have been in use by the U.S. Navy for decades. They've plenty of safety and failure rate data on them, they've got a high safety rating, and they're pretty small. Start mass producing them suckers and they'll be cheap as hell. Start peppering the power grid with them here and there, and soon we'll have clean, virtually unlimited power. Most counties in the country can get by with one, and still have plenty of power to spare which can be sold off to the larger cities that need would more than one.
...I'm sure many other smart TV platforms are similarly insecure, in that they assume your wifi network is a secure environment.
As it should be. Other than setting the password/key, and letting my router know about them, I don't want to have to deal with security on each and every device I connect to my LAN. If you don't secure your home network, whether it be wired or wifi, you have no one to blame but yourself if you get 'hacked'. Although it's not really hacking if you leave it wide open.
Every news outlet that exists has had multiple stories about the risks of leaving your network open, and there is absolutely no excuse for not knowing about it. Hell, it's just a click or two in the router settings. Most people leave or turn it off for convenience. Anyone that does this deserves to be hacked.
Linux is almost as bad when it comes to memory bloat.
That depends on which (if any) window manager you use. Linux itself requires far less resources than even Win98 did, much less XP, or what Vista and Win 7 require. With the proper WM, linux will run on old 16 bit CPUs with no problems at all. Granted, it won't be all flashy-shiny, but it will run just fine.
After the PATRIOT Act made it legal to for the feds to confiscate book borrowing records from libraries without even a warrant, most libraries switched over to lending software that deleted all records once a book was returned.
Not buying it - as circulation records are a libraries lifeblood come budget time.
They only need to know numbers, not who those numbers correspond to.
Perhaps this is something that should be considered for all company issued laptops. Have them set up from the git-go to dual boot. The company OS can be on an encrypted partition with a separate partition set up for the employees personal OS. Install Windows on there, but allow the employee to change that if they wish.
Problem solved. Companies data is behind company encryption safely away from any malware and/or viruses that may infect employees partition.
I'd say the person who put it online in a part of a website dedicated to sexualised images of children, and the site which knowingly lets that happen. Cut those two out, and the problem is gone.
The problem is no more gone than if you were to take a cup of water off the counter and pour it down the drain. The water still exists, you've just removed from your sight.
The only thing you've done is removed the images from your view, thereby makeing yourself feel like you've "helped the children" when in fact you've done very little to solve the problem.
cheap Chinese tablet, with plastic screen and low specs
why that fixation to have hard, heavy metal casings on handheld devices ? isnt it stupid to haul around something heavy ? or, 'shiny' is more important than 'light' for you ?
I think it's more of a durability thing, being hand held and all. I'd rather not have my $300 + toy shatter the first time I drop it.
All these new features are great (when they work), but they need to keep new feature additions to new versions. Minor version updates are supposed to be to fix bugs and improve performance, not add new features complete with new bugs. There are a ton of old bugs, quite a few of which are major issues, that they need to work on before adding in more to the mix.
The KDE developers are as bad as the Ubuntu dev team. They add in a new feature, then move on to the next new feature completely ignoring the cries for help from their users about the bugs they just introduced.
I'm already looking for a distro change, possibly Mint, or even going back to plain old Debian. I'm beginning to think I may need a DE change as well.
I don't see a problem either, if I can get the item locally. And by locally, I mean in the city I'm currently residing in, not the next city over (32 miles to the next largest city).
I order from Amazon, the things I can't get in my local stores, and yes, that include Wal-Mart. If my local stores complain about me shopping online, then they had better be offering me the same products.
Maybe they should've thought of the future cost and rent increases when they spent (probibly more than £40,000) on that fancy stained glass roof and potery ensctibed wooden panels.
And with (as stated above, I didn't look it up myself) 80 members, that's less than a friggen 5 note per membrer a month. I think they were just looking for an excuse to disband and/or find a new hobby.
The poster sucks at punctuation. "Lets face, it we aren't...", when read quickly, can be mistaken for 'Lets face it, if we aren't...'. Even knowing what it says now, I still read it the second way if I read it quickly.
Lets face, it we aren't going to provide everyone with IPads, and computers. The Internet is not a right.
Bull shit! You have the right to travel to the next city over, but that doesn't mean the government has to pay for your transportation. You also have the right to bear arms, but that doesn't mean you get a free weapon. Having a right to something doesn't mean you get it without cost to you.
Smart phones aren't only phones anymore, they've combined the PDA and cell phone into one unit. They now need applications to do what the users want/need them to do, and a scripting language that's easy for non-programmers to use isn't a bad idea. I'm not sure BASIC is the one I'd choose though, but if there's a market for it, someone will make it.
Come to think of it, they're starting to do that with the car stereo as well.
