Yawn. Just more extrapolating trends too far. Sure, when iCrap caught on, CD sales took a nose dive, but I still encounter CDs almost every day. They still fill a functional niche, and I suspect we'll still find CD-Rs on sale at Big Box for a long time. They're a cheap, portable way to physically transport a chunk data—especially audio. No, I'm not burning hundreds at a time, but when I need one, it's the best tool for the job. Contrast this to a floppy, which was totally unreliable, low capacity and utterly replaced by flash drives because of their superiority in almost every way.
Sure, we're probably headed for a world where a lot fewer people are buying 4GHz desktops with 8gb ram, and, sure, lots of people will herd happily into walled gardens, because they don't care or don't know better. There are people who only ever used their PC for facebook et al., hell, they probably already swapped it for a mobile device.
The thing we can't ever lose sight of is that consumer spending drives this industry. As long as people are willing to spend money for something, someone will be there to accept that money. Just ask the millions of PC gamers out there when they will trade their uber PC for a tablet. Just because something becomes less commonplace and more specialized doesn't mean it's just going to disappear. FUD.
The site says I'm a pirate and I've downloaded tons of warez and porn from a Hughes Net satellite connection capped at 500MB per day. I check my modem's quota regularly and we never use more than a few MB. Obviously either a) making stuff up or b) not accounting for dynamic IPs whatsoever.
1- do not serve ads from remote servers
2- do not associate with external sites like facebook, etc
3- do not use web bugs, beacons or other trackers
Those three things probably account for 99.9% of the sloth in today's internet
Responsive, in this context, doesn't refer to loading time, but rather the adaptability of a website to respond to a UA's canvas at almost any size and orientation while remaining usable.
Because as much as I hate and disagree with it, breaking DRM is illegal in the US under the DMCA, and there are still some of us who grudgingly but respectfully honor the rule of law.
I was in a very similar situation as OP and found PING very helpful. It doesn't provide any automated way of creating a recovery partition, but the documentation does explain how to make automated system restore discs. The principle is nearly the same, so adapting it shouldn't be too hard.
Off the cuff, I imagine it would go like this:
Deploy a clonezilla image to a host machine
Create a recovery partition with gparted or similar. The recovery partition need only be about 30-40% of the total occupied space of the system partition (thanks gzip!)
Install PING to the recovery partition. I'll leave this as an exercise to the reader.
Install GRUB to the MBR, creating entries for Windows and PING's kernel
Create a system restore image with PING and save it to the recovery partition
Tweak the KERNEL line in GRUB with the appropriate automation. The PING documentation is very helpful with this (see above link)
Once you have everything set up just right, you can then create a master clonezilla image of the entire hard disk to deploy to identical machines.
The main downside to this is it relies on GRUB, which may not be desirable to your customers. It's also tedious to set up.
Seriously. Combofix run from Safe Mode with Command Prompt = 99% of viruses removed.
Run a full MBAM scan in normal mode and sfc/scannow if you're really paranoid. Move on with your life.
Sorry to break the Slashdot cliche of Christian-bashing, but we aren't all bigoted hatemongers.
Every Christian church I've ever attended ascribes to the idea that we should "hate the sin, love the sinner," and, as such, welcomes and loves gays with Christlike love. I have gays in my family who I love wholeheartedly. I have had close friendships with gays, and known them in the work environment, and always given them the respect every human deserves.
New Testament theology (the New Covenant in Jesus' blood) places all of us humans on equal plane of guilt in sin before God, and in equal need of the forgiveness that Jesus brings. I am a recovering addict and alcoholic saved by that grace, keenly aware of my former guilt, so I consciously and adamantly extend that grace to everyone...even gays.
I have used hostmonster.com for the better part of a year, who boast nearly "unlimited everything" for about $6/mo. You have to pay in year increments, but I've been satisfied by their speed, uptime and customer support.
Years ago I purchased a retail box XP Pro from the MS company store. Over the course of moves I lost the original key, so I downloaded the corporate/cracked ISO. Now I don't have to re-activate every time I feel like trying the latest Ubuntu (which I've subsequently switched over to, incidentally).
Similarly I "pirate" the computer games I've purchased, since they come with DRM-free executables. I know I purchased them and did not resell them, so I have no problem "illegally downloading" myself a replacement copy if I lose or damage my install media.
Perhaps 80-90% of hardware issues can be solved this way, almost every software issue cannot.
Ever had to extract data from a corrupted RAID0 array using ddrescue? How about set up a PXE environment that serves partimage clones of basic OS configurations to new machines? Manual virus removal involving registry editing from a *nix live CD? Reset Windows passwords remotely? Sort through the endless compatibility BS with Vista?
I very much doubt that in a week's time one could teach such things to even the most adept, and all of these scenarios have occupied my time as a bench tech.
