I have been using SysInternals stuff starting from TCPView, which was pretty useful for me back then. But how exactly is DiskMon a latest treasure? It's been around for ages, unless now it monitors on kernel level.
I am assuming that the uranium you mentioned wasn't destined to get in a nuke, but still I am hoping that the next few generations will at least not be that interested in making stuff that blows other stuff (and people) up. There are an infinite number of questions and other stuff that can be done with improved education.
As far as the students and their interest go, It is Human psyche to be more influenced by something you admire and is unique in its way. So if they see their favourite game character talking about Baryonic Asymmetry etc, they'll most probably get on google for curiosity's sake.
If they are not answering, doesn't this mean that most of those functions are not available?
On a side-note though, I am still not getting the point of iPad. It's not an iPhone but runs its OS and its too big and expensive to just be an audio/video player to say the least. Probably I was impressed by Hitler, but still....
It is really pleasant to see more and more OSS projects which are being deployed at national level and large infrastructures.
Hopefully some less greedy company who benefit from such projects will start paying the volunteer developers. But then again, I have found that a lot of times if you are doing something as a hobby/interest/challenge, rather than because you were employed to do it, the outcome will be more refined and efficient. Though I have yet to experience the latter part first hand.
Couldn't agree more. There might be a lot more people in China ready to keep the business going, but there are not going to be that many in US. It'll be a surprise for me if they got away because of some powerful contacts.
I don't assume they included Wikipedia in the "user generated" category, otherwise that much non-bogus content would have definitely tipped the scale a bit.
In my personal experience however, even without wikipedia, I have not come across that much bogus stuff on forums and random comments.
Is the "requirement" of wearing seat belts, not smoking near gas station and cars having ABS and airbags also fascism and a mark on freedom?
Continuing with driving analogy, every car needs to pass some safety, security and emission checks, otherwise it is not allowed on the road. If requirement is a strong word here (its not like I am debating in a courtroom anyway), you can replace it with "recommendation" in your head. I think I am going to exercise my right of free speech, just like you are expressing your thoughts.
This is absolutely frightening. Now I'll have to read the privacy statements to see if they share credit card information with other companies also? What exactly do the claims of "You are secure" and sort mean?
Fortunately my bank has disabled on-line transactions by default, and neither do I ever intend to click any ad while using my card. But I think that a lot of credit cards are activated for internet use, and
Information about joining the membership program and its ramifications, including the fact that the consumer is agreeing to transfer his or her credit or debit card account information, is buried in fine print and cluttered text.
is a terrible prospect as just seeing an ad doesn't usually mean agreeing to the purchase UNTIL we click on billing and shipping information.
The sanity is finally spreading, which started from Australia. A few more of similar statements from Government officials, or even some cases appearing in media where customers were blackmailed like this, and users might not be bullied any more just because they use Internet.
Anything that gives too much centralized and easy access to thousands of users' data is a terrible thing to even consider, be it for Police or whatever.
Law enforcement agencies are not filled with angles who will just stick to a line if they have access like this.
If things keep going like this regarding Microsoft and clever words, pretty soon this will be on Slashdot:
"Microsoft has announced that it is investigating a vulnerability in IE where an attacker can gain access to customer's computer if they are connected to Internet. But as all versions of Windows do not have internet access by default, most users are not vulnerable"
Nexus one sold 20,000 units in the first week, so lets assume that there 1 million units out there till now, which have been used by customers for a few weeks. Out of these, ~1000 users reported the bug (1%), which means if Google had used the same units to beta test for a month with a little over 100 users, they probably would have gotten this bug, and might have even considered adding multitouch before launching.
I am sure they DID a lot of testing and fixed a hell lot more bugs, but it just doesn't seem right for a new device from that big a company to get fixes within the first month.
In my personal experience, anything which is complicated and difficult to comprehend in the beginning, is most thrilling and exciting.
But on the other hand, a large proportion of people will love simple and dumb stuff. And its such a shame that millions of years of evolution has still not decreased percentage of the latter bunch.
In all seriousness, I have been addicted to Internet and computer for 4 years or so, but contrary to the article I have never been so "tension-free". But after reading this, I got a really bad episode of depression or whatever...
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So in Slashdot land, answering a rhetorical question always gets you more points than asking it? ;-)
I have been using SysInternals stuff starting from TCPView, which was pretty useful for me back then. But how exactly is DiskMon a latest treasure? It's been around for ages, unless now it monitors on kernel level.
Oh come on now, how can you ever hate anything of Apple? At least I can't..
I meant to say that if I had $600 to spend, I would rather buy a laptop than a tablet, let alone an iPad running iPhone OS.
I am assuming that the uranium you mentioned wasn't destined to get in a nuke, but still I am hoping that the next few generations will at least not be that interested in making stuff that blows other stuff (and people) up. There are an infinite number of questions and other stuff that can be done with improved education.
