This would indeed be true if the act of writing malware was a quest that earned a +5 Amulet Of Knowing Real User Numbers which gives them magical abilities that people who don't write malware lack. If however we reluctantly accept the fact that malware writers don't have such wondrous artefacts, then we must also accept that Windows' market dominance and its total dominance of the malware sector are merely a statistical correlation, and correlations do not in and of themselves imply, let alone prove, causality.
BUT WHAT IF THEY DID!
Anyways I was just trying to point out to the parent(who said something along the line that this shows that market share has gone up) that it in fact would not because they were still not exploited like he said. I do believe that the market share for Mac has gone up a lot as I see more and more people using Macs on a daily basis, and are no longer struggling as they were 10 years ago.
I guess you missed my point or I didn't make it clear.
I think you are right that exploits would mean that it was seeing an increase in market share, but in this case I believe they were strictly talking about vulnerabilities being fixed. This means that people knew they were there but didn't even bother to exploit them. If anything this shows that OSX still doesn't have near the market share some people seem to think.
I prefer to think that they were doing preventative maintenance. Apple hasn't always been the best at patching vulnerabilities but I guess they don't need to worry as no one has exploited them like with windows.
Not too sure what the point of the article was, I mean any OS that is out there has some vulnerability that needs to be patched, I'm sure at any given time there are at least 5 for any OS that someone hasn't noticed yet.
BTW Macs are gaining ground in the market patch or no patch. I remember 5 years ago I don't think I knew a single person who admitted to using a Mac now they throw it in your face. I just tell them penguins eat apples for lunch... if they had apples in the south pole anyways. I'm rambling..
The question of creationism has always puzzled me. When I was younger I believed in it whole heartedly. Now that I'm older I have had to rethink my beliefs which I think everyone should do regardless of what you believe, you should always re-evaluate everything. But I don't think that the percentage of people that believe in Creationism are going to be compelled by a museum. I mean personal beliefs usually have some kind of variation between others (different religions and your own ideas), but I guess if you're in an organized religion they might be quite similar. I just don't think you can have a museum on Creationism, I think peoples efforts would be better spent on a museum of Religion. This would be more beneficial to everyone knowing the history of theirs and others beliefs. Knowing what is actually true about someone else's religion could help them to understand others as well.
What I purpose is a place where you can go and be educated on every belief. I myself think that atheism requires just as much faith as a person who believes in god. Who are you to know for a fact that something intelligent didn't create everything, something had to come from somewhere no one knows so why it is that it has to be nothing. Frankly I haven't seen much come from nothing I haven't seen any proof of that so I don't know why people think that it takes less faith to believe that there is no god than it does to believe that there is. Frankly you will never convince someone who has a strong faith to switch in either direction. That is why I think that it fits in as well, I'm sure that there are a lot of people on Slashdot that will disagree with me. I've met quite a few in my travels and at work when the subject comes up. But I think that we can all agree that people generally need to make the decision themselves, be it one way or another.
Back on topic I think it would be better to give a whole history of different beliefs such as Greek/roman gods, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Atheism, and much much more. I think it would be more educational for people and help them with clarity on their own beliefs. I guess when I was younger I was exposed to all the differing views on everything so that I could make a more educated guess at the time in what I believe. Not that it would help much because I always wonder as I think most of you must.
Of course this is all just my opinion, I'm pretty sure someone will disagree or say it wouldn't work or that it's no different than what is proposed. I just think it would be a good idea in my own head.
Good to know, like I said I am not so familure with it. Thats also why I said I heard it on here, so that people would know my source may not be so accurate.
I don't know the DMCA and how it relates to take down notices, but I recall from anouther/. post on a different topic that you have to proceed with the take down no matter if it is copyright material or not. I think once you have complied you can fight it if its not copyright or not. But I think the law actually states that you have to take it down imediatly.
But I'm no lawyer and I don't know the DMCA I just remember reading that here somewhere.
I hate reality tv more than most people. I never watched survivor I never got into american idol or any other crappy show like that. I could never figure out why when you wanted to relax you would want to watch a show where normal people were freaking out. I would prefer to watch mcgiver do something totaly crazy with a paper clip.
