Why wouldn't Wal-Mart customers "have a chance" to install Linux? Do they connect to a different internet than everyone else? Are they banned from entering computer and book stores?
Or are you asking if Wal-Mart will be carrying boxed RedHat distros?
It's never been about consumers having a CHANCE to install Linux, it's been about them having the CHOICE to, and like it or not, most consumers CHOOSE not to.
A buyer DOESN'T "buy a stolen car". The stolen cars are parted out, and legitimate sources (ie: body shops) buy the body panels at a cheaper rate. If they're already painted to the factory colors, so much the better.
The hacker tools he's using are already easily available on the market. Best Buy and CompUSA are just full of small laptops with wireless capability. Not to mention they can also get one the same way they're getting the cars: steal one.
The laptop will soon become just another tool in the arsenal of the professional car thief. To these guys it's not a thrill, they're not doing it on a dare, it's their job. They're not stealing these cars to go joyriding in, they steal one to take to a chop shop for a few hundred bucks.
(Terminology nit-pick: these guys aren't "carjackers", they're car thieves. Carjackers are the ones that stick a gun in your face and shove you out of the car.)
>Who would spend time on training hacking and $500 >on a laptop to steal "inexpensive" Camry?
The Toyota Camry is one of the best selling cars in America for several years running.
This means a lot of demand for parts. Body parts for accident repair, engine parts, even wheels and tires.
All this translates into the Toyota Camry also being one of the most STOLEN cars in America for the last several years running.
Just because it's a $20,000 car doesn't mean it's not worth stealing. And if you can steal it easily and without damaging anything, so much the better.
As has already been pointed out, security at the inauguration was for everyone present at the event, not just GWB.
What hasn't been pointed out about the helicopters is that the $6.1B price tag is for a full fleet replacement, 23 new VH-71s, replacing the VH-3s that entered service in 1962. Further, they won't even be in use until at least 2009, after GWB leaves office. He'll most likely never even ride in one of the new units.
Calling the helicopter deal "upgrading [GWB's] helicopters" is like you buying a new car for your neighbor, and calling it "upgrading your station wagon".
Been busy, so I'm just getting back to this one...
>1)Target practice FPS games aren't popular. FPS >games were lots of people get shot and blown up >are. You CANNOT replicate those in real life.
Ever heard of paintball? Laser tag?
>2)Hand guns are very dangerous, even in the >hands of someone who is familiar and comfortable >with them...perhaps even MORE dangerous because >one(and you clearly are since you said "ZERO") >becomes complacent.
Actually, I said "practically zero" (there's always a chance of mechanical malfunction)... and according to your logic, a professional race car driver is more likely to have a fender-bender than grandma driving through the farmer's market, a Naval aviator is more likely to crash a Cessna 172 than some guy who got a private pilot's license out of the yellow pages, and a skilled system administrator is more likely to trash his computer than someone who can barely find the "ON" button.
>3)It's great that you somehow bought a handgun >without any paperwork or hassle but in a lot of >areas that's illegal.
No "somehow" about it. A transfer between two private parties is perfectly legal (for now). Perhaps things are different in California or Massachusetts, but throughout most of the US, if your buddy has a pistol and you want to buy it, all you have to do is settle on a price.
>4)Why don't you pitch your idea for live action >counter-strike to your local law enforcement >agencies?
Most of the local cops and deputies here already play paintball.
>Shoot a real friggin' gun... yeah, there's exactly the same amount of > personal risk, expense, and legal paperwork to fill out to be able >to shoot a real gun as there is to pick up a guitar and learn some >chord progressions.
Uhm, my first 9mm pistol cost me about $250 (Ruger P85) about 10 years ago. Purchased used from an individual, so no legal paperwork. I was taught how to handle guns safely starting at around age 6, so practically ZERO personal risk.
Granted, I don't live in a sprawling metropolis, so I only have to drive about 3 miles to find a place to shoot, but I've also never had a neighbor complain that I'm practicing at 3am.
So unless you're encouraging people to buy a guitar and amp from K-Mart, all three of your points comparing guns and guitars are pretty much blown...
>Another thing it relieves you of is extra spending cash!
