No, on Slashdot, you're meant to read the stub, whinge about it sucking, read TFA, whinge about it being one-sided, offer an equally-but-oppositely biased piece via URL (without making it an actual link), and finally opine in the same way the stub did, just for the other side.
This way, the sane and rational of us can be exposed to both sides of the coin, take from each the facts over the opinion, and come up with a reasonable approximation of the truth: Assange is a knob, but he's still not out to line his pockets. It just so happens, however, that money is the only language big media understands, so he needs to pressure them with that by threatening to sue.
"... is an American adult model, comedian, actress, author, and activist/murderer whose ardent anti-vaccine quackery has doomed an unknown number of children to painful deaths by otherwise controllable diseases." [Emphasis mine]
Not from me they don't. I uninstalled the app the very first time it didn't load the next level after completing the one prior, stating a "Connection error" for the reason. I am very much not alone in that practice, as the comments on the Android Market will testify.
Angry Birds on the iPhone is a paid app without ad support. It runs very well, and is a great "toilet game." You can lose yourself for quite a while playing it.
Angry Birds on Android is ad supported, with fullscreen video adverts between levels and banner adverts during play. The banner advert in the top right of the screen makes zooming and seeing the whole of the map difficult, and when out of signal range (Plane? Tunnel? Anywhere where you have hours to spend doing nothing) the video adverts don't load, so you cannot progress to the next level. Every other comment is now either a previous user reporting the issues, or a new user telling how much they hate the adverts. I don't know how much he makes from the adverts per user, but so far he's lost approx 40% (by my guestimate) of the players he could have had if the adverts were less intrusive. If that 40% is an acceptable loss, then good for him, but if he read the comments and acted upon this overwhelming opposition to the advert intrusion to the game, he'd potentially make a lot more money.
These attacks are more difficult because as you say, lower market share makes other OSs less tempting targets, and also they are more secure by default (noexec on home directory), but that is not the issue. A government employee downloaded an eCard, and opened it, while attached to a classified network. That's a user-land issue, not a software issue. It doesn't matter how secure your OS / network is when you have users that careless / dumb.
Yes, and I discarded them out of hand. Computers don't do anything unless they are told to. I can tell OS/X, Linux, any OS to run downloads with admin / root permissions as soon as they download by default. I can also set any of these OS's to not allow execution of any downloaded content whatsoever. The fact that one is on by default, the other off, is neither here nor there. A human either set those permissions, or left them as they are, and a human downloaded an unknown file of unknown origin, of dubious relation to their work, and ran it. Windows did not download the eCard and install the trojan, a user did.
I'm real glad that hating an OS for a user-space issue comes so easy to you. Blaming others is a useful skill, especially if you're an idiot yourself.
Don't blame Windows. This was a case of government employees being duped by an email Christmas Card. They may as well have "checked out this screensaver!" or pictures of "Anna Kornikova"
I suggest a new stipulation in government contracts: You will be given a one-day basic data security course. You will be trained in how to identify emails which are not genuine, and how to dispose of them properly. Once completed, you will sign to say you have undertaken the course and will enact all advice and policy contained therein. Any data breaches which would have been avoided by following said advice and policy will result in immediate dismissal for gross negligence, and prosecution under appropriate data protection legislation (In the UK, that's up to £500,000 personal fine and 6 months in prison. Your employer is legally prevented from reimbursing you for the fine.)
My point is that this "Content Connect" service is the equivalent of putting an Akamai cache at BT's central exchanges, so the content from Akamai is always faster than those served from outside the network. It's preferential treatment in exchange for payment.
Maybe Akamai is a bad example. Think of it more as Skype and $Foo VoIP service. Skype doesn't pay for Content Connect, $Foo does. When the network is saturated, $Foo packets will be given priority over Skype packets, making Skype's service less valuable. This is how Content Connect is a breach of Network Neutrality.
I use one at home; MythTV. I still won't use motion gestures for that kind of thing; Picking up a drink from the table could end up pausing recording, or swapping channel, or anything.
In fact, the only gesture I would have programmed in for such a device is standing / sitting, and that would pause / resume whatever was being watched at the time. That would still irritate the hell out of anyone you were watching a film with, though.
The issue here is preferential treatment of packets originating from CDNs on BT's preferred (paying) provider list. If Google or Akamai offered my broadband connection, and gave their own products preference over other people's competing products, they'd be shot down in seconds by anti-competition laws. The fact that they're paying BT for this service is the very definition of a breach of network neutrality: A packet being given preference over another because of its content, source, or destination.
You're missing the point. You sit in front of a computer, typically at a distance of less than 1m. You sit maybe 2-2.5m away from your TV screen when using your console, as your TV is usually a lot larger than your monitor, your monitor shows more information in a smaller space due to your proximity to it.