But I got to thinking a month or two back about American Idol in particular and how it was crappy. Then it came to me, I don't think its that bad of a concept. How is it worse than having a Britney Spears? I started to compare the two, instead of having someone who can't hold a note sing pop music you now have a nation wide contest to see who can and make them into a pop star. Now I'm not a pop music fan, it's not my thing. But I would much rather have someone whos gone through a national talent search singing then some girl with big boobs whos gone through 100 hours of mixing at a studio to sound good.
So while I do agree that its shitty television, I would not say its hurting the music industry as much as mixing a crappy singer to sound good. Also you at least get to vote to say this person sucks. Some of them do have talent they just don't sing like AC/DC.
Have you ever noticed all the trial software on a dell computer? That is advertisment paid to dell that is partially used to bring down the cost. So without that the price of the computer would be more as Dell isn't making money off of the advertisment. At least thats what I'm told.
OOooo I'm going to add one, Dell has these things in malls called Kiosks you can buy them their too. They have a bunch of stuff on display and they have I think at least one computer connected to the net where you can order one. I think thats how it works but I know you can order one there.:)
Actually if I declare a variable with an incorrect spelling my compiler doesn't care. Its not that I won't go and try to correct my grammer or try to have decent grammer. The problem I have is someone will freak out over a missed comma(my biggest problem) or apostrophe. I think its crazy in a forum that people go way off topic and spaz out over a missed period.
I agree that if you go and make really bad mistakes people will most likely opt not to listen to you. But if your going to ignore someone because they used an apostrophe incorrectly and then yell about it. Thats just overkill. Contribute something to the conversation and then say "hey grammer mistakes bug me so I would like to point out that the way you did that is incorrect". I guess it's just that people are so rude about grammer, they get angry about it like it's the end of the world.
I haven't read a newspaper that hasn't had a typo or grammer error. Why should the people on slashdot be burned at the stake for bad grammer/spelling.
That's just asinine. It's not like it's a hermetic group composed of only teachers and students. There's administrators, local and national school bodies, ministers, politicians, and most importantly, parents all involved in this little thing we call education, and you're going to single out a few teachers? Do you think they get support from their bosses or parents with unruly children? You know the answer to that one.
Yes I do, and your right. It may have nothing to do with the parents and everything to do with politics on the school administration level or political level. That is probably more likely.
No, but you have installed lots of metal detectors. Go preach somewhere else. I'm not sure who pissed in your cornflakes this morning, but I'll ask them to refrain in the future.
The point is that even if people want to deny something happend in history you shouldn't erase it from the history books. The holocaust is a huge part of WWII, if you don't believe it you should at least know about it. Thats like going to school and having someone tell you that someone has landed on the moon. You don't have to believe it but you should still be taught it, it is still a part of human history.
Not sure where metal detectors in a school has to do with that. He can preach all he wants, you never know he might have gone to university and have a degree in history.
I can understand the UK wanting to be tolerant to muslim beliefs. They are large group. But because they don't believe something doesn't mean that you should be intolerant to the Jewish people either. Or the people that died for that belief. Or the hundreds of millions of others that do believe it did happen. To ignore something so pivital in history is not only foolish but short sited.
'Those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it.'
If your a teacher I don't care if your underpaid your underpaid to teach. If you no longer do that your no longer a teacher. I think that makes perfect sense. If you want equilibrium go home school.
I'm not trying to preach I just wouldn't want my child to miss something so important because a group(no matter how big or small) doesn't believe it happend(or in any other case did). I would want them to know about everything, you could always have a section saying that there are people that do not believe this happend and give both sides to it, even if I disagree I would be open minded towards teaching it and equally proposing both sides. I just disagree about removing it.
someone let english teachers join/. its been ruining my mojo for a long time.
To the english teachers. I don't care if I have bad grammer on slashdot. If I'm going to submit something professionally I'll check it over and get someone else to as well.
