"Be fruitful and multiply" *is* 100% a commandment. It's the first of the 613 commandments mentioned in the Torah (see item 125 here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/613_commandments).
And as for the guy you're responding (geekoid) to's assertion that having too many kids is bad, I would ask him what he instead recommends? Would he have it that all those lives never existed and all the potential those children bring with them never exist because those children aren't as worthy as he is? His parents had less kids and he has more material things so his life is somehow worth more than theirs?? Should we go to South East Asia where there's massive over population (and, I point out, very little western religion) and explain to those kids they should never have been born, so other kids can have a nicer life? I'd argue kids in poverty stricken areas probably do a lot *less* damage to our world than us entitled 1st worlders, in the grand scheme of things.
Unquestionably we have conflicts at the moment between a clash of two cultures, one of whom is increasingly secular (but not even close to entirely) and the other of whom is increasingly non-secular. However, if you look at your recent (say last 200 years) history, this is really an anomaly (and it's debatable how much of the current conflict is truly about one religion fighting another). Most of the headline conflicts of the last 200 years really stem from European desire to control the world and to fight amongst themselves and almost every single war in the last very long time - and many of the current world hotspots - stem from the oppressive rule of the British Empire, the subsequent collapse of said empire and the complete an utter mess they made on their way out the door. Their arrogant belief that they could ignore local facts on the ground and just draw arbitrary lines on a map and say "you're now a country and you're now a different country" has created a huge problem in many, many places. Religion has little to do with this; a confounding factor at most.
Let's look at the list of conflicts and ask how many the British had more than a little bit of a hand in, shall we? The Boar War: British. Countless intra-European wars in the past few hundred years: all the same religion. WWI? Obviously Britain was front and centre, here. WWII: Arguably a continuation of the never finished WWI and you can certainly look at the way the French and British punished Germany as complicit in Germany's selected path here (but certainly still a battle about colonial Europe and no, I am not discounting Germany's culpability for this conflict). Vietnam: Not really the British's fault directly but unquestionably a region that was left in a power vacuum at the end of WWII without it's "colonial masters". Afghanistan: Guess who stuffed up the borders of that country, as well as massacring the population for most of the 1800's? England/Ireland: Obviously Britain is involved in this conflict. India / Pakistan: Hello Britain! Israel/Palestine: Britain again. As with India and Pakistan, they didn't just make arbitrary lines on map with no concern for what the local populace felt, they also made promises to both sides they never intended to keep and fanned the fires. Hell, most of the Middle East in fact has borders drawn by Britain.
The list goes on, and on and on and we haven't even started on the forgotten conflict slaughters, like the indigenous population of Canada, Australia, the USA, New Zealand, the pacific Islands, etc. etc.
Forget religion: Britain has the most to answer for, with colonial Europe in general. I am sure plenty of people will respond that religion is why the people in these areas are fighting - but that's just a very, very simplistic and frankly uninformed opinion. There's significant evidence that when these regions had stable power bases (British or otherwise), local populations of mixed religions and sects managed to get along just fine (certainly with some incidents but generally fine). It's only when they struggle for control kicks in that everything goes to hell - and it does this everywhere, every time, even when the populations are the same religion.
Thanks to Penny Arcade I thought the same thing - however its not true. I did download the community release and you can indeed have an old school start menu again.
Why is this modded offtopic and his previous response flamebait? It's no more flamebait or offtopic than the guy he's replying to...Samsung may have a serious level of control in Korea (I've personally never researched this so I don't know how true the above comments are) but in the US, you cannot make a serious argument that corporations don't frequently act above the law and get away with it, surely? There's countless examples of corporations breaking the law with actual deaths occurring as a result and no one getting penalised.
Yeah I thought so at first - but the same hardware is fine on XenServer 5.6 or Hyper-V 2012 or... well.. anything else. It's possible there's other factors at play but I am happy to be rid of it. It was so unreliable and failures were always so catastrophic and rapid.
You can actually run Open XenCenter, which I have successfully gotten running on a Mac (for the record, it took me hours to get this working) and it's easier than that on Linux. You can also fully control it from the shell.
