Do you read Chinese? How about Korean? Spanish? Arabic? Farsi? If you don't, why do you assume the people in Anonymous do?
But - here's a completely different motive. I'll let you guess where I plucked this from:
"I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic"
Domestic enemies are not just armed criminals. I, for one, have a hard time looking at the banking scandal as a friendly action.
Now, you may argue that it was accidental, but considering what has been put forth about it, that is a bit like putting up a mine field, putting toddlers in said mine field and then saying "woops", whenever you hear a loud noise.
Sony... well, they seemed intent on being greedy and careless - sort of like the bankers. NATO... well, not everyone agrees that the US should be in NATO, or rather that the rest of NATO should up their involvement rather than relying on the US to shoulder the burden.
Or maybe they just like to watch the world burn, and it's hard to find a bigger flammable target than the US.
On a completely different tangent - the biggest threat to free societies aren't external, they are internal. * Who decided you had to take off your shoes while going through airport security? * Who decided that you aren't allowed to bring liquids? * Who decided that you should be arrested at the airport, if you don't want to be groped or subjected to essentially nude photography, just because you decided, on a whim, to go flying a few hours before arriving at the airport? * Who decided that you need to be detained, questioned and treated like a criminal, just because you have a lump of cash on us? * Who decided that you should be labeled as a sex offender for life, because you took a nude picture of yourself and gave it to your boyfriend or girlfriend? The same boyfriend or girlfriend that you are legally allowed to fuck no less! You can fuck them, but don't look at it, don't sketch it, don't write about it, don't tell anyone about it.
Those are really big encroachment on your freedoms, and none of them came from external enemies.
I don't mean breaking them, but making them pretty much impossible to run for the DHS due to public outcry.
Here's my thinking: Figure out how to turn the relatively harmless dosage into something really scary looking.
Imagine the reaction if a few people's clothes started to emit smoke or catch fire in the middle of one of the scanners. Granted, the first reaction might be an arrest because the TSA thinks you're carrying explosives, but once that's been cleared out of the way, and half a dozen others have experienced the same thing around the country, I suspect the media will whip up such a shit storm about how these scanners are setting passengers' clothes on fire, that the scanners will be permanently banned.
Buy an Apple Airport Extreme and plug in your own USB hard drive if you want a slightly cheaper solution than a Time Capsule that still works.
This won't support Time Machine without changing OS X settings, and as such it won't work during installation (unless you're really geeky and know how).
It can work like a Time Capsule, but it doesn't out of the box, and it's not something you can call Apple to get help with if or when it breaks.
One of the coolest things about the Time Capsule is the ability to restore OS X from the installation media.
If your system crashes completely or you've just had your hard drive replaced, it's really cool to do the restore directly instead of having to install the OS first, remember what hacks to apply and then restoring it.
Is the Time Capsule expensive? Sure. Is convenience worth it? Possibly.
Before getting excited and rushing off to buy a SATAIII SSD, bear in mind that there are currently some serious stability issues in some of the drives.
I see... so a problematic product means that it's the interface that's problematic? By that standard you must really computers. There have been issues with chipsets, CPUs, RAM, graphics cards, mother boards, PSUs, optical drives, sound cards, USB controllers etc.
That doesn't mean you can't be using Slashdot of course. But there have also been problematic phones (both smart and dumb), tablets etc...
So how are you even on Slashdot again?
Ah, right. Because you're an idiot who seems to think that a problem with a specific product is a problem with a general interface.
I can't say I've tried other readers, but the iPad doesn't require you to swipe either. Just touch the side. Both in the iBook and Kindle app. You can, but you don't need to
Honestly I'd be surprised if any other touch screen tablet would require you to swipe to turn the page.
Yeah it's a classic example of post hoc rationalization. Current data has departed from the predicted doomsday scenario, so scapegoats are looked for to explain why the original theory is inaccurate - instead of accepting that perhaps the original theory was BS to start with.
You are absolutely, 100% right! Right on! Preach the TRUTH!
This, right there, that's how it should be done! Fuck all of this "general relativity" non-sense as well. Newton wasn't right. Sure, he was SORT of right, but obviously since the current data shows that Newton was wrong, we shouldn't just sort of patch it with silly things like 'gravity moves at the speed of light'.
After all - gravity is just a theory. No-one knows why it works, so it's time to accept that the original theory was bullshit to start with. Throw out the whole "scientific" approach to it and come up with something radically different and new instead of this fidgeting with the formulas until the happen to show what you want them to show.