Computer and automotive repair both require extensive training and expertise, the former just emphasizes software aptitude and the latter mechanical.
I still think it's a bit convenient that M$ takes 6+ years to develop something as awful as Vista, then spends less than 3 developing something remarkably usable, innovative and stable (at least compared to its predecessor.)
I just thank Canonical, FOSS coders everywhere, and the good man upstairs for (K/U)buntu!
Reading the actual language[PDF] of the proposed legislation doesn't lead to the conclusions presented in TFAs.
Brian Bowman claims that the laws would prevent profits gained from city-owned broadband from benefiting non-communications-related services, when essentially the laws propose the opposite. It specifically prohibits the subsidization of communications services with taxes claimed from other sources. That is, one's property tax can't fund the communications service. If I don't want city broadband, why should I pay for it?
Furthermore the bill requires that the communications service pay all the regular taxes a private company would pay, which goes into the house fund and can be used for public expenditure. Even if the profits may not transfer directly to other city services, the taxes gained from the service do.
Sure, the bill requires the city to charge no less than its cost, but how is this a bad thing?
Now this does bother me. From the bill:
Shall, in calculating the cost incurred and in the rates to be charged for the provision of communications services, impute: (i) the cost of the capital component that is equivalent to the cost of capital available to private communications service providers in the same locality;
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds like price fixing to me. The city has to charge at least what the other guys' cost is. If the state's cost is less, why can't they charge less?
I understand my opinion falls into a scarce minority here at/. so please direct ostracism and mockery to/dev/null. I am not an expert in either evolution or creation theory, so judge accordingly.
Creation science/creationism/ID theory is not:
fundamentalism
Christianity
the opposite of evolution, even though it focuses on the inadequacy of evolutionary theory to explain biodiversity
an attempt to disprove science
a substitute thereof
a religion, though it may have religious implications
inherently unscientific
Creationists or proponents of intelligent design base their ideas on a few readily observable phenomena (or lack thereof), some of which are:
information does not spontaneously arise from noise, regardless of timeframe; spontaneous decreases in entropy does not mean a spontaneous increase in information (e.g. ice crystals)
abiogenesis, which is axiomatic to evolutionary theory, has never been observed nor reproduced, even with the assistance of our collective intelligence and decades of trial
Many different biological systems rely on each other to survive, which could not have evolved independently. E.G. Bees rely on plants for pollen, and certain plants rely on bees to pollinate them.
ID proponents presuppose that every physical phenomena will not necessarily have a naturalistic/material cause & explanation. Most ID scholars acknowledge evolutionary principles (genetic drift, natural selection, "microevolution") but reject common ancestry based on a lack of demonstrable evidence (no real consensus on phylogeny, spotty/inconsistent fossil record, true speciation never observed). Creationists also assert that an unobserved, unreproducible event (abiogenesis) is as inherently unscientific as invoking a creator-god or other supernatural phenomena for origin of life. Evolution (change) is scientific and observable but the keystone event that common ancestry relies on is inherently unscientific, just like the assumption that "god did it." Both theories seek to explain events that we cannot reproduce or observe. My point is, this debate becomes metaphysical/philosophical/theological (or at least unscientific) no matter which side of the tracks we find ourselves on.
*waits for flames/mods down*
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It's a bad idea because the potential for disastrous mistakes, oversights, and miscalculations to cripple future generations is staggering. Sure, your designer baby might never get Alzheimers, but who cares if it won't even live long enough to get it because of some deficiency caused by mis-manipulated genes?
Who are we to assume we know enough about this to put *human lives* at risk?
not free, just zero obligatory cost to user. Google isn't truly free because you get AdSense on the right of every search, which are paid for by advertisers. Wikipedia is free but gets millions in donations from many sources.
Nothing of use is truly free to produce, (see parent) but since the cost of disseminating digital services divides to almost nothing per client, only a few of those customers need to support the provider to keep everyone in "free" service.
When I can try a fully-functional product/service before investing a dime, I am much more likely to pay/donate than if I am required to pay even nominal cost upfront. That is why I've spent much more on FOSS in the last 10 years than I have commercial software.
from my understanding UAC is designed to prevent execution of malicious code, or at least warn the user of the potential threat that they may be launching a virus instead of "top40.mp3" they just pirated from limewire.
As a repair tech at a small computer shop, I service *plenty* of infected Vista machines with UAC enabled. At least 1 in 3 have rogues like Antivirus 2009 installed.
So IMHO this "security hole" in UAC is moot because the PEBKAC.
Vista is the "New Coke" to XP's Coca-Cola, and 7 is "Coca-Cola Classic."
Maybe I'm just jaded/cynical, but isn't this a bit too convenient? MS goes from taking 6+ years developing a bloated, buggy, annoying OS to releasing a suspiciously stable, fast and well-supported OS in less than 2?
