There is NO SUCH THING as idiot proof. Why don't we all just get over it and MOVE ON? The idiots will only get more inventive if we try to outsmart them.
[snip]Maybe this would be a fine example to present to the UK Parliament and U.S. Congress, in order to convince them that open source is the best path to follow.
What does Bill have to do with anything (I mean, besides the obvious pun value)? I thought he was celebrating^H^H^H^H lamenting Hillary's nonpresence-to-be. </sarcasm>I thought Ballmer ran things these days.
Why should M$ be concerned about its "image"? That went out the window with OOXML (*.docx, *.xlsx etc.). M$ KNOWS that stupid people can and will buy Windows since those people don't know about <some other OS>. There are people who think that Windows==Computer. Then there are people suffering from vendor lock-in. The point is that M$ got past caring about its "image" a long time ago.
No, they overpaid them (nice pronouns) by giving them that silly dual thing that M$ counts as Vista but in practice amounts to XP (since everyone always chooses XP). When M$ realized they had given the dual thing by mistake (which took a while since their statistics are wrong), they tried to force "upgrades" via use of WGA etc... but this time they can b/c it's in a physical, signed contract as opposed to a TLDR EULA.
Pointing out there are possible fixes doesn't absolve it from blame.
No, it doesn't, and that is one of the major problems with FOSS: devs tend to avoid disturbing the ecosystem as much as possible, even when doing so is a good idea. If this was run in a traditional (read:closed-source) setting and IT heard that it would take the flip of a few bits to get rid of a major security vulnerability, how long would the bug live?
I know some idiot mod will mark this as a troll because it is critical of FOSS. Really people, let's at least pretend to be civilized, please.
then teach the user to only give pw to A)Stuff that looks like gksu (you don't even need to explain what that is, just what it looks like) B)If something speaks of "Updates", direct it to the Update manager, and ignore ~all else C)If the User is stupid anyway, no system will ever be secure enough except one that does not give this person the ability to act as root in the first place, which means using a Mac, which I will never do because it is too user-obsequious
Really, these "findings" are made on such a narrow scope with so many factors not taken into account that it's just pure bullshit. I'll keep playing my games for what they are, be it violent, story driven, puzzle or whatever based. They are entertaining because of what they are made for, not what you want to see in them.
The study would have to be a lot bigger otherwise. # of participents (that's science-speak for human guinea-pigs, BTW) doubles every time you add another game or other degree of freedom (since you either have to check on the effect of the confounder or remove it entirely or normalize it, in which case you're not finding how this relates to particular games.). HL2 is a good compromise between a totally violent game and a nonviolent game.
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He flipped a REGISTRY VALUE for fuck's sake! WTF kind of proof are they going to give to the judge? Or is this a SLAPP?
[snip] Is it only windows that has the "Average User?"
no. What's eating the mod (singular)?
They didn't rename cancel since "Cancel" unambiguously means "stop whatever I'm doing [and go back]" in ~any GUI.
That is the user's problem, I'm afraid. If someone is seriously that stupid, they probably shouldn't be allowed near a computer anyway.
There is NO SUCH THING as idiot proof. Why don't we all just get over it and MOVE ON? The idiots will only get more inventive if we try to outsmart them.
[snip]Maybe this would be a fine example to present to the UK Parliament and U.S. Congress, in order to convince them that open source is the best path to follow.
And then the lobbying starts
What does Bill have to do with anything (I mean, besides the obvious pun value)? I thought he was celebrating^H^H^H^H lamenting Hillary's nonpresence-to-be. </sarcasm>I thought Ballmer ran things these days.
Why should M$ be concerned about its "image"? That went out the window with OOXML (*.docx, *.xlsx etc.). M$ KNOWS that stupid people can and will buy Windows since those people don't know about <some other OS>. There are people who think that Windows==Computer. Then there are people suffering from vendor lock-in. The point is that M$ got past caring about its "image" a long time ago.
No, they overpaid them (nice pronouns) by giving them that silly dual thing that M$ counts as Vista but in practice amounts to XP (since everyone always chooses XP). When M$ realized they had given the dual thing by mistake (which took a while since their statistics are wrong), they tried to force "upgrades" via use of WGA etc... but this time they can b/c it's in a physical, signed contract as opposed to a TLDR EULA.
So sue them.
IANAL, YMMV, this isn't formal legal advice, don't sue me if it doesn't work ETC.
In Soviet America, free porn watch YOU!!!
Pointing out there are possible fixes doesn't absolve it from blame.
No, it doesn't, and that is one of the major problems with FOSS: devs tend to avoid disturbing the ecosystem as much as possible, even when doing so is a good idea. If this was run in a traditional (read:closed-source) setting and IT heard that it would take the flip of a few bits to get rid of a major security vulnerability, how long would the bug live?
I know some idiot mod will mark this as a troll because it is critical of FOSS. Really people, let's at least pretend to be civilized, please.
while you are generally correct, virii can mean all forms of malware (sense 2). Also note that the Jargon File endorses 'linguistic playfulness' (probably not a verbatim quote).
then teach the user to only give pw to
A)Stuff that looks like gksu (you don't even need to explain what that is, just what it looks like)
B)If something speaks of "Updates", direct it to the Update manager, and ignore ~all else
C)If the User is stupid anyway, no system will ever be secure enough except one that does not give this person the ability to act as root in the first place, which means using a Mac, which I will never do because it is too user-obsequious
but not everything works.
Wait, something, somewhere, is broken? Stop the presses!!
A physical keyboard is a more universal solution to that particular issue.
Well... file a God-bug. That should fix it!
Actually, Ubuntu releases a new version every 6 months, but Ubuntu doesn't charge for the updates!!! ] M$ could learn from that.
The communist party compromised and supported the democrats, but who gets taken more seriously, the communist party or the green party?
let's see if it changes over time as the country develops
It did in the USA, the UK, and every other country that went through a transition from a mostly agricultural to an industrial economy.
-jcr
Yeah, but the USA had the 1st amendment from the start...
maybe Hollywood lobbies harder than Google + EFF + everyone else + everyone else's kid brother ?
...when he browses pr0n, gets a malware attack, and has to take his machine to Geek Squad and pay $100 to get the box decontaminated.
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GeekSquad charges $200 for that particular service.
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and you know this how?
melt it down and recycle it. (OR, since the average person is incredibly lazy, throw it in a landfill so you don't have to look at it </sarcasm>)
Are you all quite done?
Really, these "findings" are made on such a narrow scope with so many factors not taken into account that it's just pure bullshit. I'll keep playing my games for what they are, be it violent, story driven, puzzle or whatever based. They are entertaining because of what they are made for, not what you want to see in them.
The study would have to be a lot bigger otherwise. # of participents (that's science-speak for human guinea-pigs, BTW) doubles every time you add another game or other degree of freedom (since you either have to check on the effect of the confounder or remove it entirely or normalize it, in which case you're not finding how this relates to particular games.). HL2 is a good compromise between a totally violent game and a nonviolent game.