doing work.
Your anecdote is based in being blind to reality & creating a reality to support your claims. Netbooks are dead, and have been for about a year. I owned one of the first EEEPCs from Asus, hated every moment. The keyboard was too small, the screen was too small, the whole thing was... guess what... too small. Now my iPad, that's fine for the train, my 15 XPS, that's fine for working or gaming on the road. The closest thing to a Netbook I've deployed in my 17 years in IT is the latest generation of Sony Vaio Z series. That's a AU$3000 laptop, a far cry from the price of netbooks, but just as light with a much larger screen & a much better battery.
You are confusing copy protection with proprietary media formats. There's no correlation between the two. The drives will still read CDs, DVDs & BDs that DON'T have the copy protection, you just can't execute code without bypassing said protection. With the Vita, there is NOTHING compatible with the proprietary media format they are using. You can't get a reader & you can't get blank media.
Dictionaries are useful tools when you don't understand a concept, even a quick google would have given you enough information to say your comment is flawed.
I'm still at a loss as to how this is an "ask slashdot" question. Isn't this why people get paid to develop software? Shouldn't a decent testing system be part of the whole developing an application thing?
If you're smart enough to know how to develop an app aren't you smart enough to know what data & how to collect it? I really wonder how the questioner earns their wage if they can't manage a simple a task as bug capture.
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You're confusing NASA with DoD. This is a DoD project as of 2004, so there are no tightening of the purse strings at all.
Never share your sanga with a ranga!
Bullshit. Just because you believe something, doesn't make it true.
If you put the phone on your lap you're still going to be picked up by the police. Your argument doesn't even stand up to the basic tests of logic. By your rationale, murder laws make it harder for people to murder, so it makes it worse. Seriously, are you off your face? Do you neocon/libertarians even get how laws work?
If you want to live in a country with no laws, go spend some time in DRC or another war torn country, you can text to your heart's content while driving, just mind the rifles being fired at your face.
But on the other hand now it seems that the software industry has put enough pressure on the illegal file sharers that doing it that way is harder, or at least slower than it was.
This is a myth being propagated by MPAA & RIAA. As someone who's been around since the days of Hotline & IRC sharing, if anything, it's easier these days than before. Torrents are fast & there's not much you can't get from ISOHunt or TPB or the likes.
Exactly. Most of my traffic is HTTPS these days - mail, search, twitter, work, the list goes on. Any ISP trying to bar encrypted traffic will lose customers quicker than they can ban them.
There's bittorrent refugees... hold on a sec while I move these torrented files to my server.
I concur, having watched all 7 seasons recently back to back (I get a bit of free time while working from home).
I must say, though, that the GP is talking out of his or her arse with regard to B5. There's some great acting (true, some of the lesser actors couldn't act their way out of a paper bag), and the story is quite involved until season 5 when Sheridan becomes "president". Again, I watched the series back to back just last week while working.
If you want to talk bad Sci-Fi, look no further than the 2009 Star Trek film & Enterprise. Both are just as bad at throwing Gene Roddenberry's utopian future out the window in favour of fear. DS9 does the same, but at least they stole decent stories (and character names) from B5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine#Deep_Space_Nine_and_Babylon_5
I've been supporting Dell business machines for about 10 years, and I concur, never had to wait with business support (even basic tier business support). Conversely, HP's business support is total shite. Even with a carepack you get phone queues and delays of days (HP's idea of "24hrs response time" is a phone call, not a visit).
I have a feeling that this will be a painful loss for HP, nothing more.
Not so. If you use ANY other passport account attached to your hotmail it stays active. I checked mine the other day for the first time in about 1 year... Over 1000 spam mails.
No fucking idea where MS gets their data from. With gmail I get 1 spam message through the filter once every few months if that, looks like hotmail is closer to 100 per month. I smell astroturfing.
I switched off when I saw the Lovecraft quote.
I actually think it's a big deal, but not for the reason most people are crying about.
It's a bit deal that they have been open, honest, & cautious about the intrusion. Having seen so many high profile companies take the opposite stance lately, the DH intrusion should be made a big deal of, if anything, to show other companies how you react to being hacked without losing face with customers.
For me, there is only one chance when it comes to security to get it right. If you try to hide intrusions, lie to customers, or stonewall tech sites trying to get more information, you aren't a company to be trusted with my data.
Having worked for a newspaper, I can assure you that they still make mistakes. Hell, the paper I worked for even got the date on the front page wrong (a year out) once due to a typo.