Yeah I would have to agree that 40 days is a little excessive, the school should have reduced it once it realized how bad that is for the student. Thats 40 school days not 40 straight days, so thats 8 weeks hes not at school. This effects his grades in that case. If you wanted to give him a longer suspension at least make it in school so that he can't disrupt the class.
Not sure if other schools do this or if mine still does but when I was in highschool inschool suspensions were basicly sitting in the principals office at a desk doing work that was being assigned by the teachers. that way you don't disrupt the class. Even 40 days of that seems to be excessive for what he actually did. Which was be a dick to to teacher. I guess you could remove him from that class as he and that teacher would obviously have problems.
I read the artical and it sounded more to me like he was the one dancing around in the background making jestures. It says in the artical that his lawyer is saying he didn't produce the video. But that shouldn't matter as the schools stance is that he was acting in appropriatly in class and should be suspended for that. The problem is that he was given a 40 day suspension which is a little excessive, if its in court I hope it gets taken down to 5 days at the max, but at least 1 or 2 days. While the whole time he was caught doing something that was against the policy of the classroom, and as we all know that if your going to do something wrong you shouldn't tape it. Thats like punching someone in the face and saying it was your first amendment right to post it on youtube(or have someone else tape it and put it on youtube). You were stupid enough to do it in the first place and showed less inteligence by putting incriminating video on the net(or linkinig it to your myspace page as in this case).
Even if he didn't post it on the net he was in the video doing something disrespectful in class. I think more students need to be taught a lesson about respect.
I'm pretty sure the point of the artical was to say how far we have come in the 100+ years in regards to medical treatment. The point is that someone in this day and age could get life saving treatment that would save your life appose to when linkin was shot.
the downside would be that they reclassify the service you have and make you pay more for actual broadband, or not offer it at all. That might just mean that you have a non-broadband connection(or how ever call it when they decide to sell it) that your paying for.
Other than that I think it would help people decided on what to buy as far as broadband goes, you know your getting at least 2Mbps.
I thought the lawsuit had more to do with bait and switch tactics saying that you were getting no interest and then you were being charged 20% or something like that. I think the customer service was a secondary thing to try and make it more mainstream media. People think bait and switch something easily fixed that a few people fell for and was probably a mistake on a couple peoples parts or at least thats more believable. When you say its customer support that sucks and your suing for it, that sounds more like the company has no good support staff and that hurts the company even more.
Your anti-copyright I would like some info on your standpoint. I could never understand the point of anti-copyright. I would like to get more for my work(I draw, code and sometimes humm) than a look what he did. If someone could take my work and sell it for a profit yay they are good buisness men but I get nothing.
I'm all for copyright reform, free internet radio playback and I'm 100% against DRM, but someone shouldn't be able to use copywrite material outside of purchasing it and fair use. I think the current timeframe for copywrite expiration is too long, 20 years should be decent time for someone to make a profit from their works.
But like I said I might not understand your standpoint and would be curious as to what it is. From what you have stated as long as that company had sited her it should be okay to profit from her entire works?
If your refering to the type of email people get I never used to get it either, I had my own domain that sat on its lonesome that I never used. I used it to send email to my family and friend and then one day. 3 years after I started using the email account I started getting spam. No one is safe. You may think you are but your not...
Yeah it wasn't treated as a drill at all, if it was they would have been trying to keep them calm and told them that it was a drill. Even in a real situation why not tell them it was a drill. Fire drills are done so that you keep people as calm as possible so that you don't get panic, and you know what its talked about a lot.
If they had went with the children talked to them about what happened and had discussions about what should be done in that sintuation and tell them in the future we are going to have a drill it will be treated like the real thing incase it is just stay calm and hide. I think it would have been a better way to deal with it.
It sounds like they were actually trying to scare the children.
Touch screens are no good on a video device. I don't think its a bad idea with an mp3 player or even a phone(if your not watching videos) but to constantly have finger prints all over your screen when you want to watch it is kind of a pain. I was looking at the artical and from what I gather they are sugesting to put the touch screen on the back kind of like a track pad on a laptop. That I think is the way to go on a media player like the ipod video. No fingers need to touch and greese up the screen and you still get the ease of use of the touch pad.
