We don't have the cash for this let the cell phone companies pay for it.
By which, you mean, the consumer will pay for it.
ANY costs assigned to the cell carriers will be directly (or even inflatedly) passed onto the consumer. Period. Heck, if you asked them, they would admit as much.
No. Just no. I'm a Windows hater too, but no. It's simply not THAT bad. It's really easy to catch something, but simply existing on the web isn't enough. You are making "magical" assumptions.
I have no direct evidence to contradict what you say, but every time someone has categorically said "you can't get a virus by just doing X", it doesn't take very long for that to be demonstrated false.
Sometimes, it's even by design with Windows -- stuff like hiding the extension of well know files, autorun, or executing scripts in email just by viewing the damned thing.
I would be completely unsurprised if there were viruses/malware you could get from a website without even knowing it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to run a machine without some AV on it.
You've probably seen the recommendations by now, but Microsoft Security Essentials is a good one.
I might try that --- though, admittedly, if Microsoft is so good at detecting the viruses, why don't they just prevent them better?
But, AVG has really become obtrusive and annoying of late. Forcing it to not install toolbars, telling it I don't want to install "PC Analyzer", having it whine that I should upgrade to the paid version, constantly asking to reboot, and now hosing my machine... well, they're running out of goodwill.
I got burned with this this morning. I had to boot into my Windows install CD and revert to a save point. I'm quite underwhelmed.
Quite frankly, I'm actually getting tired of AVG suddenly deciding that I need to restart my computer so that it can finish an upgrade that I didn't initiate it. It's my computer, and I will decide when to do upgrades and when to f-ing reboot -- that's the one thing about Windows machines that still drives me crazy, every ^$#^#% application deciding that what I really need to do is reboot.
Knowing that it was AVG that cost me an hour this morning.
So, Slashdot, what are my alternatives to move away from AVG?
...since the administrator of an estate normally has power of attorney. This law may make it easier for administrators to convince Google et al of that fact without resorting to court orders, though.
So... then we can expect "power of attorney" phishing scams to start liberating people from their on-line accounts?
Seriously, before this should be allowed to happen, you really do need a verifiable, court supported document. At least, I hope you would... just sending an email saying "HI, I'm the executor for the following accounts whose owners are now dead" should not cut it.
If, however, Google gets results back that are exactly what the user is looking for, but only presents results that are favorable to the vendor, than that is biased data.
Which, is exactly the opposite of what they're doing.
They're not giving page-rank boosts to companies getting getting crappy reviews.
I'm pretty sure they're not selling the ability to move up the ranking to shitty vendors. They're making sure the users only see "good" data.
Biased towards being useful. Much better than completely unbiased, or biased towards crap.
A Google search has never been un-biased, and never would have worked if it were.
The whole point about the way Google ranks pages is to try to ascertain which pages people actually find useful... so, initially when it came out, it was finding useful hits when Yahoo had become pretty much a degenerate case of a search engine retrieving everything but what you want. Every bloody search returned crap because the SEO wankers had polluted the indices with junk -- you used to hit a page with 400K of keywords in the meta tag, and absolutely nothing to do with what you searched for.
Google has always tried to find the best sites to retrieve, not the crap. By that very definition, Google was never un-biased. And, after a decade of using them as my search engine, I want them to keep up the good work and continue to filter out the crap. Weeding out shady marketers are something that I applaud them for doing.
Information doesn't like it when you anthropomorphize it.
People shouldn't be able to have secrets
Oh, the hilarity of posting this as an AC.
What moronic principal makes you arrive at the conclusion that people shouldn't have secrets? Maybe you should post your bank account and PIN if you believe that.
Hopefully they go the RDP-like route, which im my opinion is vastly superior over the way X11 does it.
Well, one of the things about X is that is does it all the same way -- local, remote, it's treated the exact same way.
Heck, it will work over SSH if you set your DISPLAY variable correctly -- I distinctly recall bringing up windows from my home machine on my HP workstation at the office after I'd tunneled in. I've ran X windows across the continent.
If Wayland can't do that, then I fear it is losing a lot of really well-used and widespread functionality.
Say what you will about X, but it's "just worked" for a hell of a long time.
You forgot the step whereby you allow a third party to do you farm it out to a third party for enforcement.
I still have no idea why the US Copyright Group has any standing to sue anybody... did the copyrights get transferred to them? Or, are they just suing for some bizarre reason?
but if a similar article appeared about a system designed to counteract spam and fraud, I wonder what the reaction would be here on slashdot?
If it was this intrusive, I suspect not so well either.
It's not like we've shown whole-sale support for "enhanced" pat-downs and invasive scans in the name of looking for bad guys. Most of us will be ready to pillory any idiot who says "if you're innocent, what are you worried about" -- because it's bullshit.
This level of invasiveness is just not something most of us are willing to live with. And, for the benefit of advertising, not at all.
Do you happen to remember when democrats had a large majority in the House and a super majority in the Senate for 2 years?
