>That's a truly awful example, because the same lock-breaking techniques that work on the $9.99 lock would work on the cheaper, less frequently deployed, dollar store lock too.
Having been the proud owner of said $1 lock, I can assure you, that while it is vulnerable to the same maladies of a $9.99 lock, it is also vulnerable to the old "PULL IT OFF! REALLY HARD YOU WUSSY!" technique.:-) [Note to trolls: License to troll is in effect]
>An exploit in the wild that's compromised thousands of Windows machines won't do a thing on the Mac
Wrong, sorry. Although, it wasn't easy to find that example. There's a lot more Java ones, though.:-) That and I'll give you the "in the wild" exception.
>In the security environment we're in, where people are expecting commodity operating systems and attacking every system in sight just in case it is one, I think it's safe to say that security through obscurity is a lot better than no security at all.
Maybe, but a properly secured, updated, windows machine isn't going to get spywared that easily, either. And most users won't need to relearn their skills, which is a side bonus.
>if 99.99% of virii and spyware are writen for Windows, the Mac and Linux are far, far safer. That's not "security through obscurity"; it's pure, hard-headed commercial reality.
So, if I buy a lock from the dollar store rather than buy a $9.99 Master Lock, because so few people use dollar store locks, I should feel assured I'm not using security through obscurity; but rather, I'm protected by a fact of hard-headed commercial reality, right?
Basing a decision on this is clearly security through obscurity, wether you are liking it or not.
Basing it on "Macs are more secure for XXX reason" (as you did below) is different.
Otherwise, though, you sound like a Novell Netware administrator...:-)
Only 203? I've cleaned more viruses from computers than that!
I've easily seen spyware counts in the thousands... I usually tell those users I'll format their machine if they want it done right, or I can clean it (but no warranty on the work).
Just use ghost. Clean the machine, repartition the drive, and ghost an image to the second partition (to an image file, of course). If it windows XP/2k you'll actually be able to remove the drive completely from view, and when the come by:
"Managed to infect your computer and not follow my instructions, again, eh? No problem, I'll ghost it back to last year. Sorry, you'll lose absolutely everything you haven't backed up. Yup, that sucks. Sorry, if you don't want to protect yourself, you'll run into these problems. Yup, spyware can infect your new documents*. Nope, can't disinfect them. That's life. Will you run FireFox next time? Good."
* - You and I know it doesn't, but they don't. And it makes a great excuse.
>Any company I found is going to be Mac-only. There's little point in tolerating the huge overhead associated with running a Windows network.
A lot of network admins remind me of this whenever I'm going to install 'x' unpopular version of daemon because it hasn't been exploited in years (even though it is still open source)...
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500 kbits sustained bandwidth. At 3.5 million users per month (*HA*HA*HA*), that is 37 megs monthly of download per user. We'll pretend that the site was only used half of the time, that's 18.5 megs per user.
What was the guy hosting there? Videos of Rodney King? 18.5 megs is *PLENTY* of download per user.
The thing is, it all comes down to demand and volume.
Example: Motherboard without "extras", 100,000 sales. Manufacturer's cost? I'd put it at about $30.
Motherboard with "extras", 10,000,000 sales. Manufacturer's cost? Probably about $31, due to the higher volume driving down bulk costs.
What this all means is that by the time the boards get to the consumer, there's a $5 - $10 price difference, and it takes an extra week to get the "special" non-integrated board. Oh, and you have to pay shipping + PITA charges on that board. Which makes it cost $2 *more* than the other one.
Basically, if you don't want the features, they can be turned off easily enough. Buy the board with them, it'll have higher resale value, and, if your PCI card manages to bite the dust, you have the onboard backup to tide you over.
Oh, and if you're wondering why the integrated board sell so much better, it's your fault! Consumers are demanding to get a PC for under $300. That means cutting corners and cutting down on parts.
Speaking of cutting corners, have any of you enjoyed ASUS's "X series" motherboards yet? The PCB substrate on them seems worryingly thin.
I've discussed this at length with people who know about car engines, and checked it against various other sources...
The answer is: If the engine is turning over, not knocking, not struggling, and isn't being damaged by the gasoline, it _should_ get about the same MPG wether it gets super-duper premium gas, or cheap-n-nasty economy gas.
Of course, that doesn't stop some underhanded gas stations putting crap in the fuel to bulk it up, but that will usually damage the engine. And, if I remember my dateline episodes correctly, such tactics were practiced by all sorts of gas dealers, high and low end.
>Of course, I'm not sure why there'd be a hard word maximum and not just a page maximum
Four point condensed arial and 30 point wide latin are a couple of reasons...
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>Anyway, this misses the point; all that is required is the on/off switch, not unplugging the thing from the wall!