Why the "no words" requirement? I hate that requirement.
Let me tell you why.
Quite a lot of people like passwords like "Ihavlpw11c!", because it's easy to remember (it's short for "I have a very long password with 11 characters!")
But why the hell don't they don't use "I have a very long password with 47 characters!" instead? It's bad to use dictionary words! No - it's bad to use a single dictionary word. And if they're short enough it's bad to use a few. But really - what kind of dictionary attack is going to crack anything like I have a very long password with 47 characters!?
Need a new password? Pick the first line or verse off a song you like. Or a Walt Whitman poem. Something. Enough with this "you MUST use a minimum of 1 upper character, 2 digits, 1 special character" crap and institute rules that result in passwords people can remember. Like "your password must be a minimum of 30 characters. We suggest picking a line from a song you like.".
A Porsche Cayenne Turbo gets 24.6 mpg. That's a two metric ton 4.8 liter 500 HP SUV. 0-62 in 4.7 seconds, 173 mph top speed. 177 gallon trunk and easily fits four full sized adults.
And it gets a gas mileage that is in the upper range of what people in the US thinks is impressive for a small car.
Seriously - get your collective heads out of your collective asses.
Allow me to reiterate - it's a fucking SUV with muscle car power getting the same or better gas mileage than you think is impressive for a small hatch back! And it's the least fuel efficient Cayenne in their lineup!
They also pull stunts like demanding a rewrite on an impossible deadline then use the failure to deliver it on time as a reason to cancel the contract.
I don't think that'd hold up in any court of law.
A well written contract will have a very specific description of what is to be delivered and when. If the publisher demands a rewrite, that'll be another contract, and they would have to negotiate that, obviously with money being paid for the work done so far.
Try to wiggle out of it, and they're in breach of contract. Really not that difficult, except that a lot of software companies seem to sign contracts that essentially say "we'll give you whatever you want, just please, please, please make sure you abuse our trust"
If you drive 60 miles/hour for 30 seconds, you haven't driven 60 miles. One is a measure of speed, the other is distance.
Same with this. 1 PB/s is speed. 1,140 MB is the amount of data. All it really means is that these 1,140 MB are generated (and possibly collected) in 1.06 microseconds.
You shouldn't operate machinery under effects of alcohol, either.
Alcohol is detectable when there is enough to impair you. Marijuana on the other hand "hangs around in your system for as long as 24 hours after smoking. The lingering effects mean you're impaired for several hours after the high wears off."
And your point is... what, exactly? That you shouldn't operate machinery while you're under the effects of marijuana?
As for alcohol being detectable... that depends. I've seen plenty of drivers with massive hangovers, and they seem just as impaired as drunk drivers, but their blood alcohol level puts them right in the "unimpaired" corner of things.
If you're a danger to other people while driving, does it really matter if it's because you are drunk, high, hung over, tired, sleep deprived or just a complete idiot? Should you get a lighter sentence for getting behind the wheel after not having slept for 48 hours than having had a beer 20 minutes before driving or being high at the time?
If you're impaired enough to be a danger to people around you, how are you supposed to be unimpaired enough to realize that getting behind the wheel is a bad idea?
Yes, drunk driving is dangerous and idiotic. Even more so when people drive to the bar, knowing full well that they're going to get plastered and then drive home again. But I've also known people who would drive the car to work, knowing full well that they wouldn't be leaving work or sleeping for two days because they had to finish a project, and that they'd be driving the car back home to get some sleep.
It's all dangerous and idiotic - so why is alcohol (or other drugs) so much worse?
Everyone thinks "this treatment costs X and the benefit is Y, do I want it?". This will drive down the cost and give you all the benefits of competitive marketplace.
You need new lungs. This treatment costs X and the benefit is surviving.
I'll leave it up to you to fill in X and find the spot where you are no longer willing to pay what it'll cost.
We know it's not a virus. But whether you like it or not, the word has become a generic term meaning "malware" to the layman.
And the fact that those in the know have given up correcting people when they're wrong is why people go nuts and demand penicillin and other anti-bacterial aids in the flu season.
People think computer viruses spread through no fault of their own, so they can't possibly get a virus by opening this love letter from a porn star.
When it comes to computer security we, as a society, are at a level where no one has realized that shitting up stream from our drinking water supply is a bad idea.
The problems with helping to uninstall the malware are multiple.