The problem with XenServer it it's *amazingly* unreliable. Like terrifyingly so. We had 11 hard drive corruptions in 6 months under XenServer 6+, all on rock solid hardware (XenServer 5 was really good, though).
It's expensive and painful. I won't be touching it again.
I have to thank Citrix XenServer. My company, which runs a virtual datacentre environment in Australia, used to be 100% XenServer based until version 6.1 came out. It was -so bad- and -so incredibly unreliable- and caused so many problems that I started looking around at alternatives. So technically, it's thanks to the terribleness that was XenServer 6.1 that we now run Hyper-V 2012 on all our servers and I am much happier. I used to like XenServer up until v6 but I am much happier on Microsoft's offering, surprisingly.
Yeah I'm not sold. I recon the govt will change in September and life won't be any better or worse than it would have been under the existing one (of course, this can never be verified).
We basically have a cyclic 2 party system in Australia and although it's ludicrously inefficient, it basically works. We actually need to change the government every decade or so. We need Labour to spend money on big infrastructure and we need Liberal to earn the money to spend - a spend and save cycle. If we had one or the other for too long, we'd wind up in too much debt (and we're almost there now) or we'd wind up to run down on the public infrastructure. If you leave Labour in charge for too long, the middle class winds up bearing endless tax increases and benefit cuts and eventually, they begin to crack financially, which slows the entire economy, which means less money for NBNs or other things you care about. If you leave the Libs in for too long, then the disadvantaged suffer over time and public services start to get over sold or run down, which means things cost more for the average person, which means they have less money and the economy slows down, which means less money for NBN's etc.
The problem comes in when one party has their turn and doesn't do their part. I think the other problem is that many things are becoming too expensive for either side to maintain, yet we still require them (i.e. healthcare).
I see it another way. I see it more that we have 2 choices and they're fundamentally the same thing. It's not about Gillard and Abbott (they're figure heads, we don't have a president here, the "leader" is a mouthpiece, not a policy maker - policies are made behind closed doors and then communicated via these mouthpieces).
So I couldn't care less who the leader of either party is. When it comes to policies, though, they're both much the same thing. Both parties are so close to each other that the only real difference that comes is how the market reacts to one or the other. Yes there are minor differences - but they're minor only.
If you truly think we're going to take the country in a whole different direction by changing from Labour to The Coalition, I've got a bridge to sell you.:-P
Yes, everyone has heard of cases where this has happened however they're few and far between - and generally historic (as in at least 3 - 5 years ago). This is why Telco's are supposed to have passwords on phone accounts, required before you can port. Speaking as someone who regularly ports numbers for customers at work, it's not longer a simple process - you are required to verify ownership of a number before it can be ported. I'm not saying it can't be done but it's not as easy as it was before a high profile case of it happening broke about 3 years back
However my point was, and remains, relating to this article - taking someone's bank password does not automatically mean you can transfer money out of their account. In the case of these banks, it's unlikely someone who had your password alone could even transfer money. The Commonwealth issues RSA tokens, not SMS verification, for example.
Most money fraudulently obtained from Australian banks - in fact the vast, vast majority of it - just uses plain old social engineering (i.e. dating site scams on lonely people or too good to be true purchases from Gumtree or eBay that people still fall for).
*All* of those banks insist on two factor authentication for money transfers. I use 2 of them and every single person I know (here in Australia) is either issued an RSA token or has SMS alerts on money transfers (an SMS is sent to you with a code that must be entered before the transfer will take place). So even with the password, you can't transfer money out of an Australian bank.
Yarmulke are worn as a sign of subservience to God. Back in the day, when the tradition was adopted, servants wore head-coverings. Jews adopted the head coverings as a sign of service to God. I imagine the Catholic Pope's & Co. wear them for a similar reason. Today, they have the status of "minhag", effectively meaning they're an adopted tradition that now has the status of law.
I imagine that Apple knows they will probably lose - but want to take the "we're innocent" approach. Even if they lose, the Apple Faithful will be able to continue to Believe by deluding themselves that Apple was unfairly dealt with by the feds (i.e. choosing to believe that either Apple was "singled out" (which is wrong - they just didn't settle, while the other players did) or just outright believing Apple was innocent).
If Apple openly says, "yes, we tried to screw customers", this hurts their image far more.