On my last car, my monthly payments were about $400. Insurance was another $150. Gas at $2.25 a gallon... oil changes, tires, brakes, tune-ups, etc... it all adds up.
How many taxi rides can you take for $650+ a month?
The religious metaphor of the sheep and the shepherd is one of protection and guidance.
The anti-religious metaphor of the sheep and the shepherd is the mindless bleating flock being led mindlessly around by the shepherd of indeterminate motivation and objective.
Does that make it a little clearer, and show why one is positive, and one is derogatory?
>(sorry, sheep, as certain large religions like to imply)
I more frequently hear strident anti-theists refer to the religious as "sheep", because it's simply not possible for anyone to think for themselves and still believe in a supreme being, so they must be stupidly following along with the rest of the mindless herd.
-l
(apathetic atheist, doesn't care what you believe or don't believe)
Our tanks have targetting systems that can see through smoke and lock onto targets miles away, our troops have glasses that can see at night, and I can go down to the local sporting goods store and buy a laser rangefinder that will accurately measure distances out to a mile or so with a margin of error of an inch or less... but a SPACESHIP can't land because of a few clouds?
The cynic in me agrees: This is a publicity stunt. There's no reason to keep the shuttle up there except that clear skies make better photo-ops.
>"trained" hunters risk shots through cover at a barely-glimpsed "deer"
I hate to break this one to you, but NO "trained hunter" would take a shot at a target he couldn't identify.
Your "guns and 'active network defense'" analogy only applies when you're talking about UNtrained gun owners and poorly programmed automatic network defense mechanisms.
Properly trained gun owners are safer with their guns than you will ever be with your car, and an actual trained professional network administrator operating those network defense mechanisms are infinitely safer and more accurate than any current programmed automatic defense response.
Yes, I can point to dozens of examples of jackasses that have no business holding a gun blowing away their son or daughter because they didn't have a clue what they were doing. Likewise, this article and others like it can point to examples of poorly programmed automatic responses trashing networks that had nothing to do with the attacks they are responding to.
>People are bashing Ahead because there already is >an abundance of CD burning applications for Linux.
So what?
Ahead produces a Linux version of their flagship application and they catch hell for it.
Would it be better if Ahead didn't produce ANYTHING for Linux? Because that's more or less the alternative.
Their remaining products are either even MORE simplistic (an image organizer package, gee), stuff that has been tried and ignored by the general public (remember how we were going to be making all our phone calls using our sound cards and microphones?), or high-end professional versions of... Nero.
>then it's all our fault for continuing to feast on >eBay's bullshit by supporting them despite the way >they treat us....then it's all 90% of the computing world's fault for continuing to feast on Microsoft's bullshit by supporting them despite the way they treat us.
Oh, wait, but Microsoft is a monopoly, and the DOJ should step in.
Why should Ebay be any different? They hold an effective monopoly on online auctions (at least as strong as Microsoft's "monopoly" on operating systems).
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Why wouldn't Wal-Mart customers "have a chance" to install Linux? Do they connect to a different internet than everyone else? Are they banned from entering computer and book stores?
Or are you asking if Wal-Mart will be carrying boxed RedHat distros?
It's never been about consumers having a CHANCE to install Linux, it's been about them having the CHOICE to, and like it or not, most consumers CHOOSE not to.
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Wow, that big dive at the beginning of that five-year period there... right around when the entire industry tanked? Yeah, that's meaningful.
Other than that, we see fairly normal fluctuations up and down.
What was your point again?
If you really want something impressive, go to "Max" on the range instead.
A buyer DOESN'T "buy a stolen car". The stolen cars are parted out, and legitimate sources (ie: body shops) buy the body panels at a cheaper rate. If they're already painted to the factory colors, so much the better.
The hacker tools he's using are already easily available on the market. Best Buy and CompUSA are just full of small laptops with wireless capability. Not to mention they can also get one the same way they're getting the cars: steal one.
The laptop will soon become just another tool in the arsenal of the professional car thief. To these guys it's not a thrill, they're not doing it on a dare, it's their job. They're not stealing these cars to go joyriding in, they steal one to take to a chop shop for a few hundred bucks.