* While this piece of malware appears to be extremely easy to remove, the next version might not, and manually removing it without a wipe might not work. * People will expect that they can just call AppleCare instead of acquiring the proper tools - i.e. Antivirus software, and they'll be pissed that suddenly they'll have to pay for phone support * Apple isn't an expert in malware removal, nor do they provide any software that helps with it. At most they provide the tools to completely nuke the hard drive, and people probably won't like that idea * Even IF Apple helped remove the program, that is after the fact. It won't stop another malware infection, and that could easily result in the customer being upset, because they thought Apple removed this for them
the 9/11 attacks, which were a solitary, unrepeated incident in which the terrorist organization involved showed - through plots of unbelievable naivety - that the hijacking and destruction of the twin towers was sheer unbridalled luck on their part.
You can say a lot about the 9/11 attacks, but I don't think they qualify as being "lucky".
The terrorists coordinated 4 plane simultaneous hijackings, crashed two into the Twin Towers, one into the Pentagon and only the last one failed its mission because the passengers realized they'd die anyway, so why not fight back.
As far as I know, there has been no information about the strategy of the Tower crashes, but from what I understand, if they had been hit much lower than they were, they wouldn't have collapsed, as the lower floors were more heat resistant due to asbestos being used in the construction.
Even IF the Towers hadn't collapsed, you can't call the attacks "lucky", any more than you can call the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound "lucky". Both were highly successful missions with a few glitches (unexpected crashes).
No. The Greek word for wanderer is planitis. Well periplani̱theÃ.
Hint: To wonder and to wander is not the same. For instance, The Great Pyramid is a wonder of the world, but it sure as hell isn't a wanderer of the world.
Part of the infection path is search engine poisoning.
Seriously - you could be searching for lawn chairs and end up at a site that announces that your computer is seriously infected with viruses. Video of one install process. That one is lame, as it's a Windows lookalike, but this one is more convincing. And keep in mind - most users are idiots, and even more believe that they'll never ever fall for such scams.
Are you also suggesting that Linux users should stay away from the Internet? I mean, it would remove a massive infection vector, but that's true for ALL operating systems - Windows included.
How does Linux prevent you from installing bad stuff onto your computer?
The installer asks the user to enter their admin password - and they do. That's why they get infected.
But I'm sure you can explain exactly how Linux' security model prevents a user from using sudo to install rogue programs. And if you can't come up with something better than "the user account shouldn't have have wheel rights", then you need explain how the user is ever going to install useful stuff that requires sudo.
You cannot protect a user from himself - at most you can make it difficult for him.
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Do you read Chinese? How about Korean? Spanish? Arabic? Farsi? If you don't, why do you assume the people in Anonymous do?
But - here's a completely different motive. I'll let you guess where I plucked this from:
Domestic enemies are not just armed criminals. I, for one, have a hard time looking at the banking scandal as a friendly action.
Now, you may argue that it was accidental, but considering what has been put forth about it, that is a bit like putting up a mine field, putting toddlers in said mine field and then saying "woops", whenever you hear a loud noise.
Sony ... well, they seemed intent on being greedy and careless - sort of like the bankers. NATO ... well, not everyone agrees that the US should be in NATO, or rather that the rest of NATO should up their involvement rather than relying on the US to shoulder the burden.
Or maybe they just like to watch the world burn, and it's hard to find a bigger flammable target than the US.
On a completely different tangent - the biggest threat to free societies aren't external, they are internal.
* Who decided you had to take off your shoes while going through airport security?
* Who decided that you aren't allowed to bring liquids?
* Who decided that you should be arrested at the airport, if you don't want to be groped or subjected to essentially nude photography, just because you decided, on a whim, to go flying a few hours before arriving at the airport?
* Who decided that you need to be detained, questioned and treated like a criminal, just because you have a lump of cash on us?
* Who decided that you should be labeled as a sex offender for life, because you took a nude picture of yourself and gave it to your boyfriend or girlfriend? The same boyfriend or girlfriend that you are legally allowed to fuck no less! You can fuck them, but don't look at it, don't sketch it, don't write about it, don't tell anyone about it.
Those are really big encroachment on your freedoms, and none of them came from external enemies.
I don't mean breaking them, but making them pretty much impossible to run for the DHS due to public outcry.
Here's my thinking: Figure out how to turn the relatively harmless dosage into something really scary looking.
