a statement like that was clearly not thought through
No it wasn't, but it is typical of a lot of comments here about Windows, that are based either on a lack of knowledge or out of date information.
As you say, of all the things to rail on Windows about, a lack of user permissions most certainly isn't one of them - unless you've only ever used Win9x. In that case though, it's somewhat like bemoaning the state of Linux desktop environments, based purely on having used RedHat 4...
The phrase death toll has a single, well-defined meaning. It does not mean the same as death knell, no matter that the individual word toll, in the context of bells, means the same as knell, in the same context.
For what it's worth (ie nothing), I've never heard the phrase "funeral toll":)
Are you sure that the Catholic Church allows the rhythm method? I'm neither Catholic nor particularly well-versed in such matters, but I was under the impression that sex other than for the purposes of procreation (ie trying to get pregnant) was a sin...
I was round a friend's house the other weekend, and she fired up Halo 2 on her XBox, and I was struck with how primitive the graphics look. Sure, an XBox is a damn sight cheaper than my PC, but I can see why.
Computers are for serious work.
You elitist snob - my computer is for whatever I choose to use it for, and I'll not have anyone tell me different.
Well, you have a reply linking to a supporting source. Now, let me turn the question around - do you have any research to support your implied assertion that ucbockhead was incorrect, and teen crime rates have not been falling?
You don't need to have been here long to have seen fast dupes - it's a relatively recent phenomenon. At the risk of sounding like an old fart, slashdot has gone downhill in a number of ways over the past couple of years, and the frequency of duping stories is only one of them.
Damn right I use it! The last thing I want to be doing is faffing about pulling my boxers down at the front, especially when drunk as that carries with it the risk of spring back... *shudder*
I have a single pair of boxers without flap or buttons, and while they're lovely to wear (nice material, good fit, etc), they're a pain to visit a urinal wearing.
And most of the people with titles like "software engineer" put just as much time, effort, and money into getting their computer science degrees.
And I put just as much time, effort and money into getting my physics degree, but that doesn't make me an engineer. I have friends who similarly invested in their arts degrees - would you call them engineers?
No. Energy and mass are equivalent. You have released energy, therefore you have lost mass. As someone else points out, the fact that the energy comes from electromagnetic bonds rather than strong force ones is irrelevant.
E=mc2 applies no matter the source of the energy; the difference being, of course, that that c2 means that the mass lost/gained through a chemical reaction is generally infinitesimally small.
An MMO world is not a real place, there is no direct harm being done to people; this is what I believe the law inforcers are missing.
Well, the items that are being "stolen" are then being sold for real money; thus, they have actual value. Therefore you can argue that the rightful owners are being deprived of the opportunity to realise that value, just as though they had had a physical item stolen from them.
Don't forget either that it took time and effort to acquire the items. People (rightly) get upset about GPL violations, yet the code in question cost nothing other than time and effort to produce, and is entirely virtual.
I really don't see that much of a difference, especially as in the case of the GPL violation, the original code is still available...
Y'know, there's a fair few of us Windows users who have yet to catch a virus, or be infected with spyware, or get rooted.
Sure, I see others crashing and burning, but then I've known people knocked down and killed crossing the road; yet I still cross. I just take sensible precautions, and take my chances.
But that by itself is interesting, because it creates the reality in which people were willing to shell out hundreds of dollars, (more printed bits of paper, BTW).
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK on each note there is printed the words "I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of" followed by the amount the note is worth.
Technically, they're IOUs written by the Bank of England on behalf of the government (or is it the crown?). They may have no intrinsic value themselves, but in theory at least you could go claim your ten pounds worth of gold.
Of course, gold only really has value (beyond its innate usefulness as a conductor, raw material, etc) because everyone agrees that it does...
Windows in safe mode is unusable for all but the most basic of system administration tasks, which is the point. You use it to remove/reinstall drivers that are causing problems booting normally.
No-one in their right mind tries to use it for day to day tasks; what would make this crippled version of OS X any different?
Linux has the backing of IBM at the moment because that's what suits their plans. If Solaris on x86 becomes a more attractive proposition than Linux, don't think for a minute that IBM won't switch if it is advantageous to do so.
