That's a fatuous response which completely ignores the problem: Windows-specific software that doesn't work in Wine. Allow me to clairfy: poorly-written Department of Education software.
If that's insightful I fear an informative response. Let me know if you've ever tried explaining to several hundred tenured PhDs why they need to change *anything* in their life. It's all we can do to try and convince them that they ought to use a supported email client.
I see the first few comments suggesting a switch to Linux or Macintosh. At least where I work, in the educational sector, that's impossible. The time spent retraining faculty and staff alone would outweigh the security benefits, especially when you consider all the specialized software floating around that hasn't been ported (curse you, Department of Education).
That being said, we haven't had much trouble with malware, and we're mainly an XP Pro/2K shop. We don't allow our users to run as administrators--period. That includes techs. Those who need the ability to install stuff have a local account which is prohibited from actually logging into the computer and has no rights to the domain. Ever since we implemented that things have been pretty quiet. In the rare case when somebody's machine does go down we can take a ghost image for backup purposes (if they aren't storing stuff on the network), and then re-ghost with a clean image. Average turnaround time: two hours.
Well, speaking as an administrator, a long-time contributor, and a historian, Wikipedia doesn't plagiarize all that often, because anything identified as a copyright violation gets deleted. If you were familiar with Wikipedia at all you would know that our rules on images are strict enough to cause plenty of grumbling and bitterness. Thanks for spouting off without knowing the facts though.
That being said, "underage" drinking is quite common. Also, since the United States hasn't drafted someone since the 1970s (unlike certain European countries I could name), your sentence should read "...they can't legally drink until they are 21 but can choose to die for their country when they are 18." A question of semantics, but important nonetheless.
I think you're referring to the Black Fleet Crisis trilogy, in which Luke discovered that his mother was with the Fallanassaii (I'm sure that's spelled wrong). Granted, this assumes that we regard BFC as an authoritative source...
Well, yes, truth is a consensus process. Unless you maintain that your truth is the only truth, which seems pretty damn arrogant to me. My own self-perception colors my view of events, just as yours and the troll two thresholds down does. The task for any human being is to evaluate these differing views of truth and develop their own view. In the case of wikipedia, the idea is to rationalize the differing views to something that is reasonably consistent with the rest of the historical record. This is opposed to the older view, which maintained that there could be one truth. It was dominant in the 19th century, mainly popularized by Hegel and a number of British historians.
If you're interested, Friedrich Nietzsche addressed a number of these issues in On the Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil and Human, All too Human. For discussion of Nietzsche, and how he differed from Hegel, there's Hayden White's Metahistory and Michel Foucault's essays on history, narrative and genealogy.
Having edited a number of entries on Wikipedia myself, I have to say that this is a project worth saving. The sheer volume of information is remarkable, and often more useful than that in an encyclopedia. Moreover, the open nature of project leads, in my opinion, to more balanced articles. Article have to stand up to the scrutiny of thousands of different people, from many different countries around the world. All things considered, 20K isn't a whole hell of a lot to keep it going. I gave $10 myself, it would take just 2000 people doing so to get things back together. Hardly unreasonable...
No, it is flamebait because the holder of the opinion clearly has no grounds upon which to hold it. Moreover, the tone of the post does not speak of the thoughtfulness which you in your anonymity value so highly.
Continuity: Merry and Pippin drank Entish water (Two Towers Extended Edition) so they should be taller than Frodo and Sam, but when the 4 of them stand side by side in Minas Tirith they are the same height.
Right, and I imagine that this will be addressed in the Extended Version of Return of the King. As they weren't shown drinking the Entish water in the theatrical release of TTT, there shouldn't be a reference to it in the theatrical release of RotK. This isn't a blooper at all.
Sadly, this is all too true. I remember when the worms showed up this fall and everyone else at my college (running XP) was knocked offline...while I sat back, with my 98SE box and remote email account, and laughed my head off. 98 doesn't tax the hardware, nor does it "suggest" what I ought to do. I've tweaked it to my heart's content, and it's been months since the last reinstall.
Actually, the current libertarian movement borrows heavily from 19th century classical liberalism. The current liberals (in the United States) have become socialist, while the conservatives are, as always, authoritarian. It's the nature of conservatism. If libertarians seem conservative, it's soley because the liberals abandoned the middle.
I'd have to disagree. Fixing a Blaster infection on an XP involves removing the virus, which takes perhaps ten minutes, then patching, which is perhaps another thirty minutes. All of this can be done by the end user given sufficient instructions, or by a hired college student.
Moreover, at Kalamazoo College (where I work), we mandate up to date av software. Period. We don't let them on the network until we've verified that fact. Manpower intensive? Perhaps. But I'd humbly suggest that if a school as small as ours can manage it, so can MIT. I mean, reformatting? I can understand the concern over a root-level exploit, but there's an effective solution that's far less draconian...
(although the servers are on the net, which makes it a little sticky, but not much. You can let your buddies use your basketball net in your driveway as a rule, but that doesn't mean they can hang out in your pool. )
Not sticky at all. My house is located on a public street. Still makes it illegal to break in. Think of a private network at a gated community...
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So says Andrew Orlowski. Remind me why we take him seriously?
That's a fatuous response which completely ignores the problem: Windows-specific software that doesn't work in Wine. Allow me to clairfy: poorly-written Department of Education software.
If that's insightful I fear an informative response. Let me know if you've ever tried explaining to several hundred tenured PhDs why they need to change *anything* in their life. It's all we can do to try and convince them that they ought to use a supported email client.