I could be interpreting this wrong though.
I do not like how the iphone relies on a touch screen that plays video it is a big turn off to me. I guess cleaning it all the time would fix it but it seems there has to be anouther solution.
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BUT WHAT IF THEY DID!
Anyways I was just trying to point out to the parent(who said something along the line that this shows that market share has gone up) that it in fact would not because they were still not exploited like he said. I do believe that the market share for Mac has gone up a lot as I see more and more people using Macs on a daily basis, and are no longer struggling as they were 10 years ago.
I guess you missed my point or I didn't make it clear.
I think you are right that exploits would mean that it was seeing an increase in market share, but in this case I believe they were strictly talking about vulnerabilities being fixed. This means that people knew they were there but didn't even bother to exploit them. If anything this shows that OSX still doesn't have near the market share some people seem to think.
I prefer to think that they were doing preventative maintenance. Apple hasn't always been the best at patching vulnerabilities but I guess they don't need to worry as no one has exploited them like with windows.
Not too sure what the point of the article was, I mean any OS that is out there has some vulnerability that needs to be patched, I'm sure at any given time there are at least 5 for any OS that someone hasn't noticed yet.
BTW Macs are gaining ground in the market patch or no patch. I remember 5 years ago I don't think I knew a single person who admitted to using a Mac now they throw it in your face. I just tell them penguins eat apples for lunch... if they had apples in the south pole anyways. I'm rambling..
The question of creationism has always puzzled me. When I was younger I believed in it whole heartedly. Now that I'm older I have had to rethink my beliefs which I think everyone should do regardless of what you believe, you should always re-evaluate everything. But I don't think that the percentage of people that believe in Creationism are going to be compelled by a museum. I mean personal beliefs usually have some kind of variation between others (different religions and your own ideas), but I guess if you're in an organized religion they might be quite similar. I just don't think you can have a museum on Creationism, I think peoples efforts would be better spent on a museum of Religion. This would be more beneficial to everyone knowing the history of theirs and others beliefs. Knowing what is actually true about someone else's religion could help them to understand others as well.
What I purpose is a place where you can go and be educated on every belief. I myself think that atheism requires just as much faith as a person who believes in god. Who are you to know for a fact that something intelligent didn't create everything, something had to come from somewhere no one knows so why it is that it has to be nothing. Frankly I haven't seen much come from nothing I haven't seen any proof of that so I don't know why people think that it takes less faith to believe that there is no god than it does to believe that there is. Frankly you will never convince someone who has a strong faith to switch in either direction. That is why I think that it fits in as well, I'm sure that there are a lot of people on Slashdot that will disagree with me. I've met quite a few in my travels and at work when the subject comes up. But I think that we can all agree that people generally need to make the decision themselves, be it one way or another.
Back on topic I think it would be better to give a whole history of different beliefs such as Greek/roman gods, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Atheism, and much much more. I think it would be more educational for people and help them with clarity on their own beliefs. I guess when I was younger I was exposed to all the differing views on everything so that I could make a more educated guess at the time in what I believe. Not that it would help much because I always wonder as I think most of you must.
Of course this is all just my opinion, I'm pretty sure someone will disagree or say it wouldn't work or that it's no different than what is proposed. I just think it would be a good idea in my own head.
Good to know, like I said I am not so familure with it. Thats also why I said I heard it on here, so that people would know my source may not be so accurate.
I don't know the DMCA and how it relates to take down notices, but I recall from anouther /. post on a different topic that you have to proceed with the take down no matter if it is copyright material or not. I think once you have complied you can fight it if its not copyright or not. But I think the law actually states that you have to take it down imediatly.
But I'm no lawyer and I don't know the DMCA I just remember reading that here somewhere.
I hate reality tv more than most people. I never watched survivor I never got into american idol or any other crappy show like that. I could never figure out why when you wanted to relax you would want to watch a show where normal people were freaking out. I would prefer to watch mcgiver do something totaly crazy with a paper clip.
