Thank you! That's what I was thinking! Yet nobody has asked this key question until here. How the fuck did this update get out of the door?
And why doesn't the software maintain a do-not-delete list of key system files? Granted they may get infected, but deleting user32.dll can only result in a situation as bad or worse than any potential virus. There can be no circumstance when deleting it can make sense.
Because, like it or not, the health of the economy doesn't directly hinge on your ability to comfortably pay back your student loans.
Unless you take into account the millions of others like him. That kind of distributed bail-out is better than the bank bail-out, because the bank bail-out supports a business model proven to have failed and is used to increase the banks capital holdings (as the government has demanded) and never re-enters the economy. The extra money printed does drive up inflation and reduce investor confidence (see the hammering sterling has taken since Broon's glorious bailout).
A distributed bailout among grass-roots consumers is more likely to encourage profitable innovation and will re-enter society immediately.
Basically, the government fucked up and let these companies get too big to fail while turning a blind eye to their shenanigans. And now they're forced to bail them out.
I fully intend to refuse. I may even get my hands on some copies of the home secretary's fingerprints that the guys at no2id are cooking up and use them instead. I'm a free citizen and I'm not going to be coerced into this bullshit.
Free markets work well as long as there is a free market. Since no ISPs are fixing this, or IPv6, and most customers wouldn't understand the problem, there is no demand and hence no market, let alone a free one.
This does not mean that legislation is the right answer; the government may mandate a poor solution. Unfortunately it will only be when this becomes a high-profile security risk that demand will rise.
Interesting experiment, thank you. Tried to spec up a plan like the one I have here in London (£18 pcm, 1.3meg up, 18meg down, no limits, no shaping, included (PoS) wireless modem router. It just doesn't exist, even in Sydney.
I recall seeing some AP setups where TKIP was the default scheme.
Here in the UK everyone's broadband comes with a wireless router/modem now. The default encryption is WEP *still*. It's the first thing I do when I go round to a friend who has just had broadband installed. The only common device still restricted to WEP is the Nintendo DS.
I'm not being funny here. Why is broadband rollout, even if only to metropolitan areas, such an issue in Australia? I honestly would like some knowledgeable people to explain it.
People are still paying attention to Steve Ballmer???
The man is CEO of the company that produces the most commonly used desktop OS (with between 90-95% market share, from browser IDs). Microsoft has a market capitalisation of US$230billion, which is more than the annual GDP of Venezuela. His company's web browser has something like 80% market penetration.
You would have to be an absolute moron not to listen to this man, with the amount of power he has.
It's also fully lossless. I'm not sure people need or want that, considering the ballooning size of digital music libraries even with lossy compression.
Have you heard of a country called Italy? See what proportional representation does there...
I prefer the German half-and-half system. It allows the smaller parties some power, but not enough to destabilise the whole show with minority demands.
The problem is consequences, or more accurately the loss of. If the government and private sector had to pay compensation to people whose data and identity has been recklessly put at risk then there would be much tighter restrictions applied within companies/the state and to subcontractors. At the moment if the government or a bank leaks your personal data and you lose money from ID theft this is your liability. It ought to be theirs.
p.s. My mother is a consultant physician in an NHS (government) hospital, and they use SecureID to secure the VPN. I don't think there is any real difference in security in public and private sector at the moment, though I think the private sector would lock it down faster in the event of liability falling on them.
the main thing the originators of those technologies are guilty of is underestimating the ability of humans to take a good thing and screw it up for the rest of us.
Man, I hate it when you super-intelligent, hyper-empathetic aliens come down here and lord it over us on Slashdot.
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Thank you! That's what I was thinking! Yet nobody has asked this key question until here. How the fuck did this update get out of the door?
And why doesn't the software maintain a do-not-delete list of key system files? Granted they may get infected, but deleting user32.dll can only result in a situation as bad or worse than any potential virus. There can be no circumstance when deleting it can make sense.
All these things are failures and should be allowed to fall
Compared to what? Hunter-gatherers? Subsistence farming? The feudal system? A magical anarcho-syndicalist world you've dreamt of?
Moronic nihilism.
Because, like it or not, the health of the economy doesn't directly hinge on your ability to comfortably pay back your student loans.
