How did you get to be insightful for that matter? What you said was basically a bunch of free speech hippy crap with some emotive speech thrown in [to earn the big karma points!]. Come on, when can we get some content?
How many morons would use a legal, registered gun to commit a crime? Not too many.
The job of policing 'illegal gun owners' would certainly be easier if all guns were illegal.
In fact, if you want to take it to the logical conclusion, we should make guns illegal, and make the penalty for being in possession of one 20 years in prison.
I think you would find that criminals would start 'leaving the guns at home', if getting caught means their jail sentence would be tripled.
It's better than the 15% who currently "obey" the law, and area actually the dumbest of all, because impeding the flow of traffic causes more accidents than speeding does.
Speeding doesn't tend to cause accidents anyway. Studies surrounding the institution and repeal of the double-nickel have proved that increasing speed reduces accident frequency. But it increases the fatality rate, absolutely and per-accident.
I assume you have a URL for a study that we can all peruse:)
Or am I expecting too much from a slashdot reader.
The question is, if 90% of us are "breaking" the law, are we wrong or is the law? And why don't we raise the speed limits a few mph so only 15% of us are breaking the law*?
Do you honestly think that 85% of drivers out there are capable of correctly gauging the speed at which a road is 'safe'? Or is it more likely that they all drive as fast as they can, simply because 'everyone else is doing it'.
The reason why we have laws like this is that people are fundamentally 'really really dumb'.
The only reason your air bags are so deadly is because you don't have legislation saying that you need to wear seat belts. This means that air bags need to blow out much faster then normal to stop your skull turning into mush.
But of course, since both mandatory air bags and mandatory seat belts are repressing your rights, I am sure my hard earned tax dollars will no doubt one day be spent trying to push your brain back into your skull after you crash into an SUV while talking on the mobile phone and shooting a gun at something.
Wrong, wrong, absolutely brimming over wrongability...again. Your analogy is flawed. XP is not sold as a service. It is sold as a product, something that I really do purchase.
You purchase Microsoft's permission to run the software, that's it. Sure, you own a CD, but it's worth what?.03c? If Microsoft decide to start selling 'services' rather then [so called] tangable things, that is their perogative.
Yes, I was around last time it was mentioned.. and the time before that.. and the time before that..:)
I guess I'm not as good at trolling as those people though:p
> When you have 6000 PCs in a metro area there is no POSSIBLE way you can keep the virus scan up-to-date consistently across all the desktops. Not with user login scripts, not with $$$ Tivoli... not at all.
We have 50K desktops in our corp, I would say at least 98% of the PC's are running patterns less then a week old, and 99% less then a month.
I'd bet that the remainder are advanced users using other platforms, or people who turn their PC's off when we tell them not to [probably not likely to be big encrypted mail users anyway].
> When I used a Mac, they laughed because I had no command prompt. When I used Linux, they laughed because I had no GUI.
You should have used windows then. [Sorry, couldn't resist:)]
Telstra Australia/Optus @Home provide ADSL/Cable internet that gives you 500KB/s [metered] or 50KB/s. While it's not 1.5Mbps, I have only had one instance of unscheduled downtime in over a year, and it is fast enough to stream mp3's.
ADSL is expected to be available to something like 97% of homes, so I guess we have sacrificed our top end speed for a bit more robustness. [However I hear that even faster connections will be available in the cities soon [tm].
Now even though the X-Box might suck to the n'th power, your shoddy writing style hardly makes me believe you gave it a fair chance from the start.
Saying things like "Oh, they probably put extra RAM in to make it look better" without proof is hardly the mark of a top flight reviewer/journalist/thing.
Consider a car travelling at 100 mph driving through your front door becaues the driver was hopped up on smack. Now consider that if the police had been able to force him off the road it would not have happened.
J00 S4CK.
There is a flaw. Regardless of how many false passwords you give, you never get locked out.
Well, that is only true for the Administrator password, all other accounts do lockout. Btw, how many wrong logins does it take to lock root?
Most consumers are idiots is true. Most computer geeks aren't.
Sorry, I've seen nothing here to convince me that's not the case, hell, we can't even agree to disagree in most cases.
Sure, so it installed easily...how customizable is it? can you attain the same setup that I have had running for the last 5 years on it? I didn't think so. Your puny arguments are no match for the power of the Source. I find your lack of faith....disturbing...