IBM is not in the business of producing and/or supporting open source software. They are in the business of selling IBM hardware, software and services. If Solaris serves that business better than Linux, they will switch.
You don't have the right NOT to have nosy people snoop through your things.
I'm going to have to disagree with you there. There are laws against people standing on the pavement outside my house staring in through my windows. There are laws against people wandering in to my house through my open front door and going through my things. You have the right to expect that workers you invite into your home (eg plumbers, electricians, builders, etc) won't be going through your drawers and cupboards except where it is necessary to access areas relating to or assess the work for which you have commisioned their services.
Why is it any different for a PC technician? If I drop my PC off to have the graphics card replaced, what right does the tech have to go looking through my documents?
Plenty of immoral reasons but nothing illegal about it.
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK I suspect you could argue a case that this is in violation of the Computer Misuse Act, in that you did not explicitly grant the right to access the files in question, and that such access was not necessary for the completion of the work. I'd be surprised if a similar law doesn't exist in the US.
No, the 4th Amendment doesn't apply, but that doesn't mean that *no* law applies.
No, I see them too from time to time. I believe that they're either irregularities in the aqueous humour (the liquid in/on your eyes) or possibly dust, skin cells, etc.
Believe it or not, they are sometimes mistaken for UFOs.
How do you balance the right of someone to have his child pornography kept private against the right of children not to be victimized by child pornography?
That is absolutely not what this is about. What was the technician doing that caused him to find the pictures in the first place? If they were on the "all users" desktop, then that's one thing. If he was trawling through the hard drive just looking to see what he could find, then that's another entirely.
To my mind, the technician had no right to perform any action on or with that PC other than those required in the course of carrying out his job. His job is to fix the machine, not to poke around and see what he can dig up on it.
What would your opinion be if it was pictures of your child or if you lived near the defendant?
I'd be glad that they caught the guy, but I'd still be just as concerned to know what the hell the technician was doing poking around the hard drive in the first place.
I had new windows fitted a few months ago. I expected the men to come, remove the old windows, fit the new ones, and leave (which is what they did). I would not have expected them to go through drawers and cupboards while they were here. I fail to see how this is any different.
You've clearly not studied quantum mechanics. One of the central theories - the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - basically states that for a given particle, it is not possible to know everything about it to arbitrary precision. That is, the more precisely you know its position, the less precisely you know its velocity.
That is one demonstrable case in which science most certainly does not assume that "the true answer is eventually determinable".
Yes, and that job is to initialise the hardware, load the OS bootloader, then get the hell out of the way. It's far, far simpler than a kernel, and does far less.
Ah, yes, the Wizbang blog, pinnacle of journalistic endeavors on this here internet.
As opposed to slashdot, the FAQ for which clearly states that the editors make no effort to check the veracity of articles that they post, and that has been fooled on a number of occasions in the past.
One quibble - that sales figure for Philips *is* a global figure; the Eur is for Euros, not European sales. Unless, of course, by "GLOBAL music sales" you mean all sales globally, not just those of the members of the RIAA...
Either way, yes, Philips is at least comparable in size to the members of the RIAA, making it a rather less cut and dried outcome, especially if the other tech companies start weighing in on Philips's side.
Same reason they don't sue Sony for making the same sort of consumer devices.
Sony Music is a member of the RIAA, and so they are unlikely to be suing Sony Electronics any time soon, no matter how much money they make...
There is a finite amount of bandwidth available. Spam is increasing year on year; if all spam received a reply under a scheme such as this, you are doubling the amount of bandwidth lost to spam.
It's a waste; it's debatable that schemes such as this have any effect whatsoever beyond increasing the amount of bandwidth lost to junk.
Sure, take action, fight back, whatever - but do it in a way that doesn't harm the Internet for all users.
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"Joint" in that they're doing it together; "independent" in that they're doing it independent of some other, apparently unmentioned party, perhaps?
a statement like that was clearly not thought through
No it wasn't, but it is typical of a lot of comments here about Windows, that are based either on a lack of knowledge or out of date information.
