Haha. I looked it up first and dict said "German" is correct. But school was a lomg time ago. Could you get back on topic? Your advice to create new accounts everywere would only cost money and gain no security. Period.
Try an argument for a change. This is slashdot, we are not here to manually spellcheck each others post.
Your point to start from scratch every time somebody *tries* to steal your identity and losing hundreds or thousands of dollars while doing so is what exactly? What is the fucking security gain? Especially if we are talking about the apple ID? Why create a new account? What does he gain security-wise?
I do not think that this is very likely: 1. In europe, we tend to have IDs. No way in hell you could even start a financial account without valid ID. Identity theft happens, but it is a very rare event. And I mean rare, at least in my country. 2. My advise was not included. It was to change emailaddress to a more safe provider. Gmail > hotmail, in case he already uses gmail, look for a more secure provider, last resort be your own provider. Change emailaddress and password on every account. Strong passwords, use paper and pencil or a password safe.
How do you think your way is better except for losing money? Every f.cking account has the feature to remind you about your lost username in case you forgot and to reset password. They are sent to your email (you know, the one the guy changed if he followed my advise?) Your advise simply stinks. Nothing happened yet and you suggest losing money for no security gain at all.
1. Including navigational software in my case it would rather be 300 EUR. How about steam? How about othe electronic goods? 2. You do not have to create new accounts, only the password and the emailaddress associated with it - your initial post was already misleading 3. If you do 2. and not the bullshit you were suggesting, nobody has to rebuy anything
1. go to the police. I guess even in the USA this might be a good idea. As post above this said, you might need the papertrail for evidence 2. create new emailaddress by another provider. Last time I checked hotmail was swarmed with compromised accounts, while gmail actually protected some customers. I do not know about outlook.com. Use IMAP and ssl so that you quckly receive all emails and do not have to delete mails (use provider with large inbox). Set new provider to get all the emails via ssl and pop from the old one (change password first to a strong one). 3. Change literally every password to a strong one and change the associated emailaddress of this account from any account you could think of. Use paper and pencil or trusted password safes (some even create good passwords in case you can not think of so many, use only machines or mobile devices you can trust).
Google for your local one. That said it is also stated that the quality of the chicken burgers is not as good, because there are too many suppliers, some of them with a bad reputation.
Parent was modded funny for a simply true statement. Spreading FUD does not help when you try to figure out the real problems. There is so much gossip going on with some really stupid conspiracys. For instance, for decades it has been an urban legend that beef for german McD-Burgers came from South America, destroying the environment there. Funny idea, but as the burger does not sell for 5 EUR, simple bullshit, far too expensive.
Lie. Ask your local consumer organisation for an analysys they have actually done and stop spreading FUD bullshit. Ask someone who works there to het you an ungrilled patty - this can be done with nearly no risk to get caught.
Why is it that hard to believe that this has been marked "funny"? Go on with the urban legends what ends up in a mcdonalds patty as long as you want. Take one and let it analyse for fuck sake. It is actually 100 per cent beef. It is frozen beef meat mixed with raw meat beef in a secret percentage.
Stop listening to all the rubbish you read. Take one fucking burger and let it analyse. This won't cost a fortune. Just do it, take someone with you when buying the burger and let it analyse. Or search for actual, trusted analyses. McDonald's has lots of issues. It is not very healthy, the payment is not too good, too much waste, poor working conditions depending on country and store,... Did I mention the waste? Afterb10 minutes a burger is doomed to be thrown away. Maybe they expand the time against the regulations, but after 20 minutes kept warm it really tastes bad. Same goes for french fries. After 7 minutes they should be thrown away, sold after 15 minutes you get slimy fries.
The quality of the patty, the bun or the french fries is not one of them.
Ok - not true for india or burgers with pork or chicken. But for the quarter pounder, the bigmac and the hamburgers and cheseburgers except for india it is true. Maybe somebody comes up with a country were somebody did not made the pattys according to rules. Take your uk, french, german, us and canadian mcd burger and let it analyse. Or ask your local consumer organisation for actual analyses they have done. Parent is fucking right. 100 per cent beef meat.
Try not to judge because you think you know something. Try to actually know it.
This story is about "problem solved, beta works, driver coming up". It was not clear whether the problem was in the hardware or only driver related. So I assume it will interest people (even nvidia-users as myself) that the problem is already solved.
First story was "we have an issue here. Just look how much smoother nvidia is. We describe the problem technically and show it to you."
To me, it is news: Look, ATI tries to do good drivers and addresses problems rather then denying them and it did work. So ATI is a viable option again, if the hardware is up to challenge.
When buying a card for 500 bucks to get the best bang for the buck it is important to get the fastest card technically and drivers that make the game look optimal. And I read such articles to get the good feeling that there is a choice. Or the nerdrage if the alternative (or even worse: the brand I chose) is crap. We as nerds need to store those infos for the next guy who asks if it is OK to buy xyz or the next time we buy new hardware.
For example - if somebody asks me about sony, I would answer that the products are mostly OK, but that you never ever want them to repair your product. Too expensive when not covered by guarantee and simply not up to the competition.
If I were ready for anything than the best look possible with a specific game, I wouldn't pay 500 bucks for a graphics card and would buy the console version of games for my ps3 that I almost never use. That is why it is news - while the release date itself is of no concern to me.
