Further, county roads and city streets are funded by the county or the city that possesses that roadway. I live a quarter mile from a state highway. The federal government offers no funding for the maintenance of that highway. The county road (dirt road) on which I actually live, is maintained by a county employee, with a county owned road grader. And, the county roads that are paved are maintained by a couple of crews of county employees, again with county owned equipment, and county material.
Only in the rare emergency will I find a county crew working on a state highway, or a state crew working on a county road. (severe storms, in which the roads need to be cleared of ice, branches, or whatever, irregardless of ownership or responsibility, the crews just start wherever they are, and work toward town, or toward the next town, and keep on going)
"'This is by far the largest — and certainly among the most sophisticated — identity theft/credit card fraud cases that law enforcement has come across,' the Queens County District Attorney's office said in a statement announcing the arrests.""
The people who can make the statement quoted, with a straight face, have never met the beaners referred to by AC. Face it, people - 20 MILLION illegal alien invaders, and at least half of them have forged papers for working in this country. Identity theft, on a massive scale!
I should have sold my identity to them years ago, though. Imagine - 50 people working in this country, all of them using my SSN. Crap - the Social Security administration would be sending me a rebate at the end of each year! I could retire!
Oh, wait. Some tools and fools will be along directly to explain to me how politically incorrect I am. Call me a racist. Blah, blah, blah. Screw all of you. I'm so racist that I listened to the conviction of a "Real American White guy" for killing an immigrant's grand daughter the other day. I was so outraged that the white guy didn't get the death penalty. I stopped to see the girl's father, to express my condolences again, and to tell him how outrageous it is that they white guy isn't going to get the needle. That's how racist I am.
The story? Read about the senseless murder, not of an anchor baby, but the anchor baby's adult daughter. (topix doesn't actually have the story, but links to multiple sources for the story - no one source bothered to get the entire story together in a coherent manner) http://www.topix.com/crime/horatio-ar
Most definitely. Phreakers would be water boarded at Guantanamo today. Not only would the law have taken Steve and Woz's paltry thousands, they would have confiscated their homes, their cars, their parent's homes and cars, and the families of both would be on no-fly lists, etc ad nauseum. Gotta do away with those phreakers - they'll be the downfall of this great corporate nation!
You deserve an "E" for effort. You and I don't believe that Henry invented the automobile. But, as I said above, roughly 80% of Americans seem to think that he did. And, you incorrectly identified Henry as the inventor of the assembly line.
The REAL thing that Henry should be remembered for, is that he took ideas from all over the world, and brought them together to create an AFFORDABLE automobile, that the common man might possess. That is his one real contribution to American culture. Most other claims about Henry are so much hogwash.
Actually - I disagree with you. Daddy's Little Douche goes off to college, and gets her head filled with all these abstract, radical, liberal, inane ideas. She comes home, and Daddy sees that his Little Douche gets a nice cushy job in management (despite the fact that her major was in basket weaving, and she took no management courses at all). So, Daddy's Bubbleheaded Blonde is fed this stupid idea from one of her professors, she passes it on to Daddy as her own, and BINGO! Daddy implements the idea, for the sake of his Little Douche's self esteem.
Go on, tell me that this kind of shit never happens. People feel the need to make a difference, or to make a mark, or whatever. So, they sit around dreaming of stupid shit that's worked well for millenia, trying to get an angle to "improve" it.
Well, of course. Studies have shown that abductors prefer to ride the bus to school, where they can shop for abductees at leisure. Hadn't you heard? Not to mention, by means of increasing the body count, the abductor has given the school district another ~30 dollars of state money!
Ooooh - the idea of pot smokers abducting kids just sent shivers down my spine! What would those pot smokers do with a kid, anyway? Share their munchies? LMAO - nice job of showing how absurd these "think of the children" programs really are!
Yes, and I'll bet you stole the idea to breathe. Except, you happen to breathe through your mouth - all the time. Give me a few examples of stuff you own that the ideas weren't "stolen" from somewhere else. Let me guess - you're an American. Let's take the automobile. If I ask, you'll probably tell me (better than 80% chance here) that Henry Ford invented the automobile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile
How about the Airplane? Didn't the Wright brothers invent that? Again, no. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers Even here, where there is much controversy, it is OBVIOUS that the Wright brothers studied, stole, and used the ideas of their predecessors.
