If I would make a guess, it's most likely this. Pretty slick; it allows you to scan IP subnets.
For those Windows sysadmins that don't know, you can use SUS (free from Microsoft) on a local server to distribute updates via Automatic Updates. The clients need to be configured, through Group Policy (or manually, if you wish), to use your server instead of Micosoft's, but it can scale quite easily to enterprise level.
It needs IIS to run, but it runs the IIS Lockdown Tool at the same time.
I like to think of the hambuger as the computer hardware itself, and the type of hamburger, the interface, if you will, is the OS.
The simple hamburger with cheese would be similar to Microsoft's offerings, with "upgrades" that add more spices, but don't change much about the underlying fact that it is just a cheeseburger. I consider Win9x/ME to be pre-packaged raw meat.
The concept of the hamburger with all other possible optional condiments is where Linux distros would fall under.
Perhaps OS X could be a steak sandwich instead, since it looks so good and leaves one satisfied.
What's really messed up though, is how ONLY people who read slashdot seem to know anything about it.
That's why we have an obligation to spread the word. I've already told my non-geek friends about it. Granted, I don't include the gritty details, but they get pissed when I tell them it could affect the price of their Tivo or shiny new PDA.
The way I explain it is this. It's like trying to charge a licensing fee for certain hamburgers. SCO is trying to say that their IP is lettuce, which has been freely available for a long time. So they now want to charge fees for any restaurant that serves California burgers. Plus, they have designs on salads as well. Their suit against IBM is like they just sued McDonald's.
Details are, of course, omitted, but they get the gist of it.
A dupe bug would bring the economics of such a system crashing down.
As it is bringing the economics of the RIAA crashing down. The content doesn't seem to be important, in either case, since it can be duplicated ad nauseum. But instead the medium through which said content is delivered. i.e. Lyrics, art in CD albums. Bonus features on DVDs. The gameplay experience in games.
...'will highlight Microsoft's advantages in areas such as security, feature-completeness and total cost of ownership.'
Today must be opposite day.;)
I can highlight the advantages of open source over closed source on all of those points. Funny thing about TCO, though. When it gets calculated, you can sometimes just assign abitrary numbers to skew your results.
"Hmm, our outsourcing company charges $50 an hour. But that other company across town that we never use charges $150 an hour for lower quality work, so we'll put that in our numbers. Yay! TCO is down! What incredible figures we'll have for marketing!"
And meanwhile, all the SCO execs are eating prime rib steak dinner and excellent wine since they started selling off their stock when the price went up.
Actually, inserting the CD at home isn't nearly as inconvenient as wanting to play a game on your laptop, and needing to lug 3 or 4 CDs around with you.
Yeah. Or trying to play some games on a tablet pc without a cd-rom. Maybe I should send an email to Microsoft to see if they can work on "convincing" developers to forego the needed CDs.
Bah. Who am I kidding? I'm just a speck of crap on Microsoft's shoe anyway, at least to them. I'll just continue with the CD cracks.
But it isn't the point that habitual speeders get caught or not. The fact that there is a market for these devices that people use to *try* to get away with it. And then technology gets better on the other end of the scale, and it continues back and forth. Whether one "side" wins or loses is irrelevant.
OT, I have a radar detector, and the only time I find it useful is for speed traps that actually *use* radar, not laser. No need for the cop behind you to use radar *or* laser when all it takes is a look at the spedometer.
Availability of methods isn't slowing down alternative fule sources; people just see no reason to invest the necessary capital to change over, when burning dead dinosaurs is working quite happily.
Which is why I don't really care about "conserving" gasoline. The gasoline-consuming cars I buy from now on will have decent pollution controls in them. The quicker we use up the dead dinosaurs, the quicker the renewable energy and clean energy sources become cost effective to use.
So people get radar detectors, or radar jammers, or faster cars (which is stupid because you can't outrun the radio), or whatever else comes along. It's a similar concept; they'll keep finding ways around the system with technology so they don't get caught. The police respond with laser speed detectors. The process begins anew.
