.. where people finally say:
"I'd rather have software that works than software that's supported?"
Because it's about time.
And then when they find out that lots of malware has been lurking in the sidelines, waiting for support to end, that people will discover that their unsupported software will cease to work.
If you bought a product from Microsoft there's a default couple of years of support. If bought a computer from an OEM that happened to have Microsoft products installed Microsoft will only offer support if you plop down lots of extra cash. The support is supposed to be provided by the OEM in that case.
I like Bond, I've read most of the books, but I did not like SkyFall. The whole "the old ways are better" meme was overkilled and the villian had worked out/predicted the movements of MI6 personel to accurate to even be entertaining.
What OS are we even talking about?
I'd you're talking about Windows you can enable the guest account. If you're afraid of getting a virus that attacks the built in Guest account it's not a problem to create a standard user account and give it whatever name you want to. If you're running Windows 8 you could even add their Microsoft Account to the machine and then remove it when they leave.
Are you letting your guests run as Admin? You shouldn't even be allowing your self to run as Admin.
Every OS that I can imagine you would be running at home (besides iOS) wallows for creating accounts that don't have permissions to install anything.
The proper solution is to model what damage a trojan can do, figure out what privileges it would need to do that damage, and make sure that a program lacks those privileges without the user's knowledge.
Wouldn't you need a Touring machine to predict every way a malicious piece of software may behave? Even if you could with %100 accuracy analyze and then prevent every future piece of malware, most users would still give it permission to run. If your system throws up a UAC-esque style prompt saying "I detected that a piece of software is about to do something malicious to your computer, do you want me to let it continue?" the average user will click Yes, because if the computer wants to do something it should be allowed to do it. The end user knows that the people who made the computer are smarter then they are, so they'll let it do what it wants.
If they're stealth bombers, how will the North Koreans notice to get scared?
If Hollywood has taught me anything; one thing I know is that stealth bombers can turn the stealth on and off (entering stealth mode). If true, the US can fly the bomber to a point where they know NK will be watching, have the bomber disappear and then reappear in a different spot. Kind of like a firefly on the radar.
If he's so tied with China, I don't think that China would be in any position to think poorly of him if he structured his country like how China is structured. Trade with the West, etc. But he's not doing it. Should KJ Un really have no exit, it would be because if the economic situation in North Korea improved, his entire country would get word of what life in the rest of the world is like, wonder why they've been artificially subject to such inhumane squalor the last few decades, and decide that they really need to a change in leadership.
NK is not Germany, though. And so far they're just shaking their fists in the air, not invading countries.
The difference though, is that when Germany pulled the trigger, they moved in troops and occupied territory. Should North Korea pull the trigger it'll be to wipe out millions in a single minute with no intention of doing anything but damage.
The current generation doesnt seem to know what journalism used to be, and apparently cannot seem to tell the difference between facts and opinions.
I don't know about this current generation claim; all of the highly charged opinion masquerading as fact that I hear in discussions or get forwarded to my inbox, all come from people over the age of 65.
So while I like the idea of having a cross-platform, open-source video editor, I have no plans to migrate to Windows; I'm mostly interested in the promised features and stability improvements.
So do you notice an increase in stability in programs if they're designed with running on OS X and Windows in mind? Is it your experience that cross platform programs are inherently more stable?
This isn't to allow the feds to collect taxes, it's to allow states to collect states sales tax on purchases made over the internet, regardless of the state where the vendor has a physical presence.
With open source you can check for the existence of such pathways, easily.
Your statement kind of assumes that every little shop can afford someone so deeply intimate with C++, and every known security hole that it is "easy" for them to check. It is certainly not easy for the vast majority of places to crack open the source code and go "oh look, a hole!".
What do most people use for the use cases for which geeks use RSS?
Email notifications. I'm astounded at how people want to get emailed anytime anyone on their Facebook friends list does anything. Their email inbox is effectively their RSS reader.