(Terminology nit-pick: these guys aren't "carjackers", they're car thieves. Carjackers are the ones that stick a gun in your face and shove you out of the car.)
-l
>Who would spend time on training hacking and $500
>on a laptop to steal "inexpensive" Camry?
The Toyota Camry is one of the best selling cars in America for several years running.
This means a lot of demand for parts. Body parts for accident repair, engine parts, even wheels and tires.
All this translates into the Toyota Camry also being one of the most STOLEN cars in America for the last several years running.
Just because it's a $20,000 car doesn't mean it's not worth stealing. And if you can steal it easily and without damaging anything, so much the better.
-l
Professors teaching at middle schools?
Who says academic standards are declining?
As has already been pointed out, security at the inauguration was for everyone present at the event, not just GWB.
What hasn't been pointed out about the helicopters is that the $6.1B price tag is for a full fleet replacement, 23 new VH-71s, replacing the VH-3s that entered service in 1962. Further, they won't even be in use until at least 2009, after GWB leaves office. He'll most likely never even ride in one of the new units.
Calling the helicopter deal "upgrading [GWB's] helicopters" is like you buying a new car for your neighbor, and calling it "upgrading your station wagon".
Been busy, so I'm just getting back to this one...
>1)Target practice FPS games aren't popular. FPS
>games were lots of people get shot and blown up
>are. You CANNOT replicate those in real life.
Ever heard of paintball? Laser tag?
>2)Hand guns are very dangerous, even in the
>hands of someone who is familiar and comfortable
>with them...perhaps even MORE dangerous because
>one(and you clearly are since you said "ZERO")
>becomes complacent.
Actually, I said "practically zero" (there's always a chance of mechanical malfunction)... and according to your logic, a professional race car driver is more likely to have a fender-bender than grandma driving through the farmer's market, a Naval aviator is more likely to crash a Cessna 172 than some guy who got a private pilot's license out of the yellow pages, and a skilled system administrator is more likely to trash his computer than someone who can barely find the "ON" button.
>3)It's great that you somehow bought a handgun
>without any paperwork or hassle but in a lot of
>areas that's illegal.
No "somehow" about it. A transfer between two private parties is perfectly legal (for now). Perhaps things are different in California or Massachusetts, but throughout most of the US, if your buddy has a pistol and you want to buy it, all you have to do is settle on a price.
>4)Why don't you pitch your idea for live action
>counter-strike to your local law enforcement
>agencies?
Most of the local cops and deputies here already play paintball.
-l
>Shoot a real friggin' gun... yeah, there's exactly the same amount of
> personal risk, expense, and legal paperwork to fill out to be able
>to shoot a real gun as there is to pick up a guitar and learn some
>chord progressions.
Uhm, my first 9mm pistol cost me about $250 (Ruger P85) about 10 years ago. Purchased used from an individual, so no legal paperwork. I was taught how to handle guns safely starting at around age 6, so practically ZERO personal risk.
Granted, I don't live in a sprawling metropolis, so I only have to drive about 3 miles to find a place to shoot, but I've also never had a neighbor complain that I'm practicing at 3am.
So unless you're encouraging people to buy a guitar and amp from K-Mart, all three of your points comparing guns and guitars are pretty much blown...
-l
>Licensing Fees for a brothel? Just what country
>are you talking about? Cause I doubt it's America
>or Australia.
Both Australia and America have legal brothels.
-l
>Another thing it relieves you of is extra spending cash!
/paid cash for a used truck this time around
On my last car, my monthly payments were about $400. Insurance was another $150. Gas at $2.25 a gallon... oil changes, tires, brakes, tune-ups, etc... it all adds up.
How many taxi rides can you take for $650+ a month?
-l
>My ideal car is where I hop in, say "take me to work"
> (or wherever), then I'm free to do whatever till we get there
We have these where I'mfrom. They're called "taxis".
It also relieves you of the tedium of car payments, insurance, gas, maintenance, and even that pesky drivers' license.
-l
I'll reply to all three at once here:
The religious metaphor of the sheep and the shepherd is one of protection and guidance.
