Uhhh - we are talking about the MILITARY. RATS is far more appealing than ARTS. ARTS is something we might expect to find at Berkeley or Oakland. It sounds gay. RATS, on the other hand, inspire fear in people everywhere. RATS are dangerous in a variety of ways.
You should ask some soldiers, sailors, and veterans what their nicknames are. I served with guys knows as Scurvey, and Spaz - no one ever got a cute nickname. If you tried to give him one, he'd break your nose and convince you differently.
ARTS. This ain't the girl scouts we are talking about.
I'm most certainly not a liberal or a neocon - but you've sampled the Koo-Aid. The fact is, life in Iraq was much more stable under Saddam than it is today. Immeasurably more stable. You really should find some articles about the bookstores in Iraq. What happened to them epitomizes what has happened throughout Iraq.
Yeah, Saddam was an evil sumbitch, and he deserved to die, but he was a stabilizing force, no matter how much we disliked him. IMHO, pure arrogance on the part of a neocon president forced the military to invade Iraq.
"The fact that you consider CNN "Pravda" is disconcerting. I suspect there's a bit of indoctrination going on in the Army."
Old Navy here. Naturally, I can't speak for the Army - but we had our own opinions of the newspapers. They seldom reported anything the way it was. When we made the papers, each paper put it's own spin on things, sometimes to the point that the story was simply untrue. Left leaning newspapers generally try to make us look bad, right leaning newspapers try to make us all look like heros. The fact is, we were just doing our jobs, and sometimes the job was dangerous and unpleasant. The single time we made the news, when all the papers got things near right, was the reporting on Beirut City, 1978. Everyone agreed that things were confused, and that statement was more accurate than any other statement ever made about any of our missions.
No "indoctrination" is needed if some grunt tells us that he calls a liberal paper the Pravda. He sees what is happening with his own eyes, and the paper reports something different - he needs no help drawing his own conclusions.
The bit about "inconveniently located" I can understand in Iraq. Afghanistan? Not so much.
As for mothers, children, and helpless villagers - give it a break. We went into Afghanistan on a legitimate mission, and I think we are justified in almost everything we've done there. We ain't killing women and children, and those adult male villagers aren't so very helpless as you might think. Men seldom are.
The Taliban should have handed over their Al Queda buddies when the US asked for them, and we wouldn't BE in Afghanistan. As you point out, there isn't much to steal from them. Some goats, some poppies, lots of rocks. The Soviets took an ass whipping from the Afghani, and it's still possible for them to hand us the same kind of ass whipping. Not likely, but possible.
And, it's about time that the Pak's army has moved on the Taliban. After 8 years, though, the Talibani are firmly entrenched in the far north of the country. Morons - huddled hiding in their cities and bases for eight long years, and they only move when the Taliban starts hitting them on their own bases.
Well - there is that. No matter the OS, Root can always do something stupid. We can only be protected from ourselves so far.
The funny thing is, she shouldn't have needed root access to do anything at all. I just clicked on "Network Settings", and sure enough, I can change the parameters for any of my ethernet connections as a user. I can't install, or uninstall an ethernet card without Root, but I can change parameters. God only knows what those "support" people mucked around with once they had Root.
No, I don't mean predicting what they are doing. We already know what things they do that are hazardous. Clicking on email attachments, for instance. The app watches for someone to click an attachment, and gives him one of those annoying popups. "Hey stupid! Your IT man has warned you a million times not to open email attachments! Are you SURE that this email is from a TRUSTED SOURCE?!?!"
Installing apps is another good example. Home users don't have an IT guy, so this app which monitors what they are doing detects that they are going to install something. It gets "IN YOUR FACE" about trusted sources. Of course, UAC has begun doing exactly that for application installations, but it doesn't track decisions over time. I want something that evaluates the users actions - someone who trips few alarms is going to get a warning that is less "IN YOUR FACE" than the nutcase who grabs 5 new applications every day.
Like I say - it's just an idea. For starters, we would never get the people who need the thing the most to install it. Something like this would have to be installed by the OEM, or the IT guy to be of much use.
"But for that matter, Linux doesn't have malware only because it's desktop share is next to nothing"
I keep hearing that. Everyone says it so it must be true. But, I'm mindful of the fact that only a handful of viruses have EVER been written for Linux, and that the User can't infect the underlying system. It takes Root access to do so, something that is only now beginning to be true for Windows.
