Don't get me wrong I pay avg bill of 350.00 a mo to PGE. I'd love to pay less. But nothing government ran ever works at anything but creating more government and costs that skyrocket.
You seem to be under the common delusion that there's some "magic" (ooo-eee-ooo-ooo!) that makes companies run better than government. What makes markets tend to work more effenciently than the government is competition. Tell me, exactly how much competition PGE has for your business?
When there's a monopoly anyway, all bets are off. At least if the government steps in you have some say in how the monopoly is run.
Health care is a different beast though. The problem there is more like with education. A market with multiple providers can exist, but we care about fairness as much as we do efficiency, and markets suck at fairness. Its patently unfair, if not outright immoral, for some people to get all the education they need and others none purely because of how much money their parents have.
Windows Vista is NOT the most secure Windows ever. It just dumps the security concerns onto a user who has no clue what to do with them.
UAC prompts are the most useless things ever. "Something is trying to do something. Cancel or Allow?"
Only if you are running as root. (I renamed "administrator" to "root" on my Vista box to avoid confusion.) Comparing apples with apples, what does my Debian box do when I'm running as root and a program wants to change something secured? Generally, it just lets the program do it with no warning whatsoever.
Of course running general programs as root is considered stoopid (beyond "stupid"). So lets pretend we are smart and don't run as root. Then we run a program that needs root to accomplish something. On my Debian box either the program fails, or I get a password prompt for the root account. Continuing with this radical concept of comparing apples to apples: doing the same on my Vista box gives me....the exact same result. Some programs fail, some (perhaps most) give me a password prompt for the root account.
What really used to make Windows boxes so insecure was that it was such a PITA to elevate to root privs on the occasions you needed it that nobody bothered running any other way, despite the insane security risk. This is what Vista fixed.
Suspect? Imagine a world where Apple won the PC wars rather than Microsoft. Imagine what we'd be paying for computers with only a single supplier.
That's pure sillyness. The open (hardware) platform is why the PC platform won in the first place. A world where Apple won would have to be a world where the Apple platform was more open than the PC platform.
Apple is just being Apple here. This entire article amounts to nothing more than a horde of frogs complaining about being stung by scorpions which they put on their own backs.
Only if you ignore the parts that say you should stone people, and eradicate whole villages if one of the members doesn't believe in the Bible's god, retain slaves,
Quite so. But nearly all Christians have no problem ignoring such parts of the Bible. The issue comes with those refuse to admit they are doing it.
and that giving up your virgin daughter to a rape gang is preferable to turning over a foreign man to them. Those are just a few examples...
Actually, I didn't really see this one as so bad. There is nothing in the story that instructs believers to behave that way, its just how Lot behaved.
For many ancient peoples how you shelter guests in your home was considered a core element of morality, and your women were meerly your most prized possesisons. This was a rather exteme situation, created by the author to show both how wicked the city had become, and how incredibly richeous and self sacrificing Lot was.
There are probably at least as many people like myself who are left-handed and put the mouse on the left side of the keyboard.
Generally most programs are sensible and allow you to use arrow keys for navigation (or in extreme cases, allow you redefine the keymaps to use them), so I've never really had a problem with it. At least not until now...
Why on earth did they choose to put a 3D accelerator chip on it that requires an NDA to program? The entire FreeSoftware movement was created as a reaction against NDA's.
If I have to reverse-engineer the dang thing, I might as well get an iPhone. Its cheaper too.
see it as the system working as designed. Microsoft isn't "getting away" with anything - they're accepting an offered gift and using it like the givers hoped they would.
If that's what I want, I can (and have in the past) do it better by releasing the software into the Public Domain. BSD licenses tend to have annoying little attribution and advertising clauses and whatnot.
Republicans fired US attorneys for not being conservative enough.
I could actually kinda forgive them a bit for that. However, that's not what the US attorneys were fired for. The fired attorneys were generally quite conservative. What they were fired for was having ethics. In particular, for not pressing meritless cases against opposition party officials right before the midterm elections.
What really makes this sickening is that there were loads of other US attorneys who were *not* fired. You do the math.
I am really tired of hearing from a guy who's main means of making a living is talking [blogspot.com] (and for which he makes a good living), telling me to work for free.
He's saying no such thing. Anyone using the GPL is quite free (in fact encouraged) to charge money for their services. What you aren't allowed to do is charge more money every time someone wants to use the friuts of your past labor.