Stolen ideas. Get used to it. If you weren't stealing ideas from your forebears, you would be a single celled organism, absorbing your oxygen from the ambient atmosphere around you. Be glad that you have a mouth to breathe through.
Uhhhmmmm. My bad then. I don't do netbooks, and I spoke a bit to hastily. I'm familiar with desktops and laptops. In which case - that's Window's bad then. Once again, they are giving minimum and recommended RAM sizes that are to low, if they are recommending Win7 and/or Win8 be installed in netbooks with 1 to 2 gig of memory.
I find it difficult to believe that people are buying new machines with less than 4 gig of ram. Memory was cheap by the time Win7 came out - cheap enough to load a new machine with 4 gig, anyway. Maybe I'm something of an asshole, but anyone who invests hundreds of dollars in a new machine, and decides to go cheap on the memory deserves to have a shitty running machine. I don't care if it's an Apply fanboy, a Windows drone, or a Linux nut. BUY MEMORY, or don't complain about performance!
Now, if you had said that you installed all the memory that the mainboard would support, and you were getting 60% to 80% usage before you even started any programs, THEN I would agree that there was a problem, I would sympathize with you, and I would be willing to look for the problem.
A couple of guys have commented on how much memory their browsers use. Well, I've seen FF using around 1.5 gig, while at the same time, Chromium was using in excess of a gig of memory. As someone else commented - the memory is there, why not use it? It's better than waiting for "virtual memory" to thrash the hell out of my hard disks!
So - disable the fucking services? Hey, I test drove Vista, I've driven Win7, and the first thing I did in each instance, was to refer to Black Viper's site. He had already figured out that disabling a list of services was all good for almost everyone, and disabling a longer list of services was good for some more people, and disabling an even longer list of services was still good for some people.
Update managers? Disable them, or change their settings to manual. Christ on a crutch, man, isn't this a geek/nerd/techie forum? Surely I don't need to explain how to get to services.msc?
Since you insist. Of course, it's only mostly true. I actually fire up a Windows VM now and then - but since I don't run Windows on hardware, I guess that's close enough. Happy? Oh - the delusional part? Sorry, I'll just have to disappoint you on that score!
Maybe Windows should find a better method to report how much memory is "in use" then? On Linux, there is no "free memory" either. It's always been a truism, that Linux will use all available memory, even if it's just for caching. But, I keep System Monitor open most of the time, and it reports that I'm using about 60% of my memory. Apparently, System Monitor recognizes that cache memory is actually "available memory".
I'm no memory management expert, so I'm not going to get into an in-depth pissing contest. It just seems to me that Windows might make more intelligent reports, so that the less intelligent (or, just less savvy) users might recognize what it is that they are looking at.
"I've dealt with having my own mail server. It sucks."
Factor in there that most users aren't competent to set up a mail server, however insecure it might be. In fact, online mail is so very popular because most users can't even set up a mail client! Way back, when the internet was much newer, I set up Pegasus Mail for some people. (at that time, Outlook seemed to be the number one vector for virus/worm infections) They thought I was some kind of genius, based on the ability to set up a client! Had I suggested, and implemented, a server, they probably would have fallen to their knees and worshipped me, LMAO!
A magnetized hull is detrimental to a number of electronic warfare devices. We're not so worried about mines, or even being detected, so much as we're concerned about the proper functioning of sonar, radar, gunplot, computers, etc ad nauseum.
I have little idea whether TFS and TFA are accurate portrayals of the situation in Ohio, but I can say that the ships I served aboard had some interesting anomalies in navigation gear, tracking gear, and computers when the hull was highly magnetized.
And, that doesn't touch on preservation. A steel hull, and an aluminum superstructure poses a real challenge in the prevention of corrosion. Shipbuilders use a bimetal thing to join the aluminum to the steel, but even so magnetic and electrical charges in the hull tend to cause problems. Electrical more than magnetic, but still, the magnetism is something that they take into account.
