Actually I do have fun occasionally picking at malware and malicious websites, but I can't get them to infect my Linux machine. Even without noscript, noflash, nofun etc. At the present time, those with a reasonably secure Linux box at home are pretty safe from nearly all common attacks.
Its funny because the same feeling people get about using Linux (will it run what I need to), I now get when I boot into Windows. I sit there in front of windows and wonder, what can I do with this? I'm not sure its going to run the applications I need it to. The tables have turned.
I get the same feeling, but it's when I'm trying to network my customers' Windows computers or trying to install Windows, MS Office etc...For that reason I charge a lot more to do Windows installs and maintenance than I do for Linux.
I've been using Evince on Linux for years now. No dramas. Runs about 10 times faster than the Adobe Reader as well.
Does whether a particular reader is cross-platform really matter? Most people only seem to use the zoom in/out, scroll up/down and preview pane functions anyway. Not a lot to figure out on a different system...
That kind of test doesn't really work accurately. It only tells whether a chemical battery is completely (or almost) unusable, but otherwise it's remarkably unreliable.
Hehe. Pity it's how I know when to get a new battery...
I can go to the full service gas station down the street right now and ask the guy if my battery is OK or needs replacement. Seems pretty obvious to me that a business based on exchanging batteries would do this matter of factly on every battery swapped.
One important difference here. In your current situation, the guy at the gas station presumably hopes to sell you a battery and make a profit. In the exchange system, the vendor would presumably have to replace a dead battery themselves, incurring a loss.
How about instead of having one big battery, you have two smaller batteries. That way if there is a problem with one, you still have the other half of your charge fully functional. That SHOULD be enough to get you to the next swap station.
Unfortunately multiple redundancy often has it's downfall in costs and weight. I doubt that many manufacturers (or especially buyers) would go for it.
A battery can easily report its status, number of charge/discharges already performed, etc. The charge depot could easily enough use those data to avoid handing out defective batteries and prevent people from using them as a super-cheap battery replacement service(either hand out "like condition" batteries, or charge/credit for the difference in remaining lifespan).
Whether the Air Force, NSA, FBI, or whatever agency gains the specific monopoly of offensive cyber warfare in the US is irrelevant. The real question is why the US wants it and the US government wants offensive cyber capabilities for one reason and one reason alone...
China got there first.
Oh, and to 'protect American interests at home and abroad'. Maybe two reasons...
Does anyone know if battery testing technology is sufficiently advanced for this to be feasible?
Shouldn't be too hard. Apply a voltmeter and then draw a heavy current on a separate circuit over a set time. That should a reasonable indication of the basic quality of the battery. Same way you test a car battery now. Apply voltmeter, crank motor. If the voltage drops fast, the battery is toast.
In future news, Apple announces the release of their new, sleek iCar! With touch-screen capabilities, smooth acceleration, and lots of eye candy. Better Place, however has been stymied by the fact that the iCar's batter is sealed and hidden inside of the frame of the car, and cannot be swapped out. Millions of iCar fans can only hope to travel 250 miles and struggle to find their lost iCar charging adapters, while Microsoft and PC-maker made Windows-Roadsters take advantage of the Better Place swapping program.
gCar and kCar enthusists, while having the first electric cars out there can be seen at the side of the road, can be seen hand-wiring in their own D-cell battery replacements every 100 feet, soldering gun in hand.
The only problem with the Better Place swapping program is that you have to hunt all over the place to find them, answer a stupifying amount of questions to gain access and then accept a GRA (Genuine Roadsters Advantage) tracking device/kill switch to make sure that you don't violate the TOS. The gCar and kCar include a Battery Manager that finds the nearest Power Stop for you, guides you there and charges the car for you when you arrive.
When you buy a litre of petrol, it should take you a set distance. When you fill up on LPG, Hydrogen or whatever, the same is the case. There is one important factor in the battery swapping idea that is fundamentally different though. Batteries degrade and can at times do so in strange ways.
