Having just confirmed you are a child/zealot, it seems I made the right decision saving myself a lot of pointless bashing. No point in trying to argue with zealots. So thanks:)
It doesn't matter if TPB, as an organization clearly advocate piracy. The platform they provide to share torrents is neutral, and does not favor illegal material any more than legal material.
Switching the gender of any character can make for an interesting story. I don't think that's a good enough reason to fuck with the character dynamic when there are still interesting stories to be told with the character as a male.
Interesting stories is not sufficient reason another. You need an additional reason fuck with what makes the character the character. Making the Doctor female would not kill the story, but it would no longer be the same character.
If you have to change the character drastically to tell interesting stories, there are problems. Thankfully, we don't have to change the character drastically and we don't have those problems.
Perhaps, if you don't think there are still interesting stories to be told with a male character, it is you who lacks imagination.
If someone has a bad experience, they will be pissed off and want to leave a bad comment. Often, that is the only recourse for a shitty service offered, or if a refund/exchange is no offered.
If someone has a genuinely good experience, they may be happy and want the product/business to do well, so they will leave a comment to aid in that.
I would think the only influence comes from choosing based on comments, not on leaving comments.
Could you paste your post a few more times to make sure everyone see's it?
Look, the character is male. He should remain male unless there is a convincing reason to make him female. Because it would be interesting is not reason enough, not when there are are still many interesting stories to tell with him as a male.
Try installing a modern distro on a 486 and let me know how well that works out for you.
I'm pretty familiar with the different MAC implementations, I've even worked on some of them. AppArmor is pretty basic, and not widespread. I wasn't disputing that Linux has different MAC implementations available, I was disputing that it is widespread. Aside from Fedora and Ubuntu, which other common distros implement it? And how often does it stay enabled in fedora?
ASLR and DEP are distro things because apps have to be compiled with support for the technology to be worth anything. For a long time, most distros didn't offer apps that were. Seriously, I think you need to read up on how these technologies work. Applications have to be compiled to take advantage of them...you can't just slap it on and it applies to all applications...
My point was that on average, Windows is more secure than most Linux distributions. Due to the mitigating technologies done right and increased focus on security resulting in few vulnerabilities.
You miss my point about switching to Linux. Many people in these oppressive regimes don't have the luxury of having their own computers to install Linux on. Here, yes, we can just download an iso to a USb stick, boot from it and install. It's not so simple with older hardware that may not even be yours...
I'm also not sure how you think a list of vulnerabilities for mostly applications from a year and half ago is meant help your argument.
Your other information is even more out of date than your link. Most people will find it hard to believe, but IE is one of the most secure browsers. Aside from Chrome, it is the only browser that supports ASLR, DEP, WIC and proper sandboxing. Firefox and Opera don't even try.
A lot of countries with restrictive regimes have a much larger lower class than is in the US. They often use public computers or much older computers that newer distros of Linux would not easily work on. I'm talking countries like Saudi Arabia, which when I was there saw many families using things as old as a 486.
UAC was reviled not because of UAC, but because of the frequency with which it popped up due to badly written applications. Imagine how frustrating it would be on Linux ifyou got a root prompt every time you tried to do....anything.
Linux has MAC implementations with stuff like RSBAC and SELinux, but it really isn't common to see it implemented. Windows has a rudimentary implementation that helps a lot, and is very widely implemented.
As far as Linux support for DEP and ALSR, I believe it differs by distro.It's been a while since I looked into it so things might have changed, but the last time I did not all distros made use of it. Or, even if it was enabled in the kernel the distro did not provide apps compiled with appropriate support.
I never said these are cutting edge security features by the way....nice strawman....
Many of the people using Tor in restrictive countries won't have the luxury of switching away from Windows. Even if they don, they won't necessarily know how.
Secondly, it's poor advice. The vulnerability affects Firefox 17....and Firefox is up to 22 now I think. Wouldn't it make more sense for them to make sure the tor browser is hardened and recommend people to use that?
Finally, Using a more recent windows version is actually good for security. ASLR, DEP, a rudimentary MAC implementation, UAC...despite what people say, Windows is actually one of the better operating systems security wise these days. Not just because of the preventive technology that most other OS's don't have (OS X has a lacking and broken implementation, most linux distros are not as complete in their implementations..), but because Microsoft started taking security seriously and vulnerabilities are rare these days.
Whatever, bring on the irrational arguments and Microsoft hate. Is it really too much for a forum of tech nerds to be objective in their analysis?
