Technically, no. I could just do the dist-upgrade, but, I hate to say it, there are often little 'gotchas'. I have two Ubuntu partitions going on my drive. One is generally my stable setup, the other the latest build of the upcoming release. I jump back and forth between them trying things out.
The gotchas have been diminishing, too, since Ubuntu is so popular distributors who care about Linux at all tend to stay on top of the new releases. For a while, each new release was an adventure with the video card driver. It was around 9.10 that I felt like 64 bit had enough support so that I could assume everything would just work. I'm using 11.04 now and there are definitely issues with Unity still. Example: I open a PDF from the web, it opens but the tabs from the browser stay visible through the PDF viewer. They're not active, that part of the screen just doesn't get repainted properly by the viewer. It looks like an embedded viewer and I go to click on the tabs and wind up thinking "right, I need to make sure this bug is reported."
I like Ubuntu, and I'm glad it's built on Debian, but I sadly don't trust everything to "just work" on an upgrade, especially when it's a change like Unity. Sometimes it takes an extra couple months of updates to get things just so, and I'm not that patient. I do look forward to 12.04 - Unity should be ready by then:)
You know, I talk a good game about Linux, but I do an install of Ubuntu just about every 6 months...
Alright, to be fair, it's closer to annual. I think they know they have to deal with the LTS releases longer and they have seemed more stable to me. That's why they did Unity right AFTER the last LTS, to give them several tries to get it right before 12.04...
One of the advantages of this design over a lightweight copper power feed is that DATA is bidirectional over the same optic cable. Transmitting the surveillance data back to the ground is much more secure and at higher rates than through thin copper or over some RF transmitter on the copter. That is, this can be stealthier.
This is what is so disingenuous about then 'we are the target because so many people run us' crap. W/(95,98,2000,NT,XP) were the target because it was so easy that anybody could do it.
What percent of Windows boxes of have no antivirus? Sure, AV isn't perfect, but it is something that a malware writer has to contend with in the Windows world. Mac may only be about 10% of the market, but a Mac with AV is a rare thing, I think.
My point is that while Mac may seem to be a smaller target, it is relatively uniform and only guarded by the OS itself. Windows is guarded by the OS AND many different AV packages. Can malware authors really look at the 90% Windows market (still lots of XP, some Vista, more and more Win7) as a single monolithic target? Finding a hole in Windows means you can get a small percentage of Windows machines, finding a hole in OSX would likely open the door to almost every Mac out there. Is that really a smaller, less desirable target?
It'll also piss off anyone who lets a friend come over and use their wireless while visiting. ISPs may be able to block an infected account, but that would affect every computer connected through the account. How do you prove that your systems are clean?
How about doing it the other way around? Contact the owner of the account to let them know they have a potential problem. If they don't get in cleared up in some reasonable time, THEN block the account.
infected computers are damaging only non-secured ones.
This is patently false. One of the reasons people create botnets is to spam non-infected computers. Spam may or may not be "harm" depending on your definition, but a DDoS attack certainly is.
You're right, it is different. One was intending to violate the privacy rights of adults, the other was intending to violate the privacy rights of children.
Read up on the story. The Lower Merion admins knew what they were doing and they knew it was wrong. The system took pictures automatically, but only AFTER the admins intentionally turned it on. I can't say whether their intent was to get nude pictures of children or just have a laugh or if they had some stupid notion that they were protecting the kids by monitoring them. Personally, I'm not willing to give them a pass on their moral character.
As far as the actus reus of these two crimes go, they are remarkably similar. A trusted person puts monitoring software on a computer without alerting the user and uses it to collect images of them without consent.
Seconded. Version control of some stripe is a fantastic (and oft overlooked) thing for most organisations.
Which flavor of version control is left as an exercise to the OP. The "right one" for the office depends a great deal on what is produced, what they can budget, and what the users will tolerate. It's funny, sometimes users don't appreciate the extra steps it takes to check out/check in a file, until someone changes it under them.
Perhaps they wouldn't have protection for their own revolutionary ideas, but they wouldn't be prevented from sharing it with the world because any implementation required the use of someone else's revolutionary ideas. As it stands, the price of a revolutionary idea is getting sued out of existence...
There's a phrase: "standing on the shoulders of giants." The price of building on the vast knowledge that came before you should be that someone else gets to build on yours.
