It doesn't stop all crime, so we shouldn't try and stop any? Geez, give me a bit of whatever you're taking.
Proper gun safety education (for both Jimmy and his pa) would acomplish that quite well.
Sure, it would mean that Jimmy would have to break into a cabinet with an axe before going to school and killing everyone.
Its rather hard for tyrrany to exist in a country where the citizens have real power in the form of firearms.
Right, and we saw how well these guns went against things like the DMCA, the Patriot act, etc, etc. Guns are no longer [if they ever were?] the tools of change that many gun owners think they are, the tool you are, in fact, thinking about is 'money'.
Hmm.. reading over your post again.. have I been trolled? Tune in this time next week, where our hero follows up to posts about Abortion, Stem cell research, and BSD is dying.
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You saying women can't have guns? Who the fuck do you think needs them? Or does your patronizing analysis extend to rape victims as well?
Of all the people that could carry guns, violent crime victims are one of the groups that SHOULDN'T [at least without counselling]. The last thing I want is to be walking home and be shot by someone who thought I was walking in a threatening way.
PS: If you can't win your argument without resorting to emotive cases such as this, your argument is pretty weak.
But what about the compiler you are compiling the source code with? A famous example of this was this: http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?backd oor
When it comes down to it, you are going to have to trust some software, somewhere.
God I love listening to "the guy who knows most about Word, so we'll elect him to be the loser to call tech support when it dies"
As a guy who does corporate support, this guy or the 'peer support guy' as the company calls him, is a life line at times.
Things like 'can you restart the PC now', 'can you push control alt delete' which are undoable by normal clients are easily and quickly done.
While it's unprofessional to say things like 'can you go and get someone who knows more about computers then you to help you log on', I'm sure every tech support person has at some time longed for someone who is 'good at word' to be nearby.
You what? We use it in our enterprise [30K users, 50K desktops], and it works flawlessly. Do you have any information [a few links would be fine] that it is as problematic as you imply? Or are you just trolling?:P
This is remeniscent of the P4 vs Athlon video that showed the P4 surviving while the athlon cooked. Camera angle wasn't wide enough to see if a high powered fan was blowing on the P4 case and you have no idea if the room temps were the same for both, so you have to put your faith in the person who created it.
IIRC, they did have a thermostat on the CPU's as they fried, and also, the videos I saw were done by Tom's hardware, which as far as I know were reasonably impartial about that sort of thing.
How about something even more... Compelling? Software that is not fixed within the maximum time allowed by law is required to release their source to the public domain?
I'm not quite sure how something like this would force Red Hat to play ball if they decided to drag their feet though..
Yes, because businesses demand that level of integration.
If the business can't afford to get decent exchange admins, then they pretty much deserve what they get.
In our company of 30 odd thousand staff, we have about 10 people dedicated to running our 150 odd servers, and we haven't had an outbreak of any of those 'outlook viruses', mainly because our admins are on the ball, and are willing to come in at 2am to ensure that we have the latest virus patterns and etc.
It won't stop dishonest people from breaking the law (much as the death penalty does not stop people from murdering in cold blood). All it does is strips the freedoms of HONEST people and pisses everyone off.
Ah, but one of the benefits of the death penalty is not deterrance, but the fact that the killer can't do it again. It is similar in this case, they might not be able to stop all of the copies out there, but they'll certainly be able to stop new copies being distributed [at least publically]
Well, the reason they are done this way is that the application will work on any PC capable of running IE then. It's a tech support persons dream. All of our software is custom written by IBM GS, so I'm hoping it's not just a cheap ripoff of something else..:P
Except for web based applications written to rely on the active desktop. Here at my company we have at least 3 that I know of. Business critical applications through which flow millions a day in orders. Removing IE removes the Active Desktop, and that is not an option for many businesses out there.
It's amazing the number of people that don't realise you can cut, copy and paste via right clicking on a highlighted text field. Still, the option is there for those who enjoy copy and paste as much as I do.
Lessee.. right now I can highlight some text with the mouse, right click -> copy. Text on clipboard, great. Now, the best bit is, I can then select some text I want to write over, then rightclick once again, and select paste. [1]
You're right, it doesn't get much simpler then that.
Ah, but if since I own a car, surely that give me the right to run your car off the right. It should be perfectly legal since I own my car and can do whatever I like with it.
If I didn't know better, I'd say you were astroturfing for Blizzard.
And if some site sued slashdot over something like that, it would get posted here and then that company would have a lot of angry slashdotters to deal with (I'm sure the slashdot effect can apply to homepages too)
And if it's someone like Microsoft doing the suing? Yeah, I can seem them shaking in their boots at the thought of Slashdotters being angry at them.