It makes me wonder, when this technology is going to enter the field of medicine? I don't think I am ready for a physician with a Dell box strapped to his head..
Personally, as long as the doctor doesn't use it as a crutch or replacement for knowledge, I would be fine with it. I can imagine having a readout of your blood pressure, heart rate, and other monitored bodily functions all right there, without needing to look away or call out for a reading.
Working on a machine and working on a human body are quite different, where a mistake just a bit off could kill someone on the operating table, where a mistake on an assembly line means the machine may not work right.
Granted, the malfunctioning machine may kill someone later when in use by the end user, but that's what QA is for.
I don't care if this is supposed to be 'funny' or not. Buy the game if you really want to play it. If you use one of those then you'll be screwing yourself out of a bunch of online play, which is the best part, IMHO.
So what if it's a bit late? They actually followed through and released a Linux client for the game.
As things stand now, you can't even log into XP TE with ink. ..you have to peck out a username and password.
Yeah, that's pretty irritating. I know that it probably wouldn't help the price any, but with all the falling prices for biometric authentication, couldn't something like that be implemented? I don't know anything about it, but it sure would be a lot easier than tap-tap-tap...especially if you're paranoid and have a 16+ character password.
It would be if Tablet PC's word-level recognizer and ink support was actually usable. It isn't. It's basically junk.
This is wrong. I use it every day, and it is usable. Very usable. We're rolling them out for certain people in our staff, and it works great for them too. C'mon man, don't spead FUD, it just lowers you down to their level.
the D in the DMCA stands for Digital.. and opening the lid is digital, how?
Well, assume the lid has two states, closed (0), and open (1). 0 and 1! Digital! Bingo!
It could be argued that the lid has infinite intermediate states between open and closed, but a true digital signal doesn't really switch back and forth without being in between either, it's just a relatively short amount of time. Allow me to elaborate.
1) Dumpster diver sees dumpster. Lid is at closed state, and has been for an hour.
2) In a relatively short amount of time (3 seconds), the dumpster diver changes the dumpster lid to open state.
3) The dumpster lid state stays open for a half an hour while the dumpster diver rummages about.
4) Whether or not the dumpster diver finds what he is looking for, he will eventually remove himself from the dumpster. Hopefully he returns the lid to it's closed state, as to leave little evidence of his diving. It takes three seconds to close it.
5) An hour later, his presence is noted, and the dumpster is in opened state for investigation.
So, in summary, because the change in state happens quickly, the signal shown by the opening and closing of the dumpster lid would resemble a digital signal.
This is going to go nowhere. We are both very much ingrained with our own beliefs. We seem to be on either side of an issue, and neither of us is going to budge.
I hate political discussion. And religious discussion. All either ever seems to do is bring out the worst in people and gets them irritated or mad. I wish I was ten again, then none of this would matter.
The "rich". It's a convenient label to give someone. It all comes down to being jealous of someone else's wealth. They have it. You want it. The poor can't steal it legally, so they get the government to do it for them.
Just because those wealthy people don't "deserve" all that money. "They must have killed countless poor people to get that money! It's rightfully ours!"
People that complain that the rich aren't taxed enough piss the hell out of me. There are lots of programs for people to increase their lot in life. Either people don't use the resources because they are lazy, or because they would rather keep on milking the system.
Tell you what - let's burden the people with the most money even further. Who's going to pay the tab when they leave?
Poor people spend all of their money buying stuff.
Perhaps you read the part of my post where I said to create a tax exempt status for lower-income people? You know, the working poor? To make their dollar go further so they can raise their income?
Lower income people DO pay taxes. Lower income people pay a greater percentage of their income in taxes than rich
This is asinine. Look at the fucking tax tables. Sure, they don't have as much disposable income, but if they want to increase their lot in life, maybe they should work for it. I mean, there are lots of federal and state aid programs to help people get the education they need to make a decent living. I have little respect for those people that stand on corners asking for money. They're simply lazy. Citizens of the USA live in one of the most incredible countries in the world, rising civil rights oppression aside.