Now there's the problem! Edison plugs don't have an on/off switch, and separate wall switches are extremely user-unfriendly (how many times have I turned off a friends TV when looking for a lightswitch? Too many.):-)
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I do believe that is false economy. The wear on the receptacle and plug itself will likely cause premature replacement of either. Meaning...
You will pay more for parts than for the electricity ($1.25 for the entire lifetime of the device, or, about 30 cents yearly).
>However, classifying those acts as "terrorist acts" instead of regular crimes makes it very likely that in some cases the punishment would be disproportionately high when compared with the crime.
Yes. But I think if you removed 21 stop signs, or robbed 21 banks, the world would take a special view of you. They definately wouldn't be calling you a terrorist. Maybe "serial robber", or "serial killer" (if enough people died at the stop signs). Don't you agree? Moreover, wouldn't you rather be known as a terrorist than a serial killer? Not that either option is particularly appealing...
I'd have agreed with you, since I once got away (accidentally) with a "concealed" swiss army knife in my hand luggage.
But then I was stopped the next time through security... what for?
Because I had a power transformer, to convert from 110 volts to 220 volts (couldn't put it in the regular luggage, it was quite heavy and would easily have put my regular luggage over the limit).
They examined it for about 2 minutes, and finally decided it was "safe", and let me pass. But the mere fact that a power transformer scared them made me realise: Airport security are *NOT* electronics technicians by any means of the word.
>Hey there are or there where laws that labeled people anti-american just by going to a communist meeting.
True. But this law stops people from making prank calls to 911. You know what? I don't think there's a single person out there that would dare suggest it should be their right to do that. I also think there's a lot of people willing to say that making prank calls to 911 deserves jail time.
Wether the *title* of the law is a bad title is definately debateable, but in this case, the law is working well. This law should be there and needs to be there. It is good this particular law exists, if it punishes those that would deny others 911 service.
I won't disagree that Apple is successful, however, I do disagree with why.
My opinion is their success stems from their ability to make a computer people in the Arts love to use, and their ability to "personify" the machine, making people more willing to forgive it's faults (everything has them). Also, they were first at getting the computer popularized in the classroom, IMHO, so they got a good foothold there. I'd put a mention in for being proprietary, but that's no longer the case for everything they do (although it is for a hell of a lot, still).
Their innovations keep them in the news, but I don't know if they make users switch. More like, again, just my opinion, they keep current users from going back. But that's me.
>If this is the best set of links that you can come up with, then I'm afraid that you've simply proven my point.
It seemed to me your point was that the news doesn't know about slashdot. Reporting articles about slashdot, or that even include the word "slashdot" seems to me proof they do.
Were you trying to make another point that I missed?
>This is what happens when a society values profits over sustainability.
Okay. Let's take this opinion and run with it...
>How long until the masses catch up and stop being screwed?
How can you define the "masses" as being screwed if they're getting exactly what they wanted (Profits). The individual, small group might be screwed, but not the masses.
>Let's start the discussion by raising the concern that if the majority of users aren't tech savvy and society is dominated by technology, doesn't this sound like a new dark age?
Yup. However, the absolute *most* technology anyone is expected to have today is a wired touch tone phone. Even not having a computer is still totally acceptable, although you'll be looked at as old fashioned. I don't call a phone a dominating technology, and it certainly isn't complicated (considering my gandparents figured one out...)
So, where I'm driving with this is, no, we aren't heading for a new "dark age". The technology of today is nothing but frills. If, somehow, we built replicators and transporters, I'd be agreeing with you. These would quickly become a necessary technology to live a modern life. However, a broken RCA Lyra is hardly something to write home about.
But, seriously, the most complicated technology required to live a modern life, today, is a phone. That's it. And if that's blowing someone away, technically, then they have *way* bigger problems to worry about.
>Being a car stereo owner, I have an iPod and a 8 year old Sony discman cd-to-tape adapter
Hey, if it works for you, that's great. However, I'm enjoying the 12 - 20 kHz frequency range too much to give it up for tape warble.;-)
The best bet, for such things, is to get ahold of a stereo with either AUX in (easiest) or CD-Changer in (harder, but often doable). That way you don't get any more loss than what's already present from the compressed music file.
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>That's a truly awful example, because the same lock-breaking techniques that work on the $9.99 lock would work on the cheaper, less frequently deployed, dollar store lock too.
:-) [Note to trolls: License to troll is in effect]
:-) That and I'll give you the "in the wild" exception.
Having been the proud owner of said $1 lock, I can assure you, that while it is vulnerable to the same maladies of a $9.99 lock, it is also vulnerable to the old "PULL IT OFF! REALLY HARD YOU WUSSY!" technique.
>An exploit in the wild that's compromised thousands of Windows machines won't do a thing on the Mac
Wrong, sorry. Although, it wasn't easy to find that example. There's a lot more Java ones, though.
