I wonder why this idea that a division between "Administrator" and "User" would help anybody.
As a user i need so send email and modify files etc. If this is not possible anymore, i also cannot run "malware". From the perspective of the OS, malware is doing the same things that a user does.
So why should a "user" be forbidden to open ports, run scripts and all the things that are done to work and play with a computer?
The division between "Admin" and "User" comes from multi user systems, where someone was in charge of keeping everything running and preventing one person from destroying the utility for everybody. But it doesn't help with home-owned desktops that have only one user.
I wish i had an administrator that would take care of everything, but too bad i don't!
And the system that single users are going to break when they fuck up their machine is the whole internet, and there is no administrator for the internet. (And i hope there never will be one.)
Right, and let it save him on cassette tape, that, if it doesn't get corrupted by itself, you should demagnetize in random intervals. Just like we learned the true stuff!
Most users i looked at seem to send around pictures of houses and cars they are planning to buy. Or maybe the want to sell them. In any case, looks like the US economy is not THAT bad.
Sorry i was cynical. But there is no reason i can think of for the file extensions to be hidden. If they wouldn't be so important i wouldn't care, but to hide them in today's Windows, where many programs, including the OS itself, solely have to rely on extensions to find out what kind of file is coming along, WTH are they hidden by default?
I think to show them by default would put half of the anti-virus industry out of business.
Hey kids, if you don't know what the parent commenter is talking about, search for some hours in the Windows Explorer menus and setup dialogs to display "file extensions". They're awesome!
So, i am okay with my neighbours seeing me sunbathing cause i know them well enough that they will not make fun about me. I am willing to take the very low risk of a stranger coming by and seeing me, and the even lower risk of this person being equipped with a camera and taking interest in my activity and documenting it.
An automatic recording system like Google's streetview changes this situation. Recording takes place no matter what happens. The risk of being recorded is lower but the effect can potentially become gigantic. I could become the next starwars kid more likely than if some dude with his phone cam came by.
You are offering that i just stop sunbathing. That is a lost freedom. You could for sure see people thinking about doing stuff as usual on day a run-through of such a recording truck would be publically announced.
Privacy (or perceived privacy) is not an on or off thing. It is very context sensitive. Projects like streetview bring another context to think about into the game. And it is well grounded to complain about such projects.
You might disagree, however introducing it as a "fix" to just stop doing what was perfectly possible before doesn't sound right to me. More like hardcore logic applied to an area where it does not fit.
"People knowing something" is not binary. I might not be concerned about my neighbours seeing something and the very low chance of a stranger seeing it. But when there is the possibility of exposing this action to the whole world, persons will act different.
It is about calculating risks. The _possibility_ of constant surveillance changes the situation.
And... it is not about committing murder having sex in front of the camera. It is about sunbathing, dancing in front of the mirror, smoking etc.
And... yes, Google doing it is different from neighbours with a camera doing it. Of course technically it is the same, "somebody takes images and puts them on the web". But the rate of exposure of these images matters, and the source they are coming from. Google is "credible", has gazillions of users and does a great job of interlinking its services. That is different from some photo that rots somewhere on imagebucket.
I don't say it is all that bad and the end of the world, but it strikes me how such development is just accepted with binary logic: So you don't like people see you doing something, don't do it. But that is exactly the panoptic effect.
Why this always comes up again and again, that it is the same if Google or your neighbours are watching?
If you sunbathe in your neighbourhood there is the chance that 20 people see it, once Google goes around there is the chance that 2000000000 people see it. So the risk of embarrassment increases dramatically, people will stop sunbathing. That is a real effect.
Since Adobe bought up Macromedia the offer for design apps got really poor. And among designers it seems like either you use Adobe or you are just an amateur. Compare this with the market for music software, how many different interface approaches one can chose from to create music. And it is considered a good thing. The "you need a Marshall Amp for professional sound"-times are really finally over. As a graphic designer you are already a tramp when you have been spotted near Corel Draw.
Graphic designers should demand more totally different tools instead of waiting for Adobe to change the one official App that exists. And they should *create* their own tool, too. It's as easy as never before.
Kooka, HP PSC 750, defaults, USB connected. In the borderline unusable Windows software is a button to switch off "JPEG image transfer mode". I don't know why anybody would want this option in the first place.
I am asking that the scans look as good as they do with the Windows software! With Linux, i get shitty JPEG artifacts on all scanned images, on Windows this won't happen. Even in "Lineart" mode! It's driving me insane!
Does anybody remember true instant on? For example with an Atari ST or a Commodore 64? Where the OS was actually on a chip? It was so hard to switch to today's booting mess for me, but i eventually got used to it.
What the hell is this awful flash website?? The complete text of the story is flash, and before i can read the article, i have to watch an animation that prepares me for the structure of it??
A train that meets an obstacle on track is much better of derailing than staying on track. Derailing means only the first few cars will crash into the obstacle, staying on track means they all jam up.
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Can we change from cars to something else this time? Maybe dogs? I took your dog for a walk and then i decided i will buy a dog from SOMEONE ELSE!
Or, i had a dog, but it was hit by a car someone else was testdriving, so now i have to get a new dog.
You refuse to run AV because of system ressources and instead use virtual machines? HAHAHAHAHAHAhAhAHAhaHA ahaAha sorry mate .. hahaha
I wonder why this idea that a division between "Administrator" and "User" would help anybody.