The answer is simple: We are Nerds. If you screw up, you say: I screwed up, sorry. And if others screw up, you tell them what is wrong and expect them to not blame others. Case closed. But most people that are not Nerds have the tendency to screw up and blane others. We do not tolerate this behavior amongst us. It's bad enough that the normal guys do that. Hand in your Nerd-Membership card if you think that stupid excuses and blaming others is a valid way of life. It may be for others. It is not for us. We went through a lot because we are what we are. We like working with others as long as they search for the best possible solution with reasonable effort tohügether with us. We get in a loud argument while we search for the best way. And we accept it when the other solution is better. We take pride in being proven wrong and admitting it. Let the stupid folks do the screwup and blame others.
This is Slashdot. It is for Nerds. It says so in the title. Nerds by definition are not the best ar social skills. Slashdot is not for the normal guys that make life so miserable for everyone who works in some Nerd-related field. We are the guys that e.g. think about different browsers and define them. Saves us lots of trouble in the future because the webbased app will most certainly not be broken just because the company decides to migrate vom Internetexploder 6 to a real browser. It is the incompetent Other Guys [tm] that think only 6 months into the future.
And I do not even use Linux. But Linus is obviously right to be upset. Not because of the error. But because of breaking the unwritten major rule for Nerds: If we screw up, we say so. And we do not blame others.
This is slashdot, right? Everybody knows what can happen to software that ru s devices. It can be manipulated. In Germany, thy tried this. Once. Until somebody filed a lawsuit. Our constitutional court heard experts (including the white hats from the ccc in Germany), gave it a lot of thought and after seeing the evidence (how easy it is to manipulate) came to the following conclusion:
Screw that. The voters have the right to get a result that they can verify (every German has the right to atend the counting of the votes). This is part of the constitution and can not be exchanged for faster results or easier counting. They did not rule out voting machines alltogether, until the results are easally verifyable. The software con not be verified by the public, so there must be a form of proof. Like a printed paper vor each vote that could later be counted. So the government would have to count the votes TWICE. It did not help the case when the ccc installed a chess program on one of the machines on that vote - while nobody was looking - within two minutes, reproducable in the courtroom.
The court ruling was rightout sarcastic when it pointed out that a publicly verifyable counting procedure was indeed a constitutional right, while there is no such thing as a constitutional right for faster projections or making the election cheaper for the government...
As the government found no way to get voting machines in a way that the vote would be equally secret AND verivyable and thus the automated voting procedure could not be made constitutional, those machines are now rotting somewere.
I mean: come on. How often will you rely on something that has failed before? And if we get a relational voting system with paper working: what exactly makes it so hard for the US? Do you like to play chess while voting or what is the f...ing problem with you guys?
Nack. This is a known environment, containing only Linux boxes. If it's a not trustworthy network, you are supposed to select 'public network'. And the password does not substitute a security. And we are talking about at least about 10 reboots. But alas: if you don't trust your own network you are connecting to telling windows you trust it, set an admin password and pray for the best.
But again: the security gain is not as big as it used to be and the steps were there for the original submitter whom I tried to spare the fuss. If the target group were joe average with a bit of windows experience and an unknown environment, I would include the admin password and:
0. partition into at least three partitions: one for windows and common programs, one big for games and another big one for the user profile. Install to first parition.
7a. Format the remaining partitions and set the letters accordingly, so that the hdd partions have c: d: and e:. Open regedit and set the path for the user profiles to d: install the games to e:. When you now create the user account, the complete profile is on d:, so that a new installation of windows leaves the saved games unscratched.
Yes. It's amazing how often psi complains about vulnerable software while the applications own update mechanism is still silent. It is often faster than windows update to report that it is time to fire up windows update manually in order to search for new windows patches.
Notorious slow update alerts from the applications own update mechanism also include Java, Adobe flash, air and reader, firefox (patching fast, but the patch appears too late). PSI often offer patches directly without the infamous "bonus software" like search bars and security scan software that is kindly preselected to slip it under the radar for the impatient user that is trained to click "continue" all the time when he installs anything.
Since psi informs about patches that fix the holes left wide open by the software manufacturers own notifications mechanisms (if there are any) and since they are trusted by heise.de psi should be included into the security precautions. There are similar programs, but unless they have been recommended by a really trustworthy source, I do not trust them. I am always very cautious when it cames to install software that somehow "improves" windows, so I did not use psi unless heise.de recommended them. I do not know how well known it is in other parts of the world, but psi or a trustworthy alternative are essential in order to stand a chance against the update hell.
Oh crap. I had a lengthy answer to that that just disappeared after the login, because I normally do not use the iPads standard browser. Short version: User Acount Control (UAC) is enough at that stage. He will need to reboot and update until like forever at this stage. He is not supposed to surf around at this time, just setup the system from trusted sources. Trusted German source ct from www.heise.de who brought us a script to make it easier to work without administrative rights in XP and the famous, totally legal XP homepro have even suggested that working as a non administrative user is no longer worth the fuss because of all the bad stuff that could happen to a standard user and the level of security added with Windows 7 combined with the improved UAC.
