I didn't say anything at all about their actions, one way or another. I took issue with the use of "hacked". They didn't hack anything, they breached security by using the instruction manual.
You misunderstood what I meant, which was in fact literally what I said, and you were an asshole about it.
Talk to your wife. Explain that it's important to you. Maybe she'll give it a try. But you can't convince her if it's not her thing.
My wife tried co-op games (lego star wars, etc) with me but really wasn't into it. But she respects that it's important to me and lets me have time to play, even if it's not with her.
The stupidest thing you can do is ask a bunch of nerds for advice and then try to convince her she should be into it. Talk to her instead.
Finally, someone who doesn't think this guy is the victim. HE IS THE WEAK LINK!! (I wish I had mod points. Sorry.)
When Apple said "here, carry around this priceless prototype phone and test it out" they most assuredly gave him a lecture on being careful and not losing it.
And he got plastered and lost it.
If I were Apple, if I didn't fire him outright I sure as hell wouldn't trust him anymore. So on second thought, if I can't trust him anymore, adios. And if I were hiring developers for a secretive project, I sure as hell wouldn't hire him either.
Gizmodo* did us a favor by telling us his name. Now his prospective employers know he can't be trusted to hang onto things entrusted to him.
(* Gizmodo is totally not innocent IMO, but a discussion of Gizmodo's actions is not the point of this comment.)
And as Bruce Schneier likes to point out, if we can't keep weapons (improvised or otherwise) out of prisons, how can we have any possible expectation of keeping them out of airports and off of airplanes?
I think the problem is that he's too busy working on other projects (e.g. miniatures, tv series scripts, book signings, wild cards, home renovations, etc.) to sit down and finish the damn series that got him popular in the first place.
The man is easily my favorite author, but it's really frustrating when he can't be bothered to release a book more often than once every 3-5 years.
1) Someone hacks your account to post an expletive-rich-but-otherwise-not-inaccurate summary of Zonk's general moderating style. 2) You then ANONYMOUSLY claim the account was hacked, instead of attempting to verify your identity. 3) ??? 4) Profit ???
(btw... lol! wish I had mod points, I wouldn't have had to post this crap.)
My EX-girlfriend had the same position, that we're not monkeys and should be able to control the urges. (However, I believe this stems from some bad experiences on her part and that she just doesn't know how to let go and enjoy it.)
My counter argument was that it's bullshit, just because I greatly enjoy french fries doesn't mean I should always control the urge to eat them. Maybe I shouldn't try to eat them 3x a day every single day, but there's no reason I should voluntarily DEPRIVE myself of them every single day just because I've evolved enough to have self control.
Ultimately, I think that's what broke us up. Without sex to reinforce our intimacy, we wound up coexisting more than living together as a couple, which wasn't fulfilling. And I also just didn't want to fight about not having enough sex for the rest of my life.
So the GP's position of "sex is for reproduction, we've evolved beyond that" is total crap, and probably destined to destroy most of their relationships unless they meet someone similarly frigid. (Hey, you want my ex gf's phone number?)
Funny that I just read a macworld article about google in the enterprise, which stated:
The company also announced that it will be "carbon neutral" by 2008, which involves reducing its energy consumption as much as possible, then "canceling out" its carbon-dioxide emissions by funding projects that help the environment.
Google has reduced the energy consumption at its giant data centers by more than 50 percent compared with "standard" data centers, using evaporative cooling for its servers and other means, said Urs Hoelzle, a senior vice president of operations. At the same time, he admitted, Google is growing so fast that its energy consumption each year is actually increasing. Funding hybrid development is apparently one of their "carbon neutral" endeavors.
I literally received this email from one of my users yesterday, from his home address since he was having a problem accessing the corporate external web mail server:
The e-mail has be dying the last couple of days and can't send e-mail about the e-mail I was so overwhelmed with the articulate and detailed description of the problem that I didn't know what to check first. (/sarcasm)
And this is the one thing that concerns me. You break your Macbook [Pro], you gotta ship it to AppleCare and be without it for 3 or 4 days.
Fuck that with my phone... If I have to pay another 150 bucks for an AppleCare service plan, that's fine, but if it breaks, I better be able to get an Apple or AT&T store to swap my SIM card (or whatever) into a new one right there without a fight and walk out with a new phone (without forking out another 600 bucks). I don't think the general public is going to accept being without their phone for 3 days.
Sending in your ipod, it's no big deal. Notebook, it's a major inconvenience. Phone becomes a potential safety/security issue on top of an extreme inconvenience.
