Should have read TFA also. This is clear that the EU is *not* trying to implement this it's the *individual governments* that are going the draconian route - so your argument goes out of the window completely.
Well.. the EU parliament is elected and the EU Commission is appointed from elected officials in each country. The EU is not in itself a government - it only has the power granted to it by the member states, so if it's trying to make more restrictive laws it's because *your* elected government wants them to.
Note also that it's the EU that successfully blocked software patents despite lots of lobbying from vested interests (well, the commission - remember, your government - wanted them, and the parliament - directly elected - sad get lost.. multiple times).
It's got a long way to go before it's nearly as sold out as the US system is.
That's why I have all CFLs too... the wiring in this block is so screwy that a standard bulb is lucky if it lasts a month.
They're damned resilient. I get a minimum of a year and have a couple that are 3 years old now. I've not had them long enough to work out if I'll get the advertised 6-10 years yet.
Given that CFLs are in fact a pile of shit that are actually about half as "bright" as the packaging claims and take time to warm up before they produce even that, quite a lot of effort thanks.
Clearly you've never actually used them, just like regurgitating what someone with an agenda wants to tell you.
For your information they are extremely bright (in fact they're probably underrated - I find the '100 watt equivalent' ones too bright for an average room). They also work just like any other light and are fully bright immediately.
That's different - they have a live link to the satellite that can update the keys and even reflash the cards remotely to change the encryption if they wanted to.
Breaking sat. encryption is hard because of this.. unless there's an underlying weakness in the encryption (which in any modern system there isn't) there's no way in.
Of course you could capture the decrypted stream inside the box and grab it that way, but that's not a general solution for most.
So? If someone tells you their openid (or you setup a spoof website to get it) then you have access to their entire life too, if this becomes popular. There is *no* difference.
The only 'universal' IDs that aren't open to such an attacks are things like biometrics and one time pads.
Yup anyone can run the server... and that means the servers will be run as much by scammers as by normal people. Same problem. If you didn't trust Microsoft you sure as hell shouldn't be trusting any random website.
That's why you have decay in rankings.. If nobody keeps voting things over time the number of votes attributed to a page lowers until it goes back to zero - this allows new pages to be on the same footing as older ones.
Fair use is a US concept. The 10% if it exists is probably a US thing as well. In the UK it's 5%, and only a single article. In belgium it's probably something different.
Google news is unashamedly breaking copyright.. there's no argument there - the real question is why anyone would prosecute over something that's driving hits to their page and generating ad revenue?
I've seen plenty of scripts with instructions like
"Install this then chmod -R 777 so that the script can work"
Clueless noobs then go and install it and wonder why they're hacked the next week...
I always go through locking down such scripts (minimal permissions, rename all config files and, if possible, put them outside the web root. Same for writable directories if any are required). Those that can't be locked down are simply deleted.
You can, but that's the point - nobody does, and because of that users are conditioned to click 'yes' to the install (and AFAIK you can't attach manifests to MSI's... OTOH it's rare for.msi files to be sent out without a setup.exe to set INSTALLMODE anyway so might not be an issue).
The default should be to *not* elevate with the system elevating the app only if it touches system configuration... so 90% of apps would not need it (dumping an exe in program files should not require an extra prompt).
This is incorrect, per previous poster's comments. If you keep everything in the user's profile and install using MSI, you won't have to elevate.
Untrue. Vista will elevate *before* running the MSI. You can't avoid it in a standard install - there's probably a group policy to switch it off but that's not a solution.
If Vista sees something that looks like an installer (it seems to have a number of rules for this) then it'll elevate it and run it with admin rights. Vista has no concept of an unprivileged or local user install, unfortunately.
I was braver than the OP ran vista RTM for over 2 months. No, you don't get used to it over time and yes, it's as annoying as hell.
I've seen many of the prompts the OP mentions and it's not just a beta problem.
There's also no way to elevate via the command line so you have to have a run cmd.exe elevated to do anything - another pain in the arse because you can't just do Win/R cmd.exe like you can on every other version of Windows.. you have to create a flippin' icon for it, right click it, select 'run as administrator'. Try doing that a few hundred times (even granted you keep the icon around) - it gets damned annoying. Plus it means you have an admin shell floating around all the time so it defeats the object - MS should have looked at how sudo works.
Other things like the constant thrashing of the disk, the piss poor battery life (never got vista over 60% of the battery life that XP routinely gets, even switching off most of the crap), and the fact that it's damn slow even on a dual core with 2GB of RAM, eventually mounted up until I reformatted and went back to XP.
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Should have read TFA also. This is clear that the EU is *not* trying to implement this it's the *individual governments* that are going the draconian route - so your argument goes out of the window completely.
Well.. the EU parliament is elected and the EU Commission is appointed from elected officials in each country. The EU is not in itself a government - it only has the power granted to it by the member states, so if it's trying to make more restrictive laws it's because *your* elected government wants them to.
Note also that it's the EU that successfully blocked software patents despite lots of lobbying from vested interests (well, the commission - remember, your government - wanted them, and the parliament - directly elected - sad get lost.. multiple times).
It's got a long way to go before it's nearly as sold out as the US system is.
CFLs aren't good for any instant-on applications. CFLs take time to warm up.
Oh puhleeze. A couple of ill informed slashdot posts and suddenly everyone thinks that it's true.
They come on instantly. Every time. Just like any other light bulb.