But alas, I believe it still adds some minor security. But not at this stage of the business, which you could trust your mother to do: reboot, install updates using the program windows update, reboot,... until it's over. The driver part would be a bit tricky for my mom at least, but he will only visit very trustworthy sources at this stage and typing in a complicated password after each reboot really is a bit too much, compared to nearly NO security gain at this stage of the setup procedure.
1. Use windows 7 64 bit, it is more secure 2. install Windows and create a user you will use for the "root" work. Call ist root, if you like, or boss orbwhatever. Do NOT set a password yet! Search for updates using windows updates. Do not hesitate to install all optional updates. MSIE will end on the machine anyway, so it's best to have the least insecure installed. The optional drivers are propably crap, but they're better then the generic drivers that came with Windows. Install updates. Reboot, install updates. Reboot, install updates. This is the most annoying part, but eventually, Windows update, when asked to search for more updates, will report it has none in store for you. Phew. 3. If it didn't install already, install MSE. 4. in order to work correctly in games, you will now need to install the latest drivers for the video card and for the soundcard. Do not rely on the optional windows drivers for these two components, replace the ones you got in step 3. These are the important drivers that get glitchy in games. First place to look is NOT the producer of the laptop, but the producer of the chips that are used in the laptop for sound and graphics. Google for it. Only if step 4 breaks it, try the producer of the laptop for drivers. Only if the producer of the laptop has no drivers and the drivers from the producers of the chips break the installation, repeat step 1-3 and omit step 4. 5. install the desired games and software 6. Install chrome or Firefox. Chrome might be a bit more secure. Install a PDF reader. 7. Install PSI from secunia in order to keep the update-hell in check. Run it once to check if everything is up to date. 8. Now set up the account of your son as a normal user, give him a password. Now give the root account a password, as you will soon expose the laptop to your son the real world, not just a few sites. 9. Backup and setup a backup-routine.
Give your son the computer and the password for root. Explain to him that it is his responsibility to doublecheck if a program is OK to run with Admin-privileges. From time to time, make him login as root/admin and check if any bad written programs ask for updates and check if PSI complaints about old programs and keep them up to date.
Most importantly: the best antimalware is a brain. Inform him, that he must double-check (with google, for example) that a source of downloadsoftware is reliable if he downloads software from the internet. If something sounds too good to be true, it propably is.
Actually, this is not correct. The release date was released only a month ago. The development took eight years, but it's not like you could plan ahead like for a solar eclipse.
The longevity of XP was an accident. It was a good time to live in, but they won't make that mistake ever again. Don't expect support to last as long as the XP support for 7 either.
Windows 7 has mainstream support until Jan. 12, 2015 (when new feature development stops) and extended support until Jan. 14, 2020. So you can keep using it for nearly another eight years if you are satisfied with just security patches and no new OS features. Windows 8 is shaping up to be a real dog on the desktop, so I expect the boundaries of support to be used to their fullest.
I second that.
2020 is plenty of time for Ballmer to be canned and for Windows 9 to get back to fulfilling core business needs and forget about this silly Apple tablet envy.
People tend to forget what a mess XP was securitywise until SP 2. Or what crap they sold to the mass market between Win 3.11 and XP (first usable OS if you were not so keen on spending hundreds of dollars for one decent OS).
And I see multitouch as an important addendum to the already available inputdevices. There are things far more easily done with multitouch, while others are faster done with a mouse and others with the keyboard. The essential thing is a good integration. I assume that it will be done fine in Windows 9. Win 8 will make themlearn (like Vista on 3D) and Win 9 will be the the windows7 for multitouch and Desktopintegration. We will see.
What makes you so sure Windows 9 is not going to have a tablet focused UI as well?
I am shure they will integrate multitouch and mouse/keyboard better. I don't expect it to give up multitouch.
A businessman is at the Microsoft helm now. Not a geek like Gates.
To give him credit, Windows 7 was a good OS. And Office 2010 was the first Office since 10 years which was actually better than an open source derivat. One reason being it doesn't implode just because you use too many screenshots in a word document...
The 16-bit-crap they sold the masses for decades while NT was available at astronomic rates was not. XP was a big (!) security mess until SP 2, so I REALLY think the claim that Bill decided for better / geekier products from a thechnologic point of view shoulkd be doubted. For the time between Windows 3.11 and XP SP2 M$ as a company needs to burn in some special nerd hell.
So I pirated NT and 2000 as a matter of self defense because I paid for Windows 95 and Windows 98, which were unusable crap. How often have you played top notch games back then and the system hung altogether? A nearly non-issue under NT.
On the other hand, what we've seen from Windows 8 makes it unusable for Desktop Users, because it is a step back. And the new Home Server 2011 is pure crap. Boy, did they mess WHS 2011 up. And I don't mean the missing drive extender.
So what I am suggesting here is that under the evil Ballmer Microsoft made some really good products while Bill is responsible for the really bad ones, just saying.
Instead we have moronic decisions leading to primary support for tablets first and then desktops and even laptops as an afterthought as well as one of the most bloated OSes ever created by man. Certainly nothing to be proud of from a tech perspective.
