Enforcing passwords != Increasing security
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Real Security?
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You can do all sorts of 'security' things and not increase security one little bit. You can also take a secure system, do more 'security' things an utterly destroy the existing security.
Anyone with a working knowledge of security knows how far to take it, where the critical points are, etc... if you let a bunch of amateurs do it then they're not 'increasing security' they're just 'increasing the bloody mess that someone will have to sort out when the company gets a clue and hires someone with some experience;'.
Doom merchants love to create figures just out of provable reach (20-50 years).
I saw a programme on TV the other week that stated that the UK would be a frozen waste within 20 years (apparently the gulf stream is about to evaporate or something).
This government isn't accountable at all.. it's just about got over laughing that we fell for it and re-elected them. They do what they damned well please (yay democracy! Umm....)
The bank of england are appointed and aren't answerable to anyone. They do seem to try to do a good job though.
The 'signals broadcasting from the TV' idea is largely myth - there are so many TVs (some of which are plasma and have virtually no emission), computers, etc. not to mention that cars output bucketloads of EM that pinning it down to one house would be nearly impossible.
The reality is much simpler - they simply have a list of everyone who's paid a license, and a list of everyone who hasn't.
It's a tax per household, so the 24 million is probably a better figure.
You have to pay it if you have any equipment capable of receiving colour signals, even if you never watch BBC (or listen to BBC Radio, go to the BBC website, etc.). So it really is a tax since it's almost impossible to avoid paying it.
It's good value though, compared to Sky, which is as was mentioned 25% adverts (this is no exaggeration... they get around the legal limits by having almost no adverts overnight so they can keep the averages about right). Sky costs ~500 a year and you still suffer advertising. Not surprisingly they make huge profits...
The TV companies will probably start going subscription based to make up the shortfall. With enough subscribers you can ditch adverts altogether (eg. BBC, 50 million people paying ~12 a month = a lot of cash).
That's what bothered me about reading the article - the retailer who said they had hardly sold anything for months after losing the top ten slot on google.
What happened to the days when businesses actually went out and worked for their custom, rather than sitting on their fat arses and wanting google to do it for them?
If opening a document makes you a criminal, then I say the sooner the better, then the general populace might understand that having corporations like MS run your government isn't a good thing.
It's just as likely people will ditch MSOffice than OO. In fact more so - who will want to work with a package that can't save files you can open anywhere else (even on a non-fritz PC which will be the vast majority for many years to come - there are *zero* fritz chips in circulation at the moment). No company is going to use Word if they deal with Europe, asia, in fact anywhere else but the US, because their documents would be unreadable.
OTOH I can't see MS committing that kind of suicide. They're not *that* stupid.
If it was a troll it's actually quite a poor troll, since nobody got it.
Personally I and most other people have no idea whether dselect uses lisp or not. I know emacs does, so it's not an unreasonable idea. The rest seems vaguely plausible if a bit contorted (changing the application rather than hacking a hebrew console driver seems a long way to go about it).
If they did rig the election who would know? You're dealing with millions of votes here, and a few percent 'nudge' in the right direction is all it would take.
That said, the IQ of the average electorate is so small that 'vote for bush or you're a terrorist' is pretty likely to succeed anyway.
FFS they still haven't fixed the libsensors1 bug? That's at least two months old now.
I gave up with the unstable KDE ages ago and went with orth's KDE CVS builds - they're much better and if there are bugs they get fixed quickly (with the caveat that it's a CVS version of KDE so there are some bugs that have to wait for the upstream).
that I've no clue what slashdot is talking about. Usually I can decipher it somewhat, but this has me stumped.
Who is 'Opus'? The article goes on like I should have a clue who/what he/she is, but I've never heard of him/her.
Re:Space not speed, and price issues
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DVD-Rs go 8x
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I'd find a better dealer if I were you... Hint: Don't shop at PC World.
250GB is cheaper at 2*120GB which will set you back 114+VAT.
Branded DVD-RW is *much* cheaper then you suppose - retail price for is 8 (inc vat) for 5 branded traxdata.. unbranded stuff you can get for 5 for 5. If you don't need RW (why should you? it's for backup) then you can half those figures.
A dual format +/-RW drive will set you back ~80 inc. vat.
How much of a braking force would it require on the moon for it to enter a spiral anyway? I guess you'd need one fsck of an asteroid to hit it head on...
OTOH it's just as likely it could get thrown out of orbit completely and end up around another planet...
Neither are particulary likely, I know (*much* less then being hit by an asteroid at the same time as becoming a triple lottery winner).
What fscking brainded moron decided to switch the UK keyboard into dvorak mode?
I live in the UK and I've never even *seen* a dvorak keyboard let alone used one - I assume they're entirely a US phenomenon... however instead of breaking their own keyboard layout they decide to break everyone *elses* instead.
Broadcom *do* produce OSS drivers - just not for their 11g stuff. I'm told that's due to patents (not sure how true that is, though).
They also released the source to their DOS configuration utility to their network cards (the files had 'copyright broadcom' and 'not for redistribution' written on them, however).
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You can do all sorts of 'security' things and not increase security one little bit. You can also take a secure system, do more 'security' things an utterly destroy the existing security.
Anyone with a working knowledge of security knows how far to take it, where the critical points are, etc... if you let a bunch of amateurs do it then they're not 'increasing security' they're just 'increasing the bloody mess that someone will have to sort out when the company gets a clue and hires someone with some experience;'.
Doom merchants love to create figures just out of provable reach (20-50 years).
I saw a programme on TV the other week that stated that the UK would be a frozen waste within 20 years (apparently the gulf stream is about to evaporate or something).
This government isn't accountable at all.. it's just about got over laughing that we fell for it and re-elected them. They do what they damned well please (yay democracy! Umm....)