Say, for example, that someone has let a spare battery sit idle for some months, charges it up at home and, knowing it's rubbish now, goes off to the nearest fuel stop to change it. Automated process charges it, dispenses it. You get stuck on the freeway after only a few kilometres.
If you stick to your own battery, then you can tell the condition of the battery over time. No dramas. Even with thorough checking though, battery changing services have a lot of questions in regards to reliability and liabilities if it is to work. Who picks up the tab for a dead battery? The owner or the 'fuel' vendor?
Reviewing what I said, I'm not sure that I explicitly stated that there was anything necessarily 'wrong' with it at all. My own inclination is generally to open source things or put a CC on them. I do however have a trademark on my business name. If I'd spent some weeks, months or years photographing and otherwise cataloging books etc, I'd probably want to at least make my costs back. The only concern could be if the terms of the copyright stifled someone else' research.
If anyone knows of any, incidentally, they might also know of one that can handle classical, a.k.a. polytonic, Greek -- I'd be very interested in being pointed towards one -- pretty please
My apologies. Silent prayer in private time is not against school rules. There was however an interesting case of Muslims being denied prayer at the times set in their religion. They also would not allow him to pray in a private place.
My main point however was that bias goes both ways in schools and this point you illustrated quite well thank you by saying this:
Good. I don't want my kids' Christian/Muslim/Satanist/Pagan/What-freaking-ever-ist teacher trying to install their religion into my kids' heads.
A judge in Utah once ruled in favor of a school that suspended a student for wearing a t-shirt with the word 'Vegan'. (Do you think the judge would have made the same ruling if the student's t-shirt had said 'Christian'?
Yes. Sure they would, but only if the t-shirt included dangerous words such as, "Dear Lord", "please" and "Amen". Allowing students to silently ask grace for their school lunches is downright un-American! Dangerous!
Agreeing with parent. Even with all of the work that has gone into patching Windows, it's still the most hacked OS out there. A huge amount of work has gone into security on Unix/Linux also due to the long history of use on servers. Linux just doesn't have good advertising. Do a bit of reading on Linux security (SELinux, Apparmor, etc.) and you might be surprised.
On the matter of fonts, why the problem? Buy a Windows font and install it in Linux. It will work as long as you have the right (generally standard) packages installed. The Windows font installer will not work, but the TrueType fonts etc WILL. Same for any Mac fonts. My Dad had collected a huge amount of fonts on his Mac, but wanted them on Linux, so I installed them and they work just fine. Linux is very compatible with the rest of the world, don't believe the FUD.
While Vista is definitely a step above XP in security and does a much better job of trying to bring security to the users attention, the idea of it being the safest on the planet makes me laugh til it hurts.
If you take the total number of successful attacks, from not just desktop PC's, but servers inc. web and mail servers and then completely disregard the number of actual machines (real or virtual), then Vista comes out smiling! Of course it does! Big business in general doesn't want it and will stay with XP as long as possible, end users in general HATE it (I run a PC repair business - never had a customer yet who liked Vista) and often enough go back to XP when possible or even migrate to Linux. Lets face it. There just aren't that many Vista machines out there when compared to XP or on the server scene, Linux.
When (if ever) there are as many installs of Vista or Win 7 as there are of XP now, then I have no doubt it will catch more viruses than parents of pre-schoolers. Perhaps Kevin Turner also needs to be educated about the whole concept of 'per capita'.
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So the attackers for the main part have to fall back on social engineering. That's a pretty good advertisement for the software I reckon!
Actually I do have fun occasionally picking at malware and malicious websites, but I can't get them to infect my Linux machine. Even without noscript, noflash, nofun etc. At the present time, those with a reasonably secure Linux box at home are pretty safe from nearly all common attacks.
"First you have 5 cents, get another 5 cents you have 10 cents. Do that a few times more and you have enough money for a softdrink!"