I personally have no problem at all with the OS being bigger every time. The hardware is following moores law for decades, so there is no limiting factor here. But you are wrong, Windows 8 is actually not using that much more ressources than windows 7. What I have a problem with ist stability, usability and security. And the usability is a step back if it stays that way. And this will need to go away in Windows 9. For Windows 9 I want an inputdevice on my PC (beside the PC and the monitor, which I doon't want to be multitouch) like a multitouch tablet and a mouse and a keyboard. With all three combined the user interface adapts to your specific tasks. And who knows: If M$ kann make multitouch OSes, maybe in a few years time the more open Windows environment is superior to the walled gardan Apple has to offer. Maybe. I bought the iPad 3 despite the limmitations though because the other tablets optically are not worthy to be used as a bookreplacement. And a kindle is ONLY a book.
I don't give up my hopes yet: Windows 8 could MS make understand multitouch. And Windows 9 could combine the best of two worlds. We'll see.
You are right. If Windows 8 won't get a major overhaul it's a dead horse except for pure tablet computers. I'll wait for Windows 9 because I want to use the mouse and multitouch, whatever is more hany fr the given task. And the actual chimera Windows 8 is, it won't fly for Desktop purposes, so NO reasonable IT Deportment will use it. We always use the actual MS-Software after the first SP, because these incrimental upgrades are less rough than waiting for the very last second.
But I bet my butt our IT Department will give Windows 8 the finger if it's not changed big times.
There is a third option, and one that many people seem to be choosing: voice your criticism, and then vote with your dollar.
i've been saying this in numerous other posts. in those posts i've said voice your criticism but lose the sense of entitlement. buy something else = vote with your dollar.
I WILL vote with my euro. But first I want Bioware to understand that they should not pull another stunt like this. And I guess they got this message. I'll wait what they deliver. If it's acceptable, I'll buy other Bioware titles. If it's not, I won't buy their games anymore. It really IS that simple. We have seen worse endings than this one. But in those games nobody was promised a better ending. No one was promised a happy ending, so killing Shepherd is a valid option. Let's wait what happens.
And don't give me that artistic freedom-bullshit. Artistic freedom is a constitutional right in Germany, barring the censoring of titles like Natural Born Killers, so I value this right. BUT - and this is important, this right does not stand alone. There are other rights. If you order a country side painting and get a city with no green in it, then you don't have to pay, because the contract was not fullfilled.
In other words: Had Bioware not promised very different endings, the whining of the other gamers would be whining and that's it. But this does not apply here, because they made specific claims they did not hold up to. And this is when the artist is not so free anymore. What is so annoying is the fact that people actually paid with their money and their time to get the best ending. Some used their shephards for 5 years. What Bioware and EA did here is outragious. And to have the chuzpa to claim artistic freedom over an ending that consists solely of false advertising is unbelievable.
I don't play 3rd person shooter, so I am not affected. But this is about holding the line as gamers. Clearly I don't count you as a gamer, because your posts miss the point by miles and you have no feeling for decency.
To me, this is about false advertising. And it is about a bad gaming experience in order to hold the timeframe despite the fact that people in charge promised something else. Should Bioware deliver an ending I count as holding up to the promises, I shall buy other games from Bioware. If not, I won't buy Bioshock 3 and everything else EA has to offer. They have to understand that "artistic freedom" ends when the artist acts like an entrepeneur and makes false claims. To me, they could have get away with it IF they did not make those false claims.
Had they said nothing about the ending or something like "whatever you do effects the plot, but in the end the faith of Shepherd is already written, so your achievements make no big difference in the end", I wouldn't be as pissed as I am. But they explicitly claimed the end to be different for every gamer and that all your choices make a difference in the final battle. The cake is a lie.
Don't do false claims and you are as an "artist" free to do with your product nearly everything you like. But artistic freedom does NOT give you the right to betrayal, because your rights and the rights of your customers are in a conflict here. And as much as I believe that games are art I do NOT believe that betrayal should be allowed just because it's a new kind of art. There are court decisions containing paintings or music that were ordered but the product was not to the customers demands. If nothing is agreed to, you could give him everything, including a white cube in a white room (meaning an empty picture) or something of equal artistic value. But you will not promise me a forest and deliver a cty with no trees in it. Simple as that.
Thanks for writing this. But we should mention that it is not likely that the stop of nuclear power will be reversed. There is only one "major" party (the liberals) left to support nuclear power plants. The soial democrats won't go back to nuclear power. The greens won't. The pirates won't. The conservatives have just been forced to stop supporting nuclear power.
The public opinion is strongly against nuclear power since 30 years.
You are mostly right. Deckard should not play a central role. But he could be in his last hours. Roy Batty had white hair - maybe because he was about to die? He had no "old" skin - but that could be erased on Ford for one scene. Like explaining what happened to them and dying or so. I just hope it won't come to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner_2:_The_Edge_of_Human
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Haha. I looked it up first and dict said "German" is correct. But school was a lomg time ago. Could you get back on topic? Your advice to create new accounts everywere would only cost money and gain no security. Period.
Try an argument for a change. This is slashdot, we are not here to manually spellcheck each others post.
Your point to start from scratch every time somebody *tries* to steal your identity and losing hundreds or thousands of dollars while doing so is what exactly? What is the fucking security gain? Especially if we are talking about the apple ID? Why create a new account? What does he gain security-wise?
I bet my English beats the hell out of your German. Thank you very much. And yes, either safer or more secure would habe been better.