Go get a wireless keyboard, sit on your sofa, and load up your email client on your TV at max supported resolution. Tell me how long it takes for you to learn forward, or simply stand up and walk over to read stuff.
Steam is a rental, not a purchase. If Valve folded tomorrow and Steam went to liquidators, their "We promise to release DRM on the games" statement is worth less than the electrons fired along the wire to your monitor allowing you to read it.
Don't get me wrong, I love Steam and like you made many, many purchases over the holiday period. I'm under no illusion, however, that I am absolutely guaranteed ownership of those games if Valve turns off the servers.
Posse Comitatus. It's illegal to deploy the military for the purposes of enforcing the law, and I don't think anybody in the US military will fire upon their own people anyway. If they did, I doubt the UN would have any trouble blockading the US until civil unrest was resolved.
Wikileaks should go distributed. Everyone who would download LOIC should download Freenet instead and cache Wikileaks.
With ICANN hijacking domain names and Sweden going after the top guy, they should just decentralise the whole thing, because the next step is a government hack of Wikileaks servers to kill off the leaked material.
Any reason why this fuel oil couldn't be converted back into a different plastic? It's been a while since I studied hydrocarbon cracking, but if producing fuel oils is now a two way process, why not?
Goldeneye was released in August '97, Duke Nuken 64 in November. Prior to this, I don't ever remember playing Duke Nukem 3D on the pc with any more than one other player, over a direct connection (modem) or LAN.
I can't say much for the others, but WoW worked fine for me. There's a known bug with Wine causing WoW to crash in Dala / WG, but apart from that it was solid and fast.
Check the web for help getting WoW running. There's a couple of lines to edit in your config.wtf and don't forget to append the -OpenGL switch. I always launched WoW from Bash for this reason. wine wow.exe -OpenGL
I'm running it now on my Win7 box. Admittedly it's a gaming PC so hardly mom-and-pop check your email and play Farmville spec, but i've noticed no slowdown compared to the scarce few seconds I allowed my PC to be on the internet without a firewall while I downloaded it.
ZoneAlarm lost my support as a free Firewall solution in September over the whole "Global Virus Alert" scareware tactic. I recommend Comodo Internet Security now. Very configurable, easy to train, allows manual rule creation down to port level.
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No, on Slashdot, you're meant to read the stub, whinge about it sucking, read TFA, whinge about it being one-sided, offer an equally-but-oppositely biased piece via URL (without making it an actual link), and finally opine in the same way the stub did, just for the other side.
This way, the sane and rational of us can be exposed to both sides of the coin, take from each the facts over the opinion, and come up with a reasonable approximation of the truth: Assange is a knob, but he's still not out to line his pockets. It just so happens, however, that money is the only language big media understands, so he needs to pressure them with that by threatening to sue.
Current Wikipedia article text on her:
"... is an American adult model, comedian, actress, author, and activist/murderer whose ardent anti-vaccine quackery has doomed an unknown number of children to painful deaths by otherwise controllable diseases." [Emphasis mine]
Lovely.
Not from me they don't. I uninstalled the app the very first time it didn't load the next level after completing the one prior, stating a "Connection error" for the reason. I am very much not alone in that practice, as the comments on the Android Market will testify.
Lawyer speak for that particular phrase is "I refer you to the response with respect to the case of Arkell v. Pressdram (1971)."
Never become "too important to fire." It also makes you "too important to promote."
They especially dislike "Meatspace."
Angry Birds on the iPhone is a paid app without ad support. It runs very well, and is a great "toilet game." You can lose yourself for quite a while playing it.
Angry Birds on Android is ad supported, with fullscreen video adverts between levels and banner adverts during play. The banner advert in the top right of the screen makes zooming and seeing the whole of the map difficult, and when out of signal range (Plane? Tunnel? Anywhere where you have hours to spend doing nothing) the video adverts don't load, so you cannot progress to the next level. Every other comment is now either a previous user reporting the issues, or a new user telling how much they hate the adverts. I don't know how much he makes from the adverts per user, but so far he's lost approx 40% (by my guestimate) of the players he could have had if the adverts were less intrusive. If that 40% is an acceptable loss, then good for him, but if he read the comments and acted upon this overwhelming opposition to the advert intrusion to the game, he'd potentially make a lot more money.
These attacks are more difficult because as you say, lower market share makes other OSs less tempting targets, and also they are more secure by default (noexec on home directory), but that is not the issue. A government employee downloaded an eCard, and opened it, while attached to a classified network. That's a user-land issue, not a software issue. It doesn't matter how secure your OS / network is when you have users that careless / dumb.
Yes, and I discarded them out of hand. Computers don't do anything unless they are told to. I can tell OS/X, Linux, any OS to run downloads with admin / root permissions as soon as they download by default. I can also set any of these OS's to not allow execution of any downloaded content whatsoever. The fact that one is on by default, the other off, is neither here nor there. A human either set those permissions, or left them as they are, and a human downloaded an unknown file of unknown origin, of dubious relation to their work, and ran it. Windows did not download the eCard and install the trojan, a user did.