To bad I didn't really study all this stuff when I was in. I am merely aware of the concern that the ship's officers and the hull tech people had about this stuff.
TL/DR part - all that I'm certain of, is that we routinely passed through a degausing station when we returned to port. A couple times, we turned around and passed through it again.
Moron - you don't need to publish changes to the code, unless and until you PUBLISH those changes. You're doing inhouse stuff? Change away. Oh - you want to SELL the stuff you've altered? Well, then, yeah, you have to make the source code available to your customers. Oh, you say that's unacceptable? Tough noogies, little cretin.
Tell you what - why don't you go out and design your own kernel, and your own operating system? A really smart bunch of people like you claim to work with shouldn't even find that to be a challenge.
Oh, what's that you say? You're not smart people at all? You were only attempting to exploit other people's work? Oh - I see. You're really a bunch of losers. Well, I'm sorry to hear that. Maybe you should go into another line of work. Even losers can find work digging ditches and cleaning septic tanks. Good luck in your new careers!
Holy smokes, AC - you're just a little bit above my head with some of that. I'll have to actually do it all, and see.
And, I have to admit that when and where strict discipline is required, Windows can indeed be pretty danged secure. The military uses Windows all over the place, and it's pretty secure. But - then again - I'm reminded of Great Britain's "Windows for Subs" fiasco, in which the machines were overwhelmed by viruses and malware. I never did stumble across the details of that mess, but I would have assumed that THEY were subject to strict discipline!
On all Linux distros, you actually have to type a password to get root status. On Windows, you still only have to click a box to make it go away.
You make a good point with Adobe and Java. But, more of us on Linux are using more alternatives to the most common Adobe and Java products. Some have similar vulnerabilities, while other have different vulnerabilities, while others simply lack the vulnerable features.
But, it all comes down to computer savvy, in the end. And, Windows has courted the ignorant since day one. Make it simple, make it convenient, make it foolproof, but let the fools play with it. Linux? It attracts the geeks, the nerds, the paranoid. We don't need or want convenient. We need, and want, a system that we can control, not a system that Bill Gates and company thinks we should like.
As for Linux being "less secure", well, I insist that we measure the incidence of penetrations. And, when we start measuring, you have to include all those home users who just click through all their antivirus and system warnings. "Warning: The application you are installing is a disguise for the worst worm that has ever been encountered! Do you wish to continue?" The user just clicks, "Yes". Yep, you gotta count him, 'cause he's a Windows user!
I don't think that there is a *nix user anywhere, outside of Apple Phanbois, who think their system is "impenetrable". The common wisdom is, our security is superior to Window's security, but that doesn't translate to "impenetrable".
Ahhh, but that is the argument seriously put forward for revoking the right to bear arms. Really, really seriously. A number of people insist that the right to bear arms belongs to the collective, and is exercised by the armed forces - therefore it does not apply to individuals.
Forgive me for not hearing the sarcasm in your voice, after hearing the same argument from voices with no sarcasm at all!
You thought, but I don't think so. There have been a number of articles detailing how to stop app developers from accessing your data. I read, visit Facebook, check the settings, then halfways forget what I read, LOL
You can google for articles, if you like, to compare your own settings. As far as I remember, I've disabled friend's ability to share my information.
Social Security may or may not still have been a healthy, going concern - if the politicians hadn't raided it multiple times, for money to dump into general funds and/or special funds. I've forgotten how many times SS has been raided, or what it adds up to. But, the fact that they raid it only shortens the life of the program. Billions, that should have been drawing interest, have been pilfered. So, SS lost that capital, plus all the accrued interest.
Yeah, it was a pyramid scheme from the start, but chopping off the top of the pyramid doesn't help things at all.
True. I avoid looking at names on posts when I mod. I read the post, and respond to the post. Afterwards, I sometimes realize I modded up someone with whom I almost always disagree. And, the opposite happens as well. Just don't look at names, and the moderation gets a lot more fair!
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Further, county roads and city streets are funded by the county or the city that possesses that roadway. I live a quarter mile from a state highway. The federal government offers no funding for the maintenance of that highway. The county road (dirt road) on which I actually live, is maintained by a county employee, with a county owned road grader. And, the county roads that are paved are maintained by a couple of crews of county employees, again with county owned equipment, and county material.
