Why do people always over react? Buried in cement? What, you think these little turds are worthy of a Jimmy Hoffa ending? Those kind of funeral arrangements are reserved for people who piss of really IMPORTANT people. You know, powerful people. So, these guys pissed off a few little pissants, stole a few million dollars, and prevented you from logging into WOW for a weekend. Phhht. They don't deserve anything better than being shot, and left for the dogs to eat. Just regular scum, not worth gettting all worked up about.
Maybe the doomsayers have a point. Maybe one day, the malware makers will target Linux, and I'll have a virus laden *nix machine that can't boot it's sorry self up. But, that day is down the road, somewhere. Today, I'm enjoying a computer running full speed, unencumbered by any cycle-hungry security software.
Maybe I should apologize now to my great-great-great-grandchildren for being so selfish and uncaring?
Nahhhhh - screw the little jerks. They won't be bringing flowers to the old man's grave anyway. Not that I want any, but they won't even think of it. Let them wrestle with tomorrow's problems. I'm happy with Linux today!!
It doesn't matter how fast your processor is if you spend 90% of your time swapping.
THAT needs to be publicized on all computer vendor's sites, prominently, so that even the most feeble minded consumer comes to understand it. I was involved in a discussion recently, among GAMERS or all people. A guy on a budget needed to be convinced that he would do better with an older, slower processor and > 4 GB of memory, than he would be with the fastest CPU he could afford, but only 2 GB of memory. Assuming Windows 7 was to be installed, along with a long list of "networking" apps, (teamview among others), those 2 gig of memory would have been woefully inadequate.
Any vendor today who sells a 64 bit computer with less than 4 GB installed memory should be sued for misrepresentation.
I have a pre-paid Verizon phone, costs 15 bucks a month. In general, I only carry it because I'm on call every fourth week. Rarely, I actually make a telephone call during "business hours", and I get zapped for 99 cents, or whatever. I think it's a pretty good deal, because it's always available for an emergency. Someone lacking in self restraint, who responds to SMS messages, and makes frivolous phone calls would end up paying a lot more than that basic $15.
You're doing at least as well as the "intelligence" communities. Seems that all their secrets get leaked nowadays.;>)
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I always thought that "elegant" and "simple" were nearly synonymous. The reason code isn't elegant is, some people don't understand their tools, others don't understand machines, others don't understand the programs they are trying to write, and yet others are just plain lazy.
I mean, if developers can't even be bothered to go back and remove their comments from the code they've written before releasing the code, that is just plain LAZY!! Why load a 12 MB executable into memory, when removing the cruft would reduce it to 9, or maybe even 6 MB?
And, obviously, if they can't be bothered to remove COMMENTS, then they certainly haven't bothered to monitor memory usage, data flow, or anything else. Memory leaks? Why bother - memory is cheap, right? Besides - everyone runs Windows, and everyone reboots* every morning, noon, and evening - no one is going to leak very much memory in a few hours, right?
*forgot that I finally updated my kernel last week - my uptime isn't anything to brag about right now, lol! 19:05:03 up 8 days, 15:45, 2 users, load average: 2.01, 1.57, 1.47
Based on anecdotal evidence found on the web - that is no longer true. It seems that the "geeks" have been put out to pasture, and Best Buy has hired "sales" people to replace them. Today, calling the "Geek Squad" means some sales oriented person comes to your house, runs some automated software to clean up viral infestations, and to find obvious hardware and software problems. Based on what he finds, that sales person then offers all sorts of (possibly un-) necessary hardware, software, and/or services. Geek Squad members are graded on the sales they make, rather than the computers they fix.
Well, thank God and Congress, along with a certain past presidential administration, that China is a "Most Favored Trading Partner". It would suck if this kind of thing were done by an unfavored trading partner, right? It would REALLY suck if they weren't even a trading partner! *
* I can't believe I actually typed that all out with a straight face!
Not very many months ago, there was a story of a woman in Houston, who looked out her window to see someone breaking into her car. She blew the joker away. No charges were filed. Anywhere you go in Texas, it is "open season" year round on thieves and other lowlifes. A trespasser is not on safe ground, period. You do realize, after he's been shot, it's the shooter's word against - uhhhh - NOBODY'S word! Or, as ye olde pirates would have said, "Dead men tell no tales!"
The "German branch" of IBM? Buddy, there are no "branches" in a megacorporation. You do what the head honchos at the main corporate headquarters say, or you're out of a job. Look, I know that IBM wasn't the only company to do business with the Nazis, but IBM had more inside information on the goals of the Nazis than anyone else. Tracking and segregating the Jewish population is directly credited to IBM, and quite properly so. The Nazis TOLD IBM what they wanted, and IBM delivered. There is very little waffle-room left to IBM. Maybe they didn't completely understand the ultimate goal, but they most definitely understood the intermediate goals.
