So they are going to be "protected" from contamination.
Yes I know that many tribes have suffered when the ran into civilized peoples but I wonder how they would feel about it if they knew.
Yes your child could have been saved with just a few pills but we didn't want to contaminate you.
Yes you could see what some of the lights in the sky really do look like.
You could meet people from far across the sea and you two could fly through the air.
But we don't want to contaminate you.
I wonder if they where given a choice what they would decide? Maybe it is wrong to not give them the choice. Actually, the were having thousand years of choice and they choose their path, far away from the good and the bad of modern civilization.
Totalitarian or not - the space program was well documented nonetheless - you can't have such complex program without proper logs. The confidentiality of most documents expired years ago, besides no state on earth can keep such secrets forever - too many people involved, too much memoires published ever since. And of course, every launch was near-certain death at that time. The Cosmonauts knew this as well. You're doing basically the same NASA did as they described Yuri Gagarin as "first European in space" - trying to downplay the importance of USSR in space program and science itself - they were empire of evil, right? How could they ever do something significant?
Not at the same time, I hope. I'm not trying to sound smart: I've seen Windows PCs with two simultaneously-installed antivirus programs, hugely slowing down the machine and blocking each other's real-time scanner. Seen this twice in the last month, to be exact.
It is actually very interesting to have two or more antivirus programs provided you don't need the PC to work. They often recognize each other as virii and start fighting each other. For any decent geek that's like watching box or wrestling.
Somebody else here will have suggested you try Linux by now, or Apple. There are no Linux or Apple botnets so they don't have this problem. The do have security vulnerabilities too, but compromising one of them is a retail, rather than a wholesale, endeavor and so less fruitful for the botmasters. Besides, on Linux you can reinstall the system while keeping your user settings save (provided the home folder is on separate partition). And it is so more convenient to reinstall all the software on Linux (repositories) - almost the shame you don't have to do it frequently.
Sure, spammers love to have Linux servers to manage their botnets. But these are servers that are hacked, mostly via vulnerabilities in some crappy php application and weak passwords.
Home users usually don't have a running apache server therefore a major attack vector is excluded. Most of home Linux users have no ssh either.
I use online-banking system by Sparkasse (germany). I do think it is pretty secure even without chip-and-pin. No javascript or ActiveX, SSL, automatic logout after a given period of inactivity, ability to change your username along with password (not just account number and pin if you wish)...
But the most effective security measure is a simple list with 100 pins I got from them. On every transaction I am told to enter, say, pin 45. I look for pin 45 in the list and enter e.g. 681343. So I feel a bit like submarine captain checking nuclear codes before the launch. If I use 80 pins, they'll send me new list.
A keylogger on my PC can capture my username/password (btw, trojans are yet to appear in gentoo portage), but without the pin-list they are useless. Loss of pin-list means nothing too - the one who finds it will have to know my username/password. I may be prone to man-in-the-middle attack, but so is the chip-and-pin system. I do check URL of my banking site, don't transfer the money from unknown networks (no false DNS').
Now, why exactly is chip-and-pin more secure?
40% of british residents believe they are being followed. This data is gathered by an analysis of phone calls, e-mail and sms traffic as well as of surveillance data from security cameras.
How am I supposed to test Ubuntu? Reformat my machine...? Not gonna happen. Why don't you try LiveCD? It actually allows you to test the system without changing anything on your hard disk. Just boot from CD.
BTW, any idea how to test vista on my real hardware without installing it?:-)
I've been using koctave3 - kde front-end for octave . Pretty enough for simple operations.
I personally consider octave language more advanced than matlab one.
>If the person on the Vista laptop was running IE 7 with the default configuration (protected mode / UAC on), this should not have happened.
You are wrong, I fear. The rules were that each OS had its default configuration. Check http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/03/19/cansecwest-pwn-to-own-2008 for details. So, if the protected mode is turned on by default - it was turned on during the contest.
Besides, they were using the default browser - the browser which is held as the most secure and reliable one by OS creators. On the third day of contest you were able to install other browser too.
And for all who says: "Flash issues are cross platform so Linux isn't secure either" there is one simple question - why was linux laptop still standing then at the end of the day?
>It seems the patents were filed to give the U.S. government an essential monopoly on the burgeoning nuclear industry and protect it against others who might patent similar technologies late.
>CMYK, Pantone in particular but mostly it's down to the horrible interface that GIMP comes with. Gimp is basically a programmers idea of how a creative tool should look.
Well, GIMP interface is horrible in Windows alright. It is because of awful feature-missing window manager. But if you switch to more advanced window managers (dozens of Linux WM-s) then it is a blessing. Early versions of Photoshop were having multi-window UI (they were created with MacOS in mind).
Just take a look at top 500. Windows or Mac can't compete there for obivous reasons. Neither can they parley in ultra-cheap segment of PC market. Wal-Marts 200$ PC, EEE thing... Mobile devices platforms are on the move - Android, LiMo, OpenMoko, Qtopia.
