Yes but my point was that to fix the problem of the wifi not working after standby, you don't need to rewrite the driver, just add a small script to reset it, which many more users are capable of.
Same thing's playing out again today, in the future all the sci-fi movies being thought up right now where the China is the economic giant will get the same giggles in certain scenes that movies like Blade Runner and BTTF2 do now.
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You like to redefine damage to mean physical things or a real loss.
I'm not saying that at all. If he stole your credit card number and bought stuff with it, that would be damage. If he broke into your WoW account and transferred your goods to his character, that would be damage. Breaking in and looking at stuff...breaking in could be compared to trespassing and it is comparable to breaking & entering by picking a lock, but that's not damage.
And looking at corporate software on a business server is hardly as personal or creepy as breaking into a house and sniffing panties.
I have a cheaper version of this. All my Linux computers and USB flash drives (that's everything but the gaming PC, which backs up to its own external drive) backs up to the home server using rsync and ssh (the internal backup drive is encrypted and normally unmounted, so there won't be a treasure trove of data sitting there in the wildly unlikely event of a malware infection or remote exploit). The home server also backs up its boot disk to this drive. Then I back up everything from the internal backup drive to an encrypted external drive which I can take offsite (BTW, SATA adapter w/ hot swap + bare drive SATA rack = very convenient).
So as long as those two drives don't eat it at the same time I'm covered, and I could add a second external drive and it would still be cheap.
Hmm interesting service. It would be handy for people with only a small amount of data (most "average joes" who just surf & email only have a few gigs of data they want to back up - mostly pictures, and they have lots of free disk space).
We're using big boy computers here, everyone. That means whatever backup solution you specify has to make backups in a format that is fully usable by a range of free (and ideally open-source) tools.
For Linux PCs I use rsync (with ssh, I do all network backups because in Linux, it's even easier and more convenient than external drives). For Windows I use vshadow and robocopy (pretty much the closest Windows equivalent to rsync - makes plain file backups with NTFS permissions preserved, and those tools are on the Windows CD so restoration is easy - as long as the hard drive can be accessed without network drivers and isn't encrypted, hence no network backups, I just use a plain eSATA drive).
I'm sure it's only a soft glow, and it will make it harder to trip over or accidentally kick them in the dark. That would be a big safety improvement, especially when they try to get your attention by zig-zagging just in front of your swinging feet in total darkness.
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He downloaded a database full of credit card numbers that was floating around on the Internet and was "liberated" by somebody else, is he supposed to feel bad?
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Did you read the reply at all, or his previous Slashdot Q&A article? He's shown plenty of remorse - a lot more than I would in his shoes to be honest, he didn't cause any real destruction or loss. See my post above
I know plenty about what he did and he never did anything really harmful. He basically took information as trophies for his own personal use and has more than paid the price for it. It's the computer equivalent of picking the lock on company offices and looking at/taking pics of the products they were developing to satisfy your own curiosity. Yes it's trespassing and breaking & entering and you could say a violation of privacy. But he didn't cause any destruction or cause any company any real losses.
Oh, you're using recent Ubuntu releases, that explains it. Ubuntu has always been bleeding-edge and is now trying crazy experimental stuff for the sake of being edgy.
Even releases as recent as Lucid are rock-solid stable and have good multi-monitor support. The Ubuntu GUI was ruined, I won't argue with that, but that isn't all of Desktop Linux - unfortunately though it was the most noob-friendly desktop distro.
I think those two are part of "modern hardware" at this point. Everything has had HDMI/DisplayPort for about a year now and more and more devices are offering USB OTG.
This is shameful. Come on I know Slashdot is like a skin mag and we don't really read it for the articles, but this is Daily Mail-quality reporting here.
Oh, but most IT-guys don't get it either. Computing has become mainstream, and it's hard to give up old thinking constructs (like more features being better unconditionally).
Yeah that just doesn't compute. I don't think I'll ever get it.
With a physical object it would be understandable, if more features were always better everything would be a ridiculous contraption like Homer's dream car - and a "jack of all trades but master of none."
But with computers we can get all the upsides of more features with none of the downsides (at least in software), so it makes no sense. It's like putting less books in a library if you had practically unlimited space and low fetch time.
