Windows 7 still seems to think it's drivers are holier than thou. Upon detecting hardware it immediately installs it's own drivers and subverts any attempt to use the manufacturers drivers. Windows 7 has a nicer UI than previous versions but there's still a lot of things wrong under the hood.
Meh, considering how much data I've lost and restored from an external source on Windows 7 miroring is a good idea. And lets not even get into the time Windows 7 arbitrarily uninstalled my network connection. Bastards.
Kind of like how end users having direct control over their PCs has resulting in nearly all PCs made over the past 35 or so years being bricked
It's more like uneducated end users clicking on pop up messages telling them that they have x amount of viruses in their computer and click here to remove them. I work in a call center so I see this kind of stuff all the time.
end user's assumeing direct control over their phone = the sound of millions of end users bricking their phones. I can see the calls in queue at the call center.
Corporations have too much power and control information too well for there to be a truly informed consumer base
While I agree that corporations in general (in the USA) have way too much power I disagree that the public wants to be truly informed. The general public in the USA suffers from what I call plug and play syndrome. People don't care if you can get root on a phone and load your own software. They want something that fills a need ( the corporations sold them on) and they want it to work with a minimum of hassle. This is why the Iphone is so popular. Try to talk to a person about tech and use a few terms they are unfamiliar about and you'll see the eyes glaze over. You're right on when you say "corporations deliberately leverage the ignorance of the masses for their own benefit". They get away with it because there are too many sheep in this country who have been bread for ignorance.
You don't want it man. Per the "Drug Cartels" post above it was filled with their pot. Those people are gonna be pissed when they found out you have their product.
Frankly I don't give a shit who gets pissed off. The objective is scientific understanding, not pissing people off or not.
If god created the universe then why can't people of all faiths see science as a way to get closer to god by unlocking the mysteries of the universe. Buncha fundamentalist kooks.
so the FBI is watching them..how is this news for nerds or news for that matter? what's the relevance of this story? An FBI agent goes to work. that's it?
It may not be news for nerds but it certainly appeals to the tinfoil hat contingent which seems to be prevelent here on Slashdot.
I agree there is a vested interest in preventing war between India and Pakistan however India also has an interest in stabilizing Afghanistan. Pakistan's government has not been the strongest in years gone by and they still have no control of Waziristan and the outlying tribal area's. All of these things do not make them the best ally in the war on terror. If the extremeists got the upper hand inPakistan that brings unrest to India's doorstep. By no means should Pakistan be excluded but I feel that we had an option to get both parties involved. Weather you like it or not India is a very stable presence in that part of the world and we should have engaged them when we had the chance.
He's just kissing ass because we supported Pakistan (which used to be part of India)in the so called "war on terror" instead of India. Why is it whenever we have a war the only people who win are the defense contractors? So now that we have not realized the objective we hoped to achieve by pumping money into Pakistan and propping up a dictator we are now trying to make nice with the country we pissed off in the process. I think the Indian army was better organized to help us in this "war" and had more experience to help us in Afghanistan when we needed them.
They used to say "the sun never sets on the Brittish empire". Now there's no empire hance no K in UK. I never did understand the united (what with the troubles and such) part either so it's just as well they did away with that.
And how much money did you say they paid Google for first rights??? Oh yeah that's why they got first crack at it. I haven't seen it but were I in the market I'd wait for Asus to put out their product before I even thought of forking over my hard earned moola.
Yeah people tell you it's your civic duty etc and yeah most are a bunch of crooks anyway but if I don't vote one day (when the corporations have achieved voting status...not far off) the right may be taken away from me. Stop bitching and get involved with local politics as that's where you actually have a chance to influence things. The presidential elections are a joke. We've got two parties that believe their shit doesn't smell and have the general public fooled. Both parties are a slave to their own ideology and can't see the house crumbling down around them.
The researchers calculated that the average Australian employee spends less than two-and-a-half days per week actually doing their job.
I suspect the issue is more "Foster's overload" than "information overload."
When I worked for Citigroup in the auditing section of Smith Barney we regularly had to escalate up to higher management to get the Australia division to respond to our rfi's. It was always stupid shit too. I'd be like dude...you gave this group access to a full octet of ip's when you only needed six. WTF man. One week it's ip's next week it was admin access to a user group on a server that was chock full of financial transactions. That shit never would have flown here but they always had the most cavalier attitude about everything. Fosters probly had something to do with it but I always figured the sun burnt all their brain cells.
Um yeah sorry about that. It would be left leaning (again emphasis here). While we are on the subject of politics, I love that the republicans have totally co opted the teabagger (whoops tea party) mantra even though it's all the same bullshit. Don't mistake this for partisan speak. I'm in favor of the two party system.... one party in the morning and another in the afternoon.
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly. People don't care till their backs are up against the wall. It's amazing how complacent this country has become.
Windows 7 still seems to think it's drivers are holier than thou. Upon detecting hardware it immediately installs it's own drivers and subverts any attempt to use the manufacturers drivers. Windows 7 has a nicer UI than previous versions but there's still a lot of things wrong under the hood.
Bah, that should be RAID stripe, not Raid Mirror
Meh, considering how much data I've lost and restored from an external source on Windows 7 miroring is a good idea. And lets not even get into the time Windows 7 arbitrarily uninstalled my network connection. Bastards.