Imagine the reaction if a few people's clothes started to emit smoke or catch fire in the middle of one of the scanners. Granted, the first reaction might be an arrest because the TSA thinks you're carrying explosives, but once that's been cleared out of the way, and half a dozen others have experienced the same thing around the country, I suspect the media will whip up such a shit storm about how these scanners are setting passengers' clothes on fire, that the scanners will be permanently banned.
This won't support Time Machine without changing OS X settings, and as such it won't work during installation (unless you're really geeky and know how).
It can work like a Time Capsule, but it doesn't out of the box, and it's not something you can call Apple to get help with if or when it breaks.
One of the coolest things about the Time Capsule is the ability to restore OS X from the installation media.
If your system crashes completely or you've just had your hard drive replaced, it's really cool to do the restore directly instead of having to install the OS first, remember what hacks to apply and then restoring it.
Is the Time Capsule expensive? Sure. Is convenience worth it? Possibly.
I see ... so a problematic product means that it's the interface that's problematic? By that standard you must really computers. There have been issues with chipsets, CPUs, RAM, graphics cards, mother boards, PSUs, optical drives, sound cards, USB controllers etc.
That doesn't mean you can't be using Slashdot of course. But there have also been problematic phones (both smart and dumb), tablets etc ...
So how are you even on Slashdot again?
Ah, right. Because you're an idiot who seems to think that a problem with a specific product is a problem with a general interface.
I can't say I've tried other readers, but the iPad doesn't require you to swipe either. Just touch the side. Both in the iBook and Kindle app. You can, but you don't need to
Honestly I'd be surprised if any other touch screen tablet would require you to swipe to turn the page.
That and ... you know ... waiting for your bank to approve a 70 cent purchase is likely to get you beaten up for being an ass.
You are absolutely, 100% right! Right on! Preach the TRUTH!
This, right there, that's how it should be done! Fuck all of this "general relativity" non-sense as well. Newton wasn't right. Sure, he was SORT of right, but obviously since the current data shows that Newton was wrong, we shouldn't just sort of patch it with silly things like 'gravity moves at the speed of light'.
After all - gravity is just a theory. No-one knows why it works, so it's time to accept that the original theory was bullshit to start with. Throw out the whole "scientific" approach to it and come up with something radically different and new instead of this fidgeting with the formulas until the happen to show what you want them to show.
Why the "no words" requirement? I hate that requirement.
Let me tell you why.
Quite a lot of people like passwords like "Ihavlpw11c!", because it's easy to remember (it's short for "I have a very long password with 11 characters!")
But why the hell don't they don't use "I have a very long password with 47 characters!" instead? It's bad to use dictionary words! No - it's bad to use a single dictionary word. And if they're short enough it's bad to use a few. But really - what kind of dictionary attack is going to crack anything like I have a very long password with 47 characters!?
Need a new password? Pick the first line or verse off a song you like. Or a Walt Whitman poem. Something. Enough with this "you MUST use a minimum of 1 upper character, 2 digits, 1 special character" crap and institute rules that result in passwords people can remember. Like "your password must be a minimum of 30 characters. We suggest picking a line from a song you like.".
Really? Allow me to put things into perspective.
A Porsche Cayenne Turbo gets 24.6 mpg. That's a two metric ton 4.8 liter 500 HP SUV. 0-62 in 4.7 seconds, 173 mph top speed. 177 gallon trunk and easily fits four full sized adults.
And it gets a gas mileage that is in the upper range of what people in the US thinks is impressive for a small car.
Seriously - get your collective heads out of your collective asses.
Allow me to reiterate - it's a fucking SUV with muscle car power getting the same or better gas mileage than you think is impressive for a small hatch back! And it's the least fuel efficient Cayenne in their lineup!
True, but if you don't masticate thoroughly, it might make you bleed from your ass ...
Sure you do. If there's any downtime on the free services, you get a 100% refund for every minute.
I don't think that'd hold up in any court of law.
A well written contract will have a very specific description of what is to be delivered and when. If the publisher demands a rewrite, that'll be another contract, and they would have to negotiate that, obviously with money being paid for the work done so far.
Try to wiggle out of it, and they're in breach of contract. Really not that difficult, except that a lot of software companies seem to sign contracts that essentially say "we'll give you whatever you want, just please, please, please make sure you abuse our trust"
If you drive 60 miles/hour for 30 seconds, you haven't driven 60 miles. One is a measure of speed, the other is distance.
Same with this. 1 PB/s is speed. 1,140 MB is the amount of data. All it really means is that these 1,140 MB are generated (and possibly collected) in 1.06 microseconds.