Even the rich are against this tax cut, they dont WANT the money and they flat out tell people they wont spend it.
Who said this? It's just plain dumb. Can you back it up with quotes? Do you have a good sampling of all the "rich" people in your statistics that have this viewpoint? Didn't think so.
Personally, I think we should do away with income tax completely. Instead, tax the goods that people consume.
I completely agree with that. But if we taxed the goods, people would consume less and the economy would slow down. It depends on the percentage of tax on each good, but currently states do tax goods.
People would have more money to spend, so they would buy more. People have more money and they spend less? Goods are already taxed! They buy them now.
Those that buy the goods pay the taxes on them. More expensive items, same tax rate, but more is paid.
Thats already done, so I guess we need to raise taxes in this area, fine, but I think the income tax should still exist.
You apparently agree with me that we should do away with income taxes, but then a bit further down you say that income taxes should remain. Then you say we should raise taxes on goods, which you above say would slow down the economy.
Waren Buffet is not a god. Perhaps he wants to keep the tax rates where they are so others don't increase their standard of living? I don't know.
You have nothing to say here. Go elsewhere with your contradictory trollish blubbering.
Was there ANYONE that thought that massive tax cuts for the rich were a good idea besides the peeps at the top who stand to get more money?
I did. I work for a public school district, and I'm not a "peep" at the top. Income taxes cut, people can afford a bigger house, pay higher property taxes, bam, more money for education. We may have to do some shuffling of money for poorer areas, but keep it at the state level.
Is this opposed to those who want tax "cuts" for lower income, that don't pay any taxes in the first place? Those "rich" are getting a bit less off their taxes. They aren't GETTING anything back.
Want to jumpstart the economy? Cut taxes for those that make the money (and jobs) in the first place.
Personally, I think we should do away with income tax completely. Instead, tax the goods that people consume. Those that buy the goods pay the taxes on them. More expensive items, same tax rate, but more is paid. Have a low-income tax exemption policy so their dollars go further. But let those people that drive the economy use their money to make jobs. Wealthy people are not evil. We just need to keep the huge corporate interests out of Congress. Not that they shouldn't have a voice, just not as much sway.
As far as the telco issue goes, I think that the infrastructure should be publicly owned, like roads. However, care must be taken that the goverment doesn't abuse the trust we have placed in them by monitoring our every move. We don't allow checkpoints on roads every hundred feet so the government can watch where we go. The same for this, but since it isn't something that can be seen, we must be more vigilant.
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For those Windows sysadmins that don't know, you can use SUS (free from Microsoft) on a local server to distribute updates via Automatic Updates. The clients need to be configured, through Group Policy (or manually, if you wish), to use your server instead of Micosoft's, but it can scale quite easily to enterprise level.
It needs IIS to run, but it runs the IIS Lockdown Tool at the same time.
The simple hamburger with cheese would be similar to Microsoft's offerings, with "upgrades" that add more spices, but don't change much about the underlying fact that it is just a cheeseburger. I consider Win9x/ME to be pre-packaged raw meat.
The concept of the hamburger with all other possible optional condiments is where Linux distros would fall under.
Perhaps OS X could be a steak sandwich instead, since it looks so good and leaves one satisfied.
Man am I ever bored...
That's why we have an obligation to spread the word. I've already told my non-geek friends about it. Granted, I don't include the gritty details, but they get pissed when I tell them it could affect the price of their Tivo or shiny new PDA.
The way I explain it is this. It's like trying to charge a licensing fee for certain hamburgers. SCO is trying to say that their IP is lettuce, which has been freely available for a long time. So they now want to charge fees for any restaurant that serves California burgers. Plus, they have designs on salads as well. Their suit against IBM is like they just sued McDonald's.
Details are, of course, omitted, but they get the gist of it.
As it is bringing the economics of the RIAA crashing down. The content doesn't seem to be important, in either case, since it can be duplicated ad nauseum. But instead the medium through which said content is delivered. i.e. Lyrics, art in CD albums. Bonus features on DVDs. The gameplay experience in games.