Most of the new ones are LED. Filament christmas lights are being phased out anyway.
Dimmable versions are freely available now. Not sure what the problem is with motion detectors.
That's why I have all CFLs too... the wiring in this block is so screwy that a standard bulb is lucky if it lasts a month.
They're damned resilient. I get a minimum of a year and have a couple that are 3 years old now. I've not had them long enough to work out if I'll get the advertised 6-10 years yet.
Given that CFLs are in fact a pile of shit that are actually about half as "bright" as the packaging claims and take time to warm up before they produce even that, quite a lot of effort thanks.
Clearly you've never actually used them, just like regurgitating what someone with an agenda wants to tell you.
For your information they are extremely bright (in fact they're probably underrated - I find the '100 watt equivalent' ones too bright for an average room). They also work just like any other light and are fully bright immediately.
17mph in a 30 limit is over 50% over the limit, and and non-police driver would get a ban.
In a residential zone it's nearly double the limit and could result in a jail sentence.
They definately did *not* overeact.
I'd imagine there are exceptions for police in pursuit of a criminal and emergency ambulances.
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(interestingly here in the UK we have the police exception (very limited - police speeding off duty would get fine/points just like everyone else) but no ambulance exception.. (although it's not enforced for them since 2004: http://www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/Pr
By the time your detector goes off it's way too late.
Many detection systems are optical now, also (two photographs taken slightly apart).
That's different - they have a live link to the satellite that can update the keys and even reflash the cards remotely to change the encryption if they wanted to.
Breaking sat. encryption is hard because of this.. unless there's an underlying weakness in the encryption (which in any modern system there isn't) there's no way in.
Of course you could capture the decrypted stream inside the box and grab it that way, but that's not a general solution for most.
So? If someone tells you their openid (or you setup a spoof website to get it) then you have access to their entire life too, if this becomes popular. There is *no* difference.
The only 'universal' IDs that aren't open to such an attacks are things like biometrics and one time pads.
duh. Because once someone has their openid they have the id for *all* their websites.
Yup anyone can run the server... and that means the servers will be run as much by scammers as by normal people. Same problem. If you didn't trust Microsoft you sure as hell shouldn't be trusting any random website.
its a small world after all
MAKE IT STOP!!!
I visited disneyworld once. That damned song scarred me for life.
That one's easy to disprove, since there are places where there is wind but no trees, but nowhere where there are trees moving but no wind.
However there isn't anywhere on earth that there are waves but no hum, so you can't conclusively prove it that way.
Warm the finger up by, say, holding it in your hand for a while.
I very much doubt a scanner can tell the difference between a warmed up finger and a living one.
Heck, they can't tell the difference between a finger and a gummy bear at the moment...
That's why you have decay in rankings.. If nobody keeps voting things over time the number of votes attributed to a page lowers until it goes back to zero - this allows new pages to be on the same footing as older ones.
Fair use is a US concept. The 10% if it exists is probably a US thing as well. In the UK it's 5%, and only a single article. In belgium it's probably something different.
Google news is unashamedly breaking copyright.. there's no argument there - the real question is why anyone would prosecute over something that's driving hits to their page and generating ad revenue?
I've seen plenty of scripts with instructions like
"Install this then chmod -R 777 so that the script can work"
Clueless noobs then go and install it and wonder why they're hacked the next week...
I always go through locking down such scripts (minimal permissions, rename all config files and, if possible, put them outside the web root. Same for writable directories if any are required). Those that can't be locked down are simply deleted.
You can, but that's the point - nobody does, and because of that users are conditioned to click 'yes' to the install (and AFAIK you can't attach manifests to MSI's... OTOH it's rare for .msi files to be sent out without a setup.exe to set INSTALLMODE anyway so might not be an issue).
The default should be to *not* elevate with the system elevating the app only if it touches system configuration... so 90% of apps would not need it (dumping an exe in program files should not require an extra prompt).
I just remembered one of my #1 vista annoyances.
*every single fucking time* you install anything, after it's finished, vista asks:
"Did this application install correctly?"
Even clippy wasn't this bad.
This is incorrect, per previous poster's comments. If you keep everything in the user's profile and install using MSI, you won't have to elevate.
Untrue. Vista will elevate *before* running the MSI. You can't avoid it in a standard install - there's probably a group policy to switch it off but that's not a solution.
If Vista sees something that looks like an installer (it seems to have a number of rules for this) then it'll elevate it and run it with admin rights. Vista has no concept of an unprivileged or local user install, unfortunately.
I was braver than the OP ran vista RTM for over 2 months. No, you don't get used to it over time and yes, it's as annoying as hell.
I've seen many of the prompts the OP mentions and it's not just a beta problem.
There's also no way to elevate via the command line so you have to have a run cmd.exe elevated to do anything - another pain in the arse because you can't just do Win/R cmd.exe like you can on every other version of Windows.. you have to create a flippin' icon for it, right click it, select 'run as administrator'. Try doing that a few hundred times (even granted you keep the icon around) - it gets damned annoying. Plus it means you have an admin shell floating around all the time so it defeats the object - MS should have looked at how sudo works.
Other things like the constant thrashing of the disk, the piss poor battery life (never got vista over 60% of the battery life that XP routinely gets, even switching off most of the crap), and the fact that it's damn slow even on a dual core with 2GB of RAM, eventually mounted up until I reformatted and went back to XP.
Maybe I'll try again by SP2.