Accept a mission from one of a few places that offer them, always to kill Mr. X.
Travel to the location of Mr. X via hoverboat or jeep, stopping at every guard post along the way to kill the guards, even at posts you've already cleared. Optionally you can blaze through the posts and take nominal spray damage. Also kill the kamikaze jeeps that stop right next to you so you can more efficiently waste them with the.50cal gun on your jeep.
That's a negative, at least in California. I work at a computer repair shop and my boss has dealt with this situation before on customers' computers. He also knows many cops in town who advised him *against* reporting the porn for liability reasons. Possession is possession, apparently.
on how to screw your enemies.
Unlike porn on the Internet, cell phone pictures are *sent*, not *requested* or *received with consent.* Unless you specifically request otherwise from your carrier, you will automatically receive picture messages from whomever decides to send them to your cell phone.
This combined with the details of this case make it disturbingly easy to frame someone...
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Yawn. Just more extrapolating trends too far. Sure, when iCrap caught on, CD sales took a nose dive, but I still encounter CDs almost every day. They still fill a functional niche, and I suspect we'll still find CD-Rs on sale at Big Box for a long time. They're a cheap, portable way to physically transport a chunk data—especially audio. No, I'm not burning hundreds at a time, but when I need one, it's the best tool for the job. Contrast this to a floppy, which was totally unreliable, low capacity and utterly replaced by flash drives because of their superiority in almost every way. Sure, we're probably headed for a world where a lot fewer people are buying 4GHz desktops with 8gb ram, and, sure, lots of people will herd happily into walled gardens, because they don't care or don't know better. There are people who only ever used their PC for facebook et al., hell, they probably already swapped it for a mobile device. The thing we can't ever lose sight of is that consumer spending drives this industry. As long as people are willing to spend money for something, someone will be there to accept that money. Just ask the millions of PC gamers out there when they will trade their uber PC for a tablet. Just because something becomes less commonplace and more specialized doesn't mean it's just going to disappear. FUD.
The site says I'm a pirate and I've downloaded tons of warez and porn from a Hughes Net satellite connection capped at 500MB per day. I check my modem's quota regularly and we never use more than a few MB. Obviously either a) making stuff up or b) not accounting for dynamic IPs whatsoever.
It's exclusively available from A Book Apart.
1- do not serve ads from remote servers 2- do not associate with external sites like facebook, etc 3- do not use web bugs, beacons or other trackers
Those three things probably account for 99.9% of the sloth in today's internet
Responsive, in this context, doesn't refer to loading time, but rather the adaptability of a website to respond to a UA's canvas at almost any size and orientation while remaining usable.
Because as much as I hate and disagree with it, breaking DRM is illegal in the US under the DMCA, and there are still some of us who grudgingly but respectfully honor the rule of law.
I was in a very similar situation as OP and found PING very helpful. It doesn't provide any automated way of creating a recovery partition, but the documentation does explain how to make automated system restore discs. The principle is nearly the same, so adapting it shouldn't be too hard.
Off the cuff, I imagine it would go like this:
The main downside to this is it relies on GRUB, which may not be desirable to your customers. It's also tedious to set up.
It's really worth mentioning that creating an automated restore disc is much easier.
Seriously. Combofix run from Safe Mode with Command Prompt = 99% of viruses removed. Run a full MBAM scan in normal mode and sfc /scannow if you're really paranoid. Move on with your life.
Sorry to break the Slashdot cliche of Christian-bashing, but we aren't all bigoted hatemongers.
Every Christian church I've ever attended ascribes to the idea that we should "hate the sin, love the sinner," and, as such, welcomes and loves gays with Christlike love. I have gays in my family who I love wholeheartedly. I have had close friendships with gays, and known them in the work environment, and always given them the respect every human deserves.
New Testament theology (the New Covenant in Jesus' blood) places all of us humans on equal plane of guilt in sin before God, and in equal need of the forgiveness that Jesus brings. I am a recovering addict and alcoholic saved by that grace, keenly aware of my former guilt, so I consciously and adamantly extend that grace to everyone...even gays.
I have used hostmonster.com for the better part of a year, who boast nearly "unlimited everything" for about $6/mo. You have to pay in year increments, but I've been satisfied by their speed, uptime and customer support.
Years ago I purchased a retail box XP Pro from the MS company store. Over the course of moves I lost the original key, so I downloaded the corporate/cracked ISO. Now I don't have to re-activate every time I feel like trying the latest Ubuntu (which I've subsequently switched over to, incidentally).
Similarly I "pirate" the computer games I've purchased, since they come with DRM-free executables. I know I purchased them and did not resell them, so I have no problem "illegally downloading" myself a replacement copy if I lose or damage my install media.