Agreed. Geocities was full of bad design and lame fanfic, but it wasn't an idiot-sink. It was comparable to today's Blogger / Wordpress sites or Facebook pages (and make no mistake, if Facebook allowed it, most kids' pages would have a Matrix or Hello Kitty color scheme with auto-playing music just like the old Geocities pages. Up until about mid/late teens that is considered cool, I know, I was guilty of running such websites...). It took a little skill to get those sites up and running - not much, but beyond the skill level of Youtube/Reuters comment-grade stupid. Back in those days the idiot-sinks were just not as necessary, because the web wasn't so interactive. The idiots were only reading webpages, there was no means for their brains to take a shit all over them. AOL/Yahoo chat rooms & forums and MySpace had more than enough idiot-absorbing capacity (haha, like a diaper for the web).
Also, mod GP Insightful! Absolutely true, apart from that minor point.
True, there are democratic places that even if every citizen had a chance to vote for a law, would still pass asinine draconian laws. Heck look at the USA, they'd have a fair chance at banning gay marriage with a constitutional amendment, disbanding the EPA, revoking all environmental regulation and drilling in ANWR, or passing any damn thing with "cyber" and "security" in it (or "terrorists" and "security," for that matter). And a lot of places are much worse. There are places in the Caribbean where you'd have a decent chance at making homosexuality punishable by the death penalty.
True, it's like when an ad for some medical/exercise product says "verified by scientists" or "proven by science." So far every ad that's used this phrase has been for a bullshit product.
Unless you're an autistic savant your face and plate recognition capabilities will be laughable compared to even today's computers. And even then, we wouldn't have a swarm of you stuck to rooves and lampposts all over the place, awake 24/7, operating as a single hive mind.
So you're saying that we should use any technology we have available to improve law enforcement without restriction, privacy issues be damned? In the far future if people could be infected with nanomachines to use them as human surveillance systems would you be OK with that too? Maybe if access is anonymized and the police can only look through another person's eyes and ears in public places?
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Yes but my point was that to fix the problem of the wifi not working after standby, you don't need to rewrite the driver, just add a small script to reset it, which many more users are capable of.
Same thing's playing out again today, in the future all the sci-fi movies being thought up right now where the China is the economic giant will get the same giggles in certain scenes that movies like Blade Runner and BTTF2 do now.
You like to redefine damage to mean physical things or a real loss.
I'm not saying that at all. If he stole your credit card number and bought stuff with it, that would be damage. If he broke into your WoW account and transferred your goods to his character, that would be damage. Breaking in and looking at stuff...breaking in could be compared to trespassing and it is comparable to breaking & entering by picking a lock, but that's not damage.
And looking at corporate software on a business server is hardly as personal or creepy as breaking into a house and sniffing panties.
I have a cheaper version of this. All my Linux computers and USB flash drives (that's everything but the gaming PC, which backs up to its own external drive) backs up to the home server using rsync and ssh (the internal backup drive is encrypted and normally unmounted, so there won't be a treasure trove of data sitting there in the wildly unlikely event of a malware infection or remote exploit). The home server also backs up its boot disk to this drive. Then I back up everything from the internal backup drive to an encrypted external drive which I can take offsite (BTW, SATA adapter w/ hot swap + bare drive SATA rack = very convenient).
So as long as those two drives don't eat it at the same time I'm covered, and I could add a second external drive and it would still be cheap.
rsync is BI-WINNING and powered by tiger's blood. It could bang seven gram rocks every day.
Hmm interesting service. It would be handy for people with only a small amount of data (most "average joes" who just surf & email only have a few gigs of data they want to back up - mostly pictures, and they have lots of free disk space).
And isn't Time Machine OSX-only?
We're using big boy computers here, everyone. That means whatever backup solution you specify has to make backups in a format that is fully usable by a range of free (and ideally open-source) tools.
For Linux PCs I use rsync (with ssh, I do all network backups because in Linux, it's even easier and more convenient than external drives). For Windows I use vshadow and robocopy (pretty much the closest Windows equivalent to rsync - makes plain file backups with NTFS permissions preserved, and those tools are on the Windows CD so restoration is easy - as long as the hard drive can be accessed without network drivers and isn't encrypted, hence no network backups, I just use a plain eSATA drive).
Correct answer on 6th post, 2 minutes after first post. Pretty good, keep it up guys.