It seems that Windows is improving it's security model - but they still haven't caught up with Linux, despite what the fanboys might have to say. Unlike XP, it has always been possible to lock the User down pretty tightly, but still allow User to play any game on the system. More, it has almost always been possible to allow a User to install his games and applications in User Space. That isn't possible with Windows, even with Win 7. When I can create a dozen users, each of whom allows serious infections WITHIN HIS OWN ACCOUNT, but the Admin account remains untouched and unharmed, THEN Windows will be well on the road to having a meaningful security model.
Whatever - I'll believe the basic premise that Linux would be just as vulnerable as Windows if it had market share when I see it. To me, it seems the structure and the philosophy of Linux contradicts what common "wisdom" says.
I think a lot of confusion comes when the Euros try to figure out our law, and we try to figure out their law. Worse, we often forget that there IS a difference.
There was a story about a shop owner in the UK who was forced to remove a radio from her shop, because she wasn't paying the mafiaa any royalties. So - she goes about her business without music, singing to herself. They came back, wanting to charge royalties!! Under UK law, they had a case, but only backed down after the public expressed it's outrage.
Here in the states, royalties end when you purchase the CD, or when the radio station pays. It is commonly accepted that unless you are playing the music for commercial purposes, you owe nothing.
I don't know anything about German law at all - but when we forget that there ARE differences between Euro law and US law, these stories make no sense at all. We can't make sense of court rulings in Germany or anywhere else if we attempt to base our understanding on US law.
Hmmm. I read the posted question/summary. Started scrolling down, reading comments. Stopped. Go back up and read just the title. Hmmm. Forget everything else, just concentrate on the title.
Could you make some kind of a monitoring app, which displays a graphic?
I don't mean to make a new antivirus. Just some graphic attached to existing antivirus and anti-malware softwares. It monitors the stupid things people do, and displays a ribbon or something across the top of the toolbar. Put a red end on the ribbon, and the red starts filling up the ribbon. When the user does something REALLY stupid, he gets popups, which grow more and more annoying.
For people with a clue, the ribbon just serves as a reminder. For people without a clue, those popups get more and more "In your FACE". Give the thing the ability to log those events and warnings, so the IT guy can bring it up, and show the idiot who refuses to be warned.
Just an idea - but I think it would be helpful to stick something like that on your most obtuse user's desktops.
So - myspace is in the lead to take "Lowest Common Denominator" title? Surely they deserve some award for the tons of fugly they force through the intartubez.
Correct. If the evil maid is moderately attractive, she only needs gain access to your body to extract all of your secrets anyway. She's not going to mess around with bootloaders and such silly stuff. If she can't stroke the information out of you, she'll call her two inbred cousins to bludgeon the information out of you with a $5 wrench.
Oh-kay, obligatory xkcd reference has been posted.;^)
Yes, the government SHOULD be regulating network management policies, BECAUSE my ISP has a monopoly. If the ISP decides to cut me off or throttle me because I've violated an unreasonable policy, the government has every right to step in.
Grammar nazis are descended from a despicable breed of shit eating dogs. How those dogs ever managed to crossbreed with primates is being researched desperately, because no one understands the phenomena.
There is plenty of trolling. And abuse of mod points.
I happen to think you're right. I'm anti-Microsoft, but honesty makes me say that Win 7 is decent. So far, it works on all the hardware I've tried it on - as old as the original Athlon 1 Ghz machines. Of course, it's kinda slow on that machine, but it WORKS.
Huge improvement over that Vista abortion. Yeah, I know, lots of people thought Vista was good. Well, it never ran right on any of my hardware, including a 2.4 Ghz dual core Opteron with 8 gig of memory. Phhht.
Whatever - people who abuse their mod points like this are total asses, with no life. Screw 'em. Someone with a big stick needs to beat the Slashdot staff til they add new mods. Simple "Agree" and "Disagree" buttons, like has often been suggested should solve the problem. For that matter, those two buttons could be seperate from the rest of the mods - everyone has them all the time.
Appdata. I wanted to do some tweaking on Google Chrome. I was directed to the Appdata folder to diddle around. Hmmmmmmm. I AIN'T GOT NO APPDATA FOLDER!!! WAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! So, what do I do now?
Some googling around found it for me: C:\Users\Users\Guy\Appdata\Google\Chrome\
But, the reading I've done (all of about 7 or 8 minutes) tells me that it's not a real path - it's being redirected to someplace else. Bahhhh. I'll get this figured out sooner or later. So far, I've figured out that Windows Explorer won't open the \Appdata folder, but it will open a subfolder. Command prompt opens both the AppData folder and subfolders.
