Destroyers of the modern world. No need to bomb these people into the stone age, they've voluntarily moved back to it. The degree to which 'devout' religious people accept science is a measure of their hypocrisy. Note that these are typically the most strident and outspoken ones.
Even though we can, we won't bust you or censor you... unless we want to, then we have a contract to point at. PLUS, if Uncle Sugar sends in the FBI to snoop you, we can point to the contract that YOU signed, saying we could. So we're indemnified.
The comment was directed at the author of the article, and the submitter, and the Slashdot 'editor' who posted the content, rather than the actual event. Something which you apparently missed completely.
2 common misconceptions. Apples apparently 'just work' if you spend time crawling the forums.
Not a troll, just a comment. If you had to do this with a Dell, people would be all over Dell for bad HW. Since its Apple, its a vendor-sponsored Easter egg hunt.
I'm an Internet geek, and while I do have long hair, I lack skinny arms, a dark tshirt, or a jokey nickname. There IS a world outside your computer lab, hipster.
2 stories after the "why are no American kids going to grad school?" article, we have an article that explains how Engineering is teamwork, enthusiasm, and feeling good about yourself. Coincidence?
I'll put on my Executive Hat here: "So Open Source is good for removing features, gotcha." Arguing about turning off Clippy not necessarily a shining example of why OSS is good. Things like zero-day exploits, internationalization, and no per server (or VM!!!) costs are what will make people adopt OSS.
How many times are the nerd, the handyman, and the car mechanic ridiculed as uncool, oafish lugs, while the wall street weenies, the lawyers and the "environmental education" majors held as paragons of success? Despite Feminism, girls are still taught that they "aren't good in math", and now with the emasculating of boy students (no running, no recess, no physical sports), the same extends. When a kid can claim "body by Warcraft" as a reason for not doing physical chores and get away with it, you know that practical, hard, rigorous work is a thing of the past. The foreign families know that hard work and high education matter, thats why their kids get good grades and come here to study in English.
So how is this magic? Wouldn't any covalent bonded molecule exhibit these properties? We're just interested in water on the anthropic principle - if it wasn't so "interesting" we'd all be dead. It doesn't mean its a magical chemical.
"The US System" - what the heck does that mean? The entire socio-economic engine behind American culture will sputter and die, simply because of a single patent law suit? You overestimate its impact, and your insight.
Sure, in the UK. Remember, USians, what's considered necessary and acceptable for government and municipal involvement is dramatically different than in the US. In my experience (lived in.UK and.DE) folks would find the government remiss if they weren't all over this sort of thing.
Its not about being in a 'rich' country. Firstly, Linux, much less Windows, won't even run on 2 of your machines. Windows certainly won't even install on the 486 (I'm guessing what, 8 MB of RAM?) Lacking a CDROM drive is the least of your problems.
The likelihood that you have a PC that old is miniscule, given the shitty quality of x86 commodity hardware. PS die, HDs die, when you upgrade CPUs, you need a new motherboard, etc.
Maybe you're screwed, maybe not. England isn't the socialist utopia the rest of Europe is, but its also not the kill-the-consumer wasteland the USA is.
Talk to a solicitor/barrister/whatever-you-people-call-it.
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Destroyers of the modern world. No need to bomb these people into the stone age, they've voluntarily moved back to it. The degree to which 'devout' religious people accept science is a measure of their hypocrisy. Note that these are typically the most strident and outspoken ones.
Translation:
Even though we can, we won't bust you or censor you... unless we want to, then we have a contract to point at. PLUS, if Uncle Sugar sends in the FBI to snoop you, we can point to the contract that YOU signed, saying we could. So we're indemnified.
The comment was directed at the author of the article, and the submitter, and the Slashdot 'editor' who posted the content, rather than the actual event. Something which you apparently missed completely.
Get a fucking piece of perspective.
2 common misconceptions. Apples apparently 'just work' if you spend time crawling the forums.
Not a troll, just a comment. If you had to do this with a Dell, people would be all over Dell for bad HW. Since its Apple, its a vendor-sponsored Easter egg hunt.
I'm an Internet geek, and while I do have long hair, I lack skinny arms, a dark tshirt, or a jokey nickname. There IS a world outside your computer lab, hipster.
FAIL.
eh, Taco? So much for not selling out to the man.
2 stories after the "why are no American kids going to grad school?" article, we have an article that explains how Engineering is teamwork, enthusiasm, and feeling good about yourself. Coincidence?
I'll put on my Executive Hat here: "So Open Source is good for removing features, gotcha." Arguing about turning off Clippy not necessarily a shining example of why OSS is good. Things like zero-day exploits, internationalization, and no per server (or VM!!!) costs are what will make people adopt OSS.
How many times are the nerd, the handyman, and the car mechanic ridiculed as uncool, oafish lugs, while the wall street weenies, the lawyers and the "environmental education" majors held as paragons of success? Despite Feminism, girls are still taught that they "aren't good in math", and now with the emasculating of boy students (no running, no recess, no physical sports), the same extends. When a kid can claim "body by Warcraft" as a reason for not doing physical chores and get away with it, you know that practical, hard, rigorous work is a thing of the past. The foreign families know that hard work and high education matter, thats why their kids get good grades and come here to study in English.
So how is this magic? Wouldn't any covalent bonded molecule exhibit these properties? We're just interested in water on the anthropic principle - if it wasn't so "interesting" we'd all be dead. It doesn't mean its a magical chemical.
"The US System" - what the heck does that mean? The entire socio-economic engine behind American culture will sputter and die, simply because of a single patent law suit? You overestimate its impact, and your insight.
Is Amazon watermarking or hashing these, so that when they show up on Torrent sites, they can prove wrongdoing?
Sure, in the UK. Remember, USians, what's considered necessary and acceptable for government and municipal involvement is dramatically different than in the US. In my experience (lived in .UK and .DE) folks would find the government remiss if they weren't all over this sort of thing.
Thats funny - I work for one of the top 10 US banks, and none of our forms are PDFs. Corporate culture is a strange thing.
ok, how many cents per KWh does it add to the cost to put that much CO2 into the air?
You don't know? Sounds like willful ignorance.
You do realize that burning coal has put more Uranium into the air than all the atomic explosions combined right?
Um, what physical drive can push remotely close to that?
Douche.
Um, not all of us are bloggers, so mind sharing with the group WTF these mean?
Its not about being in a 'rich' country. Firstly, Linux, much less Windows, won't even run on 2 of your machines. Windows certainly won't even install on the 486 (I'm guessing what, 8 MB of RAM?) Lacking a CDROM drive is the least of your problems.
The likelihood that you have a PC that old is miniscule, given the shitty quality of x86 commodity hardware. PS die, HDs die, when you upgrade CPUs, you need a new motherboard, etc.
Free pass from all OS safeguards, check.
Likely trivial exploit through video driver, check.
Protection from disabling by user, check.
Autoinstall of malware every time someone hits the start button, profit.
Maybe you're screwed, maybe not. England isn't the socialist utopia the rest of Europe is, but its also not the kill-the-consumer wasteland the USA is.
Talk to a solicitor/barrister/whatever-you-people-call-it.
Any Unix GUI environment could allow this as well.
ClickMe.sh
For instance, could hose up your home directory and data pretty badly, if say, KDE's shell ran shell scripts when clicked.
I'm not sure how many Skype users would "blithely" click on anything.