People are being given free ChromeOS laptops for the purpose of testing ChromeOS, and theyre going to throw Ubuntu on there (and thus presumably stop testing ChromeOS)?
Seems kind of cheap, why dont you just buy your own laptop, or actually TEST the one youve been given?
Wow... I can't think of any good reason to still be running anything less than XP, if you're going to go down the windows road...
I can, having worked with 7 for about 24 months now (since the December beta leak in 2008). XP is a heck of a lot less arcane (you seen the firewall configuration? Or Event log? Or task scheduler?), easier to recover from a disaster (installable recovery console, a repair mode that works, and drives can be cloned without having to dick around with bcdedit), easier to do advanced things with (like cloning hard drives, setting up ext3 drivers), and has substantially fewer bugs.
Its nice that theres UAC in 7, but you basically already had that in XP, with stuff that requires admin popping up a runas box, and most of the other stuff (eyecandy, iscsi support) can be tacked on after the fact. There are some security enhancements, but if you have out of date browser plugins, it really doesnt matter, Im seeing more and more pwned Win7 boxes, as coders figure out how to bypass protected mode, ASLR, and all the rest.
When doing a deployment for a hundred users who cant be bothered to use a non-awful browser, yes, possibly Id do 7 because theyre unlikely to encounter those issues; but for myself, theres really no comparison, XP is just better, and I wish I hadnt upgraded (since downgrading is a PITA, as I run server software).
And if people claim to get their information from that particular source it stands to reason, that there is causation.
A poll is a set of correlations. You are drawing causation from this, while knowing none of the other factors that might be involved, nor even seeing the poll (assuming it is/was still down when you posted). I dont know, sounds like you STILL dont understand why correlation doesnt imply causation.
The larger the government is, the fewer choices the individual has
and
There are plenty of places you can live right now with little or no government and the result is certainly not increased freedom.
Guess what, both are true. Super big government is not-so-good, but anarchy results in a little mayhem as well. Seems like perhaps a careful balance might be necessary-- with government neither gobbling up every power it can, nor abdicating its responsibility to maintain order.
It's a pretty serious charge against an academic to claim that his research is garbage because of a political agenda.
The research might not be garbage-- hard to tell, as the link to it is down at the moment-- but this article is. Can you not see the massive bias (not to mention fallacy) in the headlines ALONE?
Not a Fox viewer myself, but I rather like some of the facts this article gives:
72 percent believe the economy is getting worse
While a quick google search shows this article-- By the very site claiming that "economy getting worse" is misinformation-- from august, stating that "the economy is getting worse"! Wow, just wow.
72 percent believe the health reform law will increase the deficit
As opposed to a NY Times article stating that thats EXACTLY what will happen. So we're sitting here bashing on how bad Fox is, when an avid reader of the times could walk away with exactly the same impression? Sort of like how above someone could have read an alternet article about how the economy is sinking, only to be called stupid for doing so in an article 4 months later? Fantastic. Not to mention "healthcare reform bill reducing deficit" is speculation ANYWAY (you saying there will be NO differences from projected costs?), so its rather brash to call anyone who believes otherwise "misinformed".
60 percent believe climate change is not occurring
I would wonder A) how the question was worded (ie, "do you believe MAN has caused significant global warming" vs "do you believe the climate is changing"), and B) what the poll statistics were for other news networks, or the population in general. Sadly the link to the poll is down, if anyone managed to grab it I would be interested in seeing it.
In fact the big problem with the article is that its so biased its not even funny-- the headline puts the worst of slashdot's to shame. You've got flamebait, wild speculation, and assumptions of causation when only correlation is shown. The links to previous polls are hillarious-- we have one poll, by NBC, showing that NBC viewers are smarter (didnt we just get done laughing at poll by Microsoft showing that Microsoft's browser is the best?). And their conclusion, that I particularly liked:
The conclusion is inescapable. Fox News is deliberately misinforming its viewers and it is doing so for a reason.
Yes, that totally follows-- first, we're going to assume causation, and then we're going to assume intent, and then we're going to claim, whats more, that there is a reason behind all this, and finally that all of this is corroborated by the poll.
Excuse me, while I dont much like a lot of what I see on Fox, its a hell of a lot better than this sort of garbage (well, the news segments at least).
Commenters, if you dont much like Fox, thats great, but please note just how biased this story you're applauding is. Its practically a parody of itself.
.I rather pay less. So what is wrong with universal health care? Every dumb idiot out there who isn't covered and seeing a doctor, is making me pay more out of my pocket
Because that attitude easily leads to crap like "And why should we let Fat Joe eat 10 twinkies a day? Or smoke? Its just a burden on my wallet, and hes too stupid to make his own decisions."