Obviously, I didn't use their real names.... if Guido found out I was talking bad about his family, he might come looking for me. Mafia ties, and all that. Geeez. Not that I'm real worried - it's been so many years, they wouldn't remember me if I did post names, company name, address. Whatever....
I would think that long term investments in government and infrastructure would do a lot of good for the bank, the nation, and for the people. It might not be as good as charitable donations, but anything that strengthens the country has to be good for the bank in the long run.
Of course, buying government bonds don't pay excitingly high dividends, so it isn't attractive to the thrill seeking executives to whom banking is a game.
Ahhh. I wasn't aware of that. It's possible that I could have fixed my problems with sound just by installing an up to date ALSA. I'll try that the next time I do an install.
Sometimes, google gives you more information than you can properly digest, lol
Yeah, that's what a bunch of people have said. You're not feeling redundant?
I say, that is wrong. Signing a petition shouldn't mean that you become a public figure, or that the media should be beating a path to your door. Or, some group of activists who disagree with your opinion.
I've belonged to one union in my life. The big honcho for the union was the company officer's brother. They'd have a freaking cook-out at Mom's place. "Hey, Guido, my boys need a raise!" "No, Mario - look around you. The swimming pool needs work, we need to put new roof on Mom's place soon - no raise, Bro." "Hey, Antoine - my boys really need a raise, talk some sense into Guido." "No way, Mario. You know my daughter needs braces, and Junior wants a corvette. Money doesn't grow on trees, you know!" "Well, alright guys. I had to try."
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Uhhh - we are talking about the MILITARY. RATS is far more appealing than ARTS. ARTS is something we might expect to find at Berkeley or Oakland. It sounds gay. RATS, on the other hand, inspire fear in people everywhere. RATS are dangerous in a variety of ways.
You should ask some soldiers, sailors, and veterans what their nicknames are. I served with guys knows as Scurvey, and Spaz - no one ever got a cute nickname. If you tried to give him one, he'd break your nose and convince you differently.
ARTS. This ain't the girl scouts we are talking about.
I'm most certainly not a liberal or a neocon - but you've sampled the Koo-Aid. The fact is, life in Iraq was much more stable under Saddam than it is today. Immeasurably more stable. You really should find some articles about the bookstores in Iraq. What happened to them epitomizes what has happened throughout Iraq.
Yeah, Saddam was an evil sumbitch, and he deserved to die, but he was a stabilizing force, no matter how much we disliked him. IMHO, pure arrogance on the part of a neocon president forced the military to invade Iraq.
"The fact that you consider CNN "Pravda" is disconcerting. I suspect there's a bit of indoctrination going on in the Army."
Old Navy here. Naturally, I can't speak for the Army - but we had our own opinions of the newspapers. They seldom reported anything the way it was. When we made the papers, each paper put it's own spin on things, sometimes to the point that the story was simply untrue. Left leaning newspapers generally try to make us look bad, right leaning newspapers try to make us all look like heros. The fact is, we were just doing our jobs, and sometimes the job was dangerous and unpleasant. The single time we made the news, when all the papers got things near right, was the reporting on Beirut City, 1978. Everyone agreed that things were confused, and that statement was more accurate than any other statement ever made about any of our missions.
No "indoctrination" is needed if some grunt tells us that he calls a liberal paper the Pravda. He sees what is happening with his own eyes, and the paper reports something different - he needs no help drawing his own conclusions.
The bit about "inconveniently located" I can understand in Iraq. Afghanistan? Not so much.
As for mothers, children, and helpless villagers - give it a break. We went into Afghanistan on a legitimate mission, and I think we are justified in almost everything we've done there. We ain't killing women and children, and those adult male villagers aren't so very helpless as you might think. Men seldom are.
The Taliban should have handed over their Al Queda buddies when the US asked for them, and we wouldn't BE in Afghanistan. As you point out, there isn't much to steal from them. Some goats, some poppies, lots of rocks. The Soviets took an ass whipping from the Afghani, and it's still possible for them to hand us the same kind of ass whipping. Not likely, but possible.
And, it's about time that the Pak's army has moved on the Taliban. After 8 years, though, the Talibani are firmly entrenched in the far north of the country. Morons - huddled hiding in their cities and bases for eight long years, and they only move when the Taliban starts hitting them on their own bases.