I can't see much that is better. The present system is being gamed. The new system will also be gamed. All it takes is one really good lawyer to figure the angles, use them once, then all the corporations will follow suit. Sad fact is, our legal system favors him with the deepest pockets, and this changes nothing.
Outlaw software patents, and be done with this farce.
The key words in the memo were "suppress the vote".
I do get tired when our fellow Americans who are black play that race card. But, had you RTFA, you see that this is indeed a bigoted attempt to prevent a specific group of people from voting - BLACK people.
How disingenuous. A Republican started BOTH of our current wars. The present unemployment is a direct result of policies of several administrations and congresses. No administration since Clinton has published "real" unemployment rates, instead manipulating the numbers for political purposes. NO ONE can say what Obama's health care reform might have accomplished, because obstructionists have prevented it from happening. The trillions of deficit spending is largely due to those Republican wars that are ongoing.
But, there is no requirement for honesty in any political post, so you go ahead and put your spin on reality.
Sorry? Yes, indeed. Robocalls are a form of trespass. Around these parts, trespassers are usually shot. Survivors are shot again. If you're caught doing Robocalls, make sure you're not in Texas, or much of the rest of the South or Midwest. Keep your gay ass in one of the gay states, like California.
I'm surprised that no one has reminded you already, that the very first viruses were targeted at Unix. Mac, being a Unix like, is subject to attack, as well. The thing about a Mac, or any other Unix like, is that permissions are granted very differently from Windoze. Yeah, I can be infected. But, no, I can't be infected as easily as a Windows user, unless I get stupid and grant permissions for the application to run.
I know, you're just trolling, so I should apologize right now for feeding the troll.
Nope, nope, and nope. I don't believe that there is a criminal law concerning photographs taken during concerts. Museums? Again - are you talking criminal law? Come on - you're talking about "terms of service" kind of "agreements", when I asked about "legal".
Hey, I DO NOT agree to have my camera confiscated, disabled, or blocked if I go to a concert. Nor do I agree to refrain from snapping photos of anything I might see at a museum. Everyone carried cameras on our class trips in school!
Alright - what technology is needed to find a decomposing body in water? Note, that burials at sea do NOT involve sealed caskets. Normal clothing, or a uniform if appropriate. A shroud - basically a sheet sewed up into a sleeping bag. Some rocks in the bottom of the shroud, at the feet of the corpse. Dump overboard, and the body is water soaked immediately. In THEORY, the shrouded body goes directly to the bottom. Whether it does or not, a sheet won't last very long in salt water, with various animal life exploring it. Bacteria, at the small end, on up to sharks and whales on the big end.
Somehow, I really don't believe that anyone has a snowball's chance in hell of finding a body in deep water. And, the more time that passes, the smaller that snowball gets.
Oh yeah - as far as I know, Muslim funerals don't include any kind of embalming. I think they verified Osama's identity, and dumped his ass. No preservatives added. Au Natural!!
In how many places, at how many times, can it be "illegal" to snap a photo, or to record a video? Jello - you sound almost as if you've been drinking some funny flavored Kool-Aid.
I have NEVER considered whether it might, or might not, be legal to snap a photo. Well - maybe I fib, just a little. Cameras were forbidden around certain armaments in the Navy. So, I took no photos of weapons systems. Other than that - I took just as many pics as I could afford to have developed!!
Uhhhh - I'm not buying any of that. BitTorrent and YouTube aren't exactly "chaotic". Neutral, I might buy into.
LulzSec evil? Nahhh.
Open source developers aren't chaotic at all. As a group, I'd rank them somewhere close to "lawful good". Of course, your idea of "lawful" may differ drastically from my own idea of "lawful". I don't recognize deep pockets as having authority to write law, ie, Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, AT&T, IBM, etc ad nauseum. "Lawful" means, or should mean, "for the good of the people", not "for the good of the companies".
Hey, have you noticed that men are never perfect? (Don't get me started on women!) And, lacking perfection, men are corruptible. So - it doesn't matter much how you implement some whacko dystopian surveillance system - it's gonna suck.
Oh, it might make timid old ladies feel good, and collectivists who wouldn't have a mind unless they had freinds around to tell them what to think. But, there are still millions of us individualists who hate you bastards that want to tell us how to act, how to talk, how to think, how to learn.
Surveiliance is the most sought after tool of tyrants. Even if it happens to be the tyranny of the majority.
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Why do people always over react? Buried in cement? What, you think these little turds are worthy of a Jimmy Hoffa ending? Those kind of funeral arrangements are reserved for people who piss of really IMPORTANT people. You know, powerful people. So, these guys pissed off a few little pissants, stole a few million dollars, and prevented you from logging into WOW for a weekend. Phhht. They don't deserve anything better than being shot, and left for the dogs to eat. Just regular scum, not worth gettting all worked up about.