So, if a criminal is talking to an Australian citizen, we can't track them? What if they were talking about an incoming shipment of drugs/arms/biohazards? Just because they are talking to an Australian citizen, that does not give them a 'get out of surveillance card'.
Geez, go back to selling Green Left Weekly and leave the running of the country to the grown ups.
You are right, the majority of 'wholesale' bandwidth is still owned by Telstra. It is a monopoly, and would be a bad one, if the ACCC weren't watching them for signs of non-competitive behavior. This is why bigpond costs so much, they have to buy their bandwidth from wholesale at the same price wholesale sells it to all of the other ISPs.
There are very few other carrier grade links coming into Australia [excluding dodgy satellite stuff] it's still mostly owned by Telstra and Optus.
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It doesn't stop all crime, so we shouldn't try and stop any? Geez, give me a bit of whatever you're taking. Proper gun safety education (for both Jimmy and his pa) would acomplish that quite well.
Sure, it would mean that Jimmy would have to break into a cabinet with an axe before going to school and killing everyone.
Right, and we saw how well these guns went against things like the DMCA, the Patriot act, etc, etc. Guns are no longer [if they ever were?] the tools of change that many gun owners think they are, the tool you are, in fact, thinking about is 'money'.
Hmm.. reading over your post again.. have I been trolled? Tune in this time next week, where our hero follows up to posts about Abortion, Stem cell research, and BSD is dying.
Of all the people that could carry guns, violent crime victims are one of the groups that SHOULDN'T [at least without counselling]. The last thing I want is to be walking home and be shot by someone who thought I was walking in a threatening way.
PS: If you can't win your argument without resorting to emotive cases such as this, your argument is pretty weak.
When it comes down to it, you are going to have to trust some software, somewhere.
As a guy who does corporate support, this guy or the 'peer support guy' as the company calls him, is a life line at times.
Things like 'can you restart the PC now', 'can you push control alt delete' which are undoable by normal clients are easily and quickly done.
While it's unprofessional to say things like 'can you go and get someone who knows more about computers then you to help you log on', I'm sure every tech support person has at some time longed for someone who is 'good at word' to be nearby.
No, but you can use your NT workstation [or perhaps 98 if you are that masochistic] with the supplied remote administration tools.
You what? We use it in our enterprise [30K users, 50K desktops], and it works flawlessly. Do you have any information [a few links would be fine] that it is as problematic as you imply? Or are you just trolling? :P
Why not try progress quest? [www.progressquest.com]. It's available now! It's free, and only a small download.
IIRC, they did have a thermostat on the CPU's as they fried, and also, the videos I saw were done by Tom's hardware, which as far as I know were reasonably impartial about that sort of thing.
I'm not quite sure how something like this would force Red Hat to play ball if they decided to drag their feet though..
If the business can't afford to get decent exchange admins, then they pretty much deserve what they get.
In our company of 30 odd thousand staff, we have about 10 people dedicated to running our 150 odd servers, and we haven't had an outbreak of any of those 'outlook viruses', mainly because our admins are on the ball, and are willing to come in at 2am to ensure that we have the latest virus patterns and etc.
Ah, but one of the benefits of the death penalty is not deterrance, but the fact that the killer can't do it again. It is similar in this case, they might not be able to stop all of the copies out there, but they'll certainly be able to stop new copies being distributed [at least publically]
Well, the reason they are done this way is that the application will work on any PC capable of running IE then. It's a tech support persons dream. All of our software is custom written by IBM GS, so I'm hoping it's not just a cheap ripoff of something else.. :P
Except for web based applications written to rely on the active desktop. Here at my company we have at least 3 that I know of. Business critical applications through which flow millions a day in orders. Removing IE removes the Active Desktop, and that is not an option for many businesses out there.
Or when you click on My Computer -> C:?
I mean, jeez, where do you guys pick up this stufF?
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It's amazing the number of people that don't realise you can cut, copy and paste via right clicking on a highlighted text field. Still, the option is there for those who enjoy copy and paste as much as I do.
You're right, it doesn't get much simpler then that.
[1]: NT4 with IE6.
If I didn't know better, I'd say you were astroturfing for Blizzard.
And if it's someone like Microsoft doing the suing? Yeah, I can seem them shaking in their boots at the thought of Slashdotters being angry at them.
Hey, Tie Fighter was brilliant. Shame about all of the sequels though..
Geez, go back to selling Green Left Weekly and leave the running of the country to the grown ups.
Do you have any stats on this, at least for Australia? I haven't noticed an increase in violent crime at all.
There are very few other carrier grade links coming into Australia [excluding dodgy satellite stuff] it's still mostly owned by Telstra and Optus.