Only in the rare emergency will I find a county crew working on a state highway, or a state crew working on a county road. (severe storms, in which the roads need to be cleared of ice, branches, or whatever, irregardless of ownership or responsibility, the crews just start wherever they are, and work toward town, or toward the next town, and keep on going)
"'This is by far the largest — and certainly among the most sophisticated — identity theft/credit card fraud cases that law enforcement has come across,' the Queens County District Attorney's office said in a statement announcing the arrests.""
The people who can make the statement quoted, with a straight face, have never met the beaners referred to by AC. Face it, people - 20 MILLION illegal alien invaders, and at least half of them have forged papers for working in this country. Identity theft, on a massive scale!
I should have sold my identity to them years ago, though. Imagine - 50 people working in this country, all of them using my SSN. Crap - the Social Security administration would be sending me a rebate at the end of each year! I could retire!
Oh, wait. Some tools and fools will be along directly to explain to me how politically incorrect I am. Call me a racist. Blah, blah, blah. Screw all of you. I'm so racist that I listened to the conviction of a "Real American White guy" for killing an immigrant's grand daughter the other day. I was so outraged that the white guy didn't get the death penalty. I stopped to see the girl's father, to express my condolences again, and to tell him how outrageous it is that they white guy isn't going to get the needle. That's how racist I am.
The story? Read about the senseless murder, not of an anchor baby, but the anchor baby's adult daughter. (topix doesn't actually have the story, but links to multiple sources for the story - no one source bothered to get the entire story together in a coherent manner) http://www.topix.com/crime/horatio-ar
Most definitely. Phreakers would be water boarded at Guantanamo today. Not only would the law have taken Steve and Woz's paltry thousands, they would have confiscated their homes, their cars, their parent's homes and cars, and the families of both would be on no-fly lists, etc ad nauseum. Gotta do away with those phreakers - they'll be the downfall of this great corporate nation!
You deserve an "E" for effort. You and I don't believe that Henry invented the automobile. But, as I said above, roughly 80% of Americans seem to think that he did. And, you incorrectly identified Henry as the inventor of the assembly line.
The REAL thing that Henry should be remembered for, is that he took ideas from all over the world, and brought them together to create an AFFORDABLE automobile, that the common man might possess. That is his one real contribution to American culture. Most other claims about Henry are so much hogwash.
Actually - I disagree with you. Daddy's Little Douche goes off to college, and gets her head filled with all these abstract, radical, liberal, inane ideas. She comes home, and Daddy sees that his Little Douche gets a nice cushy job in management (despite the fact that her major was in basket weaving, and she took no management courses at all). So, Daddy's Bubbleheaded Blonde is fed this stupid idea from one of her professors, she passes it on to Daddy as her own, and BINGO! Daddy implements the idea, for the sake of his Little Douche's self esteem.
Go on, tell me that this kind of shit never happens. People feel the need to make a difference, or to make a mark, or whatever. So, they sit around dreaming of stupid shit that's worked well for millenia, trying to get an angle to "improve" it.
Well, of course. Studies have shown that abductors prefer to ride the bus to school, where they can shop for abductees at leisure. Hadn't you heard? Not to mention, by means of increasing the body count, the abductor has given the school district another ~30 dollars of state money!
Ooooh - the idea of pot smokers abducting kids just sent shivers down my spine! What would those pot smokers do with a kid, anyway? Share their munchies? LMAO - nice job of showing how absurd these "think of the children" programs really are!
Yes, and I'll bet you stole the idea to breathe. Except, you happen to breathe through your mouth - all the time. Give me a few examples of stuff you own that the ideas weren't "stolen" from somewhere else. Let me guess - you're an American. Let's take the automobile. If I ask, you'll probably tell me (better than 80% chance here) that Henry Ford invented the automobile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile
How about the helicopter? Wasn't that invented by Bell, or Huey, or some such, right here in America? Nope : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter
How about the Airplane? Didn't the Wright brothers invent that? Again, no. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers Even here, where there is much controversy, it is OBVIOUS that the Wright brothers studied, stole, and used the ideas of their predecessors.