Their repair/replacement strategy is pretty much going to make or break the deal for me.
you can upgrade the RAM and hard drive on a MacBook, but that's about it for upgrades. And this is different from just about every other laptop on the market, how, exactly?
When your product REQUIRES antivirus software, your product is not secure by itself.
Of course, if they had engineered in things like privilege separation and all the other "security" features of Unix (any of 'em, take your pick, Mac, Linux, what have you) then they'd enjoy all the "intrinsic" lack of NEED for antivirus that Unix systems enjoy.
Had they actually spent the last 7 years improving the underlying privilege model instead of just building and dropping vampireware like WinFS that never saw the light of day, then maybe claims of Vista being more secure might have some merit.
But I still have to agree that XP is more secure, if only by virtue of having 7 years of battle testing, as opposed to being a great big 800lb unknown that just walked into the room. Security is a PROCESS, not a PRODUCT.
Tiger is working well for me. An update would be nice, I suppose, but frankly I don't really care that much. I totally agree. Tiger is stable and doesn't leave me feeling like there's something missing. I'm intrigued by features in Leopard (notably Time Machine) but other than that, honestly, there's no huge compelling rush to upgrade.
Remember, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Tiger is 2 years old and still most decidedly not broke. Sure, it's got a few quirks, and sure, I will most likely upgrade to Leopard pretty darn soon after it comes out, (well, maybe at 10.5.1) but Tiger is still good enough that I'm not heartbroken over a Leopard delay.
Despite the best efforts of organizations like ARIN, the simple fact is that, compared to IPv4, IPv6 gives you access to very little content and very few users. So far, nobody has been able to get past this chicken-and-egg issue, although a The Great IPv6 Experiment proposes to change this by giving away free access to "10 gigabytes of the most popular 'adult entertainment,'" but only over IPv6.
Is IPv6 so unappealing that they've gotta bribe people with pr0n to use it?
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Because that worked out SO well for Blackberry.
I didn't say anything at all about their actions, one way or another. I took issue with the use of "hacked". They didn't hack anything, they breached security by using the instruction manual.
You misunderstood what I meant, which was in fact literally what I said, and you were an asshole about it.
Have a nice day.
By "hacked" you mean "followed printed instructions from a user's manual". If that's the new "hacking" then I weep for mankind.
It's amazing how little sleep you can get and not die.
And for about a month after both of my kids were born, I really don't remember much at all.
*dammit... ABOUT YOU. I even had to preview first and still missed my typo.
It doesn't matter what people are saying about you, as long as they're talking to you.
Tim Cook isn't stupid. He said it, and you're all talking about it. Apple wins.
Talk to your wife. Explain that it's important to you. Maybe she'll give it a try. But you can't convince her if it's not her thing.
My wife tried co-op games (lego star wars, etc) with me but really wasn't into it. But she respects that it's important to me and lets me have time to play, even if it's not with her.
The stupidest thing you can do is ask a bunch of nerds for advice and then try to convince her she should be into it. Talk to her instead.
How much will it cost me to remember being an invincible secret agent on Mars??
So set your torrent client to require SSL connections to peers, and they can't prove you weren't downloading the latest Ubuntu.
Problem solved.
Finally, someone who doesn't think this guy is the victim. HE IS THE WEAK LINK!! (I wish I had mod points. Sorry.)
When Apple said "here, carry around this priceless prototype phone and test it out" they most assuredly gave him a lecture on being careful and not losing it.
And he got plastered and lost it.
If I were Apple, if I didn't fire him outright I sure as hell wouldn't trust him anymore. So on second thought, if I can't trust him anymore, adios.
And if I were hiring developers for a secretive project, I sure as hell wouldn't hire him either.
Gizmodo* did us a favor by telling us his name. Now his prospective employers know he can't be trusted to hang onto things entrusted to him.
(* Gizmodo is totally not innocent IMO, but a discussion of Gizmodo's actions is not the point of this comment.)
Absolutely correct.
And as Bruce Schneier likes to point out, if we can't keep weapons (improvised or otherwise) out of prisons, how can we have any possible expectation of keeping them out of airports and off of airplanes?
I think the problem is that he's too busy working on other projects (e.g. miniatures, tv series scripts, book signings, wild cards, home renovations, etc.) to sit down and finish the damn series that got him popular in the first place.
The man is easily my favorite author, but it's really frustrating when he can't be bothered to release a book more often than once every 3-5 years.