Correct. That's why I switched to a Unix-like.
Maybe the doomsayers have a point. Maybe one day, the malware makers will target Linux, and I'll have a virus laden *nix machine that can't boot it's sorry self up. But, that day is down the road, somewhere. Today, I'm enjoying a computer running full speed, unencumbered by any cycle-hungry security software.
Maybe I should apologize now to my great-great-great-grandchildren for being so selfish and uncaring?
Nahhhhh - screw the little jerks. They won't be bringing flowers to the old man's grave anyway. Not that I want any, but they won't even think of it. Let them wrestle with tomorrow's problems. I'm happy with Linux today!!
It doesn't matter how fast your processor is if you spend 90% of your time swapping.
THAT needs to be publicized on all computer vendor's sites, prominently, so that even the most feeble minded consumer comes to understand it. I was involved in a discussion recently, among GAMERS or all people. A guy on a budget needed to be convinced that he would do better with an older, slower processor and > 4 GB of memory, than he would be with the fastest CPU he could afford, but only 2 GB of memory. Assuming Windows 7 was to be installed, along with a long list of "networking" apps, (teamview among others), those 2 gig of memory would have been woefully inadequate.
Any vendor today who sells a 64 bit computer with less than 4 GB installed memory should be sued for misrepresentation.
I have a pre-paid Verizon phone, costs 15 bucks a month. In general, I only carry it because I'm on call every fourth week. Rarely, I actually make a telephone call during "business hours", and I get zapped for 99 cents, or whatever. I think it's a pretty good deal, because it's always available for an emergency. Someone lacking in self restraint, who responds to SMS messages, and makes frivolous phone calls would end up paying a lot more than that basic $15.
You're doing at least as well as the "intelligence" communities. Seems that all their secrets get leaked nowadays. ;>)
I always thought that "elegant" and "simple" were nearly synonymous. The reason code isn't elegant is, some people don't understand their tools, others don't understand machines, others don't understand the programs they are trying to write, and yet others are just plain lazy.
I mean, if developers can't even be bothered to go back and remove their comments from the code they've written before releasing the code, that is just plain LAZY!! Why load a 12 MB executable into memory, when removing the cruft would reduce it to 9, or maybe even 6 MB?
And, obviously, if they can't be bothered to remove COMMENTS, then they certainly haven't bothered to monitor memory usage, data flow, or anything else. Memory leaks? Why bother - memory is cheap, right? Besides - everyone runs Windows, and everyone reboots* every morning, noon, and evening - no one is going to leak very much memory in a few hours, right?
*forgot that I finally updated my kernel last week - my uptime isn't anything to brag about right now, lol!
19:05:03 up 8 days, 15:45, 2 users, load average: 2.01, 1.57, 1.47
Jackass, rat's ass, fat ass, hairy ass, who GIVES a shit?
Based on anecdotal evidence found on the web - that is no longer true. It seems that the "geeks" have been put out to pasture, and Best Buy has hired "sales" people to replace them. Today, calling the "Geek Squad" means some sales oriented person comes to your house, runs some automated software to clean up viral infestations, and to find obvious hardware and software problems. Based on what he finds, that sales person then offers all sorts of (possibly un-) necessary hardware, software, and/or services. Geek Squad members are graded on the sales they make, rather than the computers they fix.
Well, thank God and Congress, along with a certain past presidential administration, that China is a "Most Favored Trading Partner". It would suck if this kind of thing were done by an unfavored trading partner, right? It would REALLY suck if they weren't even a trading partner! *
* I can't believe I actually typed that all out with a straight face!
Not very many months ago, there was a story of a woman in Houston, who looked out her window to see someone breaking into her car. She blew the joker away. No charges were filed. Anywhere you go in Texas, it is "open season" year round on thieves and other lowlifes. A trespasser is not on safe ground, period. You do realize, after he's been shot, it's the shooter's word against - uhhhh - NOBODY'S word! Or, as ye olde pirates would have said, "Dead men tell no tales!"
The "German branch" of IBM? Buddy, there are no "branches" in a megacorporation. You do what the head honchos at the main corporate headquarters say, or you're out of a job. Look, I know that IBM wasn't the only company to do business with the Nazis, but IBM had more inside information on the goals of the Nazis than anyone else. Tracking and segregating the Jewish population is directly credited to IBM, and quite properly so. The Nazis TOLD IBM what they wanted, and IBM delivered. There is very little waffle-room left to IBM. Maybe they didn't completely understand the ultimate goal, but they most definitely understood the intermediate goals.