I can configure the router, and I don't need the help of the ISP to do it. What happened was I followed the existing instructions on how to configure that particular router to be in bridge mode, and then I lost my internet connection. I called up the ISP and asked for help on how to fix it and the support person said that they don't support customers with routers in bridge mode. So the "suggested" way to use my new router, would be to have it be a client of the ISP supported router; which defeats the purposed of why I got the newer router. Again, not supported, but works mostly; even though it's a horrible network design to have the double hop of routers plugged together like that.
In the end it doesn't matter if I configure my router to how I want it to be, if when I do my ISP doesn't assign me an IP Address. I kind of need my end to be configured in a way that ISP will support/honor.
I got my first TP-Link Router last night. Turns out I'm not going to use it because my ISP (Frontier) doesn't support configuring the crappy router they provided, into bridge mode, which would allow me to make use of it.
Why are computers that store/control extremely sensitive government information and processes (plans for weapons, locations of operatives, power grid controls, etc.) accessable via the internet?
Go ahead and ask the obvious question as to why we are trading partners with our enemies - I can't figure it out either.
Someone is less likely to go to physical war with someone if they depend upon each other for their livelihoods. We're less likely to attack each other if we are all in this together.
If I remember correctly from history classes, the original purpose of it was to preserve daylight for farming. Think about how light it is during the summer time (at night)
Your history classes taught you wrong. In the US it was implemented during WWI because Germany was doing it. The reasoning was that if Germany is doing it as part of their war time effort, surely it must do some good. After WWI it was rolled back. A few years later it was re-implemented in the US because some US legislators realized that they got more golf time in during the summer with DLS.
The reason why we have Daylight Savings is so that some US Senators can spend an extra hour on the golf course instead of going home to see their families.
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.. where people finally say: "I'd rather have software that works than software that's supported?" Because it's about time.
And then when they find out that lots of malware has been lurking in the sidelines, waiting for support to end, that people will discover that their unsupported software will cease to work.
I have never heard of anyone doing this.
If you bought a product from Microsoft there's a default couple of years of support. If bought a computer from an OEM that happened to have Microsoft products installed Microsoft will only offer support if you plop down lots of extra cash. The support is supposed to be provided by the OEM in that case.
I like Bond, I've read most of the books, but I did not like SkyFall. The whole "the old ways are better" meme was overkilled and the villian had worked out/predicted the movements of MI6 personel to accurate to even be entertaining.
Get smarter guests
Wouldn't do any good if they're intentionally infecting the machine as part of a "smart" scheme.
What OS are we even talking about? I'd you're talking about Windows you can enable the guest account. If you're afraid of getting a virus that attacks the built in Guest account it's not a problem to create a standard user account and give it whatever name you want to. If you're running Windows 8 you could even add their Microsoft Account to the machine and then remove it when they leave. Are you letting your guests run as Admin? You shouldn't even be allowing your self to run as Admin. Every OS that I can imagine you would be running at home (besides iOS) wallows for creating accounts that don't have permissions to install anything.
They should take into account volume as well. Next time I'm taking a crap load of helium balloons!
How would you personally consuming more volume effect the amount of jet fuel burned, given that the volume of the plane remains the same?
The proper solution is to model what damage a trojan can do, figure out what privileges it would need to do that damage, and make sure that a program lacks those privileges without the user's knowledge.
Wouldn't you need a Touring machine to predict every way a malicious piece of software may behave? Even if you could with %100 accuracy analyze and then prevent every future piece of malware, most users would still give it permission to run. If your system throws up a UAC-esque style prompt saying "I detected that a piece of software is about to do something malicious to your computer, do you want me to let it continue?" the average user will click Yes, because if the computer wants to do something it should be allowed to do it. The end user knows that the people who made the computer are smarter then they are, so they'll let it do what it wants.
I love his idea of a piano in every classroom. Now we just need a way to get the music out of it.
If they're stealth bombers, how will the North Koreans notice to get scared?
If Hollywood has taught me anything; one thing I know is that stealth bombers can turn the stealth on and off (entering stealth mode). If true, the US can fly the bomber to a point where they know NK will be watching, have the bomber disappear and then reappear in a different spot. Kind of like a firefly on the radar.