Ah.. that's the trick though isn't it. It's obviously customisable enough, or he wouldn't be using it. Why do you keep touting complexity [in the guise of customisation] as a feature when it's not what everyone wants:)
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How did you get to be insightful for that matter? What you said was basically a bunch of free speech hippy crap with some emotive speech thrown in [to earn the big karma points!]. Come on, when can we get some content?
In fact, if you want to take it to the logical conclusion, we should make guns illegal, and make the penalty for being in possession of one 20 years in prison.
I think you would find that criminals would start 'leaving the guns at home', if getting caught means their jail sentence would be tripled.
Speeding doesn't tend to cause accidents anyway. Studies surrounding the institution and repeal of the double-nickel have proved that increasing speed reduces accident frequency. But it increases the fatality rate, absolutely and per-accident.
I assume you have a URL for a study that we can all peruse :)
Or am I expecting too much from a slashdot reader.
Welcome to reality. You can have a stable society with no rights, or you can have an anarchistic society where everyone carries a gun.
The parents are gone, it's up to society to run the show now.
Do you honestly think that 85% of drivers out there are capable of correctly gauging the speed at which a road is 'safe'? Or is it more likely that they all drive as fast as they can, simply because 'everyone else is doing it'.
The reason why we have laws like this is that people are fundamentally 'really really dumb'.
Sorry.
But of course, since both mandatory air bags and mandatory seat belts are repressing your rights, I am sure my hard earned tax dollars will no doubt one day be spent trying to push your brain back into your skull after you crash into an SUV while talking on the mobile phone and shooting a gun at something.
Thx bye.
It is probably trying to update the engine/virus patterns.
Ph00l.
My god, how incompetent are you? Once a month?
Wrong, wrong, absolutely brimming over wrongability...again. Your analogy is flawed. XP is not sold as a service. It is sold as a product, something that I really do purchase. .03c? If Microsoft decide to start selling 'services' rather then [so called] tangable things, that is their perogative.
You purchase Microsoft's permission to run the software, that's it. Sure, you own a CD, but it's worth what?
Yes, I was around last time it was mentioned.. and the time before that.. and the time before that.. :)
:p
I guess I'm not as good at trolling as those people though
It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.
[+1 for inciting irony flame war]
No, only when you are talking -in- the US. Don't try to smear your dodgy spelling on the rest of us :)
-- Playing X Wing Allegiance on his Win2K laptop.
We have 50K desktops in our corp, I would say at least 98% of the PC's are running patterns less then a week old, and 99% less then a month. I'd bet that the remainder are advanced users using other platforms, or people who turn their PC's off when we tell them not to [probably not likely to be big encrypted mail users anyway].
> When I used a Mac, they laughed because I had no command prompt. When I used Linux, they laughed because I had no GUI. :)]
You should have used windows then. [Sorry, couldn't resist
ADSL is expected to be available to something like 97% of homes, so I guess we have sacrificed our top end speed for a bit more robustness. [However I hear that even faster connections will be available in the cities soon [tm].
Now even though the X-Box might suck to the n'th power, your shoddy writing style hardly makes me believe you gave it a fair chance from the start.
Saying things like "Oh, they probably put extra RAM in to make it look better" without proof is hardly the mark of a top flight reviewer/journalist/thing.
Consider a car travelling at 100 mph driving through your front door becaues the driver was hopped up on smack. Now consider that if the police had been able to force him off the road it would not have happened. J00 S4CK.
J00 S4CK.
Even logging on from localhost, how many failed logins does it take to lock out root? Hmm?
There is a flaw. Regardless of how many false passwords you give, you never get locked out. Well, that is only true for the Administrator password, all other accounts do lockout. Btw, how many wrong logins does it take to lock root?
What's the first amendment got to do with the EU? PS: At the speeds being flown at, the prop aircraft was much more maneuverable.
Most consumers are idiots is true. Most computer geeks aren't.
Sorry, I've seen nothing here to convince me that's not the case, hell, we can't even agree to disagree in most cases.
Sure, so it installed easily...how customizable is it? can you attain the same setup that I have had running for the last 5 years on it? I didn't think so. Your puny arguments are no match for the power of the Source. I find your lack of faith....disturbing... :)
Ah.. that's the trick though isn't it. It's obviously customisable enough, or he wouldn't be using it. Why do you keep touting complexity [in the guise of customisation] as a feature when it's not what everyone wants