As far as the students and their interest go, It is Human psyche to be more influenced by something you admire and is unique in its way. So if they see their favourite game character talking about Baryonic Asymmetry etc, they'll most probably get on google for curiosity's sake.
If they are not answering, doesn't this mean that most of those functions are not available?
On a side-note though, I am still not getting the point of iPad. It's not an iPhone but runs its OS and its too big and expensive to just be an audio/video player to say the least. Probably I was impressed by Hitler, but still....
It is really pleasant to see more and more OSS projects which are being deployed at national level and large infrastructures.
Hopefully some less greedy company who benefit from such projects will start paying the volunteer developers. But then again, I have found that a lot of times if you are doing something as a hobby/interest/challenge, rather than because you were employed to do it, the outcome will be more refined and efficient. Though I have yet to experience the latter part first hand.
No no. I don't use GoogleDNS because I am paranoid :)
Doesn't ABP blocks any hostname queries of ad serving domains?
But I do use OpenDNS already, which is a bit faster than my ISP's servers. And I would have to be a lot less paranoid to start using GoogleDNS.
Don't you think its a bit early to be posting old April fool jokes?
They need a pretty big recoding to filter out non-genuine results completely.
I don't blame Google that much for this, it is just showing what most users are wondering [out loud].
Forget the ad, I want that Internet Connection.
Couldn't agree more. There might be a lot more people in China ready to keep the business going, but there are not going to be that many in US. It'll be a surprise for me if they got away because of some powerful contacts.
I don't assume they included Wikipedia in the "user generated" category, otherwise that much non-bogus content would have definitely tipped the scale a bit.
In my personal experience however, even without wikipedia, I have not come across that much bogus stuff on forums and random comments.
Is the "requirement" of wearing seat belts, not smoking near gas station and cars having ABS and airbags also fascism and a mark on freedom?
Continuing with driving analogy, every car needs to pass some safety, security and emission checks, otherwise it is not allowed on the road. If requirement is a strong word here (its not like I am debating in a courtroom anyway), you can replace it with "recommendation" in your head. I think I am going to exercise my right of free speech, just like you are expressing your thoughts.
This is absolutely frightening. Now I'll have to read the privacy statements to see if they share credit card information with other companies also? What exactly do the claims of "You are secure" and sort mean?
Fortunately my bank has disabled on-line transactions by default, and neither do I ever intend to click any ad while using my card. But I think that a lot of credit cards are activated for internet use, and
Information about joining the membership program and its ramifications, including the fact that the consumer is agreeing to transfer his or her credit or debit card account information, is buried in fine print and cluttered text.
is a terrible prospect as just seeing an ad doesn't usually mean agreeing to the purchase UNTIL we click on billing and shipping information.
The sanity is finally spreading, which started from Australia. A few more of similar statements from Government officials, or even some cases appearing in media where customers were blackmailed like this, and users might not be bullied any more just because they use Internet.
Add the first requirement of not using IE, and then we might entertain the thought, and start some serious discussion.
Anything that gives too much centralized and easy access to thousands of users' data is a terrible thing to even consider, be it for Police or whatever.
Law enforcement agencies are not filled with angles who will just stick to a line if they have access like this.
How about I give him all my life including myself, and he gives me a million or so dollars. That ought to improve the quality of my life!
If things keep going like this regarding Microsoft and clever words, pretty soon this will be on Slashdot:
"Microsoft has announced that it is investigating a vulnerability in IE where an attacker can gain access to customer's computer if they are connected to Internet. But as all versions of Windows do not have internet access by default, most users are not vulnerable"
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Nexus one sold 20,000 units in the first week, so lets assume that there 1 million units out there till now, which have been used by customers for a few weeks. Out of these, ~1000 users reported the bug (1%), which means if Google had used the same units to beta test for a month with a little over 100 users, they probably would have gotten this bug, and might have even considered adding multitouch before launching.
I am sure they DID a lot of testing and fixed a hell lot more bugs, but it just doesn't seem right for a new device from that big a company to get fixes within the first month.
Oh darn. I was afraid this might happen.
Only if there were emoticons so I could strictly point out which half was a joke. Sorry if I offended anyone, but that was not meant as such
In my personal experience, anything which is complicated and difficult to comprehend in the beginning, is most thrilling and exciting.
But on the other hand, a large proportion of people will love simple and dumb stuff. And its such a shame that millions of years of evolution has still not decreased percentage of the latter bunch.
In all seriousness, I have been addicted to Internet and computer for 4 years or so, but contrary to the article I have never been so "tension-free". But after reading this, I got a really bad episode of depression or whatever...
So could this be Placebo or a reality-check?