Samsung drives are the best. They are dead quiet, they run super cool compared to just about any other brand, they're one of the few hard drives that you can still get a 3 year warranty on, and they're built really well too (I dropped on from about 4 feet onto linoleum and it worked fine)
Or how about making the ones who _do_ get infected pay an extra fee? After all, it's more fun to punish the people who cause damage than to reward those who don't.
Only problem with punishing is that you loose customers, by rewarding the good ones you'll gain customers.
I think Sun needs to stop expecting a handout from Microsoft and do something themselves.
Shockwave doesn't seem to have a problem getting the flash player installed on damn near every computer all on their own. There was even a brief time when they did use Microsoft for distribution through Windows Update, but they were smart enough not to use that as their only means of automatic distribution.
It may sound kind of harsh, and granted the JRE is more complex than Flash Player, but come on, do you really want to trust that Microsoft is always going to be there to help you out, I sure don't.
Chapter 11 in the US is reorganization; essentially protection from the debtors until you can get your act together, you still have to pay them though.
Chapter 7 is liquidation, pretty much a free for all of your assets by the debtors.
Odd... that tool linked to in the article and again in the post, links to a tool that removes all traces of office from the operating system, it has nothing to do with tracking changes or removing them from documents.
Is what would happen if you went out and bought all the CD's that you were accused of downloading? Couldn't you then say that you were simply downloading digital backups to listen to on your computer?
Remember also that Apple has all sorts of overhead. They need to keep OSX current...
I don't know if keeping OSX current counts as overhead when you charge $130 for each 10.x release (especially when upgrading is the only way to fix certain bugs)
Look at all the big worms we've had so far this year. They haven't been exploits of security holes, they've all been worms that people receive in their e-mail and then double click on.
Sure with broadband their double clicking takes action faster, but I don't really think that's the problem. The problem is that there are so many more people online now than there was two years ago, and a large chunk of them do not have the knowledge to deal with viruses in their email. Double click now, worry later.
People do NOT pay attention to what they are opening, I do IT for a small business, and we haven't had any machines infected yet. All of the viruses are caught at the mail server and replaced with a text attachment stating "THERE WAS A VIRUS ATTACHED BUT IT HAS BEEN REMOVED BY THE VIRUS SCANNER.TXT" and the same people day after day will forward me the message or call me on the phone and ask if the message is a virus.
I'm sure 5 years ago you could have said it would be great to run 1.5mbps to every household and it would have sounded as great as this sounds, but the system would be nearly outdated already.
Bandwidth needs are still changing much too rapidly to invest in infrastructure this large.
Granted you can always make the argument saying that bandwidth needs will always be growing and at some point we would just need to build it. However, I still think the technology is much too young, a LOT of very rapid growth is still going to happen and I think it would be better to wait it out a bit longer.
I'd say they need to wait at LEASTS 10 more years before considering something of this scale.
...is the text of the update on Microsoft's Software Update Services service...
"...For example, an attacker could run programs on your computer while you view a Web page. This affects all computers with Internet Explorer installed (even if you don't run Internet Explorer as your Web browser)..."
although there's no mention of that in the KB article.
It seems like the weight of batteries needed to power the engines at night, not to mention the transmitters, would make it far too heavy to sustain flight.
Anyway, I've seen displays on the History Channel, or in old Olympic Biathalon (ski then stop...and shoot targets...then ski again!) competitions where they can easily squeeze a round and re-aim every 1-2 second.
Rifles used in Olympic Biathlon are.22's, imagine the recoil on a bb gun and then double it...
That's all well and good, unless of course it's a "forward" command at the end of the flash movie that sends you to the web site you were trying to view.
I'd say the real solution is that if you don't like the adds, don't visit the websites. The beauty of a free market economy is that you have choices.
You're absolutely correct. You can teach any moderately computer savvy person to be an administrator in a matter of days, especially if they only have to maintain a system that is already in place.
I do Windows administration for a small company (~35 people) and I've never had any formal training in it. I got my CS degree in May, programming jobs weren't exactly plentiful, and I had some windows administration experience from working on campus in college.
Really though, the bad windows administrators are just really really dumb, this isn't rocket science. You just put a patching scheme in place, and then look at a few help files or maybe do some google searches whenever you have a problem you've never seen before.
Perhaps if Wal-mart were just scraping by it would be alright, but when 5 of the 10 richest people in the country got there thanks to Wal-mart, and they treat their employees the way they do, that's just criminal.
And if you think voting in some other group of politicians is going to fix anything you're just as bad. Nearly all politicians at the federal level are corrupt. What's even worse than that is that nobody even cares that it is.
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Samsung drives are the best. They are dead quiet, they run super cool compared to just about any other brand, they're one of the few hard drives that you can still get a 3 year warranty on, and they're built really well too (I dropped on from about 4 feet onto linoleum and it worked fine)
Anybody knows if hard drives are built to operate immersed in liquid? :-)
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They are not
Or how about making the ones who _do_ get infected pay an extra fee? After all, it's more fun to punish the people who cause damage than to reward those who don't.
