"Why can't I run 3 different products side by side and decide which one's resident scanner I want switched on? I'm sure there are technical issue but I'm also sure they're not insurmountable."
Tried running different products using Thinapp thin installs? That would be one way to experiment.
"Is this a back-door effort to get ad-blocking out of Firefox?"
If that happens, it's time to relentlessly savage Firefox and do everything practical from a geek perspective to reduce its adoption. That would be a deliberate betrayal of the user base, because extensions are the only reason to use Firefox.
The makers of ANY software should know their users will turn on them in a heartbeat when they choose to screw up.
"It seems like I'm the only person who has a problem with this new trend of the customer's product becoming a doorstop when it's vendor closes up shop."
Support products that don't have an inherent tendency to become "doorstops". Free, Open, user serviceable, etc are what to look for.
Don't buy things that need vendor support or prolonged vendor support that don't also have non-vendor alternatives for support. Research your choices or be an example to others.
"Organizations (not just companies) got so large that a manager could take actions adversely affecting thousands of anonymous employees with impunity."
Before WWII, managers and other company leadership took "adverse actions" such as hiring gunmen to kill union activists and strikers. Let's not get too dewy-eyed about "work ethics" often driven by desperation and coerced by threat and force.
Bans don't work because religion is perfectly configured to resist oppression. It is not perfectly configured to resist ridicule, which coincidentally is what religion and supersitionists deserve.
If it's such a great idea, do it yourself and make a working example. As for the homeless taking advantage of this, how do you propose managing their often spectacularly destructive and self-destructive behaviors? John and Jane Bohemian might get on well with other Bohemians, but toss a few violent drunks, a paint huffer or two, and various criminals looking for a place to crash and you'd have great fodder for reality TV.
"It may be costly - but put it this way - how much is your mothers life worth? Your wife? Child? yourself?"
I and they routinely risk life and limb every day driving to work or seeking medical care, and note that resources consumed by one effort are not available for others.
We are much more likely to die in an auto accident, die of hospital borne infection, or die of hospital borne infection after an auto accident than to be greased by Hadji the friendly Jihadist.
The bomb was smallish. Thanks to the internet we know that an object the size of a grenade will fit with some work, and with a friction igniter (German potato masher and other grenades had these) iit could be detonated by a pull string.
He's become quite Republican since winning election, which makes sense if he wants to win the next one.
Obama can take Democrat votes for granted, so all he need do is split the Republicans (with the eager if unintentional help of Sarah Palin and the Teabaggers).
"Future wars will be fought not about oil but rare earth materials."
Nonsense. The model for getting those already exists in Africa, where one pays the locals what the market will bear and they handle the light work, War disrupts mining, while unconventional logistics route around inconvenient situations.
"The Japanese still haven't apologized to China to this day for what they did in WW2, and even deny things like the Rape of Nanking even occurred. The Chinese haven't forgotten, however -- state-run television there shows movies about Japanese massacres on a near daily basis. There's also other issues like Taiwan, leftover chemical weapons, national perceptions of one another, and the sort."
Too bad we never saw much of those movies in the US. In contrast to Nazi Germany, many young Americans have NFI about the joys of being enslaved under the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, and think the Pacific war consisted of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima.
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"Why can't I run 3 different products side by side and decide which one's resident scanner I want switched on? I'm sure there are technical issue but I'm also sure they're not insurmountable."
Tried running different products using Thinapp thin installs? That would be one way to experiment.
"People who can't think and can't act without first checking in with the collective."
That's never been different.
The collective rules, the thinking man studies those rules in order to exploit them, and the sheeple serve their masters.
"Is this a back-door effort to get ad-blocking out of Firefox?"
If that happens, it's time to relentlessly savage Firefox and do everything practical from a geek perspective to reduce its adoption.
That would be a deliberate betrayal of the user base, because extensions are the only reason to use Firefox.
The makers of ANY software should know their users will turn on them in a heartbeat when they choose to screw up.
My friend IS a piss poor latex sexbot, you insensitive clod!
"It seems like I'm the only person who has a problem with this new trend of the customer's product becoming a doorstop when it's vendor closes up shop."
Support products that don't have an inherent tendency to become "doorstops". Free, Open, user serviceable, etc are what to look for.
Don't buy things that need vendor support or prolonged vendor support that don't also have non-vendor alternatives for support. Research your choices or be an example to others.
"Also, seriously? What kind of retard would send those ass clowns money?"
