I recommend the MNGS philosophy to anyone and everyone. If your web site won't let me in, I will do something else rather than jump through hoops to get in. It's not like I lack for amusement or research material anyway. Sitesthat don't suckas much generally manage to do just fine with unobtrusive and well-targeted ads, minimal or repeated images (thence low bandwidth requirements), and maybe voluntary subscription. The anti-anti-popup whiners just don't want to bother doing a good job, so they try to fence you in instead.
Windows' first pass at this (hiding rarely-used Start Menu items) is really ugly. I think I'd rather have things in predictable places than have things in the order the computer guesses I'll use them in. Of course, you could have both: the Bayesian guesses at the top, a short gesture away, and the fixed, predictable locations conveniently nearby. (But that would be (gasp) redundant! For some reason UI designers resist making something accessible multiple ways. Getting past that mental block would be a big advance in itself.)
...because you write "fucken" instead of "fucking". Use proper English, fuckhead.
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The cost of developing it isn't the issue, monkey boy. Until the ransom is paid, the software is sold according to the normal proprietary model, and they can recoup their dev costs that way if they want. The ransom just needs to be at least what they'd expect to make from remaining sales of the product if they stuck with the proprietary model.
Communication within a circuit is at the speed of light in copper. Transistors take time to flip, but ultimately there's no reason you can't outrace the sound on its one-inch journey through your thick headphones.
There's a sucker born every minute. Spammers who reach enough suckers with good enough pitches get rich. Con men, pirates, and dirty politicians get rich, too. Crime pays. What's the shock?
Uh-huh. 'Cause news sites never post leaks. Are your neighbors little green men with antennae? My planet is blue-green.
If you had read even the Slashdot article, much less the Register article, you'd know that the Register is not the group that found the document. From my office in Cambridge I stab at thee!
You just used the term "ethnic cleansing" unironically. Please never do that again. To do so is to merrily incorporate into your vocabulary the claim that certain ethnicities are dirt and their members should be removed by any means necessary. The widespread adoption of this term by people who should know better is disgusting.
"Anybody with that kind of record is gonna make a mistake. I want all party members in the tri state district to monitor the city, county and state police on their CB. Mr. Shade is gonna fuck up. And when he does, he'd better pray the police get to him before we do."
I'm a big fan of the "cash your whole paycheck (after paying rent and bills), stick it in your pocket, and fritter it away on amusements" school of money management. Oddly enough, this makes me relatively hard to track this way. The shit about Radio Shack and the stupormarket was just gratuituituitous.
I agree that that's what you should do if you want to practice civil disobedience by encouraging them to spy on you for no good reason. I don't agree that that's what you should do if you want practical privacy.
Observe the following technique:
Get direct deposit from work. (Ooo! Scary! Electro-trail!)
Pay your fixed bills (for me, that's rent, DSL, and the phone line that the telco monopoly requires me to have in order to get DSL from Speakeasy) in the same way every month.
Always withdraw all the rest of your money in cash and do whatever you like with it.
Always give Radio Shack a new false name and address. Be creative.
Every time you go to the stupormarket to buy some stupor, fill out the form for a new magic discount card, then give it to a random stranger wrapped in a religious pamphlet.
Oh god, I already don't care about this post.
And then gosh, they can't track your actual purchases. They can still decide that you're one of those freaks who deals in cash and needs spying on, but there's no way to avoid that judgement unless you either don't work or work under the table, and there's likely to be too many of those to practically spy on quite yet anyway.
Yes. Microsoft has a monopoly in the US, because they have saturated the market with their software. Note that I mean saturated in the technical sense, not just the "heavy marketing" sense: relatively few new users enter the computing scene here, so any alternative has to convince people to switch. Microsoft then makes unviable by a variety of means: incompatible file formats and APIs, a huge proliferation of Windows-only proprietary software that people are locked into, and so on.
In India, there is a huge market that is not yet saturated. If they chose Microsoft, they would likely be choosing to create a monopoly just like ours.
250 pounds? My bike can carry me, a loaded backpack, and a few grocery bags (a total in excess of that weight) at twice the speed of a Segway, and I have no reason to believe it could handle another hundred pounds if it had to. Besides, I have no expectation that Segways will be allowed on the train any more than bikes are, so what does it get me? Less exercise, I guess, and less money, definitely. If I want to spend $5000 on something to move cargo, I'll buy a 3/4 ton truck.
My Pismo, iBook2, and TiBook all have keyboards with excellent feedback and very little noise. I can't type well on anything else anymore, but that's OK, because everything else made my wrists hurt.
On mine, DVDs contain MPEG-2 data. My official cost-too-much-money copy of LoTR definitely has its share of artifacts. DivX;-)-encoded MPEG-4 might have more, but DVDs are far from pristine. If disposable disks become common, expect to see luser-friendly DivX rippers with much nicer codecs than the current generation plenty quick.
That's not the issue---it's just fine that they're releasing security fixes. The issue is that the OS is so borken that security fixes can't be made without breaking applications.
Shrug. It's no harder than writing for all the other different flavors of Unix, and a hell of a lot easier than dealing with Windows or (shudder) pre-X MacOS. (Takes off "been there, done that" hat.)
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A random Debian server is more important than your petty concerns. Get over it.