I'm sure it's only a soft glow, and it will make it harder to trip over or accidentally kick them in the dark. That would be a big safety improvement, especially when they try to get your attention by zig-zagging just in front of your swinging feet in total darkness.
He downloaded a database full of credit card numbers that was floating around on the Internet and was "liberated" by somebody else, is he supposed to feel bad?
Did you read the reply at all, or his previous Slashdot Q&A article? He's shown plenty of remorse - a lot more than I would in his shoes to be honest, he didn't cause any real destruction or loss. See my post above
I know plenty about what he did and he never did anything really harmful. He basically took information as trophies for his own personal use and has more than paid the price for it. It's the computer equivalent of picking the lock on company offices and looking at/taking pics of the products they were developing to satisfy your own curiosity. Yes it's trespassing and breaking & entering and you could say a violation of privacy. But he didn't cause any destruction or cause any company any real losses.
Oh, you're using recent Ubuntu releases, that explains it. Ubuntu has always been bleeding-edge and is now trying crazy experimental stuff for the sake of being edgy.
Even releases as recent as Lucid are rock-solid stable and have good multi-monitor support. The Ubuntu GUI was ruined, I won't argue with that, but that isn't all of Desktop Linux - unfortunately though it was the most noob-friendly desktop distro.
Not all features require more stuff to be running in memory. Most don't. What does Gnome3 have that XFCE doesn't? Some eye candy?
What distros are you using that are so buggy? Windows has only recently caught up to Linux in stability.
If the options menu had a search feature (like Windows 7's Start menu) then it would be easy to find, wouldn't it?
I think those two are part of "modern hardware" at this point. Everything has had HDMI/DisplayPort for about a year now and more and more devices are offering USB OTG.
This is shameful. Come on I know Slashdot is like a skin mag and we don't really read it for the articles, but this is Daily Mail-quality reporting here.
If they build a MeeGo GSM phone with modern hardware and a physical keyboard I'll buy it.
Oh, but most IT-guys don't get it either. Computing has become mainstream, and it's hard to give up old thinking constructs (like more features being better unconditionally).
Yeah that just doesn't compute. I don't think I'll ever get it.
With a physical object it would be understandable, if more features were always better everything would be a ridiculous contraption like Homer's dream car - and a "jack of all trades but master of none."
But with computers we can get all the upsides of more features with none of the downsides (at least in software), so it makes no sense. It's like putting less books in a library if you had practically unlimited space and low fetch time.
Agreed. Geocities was full of bad design and lame fanfic, but it wasn't an idiot-sink. It was comparable to today's Blogger / Wordpress sites or Facebook pages (and make no mistake, if Facebook allowed it, most kids' pages would have a Matrix or Hello Kitty color scheme with auto-playing music just like the old Geocities pages. Up until about mid/late teens that is considered cool, I know, I was guilty of running such websites...). It took a little skill to get those sites up and running - not much, but beyond the skill level of Youtube/Reuters comment-grade stupid. Back in those days the idiot-sinks were just not as necessary, because the web wasn't so interactive. The idiots were only reading webpages, there was no means for their brains to take a shit all over them. AOL/Yahoo chat rooms & forums and MySpace had more than enough idiot-absorbing capacity (haha, like a diaper for the web).
Also, mod GP Insightful! Absolutely true, apart from that minor point.
True, there are democratic places that even if every citizen had a chance to vote for a law, would still pass asinine draconian laws. Heck look at the USA, they'd have a fair chance at banning gay marriage with a constitutional amendment, disbanding the EPA, revoking all environmental regulation and drilling in ANWR, or passing any damn thing with "cyber" and "security" in it (or "terrorists" and "security," for that matter). And a lot of places are much worse. There are places in the Caribbean where you'd have a decent chance at making homosexuality punishable by the death penalty.
True, it's like when an ad for some medical/exercise product says "verified by scientists" or "proven by science." So far every ad that's used this phrase has been for a bullshit product.
Unless you're an autistic savant your face and plate recognition capabilities will be laughable compared to even today's computers. And even then, we wouldn't have a swarm of you stuck to rooves and lampposts all over the place, awake 24/7, operating as a single hive mind.
So you're saying that we should use any technology we have available to improve law enforcement without restriction, privacy issues be damned? In the far future if people could be infected with nanomachines to use them as human surveillance systems would you be OK with that too? Maybe if access is anonymized and the police can only look through another person's eyes and ears in public places?