That should be modded Insightful, not Flamebait.
Some things are so monumentally stupid the only appropriate response is scorn and contempt.
Also relevant:
Slashdot doesn't feature ways to crack Windows activation, but it does feature workarounds to Apple restrictions. Why?
Those not wanting to be a corporate bitch should not buy corporate software, water is wet, and the sun rose in the East.
No problem.
The Bing "birds eye" view is already better than close up aerial Google views.
Bing should move to a better and higher-res Street View equivalent.
"Organizations (not just companies) got so large that a manager could take actions adversely affecting thousands of anonymous employees with impunity."
Before WWII, managers and other company leadership took "adverse actions" such as hiring gunmen to kill union activists and strikers. Let's not get too dewy-eyed about "work ethics" often driven by desperation and coerced by threat and force.
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newcentury/5168
"suing someone who uses imagery from Beowulf."
Hush!
Lawyers read Slashdot too!
"We used to have people like this. They used to be called nobility."
So did the French, who solved it appropriately.
"Because in those situations, you KNOW Apple didnt authorize the leak and it makes you snicker."
They certainly wouldn't be sophisticated enough to use that tactic to reinforce a deliberate leak...
Bans don't work because religion is perfectly configured to resist oppression. It is not perfectly configured to resist ridicule, which coincidentally is what religion and supersitionists deserve.
Don't ban it, do attack it.
If it's such a great idea, do it yourself and make a working example.
As for the homeless taking advantage of this, how do you propose managing their often spectacularly destructive and self-destructive behaviors? John and Jane Bohemian might get on well with other Bohemians, but toss a few violent drunks, a paint huffer or two, and various criminals looking for a place to crash and you'd have great fodder for reality TV.
"It may be costly - but put it this way - how much is your mothers life worth? Your wife? Child? yourself?"
I and they routinely risk life and limb every day driving to work or seeking medical care, and note that resources consumed by one effort are not available for others.
We are much more likely to die in an auto accident, die of hospital borne infection, or die of hospital borne infection after an auto accident than to be greased by Hadji the friendly Jihadist.
If the models were a collection of Wal-Mart hambeasts most /.ers would still be on board, if not seated then in folds of convenience.
The bomb was smallish. Thanks to the internet we know that an object the size of a grenade will fit with some work, and with a friction igniter (German potato masher and other grenades had these) iit could be detonated by a pull string.
Booty bomb:
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090902_aqap_paradigm_shifts_and_lessons_learned
Classic pull fuse:
http://www.inert-ord.net/gerimp/eggs/41204.jpg
Omit all metal, make a plastic case that looks like a convincing turd, and a considerable amount of ordnance could be carried.
"How many people will get their brand new frame home, plug it in and find that it displays a "preloaded" goatse"
I now have a gift idea my friends will remember.
"You will have to read the EULA VERY CAREFULLY before buying any device with DECE capability."
Easily dealt with by not buying! :)
"Buying ANYTHING at Best Buy these days is a chore."
That's why I don't buy there, except for a pack of DVDs now and then. I look at monitors and such, then buy online.
When salesmen approach, I tell them I'm just killing time while the wife shops elsewhere and they leave me alone.
"You are, officially, an asshole."
He's become quite Republican since winning election, which makes sense if he wants to win the next one.
Obama can take Democrat votes for granted, so all he need do is split the Republicans (with the eager if unintentional help of Sarah Palin and the Teabaggers).
We can't admit other humans are our competitors for resources, since we all be God's chillun'.
Gods cannot "abuse" their power since they make the rules.
Features = bloat.
Remember Phoenix? Light,fast, nothing else.
It morphed into Firefox which is featureful and buggier. (I like the features so I don't run FF on slow PCs.)
"Future wars will be fought not about oil but rare earth materials."
Nonsense. The model for getting those already exists in Africa, where one pays the locals what the market will bear and they handle the light work,
War disrupts mining, while unconventional logistics route around inconvenient situations.
"The Japanese still haven't apologized to China to this day for what they did in WW2, and even deny things like the Rape of Nanking even occurred. The Chinese haven't forgotten, however -- state-run television there shows movies about Japanese massacres on a near daily basis. There's also other issues like Taiwan, leftover chemical weapons, national perceptions of one another, and the sort."
Too bad we never saw much of those movies in the US. In contrast to Nazi Germany, many young Americans have NFI about the joys of being enslaved under the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, and think the Pacific war consisted of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima.