Wal-Mart underestimated the power of the impulse buy. They put a few linux PCs right near the checkout isle and parents buy their kids one to shut them up.
The difference between nuclear and chemically powered subs is enormous - it reduces the range a sub can go underwater without surfacing from the circumference of the earth to a few hundred miles. No submarine is going to be able to get that close on the surface if the opponent controls the skies.
Well, don't mean to offend, but there's a pretty good explanation for that: the fact that it's 1280x1024. I'm no expert, but it seems as if the cost of production would have more to do with resolution than the size - plastic is cheap, parts with strict specifications are not. 1280x1024 isn't anywhere close to what graphics cards are pushing out these days.
This is better than the former situation, whose most obvious manifestation were those Windows-only modems in the 90s. No matter what precautions you take, you're ultimately giving whatever the hardware is total power if you don't have the source, whether the brains are in the main CPU and therefore it comes in the form of malicious drivers, or whether it has onboard computing capability turned against you.
The difference is that the hardware does not have quite so arbitrary of code execution privileges as it's drivers, as it can only access the computer in the ways explicitly granted by your hopefully open-source driver, which if it's well written to give only the absolute necessary privileges will at least mean you have a higher chance of logging odd behavior in some file, somewhere - it's not much better, but if your system is compromised by your hardware, there's still at least a chance of some part of your system maintaining independence and being able to mount a defense. If the driver is still closed, it's still a wash at worst - you only need to root a computer once, and anyone with malicious intent is going to use the better attack vector.
I'm a student at Columbia University and the current methods of the *AA's have been totally successful. Granted, the campus is more or less the number one target, as it's high profile and the Administration bends over backwards to help enforce whatever demands they make, but the current method seems scalable enough that they don't need to have these subscriptions as a form of protection payment - the current way of things has much less overhead and has to make them more money. Every month, the school gets a new round of letters threatening doom and gloom and helpfully passes them on to the student victims, who then pay something around two or three thousand to make the problem go away. Considering that this has happened to hundreds of students, they're making tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars off of fines from us alone. They should go the way of the patent troll and just forget about legitimate business altogether.
run xubuntu. i assume your speaking of wireless networking - that's always been a bitch and will be until Richard Stallman and his legions of the damned drink out of Ballmer's skull.
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Wal-Mart underestimated the power of the impulse buy. They put a few linux PCs right near the checkout isle and parents buy their kids one to shut them up.
The difference between nuclear and chemically powered subs is enormous - it reduces the range a sub can go underwater without surfacing from the circumference of the earth to a few hundred miles. No submarine is going to be able to get that close on the surface if the opponent controls the skies.
Well, don't mean to offend, but there's a pretty good explanation for that: the fact that it's 1280x1024. I'm no expert, but it seems as if the cost of production would have more to do with resolution than the size - plastic is cheap, parts with strict specifications are not. 1280x1024 isn't anywhere close to what graphics cards are pushing out these days.
This is better than the former situation, whose most obvious manifestation were those Windows-only modems in the 90s. No matter what precautions you take, you're ultimately giving whatever the hardware is total power if you don't have the source, whether the brains are in the main CPU and therefore it comes in the form of malicious drivers, or whether it has onboard computing capability turned against you.
The difference is that the hardware does not have quite so arbitrary of code execution privileges as it's drivers, as it can only access the computer in the ways explicitly granted by your hopefully open-source driver, which if it's well written to give only the absolute necessary privileges will at least mean you have a higher chance of logging odd behavior in some file, somewhere - it's not much better, but if your system is compromised by your hardware, there's still at least a chance of some part of your system maintaining independence and being able to mount a defense. If the driver is still closed, it's still a wash at worst - you only need to root a computer once, and anyone with malicious intent is going to use the better attack vector.
I'm a student at Columbia University and the current methods of the *AA's have been totally successful. Granted, the campus is more or less the number one target, as it's high profile and the Administration bends over backwards to help enforce whatever demands they make, but the current method seems scalable enough that they don't need to have these subscriptions as a form of protection payment - the current way of things has much less overhead and has to make them more money. Every month, the school gets a new round of letters threatening doom and gloom and helpfully passes them on to the student victims, who then pay something around two or three thousand to make the problem go away. Considering that this has happened to hundreds of students, they're making tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars off of fines from us alone. They should go the way of the patent troll and just forget about legitimate business altogether.
If only this broke bootcamp compatibility - then they'd really prevent viruses.
run xubuntu. i assume your speaking of wireless networking - that's always been a bitch and will be until Richard Stallman and his legions of the damned drink out of Ballmer's skull.