The thing is, the alternatives are not good enough, so they pay the price. If they didn't want to pay the price, they would settle for an inferior product and pay less. It's pretty simple.
IBM was just an example....there's a Microsoft Australia, a Blizzard Australia etc as well.
A lot of the time in the US the tax is included in the final price, especially at the big franchise like best buy or walmart. It's not enough of a factor to alter the point.
Consumer protection in the US varies by state I believe, and I don't think it would be 90 days. My friend just bought a $300 TV and got a 5 year warranty for $75...but that was unnecessary. It comes with a 1 year warranty, possibly as a requirement.
I don't think the shipping is that much of a cost increase, given how little shipping impacts the price when buying from Amazon or the like.
Anyway, my point was mainly that the cost increase in Australia isn't illegal, and that I don't know that the government should get involved.
Economics fail. You only get 'price the market is willing to pay' with monopolies.
What in the world are you basing that on? It's a basic tenant of economics. You have something to sell, people will either pay the price or consider it too expensive and go without/find an alternative.
Monopolies are only different because generally there is no choice but to pay the price.
I think you didn't get what I was trying to say. I was trying to say that software tends to be more expensive in your country because of import restrictions.
No, I got what you were saying, I just don't see it as relevant. IBM Australia doesn't need to import software from IBM USA, they can share the code and the development process. No importing needs to take place.
If you think this to be incorrect, what laws are you citing that would show me to be wrong? I'm genuinely curious.
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Many people have loyalty to Android. It is for people who do care, as opposed to blindly follow fashions.
It's the only decent, free and customizable mobile OS with a decent app library.
Stop drinking the koolaid.
Having just confirmed you are a child/zealot, it seems I made the right decision saving myself a lot of pointless bashing. No point in trying to argue with zealots. So thanks :)
Why would you die a little from having to open a file explorer app? There is no need to, it's just a nice feature that Apple can't even provide.
It doesn't matter if TPB, as an organization clearly advocate piracy. The platform they provide to share torrents is neutral, and does not favor illegal material any more than legal material.
Why? Are you going to review it yourself? If not, what makes you think others will?
How is switching gender not a drastic change? Just because the character remains humanoid doesn't mean the change isn't drastic.
I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but there are some pretty significant difference between the ways men and women act.
Or, to put my point more succinctly: Turning the Doctor into a crab would be interesting. It doesn't mean we should do it.
Switching the gender of any character can make for an interesting story. I don't think that's a good enough reason to fuck with the character dynamic when there are still interesting stories to be told with the character as a male.
Interesting stories is not sufficient reason another. You need an additional reason fuck with what makes the character the character. Making the Doctor female would not kill the story, but it would no longer be the same character.
If you have to change the character drastically to tell interesting stories, there are problems. Thankfully, we don't have to change the character drastically and we don't have those problems.
Perhaps, if you don't think there are still interesting stories to be told with a male character, it is you who lacks imagination.
If someone has a bad experience, they will be pissed off and want to leave a bad comment. Often, that is the only recourse for a shitty service offered, or if a refund/exchange is no offered.
If someone has a genuinely good experience, they may be happy and want the product/business to do well, so they will leave a comment to aid in that.
I would think the only influence comes from choosing based on comments, not on leaving comments.
Dr is an abbreviation for Doctor...relax.
Really, why not? Configuration changes are stored somewhere. Have the patch diff the changes...
In this case where you need a local certificate it makes sense. Most of the time...
Could you paste your post a few more times to make sure everyone see's it?
Look, the character is male. He should remain male unless there is a convincing reason to make him female. Because it would be interesting is not reason enough, not when there are are still many interesting stories to tell with him as a male.
If it can be fixed through manual configuration changes, why can't a patch make those same configuration changes?
Isn't it far less healthy than any vegetable due to all the sugars and such?
I have no interest in arguing with you while you're being overly, and unnecessarily antagonistic and overzealous.
Suffice to say, you're poor understanding by your own admission shows you to be incorrect.
I'll leave my arguments above for other people to judge.
Have a nice day.
Try installing a modern distro on a 486 and let me know how well that works out for you.
I'm pretty familiar with the different MAC implementations, I've even worked on some of them. AppArmor is pretty basic, and not widespread. I wasn't disputing that Linux has different MAC implementations available, I was disputing that it is widespread. Aside from Fedora and Ubuntu, which other common distros implement it? And how often does it stay enabled in fedora?