I can't see much that is better. The present system is being gamed. The new system will also be gamed. All it takes is one really good lawyer to figure the angles, use them once, then all the corporations will follow suit. Sad fact is, our legal system favors him with the deepest pockets, and this changes nothing.
Outlaw software patents, and be done with this farce.
Except - I'm not a liberal. Keep failing, Bubba. Libya is a NATO operation, isn't it?
The key words in the memo were "suppress the vote".
I do get tired when our fellow Americans who are black play that race card. But, had you RTFA, you see that this is indeed a bigoted attempt to prevent a specific group of people from voting - BLACK people.
How disingenuous. A Republican started BOTH of our current wars.
The present unemployment is a direct result of policies of several administrations and congresses.
No administration since Clinton has published "real" unemployment rates, instead manipulating the numbers for political purposes.
NO ONE can say what Obama's health care reform might have accomplished, because obstructionists have prevented it from happening.
The trillions of deficit spending is largely due to those Republican wars that are ongoing.
But, there is no requirement for honesty in any political post, so you go ahead and put your spin on reality.
Sorry? Yes, indeed. Robocalls are a form of trespass. Around these parts, trespassers are usually shot. Survivors are shot again. If you're caught doing Robocalls, make sure you're not in Texas, or much of the rest of the South or Midwest. Keep your gay ass in one of the gay states, like California.
You stole my reply!! You evil person!
LMAO
*sigh*
I'm surprised that no one has reminded you already, that the very first viruses were targeted at Unix. Mac, being a Unix like, is subject to attack, as well. The thing about a Mac, or any other Unix like, is that permissions are granted very differently from Windoze. Yeah, I can be infected. But, no, I can't be infected as easily as a Windows user, unless I get stupid and grant permissions for the application to run.
I know, you're just trolling, so I should apologize right now for feeding the troll.
SORRY SLASHDOT!!!
Nope, nope, and nope. I don't believe that there is a criminal law concerning photographs taken during concerts. Museums? Again - are you talking criminal law? Come on - you're talking about "terms of service" kind of "agreements", when I asked about "legal".
Hey, I DO NOT agree to have my camera confiscated, disabled, or blocked if I go to a concert. Nor do I agree to refrain from snapping photos of anything I might see at a museum. Everyone carried cameras on our class trips in school!
Alright - what technology is needed to find a decomposing body in water? Note, that burials at sea do NOT involve sealed caskets. Normal clothing, or a uniform if appropriate. A shroud - basically a sheet sewed up into a sleeping bag. Some rocks in the bottom of the shroud, at the feet of the corpse. Dump overboard, and the body is water soaked immediately. In THEORY, the shrouded body goes directly to the bottom. Whether it does or not, a sheet won't last very long in salt water, with various animal life exploring it. Bacteria, at the small end, on up to sharks and whales on the big end.
Somehow, I really don't believe that anyone has a snowball's chance in hell of finding a body in deep water. And, the more time that passes, the smaller that snowball gets.
Oh yeah - as far as I know, Muslim funerals don't include any kind of embalming. I think they verified Osama's identity, and dumped his ass. No preservatives added. Au Natural!!
In how many places, at how many times, can it be "illegal" to snap a photo, or to record a video? Jello - you sound almost as if you've been drinking some funny flavored Kool-Aid.
I have NEVER considered whether it might, or might not, be legal to snap a photo. Well - maybe I fib, just a little. Cameras were forbidden around certain armaments in the Navy. So, I took no photos of weapons systems. Other than that - I took just as many pics as I could afford to have developed!!
Uhhhh - I'm not buying any of that. BitTorrent and YouTube aren't exactly "chaotic". Neutral, I might buy into.
LulzSec evil? Nahhh.
Open source developers aren't chaotic at all. As a group, I'd rank them somewhere close to "lawful good". Of course, your idea of "lawful" may differ drastically from my own idea of "lawful". I don't recognize deep pockets as having authority to write law, ie, Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, AT&T, IBM, etc ad nauseum. "Lawful" means, or should mean, "for the good of the people", not "for the good of the companies".
Implementation, the man says.
Hey, have you noticed that men are never perfect? (Don't get me started on women!) And, lacking perfection, men are corruptible. So - it doesn't matter much how you implement some whacko dystopian surveillance system - it's gonna suck.
Oh, it might make timid old ladies feel good, and collectivists who wouldn't have a mind unless they had freinds around to tell them what to think. But, there are still millions of us individualists who hate you bastards that want to tell us how to act, how to talk, how to think, how to learn.
Surveiliance is the most sought after tool of tyrants. Even if it happens to be the tyranny of the majority.
Those who would give up essential freedoms in exchange for security, deserve neither.
It's only a near-quote, but you get the idea.
Yeah, I was scratching my head on that. Kaspersky? Home Security? Nahhhh - but maybe I should google it?