Stolen ideas. Get used to it. If you weren't stealing ideas from your forebears, you would be a single celled organism, absorbing your oxygen from the ambient atmosphere around you. Be glad that you have a mouth to breathe through.
Uhhhmmmm. My bad then. I don't do netbooks, and I spoke a bit to hastily. I'm familiar with desktops and laptops. In which case - that's Window's bad then. Once again, they are giving minimum and recommended RAM sizes that are to low, if they are recommending Win7 and/or Win8 be installed in netbooks with 1 to 2 gig of memory.
I find it difficult to believe that people are buying new machines with less than 4 gig of ram. Memory was cheap by the time Win7 came out - cheap enough to load a new machine with 4 gig, anyway. Maybe I'm something of an asshole, but anyone who invests hundreds of dollars in a new machine, and decides to go cheap on the memory deserves to have a shitty running machine. I don't care if it's an Apply fanboy, a Windows drone, or a Linux nut. BUY MEMORY, or don't complain about performance!
Now, if you had said that you installed all the memory that the mainboard would support, and you were getting 60% to 80% usage before you even started any programs, THEN I would agree that there was a problem, I would sympathize with you, and I would be willing to look for the problem.
A couple of guys have commented on how much memory their browsers use. Well, I've seen FF using around 1.5 gig, while at the same time, Chromium was using in excess of a gig of memory. As someone else commented - the memory is there, why not use it? It's better than waiting for "virtual memory" to thrash the hell out of my hard disks!
So - disable the fucking services? Hey, I test drove Vista, I've driven Win7, and the first thing I did in each instance, was to refer to Black Viper's site. He had already figured out that disabling a list of services was all good for almost everyone, and disabling a longer list of services was good for some more people, and disabling an even longer list of services was still good for some people.
Update managers? Disable them, or change their settings to manual. Christ on a crutch, man, isn't this a geek/nerd/techie forum? Surely I don't need to explain how to get to services.msc?
Since you insist. Of course, it's only mostly true. I actually fire up a Windows VM now and then - but since I don't run Windows on hardware, I guess that's close enough. Happy? Oh - the delusional part? Sorry, I'll just have to disappoint you on that score!
Maybe Windows should find a better method to report how much memory is "in use" then? On Linux, there is no "free memory" either. It's always been a truism, that Linux will use all available memory, even if it's just for caching. But, I keep System Monitor open most of the time, and it reports that I'm using about 60% of my memory. Apparently, System Monitor recognizes that cache memory is actually "available memory".
I'm no memory management expert, so I'm not going to get into an in-depth pissing contest. It just seems to me that Windows might make more intelligent reports, so that the less intelligent (or, just less savvy) users might recognize what it is that they are looking at.
"I've dealt with having my own mail server. It sucks."
Factor in there that most users aren't competent to set up a mail server, however insecure it might be. In fact, online mail is so very popular because most users can't even set up a mail client! Way back, when the internet was much newer, I set up Pegasus Mail for some people. (at that time, Outlook seemed to be the number one vector for virus/worm infections) They thought I was some kind of genius, based on the ability to set up a client! Had I suggested, and implemented, a server, they probably would have fallen to their knees and worshipped me, LMAO!
A magnetized hull is detrimental to a number of electronic warfare devices. We're not so worried about mines, or even being detected, so much as we're concerned about the proper functioning of sonar, radar, gunplot, computers, etc ad nauseum.
I have little idea whether TFS and TFA are accurate portrayals of the situation in Ohio, but I can say that the ships I served aboard had some interesting anomalies in navigation gear, tracking gear, and computers when the hull was highly magnetized.
And, that doesn't touch on preservation. A steel hull, and an aluminum superstructure poses a real challenge in the prevention of corrosion. Shipbuilders use a bimetal thing to join the aluminum to the steel, but even so magnetic and electrical charges in the hull tend to cause problems. Electrical more than magnetic, but still, the magnetism is something that they take into account.
To bad I didn't really study all this stuff when I was in. I am merely aware of the concern that the ship's officers and the hull tech people had about this stuff.