Note that the vast majority of working software engineers (myself included so far) spend their whole careers making a living off of their work rather than copyright fees.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who felt deeply hurt by Obama not really opposing this bill. Perhaps now's a good chance to get him to show us that he's a candidate of change we can actually believe in?
As long as its a cloture fight, and he stays out on the campaign trail rather than comming back to vote to stop the filibuster, Obama's essentially one more vote on the side of the senators fighting the bill. I'd rather see him on the Senate floor supporting the filibuster and using this as more fodder for his campaign (with free national media coverage to boot), but at this point I'll take what I can get.
But make no mistake, every single US president is bought and paid for by corporations. Including Obama or McCain, whichever one gets elected.
Yes. Its a crying shame there isn't a presidential candidate, or even an entire party we could vote for that refuses to take money from lobbysts and PACs and instead gets most of their campaign funds from small donations from the people.
If I remember correctly, the victim isn't the prosecutor in criminal cases, the state is (hence criminal trials always being "State vs. Doe"). If a crime has been committed, a prosecutor from the District Attorney's office is assigned to the trial.
In the GP's defense, the writers of the Daredevil movie got this wrong too.:-(
It just says "click ok" and away it goes. That's why Vista's "security features" are such a joke.
That's because you are running as an administrator. Any Unix admin will tell you how stupid it is to run as root all the time. The same goes with Admin in Windows. The difference is that before Vista it was a major PITA to run any other way. I even renamed my Vista administrator account "root" to avoid confusion.
If you have Vista, and you are running as Admin all the time, well...just *don't*. Go make yourself a user account right now, and use that from now on. Go on. I'll wait right here till you're done....
Trojan-style malware doesn't need security flaws to enter the system, thus Vista's new security features won't help much against it.
Actually, I got Vista specificaly to stop that kind of malware, and its worked like a champ.
See, I'm generally sharp enough not to put malware on my own system. The problem is that my kids use the computer while I'm at work, and they like to install "free" stuff they find online. Since you can't do a damn thing in XP w/o running as admin, there was no stopping this.
With Vista UAC you can run as an unprivelged user. If a program wants to install something, it will prompt for the admin password. If its me and I really want that install to happen, I enter the admin password and it proceeds as normal. If its one of my kids running, they call me at work begging for the password, and I tell them to go jump in a lake.
JMS's Changeling is supposedly going to Cannes this year, so it should be out sometime before the end of the year. Clint Eastwood is directing and Angelina Jolie is attached as well. The plot sounds a little too horror-y for my taste. Something about a child being replaced with a duplicate. But fans of his work on Babylon-5 might be interested in checking it out.
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You seem to be under the common delusion that there's some "magic" (ooo-eee-ooo-ooo!) that makes companies run better than government. What makes markets tend to work more effenciently than the government is competition. Tell me, exactly how much competition PGE has for your business?
When there's a monopoly anyway, all bets are off. At least if the government steps in you have some say in how the monopoly is run.
Health care is a different beast though. The problem there is more like with education. A market with multiple providers can exist, but we care about fairness as much as we do efficiency, and markets suck at fairness. Its patently unfair, if not outright immoral, for some people to get all the education they need and others none purely because of how much money their parents have.
Only if you are running as root. (I renamed "administrator" to "root" on my Vista box to avoid confusion.) Comparing apples with apples, what does my Debian box do when I'm running as root and a program wants to change something secured? Generally, it just lets the program do it with no warning whatsoever.
Of course running general programs as root is considered stoopid (beyond "stupid"). So lets pretend we are smart and don't run as root. Then we run a program that needs root to accomplish something. On my Debian box either the program fails, or I get a password prompt for the root account. Continuing with this radical concept of comparing apples to apples: doing the same on my Vista box gives me....the exact same result. Some programs fail, some (perhaps most) give me a password prompt for the root account.
What really used to make Windows boxes so insecure was that it was such a PITA to elevate to root privs on the occasions you needed it that nobody bothered running any other way, despite the insane security risk. This is what Vista fixed.
Perhaps you should try telling that to the OpenMoko people.
That's pure sillyness. The open (hardware) platform is why the PC platform won in the first place. A world where Apple won would have to be a world where the Apple platform was more open than the PC platform.
Apple is just being Apple here. This entire article amounts to nothing more than a horde of frogs complaining about being stung by scorpions which they put on their own backs.