>In the security environment we're in, where people are expecting commodity operating systems and attacking every system in sight just in case it is one, I think it's safe to say that security through obscurity is a lot better than no security at all.
Maybe, but a properly secured, updated, windows machine isn't going to get spywared that easily, either. And most users won't need to relearn their skills, which is a side bonus.
>if 99.99% of virii and spyware are writen for Windows, the Mac and Linux are far, far safer. That's not "security through obscurity"; it's pure, hard-headed commercial reality.
:-)
So, if I buy a lock from the dollar store rather than buy a $9.99 Master Lock, because so few people use dollar store locks, I should feel assured I'm not using security through obscurity; but rather, I'm protected by a fact of hard-headed commercial reality, right?
Basing a decision on this is clearly security through obscurity, wether you are liking it or not.
Basing it on "Macs are more secure for XXX reason" (as you did below) is different.
Otherwise, though, you sound like a Novell Netware administrator...
Only 203? I've cleaned more viruses from computers than that!
:-)
I've easily seen spyware counts in the thousands... I usually tell those users I'll format their machine if they want it done right, or I can clean it (but no warranty on the work).
Oh well.
Just use ghost. Clean the machine, repartition the drive, and ghost an image to the second partition (to an image file, of course). If it windows XP/2k you'll actually be able to remove the drive completely from view, and when the come by:
"Managed to infect your computer and not follow my instructions, again, eh? No problem, I'll ghost it back to last year. Sorry, you'll lose absolutely everything you haven't backed up. Yup, that sucks. Sorry, if you don't want to protect yourself, you'll run into these problems. Yup, spyware can infect your new documents*. Nope, can't disinfect them. That's life. Will you run FireFox next time? Good."
* - You and I know it doesn't, but they don't. And it makes a great excuse.
>Any company I found is going to be Mac-only. There's little point in tolerating the huge overhead associated with running a Windows network.
A lot of network admins remind me of this whenever I'm going to install 'x' unpopular version of daemon because it hasn't been exploited in years (even though it is still open source)...
Security through obscurity is still no security at all.
Macs are just as vulnerable to spyware and virii (eat me grammarians) as a PC.
500 kbits sustained bandwidth. At 3.5 million users per month (*HA*HA*HA*), that is 37 megs monthly of download per user. We'll pretend that the site was only used half of the time, that's 18.5 megs per user.
What was the guy hosting there? Videos of Rodney King? 18.5 megs is *PLENTY* of download per user.
It's likely wired so that each key generates an X/Y position on the ribbon cable, so it won't be useful by itself.
:-)
However, combining it with a project like this might be a possibility. I hope you like soldering (I do!
The thing is, it all comes down to demand and volume.
Example: Motherboard without "extras", 100,000 sales. Manufacturer's cost? I'd put it at about $30.
Motherboard with "extras", 10,000,000 sales. Manufacturer's cost? Probably about $31, due to the higher volume driving down bulk costs.
What this all means is that by the time the boards get to the consumer, there's a $5 - $10 price difference, and it takes an extra week to get the "special" non-integrated board. Oh, and you have to pay shipping + PITA charges on that board. Which makes it cost $2 *more* than the other one.
Basically, if you don't want the features, they can be turned off easily enough. Buy the board with them, it'll have higher resale value, and, if your PCI card manages to bite the dust, you have the onboard backup to tide you over.
Oh, and if you're wondering why the integrated board sell so much better, it's your fault! Consumers are demanding to get a PC for under $300. That means cutting corners and cutting down on parts.
Speaking of cutting corners, have any of you enjoyed ASUS's "X series" motherboards yet? The PCB substrate on them seems worryingly thin.
I've discussed this at length with people who know about car engines, and checked it against various other sources...
The answer is: If the engine is turning over, not knocking, not struggling, and isn't being damaged by the gasoline, it _should_ get about the same MPG wether it gets super-duper premium gas, or cheap-n-nasty economy gas.
Of course, that doesn't stop some underhanded gas stations putting crap in the fuel to bulk it up, but that will usually damage the engine. And, if I remember my dateline episodes correctly, such tactics were practiced by all sorts of gas dealers, high and low end.
>Of course, I'm not sure why there'd be a hard word maximum and not just a page maximum
Four point condensed arial and 30 point wide latin are a couple of reasons...
>Anyway, this misses the point; all that is required is the on/off switch, not unplugging the thing from the wall!
:-)
Now there's the problem! Edison plugs don't have an on/off switch, and separate wall switches are extremely user-unfriendly (how many times have I turned off a friends TV when looking for a lightswitch? Too many.)
I do believe that is false economy. The wear on the receptacle and plug itself will likely cause premature replacement of either. Meaning...