I'm real glad that hating an OS for a user-space issue comes so easy to you. Blaming others is a useful skill, especially if you're an idiot yourself.
Don't blame Windows. This was a case of government employees being duped by an email Christmas Card. They may as well have "checked out this screensaver!" or pictures of "Anna Kornikova"
I suggest a new stipulation in government contracts: You will be given a one-day basic data security course. You will be trained in how to identify emails which are not genuine, and how to dispose of them properly. Once completed, you will sign to say you have undertaken the course and will enact all advice and policy contained therein. Any data breaches which would have been avoided by following said advice and policy will result in immediate dismissal for gross negligence, and prosecution under appropriate data protection legislation (In the UK, that's up to £500,000 personal fine and 6 months in prison. Your employer is legally prevented from reimbursing you for the fine.)
My point is that this "Content Connect" service is the equivalent of putting an Akamai cache at BT's central exchanges, so the content from Akamai is always faster than those served from outside the network. It's preferential treatment in exchange for payment.
Maybe Akamai is a bad example. Think of it more as Skype and $Foo VoIP service. Skype doesn't pay for Content Connect, $Foo does. When the network is saturated, $Foo packets will be given priority over Skype packets, making Skype's service less valuable. This is how Content Connect is a breach of Network Neutrality.
I use one at home; MythTV. I still won't use motion gestures for that kind of thing; Picking up a drink from the table could end up pausing recording, or swapping channel, or anything.
In fact, the only gesture I would have programmed in for such a device is standing / sitting, and that would pause / resume whatever was being watched at the time. That would still irritate the hell out of anyone you were watching a film with, though.
No.
The issue here is preferential treatment of packets originating from CDNs on BT's preferred (paying) provider list. If Google or Akamai offered my broadband connection, and gave their own products preference over other people's competing products, they'd be shot down in seconds by anti-competition laws. The fact that they're paying BT for this service is the very definition of a breach of network neutrality: A packet being given preference over another because of its content, source, or destination.
You're missing the point. You sit in front of a computer, typically at a distance of less than 1m. You sit maybe 2-2.5m away from your TV screen when using your console, as your TV is usually a lot larger than your monitor, your monitor shows more information in a smaller space due to your proximity to it.
Go get a wireless keyboard, sit on your sofa, and load up your email client on your TV at max supported resolution. Tell me how long it takes for you to learn forward, or simply stand up and walk over to read stuff.
Steam is a rental, not a purchase. If Valve folded tomorrow and Steam went to liquidators, their "We promise to release DRM on the games" statement is worth less than the electrons fired along the wire to your monitor allowing you to read it.
Don't get me wrong, I love Steam and like you made many, many purchases over the holiday period. I'm under no illusion, however, that I am absolutely guaranteed ownership of those games if Valve turns off the servers.
Citation needed?
Posse Comitatus. It's illegal to deploy the military for the purposes of enforcing the law, and I don't think anybody in the US military will fire upon their own people anyway. If they did, I doubt the UN would have any trouble blockading the US until civil unrest was resolved.
Wikileaks should go distributed. Everyone who would download LOIC should download Freenet instead and cache Wikileaks.
With ICANN hijacking domain names and Sweden going after the top guy, they should just decentralise the whole thing, because the next step is a government hack of Wikileaks servers to kill off the leaked material.
I am Alex Tapanaris.
Any reason why this fuel oil couldn't be converted back into a different plastic? It's been a while since I studied hydrocarbon cracking, but if producing fuel oils is now a two way process, why not?
Goldeneye was released in August '97, Duke Nuken 64 in November. Prior to this, I don't ever remember playing Duke Nukem 3D on the pc with any more than one other player, over a direct connection (modem) or LAN.
They use that extra server capacity to serve their custom "The website is down" page while their website is down.
I can't say much for the others, but WoW worked fine for me. There's a known bug with Wine causing WoW to crash in Dala / WG, but apart from that it was solid and fast.
Check the web for help getting WoW running. There's a couple of lines to edit in your config.wtf and don't forget to append the -OpenGL switch. I always launched WoW from Bash for this reason. wine wow.exe -OpenGL
I'm running it now on my Win7 box. Admittedly it's a gaming PC so hardly mom-and-pop check your email and play Farmville spec, but i've noticed no slowdown compared to the scarce few seconds I allowed my PC to be on the internet without a firewall while I downloaded it.
ZoneAlarm lost my support as a free Firewall solution in September over the whole "Global Virus Alert" scareware tactic. I recommend Comodo Internet Security now. Very configurable, easy to train, allows manual rule creation down to port level.