Isn't 4nm > .11nm?
It's quite natural to associate "Microsoft" with "disease" when a good 6 out of 10 Windows machines I encounter are infected with malware.
Also, "hating" MS is much different than "strongly disagreeing with," "not preferring" or being "unsatisfied with" MS.
Perhaps 80-90% of hardware issues can be solved this way, almost every software issue cannot.
Ever had to extract data from a corrupted RAID0 array using ddrescue? How about set up a PXE environment that serves partimage clones of basic OS configurations to new machines? Manual virus removal involving registry editing from a *nix live CD? Reset Windows passwords remotely? Sort through the endless compatibility BS with Vista?
I very much doubt that in a week's time one could teach such things to even the most adept, and all of these scenarios have occupied my time as a bench tech.
Computer and automotive repair both require extensive training and expertise, the former just emphasizes software aptitude and the latter mechanical.
I still think it's a bit convenient that M$ takes 6+ years to develop something as awful as Vista, then spends less than 3 developing something remarkably usable, innovative and stable (at least compared to its predecessor.) I just thank Canonical, FOSS coders everywhere, and the good man upstairs for (K/U)buntu!
Furthermore the bill requires that the communications service pay all the regular taxes a private company would pay, which goes into the house fund and can be used for public expenditure. Even if the profits may not transfer directly to other city services, the taxes gained from the service do.
Sure, the bill requires the city to charge no less than its cost, but how is this a bad thing?
Now this does bother me. From the bill:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds like price fixing to me. The city has to charge at least what the other guys' cost is. If the state's cost is less, why can't they charge less?
Orwell got everything right except the year. The Thought Police are now a reality, at least in Phoenix.
Creation science/creationism/ID theory is not:
Creationists or proponents of intelligent design base their ideas on a few readily observable phenomena (or lack thereof), some of which are:
ID proponents presuppose that every physical phenomena will not necessarily have a naturalistic/material cause & explanation. Most ID scholars acknowledge evolutionary principles (genetic drift, natural selection, "microevolution") but reject common ancestry based on a lack of demonstrable evidence (no real consensus on phylogeny, spotty/inconsistent fossil record, true speciation never observed). Creationists also assert that an unobserved, unreproducible event (abiogenesis) is as inherently unscientific as invoking a creator-god or other supernatural phenomena for origin of life. Evolution (change) is scientific and observable but the keystone event that common ancestry relies on is inherently unscientific, just like the assumption that "god did it." Both theories seek to explain events that we cannot reproduce or observe. My point is, this debate becomes metaphysical/philosophical/theological (or at least unscientific) no matter which side of the tracks we find ourselves on.
*waits for flames/mods down*
It's a bad idea because the potential for disastrous mistakes, oversights, and miscalculations to cripple future generations is staggering. Sure, your designer baby might never get Alzheimers, but who cares if it won't even live long enough to get it because of some deficiency caused by mis-manipulated genes?
Who are we to assume we know enough about this to put *human lives* at risk?
not free, just zero obligatory cost to user. Google isn't truly free because you get AdSense on the right of every search, which are paid for by advertisers. Wikipedia is free but gets millions in donations from many sources.
Nothing of use is truly free to produce, (see parent) but since the cost of disseminating digital services divides to almost nothing per client, only a few of those customers need to support the provider to keep everyone in "free" service.
When I can try a fully-functional product/service before investing a dime, I am much more likely to pay/donate than if I am required to pay even nominal cost upfront. That is why I've spent much more on FOSS in the last 10 years than I have commercial software.
from my understanding UAC is designed to prevent execution of malicious code, or at least warn the user of the potential threat that they may be launching a virus instead of "top40.mp3" they just pirated from limewire.
As a repair tech at a small computer shop, I service *plenty* of infected Vista machines with UAC enabled. At least 1 in 3 have rogues like Antivirus 2009 installed.
So IMHO this "security hole" in UAC is moot because the PEBKAC.
Vista is the "New Coke" to XP's Coca-Cola, and 7 is "Coca-Cola Classic."
Maybe I'm just jaded/cynical, but isn't this a bit too convenient? MS goes from taking 6+ years developing a bloated, buggy, annoying OS to releasing a suspiciously stable, fast and well-supported OS in less than 2?
Yawn.
That's a negative, at least in California. I work at a computer repair shop and my boss has dealt with this situation before on customers' computers. He also knows many cops in town who advised him *against* reporting the porn for liability reasons. Possession is possession, apparently.
on how to screw your enemies. Unlike porn on the Internet, cell phone pictures are *sent*, not *requested* or *received with consent.* Unless you specifically request otherwise from your carrier, you will automatically receive picture messages from whomever decides to send them to your cell phone. This combined with the details of this case make it disturbingly easy to frame someone...
DRM.