As you say, of all the things to rail on Windows about, a lack of user permissions most certainly isn't one of them - unless you've only ever used Win9x. In that case though, it's somewhat like bemoaning the state of Linux desktop environments, based purely on having used RedHat 4...
The phrase death toll has a single, well-defined meaning. It does not mean the same as death knell, no matter that the individual word toll, in the context of bells, means the same as knell, in the same context.
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For what it's worth (ie nothing), I've never heard the phrase "funeral toll"
Are you sure that the Catholic Church allows the rhythm method? I'm neither Catholic nor particularly well-versed in such matters, but I was under the impression that sex other than for the purposes of procreation (ie trying to get pregnant) was a sin...
If you wanna play games, go get a console.
I was round a friend's house the other weekend, and she fired up Halo 2 on her XBox, and I was struck with how primitive the graphics look. Sure, an XBox is a damn sight cheaper than my PC, but I can see why.
Computers are for serious work.
You elitist snob - my computer is for whatever I choose to use it for, and I'll not have anyone tell me different.
Well, you have a reply linking to a supporting source. Now, let me turn the question around - do you have any research to support your implied assertion that ucbockhead was incorrect, and teen crime rates have not been falling?
You don't need to have been here long to have seen fast dupes - it's a relatively recent phenomenon. At the risk of sounding like an old fart, slashdot has gone downhill in a number of ways over the past couple of years, and the frequency of duping stories is only one of them.
Damn right I use it! The last thing I want to be doing is faffing about pulling my boxers down at the front, especially when drunk as that carries with it the risk of spring back... *shudder*
I have a single pair of boxers without flap or buttons, and while they're lovely to wear (nice material, good fit, etc), they're a pain to visit a urinal wearing.
And most of the people with titles like "software engineer" put just as much time, effort, and money into getting their computer science degrees.
And I put just as much time, effort and money into getting my physics degree, but that doesn't make me an engineer. I have friends who similarly invested in their arts degrees - would you call them engineers?
No. Energy and mass are equivalent. You have released energy, therefore you have lost mass. As someone else points out, the fact that the energy comes from electromagnetic bonds rather than strong force ones is irrelevant.
E=mc2 applies no matter the source of the energy; the difference being, of course, that that c2 means that the mass lost/gained through a chemical reaction is generally infinitesimally small.
An MMO world is not a real place, there is no direct harm being done to people; this is what I believe the law inforcers are missing.
Well, the items that are being "stolen" are then being sold for real money; thus, they have actual value. Therefore you can argue that the rightful owners are being deprived of the opportunity to realise that value, just as though they had had a physical item stolen from them.
Don't forget either that it took time and effort to acquire the items. People (rightly) get upset about GPL violations, yet the code in question cost nothing other than time and effort to produce, and is entirely virtual.
I really don't see that much of a difference, especially as in the case of the GPL violation, the original code is still available...
Windows users? Not a chance.
Y'know, there's a fair few of us Windows users who have yet to catch a virus, or be infected with spyware, or get rooted.
Sure, I see others crashing and burning, but then I've known people knocked down and killed crossing the road; yet I still cross. I just take sensible precautions, and take my chances.
But that by itself is interesting, because it creates the reality in which people were willing to shell out hundreds of dollars, (more printed bits of paper, BTW).
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK on each note there is printed the words "I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of" followed by the amount the note is worth.
Technically, they're IOUs written by the Bank of England on behalf of the government (or is it the crown?). They may have no intrinsic value themselves, but in theory at least you could go claim your ten pounds worth of gold.
Of course, gold only really has value (beyond its innate usefulness as a conductor, raw material, etc) because everyone agrees that it does...
similar to Windows booted in "safe mode."
Windows in safe mode is unusable for all but the most basic of system administration tasks, which is the point. You use it to remove/reinstall drivers that are causing problems booting normally.
No-one in their right mind tries to use it for day to day tasks; what would make this crippled version of OS X any different?
Linux has the backing of IBM at the moment because that's what suits their plans. If Solaris on x86 becomes a more attractive proposition than Linux, don't think for a minute that IBM won't switch if it is advantageous to do so.