You basically have two choices:
A) Accept the fact that people will sometimes make choices in a free country that will adversely affect you. Accept that those choices may affect your wallet.
B) Try to fix the world by making people unable to make bad decisions, and/or making their decisions for them.
Now which principle do you suppose guided the founding of the country?
If its a private system, let the private companies deal with it. Youre setting up a false dichotomy: EITHER everyone has insurance, OR everyone pays for those who cant pay. And TBQH, Im not clear on why the first is better than the second. Plus, the whole reason prices are jacked up is in part because of insurance; why then does the solution become "more insurance"?
Why is this a federal tax, and not a state tax, then? Does the federal government dispatch ambulances to crash scenes? Im not really clear what the necessity for federal involvement on this is.
That is so (probably intentionally) vague, that anything and everything is "interstate". Why cant congress mandate that houses cannot be painted flourescent pink? I mean, my house color has an effect, though indirect, on the housing market-- and collectively, everyone painting their house pink would have a "substantial economic effect on interstate commerce".
Interpreting it that way may make it legal, but not right.
I use itunes not because its good, but because it plays nice with my ipod shuffle. Thats basically it-- its mind-bogglingly infuriating the way it tries to force me to do things its way.
A DDoS against a webserver ISNT detectable, because it technically IS legitimate traffic. Youre generally not going to spam garbage down the connection if its just going to get blocked at the firewall; far better to send legitimate requests, but never listen for an answer, or spoof the address-- thus, 1 byte of request gets 1 byte (or more!) of response, PLUS the server has to process the request.
The thing is that a properly done DDoS is generally NOT going to be detectable by simply looking at the traffic sent, and once its arrived its already done the damage.
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People are being given free ChromeOS laptops for the purpose of testing ChromeOS, and theyre going to throw Ubuntu on there (and thus presumably stop testing ChromeOS)?
Seems kind of cheap, why dont you just buy your own laptop, or actually TEST the one youve been given?
Wow... I can't think of any good reason to still be running anything less than XP, if you're going to go down the windows road...
I can, having worked with 7 for about 24 months now (since the December beta leak in 2008). XP is a heck of a lot less arcane (you seen the firewall configuration? Or Event log? Or task scheduler?), easier to recover from a disaster (installable recovery console, a repair mode that works, and drives can be cloned without having to dick around with bcdedit), easier to do advanced things with (like cloning hard drives, setting up ext3 drivers), and has substantially fewer bugs.
Its nice that theres UAC in 7, but you basically already had that in XP, with stuff that requires admin popping up a runas box, and most of the other stuff (eyecandy, iscsi support) can be tacked on after the fact. There are some security enhancements, but if you have out of date browser plugins, it really doesnt matter, Im seeing more and more pwned Win7 boxes, as coders figure out how to bypass protected mode, ASLR, and all the rest.
When doing a deployment for a hundred users who cant be bothered to use a non-awful browser, yes, possibly Id do 7 because theyre unlikely to encounter those issues; but for myself, theres really no comparison, XP is just better, and I wish I hadnt upgraded (since downgrading is a PITA, as I run server software).
And if people claim to get their information from that particular source it stands to reason, that there is causation.
A poll is a set of correlations. You are drawing causation from this, while knowing none of the other factors that might be involved, nor even seeing the poll (assuming it is/was still down when you posted). I dont know, sounds like you STILL dont understand why correlation doesnt imply causation.
The larger the government is, the fewer choices the individual has
and
There are plenty of places you can live right now with little or no government and the result is certainly not increased freedom.
Guess what, both are true. Super big government is not-so-good, but anarchy results in a little mayhem as well. Seems like perhaps a careful balance might be necessary-- with government neither gobbling up every power it can, nor abdicating its responsibility to maintain order.
It's a pretty serious charge against an academic to claim that his research is garbage because of a political agenda.
The research might not be garbage-- hard to tell, as the link to it is down at the moment-- but this article is. Can you not see the massive bias (not to mention fallacy) in the headlines ALONE?
72 percent believe the economy is getting worse
While a quick google search shows this article-- By the very site claiming that "economy getting worse" is misinformation-- from august, stating that "the economy is getting worse"! Wow, just wow.
72 percent believe the health reform law will increase the deficit
As opposed to a NY Times article stating that thats EXACTLY what will happen. So we're sitting here bashing on how bad Fox is, when an avid reader of the times could walk away with exactly the same impression? Sort of like how above someone could have read an alternet article about how the economy is sinking, only to be called stupid for doing so in an article 4 months later? Fantastic. Not to mention "healthcare reform bill reducing deficit" is speculation ANYWAY (you saying there will be NO differences from projected costs?), so its rather brash to call anyone who believes otherwise "misinformed".