Whatever fine is coming their way for taking this approach - they can afford it.
Not a lot, true but certainly enough to have a small say. Also, Facebook make most of their revenue on PC, not mobile, and PC is still almost exclusively Windows (around 90%), so while Microsoft's star is falling, Facebook still makes most of its money via Microsoft users.
Aside from the fact that you can't afford (or store) billions of apps on your iPhone, the Play Store and the App Store have virtual parity in the number of apps now, anyway. Furthermore - and much more to the point, only a handful of apps in the App Store ever get downloaded because the rest are basically either niche or rubbish.
We tried this in 2001, after a tonne of people opened some Love virus email variant. Me and one other IT guy at our University just did it off our own bat - I wrote a small and simple vb6 exe and he emailed it out from a hotmail account as "funny.doc.exe". All it did was log who clicked the file back to a txt file on the network.
We didn't get any kind of authorisation or even discuss it with anyone first and yes, we got in trouble with management for embarrassing staff (we did not name and shame, so we didn't get in too much trouble).
This isn't a taxation issue - it's an extortion issue. This is pure and simple that (predominantly) American companies double, triple and sometimes a lot more than that the price of digital downloads when destination ==.au. Apple does it with iTunes, Steam does it with games. Adobe does it with whatever crap they're flogging these days and so do most of the rest. Hardware as well. When I hear Americans talk about $500 computers at "Best Buy" or whatever, I feel sick. The kind of people who buy computers at Best Buy in the US are the kind of people who pay $2,000 for the same thing, in Harvey Norman, here - and our dollar is worth more than the USD, so it's not exchange rates.
Considering they're all assembled in China, which is closer to Australia, I don't buy that's it's a freight cost, either. It's long been known that IT companies just jack up the price massively if they're dealing with Australia because we've allowed ourselves to become accustomed to it.
It's ridiculously expensive to buy software in Australia. Most of it is purely digital and there's no justification. I hope the other vendors follow suite, soon. Overseas readers may not be aware that it's cheaper to fly TWO people to America and buy Visual Studio there, then fly back here, than it is to buy it here (link here if you think I'm exaggerating: http://theconversation.edu.au/cheaper-hardware-software-and-digital-downloads-heres-how-8382). That's just an example (I know Visual Studio is not exactly top pick on Slashdot but it's still got its place).
It's much cheaper to buy games on Steam through a proxy - as in about 50% cheaper. It's just completely unfair and I'm glad someone is finally doing something about it.
While I don't expect this to kill the need for Windows - what I hope to get out of it (and I've done with this with WINE on a Mac, so I hope Android gets to this level) is the ability to run those annoying "Windows Only" management apps for virtualisation servers. It's "virtually" (some pun intended) impossible to properly manage VMWare, XenServer and Hyper-V without Windows. I managed to get XenCenter for XenServer running on OS-X with the Mac port of WINE, so if I could get it on Android and manage my VM farms from a tablet, it would save me carrying a laptop into our datacenter and... well... I dunno. I just want to do it.
We can adapt? You'd have a hard time adapting without water, sewage, electricity or food in the shops (or money to buy them). A damn hard time (and this is what he's saying would be effected - and in the event of a very successful "cyber strike" these services could definitely be effected significantly, if not completely). Sure some people would adapt but it would be very, very hard landing. A few days without water or food and society breaks down very, very fast.
None the less, to say cyber warfare is worse than real warfare is a totally ridiculous statement. I'd much rather have to go back to subsistence farming as a society than get nuked.
No Android clients - which was the point of the GP response - that Windows to Windows RDP actually works exceptionally well. Splashtop is a pale comparison, although it is cool.
Its not just about latency (which I find none of, on RDP, so if it's there, no one is going to care). RDP with EasyPrint means people don't have to fuck around for printing, music, video, etc, etc work just fine. If people use RemoteFX then even 3D stuff works nicely. NoMachine might be better for latency but if RDP is *good enough* then it wins by default.
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"Be fruitful and multiply" *is* 100% a commandment. It's the first of the 613 commandments mentioned in the Torah (see item 125 here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/613_commandments).