Sounds like your mama should have drowned you while you were still a puppy. Better that she had just been spayed. Now, just crawl off and die quietly.
Well - there is that. No matter the OS, Root can always do something stupid. We can only be protected from ourselves so far.
The funny thing is, she shouldn't have needed root access to do anything at all. I just clicked on "Network Settings", and sure enough, I can change the parameters for any of my ethernet connections as a user. I can't install, or uninstall an ethernet card without Root, but I can change parameters. God only knows what those "support" people mucked around with once they had Root.
No, I don't mean predicting what they are doing. We already know what things they do that are hazardous. Clicking on email attachments, for instance. The app watches for someone to click an attachment, and gives him one of those annoying popups. "Hey stupid! Your IT man has warned you a million times not to open email attachments! Are you SURE that this email is from a TRUSTED SOURCE?!?!"
Installing apps is another good example. Home users don't have an IT guy, so this app which monitors what they are doing detects that they are going to install something. It gets "IN YOUR FACE" about trusted sources. Of course, UAC has begun doing exactly that for application installations, but it doesn't track decisions over time. I want something that evaluates the users actions - someone who trips few alarms is going to get a warning that is less "IN YOUR FACE" than the nutcase who grabs 5 new applications every day.
Like I say - it's just an idea. For starters, we would never get the people who need the thing the most to install it. Something like this would have to be installed by the OEM, or the IT guy to be of much use.
"But for that matter, Linux doesn't have malware only because it's desktop share is next to nothing"
I keep hearing that. Everyone says it so it must be true. But, I'm mindful of the fact that only a handful of viruses have EVER been written for Linux, and that the User can't infect the underlying system. It takes Root access to do so, something that is only now beginning to be true for Windows.
It seems that Windows is improving it's security model - but they still haven't caught up with Linux, despite what the fanboys might have to say. Unlike XP, it has always been possible to lock the User down pretty tightly, but still allow User to play any game on the system. More, it has almost always been possible to allow a User to install his games and applications in User Space. That isn't possible with Windows, even with Win 7. When I can create a dozen users, each of whom allows serious infections WITHIN HIS OWN ACCOUNT, but the Admin account remains untouched and unharmed, THEN Windows will be well on the road to having a meaningful security model.
Whatever - I'll believe the basic premise that Linux would be just as vulnerable as Windows if it had market share when I see it. To me, it seems the structure and the philosophy of Linux contradicts what common "wisdom" says.
I think a lot of confusion comes when the Euros try to figure out our law, and we try to figure out their law. Worse, we often forget that there IS a difference.
There was a story about a shop owner in the UK who was forced to remove a radio from her shop, because she wasn't paying the mafiaa any royalties. So - she goes about her business without music, singing to herself. They came back, wanting to charge royalties!! Under UK law, they had a case, but only backed down after the public expressed it's outrage.
Here in the states, royalties end when you purchase the CD, or when the radio station pays. It is commonly accepted that unless you are playing the music for commercial purposes, you owe nothing.
I don't know anything about German law at all - but when we forget that there ARE differences between Euro law and US law, these stories make no sense at all. We can't make sense of court rulings in Germany or anywhere else if we attempt to base our understanding on US law.
Hmmm. I read the posted question/summary. Started scrolling down, reading comments. Stopped. Go back up and read just the title. Hmmm. Forget everything else, just concentrate on the title.
Could you make some kind of a monitoring app, which displays a graphic?
I don't mean to make a new antivirus. Just some graphic attached to existing antivirus and anti-malware softwares. It monitors the stupid things people do, and displays a ribbon or something across the top of the toolbar. Put a red end on the ribbon, and the red starts filling up the ribbon. When the user does something REALLY stupid, he gets popups, which grow more and more annoying.
For people with a clue, the ribbon just serves as a reminder. For people without a clue, those popups get more and more "In your FACE". Give the thing the ability to log those events and warnings, so the IT guy can bring it up, and show the idiot who refuses to be warned.
Just an idea - but I think it would be helpful to stick something like that on your most obtuse user's desktops.
So - myspace is in the lead to take "Lowest Common Denominator" title? Surely they deserve some award for the tons of fugly they force through the intartubez.
Correct. If the evil maid is moderately attractive, she only needs gain access to your body to extract all of your secrets anyway. She's not going to mess around with bootloaders and such silly stuff. If she can't stroke the information out of you, she'll call her two inbred cousins to bludgeon the information out of you with a $5 wrench.