I do not think that this is very likely:
1. In europe, we tend to have IDs. No way in hell you could even start a financial account without valid ID. Identity theft happens, but it is a very rare event. And I mean rare, at least in my country.
2. My advise was not included. It was to change emailaddress to a more safe provider. Gmail > hotmail, in case he already uses gmail, look for a more secure provider, last resort be your own provider. Change emailaddress and password on every account. Strong passwords, use paper and pencil or a password safe.
How do you think your way is better except for losing money? Every f.cking account has the feature to remind you about your lost username in case you forgot and to reset password. They are sent to your email (you know, the one the guy changed if he followed my advise?) Your advise simply stinks. Nothing happened yet and you suggest losing money for no security gain at all.
What moron moderated this bullshit "insightful"?
1. Including navigational software in my case it would rather be 300 EUR. How about steam? How about othe electronic goods?
2. You do not have to create new accounts, only the password and the emailaddress associated with it - your initial post was already misleading
3. If you do 2. and not the bullshit you were suggesting, nobody has to rebuy anything
Again: What moron moderated this insightful?
Yes, what the two above me wrote:
1. go to the police. I guess even in the USA this might be a good idea. As post above this said, you might need the papertrail for evidence
2. create new emailaddress by another provider. Last time I checked hotmail was swarmed with compromised accounts, while gmail actually protected some customers. I do not know about outlook.com. Use IMAP and ssl so that you quckly receive all emails and do not have to delete mails (use provider with large inbox). Set new provider to get all the emails via ssl and pop from the old one (change password first to a strong one).
3. Change literally every password to a strong one and change the associated emailaddress of this account from any account you could think of. Use paper and pencil or trusted password safes (some even create good passwords in case you can not think of so many, use only machines or mobile devices you can trust).
Yes, fireable offence. But easily done, if not repeated. The analysis of our consumer organisation: http://translate.google.de/translate?twu=1?sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A//www.test.de/Burger-McDonalds-ist-der-Burger-King-1234826-2234826/
Google for your local one. That said it is also stated that the quality of the chicken burgers is not as good, because there are too many suppliers, some of them with a bad reputation.
Parent was modded funny for a simply true statement. Spreading FUD does not help when you try to figure out the real problems. There is so much gossip going on with some really stupid conspiracys. For instance, for decades it has been an urban legend that beef for german McD-Burgers came from South America, destroying the environment there. Funny idea, but as the burger does not sell for 5 EUR, simple bullshit, far too expensive.
Lie. Ask your local consumer organisation for an analysys they have actually done and stop spreading FUD bullshit. Ask someone who works there to het you an ungrilled patty - this can be done with nearly no risk to get caught.
Why is it that hard to believe that this has been marked "funny"? Go on with the urban legends what ends up in a mcdonalds patty as long as you want. Take one and let it analyse for fuck sake. It is actually 100 per cent beef. It is frozen beef meat mixed with raw meat beef in a secret percentage.
Stop listening to all the rubbish you read. Take one fucking burger and let it analyse. This won't cost a fortune. Just do it, take someone with you when buying the burger and let it analyse. Or search for actual, trusted analyses. McDonald's has lots of issues. It is not very healthy, the payment is not too good, too much waste, poor working conditions depending on country and store,... Did I mention the waste? Afterb10 minutes a burger is doomed to be thrown away. Maybe they expand the time against the regulations, but after 20 minutes kept warm it really tastes bad. Same goes for french fries. After 7 minutes they should be thrown away, sold after 15 minutes you get slimy fries.
The quality of the patty, the bun or the french fries is not one of them.
Ok - not true for india or burgers with pork or chicken. But for the quarter pounder, the bigmac and the hamburgers and cheseburgers except for india it is true. Maybe somebody comes up with a country were somebody did not made the pattys according to rules. Take your uk, french, german, us and canadian mcd burger and let it analyse. Or ask your local consumer organisation for actual analyses they have done. Parent is fucking right. 100 per cent beef meat.
Try not to judge because you think you know something. Try to actually know it.
RTFA. Next week.
This story is about "problem solved, beta works, driver coming up". It was not clear whether the problem was in the hardware or only driver related. So I assume it will interest people (even nvidia-users as myself) that the problem is already solved.
First story was "we have an issue here. Just look how much smoother nvidia is. We describe the problem technically and show it to you."
To me, it is news: Look, ATI tries to do good drivers and addresses problems rather then denying them and it did work. So ATI is a viable option again, if the hardware is up to challenge.
When buying a card for 500 bucks to get the best bang for the buck it is important to get the fastest card technically and drivers that make the game look optimal. And I read such articles to get the good feeling that there is a choice. Or the nerdrage if the alternative (or even worse: the brand I chose) is crap. We as nerds need to store those infos for the next guy who asks if it is OK to buy xyz or the next time we buy new hardware.
For example - if somebody asks me about sony, I would answer that the products are mostly OK, but that you never ever want them to repair your product. Too expensive when not covered by guarantee and simply not up to the competition.
If I were ready for anything than the best look possible with a specific game, I wouldn't pay 500 bucks for a graphics card and would buy the console version of games for my ps3 that I almost never use. That is why it is news - while the release date itself is of no concern to me.