-r
But what I particularly loved was that one lone comment down at the bottom referring to "GNU/Linux". It's probably a stealth troll by RMS. :)
I'm looking for inexpensive, and legal.
Yeah, good luck with that. The RIAA doesn't consider legal and inexpensive to be two compatible concepts.
Lemme get this right:
1) Someone hacks your account to post an expletive-rich-but-otherwise-not-inaccurate summary of Zonk's general moderating style.
2) You then ANONYMOUSLY claim the account was hacked, instead of attempting to verify your identity.
3) ???
4) Profit ???
(btw... lol! wish I had mod points, I wouldn't have had to post this crap.)
I totally agree.
My EX-girlfriend had the same position, that we're not monkeys and should be able to control the urges. (However, I believe this stems from some bad experiences on her part and that she just doesn't know how to let go and enjoy it.)
My counter argument was that it's bullshit, just because I greatly enjoy french fries doesn't mean I should always control the urge to eat them. Maybe I shouldn't try to eat them 3x a day every single day, but there's no reason I should voluntarily DEPRIVE myself of them every single day just because I've evolved enough to have self control.
Ultimately, I think that's what broke us up. Without sex to reinforce our intimacy, we wound up coexisting more than living together as a couple, which wasn't fulfilling. And I also just didn't want to fight about not having enough sex for the rest of my life.
So the GP's position of "sex is for reproduction, we've evolved beyond that" is total crap, and probably destined to destroy most of their relationships unless they meet someone similarly frigid. (Hey, you want my ex gf's phone number?)
*lol*
:)
I wish I had mod points for you
Google has reduced the energy consumption at its giant data centers by more than 50 percent compared with "standard" data centers, using evaporative cooling for its servers and other means, said Urs Hoelzle, a senior vice president of operations. At the same time, he admitted, Google is growing so fast that its energy consumption each year is actually increasing. Funding hybrid development is apparently one of their "carbon neutral" endeavors.
I literally received this email from one of my users yesterday, from his home address since he was having a problem accessing the corporate external web mail server: The e-mail has be dying the last couple of days and can't send e-mail about the e-mail I was so overwhelmed with the articulate and detailed description of the problem that I didn't know what to check first. (/sarcasm)
My sentiments EXACTLY.
It's a phone. Apple has done a great job. I don't want or need third party crapware cluttering it up.
And this is the one thing that concerns me. You break your Macbook [Pro], you gotta ship it to AppleCare and be without it for 3 or 4 days.
Fuck that with my phone... If I have to pay another 150 bucks for an AppleCare service plan, that's fine, but if it breaks, I better be able to get an Apple or AT&T store to swap my SIM card (or whatever) into a new one right there without a fight and walk out with a new phone (without forking out another 600 bucks). I don't think the general public is going to accept being without their phone for 3 days.
Sending in your ipod, it's no big deal. Notebook, it's a major inconvenience. Phone becomes a potential safety/security issue on top of an extreme inconvenience.
Their repair/replacement strategy is pretty much going to make or break the deal for me.
When your product REQUIRES antivirus software, your product is not secure by itself.
Of course, if they had engineered in things like privilege separation and all the other "security" features of Unix (any of 'em, take your pick, Mac, Linux, what have you) then they'd enjoy all the "intrinsic" lack of NEED for antivirus that Unix systems enjoy.
Had they actually spent the last 7 years improving the underlying privilege model instead of just building and dropping vampireware like WinFS that never saw the light of day, then maybe claims of Vista being more secure might have some merit.
But I still have to agree that XP is more secure, if only by virtue of having 7 years of battle testing, as opposed to being a great big 800lb unknown that just walked into the room. Security is a PROCESS, not a PRODUCT.
Remember, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Tiger is 2 years old and still most decidedly not broke. Sure, it's got a few quirks, and sure, I will most likely upgrade to Leopard pretty darn soon after it comes out, (well, maybe at 10.5.1) but Tiger is still good enough that I'm not heartbroken over a Leopard delay.
Despite the best efforts of organizations like ARIN, the simple fact is that, compared to IPv4, IPv6 gives you access to very little content and very few users. So far, nobody has been able to get past this chicken-and-egg issue, although a The Great IPv6 Experiment proposes to change this by giving away free access to "10 gigabytes of the most popular 'adult entertainment,'" but only over IPv6.
Is IPv6 so unappealing that they've gotta bribe people with pr0n to use it?