Its funny because the same feeling people get about using Linux (will it run what I need to), I now get when I boot into Windows. I sit there in front of windows and wonder, what can I do with this? I'm not sure its going to run the applications I need it to. The tables have turned.
I get the same feeling, but it's when I'm trying to network my customers' Windows computers or trying to install Windows, MS Office etc...For that reason I charge a lot more to do Windows installs and maintenance than I do for Linux.
I've been using Evince on Linux for years now. No dramas. Runs about 10 times faster than the Adobe Reader as well.
Does whether a particular reader is cross-platform really matter? Most people only seem to use the zoom in/out, scroll up/down and preview pane functions anyway. Not a lot to figure out on a different system...
That kind of test doesn't really work accurately. It only tells whether a chemical battery is completely (or almost) unusable, but otherwise it's remarkably unreliable.
Hehe. Pity it's how I know when to get a new battery...
I can go to the full service gas station down the street right now and ask the guy if my battery is OK or needs replacement. Seems pretty obvious to me that a business based on exchanging batteries would do this matter of factly on every battery swapped.
One important difference here. In your current situation, the guy at the gas station presumably hopes to sell you a battery and make a profit. In the exchange system, the vendor would presumably have to replace a dead battery themselves, incurring a loss.
How about instead of having one big battery, you have two smaller batteries. That way if there is a problem with one, you still have the other half of your charge fully functional. That SHOULD be enough to get you to the next swap station.
Unfortunately multiple redundancy often has it's downfall in costs and weight. I doubt that many manufacturers (or especially buyers) would go for it.
A battery can easily report its status, number of charge/discharges already performed, etc. The charge depot could easily enough use those data to avoid handing out defective batteries and prevent people from using them as a super-cheap battery replacement service(either hand out "like condition" batteries, or charge/credit for the difference in remaining lifespan).
One word. "Trust".
Whether the Air Force, NSA, FBI, or whatever agency gains the specific monopoly of offensive cyber warfare in the US is irrelevant. The real question is why the US wants it and the US government wants offensive cyber capabilities for one reason and one reason alone...
China got there first.
Oh, and to 'protect American interests at home and abroad'. Maybe two reasons...
Does anyone know if battery testing technology is sufficiently advanced for this to be feasible?
Shouldn't be too hard. Apply a voltmeter and then draw a heavy current on a separate circuit over a set time. That should a reasonable indication of the basic quality of the battery. Same way you test a car battery now. Apply voltmeter, crank motor. If the voltage drops fast, the battery is toast.
In future news, Apple announces the release of their new, sleek iCar! With touch-screen capabilities, smooth acceleration, and lots of eye candy. Better Place, however has been stymied by the fact that the iCar's batter is sealed and hidden inside of the frame of the car, and cannot be swapped out. Millions of iCar fans can only hope to travel 250 miles and struggle to find their lost iCar charging adapters, while Microsoft and PC-maker made Windows-Roadsters take advantage of the Better Place swapping program.
gCar and kCar enthusists, while having the first electric cars out there can be seen at the side of the road, can be seen hand-wiring in their own D-cell battery replacements every 100 feet, soldering gun in hand.
The only problem with the Better Place swapping program is that you have to hunt all over the place to find them, answer a stupifying amount of questions to gain access and then accept a GRA (Genuine Roadsters Advantage) tracking device/kill switch to make sure that you don't violate the TOS. The gCar and kCar include a Battery Manager that finds the nearest Power Stop for you, guides you there and charges the car for you when you arrive.
When you buy a litre of petrol, it should take you a set distance. When you fill up on LPG, Hydrogen or whatever, the same is the case. There is one important factor in the battery swapping idea that is fundamentally different though. Batteries degrade and can at times do so in strange ways.
Say, for example, that someone has let a spare battery sit idle for some months, charges it up at home and, knowing it's rubbish now, goes off to the nearest fuel stop to change it. Automated process charges it, dispenses it. You get stuck on the freeway after only a few kilometres.