The bank of england are appointed and aren't answerable to anyone. They do seem to try to do a good job though.
SQL Server can make XP BSOD quite reliably. It isn't drivers or hardware either - these are WHQL certified drivers on Dell hardware.
I worked out a way to make it BSOD on login once, but then I was playing around with a custom GINA at the time...
The 'signals broadcasting from the TV' idea is largely myth - there are so many TVs (some of which are plasma and have virtually no emission), computers, etc. not to mention that cars output bucketloads of EM that pinning it down to one house would be nearly impossible.
The reality is much simpler - they simply have a list of everyone who's paid a license, and a list of everyone who hasn't.
It's a tax per household, so the 24 million is probably a better figure.
You have to pay it if you have any equipment capable of receiving colour signals, even if you never watch BBC (or listen to BBC Radio, go to the BBC website, etc.). So it really is a tax since it's almost impossible to avoid paying it.
It's good value though, compared to Sky, which is as was mentioned 25% adverts (this is no exaggeration... they get around the legal limits by having almost no adverts overnight so they can keep the averages about right). Sky costs ~500 a year and you still suffer advertising. Not surprisingly they make huge profits...
The TV companies will probably start going subscription based to make up the shortfall. With enough subscribers you can ditch adverts altogether (eg. BBC, 50 million people paying ~12 a month = a lot of cash).
They've already done it. There's about 680 people imprisoned without trial in the US at this very moment..
Suprnova.org gets 1million+ hits per day iirc
That'd be clever, since it was shut down months ago...
There's just a generic 'No access' page there now.
The study shows that the most likely abductors of children... are the parents themselves!
:)
Taken literally, of course, we should completely invert the 'don't talk to strangers' idea and make a 'don't talk to family' rule
[joke, btw.]
That's what bothered me about reading the article - the retailer who said they had hardly sold anything for months after losing the top ten slot on google.
What happened to the days when businesses actually went out and worked for their custom, rather than sitting on their fat arses and wanting google to do it for them?
If opening a document makes you a criminal, then I say the sooner the better, then the general populace might understand that having corporations like MS run your government isn't a good thing.
It's just as likely people will ditch MSOffice than OO. In fact more so - who will want to work with a package that can't save files you can open anywhere else (even on a non-fritz PC which will be the vast majority for many years to come - there are *zero* fritz chips in circulation at the moment). No company is going to use Word if they deal with Europe, asia, in fact anywhere else but the US, because their documents would be unreadable.
OTOH I can't see MS committing that kind of suicide. They're not *that* stupid.
If it was a troll it's actually quite a poor troll, since nobody got it.
Personally I and most other people have no idea whether dselect uses lisp or not. I know emacs does, so it's not an unreasonable idea. The rest seems vaguely plausible if a bit contorted (changing the application rather than hacking a hebrew console driver seems a long way to go about it).
What's wrong with lisp hooks anyway?
Umm You've not heard about camp xray then?
Imprisonment without trial. Execution without trial. Torture.
And that's just the stuff that they *admit to*.
The US Government has proven that it has the will to abuse its power and the 'citizens' just sit on their fat arses and ignore it.
If they did rig the election who would know? You're dealing with millions of votes here, and a few percent 'nudge' in the right direction is all it would take.
That said, the IQ of the average electorate is so small that 'vote for bush or you're a terrorist' is pretty likely to succeed anyway.
They locked up their riched man for being corrupt and accepting bribes.
In the US they'd have elected him to office!
FFS they still haven't fixed the libsensors1 bug? That's at least two months old now.
I gave up with the unstable KDE ages ago and went with orth's KDE CVS builds - they're much better and if there are bugs they get fixed quickly (with the caveat that it's a CVS version of KDE so there are some bugs that have to wait for the upstream).
that I've no clue what slashdot is talking about. Usually I can decipher it somewhat, but this has me stumped.
Who is 'Opus'? The article goes on like I should have a clue who/what he/she is, but I've never heard of him/her.
I'd find a better dealer if I were you... Hint: Don't shop at PC World.
250GB is cheaper at 2*120GB which will set you back 114+VAT.
Branded DVD-RW is *much* cheaper then you suppose - retail price for is 8 (inc vat) for 5 branded traxdata.. unbranded stuff you can get for 5 for 5. If you don't need RW (why should you? it's for backup) then you can half those figures.
A dual format +/-RW drive will set you back ~80 inc. vat.
No it isn't. Did you *actually* go to the MSN site or are you just trolling.
The MSN search clearly states:
Results 1-15 of about 16 containing "linux windows"
OTOH...
Results 1-15 of about 126572 containing "microsoft sucks"
I'd rather raise my kids to be more sensible than to drink at parties.
Dream on.... All teenagers will drink at parties. Hell, they'll probably drink a *lot*.
The issue is what do you do when you 'find out' about it, and will the child trust you enough to actually tell you?
How much of a braking force would it require on the moon for it to enter a spiral anyway? I guess you'd need one fsck of an asteroid to hit it head on...
OTOH it's just as likely it could get thrown out of orbit completely and end up around another planet...
Neither are particulary likely, I know (*much* less then being hit by an asteroid at the same time as becoming a triple lottery winner).
I guess it's because it's a beta but...
What fscking brainded moron decided to switch the UK keyboard into dvorak mode?
I live in the UK and I've never even *seen* a dvorak keyboard let alone used one - I assume they're entirely a US phenomenon... however instead of breaking their own keyboard layout they decide to break everyone *elses* instead.
Broadcom *do* produce OSS drivers - just not for their 11g stuff. I'm told that's due to patents (not sure how true that is, though).
They also released the source to their DOS configuration utility to their network cards (the files had 'copyright broadcom' and 'not for redistribution' written on them, however).
No they didn't - Linus was definately in that list...