"Once the public gets used to it, the advantages of an open model will slowly become stronger."
Not to be mean, but/. has been saying this for how many years? I think there were articles on here back around year 2K saying how Linux was going to take over both the corporate and home markets.
Hey, I like your zeal, and it's for a good cause, but the public can barely drive cars without killing each other, much less understand what "open source" is. Since/. is filled with (mostly) intelligent and skilled people, it tends to over-estimate the skills & attitudes of the public in general. People like market-speak and "shiny." Sad, but mostly true.
A very nice, balance analysis. Generally,/.s will pick one feature that they want and the product doesn't have and destroy it. In a few paragraphs you covered a wide margin of features, or lack thereof, on all 3. You choice was based on what you want to do with it, but you didn't try to shove this solution down everyone elses' throats.
I agree on the apathy part; what is the usual voting % in the US? 20-30% or so? The other thing is that the MPAA/RIAA are not government institutions, just very powerful lobbying groups. With issues such as wars, the economy, illegal immigration, abortion, mascara, what politician is going to talk about the **AAs? Besides, it seems that recently politicians take a shotgun approach to issues- shoot at them all, see what sticks (in opinion/popularity polls), and reload. I vote nearly every year, but I'm even feeling the drag of feeling useless because it doesn't really seem to matter who I/you/we vote into office- some crap, just a different flavor.
I am interested how people will respond to your point. Apple locks down their iPhone/iPad/whatever for this reason, and/. freaks out. How will/. respond to Google starting to do the same? I have no pony in this race, as I have a mere dumbphone and no pad/tablet of any type.
My take on the whole software patent debate is that the law allows such actions to take place, and that is the problem. If you can create something and make money off it, why would you not? Unless you are a good Samaritan type person. There have been a myriad of articles detailing all types of ridiculous patents that have been granted. Next up- "A process to determine the amount of licks needed to get to the middle of a Tootsie roll." It's a broken system, but since it makes money for the gov, no one in power really cares.
Where does Algebra II start up? It's been 20+ years since high school, so I forget the line between Alg I & Alg II. Also, nothing wrong with a little edumication! [yes, that was on porpoise]
Remember the big Satanism scare in the 80s? Sounds like the same thing except now backed by the Vatican. Has anyone ever met or heard of a real, true Satanist? Not goth kids or other silly people, but truly sick individuals?
Different systems have different parameters. One required 5-8 characters, including 1 number and 1 capital letter. I ran into one that had to be exactly 6 characters, but no other restrictions. One had a requirement of a 'special' character, i.e. $ * # ! ) etc. I understand the restrictions, somewhat, but my passwords tend to be 10-15 characters long with numbers but no special characters. Sometimes a capital letter or 2.
Instead of creating new schemes, just let me use this- "ijustgotanewpuppyandinamedhimbippyandhesverycute"
Brute force that for my Amazon account. It's a whole lot better than "borked" for that 6 character password scheme I mentioned above.
Fusion! It's right around the corner, we promise! Would be nice; failure mode is to just shut it off. Apparently, recreating the interior of a star in a smallish bottle is a bit harder than anyone thought/thinks. (Yeah, big surprise)
I've heard that number thrown around at Foxnews, CNN, maybe WSJ. I believe it was some low-level Japanese politician just throwing out a number.
Sad part is that in the US everyone is going 'chicken little', even though the perfect storm of horrible circumstances in Japan don't apply to most (if any) of US nuke plants.
I did some contract work for the MTA. They're a bunch of bureaucratic, money grubbing, egotistical idiots. Each little group was more concerned with making their little slice of the project more important than everybody elses'. For example, the line power guys (3rd rail) wanted to provide backup power to stations in the event of a power loss instead of battery backup. They kind of forgot that a power loss kills the power to the rail. When it was pointed out to them, they said, "meh, it'll never happen." This came just about a year after the big blackout in NYC.
I haven't sat on a jury, but my mom, dad, and wife have. They did say it was boring for the most part, but not onerous. So to your point, I would like people who actually didn't mind doing their civic duty rather than try to get out of it because it's "inconvenient."
[My mom actual liked it, since she's a crime buff, and after the trial (they convicted a drug dealer) she talked to one of the cops involved in the case; he told her they did a good job, the guy was a real scumbag and the prosecution was precluded from presenting 1/2 of the evidence due to various technical reasons. Bad guy went to federal jail for about 15 years, I think.]
Very good point on the CSI thing. I have seen interviews of jurors after a trial where they said something like "Well, they didn't have DNA like CSI," or "CSI made more sense than this." Why not just turn the justice system into a reality show with challenges and voting and such? Oy.
The only way to be 100% secure is to have no network connection at all. Preferably also turned off and locked in a safe. Virus --> anti-virus software --> anti anti-virus & polymorphic virus --> etc. DOS attack --> countermeasures --> DDOS --> more counter. Network attacks --> firewall --> ISP level network --> something new?
Yes, very simplified and not very accurate, but it shows the constant war between attackers and attackees.
Doesn't T-Mobile have a bunch of 4G commercials? Ones where they trash AT&T for only having 3G? Either I'm misremembering or that's an 'interesting' set of commercials.
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"Once the public gets used to it, the advantages of an open model will slowly become stronger."
Not to be mean, but /. has been saying this for how many years? I think there were articles on here back around year 2K saying how Linux was going to take over both the corporate and home markets.
Hey, I like your zeal, and it's for a good cause, but the public can barely drive cars without killing each other, much less understand what "open source" is. Since /. is filled with (mostly) intelligent and skilled people, it tends to over-estimate the skills & attitudes of the public in general. People like market-speak and "shiny." Sad, but mostly true.
