You *do* know that the police have no legal obligation to protect any single person, right?
You can call them while being attacked, give them your exact location, and they aren't obligated to hurry up and rescue you. A murderer can steal your children and kill them. The cops don't have to do anything but take a report. It's up to *you* to defend yourself, your family, and your property. The cops are only obligated to keep the peace, investigate reports of criminal activities, and arrest folks committing crimes *in* *sight* of an officer of the law. They have an enormous amount of discretion when prioritizing the distribution of their limited manpower.
Yeah. There's all sorts of DSP and radio and battery and display tech that goes into a cellphone. A mouse? not so much.
However, having said that... it is worth *quite* a bit of money to have peripherals that will not damage the user over time. Having said that... why aren't *ALL* peripherals designed so that they won't damage the user over time? Eh? Eh?
Net Neutrality is a *REALLY* bad idea. A network operator *must* be free to run his network any damn way he pleases. Things work out better that way.
Instead of wasting our time with all this NN noise, we should attack the problem at its root; the competition stifling incumbent operators and the subsequent explosion of ISP-specific interconnects from the customer's site to the greater Internet. (We should run *ONE* line from the customer's site to a common interconnect point, then let the ISPs duke it out from there!) If the barriers to starting up an ISP were sufficiently low, and *every* customer could change ISPs at a whim, we'd see *real* competition in the ISP business.
Man. That sucks about Target and other places. I suppose that this is yet another reason to not have a checkbook.:)
TBH, I don't have a checkbook. I haven't had one ever since the USPS lost my $60 order in the mail many, many years ago. (Can you tell that *I'm* bitter?;) )
I had always thought that checks travelled through a check clearing house or houses. If they do, wouldn't your bank tell the clearing house(s) to not accept the voided checks?
I'm not so sure that checkbook theft is any worse than ATM/credit card theft. If you've a record of the check numbers in your checkbook, you can have the bank pre-emptively void those checks.
Yeah. Read speed on that sentence was ~50% of normal. You'd better have something REALLY fucking good to say if you're gonna make me work that hard to decipher it.;)
Okay. Correct me if I'm wrong here. You're not saying that ATI's hardware requires these OGL hacks. You're saying that ATI's offical drivers suck? If so, this isn't surprising... the Windows drivers for the Radeon 8500 sucked, hard-core for several revisions. I remember anandtech.com remarking that -prior to the 8500- ATI's drivers were *really* bad.
The xf86-video-ati driver reports a vendor of "DRI R300 Project". If I'm reading the code correctly, this means that ati_hack will always be set to false (unless the undocumented ati-hack option is passed to the vo driver?).
The gl vo driver doesn't give me any problems when running with xf86-video-ati. I suppose all of that extra code was dumped in there for the benefit of folks who were running with the fglrx driver?
That's fine. Folks like me care about having an *open* system that also works. xf86-video-ati works pretty well for my R420 AGP card, so I get everything that I'm looking for.:)
All three companies don't do the best job, but the amount of hacks you have to make in software to get stuff working with both ati and intel cards far surpasses anything you have to write for nvidia cards.
[citation needed] Sample OGL code would be an adequate citation.
That's all well and good and rather likely. I'll remember your "cure" for next time I run into some of these folks. Most of the folks that I've had personal experience with have never seen Win9x. They disengage their brains when working with *any* gadget that they think is computerized.
So maybe just bouncing around the UI to show her she can't brick it would help your grandmother.
Heh. Not anymore.;) She developed Alzheimer's.
In RE: bricking and corrupted system files... Was the system fixable? If so, it was useless for its owner, but not bricked.:) Anyway. Did these systems ship with a recovery disk? If so, would using the disk have fixed the system? Also, why would placing the system under load have corrupted files on disk?
Many folks seem to disengage their brains when you add a computer into even the simplest of scenarios. My grandmother was terrified of the "computer" in her Prius. Most non-techies *refuse* to perform even the most basic of UI exploration due to fears of "messing [the software|computer|whatever] up".
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You *do* know that the police have no legal obligation to protect any single person, right?
You can call them while being attacked, give them your exact location, and they aren't obligated to hurry up and rescue you. A murderer can steal your children and kill them. The cops don't have to do anything but take a report. It's up to *you* to defend yourself, your family, and your property. The cops are only obligated to keep the peace, investigate reports of criminal activities, and arrest folks committing crimes *in* *sight* of an officer of the law. They have an enormous amount of discretion when prioritizing the distribution of their limited manpower.
Examine the decision of Castle Rock v Gonzales for more information:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&navby=case&vol=000&invol=04-278
Did you keep these devices that are obviously full of fail?
