The software (applications and OS) released by Microsoft are crappy and buggy. They have security holes, are generally easily exploited by viruses and script kiddies, have bugs, crash, are resource hogs, are intrusive and obtrusive, and are just plain crap.
Joel is right, Google's simplicity only applies for searching. If you want to use their other services you have to already know where they are, or look through a large group of them.
Is that because the More link on Google is overly complicated? Or people just do not understand the idea of "more"?
My cell phone takes over a minute to turn on. I never turn it off now, ever. If I am lying somewhere dying and my cell phone was turned off I would be dead before it would have started up and I would be able to call. I understand why a PC takes a while to boot up. Loading kernel, drivers, etc. And this is not just limited to Windows. Linux, OS X, Solaris, they all have their start up times. But why the heck should portable electronics, like a cell phone, take over a minute to "boot up"?
Just wondering if anyone knows where and under what conditions the RIAA or its lawyers said they had such a letter. If it was in court can they be slapped with something like contempt of court? Anyone know? It would be great to see the RIAA get kicked in the family jewels for this.
It's that simple. I absolutely would not trust RFID on any debit or credit card despite any assurances I received from my bank. No matter how secure you think the encryption is there is always someone that will attempt to break it and will probably succeed.
They should begin an investigation into this and see if it is true. If it is they need to begin a legal case against the offender. This would send the message that the RIAA is looking for far more powerfully than chasing after someone's grandmother.
Graduate students are hardly experts. If they had 55 actual researchers, professors, and authors evaluate those articles then I would say that they actually got some results worth discussing.
If someone is managing an IT department they better know the technology. Nothing worse than a manager that doesn't know thing one about IT saying something stupid that puts IT people in an impossible situation. If you don't know the technology, even a little, how can you ever hope to effectively manage it?
Watch the video again. As they are going out the door telling him to stand up the officer tasers him. He is in handcuffs/restraints. It is not justified. Rehearsed rants or no rehearsed rants, tasering him when he is already restrained is excessive force.
And on what side of the story is the fact that the officer tasered him while he was handcuffed? Its right before they walk out the door. The camera is shooting over a counter, and they are telling him to stand up. One officer on either side and by the angle of his arms, his hands are cuffed or restrained behind his back. Tasering him in restraints is nothing less than unjustified use of force.
A relatively new linux enthusiast comes along to show us what he was able to accomplish with the OS most of us love to use and all a lot of you can do is knock they guy down. Now if he had managed to install Windows on his PS3 and tell us about that I would fully expect him to get treated like this since we all "hate" Windows.
Linux will never get new users or gain popularity if the community using and supporting it starts acting like a buch of elitist jerks. This entire experience has probably soured klippoth from ever posting anything again and will probably result in him not even reading Slashdot any more. That's a shame. He is obviously an enthusiast who wanted to try something that had not been done yet. You all remember enthusiasm right? You know, it was that excited feeling you got when you first installed linux yourself, or built your first computer from a bunch of parts, or made your first DIY project. Remember that feeling? That's probably what klippoth was experiencing and he just wanted to share.
The OSS and Linux communities were built on sharing ideas and information. If the result of sharing such ideas and information is to get kicked around for your efforts then why would anyone want to share anything no matter how small of an idea? You should be supporting kipploth for his interest in linux and for being one of the first people (if not the first person) to get it to install on a PS3.
I would also like to add that this entire event completely messed up the economy of the game for casual players. Prices for items in the auction house went up dramatically or you couldn't even find particular items any more. And I am not talking about special items, I am talking about simple things like cloth and ore.
I refused to take part in resource gathering so that a bunch of level 60s could get a couple of new dungeons to go play in. I was no where near level 60 and by the time I finally get there these dungeons will be old news.
The kid trespassed upon the private property of another (his neighbor). If he had walked into his neighbor's home -- even had that home been unlocked -- the crime would be obvious to all. The neighbor's unsecured network is private property in just the same fashion.
No, the correct analogy would be his neighbour left his door unlocked, placed a big sign in the yard that said "Come on in! Everyone is welcome!" and had hired a personal greeter to stand in the street and invite everyone passing by to enter the home. Would the neighbour then have the right to say the kid trespassed? Because that is exactly what an unsecured wireless network is. It is an unlocked door with a big inviting sign and a personal greeter.
Wow, you link to the Arar web site but I don't think you have even read it.
First, he was never arrested by the RCMP, nor did the RCMP hand him over to any US authorities.
The RCMP made a very big mistake and misidentified him as a person of interest (ie. a person with apparent ties to terrorists) to the US authorities. It was the US authorities that arrested him.
The RCMP did not institute a smear campaign against Arar. In fact when Canadian government officials were able to get Arar returned to Canada from Syria, an investigation was eventually launched into what happened. The RCMP formally apologized for misidentifying Arar.
Online purchases are done using phone credits that you purchased anonymously.