Oh-kay, obligatory xkcd reference has been posted. ;^)
Yes, the government SHOULD be regulating network management policies, BECAUSE my ISP has a monopoly. If the ISP decides to cut me off or throttle me because I've violated an unreasonable policy, the government has every right to step in.
Nonsense. By your logic, Colt, and Smith & Wesson is responsible for millions of robberies. Every gun store in the world is also guilty.
Grammar nazis are descended from a despicable breed of shit eating dogs. How those dogs ever managed to crossbreed with primates is being researched desperately, because no one understands the phenomena.
There is plenty of trolling. And abuse of mod points.
I happen to think you're right. I'm anti-Microsoft, but honesty makes me say that Win 7 is decent. So far, it works on all the hardware I've tried it on - as old as the original Athlon 1 Ghz machines. Of course, it's kinda slow on that machine, but it WORKS.
Huge improvement over that Vista abortion. Yeah, I know, lots of people thought Vista was good. Well, it never ran right on any of my hardware, including a 2.4 Ghz dual core Opteron with 8 gig of memory. Phhht.
Whatever - people who abuse their mod points like this are total asses, with no life. Screw 'em. Someone with a big stick needs to beat the Slashdot staff til they add new mods. Simple "Agree" and "Disagree" buttons, like has often been suggested should solve the problem. For that matter, those two buttons could be seperate from the rest of the mods - everyone has them all the time.
"moved functionality"
Appdata. I wanted to do some tweaking on Google Chrome. I was directed to the Appdata folder to diddle around. Hmmmmmmm. I AIN'T GOT NO APPDATA FOLDER!!! WAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! So, what do I do now?
Some googling around found it for me: C:\Users\Users\Guy\Appdata\Google\Chrome\
But, the reading I've done (all of about 7 or 8 minutes) tells me that it's not a real path - it's being redirected to someplace else. Bahhhh. I'll get this figured out sooner or later. So far, I've figured out that Windows Explorer won't open the \Appdata folder, but it will open a subfolder. Command prompt opens both the AppData folder and subfolders.
Junction points. Read about them here: http://www.svrops.com/svrops/articles/jpoints.htm
"Lobby as in send 'contributions' in the hundreds of millions of dollars a year like time warner does?
Not so much."
What, you don't have a little chump change laying around? That sucks man.
Join the crowd, though. It's hard for me to come up with $100 sometimes.
What REALLY SUCKS is, the corporations actually do own America. If someone started a serious revolution, I'd join in a heartbeat.
Obviously, I didn't use their real names .... if Guido found out I was talking bad about his family, he might come looking for me. Mafia ties, and all that. Geeez. Not that I'm real worried - it's been so many years, they wouldn't remember me if I did post names, company name, address. Whatever....
I would think that long term investments in government and infrastructure would do a lot of good for the bank, the nation, and for the people. It might not be as good as charitable donations, but anything that strengthens the country has to be good for the bank in the long run.
Of course, buying government bonds don't pay excitingly high dividends, so it isn't attractive to the thrill seeking executives to whom banking is a game.
"You don't know who Saul Rubinek is??"
If he wasn't in the Bible, where he persecuted Jesus, then I have no idea. Did he ever do anything worth knowing about?
Half a brain? It seriously wouldn't take that much. Anyone more responsive than Karen Ann Quinlan could figure it out if they just made the effort.
Ahhh. I wasn't aware of that. It's possible that I could have fixed my problems with sound just by installing an up to date ALSA. I'll try that the next time I do an install.
Sometimes, google gives you more information than you can properly digest, lol
Yeah, that's what a bunch of people have said. You're not feeling redundant?
I say, that is wrong. Signing a petition shouldn't mean that you become a public figure, or that the media should be beating a path to your door. Or, some group of activists who disagree with your opinion.
I've belonged to one union in my life. The big honcho for the union was the company officer's brother. They'd have a freaking cook-out at Mom's place. "Hey, Guido, my boys need a raise!" "No, Mario - look around you. The swimming pool needs work, we need to put new roof on Mom's place soon - no raise, Bro." "Hey, Antoine - my boys really need a raise, talk some sense into Guido." "No way, Mario. You know my daughter needs braces, and Junior wants a corvette. Money doesn't grow on trees, you know!" "Well, alright guys. I had to try."
Yes, today, I'm a real dedicated union man.