Get off your high horse & join us all in reality.
There are reasons NOT to use XP, the biggest I have already stated: It's EOL, updates are less frequent & will stop later this year.
If you're using XP on a new machine there's a good chance you won't be able to get drivers for the machine. Not only that, there's a good chance you're not using a legitimate version, so the cost is irrelevant.
This is probably a smarter option.
Even if you can't charge your phone fully with tech like this, at least you can extend the standby time.
Cheap PCs also run Linux, but that's not always a reson to run it.
I, personally, don't run XP except under a VM on my server at home for the rare occasions that I do need to run insanely legacy apps. I've been using 7 since RC2 & haven't looked back.
At work we have to run XP due to them refusing to upgrade legacy apps that refuse to play nice with 7.
The cheap PC excuse doesn't hold up when you look at the scalability of 7. It can run on cheap, even old PCs with no problems. Sure, your PIII from the 90's won't run it well, but it also won't run XP well.
If it's really that much of a problem, run Linux with wine or the like. Nothing worse than running an EOL OS with massive security problems.
As a non-American, the US is viewed as repressive, & we all assume the dictatorship bit will come soon (not that it's really needed). More & more the US is looking like 1920's Germany.
This really makes it hard to get excited about the Atom range these days. With Intels own ULV chips sitting just above the Atom, & ARM's offerings evolving at a far faster rate than the Atom, why do I really want a device with one?
Didn't they announce these chips last year?
Many other countries in the world have heavy religious influence in their founding or building of their culture. name one that doesn't.
Australia. We were founded on sending prisoners as far away from Britan as possible. While the US is similar, you guys had a revolution to install god as your mascot.
Just because you don't understand the request doesn't mean it's gobbledegooke, it means your knowledge is limited.
Personally, I don't trust any auto-encoding solutions as they easily go haywire. I'd suggest doing that all by hand.
Ext3 is fine, & a rack mount is a necessity. If you want smooth operation of the system, at least 2 network cards are a must (I run 3, 2 bonded for media/SMB, 1 for management & VPN). I'd suggest having a decent 16 port switch in the house & running the 2 (or more) cables to the box.
For DLNA I just run miniDLNA & for torrents I've just set up uTorrent with a web interface. There's very little my desktop actually does.
Came for the summary, stayed for the "overlord" comment.
That's some funny shit. If you'd worked in IT in the 90's you'd know how bad WD were (and still are). Everything from 40% of drives being DOA or early failures, to their abysmal warranty system (send the drive back & they "fix" it, no swap outs), to serious defects in the drives requiring replacement. I died a little inside when WD bought Quantum.
I haven't trusted WD with important data for a long time. Seagate have had bad periods, before they started using the same platters in their IDE drives as their SCSI, but as a whole, Seagate have always come out on top for reliability.
Not sure where you go when you're "out & about", but every second person on the train to work in the morning & home in the afternoon has an iPad. Not just a tablet, an iPad. I rarely see kindles or android tablets.
The only people who have any form of *book are business people with full sized laptops, not netbooks, doing work.
Your anecdote is based in being blind to reality & creating a reality to support your claims. Netbooks are dead, and have been for about a year. I owned one of the first EEEPCs from Asus, hated every moment. The keyboard was too small, the screen was too small, the whole thing was... guess what... too small. Now my iPad, that's fine for the train, my 15 XPS, that's fine for working or gaming on the road. The closest thing to a Netbook I've deployed in my 17 years in IT is the latest generation of Sony Vaio Z series. That's a AU$3000 laptop, a far cry from the price of netbooks, but just as light with a much larger screen & a much better battery.
You are confusing copy protection with proprietary media formats. There's no correlation between the two. The drives will still read CDs, DVDs & BDs that DON'T have the copy protection, you just can't execute code without bypassing said protection. With the Vita, there is NOTHING compatible with the proprietary media format they are using. You can't get a reader & you can't get blank media.
Dictionaries are useful tools when you don't understand a concept, even a quick google would have given you enough information to say your comment is flawed.
WSUS requires human intervention prior to deployment. So, no, MS can't override this.
I'm still at a loss as to how this is an "ask slashdot" question. Isn't this why people get paid to develop software? Shouldn't a decent testing system be part of the whole developing an application thing?
If you're smart enough to know how to develop an app aren't you smart enough to know what data & how to collect it? I really wonder how the questioner earns their wage if they can't manage a simple a task as bug capture.