So how do they know where to deliver your goods to? And what recourse do you have if they take your money and not deliver the goods? Since, you bought it all anonymously.
A good portion of the vehicles on the road are unregistered.
Who pays if you get into a car accident with one of these unregistered vehicles?
Gas and electricity are purchased anonymously through smart cards and recharged in the home. You pay for water anonymously to a lady that comes to your door to collect.
What recourse do you have if these companies decided to over-charge you on purpose or decide to "strong arm" you into paying more?
Anonymous is good in some cases. But if I am buying a service and paying money for it I don't want to be anonymous. If I am walking or driving down the street, I don't want the driver of the car that hits me to be anonymous. I want to have the ability to protect myself from companies or individuals that would take advantage of the situation.
Apparently, this happens all the time. According to the Herald, "Broward County Supervisor of Elections spokeswoman Mary Cooney said it's not uncommon for screens on heavily used machines to slip out of sync, making votes register incorrectly. Poll workers are trained to recalibrate them on the spot - essentially, to realign the video screen with the electronics inside.
I'm sorry, but WHAT? How exactly does the display "slip of out sync" with the electronics inside?
And why does the American public seem to accept this and not care that yet another election is being stolen?
Hello? Where's the outrage that your all-powerful system of freedom and democracy is being abused?
Is this a joke? These are the finalists? The music software and the file sync belong there (maybe), but the rest?
Atmosphere: I can look out the window and see the weather. Or, better yet I can GO OUTSIDE and experience it first hand. Why would I want it simulated on my desktop? And in case the author of this app didn't already know, dashboard comes with a weather app. Not to mention that you can read the paper, turn on the tv or radio, or go online and get the weather forcast.
Cookbook: Link didn't work so I can't comment on the specifics of the app but I can say there are about 1000 other recipe/cookbook applications out there for multiple platforms.
Blossom: A virtual plant? Dude are you 3 years old?
Hijack: Oh boy! Another app for reading and posting to forums!
That is the only thing that bothers me about my Mac. I wish the menu bar for the open application was in the application's window and not along the top of the screen. Other than that I have absolutely no complaints about my new iMac and will only use my Windows PC for gaming.
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The software (applications and OS) released by Microsoft are crappy and buggy. They have security holes, are generally easily exploited by viruses and script kiddies, have bugs, crash, are resource hogs, are intrusive and obtrusive, and are just plain crap.
Why would you need to use clean, drinking water to make hydrogen? Why not just use undrinkable water?
Joel is right, Google's simplicity only applies for searching. If you want to use their other services you have to already know where they are, or look through a large group of them.
Is that because the More link on Google is overly complicated? Or people just do not understand the idea of "more"?
My cell phone takes over a minute to turn on. I never turn it off now, ever. If I am lying somewhere dying and my cell phone was turned off I would be dead before it would have started up and I would be able to call. I understand why a PC takes a while to boot up. Loading kernel, drivers, etc. And this is not just limited to Windows. Linux, OS X, Solaris, they all have their start up times. But why the heck should portable electronics, like a cell phone, take over a minute to "boot up"?
Medical, dental? How about a retirement package?
Just wondering if anyone knows where and under what conditions the RIAA or its lawyers said they had such a letter. If it was in court can they be slapped with something like contempt of court? Anyone know? It would be great to see the RIAA get kicked in the family jewels for this.
No.
It's that simple. I absolutely would not trust RFID on any debit or credit card despite any assurances I received from my bank. No matter how secure you think the encryption is there is always someone that will attempt to break it and will probably succeed.
They should begin an investigation into this and see if it is true. If it is they need to begin a legal case against the offender. This would send the message that the RIAA is looking for far more powerfully than chasing after someone's grandmother.
Graduate students are hardly experts. If they had 55 actual researchers, professors, and authors evaluate those articles then I would say that they actually got some results worth discussing.
If someone is managing an IT department they better know the technology. Nothing worse than a manager that doesn't know thing one about IT saying something stupid that puts IT people in an impossible situation. If you don't know the technology, even a little, how can you ever hope to effectively manage it?
Watch the video again. As they are going out the door telling him to stand up the officer tasers him. He is in handcuffs/restraints. It is not justified. Rehearsed rants or no rehearsed rants, tasering him when he is already restrained is excessive force.
There are two sides to EVERY story.
And on what side of the story is the fact that the officer tasered him while he was handcuffed? Its right before they walk out the door. The camera is shooting over a counter, and they are telling him to stand up. One officer on either side and by the angle of his arms, his hands are cuffed or restrained behind his back. Tasering him in restraints is nothing less than unjustified use of force.
A relatively new linux enthusiast comes along to show us what he was able to accomplish with the OS most of us love to use and all a lot of you can do is knock they guy down. Now if he had managed to install Windows on his PS3 and tell us about that I would fully expect him to get treated like this since we all "hate" Windows.