Quite so. But nearly all Christians have no problem ignoring such parts of the Bible. The issue comes with those refuse to admit they are doing it.
Actually, I didn't really see this one as so bad. There is nothing in the story that instructs believers to behave that way, its just how Lot behaved.
For many ancient peoples how you shelter guests in your home was considered a core element of morality, and your women were meerly your most prized possesisons. This was a rather exteme situation, created by the author to show both how wicked the city had become, and how incredibly richeous and self sacrificing Lot was.
There are probably at least as many people like myself who are left-handed and put the mouse on the left side of the keyboard.
Generally most programs are sensible and allow you to use arrow keys for navigation (or in extreme cases, allow you redefine the keymaps to use them), so I've never really had a problem with it. At least not until now...
Why on earth did they choose to put a 3D accelerator chip on it that requires an NDA to program? The entire FreeSoftware movement was created as a reaction against NDA's.
If I have to reverse-engineer the dang thing, I might as well get an iPhone. Its cheaper too.
I'll get back to you when I've gotten this one last Truffula Tree.
If that's what I want, I can (and have in the past) do it better by releasing the software into the Public Domain. BSD licenses tend to have annoying little attribution and advertising clauses and whatnot.
I could actually kinda forgive them a bit for that. However, that's not what the US attorneys were fired for. The fired attorneys were generally quite conservative. What they were fired for was having ethics. In particular, for not pressing meritless cases against opposition party officials right before the midterm elections.
What really makes this sickening is that there were loads of other US attorneys who were *not* fired. You do the math.
(Replying rather than modding you down)
He's saying no such thing. Anyone using the GPL is quite free (in fact encouraged) to charge money for their services. What you aren't allowed to do is charge more money every time someone wants to use the friuts of your past labor.
Note that the vast majority of working software engineers (myself included so far) spend their whole careers making a living off of their work rather than copyright fees.
Just looking at their commercials, I would never have guessed they were scumbags.
I would never had guessed they were domain registrars either, now that you mention it.
As long as its a cloture fight, and he stays out on the campaign trail rather than comming back to vote to stop the filibuster, Obama's essentially one more vote on the side of the senators fighting the bill. I'd rather see him on the Senate floor supporting the filibuster and using this as more fodder for his campaign (with free national media coverage to boot), but at this point I'll take what I can get.
Why? So I can shoot myself and save them the trouble?
If the past seven years haven't taught you to be sceptical, I don't think you are capable of learning it.
Yes. Its a crying shame there isn't a presidential candidate, or even an entire party we could vote for that refuses to take money from lobbysts and PACs and instead gets most of their campaign funds from small donations from the people.
Well Taco, you should have sold your VA stock right after the IPO then.
(I keed. I Keed.)
I'm more interested in machines that can replicate functional copies of themselves. I want to know how close we are to forkbombing the universe.
In the GP's defense, the writers of the Daredevil movie got this wrong too.
I was just thinking about that site. I used to love going there. It was an oasis of sanity at the time.
However, I do remember Salon showing up there. They still seem to be going strong today.
That's because you are running as an administrator. Any Unix admin will tell you how stupid it is to run as root all the time. The same goes with Admin in Windows. The difference is that before Vista it was a major PITA to run any other way. I even renamed my Vista administrator account "root" to avoid confusion.
If you have Vista, and you are running as Admin all the time, well...just *don't*. Go make yourself a user account right now, and use that from now on. Go on. I'll wait right here till you're done.
Actually, I got Vista specificaly to stop that kind of malware, and its worked like a champ.
See, I'm generally sharp enough not to put malware on my own system. The problem is that my kids use the computer while I'm at work, and they like to install "free" stuff they find online. Since you can't do a damn thing in XP w/o running as admin, there was no stopping this.
With Vista UAC you can run as an unprivelged user. If a program wants to install something, it will prompt for the admin password. If its me and I really want that install to happen, I enter the admin password and it proceeds as normal. If its one of my kids running, they call me at work begging for the password, and I tell them to go jump in a lake.
They did.
From TFA:
JMS's Changeling is supposedly going to Cannes this year, so it should be out sometime before the end of the year. Clint Eastwood is directing and Angelina Jolie is attached as well. The plot sounds a little too horror-y for my taste. Something about a child being replaced with a duplicate. But fans of his work on Babylon-5 might be interested in checking it out.