Today must be opposite day. ;)
I can highlight the advantages of open source over closed source on all of those points. Funny thing about TCO, though. When it gets calculated, you can sometimes just assign abitrary numbers to skew your results.
"Hmm, our outsourcing company charges $50 an hour. But that other company across town that we never use charges $150 an hour for lower quality work, so we'll put that in our numbers. Yay! TCO is down! What incredible figures we'll have for marketing!"
And meanwhile, all the SCO execs are eating prime rib steak dinner and excellent wine since they started selling off their stock when the price went up.
Yeah. Or trying to play some games on a tablet pc without a cd-rom. Maybe I should send an email to Microsoft to see if they can work on "convincing" developers to forego the needed CDs.
Bah. Who am I kidding? I'm just a speck of crap on Microsoft's shoe anyway, at least to them. I'll just continue with the CD cracks.
OT, I have a radar detector, and the only time I find it useful is for speed traps that actually *use* radar, not laser. No need for the cop behind you to use radar *or* laser when all it takes is a look at the spedometer.
Which is why I don't really care about "conserving" gasoline. The gasoline-consuming cars I buy from now on will have decent pollution controls in them. The quicker we use up the dead dinosaurs, the quicker the renewable energy and clean energy sources become cost effective to use.
So people get radar detectors, or radar jammers, or faster cars (which is stupid because you can't outrun the radio), or whatever else comes along. It's a similar concept; they'll keep finding ways around the system with technology so they don't get caught. The police respond with laser speed detectors. The process begins anew.
I think it would be neither funny nor afar when they come for you.
Personally, as long as the doctor doesn't use it as a crutch or replacement for knowledge, I would be fine with it. I can imagine having a readout of your blood pressure, heart rate, and other monitored bodily functions all right there, without needing to look away or call out for a reading.
Working on a machine and working on a human body are quite different, where a mistake just a bit off could kill someone on the operating table, where a mistake on an assembly line means the machine may not work right.
Granted, the malfunctioning machine may kill someone later when in use by the end user, but that's what QA is for.
I don't care if this is supposed to be 'funny' or not. Buy the game if you really want to play it. If you use one of those then you'll be screwing yourself out of a bunch of online play, which is the best part, IMHO.
So what if it's a bit late? They actually followed through and released a Linux client for the game.
Loser.
Yeah, that's pretty irritating. I know that it probably wouldn't help the price any, but with all the falling prices for biometric authentication, couldn't something like that be implemented? I don't know anything about it, but it sure would be a lot easier than tap-tap-tap...especially if you're paranoid and have a 16+ character password.
This is wrong. I use it every day, and it is usable. Very usable. We're rolling them out for certain people in our staff, and it works great for them too. C'mon man, don't spead FUD, it just lowers you down to their level.
Well, assume the lid has two states, closed (0), and open (1). 0 and 1! Digital! Bingo!
It could be argued that the lid has infinite intermediate states between open and closed, but a true digital signal doesn't really switch back and forth without being in between either, it's just a relatively short amount of time. Allow me to elaborate.
1) Dumpster diver sees dumpster. Lid is at closed state, and has been for an hour.
2) In a relatively short amount of time (3 seconds), the dumpster diver changes the dumpster lid to open state.
3) The dumpster lid state stays open for a half an hour while the dumpster diver rummages about.
4) Whether or not the dumpster diver finds what he is looking for, he will eventually remove himself from the dumpster. Hopefully he returns the lid to it's closed state, as to leave little evidence of his diving. It takes three seconds to close it.
5) An hour later, his presence is noted, and the dumpster is in opened state for investigation.
So, in summary, because the change in state happens quickly, the signal shown by the opening and closing of the dumpster lid would resemble a digital signal.
I hate political discussion. And religious discussion. All either ever seems to do is bring out the worst in people and gets them irritated or mad. I wish I was ten again, then none of this would matter.