60 percent believe climate change is not occurring
I would wonder A) how the question was worded (ie, "do you believe MAN has caused significant global warming" vs "do you believe the climate is changing"), and B) what the poll statistics were for other news networks, or the population in general. Sadly the link to the poll is down, if anyone managed to grab it I would be interested in seeing it.
In fact the big problem with the article is that its so biased its not even funny-- the headline puts the worst of slashdot's to shame. You've got flamebait, wild speculation, and assumptions of causation when only correlation is shown. The links to previous polls are hillarious-- we have one poll, by NBC, showing that NBC viewers are smarter (didnt we just get done laughing at poll by Microsoft showing that Microsoft's browser is the best?). And their conclusion, that I particularly liked:
The conclusion is inescapable. Fox News is deliberately misinforming its viewers and it is doing so for a reason.
Yes, that totally follows-- first, we're going to assume causation, and then we're going to assume intent, and then we're going to claim, whats more, that there is a reason behind all this, and finally that all of this is corroborated by the poll.
Excuse me, while I dont much like a lot of what I see on Fox, its a hell of a lot better than this sort of garbage (well, the news segments at least).
Commenters, if you dont much like Fox, thats great, but please note just how biased this story you're applauding is. Its practically a parody of itself.
You....didnt actually read the article, did you?
You could accomplish the same thing without the cloud, but it would involve transparent synchronization between all your devices,
well, even that isnt the same. I rather like being able to access gmail from anywhere, from ANY device, mine or not (ie, from the public library).
The santa cursor and embedded R2D2 sounds really lend credibility to the site.
I would wonder however whether it is necessary for this to be a federal issue.
Federal taxes pay for local police? And local libraries? News to me, I was sure that stuff was dealt with, you know, on a local level.
.I rather pay less. So what is wrong with universal health care? Every dumb idiot out there who isn't covered and seeing a doctor, is making me pay more out of my pocket
Because that attitude easily leads to crap like "And why should we let Fat Joe eat 10 twinkies a day? Or smoke? Its just a burden on my wallet, and hes too stupid to make his own decisions."
You basically have two choices:
A) Accept the fact that people will sometimes make choices in a free country that will adversely affect you. Accept that those choices may affect your wallet.
B) Try to fix the world by making people unable to make bad decisions, and/or making their decisions for them.
Now which principle do you suppose guided the founding of the country?
There were no other solution to 'insure people insurance companies will not insure'
Sounds to me like insurance is the PROBLEM, then, and not the solution.
If its a private system, let the private companies deal with it. Youre setting up a false dichotomy: EITHER everyone has insurance, OR everyone pays for those who cant pay. And TBQH, Im not clear on why the first is better than the second. Plus, the whole reason prices are jacked up is in part because of insurance; why then does the solution become "more insurance"?
Why is this a federal tax, and not a state tax, then? Does the federal government dispatch ambulances to crash scenes? Im not really clear what the necessity for federal involvement on this is.
Because most of the country really really really didnt want this bill?
Thats when people stop going to that doctor, I would think.
That is so (probably intentionally) vague, that anything and everything is "interstate". Why cant congress mandate that houses cannot be painted flourescent pink? I mean, my house color has an effect, though indirect, on the housing market-- and collectively, everyone painting their house pink would have a "substantial economic effect on interstate commerce".
Interpreting it that way may make it legal, but not right.
As opposed to a young Democrat president forcing his agenda on an unwilling nation? Yes, thats much preferred.
I use itunes not because its good, but because it plays nice with my ipod shuffle. Thats basically it-- its mind-bogglingly infuriating the way it tries to force me to do things its way.
That sort of thing is trivially detectable, however, and if they are using an efax service, I dont doubt that that sort of thing is filtered out.
A DDoS against a webserver ISNT detectable, because it technically IS legitimate traffic. Youre generally not going to spam garbage down the connection if its just going to get blocked at the firewall; far better to send legitimate requests, but never listen for an answer, or spoof the address-- thus, 1 byte of request gets 1 byte (or more!) of response, PLUS the server has to process the request.
The thing is that a properly done DDoS is generally NOT going to be detectable by simply looking at the traffic sent, and once its arrived its already done the damage.
So if i start a movement to make the word "CPU" mean "the tower next to my screen", youll have no objections, then?
Is that every home, or just some?
Installing Tomato firmware takes all of 10 minutes.