If you stick to your own battery, then you can tell the condition of the battery over time. No dramas. Even with thorough checking though, battery changing services have a lot of questions in regards to reliability and liabilities if it is to work. Who picks up the tab for a dead battery? The owner or the 'fuel' vendor?
Reviewing what I said, I'm not sure that I explicitly stated that there was anything necessarily 'wrong' with it at all. My own inclination is generally to open source things or put a CC on them. I do however have a trademark on my business name.
If I'd spent some weeks, months or years photographing and otherwise cataloging books etc, I'd probably want to at least make my costs back. The only concern could be if the terms of the copyright stifled someone else' research.
Could we ask them to develop a pig with an uncloven hoof? It would be interesting to see kosher bacon on the shelf.
It might have to chew the cud as well...
How? If their revenue dropped 50%, they'd just double their efforts. They're using scrapers, so it costs them nothing to harvest more content.
So. The sploggers double their efforts. The publishers income goes up in line with the sploggers. Who cares?
If anyone knows of any, incidentally, they might also know of one that can handle classical, a.k.a. polytonic, Greek -- I'd be very interested in being pointed towards one -- pretty please
Ditto. That would be a great tool for study!
Perhaps the people who digitized or translated the works can copyright the 'new' work that they have 'created'.
My apologies. Silent prayer in private time is not against school rules. There was however an interesting case of Muslims being denied prayer at the times set in their religion. They also would not allow him to pray in a private place.
My main point however was that bias goes both ways in schools and this point you illustrated quite well thank you by saying this:
Good. I don't want my kids' Christian/Muslim/Satanist/Pagan/What-freaking-ever-ist teacher trying to install their religion into my kids' heads.
A judge in Utah once ruled in favor of a school that suspended a student for wearing a t-shirt with the word 'Vegan'. (Do you think the judge would have made the same ruling if the student's t-shirt had said 'Christian'?
Yes. Sure they would, but only if the t-shirt included dangerous words such as, "Dear Lord", "please" and "Amen". Allowing students to silently ask grace for their school lunches is downright un-American! Dangerous!
I'm just a ham comedian
Agreeing with parent. Even with all of the work that has gone into patching Windows, it's still the most hacked OS out there. A huge amount of work has gone into security on Unix/Linux also due to the long history of use on servers. Linux just doesn't have good advertising. Do a bit of reading on Linux security (SELinux, Apparmor, etc.) and you might be surprised.
On the matter of fonts, why the problem? Buy a Windows font and install it in Linux. It will work as long as you have the right (generally standard) packages installed. The Windows font installer will not work, but the TrueType fonts etc WILL. Same for any Mac fonts. My Dad had collected a huge amount of fonts on his Mac, but wanted them on Linux, so I installed them and they work just fine. Linux is very compatible with the rest of the world, don't believe the FUD.
True, but can a tank get on the freeway without causing a traffic jam?
As far as the tank driver is concerned, there is no traffic jam!
While Vista is definitely a step above XP in security and does a much better job of trying to bring security to the users attention, the idea of it being the safest on the planet makes me laugh til it hurts.
If you take the total number of successful attacks, from not just desktop PC's, but servers inc. web and mail servers and then completely disregard the number of actual machines (real or virtual), then Vista comes out smiling! Of course it does! Big business in general doesn't want it and will stay with XP as long as possible, end users in general HATE it (I run a PC repair business - never had a customer yet who liked Vista) and often enough go back to XP when possible or even migrate to Linux. Lets face it. There just aren't that many Vista machines out there when compared to XP or on the server scene, Linux.
When (if ever) there are as many installs of Vista or Win 7 as there are of XP now, then I have no doubt it will catch more viruses than parents of pre-schoolers. Perhaps Kevin Turner also needs to be educated about the whole concept of 'per capita'.