As a user i need so send email and modify files etc. If this is not possible anymore, i also cannot run "malware". From the perspective of the OS, malware is doing the same things that a user does.
So why should a "user" be forbidden to open ports, run scripts and all the things that are done to work and play with a computer?
The division between "Admin" and "User" comes from multi user systems, where someone was in charge of keeping everything running and preventing one person from destroying the utility for everybody. But it doesn't help with home-owned desktops that have only one user.
I wish i had an administrator that would take care of everything, but too bad i don't!
And the system that single users are going to break when they fuck up their machine is the whole internet, and there is no administrator for the internet. (And i hope there never will be one.)
All these ideas make me think that protection from malware is already worse than malware itself.
Dude, give us the command line!
I think complex framesets are much better suited for layouts than tables.
Right, and let it save him on cassette tape, that, if it doesn't get corrupted by itself, you should demagnetize in random intervals. Just like we learned the true stuff!
Too bad "maintainance" has kicked in. Okay people, where is the link to the page with all the pictures downloaded by a Perl script you wrote??
Most users i looked at seem to send around pictures of houses and cars they are planning to buy. Or maybe the want to sell them. In any case, looks like the US economy is not THAT bad.
Another passtime the balloons are useful for
Sorry i was cynical. But there is no reason i can think of for the file extensions to be hidden. If they wouldn't be so important i wouldn't care, but to hide them in today's Windows, where many programs, including the OS itself, solely have to rely on extensions to find out what kind of file is coming along, WTH are they hidden by default?
I think to show them by default would put half of the anti-virus industry out of business.
Hey kids, if you don't know what the parent commenter is talking about, search for some hours in the Windows Explorer menus and setup dialogs to display "file extensions". They're awesome!
You could buy one of those Walmart Ubuntu CDs and download the patches from the LiveCD.
So, i am okay with my neighbours seeing me sunbathing cause i know them well enough that they will not make fun about me. I am willing to take the very low risk of a stranger coming by and seeing me, and the even lower risk of this person being equipped with a camera and taking interest in my activity and documenting it.
An automatic recording system like Google's streetview changes this situation. Recording takes place no matter what happens. The risk of being recorded is lower but the effect can potentially become gigantic. I could become the next starwars kid more likely than if some dude with his phone cam came by.
You are offering that i just stop sunbathing. That is a lost freedom. You could for sure see people thinking about doing stuff as usual on day a run-through of such a recording truck would be publically announced.
Privacy (or perceived privacy) is not an on or off thing. It is very context sensitive. Projects like streetview bring another context to think about into the game. And it is well grounded to complain about such projects.
You might disagree, however introducing it as a "fix" to just stop doing what was perfectly possible before doesn't sound right to me. More like hardcore logic applied to an area where it does not fit.
"People knowing something" is not binary. I might not be concerned about my neighbours seeing something and the very low chance of a stranger seeing it. But when there is the possibility of exposing this action to the whole world, persons will act different.
... it is not about committing murder having sex in front of the camera. It is about sunbathing, dancing in front of the mirror, smoking etc.
... yes, Google doing it is different from neighbours with a camera doing it. Of course technically it is the same, "somebody takes images and puts them on the web". But the rate of exposure of these images matters, and the source they are coming from. Google is "credible", has gazillions of users and does a great job of interlinking its services. That is different from some photo that rots somewhere on imagebucket.
It is about calculating risks. The _possibility_ of constant surveillance changes the situation.
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I don't say it is all that bad and the end of the world, but it strikes me how such development is just accepted with binary logic: So you don't like people see you doing something, don't do it. But that is exactly the panoptic effect.
Why this always comes up again and again, that it is the same if Google or your neighbours are watching?
If you sunbathe in your neighbourhood there is the chance that 20 people see it, once Google goes around there is the chance that 2000000000 people see it. So the risk of embarrassment increases dramatically, people will stop sunbathing. That is a real effect.
What is so difficult about getting this?
Since Adobe bought up Macromedia the offer for design apps got really poor. And among designers it seems like either you use Adobe or you are just an amateur. Compare this with the market for music software, how many different interface approaches one can chose from to create music. And it is considered a good thing. The "you need a Marshall Amp for professional sound"-times are really finally over. As a graphic designer you are already a tramp when you have been spotted near Corel Draw.
Graphic designers should demand more totally different tools instead of waiting for Adobe to change the one official App that exists. And they should *create* their own tool, too. It's as easy as never before.
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Sorry guys. But this is such a ridiculous story.
Don't let anybody sell your memories as a service.
Kooka, HP PSC 750, defaults, USB connected.
In the borderline unusable Windows software is a button to switch off "JPEG image transfer mode". I don't know why anybody would want this option in the first place.
But it always happens, no matter what format i chose. PNG, TIFF, BMP, whatever. The artifacts are even there before the image is saved!
I am asking that the scans look as good as they do with the Windows software! With Linux, i get shitty JPEG artifacts on all scanned images, on Windows this won't happen. Even in "Lineart" mode! It's driving me insane!
Does anybody remember true instant on?
For example with an Atari ST or a Commodore 64? Where the OS was actually on a chip? It was so hard to switch to today's booting mess for me, but i eventually got used to it.
What the hell is this awful flash website?? The complete text of the story is flash, and before i can read the article, i have to watch an animation that prepares me for the structure of it??
A train that meets an obstacle on track is much better of derailing than staying on track. Derailing means only the first few cars will crash into the obstacle, staying on track means they all jam up.
Just call him and ask.