I can certainly see the use in giving them access to websites for maps, directions, information about local tourist attractions, road safety, forest safety, camping tips, local shops, travel information, etc.
I'd imagine that if you're going to do that, it's a lot easier to just allow general internet access than try to create and maintain some sort of portal (especially as you have no idea how far afield people will want to look - eg I might want info about a state on the other side of the States, as I'm headed that way in a few days)
Lawmakers, who think they can wave a legislative wand and make internet miscreants (spammers, bot networkers, spyware writers) behave?
To be fair, read the comments to any story here about malware, spam, etc and you'll see plenty of people clamouring for that sort of thing to be made illegal.
Hell, there were people complaining recently that the guy who got 9 years for spamming got off lightly.
It really depends on what you intend to use the machine for. If one of those things is gaming, you're probably better off with the Dell than an Apple, depending on the games you want to play.
If that's the case, then they shoud stop offering it as an update through Firefox's update feature. Firefox tells me there's an update available, and when I click on the little icon, downloads and launches the installer.
If I'm supposed to uninstall the existing version first, then either it shouldn't do that, or the installer should do the uninstall for me. The alternative is to download the installer using the update feature, cancel the installation, uninstall Firefox, find the installer (wherever it is) and run it myself - not the sort of thing an enduser would expect to have to do (or potentially be able to do, depending on where the installer is downloaded to)
Yes, but if you weren't going to the store to buy the stuff, etc, would you actually be earning that $30? Or would you be spending the time in some other, non-profit activity?
I'm not saying that mailing in the rebate is a good use of your time (that's for you to decide), but doing so isn't actually costing you any money, unless you take time of a job to do it *and* are paid by the hour.
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There are several site that have in depth articles on why your statement is false. I suggest you read them.
I suggest you link to them.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but what is there that prevents a blackhat from writing a trojan for OS X? I'm not talking about something that spreads automatically via a remote exploit or even a local exploit, but an honest-to-God old-fashioned trojan. Promise the user free porn, or cool mouse cursors or a free stock ticker or something, and people will install it. What prevents it from giving them the free porn or weather forecast or whatever, *and* turning their machine into a spam relay?
The limit sucks, and makes it almost impossible to connect to P2P networks
Bullshit. I use P2P apps (eMule mostly) on a machine running XP SP2 with absolutely no problems. Yes, at start up, you have to wait for a while while pending connections are queued and processed, but to say that it makes it "almost impossible to connect to P2P networks" is nothing short of a lie.
I dare say that Macrovision can be broken, but without even a shred of evidence, I have to assume that the poster is talking crap.
(And no, the assertion that dissemination of the knowledge is illegal isn't Insightful, it's Bloody Obvious given the coverage the DMCA has had here over the past few years)
If you're an admin and you can't secure a Windows box (or any box you're in charge of) then you shouldn't be admining it, it's that simple.
We run a few sites on IIS and use Exchange for all our corporate email, and haven't had a single incident. Similarly, we've not had a single incident on any of our Linux or Solaris servers, either. You just have to know what you're doing.
If they were just paid from a compulsory license pool (just like in radio), several dozen proposals of which have been floated in recent years, then this whole argument just goes away. Everybody wins, there is no more piracy, and we get on with our lives.
How does that work? The artists get paid whether anyone buys their work or not? If that's the case, then what guarantee is there that the people paying the artists ever make the money back, let alone a profit? Or, are you arguing that artists should be state-sponsored, ie that *everyone* should pay for the work (through taxation) whether they want it or not?
I must be missing the point, but I don't see how any scheme will guarantee that "there is no more piracy".
Of course, if you ask Microsoft, it's all "the industry standard".
Which it is - it's a standard that's used in the industry. That's de facto standard rather than official standard, of course, but standard nonetheless.
Both the submitter and CowboyNeal should apologise.
*Especially* the submitter - it's well known that the "editors" here don't check the facts in the articles that are submitted (it's in the FAQ!). I cannot believe that this wasn't a deliberate attempt to troll the front page.
CowboyNeal should apologise for falling for it, but the submitter should apologise more for doing it.
Writing good SMP-aware and safe code is/hard/. I for one don't begrudge companies charging extra for extra features, and I consider such code to be a feature.
All the more motivation to switch to FOSS alternatives.
If you actually need Oracle database, there is no FOSS alternative.
Wait until Linux goes mainstream. People will either get sick of having to su and just run as root, or they'll get so used to typing in their root password when prompted that it'll make little practical difference.
2). 99.9% of malware cannot run. If it did, then it'd cause minimal damage (see 1.)