A very nice, balance analysis. Generally, /.s will pick one feature that they want and the product doesn't have and destroy it. In a few paragraphs you covered a wide margin of features, or lack thereof, on all 3. You choice was based on what you want to do with it, but you didn't try to shove this solution down everyone elses' throats.
Very good. I added you as a friend.
A nice hack would be to replace "Start" with either "Stop" or "Explode". "Are you sure you want to Explode your phone now?"
Sorry, not a big MS fan.
Also check for the seas turning to blood, the dead rising, and mass hysteria. (And if you see a giant marshmellow man, I suggest running)
I agree on the apathy part; what is the usual voting % in the US? 20-30% or so? The other thing is that the MPAA/RIAA are not government institutions, just very powerful lobbying groups. With issues such as wars, the economy, illegal immigration, abortion, mascara, what politician is going to talk about the **AAs? Besides, it seems that recently politicians take a shotgun approach to issues- shoot at them all, see what sticks (in opinion/popularity polls), and reload. I vote nearly every year, but I'm even feeling the drag of feeling useless because it doesn't really seem to matter who I/you/we vote into office- some crap, just a different flavor.
I am interested how people will respond to your point. Apple locks down their iPhone/iPad/whatever for this reason, and /. freaks out. How will /. respond to Google starting to do the same? I have no pony in this race, as I have a mere dumbphone and no pad/tablet of any type.
My take on the whole software patent debate is that the law allows such actions to take place, and that is the problem. If you can create something and make money off it, why would you not? Unless you are a good Samaritan type person. There have been a myriad of articles detailing all types of ridiculous patents that have been granted. Next up- "A process to determine the amount of licks needed to get to the middle of a Tootsie roll." It's a broken system, but since it makes money for the gov, no one in power really cares.
Where does Algebra II start up? It's been 20+ years since high school, so I forget the line between Alg I & Alg II.
Also, nothing wrong with a little edumication! [yes, that was on porpoise]
Like the studies that show how you phrase a question can have a noticeable effect on the poll answers, just more sophisticated.
Remember the big Satanism scare in the 80s? Sounds like the same thing except now backed by the Vatican. Has anyone ever met or heard of a real, true Satanist? Not goth kids or other silly people, but truly sick individuals?
By the way, how is this news for nerds?
Different systems have different parameters. One required 5-8 characters, including 1 number and 1 capital letter. I ran into one that had to be exactly 6 characters, but no other restrictions. One had a requirement of a 'special' character, i.e. $ * # ! ) etc. I understand the restrictions, somewhat, but my passwords tend to be 10-15 characters long with numbers but no special characters. Sometimes a capital letter or 2.
Instead of creating new schemes, just let me use this-
"ijustgotanewpuppyandinamedhimbippyandhesverycute"
Brute force that for my Amazon account. It's a whole lot better than "borked" for that 6 character password scheme I mentioned above.
Fusion! It's right around the corner, we promise!
Would be nice; failure mode is to just shut it off. Apparently, recreating the interior of a star in a smallish bottle is a bit harder than anyone thought/thinks. (Yeah, big surprise)
I've heard that number thrown around at Foxnews, CNN, maybe WSJ. I believe it was some low-level Japanese politician just throwing out a number.
Sad part is that in the US everyone is going 'chicken little', even though the perfect storm of horrible circumstances in Japan don't apply to most (if any) of US nuke plants.
Thanks. I've not been in the market to buy a new phone for 3 some years now, so I stopped paying attention, except for stupid ads.
I did some contract work for the MTA. They're a bunch of bureaucratic, money grubbing, egotistical idiots. Each little group was more concerned with making their little slice of the project more important than everybody elses'. For example, the line power guys (3rd rail) wanted to provide backup power to stations in the event of a power loss instead of battery backup. They kind of forgot that a power loss kills the power to the rail. When it was pointed out to them, they said, "meh, it'll never happen." This came just about a year after the big blackout in NYC.
"Running with Linux for over 12 years!"
Aren't you tired yet? :)
Isn't this what we pay all the uber-brains at CIA, NSA, DIA for? What was the last estimate of the supercomputing power at the NSA?
That was just awesome. I applaud you, sir.
"set up a VM, you utter muppet."
Thank you, you provided my first hearty laugh of the day! I owe you a coffee/tea/soda.
I haven't sat on a jury, but my mom, dad, and wife have. They did say it was boring for the most part, but not onerous. So to your point, I would like people who actually didn't mind doing their civic duty rather than try to get out of it because it's "inconvenient."
[My mom actual liked it, since she's a crime buff, and after the trial (they convicted a drug dealer) she talked to one of the cops involved in the case; he told her they did a good job, the guy was a real scumbag and the prosecution was precluded from presenting 1/2 of the evidence due to various technical reasons. Bad guy went to federal jail for about 15 years, I think.]
Very good point on the CSI thing. I have seen interviews of jurors after a trial where they said something like "Well, they didn't have DNA like CSI," or "CSI made more sense than this." Why not just turn the justice system into a reality show with challenges and voting and such? Oy.
Sir, I am a hydroponics farmer with no fields, and your narrow view offends me!
The only way to be 100% secure is to have no network connection at all. Preferably also turned off and locked in a safe. Virus --> anti-virus software --> anti anti-virus & polymorphic virus --> etc. DOS attack --> countermeasures --> DDOS --> more counter. Network attacks --> firewall --> ISP level network --> something new?
Yes, very simplified and not very accurate, but it shows the constant war between attackers and attackees.
Doesn't T-Mobile have a bunch of 4G commercials? Ones where they trash AT&T for only having 3G? Either I'm misremembering or that's an 'interesting' set of commercials.
I can understand that. Took me a while to get used to it.