Check this document, which another slashdotter graciously provided from the US Treasury.
The "rich". It's a convenient label to give someone. It all comes down to being jealous of someone else's wealth. They have it. You want it. The poor can't steal it legally, so they get the government to do it for them.
Just because those wealthy people don't "deserve" all that money. "They must have killed countless poor people to get that money! It's rightfully ours!"
People that complain that the rich aren't taxed enough piss the hell out of me. There are lots of programs for people to increase their lot in life. Either people don't use the resources because they are lazy, or because they would rather keep on milking the system.
Tell you what - let's burden the people with the most money even further. Who's going to pay the tab when they leave?
Perhaps you read the part of my post where I said to create a tax exempt status for lower-income people? You know, the working poor? To make their dollar go further so they can raise their income?
This is asinine. Look at the fucking tax tables. Sure, they don't have as much disposable income, but if they want to increase their lot in life, maybe they should work for it. I mean, there are lots of federal and state aid programs to help people get the education they need to make a decent living. I have little respect for those people that stand on corners asking for money. They're simply lazy. Citizens of the USA live in one of the most incredible countries in the world, rising civil rights oppression aside.
Even the rich are against this tax cut, they dont WANT the money and they flat out tell people they wont spend it.
Who said this? It's just plain dumb. Can you back it up with quotes? Do you have a good sampling of all the "rich" people in your statistics that have this viewpoint? Didn't think so.
Personally, I think we should do away with income tax completely. Instead, tax the goods that people consume.
I completely agree with that. But if we taxed the goods, people would consume less and the economy would slow down. It depends on the percentage of tax on each good, but currently states do tax goods.
People would have more money to spend, so they would buy more. People have more money and they spend less? Goods are already taxed! They buy them now.
Those that buy the goods pay the taxes on them. More expensive items, same tax rate, but more is paid.
Thats already done, so I guess we need to raise taxes in this area, fine, but I think the income tax should still exist.
You apparently agree with me that we should do away with income taxes, but then a bit further down you say that income taxes should remain. Then you say we should raise taxes on goods, which you above say would slow down the economy.
Waren Buffet is not a god. Perhaps he wants to keep the tax rates where they are so others don't increase their standard of living? I don't know.
You have nothing to say here. Go elsewhere with your contradictory trollish blubbering.
I did. I work for a public school district, and I'm not a "peep" at the top. Income taxes cut, people can afford a bigger house, pay higher property taxes, bam, more money for education. We may have to do some shuffling of money for poorer areas, but keep it at the state level.
Is this opposed to those who want tax "cuts" for lower income, that don't pay any taxes in the first place? Those "rich" are getting a bit less off their taxes. They aren't GETTING anything back.
Want to jumpstart the economy? Cut taxes for those that make the money (and jobs) in the first place.
Personally, I think we should do away with income tax completely. Instead, tax the goods that people consume. Those that buy the goods pay the taxes on them. More expensive items, same tax rate, but more is paid. Have a low-income tax exemption policy so their dollars go further. But let those people that drive the economy use their money to make jobs. Wealthy people are not evil. We just need to keep the huge corporate interests out of Congress. Not that they shouldn't have a voice, just not as much sway.
As far as the telco issue goes, I think that the infrastructure should be publicly owned, like roads. However, care must be taken that the goverment doesn't abuse the trust we have placed in them by monitoring our every move. We don't allow checkpoints on roads every hundred feet so the government can watch where we go. The same for this, but since it isn't something that can be seen, we must be more vigilant.
The United States is Representative Republic, not a Democracy. I agree with all your other points.
Well there's part of their problem. They've got some pastry from a guy named Hans heading up their German arm.
I'm sure there would be. But it was a joke, hence the Funny moderations.
Burglar enters my house through a window.
Window breaks, burglar cuts arm.
I hear it, grab my gun, and see the burglar bleeding on my oriental throw rug.
I say, "Sorry man, I don't really want to kill you, but I won't be liable for it and there's less paperwork that way."
BAM!