That's because it's not written for Linux - again wait until Linux becomes mainstream. There's *absolutely no point* targetting Linux desktops with malware as the market share is vanishingly small compared to Windows.
Even if not running as root, Linux malware can still edit the user's profile to start on login, and act as a spam relay or popup generator, etc. For that matter, if it's really malicious, it can trash all your files. I couldn't care less about system files, they're all "backed up" on the nice, shiny install media. My personal files, on the other hand...
The average Linux (non root) user can be as clueless as he/she likes and won't get into trouble.
Yet. What prevents me from writing and distributing some super-cool KDE/Gnome/X screensaver that trojans your machine, trashes file on a semi-random basis and turns your machine into a spam relay?
Do you have a static IP or a dynamic one? If dynamic, you may have been caught by a message/HTTP redirection intended for the last person who had that IP address.
So, is identity theft and/or fraud not a crime in these countries? If not, then why on earth are businesses offshoring this sort of work there? If so, then what's the problem? Either way, they'll be treated as the criminals they are.
The problem with that is that the gamma rays travel at the speed of light, as does light. By the time the light from the collision arrives, so have the gamma rays.
The only way it could work is if you tracked the stars, saw that they would collide, and took action then. If you wait until you see them collide, it's too late...
I generally consider spam to be unsolicited commercial email:
1) I didn't ask for it (unsolicited) 2) it's advertising a product or service (commercial) 3) I'll assume you know this one;-)
The problem with your definition, as others have pointed out, is that both 1) and 4) is true of *all* email, and so are redundant. 2) is highly subjective, and may apply to genuine email too - is a mail from say a slashdot user calling me nasty names for something I said here unwanted? Yes. Is it spam? Not by most people's definition - you *definitely* wouldn't want the guy facing fines or jail time for it, other than perhaps under an existing harrasment law or similar.
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I can certainly see the use in giving them access to websites for maps, directions, information about local tourist attractions, road safety, forest safety, camping tips, local shops, travel information, etc.
I'd imagine that if you're going to do that, it's a lot easier to just allow general internet access than try to create and maintain some sort of portal (especially as you have no idea how far afield people will want to look - eg I might want info about a state on the other side of the States, as I'm headed that way in a few days)
Conversely, more power gives *good* developers the *ability* to do stuff that's not currently possible.
Hell, 10 years ago it was all-but unthinkable that you'd do video editing on a bog-standard home PC.
So games that contact a master server to get a list of available servers for online play, or to check for updates, etc would be tagged as viruses.
Lawmakers, who think they can wave a legislative wand and make internet miscreants (spammers, bot networkers, spyware writers) behave?
To be fair, read the comments to any story here about malware, spam, etc and you'll see plenty of people clamouring for that sort of thing to be made illegal.
Hell, there were people complaining recently that the guy who got 9 years for spamming got off lightly.
It really depends on what you intend to use the machine for. If one of those things is gaming, you're probably better off with the Dell than an Apple, depending on the games you want to play.
If that's the case, then they shoud stop offering it as an update through Firefox's update feature. Firefox tells me there's an update available, and when I click on the little icon, downloads and launches the installer.
If I'm supposed to uninstall the existing version first, then either it shouldn't do that, or the installer should do the uninstall for me. The alternative is to download the installer using the update feature, cancel the installation, uninstall Firefox, find the installer (wherever it is) and run it myself - not the sort of thing an enduser would expect to have to do (or potentially be able to do, depending on where the installer is downloaded to)
Yes, but if you weren't going to the store to buy the stuff, etc, would you actually be earning that $30? Or would you be spending the time in some other, non-profit activity?
I'm not saying that mailing in the rebate is a good use of your time (that's for you to decide), but doing so isn't actually costing you any money, unless you take time of a job to do it *and* are paid by the hour.
There are several site that have in depth articles on why your statement is false. I suggest you read them.
I suggest you link to them.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but what is there that prevents a blackhat from writing a trojan for OS X? I'm not talking about something that spreads automatically via a remote exploit or even a local exploit, but an honest-to-God old-fashioned trojan. Promise the user free porn, or cool mouse cursors or a free stock ticker or something, and people will install it. What prevents it from giving them the free porn or weather forecast or whatever, *and* turning their machine into a spam relay?
The limit sucks, and makes it almost impossible to connect to P2P networks
Bullshit. I use P2P apps (eMule mostly) on a machine running XP SP2 with absolutely no problems. Yes, at start up, you have to wait for a while while pending connections are queued and processed, but to say that it makes it "almost impossible to connect to P2P networks" is nothing short of a lie.