The answer is simple: We are Nerds. If you screw up, you say: I screwed up, sorry. And if others screw up, you tell them what is wrong and expect them to not blame others. Case closed. But most people that are not Nerds have the tendency to screw up and blane others. We do not tolerate this behavior amongst us. It's bad enough that the normal guys do that. Hand in your Nerd-Membership card if you think that stupid excuses and blaming others is a valid way of life. It may be for others. It is not for us. We went through a lot because we are what we are. We like working with others as long as they search for the best possible solution with reasonable effort tohügether with us. We get in a loud argument while we search for the best way. And we accept it when the other solution is better. We take pride in being proven wrong and admitting it. Let the stupid folks do the screwup and blame others.
This is Slashdot. It is for Nerds. It says so in the title. Nerds by definition are not the best ar social skills. Slashdot is not for the normal guys that make life so miserable for everyone who works in some Nerd-related field. We are the guys that e.g. think about different browsers and define them. Saves us lots of trouble in the future because the webbased app will most certainly not be broken just because the company decides to migrate vom Internetexploder 6 to a real browser. It is the incompetent Other Guys [tm] that think only 6 months into the future.
And I do not even use Linux. But Linus is obviously right to be upset. Not because of the error. But because of breaking the unwritten major rule for Nerds: If we screw up, we say so. And we do not blame others.
Period.
This is slashdot, right? Everybody knows what can happen to software that ru s devices. It can be manipulated. In Germany, thy tried this. Once. Until somebody filed a lawsuit. Our constitutional court heard experts (including the white hats from the ccc in Germany), gave it a lot of thought and after seeing the evidence (how easy it is to manipulate) came to the following conclusion:
Screw that. The voters have the right to get a result that they can verify (every German has the right to atend the counting of the votes). This is part of the constitution and can not be exchanged for faster results or easier counting. They did not rule out voting machines alltogether, until the results are easally verifyable. The software con not be verified by the public, so there must be a form of proof. Like a printed paper vor each vote that could later be counted. So the government would have to count the votes TWICE. It did not help the case when the ccc installed a chess program on one of the machines on that vote - while nobody was looking - within two minutes, reproducable in the courtroom.
The court ruling was rightout sarcastic when it pointed out that a publicly verifyable counting procedure was indeed a constitutional right, while there is no such thing as a constitutional right for faster projections or making the election cheaper for the government...
As the government found no way to get voting machines in a way that the vote would be equally secret AND verivyable and thus the automated voting procedure could not be made constitutional, those machines are now rotting somewere.
I mean: come on. How often will you rely on something that has failed before? And if we get a relational voting system with paper working: what exactly makes it so hard for the US? Do you like to play chess while voting or what is the f...ing problem with you guys?
Nack.
This is a known environment, containing only Linux boxes. If it's a not trustworthy network, you are supposed to select 'public network'. And the password does not substitute a security. And we are talking about at least about 10 reboots. But alas: if you don't trust your own network you are connecting to telling windows you trust it, set an admin password and pray for the best.
But again: the security gain is not as big as it used to be and the steps were there for the original submitter whom I tried to spare the fuss. If the target group were joe average with a bit of windows experience and an unknown environment, I would include the admin password and:
0. partition into at least three partitions: one for windows and common programs, one big for games and another big one for the user profile. Install to first parition.
7a. Format the remaining partitions and set the letters accordingly, so that the hdd partions have c: d: and e:. Open regedit and set the path for the user profiles to d: install the games to e:. When you now create the user account, the complete profile is on d:, so that a new installation of windows leaves the saved games unscratched.
Yes. It's amazing how often psi complains about vulnerable software while the applications own update mechanism is still silent. It is often faster than windows update to report that it is time to fire up windows update manually in order to search for new windows patches.
Notorious slow update alerts from the applications own update mechanism also include Java, Adobe flash, air and reader, firefox (patching fast, but the patch appears too late). PSI often offer patches directly without the infamous "bonus software" like search bars and security scan software that is kindly preselected to slip it under the radar for the impatient user that is trained to click "continue" all the time when he installs anything.
Since psi informs about patches that fix the holes left wide open by the software manufacturers own notifications mechanisms (if there are any) and since they are trusted by heise.de psi should be included into the security precautions. There are similar programs, but unless they have been recommended by a really trustworthy source, I do not trust them. I am always very cautious when it cames to install software that somehow "improves" windows, so I did not use psi unless heise.de recommended them. I do not know how well known it is in other parts of the world, but psi or a trustworthy alternative are essential in order to stand a chance against the update hell.
Oh crap. I had a lengthy answer to that that just disappeared after the login, because I normally do not use the iPads standard browser. Short version: User Acount Control (UAC) is enough at that stage. He will need to reboot and update until like forever at this stage. He is not supposed to surf around at this time, just setup the system from trusted sources. Trusted German source ct from www.heise.de who brought us a script to make it easier to work without administrative rights in XP and the famous, totally legal XP homepro have even suggested that working as a non administrative user is no longer worth the fuss because of all the bad stuff that could happen to a standard user and the level of security added with Windows 7 combined with the improved UAC.
But alas, I believe it still adds some minor security. But not at this stage of the business, which you could trust your mother to do: reboot, install updates using the program windows update, reboot,... until it's over. The driver part would be a bit tricky for my mom at least, but he will only visit very trustworthy sources at this stage and typing in a complicated password after each reboot really is a bit too much, compared to nearly NO security gain at this stage of the setup procedure.