I recommend the MNGS philosophy to anyone and everyone. If your web site won't let me in, I will do something else rather than jump through hoops to get in. It's not like I lack for amusement or research material anyway. Sites that don't suck as much generally manage to do just fine with unobtrusive and well-targeted ads, minimal or repeated images (thence low bandwidth requirements), and maybe voluntary subscription. The anti-anti-popup whiners just don't want to bother doing a good job, so they try to fence you in instead.
Windows' first pass at this (hiding rarely-used Start Menu items) is really ugly. I think I'd rather have things in predictable places than have things in the order the computer guesses I'll use them in. Of course, you could have both: the Bayesian guesses at the top, a short gesture away, and the fixed, predictable locations conveniently nearby. (But that would be (gasp) redundant! For some reason UI designers resist making something accessible multiple ways. Getting past that mental block would be a big advance in itself.)
You want a codec ASIC, not a faster CPU.
What kind of idiot not only bowlderizes words but also leaves those words unbowlderized in the same paragraph? Please die.
...because you write "fucken" instead of "fucking". Use proper English, fuckhead.
The cost of developing it isn't the issue, monkey boy. Until the ransom is paid, the software is sold according to the normal proprietary model, and they can recoup their dev costs that way if they want. The ransom just needs to be at least what they'd expect to make from remaining sales of the product if they stuck with the proprietary model.
You wish. People willing to violate the social contract usually do so in their own self-interest rather than to enforce the social contract.
Communication within a circuit is at the speed of light in copper. Transistors take time to flip, but ultimately there's no reason you can't outrace the sound on its one-inch journey through your thick headphones.
There's a sucker born every minute. Spammers who reach enough suckers with good enough pitches get rich. Con men, pirates, and dirty politicians get rich, too. Crime pays. What's the shock?
Uh-huh. 'Cause news sites never post leaks. Are your neighbors little green men with antennae? My planet is blue-green.
If you had read even the Slashdot article, much less the Register article, you'd know that the Register is not the group that found the document. From my office in Cambridge I stab at thee!
You just used the term "ethnic cleansing" unironically. Please never do that again. To do so is to merrily incorporate into your vocabulary the claim that certain ethnicities are dirt and their members should be removed by any means necessary. The widespread adoption of this term by people who should know better is disgusting.
"Anybody with that kind of record is gonna make a mistake. I want all party members in the tri state district to monitor the city, county and state police on their CB. Mr. Shade is gonna fuck up. And when he does, he'd better pray the police get to him before we do."
Meh. Watch me not care at all about solving this problem. Blogs are free and don't make me jump through hoops.
I'm a big fan of the "cash your whole paycheck (after paying rent and bills), stick it in your pocket, and fritter it away on amusements" school of money management. Oddly enough, this makes me relatively hard to track this way. The shit about Radio Shack and the stupormarket was just gratuituituitous.
I agree that that's what you should do if you want to practice civil disobedience by encouraging them to spy on you for no good reason. I don't agree that that's what you should do if you want practical privacy.
Observe the following technique:
And then gosh, they can't track your actual purchases. They can still decide that you're one of those freaks who deals in cash and needs spying on, but there's no way to avoid that judgement unless you either don't work or work under the table, and there's likely to be too many of those to practically spy on quite yet anyway.
Special. I sat through the whole ad and then, at the end, I got to go to the page that told me to look at the ad again.
Me not read Salon. Them too lame. Me blog instead.
Yes. Microsoft has a monopoly in the US, because they have saturated the market with their software. Note that I mean saturated in the technical sense, not just the "heavy marketing" sense: relatively few new users enter the computing scene here, so any alternative has to convince people to switch. Microsoft then makes unviable by a variety of means: incompatible file formats and APIs, a huge proliferation of Windows-only proprietary software that people are locked into, and so on.
In India, there is a huge market that is not yet saturated. If they chose Microsoft, they would likely be choosing to create a monopoly just like ours.
250 pounds? My bike can carry me, a loaded backpack, and a few grocery bags (a total in excess of that weight) at twice the speed of a Segway, and I have no reason to believe it could handle another hundred pounds if it had to. Besides, I have no expectation that Segways will be allowed on the train any more than bikes are, so what does it get me? Less exercise, I guess, and less money, definitely. If I want to spend $5000 on something to move cargo, I'll buy a 3/4 ton truck.
Right, because script kiddies don't hang out on IRC and get this stuff before Bugtraq. Also, the sky is not blue and there is no porn on the internet.
My Pismo, iBook2, and TiBook all have keyboards with excellent feedback and very little noise. I can't type well on anything else anymore, but that's OK, because everything else made my wrists hurt.
There is a reason the name Phelps is considered obscene. I recommend changing your name; it will only bring you trouble. ;)
Hmmm... yep. Aren't those commies cute?
On mine, DVDs contain MPEG-2 data. My official cost-too-much-money copy of LoTR definitely has its share of artifacts. DivX ;-)-encoded MPEG-4 might have more, but DVDs are far from pristine. If disposable disks become common, expect to see luser-friendly DivX rippers with much nicer codecs than the current generation plenty quick.
That's not the issue---it's just fine that they're releasing security fixes. The issue is that the OS is so borken that security fixes can't be made without breaking applications.
Shrug. It's no harder than writing for all the other different flavors of Unix, and a hell of a lot easier than dealing with Windows or (shudder) pre-X MacOS. (Takes off "been there, done that" hat.)