Is there some sort of space garrison we have to keep constantly staffed and stocked?
Um, the answer to that part of your question is clearly "yes", if you are willing to accept 'have signed agreements saying we will do so' as a definition for 'have to'. Or were you thinking of a different space program?
I'm going to mostly agree with you, but I don't think it's an OS level problem. I have an old limited purpose Thinkpad (from 2001) that had been running Windows 2000 until this June. When security for that ran out, I switched to XUbuntu. The real problem with it is not that the WM doesn't work well, with the default settings xfce is great! I can do anything I could do under W2K, on a modern operating system and with the same responsiveness. But with so much of the internet dependent on javascript and flash, there's not a lot of browsing that you can do on a machine that old. Even with a working OS (whether Windows or Linux), you're limited to running low impact programs, and not much is supported on hardware that old. OpenOffice and Thunderbird work great, but that's about all it's good for.
I have to agree with this, and it makes me so incredibly happy. I remember the days (what, last year?) when each new release would have something useful enough (or enough little things) that I would want to take the effort to upgrade. Now things are working well enough that 3 years sounds about right, though it's nice to know that if something big comes out I'll have the option.
I can't speak for Jailbrekr, but we've been replacing their stuff as fast as we can not because it doesn't work, but because we know that when it fails it's going to be like pulling teeth to get it fixed. I don't know what sort of contractual/legal obligations made us wait this long, but now that we can we're going full bore.
I can't speak to your experience, of course, but it looks like VZ is taking a new stance on their more recent offerings. Case in point, the Fascinate.
...It's not like you can change it, either. There's no way to change the in-browser search engine - it's stuck being Bing.... Similar to the Droid 2, you also cannot remove the Verizon bookmarks. Trying to do so gets you a nice error message.
I really do hate to rain on your parade, but I feel a sort of scientific obligation to point out that the only thing we know about this planet is size and distance from star. It really could be a barren rock or a greenhouse hell like Venus, for all we know. Hopefully soon we'll be able to know more, and I'm confident that even if this isn't it we'll find one soon.
Neither is at all practical at the moment, but there's no reason they shouldn't work in theory, just like the analytical engine was in Babbage's day. And, like the engine, in 150 years, we'll be talking about how the idea changed everything.
Which would be true, except the the rocket that they were working on was for access to LEO only. They hadn't started on the Ares V yet because all the money was going into the shuttle. I think it's fair to change the scope of the mission, when the funded mission is not the same as the stated mission.
If your paying for best effort, the ISP can say "Sorry, that was our best, you're SOL." If you're paying for service above best effort, then when the best isn't good enough you get reimbursed.
That's the theory anyway... somehow when money is on the line it turns out their 'best' wasn't really.
I don't know where you live, but I suspect that has something to do with it. Here in Minnesota gun ownership is common. In the cities it's not even close to a majority, but there are enough hunters that everyone knows some. I've never met a farmer, though, who doesn't have a gun.
Unless you have your phone store your password, but who's users would be stupid enough to do that? As you say, though, even in that worst case scenario they've reduced the problem down to attackers who have both the phone and the password. I fail to see any way that increasing security is a bad thing, even if there's still a hole (there's always a hole).
It's not going to be me, but I'm not going to be at all surprised to see it. I use virtual cd/dvd drives all the time and entire virtual machines regularly, and that's just on my personal computer. A virtual HDCP out doesn't seem like it would be much harder to implement. It still just exploits what used to be the "analog hole", though, which is less useful with digital media since decrypting it in the first place is what's been bugging me. Still, for those who want to play their BR disks on their DVI monitor, I suppose it's something.
You wouldn't dare take seriously a scientists that was also an astrologist, or one that claimed aliens visited him daily... then why do we accept those that believe in that creepy guy in the sky?
Personally, I take scientists seriously based on the verifiability of their work. As long as they don't claim that astrology or UFOs have a scientific backing, I don't really care what they believe.
Misplaced modifier there, so I don't think it's so much technically wrong as grammatically wrong, and, hey, this is Slashdot! It's not a "link to a [site that will download]", it's a "[link to a site] that will download". The link is the actor, not the site. It would be more accurately worded "contain a link that, when clicked, would cause a malicious file to be downloaded...", which is a bit more cumbersome than is needed here.
This is very close to being right, and exactly why I wish Linux were better about letting me (or more accurately, my family) install things without admin rights. I wish that Linux viruses and, more importantly, trojans would be restricted to just blowing away home. Then they would 1) only be able to damage their own files through stupidity and 2) be easily stopped by a virus scanner. Of course, this is all in my dream world where Linux is used enough to have enough viruses to need virus scanners, but still. As it is now, people have every reason to assume that they need to put in their password to see the fluffy bunnies.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure when you buy a business that's losing money hand over fist you expect it to continue doing so for a while anyway. I didn't see anyone at the time postulate that they were picking it up for the revenue.
You'll notice I didn't spoil either myself, because it's not warranted here. But in a discussion of the work? I would certainly expect there to be spoilers at this point, and if I wanted to avoid them I wouldn't read any such thing.
As far as productions are concerned, you are quite right. Your examples, though, are exactly why the spoilers are less important than they are being made out to be here, since it's the experience that matters and as you point out there are many reasons to see it even after you know the end.
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Is there some sort of space garrison we have to keep constantly staffed and stocked?
Um, the answer to that part of your question is clearly "yes", if you are willing to accept 'have signed agreements saying we will do so' as a definition for 'have to'. Or were you thinking of a different space program?