PC segment is the hardest to take for many reasons mentioned in this thread. But think about it - hardware support isn't really a Linux issue - it's manufacturers who don't support anything than Windows. Linux does in fact very good job providing support for officially unsupported hardware. Same with games/software. It isn't like Linux is a system impossible to write games/accounting software/photoshop for. Besides, last time I looked, there were more linux players on QuakeWars servers than Windows ones. Still, wine does a fairly good job supporting the unsupported. Same as with the.doc support in OOO: many don't seem to understand whose fault it really is. But ignorance isn't a defect in OS. None of the reasons is. Habit, manufacturers/software companies behavior, software patents (dvd, mp3 support) can be a reason not to switch to linux, but they are not signs of Linux' inferioriry towards Windows. In fact, in many areas such as user interface, security, stability, ease to istall of system and programs Linux distibutions are superior. It's not enough, however if you have to fight against non-technical issues in order to penetrate PC market.
>I have little trust in democracy - it is government by incompetent people. You have to have studied government in order to be able to govern. Besides, the proles are more likely to act based on emotions, not on facts.
Don't be silly, modern democraties, especially the US model, is just a way to manipulate crowds. Given enough money for election campaign you can make people to elect a monkey for president. And I don't have to prove it, do I?
I have little trust in jury justice - it is a justice of incompetent people. You have to have studied laws in order to be able to judge. Besides, twelve amateurs are more likely to act based on emotions, not on facts.
OTOH, jury is less capable of corruption and state influence, but I am all but sure this outweighs the deficiencies of such system.
Peace, brothers!
Let's call it a fork - it's slashdot after all.
Actually, everything becomes clear if you use software analogy - Judaism is tried and robust, no features are being added for eons, however. Islam is very new, with promising features (Islamic religion doesn't forbid sex, for example) but still in beta and therefore buggy.
Even easier one - include all the images of prophet Mohammed to islamic ad-block filter and declare Firefox and Konqueror which both support that list as faithful browsers. Hey, it's nice idea because they could also declare IE and Windows that comes with it as unfaithful. Ah... Crowds in Palestine with AK-47's burning DVD's with Vista. I'd like to be a fly on that wall...
Damn it, they have to adapt themselves to the world, not vice-verse. Other religions are on the way to adapt already. There is a program for example to make all files on your PC kosher. It checks the creation data of a file and if it is created on Saturday it changes the creation data to Friday and plays religious songs through speakers while doing it (no joke here).
I have one here, bought it for my parents. The controllers were missing in one shop, but my sister found them in another. Costs - 249 (Germany). There are still some Wii-s at the shelves, but they tend to dissappear.
Well, being an *US*-American does make you refer to USA as "America" which is a continent (two continents, actually);-)
There are businesses which are not corrupt, and which would not insist on keeping control of a "standard" once it became a standard. And that's the way it should be, and when did so many people become so fucking complacent about corporate corruption?
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>the Niger Delta
It's African-American Delta!
Totalitarian or not - the space program was well documented nonetheless - you can't have such complex program without proper logs. The confidentiality of most documents expired years ago, besides no state on earth can keep such secrets forever - too many people involved, too much memoires published ever since.
And of course, every launch was near-certain death at that time. The Cosmonauts knew this as well. You're doing basically the same NASA did as they described Yuri Gagarin as "first European in space" - trying to downplay the importance of USSR in space program and science itself - they were empire of evil, right? How could they ever do something significant?
Not at the same time, I hope. I'm not trying to sound smart: I've seen Windows PCs with two simultaneously-installed antivirus programs, hugely slowing down the machine and blocking each other's real-time scanner. Seen this twice in the last month, to be exact.
It is actually very interesting to have two or more antivirus programs provided you don't need the PC to work. They often recognize each other as virii and start fighting each other. For any decent geek that's like watching box or wrestling.Sure, spammers love to have Linux servers to manage their botnets. But these are servers that are hacked, mostly via vulnerabilities in some crappy php application and weak passwords.
Home users usually don't have a running apache server therefore a major attack vector is excluded. Most of home Linux users have no ssh either.
I use online-banking system by Sparkasse (germany). I do think it is pretty secure even without chip-and-pin. No javascript or ActiveX, SSL, automatic logout after a given period of inactivity, ability to change your username along with password (not just account number and pin if you wish)...
But the most effective security measure is a simple list with 100 pins I got from them. On every transaction I am told to enter, say, pin 45. I look for pin 45 in the list and enter e.g. 681343. So I feel a bit like submarine captain checking nuclear codes before the launch. If I use 80 pins, they'll send me new list.
A keylogger on my PC can capture my username/password (btw, trojans are yet to appear in gentoo portage), but without the pin-list they are useless. Loss of pin-list means nothing too - the one who finds it will have to know my username/password. I may be prone to man-in-the-middle attack, but so is the chip-and-pin system. I do check URL of my banking site, don't transfer the money from unknown networks (no false DNS'). Now, why exactly is chip-and-pin more secure?