So, write a very long, detailed review. Submit it to the dentist in question. Select highlights to quote in your blog with a reference to the office where curious people can call for access to the entire article.
I know the zettabyte is really hard to conceptualize, but does it help to convert it to some equally ludicrous measurement? Neptune and back, 20 times? Is that when Neptune is closest to Earth, furthest, or some sort of average? I mean, there is the possibility of a 2 AU difference in EVERY STACK! 2 AU x 2 stacks x 20 round trips is 80 AU of uncertainty! That enough for at least a round trip to Neptune!
Or, to put it more understandable terms, that's at least 50 exabytes worth of stacked books in distance...
They had a couple YEARS to get firmer intel. The only thing Wikileaks might have done is push the raid to "sooner" rather than "closer to the next election."
Yes, I'm that jaded about politicians. And I mean all of them, not just the person in the White House today... If WikiLeaks pushed them to actually act on the intel, then hail WikiLeaks!
Saving the last key frame is also a waste, unless you save all the deltas up to the current time, too. That's the same as trying to play all the channels at once.
You wait for the key frame, display it, and start viewing the stream from there. Using an old key frame and viewing the deltas somewhere midstream would result in weird looking corruption until the next key frame was displayed. Best just to wait.
Did you miss the first line of TFA? "An anonymous reader writes with an update to yesterday morning's news that Sony Online Entertainment's game service..." I think I'm getting a sense of what might be going wrong with high-frequency trading...
Fun. Although, I'm not sure how the magnet will help you find a charred pine needle in a mess like that... I always wondered why some other sort of needle would be mixed in with hay.
Unlike Apple which automatically support their hardware for 2-3 years with both minor and major updates, Andoird users get maybe a year unless it is one of the handful of popular models, which might get decent support from the android official support channel.It is a channel because 2-3 companies have to hold the patches in their hands before they let you use it, unless you hack your phone.
2-3 years? That's about the time frame in which I bought my then-current iPhone 3G. I was less than a month out of my 2 year contract when iOS 4.3 came out and neglected my phone. At least with Android you CAN, if so inclined, put your own OS on it. My iPhone 3G used to be fast and responsive. Each update of iOS made it slower and more brick-like. I loved my iPhone, and I still haven't switched to Android, but I probably will Real Soon Now (been trying to figure out which phone to get).
I know the 3G is showing its age, but there were people who bought them later than I did and found themselves under contract with no updates. So there are some Android phones that suffer the same problem due entirely to the phone's vendor? That there is a way in which some Android phones fail to be better than iPhones (but not worse) is NOT a point for Apple.
I tried the "export" command and it didn't quite work as I expected. It seemed to use the whole X display size, but offset it depending on which monitor I chose. Monitor 1 meant it looked the same, Monitor 2 meant it was "centered" on a canvas the size of the virtual desktop with the origin on the second monitor, so the game started up right off the edge of the screen... Maybe I didn't to do more with the metamodes...
I DID find that doing a "separate X display" setting with Xinerama enabled let me do the games properly, but moving windows across screens becomes UGLY. At least you can move windows across screens, even if the performance is lousy doing it. Thanks for the tip! (I am using a Nvidia GeForce 9600 GSO, so the Nvidia instructions were useful.)
I got most of the hidden stars - all but one, actually. I think it was world 4 somewhere? I just couldn't the timing right for the fiddly jumps and what. I looked up the hints and videos online. I never would have found more than one of the hidden stars otherwise... I just liked the "reverse" effect when you get to the princess.:)
Well, there's also the server bandwidth and their time for maintaining things and promotional costs... Credit card transaction fees alone is probably a loss for them.
Nah, I thought Braid was the best. Simple game, brilliant concept, and you HAVE to play through to the end to really grok the game. The twist ending is fantastic! It's only a few hours of playing time for a seasoned gamer, but enjoyable.
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Technically, no. I could just do the dist-upgrade, but, I hate to say it, there are often little 'gotchas'. I have two Ubuntu partitions going on my drive. One is generally my stable setup, the other the latest build of the upcoming release. I jump back and forth between them trying things out.