That's Inisghtful?
I dare say that Macrovision can be broken, but without even a shred of evidence, I have to assume that the poster is talking crap.
(And no, the assertion that dissemination of the knowledge is illegal isn't Insightful, it's Bloody Obvious given the coverage the DMCA has had here over the past few years)
If you're an admin and you can't secure a Windows box (or any box you're in charge of) then you shouldn't be admining it, it's that simple.
We run a few sites on IIS and use Exchange for all our corporate email, and haven't had a single incident. Similarly, we've not had a single incident on any of our Linux or Solaris servers, either. You just have to know what you're doing.
If they were just paid from a compulsory license pool (just like in radio), several dozen proposals of which have been floated in recent years, then this whole argument just goes away. Everybody wins, there is no more piracy, and we get on with our lives.
How does that work? The artists get paid whether anyone buys their work or not? If that's the case, then what guarantee is there that the people paying the artists ever make the money back, let alone a profit? Or, are you arguing that artists should be state-sponsored, ie that *everyone* should pay for the work (through taxation) whether they want it or not?
I must be missing the point, but I don't see how any scheme will guarantee that "there is no more piracy".
Of course, if you ask Microsoft, it's all "the industry standard".
Which it is - it's a standard that's used in the industry. That's de facto standard rather than official standard, of course, but standard nonetheless.
Both the submitter and CowboyNeal should apologise.
*Especially* the submitter - it's well known that the "editors" here don't check the facts in the articles that are submitted (it's in the FAQ!). I cannot believe that this wasn't a deliberate attempt to troll the front page.
CowboyNeal should apologise for falling for it, but the submitter should apologise more for doing it.
Writing good SMP-aware and safe code is /hard/. I for one don't begrudge companies charging extra for extra features, and I consider such code to be a feature.
All the more motivation to switch to FOSS alternatives.
If you actually need Oracle database, there is no FOSS alternative.
Updating from libc5 to glibc broke a few things for me, too (and yes, I am going back a few years now...)
1). the default user is not an administrator
Wait until Linux goes mainstream. People will either get sick of having to su and just run as root, or they'll get so used to typing in their root password when prompted that it'll make little practical difference.
2). 99.9% of malware cannot run. If it did, then it'd cause minimal damage (see 1.)
That's because it's not written for Linux - again wait until Linux becomes mainstream. There's *absolutely no point* targetting Linux desktops with malware as the market share is vanishingly small compared to Windows.
Even if not running as root, Linux malware can still edit the user's profile to start on login, and act as a spam relay or popup generator, etc. For that matter, if it's really malicious, it can trash all your files. I couldn't care less about system files, they're all "backed up" on the nice, shiny install media. My personal files, on the other hand...
The average Linux (non root) user can be as clueless as he/she likes and won't get into trouble.
Yet. What prevents me from writing and distributing some super-cool KDE/Gnome/X screensaver that trojans your machine, trashes file on a semi-random basis and turns your machine into a spam relay?
Do you have a static IP or a dynamic one? If dynamic, you may have been caught by a message/HTTP redirection intended for the last person who had that IP address.
Two dice bonded together in the same package.
When you're talking about a die as in a processor die, the plural is dies, not dice!
So, is identity theft and/or fraud not a crime in these countries? If not, then why on earth are businesses offshoring this sort of work there? If so, then what's the problem? Either way, they'll be treated as the criminals they are.
Next question: did you even read the article?
Clue: the level of radiation we're talking about here is many orders of magnitude greater than what the atmosphere is already blocking.
The problem with that is that the gamma rays travel at the speed of light, as does light. By the time the light from the collision arrives, so have the gamma rays.
The only way it could work is if you tracked the stars, saw that they would collide, and took action then. If you wait until you see them collide, it's too late...
I saw an ecommerce site a few weeks ago that was selling something (a badge?), and described the image as being "actual size".
Looked a bit smaller to me, but then my monitor at home runs at 1280x1024, rather than whatever they decided to design the site for...
I think he had the long night; he clearly meant secede, not succeed.
I generally consider spam to be unsolicited commercial email:
;-)
1) I didn't ask for it (unsolicited)
2) it's advertising a product or service (commercial)
3) I'll assume you know this one
The problem with your definition, as others have pointed out, is that both 1) and 4) is true of *all* email, and so are redundant. 2) is highly subjective, and may apply to genuine email too - is a mail from say a slashdot user calling me nasty names for something I said here unwanted? Yes. Is it spam? Not by most people's definition - you *definitely* wouldn't want the guy facing fines or jail time for it, other than perhaps under an existing harrasment law or similar.