But I got to thinking a month or two back about American Idol in particular and how it was crappy. Then it came to me, I don't think its that bad of a concept. How is it worse than having a Britney Spears? I started to compare the two, instead of having someone who can't hold a note sing pop music you now have a nation wide contest to see who can and make them into a pop star. Now I'm not a pop music fan, it's not my thing. But I would much rather have someone whos gone through a national talent search singing then some girl with big boobs whos gone through 100 hours of mixing at a studio to sound good.
So while I do agree that its shitty television, I would not say its hurting the music industry as much as mixing a crappy singer to sound good. Also you at least get to vote to say this person sucks. Some of them do have talent they just don't sing like AC/DC.
Have you ever noticed all the trial software on a dell computer? That is advertisment paid to dell that is partially used to bring down the cost. So without that the price of the computer would be more as Dell isn't making money off of the advertisment. At least thats what I'm told.
OOooo I'm going to add one, Dell has these things in malls called Kiosks you can buy them their too. They have a bunch of stuff on display and they have I think at least one computer connected to the net where you can order one. I think thats how it works but I know you can order one there. :)
Actually if I declare a variable with an incorrect spelling my compiler doesn't care. Its not that I won't go and try to correct my grammer or try to have decent grammer. The problem I have is someone will freak out over a missed comma(my biggest problem) or apostrophe. I think its crazy in a forum that people go way off topic and spaz out over a missed period.
I agree that if you go and make really bad mistakes people will most likely opt not to listen to you. But if your going to ignore someone because they used an apostrophe incorrectly and then yell about it. Thats just overkill. Contribute something to the conversation and then say "hey grammer mistakes bug me so I would like to point out that the way you did that is incorrect". I guess it's just that people are so rude about grammer, they get angry about it like it's the end of the world.
I haven't read a newspaper that hasn't had a typo or grammer error. Why should the people on slashdot be burned at the stake for bad grammer/spelling.
Yes I do, and your right. It may have nothing to do with the parents and everything to do with politics on the school administration level or political level. That is probably more likely.
The point is that even if people want to deny something happend in history you shouldn't erase it from the history books. The holocaust is a huge part of WWII, if you don't believe it you should at least know about it. Thats like going to school and having someone tell you that someone has landed on the moon. You don't have to believe it but you should still be taught it, it is still a part of human history.
Not sure where metal detectors in a school has to do with that. He can preach all he wants, you never know he might have gone to university and have a degree in history.
I can understand the UK wanting to be tolerant to muslim beliefs. They are large group. But because they don't believe something doesn't mean that you should be intolerant to the Jewish people either. Or the people that died for that belief. Or the hundreds of millions of others that do believe it did happen. To ignore something so pivital in history is not only foolish but short sited.
'Those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it.'
If your a teacher I don't care if your underpaid your underpaid to teach. If you no longer do that your no longer a teacher. I think that makes perfect sense. If you want equilibrium go home school.
I'm not trying to preach I just wouldn't want my child to miss something so important because a group(no matter how big or small) doesn't believe it happend(or in any other case did). I would want them to know about everything, you could always have a section saying that there are people that do not believe this happend and give both sides to it, even if I disagree I would be open minded towards teaching it and equally proposing both sides. I just disagree about removing it.
someone let english teachers join /. its been ruining my mojo for a long time.
To the english teachers. I don't care if I have bad grammer on slashdot. If I'm going to submit something professionally I'll check it over and get someone else to as well.
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Yeah I would have to agree that 40 days is a little excessive, the school should have reduced it once it realized how bad that is for the student. Thats 40 school days not 40 straight days, so thats 8 weeks hes not at school. This effects his grades in that case. If you wanted to give him a longer suspension at least make it in school so that he can't disrupt the class.
Not sure if other schools do this or if mine still does but when I was in highschool inschool suspensions were basicly sitting in the principals office at a desk doing work that was being assigned by the teachers. that way you don't disrupt the class. Even 40 days of that seems to be excessive for what he actually did. Which was be a dick to to teacher. I guess you could remove him from that class as he and that teacher would obviously have problems.