The gotchas have been diminishing, too, since Ubuntu is so popular distributors who care about Linux at all tend to stay on top of the new releases. For a while, each new release was an adventure with the video card driver. It was around 9.10 that I felt like 64 bit had enough support so that I could assume everything would just work. I'm using 11.04 now and there are definitely issues with Unity still. Example: I open a PDF from the web, it opens but the tabs from the browser stay visible through the PDF viewer. They're not active, that part of the screen just doesn't get repainted properly by the viewer. It looks like an embedded viewer and I go to click on the tabs and wind up thinking "right, I need to make sure this bug is reported."
I like Ubuntu, and I'm glad it's built on Debian, but I sadly don't trust everything to "just work" on an upgrade, especially when it's a change like Unity. Sometimes it takes an extra couple months of updates to get things just so, and I'm not that patient. I do look forward to 12.04 - Unity should be ready by then :)
You know, I talk a good game about Linux, but I do an install of Ubuntu just about every 6 months...
Alright, to be fair, it's closer to annual. I think they know they have to deal with the LTS releases longer and they have seemed more stable to me. That's why they did Unity right AFTER the last LTS, to give them several tries to get it right before 12.04...
One of the advantages of this design over a lightweight copper power feed is that DATA is bidirectional over the same optic cable. Transmitting the surveillance data back to the ground is much more secure and at higher rates than through thin copper or over some RF transmitter on the copter. That is, this can be stealthier.
This is what is so disingenuous about then 'we are the target because so many people run us' crap. W/(95,98,2000,NT,XP) were the target because it was so easy that anybody could do it.
What percent of Windows boxes of have no antivirus? Sure, AV isn't perfect, but it is something that a malware writer has to contend with in the Windows world. Mac may only be about 10% of the market, but a Mac with AV is a rare thing, I think.
My point is that while Mac may seem to be a smaller target, it is relatively uniform and only guarded by the OS itself. Windows is guarded by the OS AND many different AV packages. Can malware authors really look at the 90% Windows market (still lots of XP, some Vista, more and more Win7) as a single monolithic target? Finding a hole in Windows means you can get a small percentage of Windows machines, finding a hole in OSX would likely open the door to almost every Mac out there. Is that really a smaller, less desirable target?
It'll also piss off anyone who lets a friend come over and use their wireless while visiting. ISPs may be able to block an infected account, but that would affect every computer connected through the account. How do you prove that your systems are clean?
How about doing it the other way around? Contact the owner of the account to let them know they have a potential problem. If they don't get in cleared up in some reasonable time, THEN block the account.
infected computers are damaging only non-secured ones.
This is patently false. One of the reasons people create botnets is to spam non-infected computers. Spam may or may not be "harm" depending on your definition, but a DDoS attack certainly is.
So they get to choose between a system that is unusable from malware or a system that is unusable because it won't run their Windows applications?
Oh, quit whining and start WINEing.
Abso-friggin-lutely!
As long as you don't buy from a company that pays Apple a license fee to make sure their hardware quits working, you should be good!
You're right, it is different. One was intending to violate the privacy rights of adults, the other was intending to violate the privacy rights of children.
Read up on the story. The Lower Merion admins knew what they were doing and they knew it was wrong. The system took pictures automatically, but only AFTER the admins intentionally turned it on. I can't say whether their intent was to get nude pictures of children or just have a laugh or if they had some stupid notion that they were protecting the kids by monitoring them. Personally, I'm not willing to give them a pass on their moral character.
As far as the actus reus of these two crimes go, they are remarkably similar. A trusted person puts monitoring software on a computer without alerting the user and uses it to collect images of them without consent.
Bingo. I was about to post a comment like "Apple: Yes, We Do Windows, Too." You nailed it, except I don't think Windows users will much care.
It COULD simply be pranksters, it may be an Apple stunt, but either way Apple really should run with it.
Seconded. Version control of some stripe is a fantastic (and oft overlooked) thing for most organisations.
Which flavor of version control is left as an exercise to the OP. The "right one" for the office depends a great deal on what is produced, what they can budget, and what the users will tolerate. It's funny, sometimes users don't appreciate the extra steps it takes to check out/check in a file, until someone changes it under them.
Perhaps they wouldn't have protection for their own revolutionary ideas, but they wouldn't be prevented from sharing it with the world because any implementation required the use of someone else's revolutionary ideas. As it stands, the price of a revolutionary idea is getting sued out of existence...