You will pay more for parts than for the electricity ($1.25 for the entire lifetime of the device, or, about 30 cents yearly).
One more thing I've just learned:
:-) symbol means "I'm dead serious" in europe.
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The
I will try to be more careful with it's application.
>The first amendment applies to everyone's ideas, not just yours
The first amendment doesn't apply to libel, though. And I do assume they talk about Darwin being "incorrect" in the show. Am I wrong?
>However, classifying those acts as "terrorist acts" instead of regular crimes makes it very likely that in some cases the punishment would be disproportionately high when compared with the crime.
Yes. But I think if you removed 21 stop signs, or robbed 21 banks, the world would take a special view of you. They definately wouldn't be calling you a terrorist. Maybe "serial robber", or "serial killer" (if enough people died at the stop signs). Don't you agree? Moreover, wouldn't you rather be known as a terrorist than a serial killer? Not that either option is particularly appealing...
>Zalmiak is ammonium chloride so it's made of ammonia and chlorine which are hazardous chemicals.
:-)
Dear Lord! We use that stuff to tin our soldering irons in North America. You guys *eat* that stuff?
And people wonder why we call you guys strange...
I'd have agreed with you, since I once got away (accidentally) with a "concealed" swiss army knife in my hand luggage.
But then I was stopped the next time through security... what for?
Because I had a power transformer, to convert from 110 volts to 220 volts (couldn't put it in the regular luggage, it was quite heavy and would easily have put my regular luggage over the limit).
They examined it for about 2 minutes, and finally decided it was "safe", and let me pass. But the mere fact that a power transformer scared them made me realise: Airport security are *NOT* electronics technicians by any means of the word.
>Hey there are or there where laws that labeled people anti-american just by going to a communist meeting.
True. But this law stops people from making prank calls to 911. You know what? I don't think there's a single person out there that would dare suggest it should be their right to do that. I also think there's a lot of people willing to say that making prank calls to 911 deserves jail time.
Wether the *title* of the law is a bad title is definately debateable, but in this case, the law is working well. This law should be there and needs to be there. It is good this particular law exists, if it punishes those that would deny others 911 service.
>Nintendo does not profit from emulation of their games.
They don't profit from it, and they don't have to pay for the advertising.
Seems like quite the synergy to me!
I won't disagree that Apple is successful, however, I do disagree with why.
My opinion is their success stems from their ability to make a computer people in the Arts love to use, and their ability to "personify" the machine, making people more willing to forgive it's faults (everything has them). Also, they were first at getting the computer popularized in the classroom, IMHO, so they got a good foothold there. I'd put a mention in for being proprietary, but that's no longer the case for everything they do (although it is for a hell of a lot, still).
Their innovations keep them in the news, but I don't know if they make users switch. More like, again, just my opinion, they keep current users from going back. But that's me.
>If this is the best set of links that you can come up with, then I'm afraid that you've simply proven my point.
It seemed to me your point was that the news doesn't know about slashdot. Reporting articles about slashdot, or that even include the word "slashdot" seems to me proof they do.
Were you trying to make another point that I missed?
>The same doesn't apply to third party vendors.
:-)
Yeah, however third party vendors don't hire million dollar lawyers...
>This is what happens when a society values profits over sustainability.
Okay. Let's take this opinion and run with it...
>How long until the masses catch up and stop being screwed?
How can you define the "masses" as being screwed if they're getting exactly what they wanted (Profits). The individual, small group might be screwed, but not the masses.
>Let's start the discussion by raising the concern that if the majority of users aren't tech savvy and society is dominated by technology, doesn't this sound like a new dark age?
Yup. However, the absolute *most* technology anyone is expected to have today is a wired touch tone phone. Even not having a computer is still totally acceptable, although you'll be looked at as old fashioned. I don't call a phone a dominating technology, and it certainly isn't complicated (considering my gandparents figured one out...)
So, where I'm driving with this is, no, we aren't heading for a new "dark age". The technology of today is nothing but frills. If, somehow, we built replicators and transporters, I'd be agreeing with you. These would quickly become a necessary technology to live a modern life. However, a broken RCA Lyra is hardly something to write home about.
But, seriously, the most complicated technology required to live a modern life, today, is a phone. That's it. And if that's blowing someone away, technically, then they have *way* bigger problems to worry about.
On CNN?
:-)
In stories by the AP?
Business pages of the Sunday paper?
Answer? YES!
>Being a car stereo owner, I have an iPod and a 8 year old Sony discman cd-to-tape adapter
;-)
Hey, if it works for you, that's great. However, I'm enjoying the 12 - 20 kHz frequency range too much to give it up for tape warble.
The best bet, for such things, is to get ahold of a stereo with either AUX in (easiest) or CD-Changer in (harder, but often doable). That way you don't get any more loss than what's already present from the compressed music file.