Unless you take into account the millions of others like him. That kind of distributed bail-out is better than the bank bail-out, because the bank bail-out supports a business model proven to have failed and is used to increase the banks capital holdings (as the government has demanded) and never re-enters the economy. The extra money printed does drive up inflation and reduce investor confidence (see the hammering sterling has taken since Broon's glorious bailout).
A distributed bailout among grass-roots consumers is more likely to encourage profitable innovation and will re-enter society immediately.
Basically, the government fucked up and let these companies get too big to fail while turning a blind eye to their shenanigans. And now they're forced to bail them out.
Don't forget the forced loans to people who couldn't afford them. Your government did its best to drag the banks under, whether it realised it or not at the time.
I never heard about it. Link?
I fully intend to refuse. I may even get my hands on some copies of the home secretary's fingerprints that the guys at no2id are cooking up and use them instead. I'm a free citizen and I'm not going to be coerced into this bullshit.
Want freedom? Vote Liberal.
Free markets work well as long as there is a free market. Since no ISPs are fixing this, or IPv6, and most customers wouldn't understand the problem, there is no demand and hence no market, let alone a free one.
This does not mean that legislation is the right answer; the government may mandate a poor solution. Unfortunately it will only be when this becomes a high-profile security risk that demand will rise.
Interesting experiment, thank you. Tried to spec up a plan like the one I have here in London (£18 pcm, 1.3meg up, 18meg down, no limits, no shaping, included (PoS) wireless modem router. It just doesn't exist, even in Sydney.
I recall seeing some AP setups where TKIP was the default scheme.
Here in the UK everyone's broadband comes with a wireless router/modem now. The default encryption is WEP *still*. It's the first thing I do when I go round to a friend who has just had broadband installed. The only common device still restricted to WEP is the Nintendo DS.
I'm not being funny here. Why is broadband rollout, even if only to metropolitan areas, such an issue in Australia? I honestly would like some knowledgeable people to explain it.
People are still paying attention to Steve Ballmer???
The man is CEO of the company that produces the most commonly used desktop OS (with between 90-95% market share, from browser IDs). Microsoft has a market capitalisation of US$230billion, which is more than the annual GDP of Venezuela. His company's web browser has something like 80% market penetration.
You would have to be an absolute moron not to listen to this man, with the amount of power he has.
Why do i want themes? I would much rather have a clean simple music player.
Bully for you. What you want does not necessarily provide a universal standard for us all to live by though.
It integrates well with hypemachine, for example. It was the original USP of Songbird, before they went all-out on the iTunes cloning.
Indeed. What could be simpler?
Drag and drop. It's what I always do when I want to add files to my iTunes library. Except I normally rip from CDs anyway.
It's also fully lossless. I'm not sure people need or want that, considering the ballooning size of digital music libraries even with lossy compression.
Indeed. The .ogg format would need a new label. "100% incompatible", perhaps?
Catholicism is a derivative of the Christian faiths
If I remember my history correctly, aren't the Christian faiths derivatives of Catholicism?
Have you heard of a country called Italy? See what proportional representation does there...
I prefer the German half-and-half system. It allows the smaller parties some power, but not enough to destabilise the whole show with minority demands.
This is also the same Britain which has had to rely on unelected peers to protect our liberty.
Maybe Thomas Paine was wrong about them after all.
Poor Darling, he's already having enough problems balancing his budget.
Yeah there is; this data is not classified, so is not covered by the same legislation that was used to prosecute the civil servant.
The problem is consequences, or more accurately the loss of. If the government and private sector had to pay compensation to people whose data and identity has been recklessly put at risk then there would be much tighter restrictions applied within companies/the state and to subcontractors. At the moment if the government or a bank leaks your personal data and you lose money from ID theft this is your liability. It ought to be theirs.
p.s. My mother is a consultant physician in an NHS (government) hospital, and they use SecureID to secure the VPN. I don't think there is any real difference in security in public and private sector at the moment, though I think the private sector would lock it down faster in the event of liability falling on them.
the main thing the originators of those technologies are guilty of is underestimating the ability of humans to take a good thing and screw it up for the rest of us.
Man, I hate it when you super-intelligent, hyper-empathetic aliens come down here and lord it over us on Slashdot.
They may have done it wrong? It doesn't matter that the article says they disabled it, the info still doesn't add up.
But did you know they had outlets in many european trains?
Yup. Come to Europe, our intercity trains have power sockets, wireless internet access and move at a reasonable speed.
Also, tasty cheese.
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