Is that in any way related to the OPs suggestion that Obama "call out" the Republicans for their current behavior? Or is it a parallel set of circumstances?
Would that two year period of time have had any bearing on a vote which is happening on December 21st?
In short... have you said anything on topic? Or thrown out some random and unrelated items? (Honest question, I'm confused.)
Not that dems have never ever done this but Obama ran on a platform of ending this kind of thing and only seems to bend over backwards continuing to let republicans to run him over.
No matter what he ran on, Obama can do nothing but set and example, and show his willingness to work with them.
It's not like he can just tell the Republicans to play nicely. And, if as you suggest, he "calls them out", then all he's going to do is piss them off even more, and they'll work with him even less.
I don't see how Obama can actually make them do anything.
I wonder how smart it is to design a spec now with the upper boundary in size equivalent to a normal hard drive. Why stop at 32bits addressing when 48 probably doesn't make much of a difference
Ummmm... I didn't think you could address terabytes with 32-bits... as I recall, 2^32 is like 4 billion and change, and terabytes are trillions, no?
Or are HDs doing some special magic that I've forgotten about?
I think given the nature of flash cards, if they didn't build it for the 128PB limit you describe, we probably don't run into problems for a while. Heck, a lot of devices can't even read flash memory over 2GB or so.
The user interface is beamed onto the rear of the acrylic board at 1024 x 768 resolution
I realize it's a prototype, and more will be added, so I'm not gonna kvetch too much about it. But, to be useful, we need to be taking the resolution up to like 8000x8000 or more so it's like tiling a good monitor onto a huge area.
Still, the idea of my desk and monitor all being one big honking surface would be awesome. Although, it would have to be pretty durable to survive coffee, feet, and everything else that you need your desk for.
What's really interesting is to note how consumer technology has been inviting itself into the enterprise space since the first personal computers. Are there any examples of technology moving in the opposite direction?
Hmmmm... photocopiers, fax machines, laser printers, networks and firewalls, gigabytes and terabytes. Heck, I think even my Roomba would count.
They're all stuff that's now pretty commonplace, but I'm sure there's loads of examples.
I would say most computer things started out as something only corporations could afford to have.
Microsoft said on Tuesday that Google simply doesn't understand what businesses need
And, maybe Microsoft doesn't understand what consumers need.
Hearing Microsoft actually say this is reminiscent of the whole "I'm a PC/I'm a Mac" commercials where the PC wants to do "fun stuff" like spreadsheets and pie charts.
This blind focus on what corporations need basically missed out on the existence of the consumer market. In a lot of ways, I think Apple has shown that going after the consumer market can be quite lucrative, since apparently nobody else is really focusing on that very well.
And, I've come to decide that anybody who cites a Gartner report is, by definition, talking out of their backside. Gartner says what companies pay them to say.
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We don't have the cash for this let the cell phone companies pay for it.
By which, you mean, the consumer will pay for it.
ANY costs assigned to the cell carriers will be directly (or even inflatedly) passed onto the consumer. Period. Heck, if you asked them, they would admit as much.
Yes, that's what I was referring to.
I have no direct evidence to contradict what you say, but every time someone has categorically said "you can't get a virus by just doing X", it doesn't take very long for that to be demonstrated false.
Sometimes, it's even by design with Windows -- stuff like hiding the extension of well know files, autorun, or executing scripts in email just by viewing the damned thing.
I would be completely unsurprised if there were viruses/malware you could get from a website without even knowing it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to run a machine without some AV on it.
I might try that --- though, admittedly, if Microsoft is so good at detecting the viruses, why don't they just prevent them better?
But, AVG has really become obtrusive and annoying of late. Forcing it to not install toolbars, telling it I don't want to install "PC Analyzer", having it whine that I should upgrade to the paid version, constantly asking to reboot, and now hosing my machine ... well, they're running out of goodwill.
I got burned with this this morning. I had to boot into my Windows install CD and revert to a save point. I'm quite underwhelmed.
Quite frankly, I'm actually getting tired of AVG suddenly deciding that I need to restart my computer so that it can finish an upgrade that I didn't initiate it. It's my computer, and I will decide when to do upgrades and when to f-ing reboot -- that's the one thing about Windows machines that still drives me crazy, every ^$#^#% application deciding that what I really need to do is reboot.
Knowing that it was AVG that cost me an hour this morning.
So, Slashdot, what are my alternatives to move away from AVG?
So ... then we can expect "power of attorney" phishing scams to start liberating people from their on-line accounts?
Seriously, before this should be allowed to happen, you really do need a verifiable, court supported document. At least, I hope you would ... just sending an email saying "HI, I'm the executor for the following accounts whose owners are now dead" should not cut it.
Which, is exactly the opposite of what they're doing.
They're not giving page-rank boosts to companies getting getting crappy reviews.
I'm pretty sure they're not selling the ability to move up the ranking to shitty vendors. They're making sure the users only see "good" data.
Biased towards being useful. Much better than completely unbiased, or biased towards crap.