40% of british residents believe they are being followed. This data is gathered by an analysis of phone calls, e-mail and sms traffic as well as of surveillance data from security cameras.
Check out GNU Octave, there are even books on both.
I've been using koctave3 - kde front-end for octave . Pretty enough for simple operations. I personally consider octave language more advanced than matlab one.Now, where is that thinkofthechildren teg when you need one?!
>If the person on the Vista laptop was running IE 7 with the default configuration (protected mode / UAC on), this should not have happened.
You are wrong, I fear. The rules were that each OS had its default configuration. Check http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/03/19/cansecwest-pwn-to-own-2008 for details. So, if the protected mode is turned on by default - it was turned on during the contest.
Besides, they were using the default browser - the browser which is held as the most secure and reliable one by OS creators. On the third day of contest you were able to install other browser too.
And for all who says: "Flash issues are cross platform so Linux isn't secure either" there is one simple question - why was linux laptop still standing then at the end of the day?
>It seems the patents were filed to give the U.S. government an essential monopoly on the burgeoning nuclear industry and protect it against others who might patent similar technologies late.
Yeah right, Russians DID care...
>CMYK, Pantone in particular but mostly it's down to the horrible interface that GIMP comes with. Gimp is basically a programmers idea of how a creative tool should look.
Well, GIMP interface is horrible in Windows alright. It is because of awful feature-missing window manager. But if you switch to more advanced window managers (dozens of Linux WM-s) then it is a blessing. Early versions of Photoshop were having multi-window UI (they were created with MacOS in mind).
Yeah, right...
What about that nuke flewn mistakenly across the country without anyone noticing?
And stolen/sold soviet-made nukes apear only in hollywood movies which is *the* reason you believe the USA is protecting them better.
Just take a look at top 500. Windows or Mac can't compete there for obivous reasons. Neither can they parley in ultra-cheap segment of PC market. Wal-Marts 200$ PC, EEE thing... Mobile devices platforms are on the move - Android, LiMo, OpenMoko, Qtopia.
.doc support in OOO: many don't seem to understand whose fault it really is. But ignorance isn't a defect in OS. None of the reasons is. Habit, manufacturers/software companies behavior, software patents (dvd, mp3 support) can be a reason not to switch to linux, but they are not signs of Linux' inferioriry towards Windows. In fact, in many areas such as user interface, security, stability, ease to istall of system and programs Linux distibutions are superior. It's not enough, however if you have to fight against non-technical issues in order to penetrate PC market.
PC segment is the hardest to take for many reasons mentioned in this thread. But think about it - hardware support isn't really a Linux issue - it's manufacturers who don't support anything than Windows. Linux does in fact very good job providing support for officially unsupported hardware. Same with games/software. It isn't like Linux is a system impossible to write games/accounting software/photoshop for. Besides, last time I looked, there were more linux players on QuakeWars servers than Windows ones. Still, wine does a fairly good job supporting the unsupported. Same as with the
>I have little trust in democracy - it is government by incompetent people. You have to have studied government in order to be able to govern. Besides, the proles are more likely to act based on emotions, not on facts.
Don't be silly, modern democraties, especially the US model, is just a way to manipulate crowds. Given enough money for election campaign you can make people to elect a monkey for president. And I don't have to prove it, do I?
I have little trust in jury justice - it is a justice of incompetent people. You have to have studied laws in order to be able to judge. Besides, twelve amateurs are more likely to act based on emotions, not on facts. OTOH, jury is less capable of corruption and state influence, but I am all but sure this outweighs the deficiencies of such system.
Peace, brothers! Let's call it a fork - it's slashdot after all. Actually, everything becomes clear if you use software analogy - Judaism is tried and robust, no features are being added for eons, however. Islam is very new, with promising features (Islamic religion doesn't forbid sex, for example) but still in beta and therefore buggy.
Even easier one - include all the images of prophet Mohammed to islamic ad-block filter and declare Firefox and Konqueror which both support that list as faithful browsers. Hey, it's nice idea because they could also declare IE and Windows that comes with it as unfaithful. Ah... Crowds in Palestine with AK-47's burning DVD's with Vista. I'd like to be a fly on that wall...
Damn it, they have to adapt themselves to the world, not vice-verse. Other religions are on the way to adapt already.
There is a program for example to make all files on your PC kosher. It checks the creation data of a file and if it is created on Saturday it changes the creation data to Friday and plays religious songs through speakers while doing it (no joke here).
So if google is really cutting off MSes chair supply...
Here, fixed that for you.
I have one here, bought it for my parents. The controllers were missing in one shop, but my sister found them in another. Costs - 249 (Germany). There are still some Wii-s at the shelves, but they tend to dissappear.
Well, being an *US*-American does make you refer to USA as "America" which is a continent (two continents, actually) ;-)
There are businesses which are not corrupt, and which would not insist on keeping control of a "standard" once it became a standard. And that's the way it should be, and when did so many people become so fucking complacent about corporate corruption?
Name three.
My 2 cents about Apple - they don't have focus groups and are proud of it.