Linux will never get new users or gain popularity if the community using and supporting it starts acting like a buch of elitist jerks. This entire experience has probably soured klippoth from ever posting anything again and will probably result in him not even reading Slashdot any more. That's a shame. He is obviously an enthusiast who wanted to try something that had not been done yet. You all remember enthusiasm right? You know, it was that excited feeling you got when you first installed linux yourself, or built your first computer from a bunch of parts, or made your first DIY project. Remember that feeling? That's probably what klippoth was experiencing and he just wanted to share.
The OSS and Linux communities were built on sharing ideas and information. If the result of sharing such ideas and information is to get kicked around for your efforts then why would anyone want to share anything no matter how small of an idea? You should be supporting kipploth for his interest in linux and for being one of the first people (if not the first person) to get it to install on a PS3.
I would also like to add that this entire event completely messed up the economy of the game for casual players. Prices for items in the auction house went up dramatically or you couldn't even find particular items any more. And I am not talking about special items, I am talking about simple things like cloth and ore.
I refused to take part in resource gathering so that a bunch of level 60s could get a couple of new dungeons to go play in. I was no where near level 60 and by the time I finally get there these dungeons will be old news.
The kid trespassed upon the private property of another (his neighbor). If he had walked into his neighbor's home -- even had that home been unlocked -- the crime would be obvious to all. The neighbor's unsecured network is private property in just the same fashion.
No, the correct analogy would be his neighbour left his door unlocked, placed a big sign in the yard that said "Come on in! Everyone is welcome!" and had hired a personal greeter to stand in the street and invite everyone passing by to enter the home. Would the neighbour then have the right to say the kid trespassed? Because that is exactly what an unsecured wireless network is. It is an unlocked door with a big inviting sign and a personal greeter.
If it is unsecured your AP is offering a "specific invitation" to use it. How can it be any more simple?
Wow, you link to the Arar web site but I don't think you have even read it.
First, he was never arrested by the RCMP, nor did the RCMP hand him over to any US authorities.
The RCMP made a very big mistake and misidentified him as a person of interest (ie. a person with apparent ties to terrorists) to the US authorities. It was the US authorities that arrested him.
The RCMP did not institute a smear campaign against Arar. In fact when Canadian government officials were able to get Arar returned to Canada from Syria, an investigation was eventually launched into what happened. The RCMP formally apologized for misidentifying Arar.
Online purchases are done using phone credits that you purchased anonymously.
So how do they know where to deliver your goods to? And what recourse do you have if they take your money
and not deliver the goods? Since, you bought it all anonymously.
A good portion of the vehicles on the road are unregistered.
Who pays if you get into a car accident with one of these unregistered vehicles?
Gas and electricity are purchased anonymously through smart cards and recharged in the home. You pay for water anonymously to a lady that comes to your door to collect.
What recourse do you have if these companies decided to over-charge you on purpose or decide to "strong arm" you into paying more?
Anonymous is good in some cases. But if I am buying a service and paying money for it I don't want to be anonymous. If I am walking or driving down the street, I don't want the driver of the car that hits me to be anonymous. I want to have the ability to protect myself from companies or individuals that would take advantage of the situation.
From TFA
Apparently, this happens all the time. According to the Herald, "Broward County Supervisor of Elections spokeswoman Mary Cooney said it's not uncommon for screens on heavily used machines to slip out of sync, making votes register incorrectly. Poll workers are trained to recalibrate them on the spot - essentially, to realign the video screen with the electronics inside.
I'm sorry, but WHAT? How exactly does the display "slip of out sync" with the electronics inside?
And why does the American public seem to accept this and not care that yet another election is being stolen?
Hello? Where's the outrage that your all-powerful system of freedom and democracy is being abused?
1984 called... It wants it's news story back
"Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia."
Corner Gas!
Is this a joke? These are the finalists? The music software and the file sync belong there (maybe), but the rest?
Atmosphere: I can look out the window and see the weather. Or, better yet I can GO OUTSIDE and experience it first hand. Why would I want it simulated on my desktop? And in case the author of this app didn't already know, dashboard comes with a weather app. Not to mention that you can read the paper, turn on the tv or radio, or go online and get the weather forcast.
Cookbook: Link didn't work so I can't comment on the specifics of the app but I can say there are about 1000 other recipe/cookbook applications out there for multiple platforms.
Blossom: A virtual plant? Dude are you 3 years old?
Hijack: Oh boy! Another app for reading and posting to forums!
I would find that more annoying than office chatter. Nature sounds in an office would be waaaaaaaay more distracting.
Check out Apple's Mighty Mouse It looks like a one button mouse but is really a 4 button mouse (left, right, middle, and sides).
That is the only thing that bothers me about my Mac. I wish the menu bar for the open application was in the application's window and not along the top of the screen. Other than that I have absolutely no complaints about my new iMac and will only use my Windows PC for gaming.