I'm going to mostly agree with you, but I don't think it's an OS level problem. I have an old limited purpose Thinkpad (from 2001) that had been running Windows 2000 until this June. When security for that ran out, I switched to XUbuntu. The real problem with it is not that the WM doesn't work well, with the default settings xfce is great! I can do anything I could do under W2K, on a modern operating system and with the same responsiveness. But with so much of the internet dependent on javascript and flash, there's not a lot of browsing that you can do on a machine that old. Even with a working OS (whether Windows or Linux), you're limited to running low impact programs, and not much is supported on hardware that old. OpenOffice and Thunderbird work great, but that's about all it's good for.
Well, I would certainly hope she could. Though, I suspect SpaceX springs for more RAM than that.
I have to agree with this, and it makes me so incredibly happy. I remember the days (what, last year?) when each new release would have something useful enough (or enough little things) that I would want to take the effort to upgrade. Now things are working well enough that 3 years sounds about right, though it's nice to know that if something big comes out I'll have the option.
Or 10/10/10101, which is nicely palindromic. Depending on how you write your dates, 2/1/2121 has potential.
Really, can you blame us?
I can't speak for Jailbrekr, but we've been replacing their stuff as fast as we can not because it doesn't work, but because we know that when it fails it's going to be like pulling teeth to get it fixed. I don't know what sort of contractual/legal obligations made us wait this long, but now that we can we're going full bore.
Ironically, I would have expected you to agree with his assessment.
I can't speak to your experience, of course, but it looks like VZ is taking a new stance on their more recent offerings. Case in point, the Fascinate.
...It's not like you can change it, either. There's no way to change the in-browser search engine - it's stuck being Bing....
Similar to the Droid 2, you also cannot remove the Verizon bookmarks. Trying to do so gets you a nice error message.
I really do hate to rain on your parade, but I feel a sort of scientific obligation to point out that the only thing we know about this planet is size and distance from star. It really could be a barren rock or a greenhouse hell like Venus, for all we know. Hopefully soon we'll be able to know more, and I'm confident that even if this isn't it we'll find one soon.
But we're not there yet.
Neither is at all practical at the moment, but there's no reason they shouldn't work in theory, just like the analytical engine was in Babbage's day. And, like the engine, in 150 years, we'll be talking about how the idea changed everything.
In space, no one can hear you *woosh*
Which would be true, except the the rocket that they were working on was for access to LEO only. They hadn't started on the Ares V yet because all the money was going into the shuttle. I think it's fair to change the scope of the mission, when the funded mission is not the same as the stated mission.
If your paying for best effort, the ISP can say "Sorry, that was our best, you're SOL." If you're paying for service above best effort, then when the best isn't good enough you get reimbursed.
That's the theory anyway... somehow when money is on the line it turns out their 'best' wasn't really.
I don't know where you live, but I suspect that has something to do with it. Here in Minnesota gun ownership is common. In the cities it's not even close to a majority, but there are enough hunters that everyone knows some. I've never met a farmer, though, who doesn't have a gun.
A wizard did it. You dare underestimate the power of Jobs?
Unless you have your phone store your password, but who's users would be stupid enough to do that? As you say, though, even in that worst case scenario they've reduced the problem down to attackers who have both the phone and the password. I fail to see any way that increasing security is a bad thing, even if there's still a hole (there's always a hole).
It's not going to be me, but I'm not going to be at all surprised to see it. I use virtual cd/dvd drives all the time and entire virtual machines regularly, and that's just on my personal computer. A virtual HDCP out doesn't seem like it would be much harder to implement. It still just exploits what used to be the "analog hole", though, which is less useful with digital media since decrypting it in the first place is what's been bugging me. Still, for those who want to play their BR disks on their DVI monitor, I suppose it's something.
I see no reason they can't still be assholes when I need them. I don't have to like it, but I recognize the shape of the world in which I live.
You wouldn't dare take seriously a scientists that was also an astrologist, or one that claimed aliens visited him daily ... then why do we accept those that believe in that creepy guy in the sky?
Personally, I take scientists seriously based on the verifiability of their work. As long as they don't claim that astrology or UFOs have a scientific backing, I don't really care what they believe.
Misplaced modifier there, so I don't think it's so much technically wrong as grammatically wrong, and, hey, this is Slashdot! It's not a "link to a [site that will download]", it's a "[link to a site] that will download". The link is the actor, not the site. It would be more accurately worded "contain a link that, when clicked, would cause a malicious file to be downloaded...", which is a bit more cumbersome than is needed here.
This is very close to being right, and exactly why I wish Linux were better about letting me (or more accurately, my family) install things without admin rights. I wish that Linux viruses and, more importantly, trojans would be restricted to just blowing away home. Then they would 1) only be able to damage their own files through stupidity and 2) be easily stopped by a virus scanner. Of course, this is all in my dream world where Linux is used enough to have enough viruses to need virus scanners, but still. As it is now, people have every reason to assume that they need to put in their password to see the fluffy bunnies.
But then, if apple thinks different you still have a problem...
I see what you did there.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure when you buy a business that's losing money hand over fist you expect it to continue doing so for a while anyway. I didn't see anyone at the time postulate that they were picking it up for the revenue.
You'll notice I didn't spoil either myself, because it's not warranted here. But in a discussion of the work? I would certainly expect there to be spoilers at this point, and if I wanted to avoid them I wouldn't read any such thing.
As far as productions are concerned, you are quite right. Your examples, though, are exactly why the spoilers are less important than they are being made out to be here, since it's the experience that matters and as you point out there are many reasons to see it even after you know the end.