And as for the guy you're responding (geekoid) to's assertion that having too many kids is bad, I would ask him what he instead recommends? Would he have it that all those lives never existed and all the potential those children bring with them never exist because those children aren't as worthy as he is? His parents had less kids and he has more material things so his life is somehow worth more than theirs?? Should we go to South East Asia where there's massive over population (and, I point out, very little western religion) and explain to those kids they should never have been born, so other kids can have a nicer life? I'd argue kids in poverty stricken areas probably do a lot *less* damage to our world than us entitled 1st worlders, in the grand scheme of things.
Not really true at all, I'm afraid.
Unquestionably we have conflicts at the moment between a clash of two cultures, one of whom is increasingly secular (but not even close to entirely) and the other of whom is increasingly non-secular. However, if you look at your recent (say last 200 years) history, this is really an anomaly (and it's debatable how much of the current conflict is truly about one religion fighting another). Most of the headline conflicts of the last 200 years really stem from European desire to control the world and to fight amongst themselves and almost every single war in the last very long time - and many of the current world hotspots - stem from the oppressive rule of the British Empire, the subsequent collapse of said empire and the complete an utter mess they made on their way out the door. Their arrogant belief that they could ignore local facts on the ground and just draw arbitrary lines on a map and say "you're now a country and you're now a different country" has created a huge problem in many, many places. Religion has little to do with this; a confounding factor at most.
Let's look at the list of conflicts and ask how many the British had more than a little bit of a hand in, shall we?
The Boar War: British.
Countless intra-European wars in the past few hundred years: all the same religion.
WWI? Obviously Britain was front and centre, here.
WWII: Arguably a continuation of the never finished WWI and you can certainly look at the way the French and British punished Germany as complicit in Germany's selected path here (but certainly still a battle about colonial Europe and no, I am not discounting Germany's culpability for this conflict).
Vietnam: Not really the British's fault directly but unquestionably a region that was left in a power vacuum at the end of WWII without it's "colonial masters".
Afghanistan: Guess who stuffed up the borders of that country, as well as massacring the population for most of the 1800's?
England/Ireland: Obviously Britain is involved in this conflict.
India / Pakistan: Hello Britain!
Israel/Palestine: Britain again. As with India and Pakistan, they didn't just make arbitrary lines on map with no concern for what the local populace felt, they also made promises to both sides they never intended to keep and fanned the fires. Hell, most of the Middle East in fact has borders drawn by Britain.
The list goes on, and on and on and we haven't even started on the forgotten conflict slaughters, like the indigenous population of Canada, Australia, the USA, New Zealand, the pacific Islands, etc. etc.
Forget religion: Britain has the most to answer for, with colonial Europe in general. I am sure plenty of people will respond that religion is why the people in these areas are fighting - but that's just a very, very simplistic and frankly uninformed opinion. There's significant evidence that when these regions had stable power bases (British or otherwise), local populations of mixed religions and sects managed to get along just fine (certainly with some incidents but generally fine). It's only when they struggle for control kicks in that everything goes to hell - and it does this everywhere, every time, even when the populations are the same religion.
Come to Australia some time. $99 is more like the cost of games - and we have virtual parity with the USD...
Thanks to Penny Arcade I thought the same thing - however its not true. I did download the community release and you can indeed have an old school start menu again.
Why is this modded offtopic and his previous response flamebait? It's no more flamebait or offtopic than the guy he's replying to...Samsung may have a serious level of control in Korea (I've personally never researched this so I don't know how true the above comments are) but in the US, you cannot make a serious argument that corporations don't frequently act above the law and get away with it, surely? There's countless examples of corporations breaking the law with actual deaths occurring as a result and no one getting penalised.
Yeah I thought so at first - but the same hardware is fine on XenServer 5.6 or Hyper-V 2012 or... well.. anything else. It's possible there's other factors at play but I am happy to be rid of it. It was so unreliable and failures were always so catastrophic and rapid.
You can actually run Open XenCenter, which I have successfully gotten running on a Mac (for the record, it took me hours to get this working) and it's easier than that on Linux. You can also fully control it from the shell.
The problem with XenServer it it's *amazingly* unreliable. Like terrifyingly so. We had 11 hard drive corruptions in 6 months under XenServer 6+, all on rock solid hardware (XenServer 5 was really good, though).