There's a phrase: "standing on the shoulders of giants." The price of building on the vast knowledge that came before you should be that someone else gets to build on yours.
So, write a very long, detailed review. Submit it to the dentist in question. Select highlights to quote in your blog with a reference to the office where curious people can call for access to the entire article.
What have books got to do with anything?
I know the zettabyte is really hard to conceptualize, but does it help to convert it to some equally ludicrous measurement? Neptune and back, 20 times? Is that when Neptune is closest to Earth, furthest, or some sort of average? I mean, there is the possibility of a 2 AU difference in EVERY STACK! 2 AU x 2 stacks x 20 round trips is 80 AU of uncertainty! That enough for at least a round trip to Neptune!
Or, to put it more understandable terms, that's at least 50 exabytes worth of stacked books in distance...
They had a couple YEARS to get firmer intel. The only thing Wikileaks might have done is push the raid to "sooner" rather than "closer to the next election."
Yes, I'm that jaded about politicians. And I mean all of them, not just the person in the White House today... If WikiLeaks pushed them to actually act on the intel, then hail WikiLeaks!
Yeah, it's a shame the administration couldn't sit on this until it was closer to the next election...
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Saving the last key frame is also a waste, unless you save all the deltas up to the current time, too. That's the same as trying to play all the channels at once.
You wait for the key frame, display it, and start viewing the stream from there. Using an old key frame and viewing the deltas somewhere midstream would result in weird looking corruption until the next key frame was displayed. Best just to wait.
Did you miss the first line of TFA?
"An anonymous reader writes with an update to yesterday morning's news that Sony Online Entertainment's game service..."
I think I'm getting a sense of what might be going wrong with high-frequency trading...
How many of the previous identical links marked as trolls did you have to ignore to click this one?
Never, NEVER click a link-shortener in slashdot.
What is the gas for?
Fun.
Although, I'm not sure how the magnet will help you find a charred pine needle in a mess like that...
I always wondered why some other sort of needle would be mixed in with hay.
Unlike Apple which automatically support their hardware for 2-3 years with both minor and major updates, Andoird users get maybe a year unless it is one of the handful of popular models, which might get decent support from the android official support channel.It is a channel because 2-3 companies have to hold the patches in their hands before they let you use it, unless you hack your phone.
2-3 years? That's about the time frame in which I bought my then-current iPhone 3G. I was less than a month out of my 2 year contract when iOS 4.3 came out and neglected my phone. At least with Android you CAN, if so inclined, put your own OS on it. My iPhone 3G used to be fast and responsive. Each update of iOS made it slower and more brick-like. I loved my iPhone, and I still haven't switched to Android, but I probably will Real Soon Now (been trying to figure out which phone to get).
I know the 3G is showing its age, but there were people who bought them later than I did and found themselves under contract with no updates. So there are some Android phones that suffer the same problem due entirely to the phone's vendor? That there is a way in which some Android phones fail to be better than iPhones (but not worse) is NOT a point for Apple.
I tried the "export" command and it didn't quite work as I expected. It seemed to use the whole X display size, but offset it depending on which monitor I chose. Monitor 1 meant it looked the same, Monitor 2 meant it was "centered" on a canvas the size of the virtual desktop with the origin on the second monitor, so the game started up right off the edge of the screen... Maybe I didn't to do more with the metamodes...
I DID find that doing a "separate X display" setting with Xinerama enabled let me do the games properly, but moving windows across screens becomes UGLY. At least you can move windows across screens, even if the performance is lousy doing it. Thanks for the tip!
(I am using a Nvidia GeForce 9600 GSO, so the Nvidia instructions were useful.)
I got most of the hidden stars - all but one, actually. I think it was world 4 somewhere? I just couldn't the timing right for the fiddly jumps and what. I looked up the hints and videos online. I never would have found more than one of the hidden stars otherwise... I just liked the "reverse" effect when you get to the princess. :)
Well, there's also the server bandwidth and their time for maintaining things and promotional costs... Credit card transaction fees alone is probably a loss for them.
Nah, I thought Braid was the best. Simple game, brilliant concept, and you HAVE to play through to the end to really grok the game. The twist ending is fantastic! It's only a few hours of playing time for a seasoned gamer, but enjoyable.