ASLR and DEP are distro things because apps have to be compiled with support for the technology to be worth anything. For a long time, most distros didn't offer apps that were. Seriously, I think you need to read up on how these technologies work. Applications have to be compiled to take advantage of them...you can't just slap it on and it applies to all applications...
My point was that on average, Windows is more secure than most Linux distributions. Due to the mitigating technologies done right and increased focus on security resulting in few vulnerabilities.
You miss my point about switching to Linux. Many people in these oppressive regimes don't have the luxury of having their own computers to install Linux on. Here, yes, we can just download an iso to a USb stick, boot from it and install. It's not so simple with older hardware that may not even be yours...
I'm also not sure how you think a list of vulnerabilities for mostly applications from a year and half ago is meant help your argument.
Your other information is even more out of date than your link. Most people will find it hard to believe, but IE is one of the most secure browsers. Aside from Chrome, it is the only browser that supports ASLR, DEP, WIC and proper sandboxing. Firefox and Opera don't even try.
A lot of countries with restrictive regimes have a much larger lower class than is in the US. They often use public computers or much older computers that newer distros of Linux would not easily work on. I'm talking countries like Saudi Arabia, which when I was there saw many families using things as old as a 486.
UAC was reviled not because of UAC, but because of the frequency with which it popped up due to badly written applications. Imagine how frustrating it would be on Linux ifyou got a root prompt every time you tried to do....anything.
Linux has MAC implementations with stuff like RSBAC and SELinux, but it really isn't common to see it implemented. Windows has a rudimentary implementation that helps a lot, and is very widely implemented.
As far as Linux support for DEP and ALSR, I believe it differs by distro.It's been a while since I looked into it so things might have changed, but the last time I did not all distros made use of it. Or, even if it was enabled in the kernel the distro did not provide apps compiled with appropriate support.
I never said these are cutting edge security features by the way....nice strawman....
Many of the people using Tor in restrictive countries won't have the luxury of switching away from Windows. Even if they don, they won't necessarily know how.
Secondly, it's poor advice. The vulnerability affects Firefox 17....and Firefox is up to 22 now I think. Wouldn't it make more sense for them to make sure the tor browser is hardened and recommend people to use that?
Finally, Using a more recent windows version is actually good for security. ASLR, DEP, a rudimentary MAC implementation, UAC...despite what people say, Windows is actually one of the better operating systems security wise these days. Not just because of the preventive technology that most other OS's don't have (OS X has a lacking and broken implementation, most linux distros are not as complete in their implementations..), but because Microsoft started taking security seriously and vulnerabilities are rare these days.
Whatever, bring on the irrational arguments and Microsoft hate. Is it really too much for a forum of tech nerds to be objective in their analysis?
Scanning keys to generate plans for a 3d printer is groundbreaking research? Wow.
Nonsense. An individual is never a product. Statistics about large groups of people can be a product, which is an entirely different thing.
The thing is, the alternatives are not good enough, so they pay the price. If they didn't want to pay the price, they would settle for an inferior product and pay less. It's pretty simple.
IBM was just an example....there's a Microsoft Australia, a Blizzard Australia etc as well.
By that logic no one is willing to pay for anything. Which obviously isn't true.
Sorry, I should have left a source - http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_result.jsp?country1=Australia&country2=United+States
A lot of the time in the US the tax is included in the final price, especially at the big franchise like best buy or walmart. It's not enough of a factor to alter the point.
Consumer protection in the US varies by state I believe, and I don't think it would be 90 days. My friend just bought a $300 TV and got a 5 year warranty for $75...but that was unnecessary. It comes with a 1 year warranty, possibly as a requirement.
I don't think the shipping is that much of a cost increase, given how little shipping impacts the price when buying from Amazon or the like.
Anyway, my point was mainly that the cost increase in Australia isn't illegal, and that I don't know that the government should get involved.
Economics fail. You only get 'price the market is willing to pay' with monopolies.
What in the world are you basing that on? It's a basic tenant of economics. You have something to sell, people will either pay the price or consider it too expensive and go without/find an alternative.
Monopolies are only different because generally there is no choice but to pay the price.
I think you didn't get what I was trying to say. I was trying to say that software tends to be more expensive in your country because of import restrictions.
No, I got what you were saying, I just don't see it as relevant. IBM Australia doesn't need to import software from IBM USA, they can share the code and the development process. No importing needs to take place.
If you think this to be incorrect, what laws are you citing that would show me to be wrong? I'm genuinely curious.