A Google search has never been un-biased, and never would have worked if it were.
The whole point about the way Google ranks pages is to try to ascertain which pages people actually find useful ... so, initially when it came out, it was finding useful hits when Yahoo had become pretty much a degenerate case of a search engine retrieving everything but what you want. Every bloody search returned crap because the SEO wankers had polluted the indices with junk -- you used to hit a page with 400K of keywords in the meta tag, and absolutely nothing to do with what you searched for.
Google has always tried to find the best sites to retrieve, not the crap. By that very definition, Google was never un-biased. And, after a decade of using them as my search engine, I want them to keep up the good work and continue to filter out the crap. Weeding out shady marketers are something that I applaud them for doing.
Information doesn't like it when you anthropomorphize it.
Oh, the hilarity of posting this as an AC.
What moronic principal makes you arrive at the conclusion that people shouldn't have secrets? Maybe you should post your bank account and PIN if you believe that.
Well, one of the things about X is that is does it all the same way -- local, remote, it's treated the exact same way.
Heck, it will work over SSH if you set your DISPLAY variable correctly -- I distinctly recall bringing up windows from my home machine on my HP workstation at the office after I'd tunneled in. I've ran X windows across the continent.
If Wayland can't do that, then I fear it is losing a lot of really well-used and widespread functionality.
Say what you will about X, but it's "just worked" for a hell of a long time.
Safe bet ... as they say in the article, people are trying to game Google rankings constantly ... if there's money to be had, someone will keep trying.
See, now that's funny. :-P
Wait, seriously? They're replacing X Windows with something which doesn't support remote displays?
WTF??? Is that true? That makes no sense whatsoever ... one of the best things about X is being able to have display from multiple sources.
You forgot the step whereby you allow a third party to do you farm it out to a third party for enforcement.
I still have no idea why the US Copyright Group has any standing to sue anybody ... did the copyrights get transferred to them? Or, are they just suing for some bizarre reason?
Psst ... you're supposed to check the appropriate boxes or it's not funny. ;-)
If it was this intrusive, I suspect not so well either.
It's not like we've shown whole-sale support for "enhanced" pat-downs and invasive scans in the name of looking for bad guys. Most of us will be ready to pillory any idiot who says "if you're innocent, what are you worried about" -- because it's bullshit.
This level of invasiveness is just not something most of us are willing to live with. And, for the benefit of advertising, not at all.
Is that in any way related to the OPs suggestion that Obama "call out" the Republicans for their current behavior? Or is it a parallel set of circumstances?
Would that two year period of time have had any bearing on a vote which is happening on December 21st?
In short ... have you said anything on topic? Or thrown out some random and unrelated items? (Honest question, I'm confused.)
Ah, yes, thank you. I had forgotten that. :-P
That makes sense now.
No matter what he ran on, Obama can do nothing but set and example, and show his willingness to work with them.
It's not like he can just tell the Republicans to play nicely. And, if as you suggest, he "calls them out", then all he's going to do is piss them off even more, and they'll work with him even less.
I don't see how Obama can actually make them do anything.
Ummmm ... I didn't think you could address terabytes with 32-bits ... as I recall, 2^32 is like 4 billion and change, and terabytes are trillions, no?
Or are HDs doing some special magic that I've forgotten about?
I think given the nature of flash cards, if they didn't build it for the 128PB limit you describe, we probably don't run into problems for a while. Heck, a lot of devices can't even read flash memory over 2GB or so.
Ummmm ... maybe for home use. But, there's enough nuisances in a cubicle farm without adding either "toilet" or "sex robot".
People on con-calls with hands-free is bad enough -- what you describe is terrifying. I don't want to have to call HR, but ... ;-)
It sounded good right up until
I realize it's a prototype, and more will be added, so I'm not gonna kvetch too much about it. But, to be useful, we need to be taking the resolution up to like 8000x8000 or more so it's like tiling a good monitor onto a huge area.
Still, the idea of my desk and monitor all being one big honking surface would be awesome. Although, it would have to be pretty durable to survive coffee, feet, and everything else that you need your desk for.
Hmmmm ... photocopiers, fax machines, laser printers, networks and firewalls, gigabytes and terabytes. Heck, I think even my Roomba would count.
They're all stuff that's now pretty commonplace, but I'm sure there's loads of examples.
I would say most computer things started out as something only corporations could afford to have.
And, maybe Microsoft doesn't understand what consumers need.
Hearing Microsoft actually say this is reminiscent of the whole "I'm a PC/I'm a Mac" commercials where the PC wants to do "fun stuff" like spreadsheets and pie charts.
This blind focus on what corporations need basically missed out on the existence of the consumer market. In a lot of ways, I think Apple has shown that going after the consumer market can be quite lucrative, since apparently nobody else is really focusing on that very well.
And, I've come to decide that anybody who cites a Gartner report is, by definition, talking out of their backside. Gartner says what companies pay them to say.
You, sir, have a future in politics! ;-)