TL/DR part - all that I'm certain of, is that we routinely passed through a degausing station when we returned to port. A couple times, we turned around and passed through it again.
Moron - you don't need to publish changes to the code, unless and until you PUBLISH those changes. You're doing inhouse stuff? Change away. Oh - you want to SELL the stuff you've altered? Well, then, yeah, you have to make the source code available to your customers. Oh, you say that's unacceptable? Tough noogies, little cretin.
Tell you what - why don't you go out and design your own kernel, and your own operating system? A really smart bunch of people like you claim to work with shouldn't even find that to be a challenge.
Oh, what's that you say? You're not smart people at all? You were only attempting to exploit other people's work? Oh - I see. You're really a bunch of losers. Well, I'm sorry to hear that. Maybe you should go into another line of work. Even losers can find work digging ditches and cleaning septic tanks. Good luck in your new careers!
We still degauss ships. Neither the necessity, nor the art, was lost when the war ended.
Holy smokes, AC - you're just a little bit above my head with some of that. I'll have to actually do it all, and see.
And, I have to admit that when and where strict discipline is required, Windows can indeed be pretty danged secure. The military uses Windows all over the place, and it's pretty secure. But - then again - I'm reminded of Great Britain's "Windows for Subs" fiasco, in which the machines were overwhelmed by viruses and malware. I never did stumble across the details of that mess, but I would have assumed that THEY were subject to strict discipline!
Phanbois and bashers alike will have a field day with this.
Me? I'm sitting here thinking. Hell, Jobs was only 1 year older than me. Damn. Life's a bitch, man.
Rest in peace, you old bastard. Life's just to damned short.
Least privileged users? On Win7? *chuckles*
On all Linux distros, you actually have to type a password to get root status. On Windows, you still only have to click a box to make it go away.
You make a good point with Adobe and Java. But, more of us on Linux are using more alternatives to the most common Adobe and Java products. Some have similar vulnerabilities, while other have different vulnerabilities, while others simply lack the vulnerable features.
But, it all comes down to computer savvy, in the end. And, Windows has courted the ignorant since day one. Make it simple, make it convenient, make it foolproof, but let the fools play with it. Linux? It attracts the geeks, the nerds, the paranoid. We don't need or want convenient. We need, and want, a system that we can control, not a system that Bill Gates and company thinks we should like.
As for Linux being "less secure", well, I insist that we measure the incidence of penetrations. And, when we start measuring, you have to include all those home users who just click through all their antivirus and system warnings. "Warning: The application you are installing is a disguise for the worst worm that has ever been encountered! Do you wish to continue?" The user just clicks, "Yes". Yep, you gotta count him, 'cause he's a Windows user!
I don't think that there is a *nix user anywhere, outside of Apple Phanbois, who think their system is "impenetrable". The common wisdom is, our security is superior to Window's security, but that doesn't translate to "impenetrable".
Ahhh, but that is the argument seriously put forward for revoking the right to bear arms. Really, really seriously. A number of people insist that the right to bear arms belongs to the collective, and is exercised by the armed forces - therefore it does not apply to individuals.
Forgive me for not hearing the sarcasm in your voice, after hearing the same argument from voices with no sarcasm at all!
You thought, but I don't think so. There have been a number of articles detailing how to stop app developers from accessing your data. I read, visit Facebook, check the settings, then halfways forget what I read, LOL
You can google for articles, if you like, to compare your own settings. As far as I remember, I've disabled friend's ability to share my information.
Social Security may or may not still have been a healthy, going concern - if the politicians hadn't raided it multiple times, for money to dump into general funds and/or special funds. I've forgotten how many times SS has been raided, or what it adds up to. But, the fact that they raid it only shortens the life of the program. Billions, that should have been drawing interest, have been pilfered. So, SS lost that capital, plus all the accrued interest.
Yeah, it was a pyramid scheme from the start, but chopping off the top of the pyramid doesn't help things at all.
True. I avoid looking at names on posts when I mod. I read the post, and respond to the post. Afterwards, I sometimes realize I modded up someone with whom I almost always disagree. And, the opposite happens as well. Just don't look at names, and the moderation gets a lot more fair!