If he's so tied with China, I don't think that China would be in any position to think poorly of him if he structured his country like how China is structured. Trade with the West, etc. But he's not doing it. Should KJ Un really have no exit, it would be because if the economic situation in North Korea improved, his entire country would get word of what life in the rest of the world is like, wonder why they've been artificially subject to such inhumane squalor the last few decades, and decide that they really need to a change in leadership.
Pretty sure they are just going to have to settle for AD.
If they want ActiveDirectory that bad, let's give it to them.
NK is not Germany, though. And so far they're just shaking their fists in the air, not invading countries.
The difference though, is that when Germany pulled the trigger, they moved in troops and occupied territory. Should North Korea pull the trigger it'll be to wipe out millions in a single minute with no intention of doing anything but damage.
Why is a Windows release named after its most famous failure screen? Is the marketing department that ignorant?
Because they're willing to be bold and daring.
The current generation doesnt seem to know what journalism used to be, and apparently cannot seem to tell the difference between facts and opinions.
I don't know about this current generation claim; all of the highly charged opinion masquerading as fact that I hear in discussions or get forwarded to my inbox, all come from people over the age of 65.
So while I like the idea of having a cross-platform, open-source video editor, I have no plans to migrate to Windows; I'm mostly interested in the promised features and stability improvements.
So do you notice an increase in stability in programs if they're designed with running on OS X and Windows in mind? Is it your experience that cross platform programs are inherently more stable?
You need more money Federal Gov? Stop wasting it.
This isn't to allow the feds to collect taxes, it's to allow states to collect states sales tax on purchases made over the internet, regardless of the state where the vendor has a physical presence.
With open source you can check for the existence of such pathways, easily.
Your statement kind of assumes that every little shop can afford someone so deeply intimate with C++, and every known security hole that it is "easy" for them to check. It is certainly not easy for the vast majority of places to crack open the source code and go "oh look, a hole!".
What do most people use for the use cases for which geeks use RSS?
Email notifications.
I'm astounded at how people want to get emailed anytime anyone on their Facebook friends list does anything. Their email inbox is effectively their RSS reader.
How are you supposed to play, if not by counting cards on your mind to decide what's your best bet?
You're supposed to be losing money to the house.
Configuring a router is not dependent on the ISP
I can configure the router, and I don't need the help of the ISP to do it. What happened was I followed the existing instructions on how to configure that particular router to be in bridge mode, and then I lost my internet connection. I called up the ISP and asked for help on how to fix it and the support person said that they don't support customers with routers in bridge mode. So the "suggested" way to use my new router, would be to have it be a client of the ISP supported router; which defeats the purposed of why I got the newer router. Again, not supported, but works mostly; even though it's a horrible network design to have the double hop of routers plugged together like that.
In the end it doesn't matter if I configure my router to how I want it to be, if when I do my ISP doesn't assign me an IP Address. I kind of need my end to be configured in a way that ISP will support/honor.
I got my first TP-Link Router last night. Turns out I'm not going to use it because my ISP (Frontier) doesn't support configuring the crappy router they provided, into bridge mode, which would allow me to make use of it.
Why not just keep it? The cost is nil.
I'm pretty sure money goes into paying for electricity and replacing the backend disks as they die.
Why are computers that store/control extremely sensitive government information and processes (plans for weapons, locations of operatives, power grid controls, etc.) accessable via the internet?
So those who work on it can work from home.
Go ahead and ask the obvious question as to why we are trading partners with our enemies - I can't figure it out either.
Someone is less likely to go to physical war with someone if they depend upon each other for their livelihoods. We're less likely to attack each other if we are all in this together.
If I remember correctly from history classes, the original purpose of it was to preserve daylight for farming. Think about how light it is during the summer time (at night)
Your history classes taught you wrong. In the US it was implemented during WWI because Germany was doing it. The reasoning was that if Germany is doing it as part of their war time effort, surely it must do some good. After WWI it was rolled back. A few years later it was re-implemented in the US because some US legislators realized that they got more golf time in during the summer with DLS.
The reason why we have Daylight Savings is so that some US Senators can spend an extra hour on the golf course instead of going home to see their families.