It's expensive and painful. I won't be touching it again.
I have to thank Citrix XenServer. My company, which runs a virtual datacentre environment in Australia, used to be 100% XenServer based until version 6.1 came out. It was -so bad- and -so incredibly unreliable- and caused so many problems that I started looking around at alternatives. So technically, it's thanks to the terribleness that was XenServer 6.1 that we now run Hyper-V 2012 on all our servers and I am much happier. I used to like XenServer up until v6 but I am much happier on Microsoft's offering, surprisingly.
(No: I"m not paid by Microsoft).
Yeah I'm not sold. I recon the govt will change in September and life won't be any better or worse than it would have been under the existing one (of course, this can never be verified).
We basically have a cyclic 2 party system in Australia and although it's ludicrously inefficient, it basically works. We actually need to change the government every decade or so. We need Labour to spend money on big infrastructure and we need Liberal to earn the money to spend - a spend and save cycle. If we had one or the other for too long, we'd wind up in too much debt (and we're almost there now) or we'd wind up to run down on the public infrastructure. If you leave Labour in charge for too long, the middle class winds up bearing endless tax increases and benefit cuts and eventually, they begin to crack financially, which slows the entire economy, which means less money for NBNs or other things you care about. If you leave the Libs in for too long, then the disadvantaged suffer over time and public services start to get over sold or run down, which means things cost more for the average person, which means they have less money and the economy slows down, which means less money for NBN's etc.
The problem comes in when one party has their turn and doesn't do their part. I think the other problem is that many things are becoming too expensive for either side to maintain, yet we still require them (i.e. healthcare).
I see it another way. I see it more that we have 2 choices and they're fundamentally the same thing. It's not about Gillard and Abbott (they're figure heads, we don't have a president here, the "leader" is a mouthpiece, not a policy maker - policies are made behind closed doors and then communicated via these mouthpieces).
:-P
So I couldn't care less who the leader of either party is. When it comes to policies, though, they're both much the same thing. Both parties are so close to each other that the only real difference that comes is how the market reacts to one or the other. Yes there are minor differences - but they're minor only.
If you truly think we're going to take the country in a whole different direction by changing from Labour to The Coalition, I've got a bridge to sell you.
So if my phone gets stolen and my eBooks get leaked, I'm now double screwed?
Yes, everyone has heard of cases where this has happened however they're few and far between - and generally historic (as in at least 3 - 5 years ago). This is why Telco's are supposed to have passwords on phone accounts, required before you can port. Speaking as someone who regularly ports numbers for customers at work, it's not longer a simple process - you are required to verify ownership of a number before it can be ported. I'm not saying it can't be done but it's not as easy as it was before a high profile case of it happening broke about 3 years back
However my point was, and remains, relating to this article - taking someone's bank password does not automatically mean you can transfer money out of their account. In the case of these banks, it's unlikely someone who had your password alone could even transfer money. The Commonwealth issues RSA tokens, not SMS verification, for example.
Most money fraudulently obtained from Australian banks - in fact the vast, vast majority of it - just uses plain old social engineering (i.e. dating site scams on lonely people or too good to be true purchases from Gumtree or eBay that people still fall for).
*All* of those banks insist on two factor authentication for money transfers. I use 2 of them and every single person I know (here in Australia) is either issued an RSA token or has SMS alerts on money transfers (an SMS is sent to you with a code that must be entered before the transfer will take place). So even with the password, you can't transfer money out of an Australian bank.
Yarmulke are worn as a sign of subservience to God. Back in the day, when the tradition was adopted, servants wore head-coverings. Jews adopted the head coverings as a sign of service to God. I imagine the Catholic Pope's & Co. wear them for a similar reason. Today, they have the status of "minhag", effectively meaning they're an adopted tradition that now has the status of law.
I imagine that Apple knows they will probably lose - but want to take the "we're innocent" approach. Even if they lose, the Apple Faithful will be able to continue to Believe by deluding themselves that Apple was unfairly dealt with by the feds (i.e. choosing to believe that either Apple was "singled out" (which is wrong - they just didn't settle, while the other players did) or just outright believing Apple was innocent).
If Apple openly says, "yes, we tried to screw customers", this hurts their image far more.