The anti-religious metaphor of the sheep and the shepherd is the mindless bleating flock being led mindlessly around by the shepherd of indeterminate motivation and objective.
Does that make it a little clearer, and show why one is positive, and one is derogatory?
>(sorry, sheep, as certain large religions like to imply)
I more frequently hear strident anti-theists refer to the religious as "sheep", because it's simply not possible for anyone to think for themselves and still believe in a supreme being, so they must be stupidly following along with the rest of the mindless herd.
-l
(apathetic atheist, doesn't care what you believe or don't believe)
Our tanks have targetting systems that can see through smoke and lock onto targets miles away, our troops have glasses that can see at night, and I can go down to the local sporting goods store and buy a laser rangefinder that will accurately measure distances out to a mile or so with a margin of error of an inch or less ... but a SPACESHIP can't land because of a few clouds?
The cynic in me agrees: This is a publicity stunt. There's no reason to keep the shuttle up there except that clear skies make better photo-ops.
You must be new to all this, then (if you started getting on-line after about 1983, you're new, live with it).
I used many modems Back In The Day(tm) that threw the originate carrier right away.
The quality of the PICTURE isn't so much the issue with TV, it's the quality of the PROGRAMMING.
Give me something worth watching first, then worry about improving the definition.
"Survivor", "Joey", and "American Idol" in 1080i are still crap, they're just crap in high resolution.
>"trained" hunters risk shots through cover at a barely-glimpsed "deer"
I hate to break this one to you, but NO "trained hunter" would take a shot at a target he couldn't identify.
Your "guns and 'active network defense'" analogy only applies when you're talking about UNtrained gun owners and poorly programmed automatic network defense mechanisms.
Properly trained gun owners are safer with their guns than you will ever be with your car, and an actual trained professional network administrator operating those network defense mechanisms are infinitely safer and more accurate than any current programmed automatic defense response.
Yes, I can point to dozens of examples of jackasses that have no business holding a gun blowing away their son or daughter because they didn't have a clue what they were doing. Likewise, this article and others like it can point to examples of poorly programmed automatic responses trashing networks that had nothing to do with the attacks they are responding to.
But that doesn't change the facts.
-l
>could you imagine living in this moonbase where it is -always- lit?
They've got these new things, hi-tech by-products of the 60's space race, that help block out unwanted light.
They're called "curtains". Perhaps you've heard of them.
>People are bashing Ahead because there already is
>an abundance of CD burning applications for Linux.
So what?
Ahead produces a Linux version of their flagship application and they catch hell for it.
Would it be better if Ahead didn't produce ANYTHING for Linux? Because that's more or less the alternative.
Their remaining products are either even MORE simplistic (an image organizer package, gee), stuff that has been tried and ignored by the general public (remember how we were going to be making all our phone calls using our sound cards and microphones?), or high-end professional versions of... Nero.
What the hell do you WANT Ahead to do?
...and Americans say "ad" instead of "advert" because we understand a little thing called CONTEXT.
Both WMP and the ATI File Player that came with my AIW7500 failed.
Media Player Classic has no problem at all with the files.
>Second of all, the industry is moving to 3DES at
>gunpoint (that gun wielded by our friends at Visa
>and MasterCard)
What were they running before?
What are the technologically superior options? What are the costs involved? How much more secure are these options? What's the break-even point?
Before you go pointing fingers at "the industry", consider their options, their costs, and how much YOU are willing to pay for them.
> Pardon the shoddy grammar, it is rather late. Post AC to not whore karma.
Yeah, cause I see this one getting modded up REAL REAL HIGH.
>First of all, you should be behind a firewall >that disallows incoming connections to almost >everything.
...which would also protect your unpatched Windows XP machine while you download Service Pack 2.
-l
>then it's all our fault for continuing to feast on ...then it's all 90% of the computing world's fault for continuing to feast on Microsoft's bullshit by supporting them despite the way they treat us.
>eBay's bullshit by supporting them despite the way
>they treat us.
Oh, wait, but Microsoft is a monopoly, and the DOJ should step in.
Why should Ebay be any different? They hold an effective monopoly on online auctions (at least as strong as Microsoft's "monopoly" on operating systems).