I meant a tool that allows non-geeks to click a single button (or better no button at all...) and it installs + updates the relevant contents in the hosts file
Yes, ignorance is bliss... for the malware developers.
I understand your thought process here, but this is one of the main reasons viruses and other crap are so prevalent on Windows computers. Crating programs for the sole purpose of entering a single entry in to the host file is a waste of time and resources, not to mention opening another vulnerability. It would take less than a minute to type up a paragraph explaining how to manually enter the IP address, and the reason for it, that even the most ignorant of users could understand. Of course that won't stop the "Click here to get around the block" malware infested emails that will be overtaking our inboxes, but it's my belief anyone still dumb enough to click on those deserve what they get.
It doesn't matter how the damn thing looks. Every friggin LCD TV manufactured since the dawn of LCD TVs look and feel the same. If it weren't for the glowing 'Sony' emblem on mine, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between it and a Vizo, Samsung, or any other brand sitting on the shelf next to each other. Ditto for pretty much every LCD monitor, as well. If you're stupid enough to buy a Samsung tablet, thinking you're getting an iPad, then you deserve neither. Caveat emptor, you stupid "consumer". I'm a customer, and I look at what I'm purchasing to make sure it's what I want.
Just because something is black with rounded corners, doesn't mean it's patentable. I hope Apple gets their asses handed to them soon over their bull shit patents.
I don't know why this is getting moded 'Troll' (other than the baning part is a bit overboard). It's completely true. Women use makeup, implants and surgery to make themselves into something they aren't in order to get what they want.
Why does a movie need a soundtrack? Because thats the way it's been done since the days of silent movies? There are only two places where silence might need to be filled. 1) During the beginning credits, and those can be unobtrusively displayed during the action, as has been done before, and 2) during the ending credits, which, without a professional crew of 5000, won't be ten or fifteen minutes long, and no one watches anyway,
No, a soundtrack is really not needed for a movie. If the director/producer/whoever decides these things decides it needs a soundtrack, there are plenty of indi musicians out there that will be more than happy to do it at a reasonable price.
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have been in use by the U.S. Navy for decades. They've plenty of safety and failure rate data on them, they've got a high safety rating, and they're pretty small. Start mass producing them suckers and they'll be cheap as hell. Start peppering the power grid with them here and there, and soon we'll have clean, virtually unlimited power. Most counties in the country can get by with one, and still have plenty of power to spare which can be sold off to the larger cities that need would more than one.
And if $200 is draining your credit card, maybe its time to rethink having an iPhone.
He said draiing, not maxing out. You can drain a swiming pool with a 1/4" tube. It may take a while, but it's still draining.
...I'm sure many other smart TV platforms are similarly insecure, in that they assume your wifi network is a secure environment.
As it should be. Other than setting the password/key, and letting my router know about them, I don't want to have to deal with security on each and every device I connect to my LAN. If you don't secure your home network, whether it be wired or wifi, you have no one to blame but yourself if you get 'hacked'. Although it's not really hacking if you leave it wide open.
Every news outlet that exists has had multiple stories about the risks of leaving your network open, and there is absolutely no excuse for not knowing about it. Hell, it's just a click or two in the router settings. Most people leave or turn it off for convenience. Anyone that does this deserves to be hacked.
Take a look at the NoSquint plugin.
Linux is almost as bad when it comes to memory bloat.
That depends on which (if any) window manager you use. Linux itself requires far less resources than even Win98 did, much less XP, or what Vista and Win 7 require. With the proper WM, linux will run on old 16 bit CPUs with no problems at all. Granted, it won't be all flashy-shiny, but it will run just fine.
Not buying it - as circulation records are a libraries lifeblood come budget time.
They only need to know numbers, not who those numbers correspond to.
Perhaps this is something that should be considered for all company issued laptops. Have them set up from the git-go to dual boot. The company OS can be on an encrypted partition with a separate partition set up for the employees personal OS. Install Windows on there, but allow the employee to change that if they wish.
Problem solved. Companies data is behind company encryption safely away from any malware and/or viruses that may infect employees partition.
I don't have a tablet, nor will I until I can get one that's not tied to a phone contract.
If you get a phone contract on your non 3G tablet, I have a bridge I'll sell you real cheap like.
I'd say the person who put it online in a part of a website dedicated to sexualised images of children, and the site which knowingly lets that happen. Cut those two out, and the problem is gone.
The problem is no more gone than if you were to take a cup of water off the counter and pour it down the drain. The water still exists, you've just removed from your sight.
The only thing you've done is removed the images from your view, thereby makeing yourself feel like you've "helped the children" when in fact you've done very little to solve the problem.
... If I get a tablet, it needs to have 3G.
Why? A tablet isn't intended as a replacement to your cell phone. You already have 3/4G access there, why pay for another?
cheap Chinese tablet, with plastic screen and low specs
why that fixation to have hard, heavy metal casings on handheld devices ? isnt it stupid to haul around something heavy ? or, 'shiny' is more important than 'light' for you ?