And your point is ... what, exactly? That you shouldn't operate machinery while you're under the effects of marijuana?
As for alcohol being detectable ... that depends. I've seen plenty of drivers with massive hangovers, and they seem just as impaired as drunk drivers, but their blood alcohol level puts them right in the "unimpaired" corner of things.
If you're a danger to other people while driving, does it really matter if it's because you are drunk, high, hung over, tired, sleep deprived or just a complete idiot? Should you get a lighter sentence for getting behind the wheel after not having slept for 48 hours than having had a beer 20 minutes before driving or being high at the time?
If you're impaired enough to be a danger to people around you, how are you supposed to be unimpaired enough to realize that getting behind the wheel is a bad idea?
Yes, drunk driving is dangerous and idiotic. Even more so when people drive to the bar, knowing full well that they're going to get plastered and then drive home again. But I've also known people who would drive the car to work, knowing full well that they wouldn't be leaving work or sleeping for two days because they had to finish a project, and that they'd be driving the car back home to get some sleep.
It's all dangerous and idiotic - so why is alcohol (or other drugs) so much worse?
You need new lungs. This treatment costs X and the benefit is surviving.
I'll leave it up to you to fill in X and find the spot where you are no longer willing to pay what it'll cost.
And the fact that those in the know have given up correcting people when they're wrong is why people go nuts and demand penicillin and other anti-bacterial aids in the flu season.
People think computer viruses spread through no fault of their own, so they can't possibly get a virus by opening this love letter from a porn star.
When it comes to computer security we, as a society, are at a level where no one has realized that shitting up stream from our drinking water supply is a bad idea.
The map seems to be almost empty at the equator.
I'm sure there's a logical explanation, but I've no idea what it is. Anyone care to enlighten me?
That certainly depends on the printers involved.
If you compare a 15 year old cheap-ass (at the time) laser printer to a cremé de la cremé inkjet printer of today, you'll find that the inkjet is sharper.
The problems with helping to uninstall the malware are multiple.
* While this piece of malware appears to be extremely easy to remove, the next version might not, and manually removing it without a wipe might not work.
* People will expect that they can just call AppleCare instead of acquiring the proper tools - i.e. Antivirus software, and they'll be pissed that suddenly they'll have to pay for phone support
* Apple isn't an expert in malware removal, nor do they provide any software that helps with it. At most they provide the tools to completely nuke the hard drive, and people probably won't like that idea
* Even IF Apple helped remove the program, that is after the fact. It won't stop another malware infection, and that could easily result in the customer being upset, because they thought Apple removed this for them
You can say a lot about the 9/11 attacks, but I don't think they qualify as being "lucky".
The terrorists coordinated 4 plane simultaneous hijackings, crashed two into the Twin Towers, one into the Pentagon and only the last one failed its mission because the passengers realized they'd die anyway, so why not fight back.
As far as I know, there has been no information about the strategy of the Tower crashes, but from what I understand, if they had been hit much lower than they were, they wouldn't have collapsed, as the lower floors were more heat resistant due to asbestos being used in the construction.
Even IF the Towers hadn't collapsed, you can't call the attacks "lucky", any more than you can call the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound "lucky". Both were highly successful missions with a few glitches (unexpected crashes).
No. The Greek word for wanderer is planitis. Well periplani̱theÃ.
Hint: To wonder and to wander is not the same. For instance, The Great Pyramid is a wonder of the world, but it sure as hell isn't a wanderer of the world.
Which is/was true for OS X as well. Security by obscurity doesn't work all that well as has now been seen.
Part of the infection path is search engine poisoning.
Seriously - you could be searching for lawn chairs and end up at a site that announces that your computer is seriously infected with viruses. Video of one install process. That one is lame, as it's a Windows lookalike, but this one is more convincing. And keep in mind - most users are idiots, and even more believe that they'll never ever fall for such scams.
Are you also suggesting that Linux users should stay away from the Internet? I mean, it would remove a massive infection vector, but that's true for ALL operating systems - Windows included.
How does Linux prevent you from installing bad stuff onto your computer?
The installer asks the user to enter their admin password - and they do. That's why they get infected.
But I'm sure you can explain exactly how Linux' security model prevents a user from using sudo to install rogue programs. And if you can't come up with something better than "the user account shouldn't have have wheel rights", then you need explain how the user is ever going to install useful stuff that requires sudo.
You cannot protect a user from himself - at most you can make it difficult for him.