Kind of like how end users having direct control over their PCs has resulting in nearly all PCs made over the past 35 or so years being bricked
It's more like uneducated end users clicking on pop up messages telling them that they have x amount of viruses in their computer and click here to remove them. I work in a call center so I see this kind of stuff all the time.
end user's assumeing direct control over their phone = the sound of millions of end users bricking their phones. I can see the calls in queue at the call center.
Corporations have too much power and control information too well for there to be a truly informed consumer base
While I agree that corporations in general (in the USA) have way too much power I disagree that the public wants to be truly informed. The general public in the USA suffers from what I call plug and play syndrome. People don't care if you can get root on a phone and load your own software. They want something that fills a need ( the corporations sold them on) and they want it to work with a minimum of hassle. This is why the Iphone is so popular. Try to talk to a person about tech and use a few terms they are unfamiliar about and you'll see the eyes glaze over. You're right on when you say "corporations deliberately leverage the ignorance of the masses for their own benefit". They get away with it because there are too many sheep in this country who have been bread for ignorance.
You don't want it man. Per the "Drug Cartels" post above it was filled with their pot. Those people are gonna be pissed when they found out you have their product.
Frankly I don't give a shit who gets pissed off. The objective is scientific understanding, not pissing people off or not.
If god created the universe then why can't people of all faiths see science as a way to get closer to god by unlocking the mysteries of the universe. Buncha fundamentalist kooks.
so the FBI is watching them..how is this news for nerds or news for that matter? what's the relevance of this story? An FBI agent goes to work. that's it?
It may not be news for nerds but it certainly appeals to the tinfoil hat contingent which seems to be prevelent here on Slashdot.
I agree there is a vested interest in preventing war between India and Pakistan however India also has an interest in stabilizing Afghanistan. Pakistan's government has not been the strongest in years gone by and they still have no control of Waziristan and the outlying tribal area's. All of these things do not make them the best ally in the war on terror. If the extremeists got the upper hand inPakistan that brings unrest to India's doorstep. By no means should Pakistan be excluded but I feel that we had an option to get both parties involved. Weather you like it or not India is a very stable presence in that part of the world and we should have engaged them when we had the chance.
He's just kissing ass because we supported Pakistan (which used to be part of India)in the so called "war on terror" instead of India. Why is it whenever we have a war the only people who win are the defense contractors? So now that we have not realized the objective we hoped to achieve by pumping money into Pakistan and propping up a dictator we are now trying to make nice with the country we pissed off in the process. I think the Indian army was better organized to help us in this "war" and had more experience to help us in Afghanistan when we needed them.
two steps back. You can hear the lobbyists howling at the door.
We are not the UK anymore.
They used to say "the sun never sets on the Brittish empire". Now there's no empire hance no K in UK. I never did understand the united (what with the troubles and such) part either so it's just as well they did away with that.
I remembeer that movie. My parents made me sit through it when I was a kid.
Somebody give that man some mod points. ROTFLMAO- It's not 1999 anymore . You can comeout of your bunkers now. Classic.
And how much money did you say they paid Google for first rights??? Oh yeah that's why they got first crack at it. I haven't seen it but were I in the market I'd wait for Asus to put out their product before I even thought of forking over my hard earned moola.
Careful. That kind of talk doesn't go over too well around here.
governemnt entity(CIA+NSA)* national security + keylogger or trojan = we ownz all your base (where base = data). Anonymiztion HAH.
Yeah people tell you it's your civic duty etc and yeah most are a bunch of crooks anyway but if I don't vote one day (when the corporations have achieved voting status...not far off) the right may be taken away from me. Stop bitching and get involved with local politics as that's where you actually have a chance to influence things. The presidential elections are a joke. We've got two parties that believe their shit doesn't smell and have the general public fooled. Both parties are a slave to their own ideology and can't see the house crumbling down around them.
Sorry man. You deserve some mod points for that one. I'm spent.
I'm guessing the whole non existent infrastructure thing is the reason they import from S. Korea (that and they do make some good stuff).
The researchers calculated that the average Australian employee spends less than two-and-a-half days per week actually doing their job.
I suspect the issue is more "Foster's overload" than "information overload."
When I worked for Citigroup in the auditing section of Smith Barney we regularly had to escalate up to higher management to get the Australia division to respond to our rfi's. It was always stupid shit too. I'd be like dude...you gave this group access to a full octet of ip's when you only needed six. WTF man. One week it's ip's next week it was admin access to a user group on a server that was chock full of financial transactions. That shit never would have flown here but they always had the most cavalier attitude about everything. Fosters probly had something to do with it but I always figured the sun burnt all their brain cells.
Um yeah sorry about that. It would be left leaning (again emphasis here). While we are on the subject of politics, I love that the republicans have totally co opted the teabagger (whoops tea party) mantra even though it's all the same bullshit. Don't mistake this for partisan speak. I'm in favor of the two party system.... one party in the morning and another in the afternoon.
If you are already slightly (emphasis here) right leaning then anything draconian automatically leans the opposite way.
Apple [slashdot.org] leans very far to the left
Seems like the lean far right when it comes to controlling what their users can and can't do. In fact maybe just a little right of draconian.