I think it's more of a durability thing, being hand held and all. I'd rather not have my $300 + toy shatter the first time I drop it.
All these new features are great (when they work), but they need to keep new feature additions to new versions. Minor version updates are supposed to be to fix bugs and improve performance, not add new features complete with new bugs. There are a ton of old bugs, quite a few of which are major issues, that they need to work on before adding in more to the mix.
The KDE developers are as bad as the Ubuntu dev team. They add in a new feature, then move on to the next new feature completely ignoring the cries for help from their users about the bugs they just introduced.
I'm already looking for a distro change, possibly Mint, or even going back to plain old Debian. I'm beginning to think I may need a DE change as well.
Having the hostname in the prompt doesn't give you a hint as to which machine your currently using?
I don't see a problem either, if I can get the item locally. And by locally, I mean in the city I'm currently residing in, not the next city over (32 miles to the next largest city).
I order from Amazon, the things I can't get in my local stores, and yes, that include Wal-Mart. If my local stores complain about me shopping online, then they had better be offering me the same products.
Maybe they should've thought of the future cost and rent increases when they spent (probibly more than £40,000) on that fancy stained glass roof and potery ensctibed wooden panels.
And with (as stated above, I didn't look it up myself) 80 members, that's less than a friggen 5 note per membrer a month. I think they were just looking for an excuse to disband and/or find a new hobby.
The poster sucks at punctuation. "Lets face, it we aren't...", when read quickly, can be mistaken for 'Lets face it, if we aren't...'. Even knowing what it says now, I still read it the second way if I read it quickly.
Lets face, it we aren't going to provide everyone with IPads, and computers. The Internet is not a right.
Bull shit! You have the right to travel to the next city over, but that doesn't mean the government has to pay for your transportation. You also have the right to bear arms, but that doesn't mean you get a free weapon. Having a right to something doesn't mean you get it without cost to you.
Smart phones aren't only phones anymore, they've combined the PDA and cell phone into one unit. They now need applications to do what the users want/need them to do, and a scripting language that's easy for non-programmers to use isn't a bad idea. I'm not sure BASIC is the one I'd choose though, but if there's a market for it, someone will make it.
Come to think of it, they're starting to do that with the car stereo as well.
I meant a tool that allows non-geeks to click a single button (or better no button at all...) and it installs + updates the relevant contents in the hosts file
Yes, ignorance is bliss... for the malware developers.
I understand your thought process here, but this is one of the main reasons viruses and other crap are so prevalent on Windows computers. Crating programs for the sole purpose of entering a single entry in to the host file is a waste of time and resources, not to mention opening another vulnerability. It would take less than a minute to type up a paragraph explaining how to manually enter the IP address, and the reason for it, that even the most ignorant of users could understand. Of course that won't stop the "Click here to get around the block" malware infested emails that will be overtaking our inboxes, but it's my belief anyone still dumb enough to click on those deserve what they get.
... or use a tool which hardcodes it in the 's hosts ....
That "tool" would be called a text editor, or Notepad, for those of you not computer literate.
App is short for application. The whole kit and kaboodle from iOS to email, ituens and the calendar all the way to the fart app is an app.
It doesn't matter how the damn thing looks. Every friggin LCD TV manufactured since the dawn of LCD TVs look and feel the same. If it weren't for the glowing 'Sony' emblem on mine, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between it and a Vizo, Samsung, or any other brand sitting on the shelf next to each other. Ditto for pretty much every LCD monitor, as well. If you're stupid enough to buy a Samsung tablet, thinking you're getting an iPad, then you deserve neither. Caveat emptor, you stupid "consumer". I'm a customer, and I look at what I'm purchasing to make sure it's what I want.
Just because something is black with rounded corners, doesn't mean it's patentable. I hope Apple gets their asses handed to them soon over their bull shit patents.
I don't know why this is getting moded 'Troll' (other than the baning part is a bit overboard). It's completely true. Women use makeup, implants and surgery to make themselves into something they aren't in order to get what they want.
...Furthermore, a movie needs a soundtrack.
Why does a movie need a soundtrack? Because thats the way it's been done since the days of silent movies? There are only two places where silence might need to be filled. 1) During the beginning credits, and those can be unobtrusively displayed during the action, as has been done before, and 2) during the ending credits, which, without a professional crew of 5000, won't be ten or fifteen minutes long, and no one watches anyway,
No, a soundtrack is really not needed for a movie. If the director/producer/whoever decides these things decides it needs a soundtrack, there are plenty of indi musicians out there that will be more than happy to do it at a reasonable price.
Id' say 99% of 7.1, or even 5.1 systems sold are for video systems not audio.