Whatever fine is coming their way for taking this approach - they can afford it.
Facebook has to tolerate Microsoft - Microsoft owns part of Facebook:
http://whoownsfacebook.com/
Not a lot, true but certainly enough to have a small say. Also, Facebook make most of their revenue on PC, not mobile, and PC is still almost exclusively Windows (around 90%), so while Microsoft's star is falling, Facebook still makes most of its money via Microsoft users.
Would work for sure.... probably want to carefully define "cure" however.
Aside from the fact that you can't afford (or store) billions of apps on your iPhone, the Play Store and the App Store have virtual parity in the number of apps now, anyway. Furthermore - and much more to the point, only a handful of apps in the App Store ever get downloaded because the rest are basically either niche or rubbish.
Most iPad apps have never been downloaded.
We tried this in 2001, after a tonne of people opened some Love virus email variant. Me and one other IT guy at our University just did it off our own bat - I wrote a small and simple vb6 exe and he emailed it out from a hotmail account as "funny.doc.exe". All it did was log who clicked the file back to a txt file on the network.
We didn't get any kind of authorisation or even discuss it with anyone first and yes, we got in trouble with management for embarrassing staff (we did not name and shame, so we didn't get in too much trouble).
Umm, no... That's not what this is about.
.au. Apple does it with iTunes, Steam does it with games. Adobe does it with whatever crap they're flogging these days and so do most of the rest. Hardware as well. When I hear Americans talk about $500 computers at "Best Buy" or whatever, I feel sick. The kind of people who buy computers at Best Buy in the US are the kind of people who pay $2,000 for the same thing, in Harvey Norman, here - and our dollar is worth more than the USD, so it's not exchange rates.
This isn't a taxation issue - it's an extortion issue. This is pure and simple that (predominantly) American companies double, triple and sometimes a lot more than that the price of digital downloads when destination ==
Considering they're all assembled in China, which is closer to Australia, I don't buy that's it's a freight cost, either. It's long been known that IT companies just jack up the price massively if they're dealing with Australia because we've allowed ourselves to become accustomed to it.
It's ridiculously expensive to buy software in Australia. Most of it is purely digital and there's no justification. I hope the other vendors follow suite, soon. Overseas readers may not be aware that it's cheaper to fly TWO people to America and buy Visual Studio there, then fly back here, than it is to buy it here (link here if you think I'm exaggerating: http://theconversation.edu.au/cheaper-hardware-software-and-digital-downloads-heres-how-8382). That's just an example (I know Visual Studio is not exactly top pick on Slashdot but it's still got its place).
It's much cheaper to buy games on Steam through a proxy - as in about 50% cheaper. It's just completely unfair and I'm glad someone is finally doing something about it.
While I don't expect this to kill the need for Windows - what I hope to get out of it (and I've done with this with WINE on a Mac, so I hope Android gets to this level) is the ability to run those annoying "Windows Only" management apps for virtualisation servers. It's "virtually" (some pun intended) impossible to properly manage VMWare, XenServer and Hyper-V without Windows. I managed to get XenCenter for XenServer running on OS-X with the Mac port of WINE, so if I could get it on Android and manage my VM farms from a tablet, it would save me carrying a laptop into our datacenter and... well... I dunno. I just want to do it.
We can adapt? You'd have a hard time adapting without water, sewage, electricity or food in the shops (or money to buy them). A damn hard time (and this is what he's saying would be effected - and in the event of a very successful "cyber strike" these services could definitely be effected significantly, if not completely). Sure some people would adapt but it would be very, very hard landing. A few days without water or food and society breaks down very, very fast.
None the less, to say cyber warfare is worse than real warfare is a totally ridiculous statement. I'd much rather have to go back to subsistence farming as a society than get nuked.
No Android clients - which was the point of the GP response - that Windows to Windows RDP actually works exceptionally well. Splashtop is a pale comparison, although it is cool.
Its not just about latency (which I find none of, on RDP, so if it's there, no one is going to care). RDP with EasyPrint means people don't have to fuck around for printing, music, video, etc, etc work just fine. If people use RemoteFX then even 3D stuff works nicely. NoMachine might be better for latency but if RDP is *good enough* then it wins by default.