Yeah. There's all sorts of DSP and radio and battery and display tech that goes into a cellphone. A mouse? not so much.
However, having said that... it is worth *quite* a bit of money to have peripherals that will not damage the user over time. Having said that... why aren't *ALL* peripherals designed so that they won't damage the user over time? Eh? Eh?
The popups are NOT targeted. I'm a Comcast customer and I can see them.
It's probably a scare tactic. I'm seeing that popup, too. I'm a Comcast customer.
If you *really* think that Viacom's gonna blackhole your customers, reroute your traffic to Viacom's sites through a couple of friend's networks. :D
Or just do without. *shrug*
I'm seeing that message. I'm a Comcast customer. Something smells fishy.
Methinks that Viacom IS NOT gonna block TWC internet customers. I doubt that they have the balls. :)
Net Neutrality is a *REALLY* bad idea. A network operator *must* be free to run his network any damn way he pleases. Things work out better that way.
Instead of wasting our time with all this NN noise, we should attack the problem at its root; the competition stifling incumbent operators and the subsequent explosion of ISP-specific interconnects from the customer's site to the greater Internet. (We should run *ONE* line from the customer's site to a common interconnect point, then let the ISPs duke it out from there!) If the barriers to starting up an ISP were sufficiently low, and *every* customer could change ISPs at a whim, we'd see *real* competition in the ISP business.
What happens if *every* state loses?
Man. That sucks about Target and other places. I suppose that this is yet another reason to not have a checkbook. :)
TBH, I don't have a checkbook. I haven't had one ever since the USPS lost my $60 order in the mail many, many years ago. (Can you tell that *I'm* bitter? ;) )
I had always thought that checks travelled through a check clearing house or houses. If they do, wouldn't your bank tell the clearing house(s) to not accept the voided checks?
Maybe they could infer the placement of moles and spies in certain research facilities? :)
So, what you're trying to say here is that this happened Last Thursday?
I'm not so sure that checkbook theft is any worse than ATM/credit card theft. If you've a record of the check numbers in your checkbook, you can have the bank pre-emptively void those checks.
This sounds like a Doctor! Doctor! problem to me. :D
Yeah. Read speed on that sentence was ~50% of normal. You'd better have something REALLY fucking good to say if you're gonna make me work that hard to decipher it. ;)
Heh. I assume that *all* public computers are configured to copy any and all private key material on USB devices.
Man... You'd think that /.'s admins would know not to use Unicode on their site.
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Okay. Correct me if I'm wrong here. You're not saying that ATI's hardware requires these OGL hacks. You're saying that ATI's offical drivers suck?
If so, this isn't surprising... the Windows drivers for the Radeon 8500 sucked, hard-core for several revisions. I remember anandtech.com remarking that -prior to the 8500- ATI's drivers were *really* bad.
Ah. I'm an illiterate moron. The ati-hack option *is* documented.
The xf86-video-ati driver reports a vendor of "DRI R300 Project". If I'm reading the code correctly, this means that ati_hack will always be set to false (unless the undocumented ati-hack option is passed to the vo driver?).
The gl vo driver doesn't give me any problems when running with xf86-video-ati. I suppose all of that extra code was dumped in there for the benefit of folks who were running with the fglrx driver?
For the most part nVidia Just Works.
That's fine. Folks like me care about having an *open* system that also works. xf86-video-ati works pretty well for my R420 AGP card, so I get everything that I'm looking for. :)
All three companies don't do the best job, but the amount of hacks you have to make in software to get stuff working with both ati and intel cards far surpasses anything you have to write for nvidia cards.
[citation needed] Sample OGL code would be an adequate citation.
You make a good point. Would these sorts of things happen if we weren't so focussed on "justice" at any cost?
Also, you might wanna change your .sig soon.
I actually blame Win9X.
That's all well and good and rather likely. I'll remember your "cure" for next time I run into some of these folks.
Most of the folks that I've had personal experience with have never seen Win9x. They disengage their brains when working with *any* gadget that they think is computerized.
So maybe just bouncing around the UI to show her she can't brick it would help your grandmother.
Heh. Not anymore. ;) She developed Alzheimer's.
In RE: bricking and corrupted system files... :) Anyway. Did these systems ship with a recovery disk? If so, would using the disk have fixed the system? Also, why would placing the system under load have corrupted files on disk?
Was the system fixable? If so, it was useless for its owner, but not bricked.
Many folks seem to disengage their brains when you add a computer into even the simplest of scenarios.
My grandmother was terrified of the "computer" in her Prius. Most non-techies *refuse* to perform even the most basic of UI exploration due to fears of "messing [the software|computer|whatever] up".
How are we supposed to fix these people?