I read the artical and it sounded more to me like he was the one dancing around in the background making jestures. It says in the artical that his lawyer is saying he didn't produce the video. But that shouldn't matter as the schools stance is that he was acting in appropriatly in class and should be suspended for that. The problem is that he was given a 40 day suspension which is a little excessive, if its in court I hope it gets taken down to 5 days at the max, but at least 1 or 2 days. While the whole time he was caught doing something that was against the policy of the classroom, and as we all know that if your going to do something wrong you shouldn't tape it. Thats like punching someone in the face and saying it was your first amendment right to post it on youtube(or have someone else tape it and put it on youtube). You were stupid enough to do it in the first place and showed less inteligence by putting incriminating video on the net(or linkinig it to your myspace page as in this case).
Even if he didn't post it on the net he was in the video doing something disrespectful in class. I think more students need to be taught a lesson about respect.
Just my two cents.
I'm pretty sure the point of the artical was to say how far we have come in the 100+ years in regards to medical treatment. The point is that someone in this day and age could get life saving treatment that would save your life appose to when linkin was shot.
the downside would be that they reclassify the service you have and make you pay more for actual broadband, or not offer it at all. That might just mean that you have a non-broadband connection(or how ever call it when they decide to sell it) that your paying for.
Other than that I think it would help people decided on what to buy as far as broadband goes, you know your getting at least 2Mbps.
I thought the lawsuit had more to do with bait and switch tactics saying that you were getting no interest and then you were being charged 20% or something like that. I think the customer service was a secondary thing to try and make it more mainstream media. People think bait and switch something easily fixed that a few people fell for and was probably a mistake on a couple peoples parts or at least thats more believable. When you say its customer support that sucks and your suing for it, that sounds more like the company has no good support staff and that hurts the company even more.
At least thats my opinion.
Your anti-copyright I would like some info on your standpoint. I could never understand the point of anti-copyright. I would like to get more for my work(I draw, code and sometimes humm) than a look what he did. If someone could take my work and sell it for a profit yay they are good buisness men but I get nothing.
I'm all for copyright reform, free internet radio playback and I'm 100% against DRM, but someone shouldn't be able to use copywrite material outside of purchasing it and fair use. I think the current timeframe for copywrite expiration is too long, 20 years should be decent time for someone to make a profit from their works.
But like I said I might not understand your standpoint and would be curious as to what it is. From what you have stated as long as that company had sited her it should be okay to profit from her entire works?
If your refering to the type of email people get I never used to get it either, I had my own domain that sat on its lonesome that I never used. I used it to send email to my family and friend and then one day. 3 years after I started using the email account I started getting spam. No one is safe. You may think you are but your not...
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I sound like Bush
Yeah it wasn't treated as a drill at all, if it was they would have been trying to keep them calm and told them that it was a drill. Even in a real situation why not tell them it was a drill. Fire drills are done so that you keep people as calm as possible so that you don't get panic, and you know what its talked about a lot.
If they had went with the children talked to them about what happened and had discussions about what should be done in that sintuation and tell them in the future we are going to have a drill it will be treated like the real thing incase it is just stay calm and hide. I think it would have been a better way to deal with it.
It sounds like they were actually trying to scare the children.
I think this is news because it is saying that the reader has now been optimized for the Wii where as before it was just using what was available.
Touch screens are no good on a video device. I don't think its a bad idea with an mp3 player or even a phone(if your not watching videos) but to constantly have finger prints all over your screen when you want to watch it is kind of a pain. I was looking at the artical and from what I gather they are sugesting to put the touch screen on the back kind of like a track pad on a laptop. That I think is the way to go on a media player like the ipod video. No fingers need to touch and greese up the screen and you still get the ease of use of the touch pad.
I could be interpreting this wrong though.
I do not like how the iphone relies on a touch screen that plays video it is a big turn off to me. I guess cleaning it all the time would fix it but it seems there has to be anouther solution.
Thats too bad I was thinking with all the CGI stuff that Dr Who would look amazing on HD.