Ok?
Ok. But the basic security steps should be:
1. Use windows 7 64 bit, it is more secure
2. install Windows and create a user you will use for the "root" work. Call ist root, if you like, or boss orbwhatever. Do NOT set a password yet! Search for updates using windows updates. Do not hesitate to install all optional updates. MSIE will end on the machine anyway, so it's best to have the least insecure installed. The optional drivers are propably crap, but they're better then the generic drivers that came with Windows. Install updates. Reboot, install updates. Reboot, install updates. This is the most annoying part, but eventually, Windows update, when asked to search for more updates, will report it has none in store for you. Phew.
3. If it didn't install already, install MSE.
4. in order to work correctly in games, you will now need to install the latest drivers for the video card and for the soundcard. Do not rely on the optional windows drivers for these two components, replace the ones you got in step 3. These are the important drivers that get glitchy in games. First place to look is NOT the producer of the laptop, but the producer of the chips that are used in the laptop for sound and graphics. Google for it. Only if step 4 breaks it, try the producer of the laptop for drivers. Only if the producer of the laptop has no drivers and the drivers from the producers of the chips break the installation, repeat step 1-3 and omit step 4.
5. install the desired games and software
6. Install chrome or Firefox. Chrome might be a bit more secure. Install a PDF reader.
7. Install PSI from secunia in order to keep the update-hell in check. Run it once to check if everything is up to date.
8. Now set up the account of your son as a normal user, give him a password. Now give the root account a password, as you will soon expose the laptop to your son the real world, not just a few sites.
9. Backup and setup a backup-routine.
Give your son the computer and the password for root. Explain to him that it is his responsibility to doublecheck if a program is OK to run with Admin-privileges. From time to time, make him login as root/admin and check if any bad written programs ask for updates and check if PSI complaints about old programs and keep them up to date.
Most importantly: the best antimalware is a brain. Inform him, that he must double-check (with google, for example) that a source of downloadsoftware is reliable if he downloads software from the internet. If something sounds too good to be true, it propably is.
Actually, this is not correct. The release date was released only a month ago. The development took eight years, but it's not like you could plan ahead like for a solar eclipse.
http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/wiki/images/0/03/Parteiprogramm-englisch.pdf
This is the manifesto in english. The changes to this manifesto need 2/3 of votes on a party conference.
The statues are not available in english, so I'll post the translated German version:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&twu=1&q=piratenpartei+grundsatzprogramm?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A//wiki.piratenpartei.de/Bundessatzung%0A
As for the rest (positions, election program) please try to find it yourself or ask.
The longevity of XP was an accident. It was a good time to live in, but they won't make that mistake ever again. Don't expect support to last as long as the XP support for 7 either.
Windows 7 has mainstream support until Jan. 12, 2015 (when new feature development stops) and extended support until Jan. 14, 2020. So you can keep using it for nearly another eight years if you are satisfied with just security patches and no new OS features. Windows 8 is shaping up to be a real dog on the desktop, so I expect the boundaries of support to be used to their fullest.
I second that.
2020 is plenty of time for Ballmer to be canned and for Windows 9 to get back to fulfilling core business needs and forget about this silly Apple tablet envy.
I disagree. First because MS fucked up big time before Ballmer: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2773391&cid=39620577
People tend to forget what a mess XP was securitywise until SP 2. Or what crap they sold to the mass market between Win 3.11 and XP (first usable OS if you were not so keen on spending hundreds of dollars for one decent OS).
And I see multitouch as an important addendum to the already available inputdevices. There are things far more easily done with multitouch, while others are faster done with a mouse and others with the keyboard. The essential thing is a good integration. I assume that it will be done fine in Windows 9. Win 8 will make themlearn (like Vista on 3D) and Win 9 will be the the windows7 for multitouch and Desktopintegration. We will see.
What makes you so sure Windows 9 is not going to have a tablet focused UI as well?
I am shure they will integrate multitouch and mouse/keyboard better. I don't expect it to give up multitouch.
A businessman is at the Microsoft helm now. Not a geek like Gates.
To give him credit, Windows 7 was a good OS. And Office 2010 was the first Office since 10 years which was actually better than an open source derivat. One reason being it doesn't implode just because you use too many screenshots in a word document...
The 16-bit-crap they sold the masses for decades while NT was available at astronomic rates was not. XP was a big (!) security mess until SP 2, so I REALLY think the claim that Bill decided for better / geekier products from a thechnologic point of view shoulkd be doubted. For the time between Windows 3.11 and XP SP2 M$ as a company needs to burn in some special nerd hell.
So I pirated NT and 2000 as a matter of self defense because I paid for Windows 95 and Windows 98, which were unusable crap. How often have you played top notch games back then and the system hung altogether? A nearly non-issue under NT.
On the other hand, what we've seen from Windows 8 makes it unusable for Desktop Users, because it is a step back. And the new Home Server 2011 is pure crap. Boy, did they mess WHS 2011 up. And I don't mean the missing drive extender.
So what I am suggesting here is that under the evil Ballmer Microsoft made some really good products while Bill is responsible for the really bad ones, just saying.
