So instead of not using Facebook because you prefer some different degree of privacy, your claim is that you do not use Facebook because you feel like you are living in a situation similar to post war East Germany?
And you think the people who get hassled by your government drones 'deserve it'?
I don't know the specifics, but I came across that article when I was trying to edit the permissions on a HP printer driver service, they had been set to "D:(D;;DCWDWO;;;WD)" which essentially means "Deny rights to everybody", something the "Local System" account doesn't care about.
Sorry, gave the wrong units in my last comment, it is about $5 of fraud per machine-watt-decade, the $25,000 is for 1 watt across all the machines for a decade.
Of course he made it up, but it illustrates that a few watts spread across 5,000 machines adds up quite quickly. If it makes you feel better, think of it as $25,000 of fraud per machine-watt-decade.
Well, given that I thought you were replying in the context of my comment, it sort of read like you were saying that I was being dishonest, which was a little frustrating, given that I was really only talking about convincing Murdoch (which I thought was clear from the context), not claiming that the WSJ was the model for all newspapers.
Hell, Murdoch might even be ahead of the game here, maybe he sees the daily papers dying and figures he might as well try to make some money before the end, rather than not trying to make any money.
You read an awful lot into a comment that was pretty much just mocking the tone of "as if a degree here and there or a meter here and there would even be noticeable to us...".
Actually, people in Wisconsin seemed pretty freaked out a year or two ago when the Wisconsin river flooded. Especially the ones that had houses washed away.
the "sudo rm..." part was intended as a stand in for a user taking a stupid, dangerous action. Surely you do not claim that, lets say, most Linux distribution have actually achieved stupid proofing?
BTW, you are correct about me not running a real Linux distribution, I don't use Linux at all (well, not for day to day pc tasks, I don't have good information about the software running on various devices).
Much of the Vista noise was because they chose to emphasize security over backward compatibility, something many users simply did not understand (UAC is at least a decent compromise, and Microsoft had been telling vendors for years that software should work without requiring Administrator rights).
Excepting the case where the actual physical media has degraded, there is someone out there who can read and convert your data (the only challenge will be in the finding them, and maybe in the convincing them to do it).
(The second link discusses a C64 program that reads several C64 formats and is able to write rtf; note that I'm not an expert, I just assumed this stuff would exist somewhere on the internets)
I think you could probably make a good argument that a word processor enables writing to be more thoughtful, not less (primarily because there is no need to respect the manual effort that went into the first several pages of writing...).
Of course, a drafting and editing cycle is probably a good idea regardless of the medium.
The other side of it is that the computing industry moves so fast that it isn't really worth paying for stuff that lasts forever; when this laptop breaks, I'll probably replace it with one that has led backlights (or maybe an OLED) screen, a faster, more efficient processor, more capacity for RAM and an SSD. Spending huge amounts of money on a durable laptop 4 years ago would just make the current prices for better stuff more irritating.
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So instead of not using Facebook because you prefer some different degree of privacy, your claim is that you do not use Facebook because you feel like you are living in a situation similar to post war East Germany?
And you think the people who get hassled by your government drones 'deserve it'?
Sure. The point is more that the presence of malware on a consumer system doesn't necessarily condemn the system.
Well, for me, the dialup I can get is better than imaginary dsl. I wasn't replying real seriously.
You are supposed to hear bells. If you don't hear bells, you must hurry and kill a chicken.
"Local System" at least comes close. An Administrator can gain those privileges using something like the following:
at current_time + 1 minute /interactive cmd
(I found that here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926639
)
I don't know the specifics, but I came across that article when I was trying to edit the permissions on a HP printer driver service, they had been set to "D:(D;;DCWDWO;;;WD)" which essentially means "Deny rights to everybody", something the "Local System" account doesn't care about.
Sorry, gave the wrong units in my last comment, it is about $5 of fraud per machine-watt-decade, the $25,000 is for 1 watt across all the machines for a decade.
Of course he made it up, but it illustrates that a few watts spread across 5,000 machines adds up quite quickly. If it makes you feel better, think of it as $25,000 of fraud per machine-watt-decade.
Well, given that I thought you were replying in the context of my comment, it sort of read like you were saying that I was being dishonest, which was a little frustrating, given that I was really only talking about convincing Murdoch (which I thought was clear from the context), not claiming that the WSJ was the model for all newspapers.
Hell, Murdoch might even be ahead of the game here, maybe he sees the daily papers dying and figures he might as well try to make some money before the end, rather than not trying to make any money.
You read an awful lot into a comment that was pretty much just mocking the tone of "as if a degree here and there or a meter here and there would even be noticeable to us...".
Those people noticed the extra meter of water.
Actually, people in Wisconsin seemed pretty freaked out a year or two ago when the Wisconsin river flooded. Especially the ones that had houses washed away.
the "sudo rm..." part was intended as a stand in for a user taking a stupid, dangerous action. Surely you do not claim that, lets say, most Linux distribution have actually achieved stupid proofing?
BTW, you are correct about me not running a real Linux distribution, I don't use Linux at all (well, not for day to day pc tasks, I don't have good information about the software running on various devices).
Try to think of it a little less literally.
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/peboot.htm
I never said it was a good example, you don't need to convince me, you need to convince the guy who happens to own the goddamn paper.
But thanks anyway for the dickery.
When users are happy to type "sudo rm ...", it doesn't really matter how impervious the system is.
Yeah, I'm sure he cries real hard each time he hears about someone who buys his product but does not use it.
Much of the Vista noise was because they chose to emphasize security over backward compatibility, something many users simply did not understand (UAC is at least a decent compromise, and Microsoft had been telling vendors for years that software should work without requiring Administrator rights).
Really, 100% of what they are paying is a reasonable guess for the value that people place on it.
Perhaps she referenced Wikipedia because it initially gave her the inspiration, and not because she thinks it is the word of god.
The Wall Street Journal is doing fine with a paywall, so it may take some convincing.
Excepting the case where the actual physical media has degraded, there is someone out there who can read and convert your data (the only challenge will be in the finding them, and maybe in the convincing them to do it).
For instance:
http://www.fairlight.to/docs/faq.html
http://www.df.lth.se/~triad/triad/ftp/C64_Tools/gnylfdox.txt
(The second link discusses a C64 program that reads several C64 formats and is able to write rtf; note that I'm not an expert, I just assumed this stuff would exist somewhere on the internets)
I think you could probably make a good argument that a word processor enables writing to be more thoughtful, not less (primarily because there is no need to respect the manual effort that went into the first several pages of writing...).
Of course, a drafting and editing cycle is probably a good idea regardless of the medium.
Well, right up until you run out of dry paper.
The other side of it is that the computing industry moves so fast that it isn't really worth paying for stuff that lasts forever; when this laptop breaks, I'll probably replace it with one that has led backlights (or maybe an OLED) screen, a faster, more efficient processor, more capacity for RAM and an SSD. Spending huge amounts of money on a durable laptop 4 years ago would just make the current prices for better stuff more irritating.
If the loose ends are a problem for you, finish reading, close the book and think "And they all lived happily ever after."