Only problem with punishing is that you loose customers, by rewarding the good ones you'll gain customers.
And how much did we pay to learn the very profound, "it could have been prevented"?
I think Sun needs to stop expecting a handout from Microsoft and do something themselves.
Shockwave doesn't seem to have a problem getting the flash player installed on damn near every computer all on their own. There was even a brief time when they did use Microsoft for distribution through Windows Update, but they were smart enough not to use that as their only means of automatic distribution.
It may sound kind of harsh, and granted the JRE is more complex than Flash Player, but come on, do you really want to trust that Microsoft is always going to be there to help you out, I sure don't.
Chapter 11 in the US is reorganization; essentially protection from the debtors until you can get your act together, you still have to pay them though.
Chapter 7 is liquidation, pretty much a free for all of your assets by the debtors.
Odd... that tool linked to in the article and again in the post, links to a tool that removes all traces of office from the operating system, it has nothing to do with tracking changes or removing them from documents.
No incentive? What about the company that does it, and offers it for $50 a month, and then steals ALL of the other companies subscribers?
You underestimate corporate greed; any opportunity to steal subscribers from other companies will be taken as soon as it becomes viable.
Is what would happen if you went out and bought all the CD's that you were accused of downloading? Couldn't you then say that you were simply downloading digital backups to listen to on your computer?
I don't know if keeping OSX current counts as overhead when you charge $130 for each 10.x release (especially when upgrading is the only way to fix certain bugs)
Look at all the big worms we've had so far this year. They haven't been exploits of security holes, they've all been worms that people receive in their e-mail and then double click on.
Sure with broadband their double clicking takes action faster, but I don't really think that's the problem. The problem is that there are so many more people online now than there was two years ago, and a large chunk of them do not have the knowledge to deal with viruses in their email. Double click now, worry later.
People do NOT pay attention to what they are opening, I do IT for a small business, and we haven't had any machines infected yet. All of the viruses are caught at the mail server and replaced with a text attachment stating "THERE WAS A VIRUS ATTACHED BUT IT HAS BEEN REMOVED BY THE VIRUS SCANNER.TXT" and the same people day after day will forward me the message or call me on the phone and ask if the message is a virus.
You can NOT have a SoCal language pack without including the work "Stoked"
That had better be humor, or else I think I might cry...
I'm sure 5 years ago you could have said it would be great to run 1.5mbps to every household and it would have sounded as great as this sounds, but the system would be nearly outdated already.
Bandwidth needs are still changing much too rapidly to invest in infrastructure this large.
Granted you can always make the argument saying that bandwidth needs will always be growing and at some point we would just need to build it. However, I still think the technology is much too young, a LOT of very rapid growth is still going to happen and I think it would be better to wait it out a bit longer.
I'd say they need to wait at LEASTS 10 more years before considering something of this scale.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics"
-Mark Twain (quoting Leonard Courtney)
...is the text of the update on Microsoft's Software Update Services service...
"...For example, an attacker could run programs on your computer while you view a Web page. This affects all computers with Internet Explorer installed (even if you don't run Internet Explorer as your Web browser)..."
although there's no mention of that in the KB article.
Mostly I based it upon my experience lifting UPS's...
It seems like the weight of batteries needed to power the engines at night, not to mention the transmitters, would make it far too heavy to sustain flight.
Rifles used in Olympic Biathlon are
If that does happen, that one player has taken half the opposing team out of the game.
That's all well and good, unless of course it's a "forward" command at the end of the flash movie that sends you to the web site you were trying to view.
I'd say the real solution is that if you don't like the adds, don't visit the websites. The beauty of a free market economy is that you have choices.
You're absolutely correct. You can teach any moderately computer savvy person to be an administrator in a matter of days, especially if they only have to maintain a system that is already in place.
I do Windows administration for a small company (~35 people) and I've never had any formal training in it. I got my CS degree in May, programming jobs weren't exactly plentiful, and I had some windows administration experience from working on campus in college.
Really though, the bad windows administrators are just really really dumb, this isn't rocket science. You just put a patching scheme in place, and then look at a few help files or maybe do some google searches whenever you have a problem you've never seen before.
Perhaps if Wal-mart were just scraping by it would be alright, but when 5 of the 10 richest people in the country got there thanks to Wal-mart, and they treat their employees the way they do, that's just criminal.
And if you think voting in some other group of politicians is going to fix anything you're just as bad. Nearly all politicians at the federal level are corrupt. What's even worse than that is that nobody even cares that it is.
It is you and those who are like you that make me so very sad for humanity.
99% of us are so damned selfish it makes me sick.
I think it might be better if humanity were wiped out, because we certainly don't deserve all that we have.