Instead we have moronic decisions leading to primary support for tablets first and then desktops and even laptops as an afterthought as well as one of the most bloated OSes ever created by man. Certainly nothing to be proud of from a tech perspective.
I personally have no problem at all with the OS being bigger every time. The hardware is following moores law for decades, so there is no limiting factor here. But you are wrong, Windows 8 is actually not using that much more ressources than windows 7. What I have a problem with ist stability, usability and security. And the usability is a step back if it stays that way. And this will need to go away in Windows 9. For Windows 9 I want an inputdevice on my PC (beside the PC and the monitor, which I doon't want to be multitouch) like a multitouch tablet and a mouse and a keyboard. With all three combined the user interface adapts to your specific tasks. And who knows: If M$ kann make multitouch OSes, maybe in a few years time the more open Windows environment is superior to the walled gardan Apple has to offer. Maybe. I bought the iPad 3 despite the limmitations though because the other tablets optically are not worthy to be used as a bookreplacement. And a kindle is ONLY a book.
I don't give up my hopes yet: Windows 8 could MS make understand multitouch. And Windows 9 could combine the best of two worlds. We'll see.
You are right. If Windows 8 won't get a major overhaul it's a dead horse except for pure tablet computers. I'll wait for Windows 9 because I want to use the mouse and multitouch, whatever is more hany fr the given task. And the actual chimera Windows 8 is, it won't fly for Desktop purposes, so NO reasonable IT Deportment will use it. We always use the actual MS-Software after the first SP, because these incrimental upgrades are less rough than waiting for the very last second.
But I bet my butt our IT Department will give Windows 8 the finger if it's not changed big times.
i don't think you've been paying attention.
There is a third option, and one that many people seem to be choosing: voice your criticism, and then vote with your dollar.
i've been saying this in numerous other posts. in those posts i've said voice your criticism but lose the sense of entitlement. buy something else = vote with your dollar.
I WILL vote with my euro. But first I want Bioware to understand that they should not pull another stunt like this. And I guess they got this message. I'll wait what they deliver. If it's acceptable, I'll buy other Bioware titles. If it's not, I won't buy their games anymore. It really IS that simple. We have seen worse endings than this one. But in those games nobody was promised a better ending. No one was promised a happy ending, so killing Shepherd is a valid option. Let's wait what happens.
Bullshit. http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/10056886 explains, what was promised / advertised. They clearly did not deliver what was promised.
And don't give me that artistic freedom-bullshit. Artistic freedom is a constitutional right in Germany, barring the censoring of titles like Natural Born Killers, so I value this right. BUT - and this is important, this right does not stand alone. There are other rights. If you order a country side painting and get a city with no green in it, then you don't have to pay, because the contract was not fullfilled.
In other words: Had Bioware not promised very different endings, the whining of the other gamers would be whining and that's it. But this does not apply here, because they made specific claims they did not hold up to. And this is when the artist is not so free anymore. What is so annoying is the fact that people actually paid with their money and their time to get the best ending. Some used their shephards for 5 years. What Bioware and EA did here is outragious. And to have the chuzpa to claim artistic freedom over an ending that consists solely of false advertising is unbelievable.
I don't play 3rd person shooter, so I am not affected. But this is about holding the line as gamers. Clearly I don't count you as a gamer, because your posts miss the point by miles and you have no feeling for decency.
To me, this is about false advertising. And it is about a bad gaming experience in order to hold the timeframe despite the fact that people in charge promised something else. Should Bioware deliver an ending I count as holding up to the promises, I shall buy other games from Bioware. If not, I won't buy Bioshock 3 and everything else EA has to offer. They have to understand that "artistic freedom" ends when the artist acts like an entrepeneur and makes false claims. To me, they could have get away with it IF they did not make those false claims.
Had they said nothing about the ending or something like "whatever you do effects the plot, but in the end the faith of Shepherd is already written, so your achievements make no big difference in the end", I wouldn't be as pissed as I am. But they explicitly claimed the end to be different for every gamer and that all your choices make a difference in the final battle. The cake is a lie.
Don't do false claims and you are as an "artist" free to do with your product nearly everything you like. But artistic freedom does NOT give you the right to betrayal, because your rights and the rights of your customers are in a conflict here. And as much as I believe that games are art I do NOT believe that betrayal should be allowed just because it's a new kind of art. There are court decisions containing paintings or music that were ordered but the product was not to the customers demands. If nothing is agreed to, you could give him everything, including a white cube in a white room (meaning an empty picture) or something of equal artistic value. But you will not promise me a forest and deliver a cty with no trees in it. Simple as that.
Thanks for writing this. But we should mention that it is not likely that the stop of nuclear power will be reversed. There is only one "major" party (the liberals) left to support nuclear power plants. The soial democrats won't go back to nuclear power. The greens won't. The pirates won't. The conservatives have just been forced to stop supporting nuclear power.
The public opinion is strongly against nuclear power since 30 years.
The Unicorn was always there. As was the origami unicorn. Even on the releases that did not happen at all. What are you talking about?
You are mostly right. Deckard should not play a central role. But he could be in his last hours. Roy Batty had white hair - maybe because he was about to die? He had no "old" skin - but that could be erased on Ford for one scene. Like explaining what happened to them and dying or so. I just hope it won't come to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner_2:_The_Edge_of_Human
Cheesycheesycheesy....