I see the first few comments suggesting a switch to Linux or Macintosh. At least where I work, in the educational sector, that's impossible. The time spent retraining faculty and staff alone would outweigh the security benefits, especially when you consider all the specialized software floating around that hasn't been ported (curse you, Department of Education).
That being said, we haven't had much trouble with malware, and we're mainly an XP Pro/2K shop. We don't allow our users to run as administrators--period. That includes techs. Those who need the ability to install stuff have a local account which is prohibited from actually logging into the computer and has no rights to the domain. Ever since we implemented that things have been pretty quiet. In the rare case when somebody's machine does go down we can take a ghost image for backup purposes (if they aren't storing stuff on the network), and then re-ghost with a clean image. Average turnaround time: two hours.
Well, speaking as an administrator, a long-time contributor, and a historian, Wikipedia doesn't plagiarize all that often, because anything identified as a copyright violation gets deleted. If you were familiar with Wikipedia at all you would know that our rules on images are strict enough to cause plenty of grumbling and bitterness. Thanks for spouting off without knowing the facts though.
That being said, "underage" drinking is quite common. Also, since the United States hasn't drafted someone since the 1970s (unlike certain European countries I could name), your sentence should read "...they can't legally drink until they are 21 but can choose to die for their country when they are 18." A question of semantics, but important nonetheless.
Speaking as a resident of one of the other 49 states of the Union (Michigan), Utah is a tolerated nuisance, not a standard-bearer.
Yes, but the act of modding it up changed its location. Sorry about that...
Nothing wrong with a democratically elected monarch. Especially given that she doesn't serve for life. Replace Queen with President and it works fine.
I think you're referring to the Black Fleet Crisis trilogy, in which Luke discovered that his mother was with the Fallanassaii (I'm sure that's spelled wrong). Granted, this assumes that we regard BFC as an authoritative source...
It may be because I'm drunk but that's the best damn thing I've seen in a long time on /. My hat is off to you sir.
Yes, but email addresses are publicly available, just like street addresses or telephone numbers.
Well, yes, truth is a consensus process. Unless you maintain that your truth is the only truth, which seems pretty damn arrogant to me. My own self-perception colors my view of events, just as yours and the troll two thresholds down does. The task for any human being is to evaluate these differing views of truth and develop their own view. In the case of wikipedia, the idea is to rationalize the differing views to something that is reasonably consistent with the rest of the historical record. This is opposed to the older view, which maintained that there could be one truth. It was dominant in the 19th century, mainly popularized by Hegel and a number of British historians.
If you're interested, Friedrich Nietzsche addressed a number of these issues in On the Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil and Human, All too Human. For discussion of Nietzsche, and how he differed from Hegel, there's Hayden White's Metahistory and Michel Foucault's essays on history, narrative and genealogy.
Having edited a number of entries on Wikipedia myself, I have to say that this is a project worth saving. The sheer volume of information is remarkable, and often more useful than that in an encyclopedia. Moreover, the open nature of project leads, in my opinion, to more balanced articles. Article have to stand up to the scrutiny of thousands of different people, from many different countries around the world. All things considered, 20K isn't a whole hell of a lot to keep it going. I gave $10 myself, it would take just 2000 people doing so to get things back together. Hardly unreasonable...
No, it is flamebait because the holder of the opinion clearly has no grounds upon which to hold it. Moreover, the tone of the post does not speak of the thoughtfulness which you in your anonymity value so highly.
RTFA...or in this case, the right page. Moviemistakes is indeed slashdotted, which is what he was posting. Of course msnbc isn't down!
Continuity: Merry and Pippin drank Entish water (Two Towers Extended Edition) so they should be taller than Frodo and Sam, but when the 4 of them stand side by side in Minas Tirith they are the same height.
Right, and I imagine that this will be addressed in the Extended Version of Return of the King. As they weren't shown drinking the Entish water in the theatrical release of TTT, there shouldn't be a reference to it in the theatrical release of RotK. This isn't a blooper at all.
I think Colonial Movers was my favorite gag in the entire original series...
Also, whether you think a rethink of Galactica 1980 could be good.
It certainly couldn't be any worse...
Sadly, this is all too true. I remember when the worms showed up this fall and everyone else at my college (running XP) was knocked offline...while I sat back, with my 98SE box and remote email account, and laughed my head off. 98 doesn't tax the hardware, nor does it "suggest" what I ought to do. I've tweaked it to my heart's content, and it's been months since the last reinstall.
Brave words from an anonymous coward.
Actually, the current libertarian movement borrows heavily from 19th century classical liberalism. The current liberals (in the United States) have become socialist, while the conservatives are, as always, authoritarian. It's the nature of conservatism. If libertarians seem conservative, it's soley because the liberals abandoned the middle.
I'd have to disagree. Fixing a Blaster infection on an XP involves removing the virus, which takes perhaps ten minutes, then patching, which is perhaps another thirty minutes. All of this can be done by the end user given sufficient instructions, or by a hired college student.
Moreover, at Kalamazoo College (where I work), we mandate up to date av software. Period. We don't let them on the network until we've verified that fact. Manpower intensive? Perhaps. But I'd humbly suggest that if a school as small as ours can manage it, so can MIT. I mean, reformatting? I can understand the concern over a root-level exploit, but there's an effective solution that's far less draconian...
(although the servers are on the net, which makes it a little sticky, but not much. You can let your buddies use your basketball net in your driveway as a rule, but that doesn't mean they can hang out in your pool. )
Not sticky at all. My house is located on a public street. Still makes it illegal to break in. Think of a private network at a gated community...
Do we know her mailing address? Why not just write a check or send a money order? Less cumbersome than the technical solution...