IBM is not in the business of producing and/or supporting open source software. They are in the business of selling IBM hardware, software and services. If Solaris serves that business better than Linux, they will switch.
You don't have the right NOT to have nosy people snoop through your things.
I'm going to have to disagree with you there. There are laws against people standing on the pavement outside my house staring in through my windows. There are laws against people wandering in to my house through my open front door and going through my things. You have the right to expect that workers you invite into your home (eg plumbers, electricians, builders, etc) won't be going through your drawers and cupboards except where it is necessary to access areas relating to or assess the work for which you have commisioned their services.
Why is it any different for a PC technician? If I drop my PC off to have the graphics card replaced, what right does the tech have to go looking through my documents?
Plenty of immoral reasons but nothing illegal about it.
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK I suspect you could argue a case that this is in violation of the Computer Misuse Act, in that you did not explicitly grant the right to access the files in question, and that such access was not necessary for the completion of the work. I'd be surprised if a similar law doesn't exist in the US.
No, the 4th Amendment doesn't apply, but that doesn't mean that *no* law applies.
No, I see them too from time to time. I believe that they're either irregularities in the aqueous humour (the liquid in/on your eyes) or possibly dust, skin cells, etc.
Believe it or not, they are sometimes mistaken for UFOs.
Gee, one machine, operating system, language, et. el. does not meet all needs. And this was insight? To whom?
Having been reading this site for the last half a dozen years or so, I have to say in reply, "Most people here".
How do you balance the right of someone to have his child pornography kept private against the right of children not to be victimized by child pornography?
That is absolutely not what this is about. What was the technician doing that caused him to find the pictures in the first place? If they were on the "all users" desktop, then that's one thing. If he was trawling through the hard drive just looking to see what he could find, then that's another entirely.
To my mind, the technician had no right to perform any action on or with that PC other than those required in the course of carrying out his job. His job is to fix the machine, not to poke around and see what he can dig up on it.
What would your opinion be if it was pictures of your child or if you lived near the defendant?
I'd be glad that they caught the guy, but I'd still be just as concerned to know what the hell the technician was doing poking around the hard drive in the first place.
I had new windows fitted a few months ago. I expected the men to come, remove the old windows, fit the new ones, and leave (which is what they did). I would not have expected them to go through drawers and cupboards while they were here. I fail to see how this is any different.
You've clearly not studied quantum mechanics. One of the central theories - the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - basically states that for a given particle, it is not possible to know everything about it to arbitrary precision. That is, the more precisely you know its position, the less precisely you know its velocity.
That is one demonstrable case in which science most certainly does not assume that "the true answer is eventually determinable".
Yes, and that job is to initialise the hardware, load the OS bootloader, then get the hell out of the way. It's far, far simpler than a kernel, and does far less.
Ah, yes, the Wizbang blog, pinnacle of journalistic endeavors on this here internet.
As opposed to slashdot, the FAQ for which clearly states that the editors make no effort to check the veracity of articles that they post, and that has been fooled on a number of occasions in the past.
iterate, iterate, for god sakes newton was above iterating
He was? I guess he had nothing to do with the Newton-Raphson method then.
One quibble - that sales figure for Philips *is* a global figure; the Eur is for Euros, not European sales. Unless, of course, by "GLOBAL music sales" you mean all sales globally, not just those of the members of the RIAA...
Either way, yes, Philips is at least comparable in size to the members of the RIAA, making it a rather less cut and dried outcome, especially if the other tech companies start weighing in on Philips's side.
Same reason they don't sue Sony for making the same sort of consumer devices.
Sony Music is a member of the RIAA, and so they are unlikely to be suing Sony Electronics any time soon, no matter how much money they make...
There is a finite amount of bandwidth available. Spam is increasing year on year; if all spam received a reply under a scheme such as this, you are doubling the amount of bandwidth lost to spam.
It's a waste; it's debatable that schemes such as this have any effect whatsoever beyond increasing the amount of bandwidth lost to junk.
Sure, take action, fight back, whatever - but do it in a way that doesn't harm the Internet for all users.