Why are you fighting secure boot? Secure boot is a GOOD thing. Making sure your BIOS/UEFI and boot loader haven't been tampered with is a GOOD thing. Let's figure a good way to make Linux work with it. I'm glad that Microsoft is taking this attack vector seriously.
I find it interesting that "police not doing their jobs" is a universal problem. That's something that has always bothered me. Unless it's a violent or significant crime, the police just aren't interested. I guess it's similar in the UK (I'm in the US).
Wrong. The sales tax is always broken out (not hidden like in many European countries). In the various places I've lived in California, sales tax between 6.75%-8.75%. Various states across the US have different sales tax rates typically ranging from 0-9%.
Even our friends are trying to steal our secrets. Israel and other allies routinely try to reverse-engineer defense systems we sell to them.
China, North Korea, terrorists, etc. would very much like to benefit at our expense.
The boogeyman you refer to is real. You can choose to live in your idealistic world if it makes you feel better. The reality is that the threats are real and journalists should not have the right to reveal classified information.
Classified information saves lives and keeps our country safe. Is our government right all the time? No, but I trust it a hell of a lot more than I trust ignorant fools like yourself. If you had your way, we would cease to exist as the United States -- we'd be overrun by our enemies. Get a clue and read up on your history!
Your post is excellent. The fact that you were modded troll speaks to the ignorance and narrow-mindedness that runs rampant within the Slashdot community. There is a reason why I assign +3 to troll and flamebait posts. Often, these are the most interesting and intelligent!
E-mail is, for all intents and purposes, like a postcard: it is sent in the open for anyone to read. Are postcards off-limits from the 4th amendment? Surely, if there was some threat to the government made on a postcard that a postal-service employee could read, action would be taken.
The solution is to encrypt e-mail that is sensitive.
The connectors may have been poor quality, but STP isn't for ethernet anyway. It has 150 ohm impedence instead of 50 ohm. You should use UTP or FTP (if you need shielding) for ethernet.
GTK+ is damned slow. The file manager, Nautilus, has nothing to do with GTK+. Compare a GTK+ v2.0 app to a GTK+ v1.0 app. The GTK+ v1.0 app is orders of magnitude faster.
GTK+ has dog-slow performance. This is common knowledge. The developers are more interested in wiz-bang features than quality high-performance software.
I agree as well -- I guess it's not so much the disagree e-mails themselves, but the commentary. Please don't take this personally, samzenpus, but your commentary is terrible.
What would be very interesting to me are the responses that the Slashdot folks sent to in response to the "disagree" mail. I would be fascinated by that.
I also consider Diablo 2 one of the greatest games of all time and I can't wait for Diablo III. I hate FPS games and the adventure game genre is dead. I have no interest in MMORGs, so that leaves the Diablo!
As for your comment, wasn't Diablo 2 better than Diablo? Wasn't WC II better than WC? Wasn't StarCraft better than WC II? Why do you think that Blizzard will fail with Diablo III?
Thank you for providing such an accurate view of Mac OS X and Apple; my experience with OS X is the same as yours. We don't get that much around here on Slashdot. It's too bad the zealots had to mod you troll. I'd mod your post insightful if I had any mod points.
If you're talking about the Internet 5-10 years ago, yes, you have a point. You may not have used the Internet lately. It is SLOW, broadband or not! There are about 2 websites that you can "click a link and not know what happened": Google and Craigslist. Almost everything else is horrible.
Back in 1996 before the Internet was clogged up with crap, pages loaded instantly with broadband. Now, I'm stuck waiting 30 seconds or more for virtually any website. It's pathetic. How can dial-up users stand it? I can't even stand it WITH broadband. I remember when websites would load relatively quickly on a 56K modem. Even on the T3 at work, pages load at a snails pace today.
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Absolutely! I made a comment to mention this as well.
... one of the most common unnecessary (and harmful) medical procedures. Male circumcision.
Why are you fighting secure boot? Secure boot is a GOOD thing. Making sure your BIOS/UEFI and boot loader haven't been tampered with is a GOOD thing. Let's figure a good way to make Linux work with it. I'm glad that Microsoft is taking this attack vector seriously.
Unfortunately, this is incorrect. The folks who modded this up are incorrect also.
Wikipedia is a tertiary source and its articles are primarily based on reliable secondary sources. Primary sources are generally not acceptable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources#Primary.2C_secondary.2C_and_tertiary_sources
If it's a Nakamichi RX-505, then yes.
Don't buy anything with a locked bootloader (that can't be unlocked)
Don't buy anything that requires a non-standard data cable, such as micro USB.
Don't buy anything you can't change your own battery in using much more than a screw driver.
My EVO passes the test, so does my netbook and all the Bluetooth (not Logitech proprietary wireless USB) peripherals.
Micro-USB is a standard that replaces the now-deprecated mini-USB. Micro-USB is a far more durable connector.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_usb#Mini_and_Micro_connectors
I find it interesting that "police not doing their jobs" is a universal problem. That's something that has always bothered me. Unless it's a violent or significant crime, the police just aren't interested. I guess it's similar in the UK (I'm in the US).
Wrong. The sales tax is always broken out (not hidden like in many European countries). In the various places I've lived in California, sales tax between 6.75%-8.75%. Various states across the US have different sales tax rates typically ranging from 0-9%.
Even our friends are trying to steal our secrets. Israel and other allies routinely try to reverse-engineer defense systems we sell to them.
China, North Korea, terrorists, etc. would very much like to benefit at our expense.
The boogeyman you refer to is real. You can choose to live in your idealistic world if it makes you feel better. The reality is that the threats are real and journalists should not have the right to reveal classified information.
Classified information saves lives and keeps our country safe. Is our government right all the time? No, but I trust it a hell of a lot more than I trust ignorant fools like yourself. If you had your way, we would cease to exist as the United States -- we'd be overrun by our enemies. Get a clue and read up on your history!
Your post is excellent. The fact that you were modded troll speaks to the ignorance and narrow-mindedness that runs rampant within the Slashdot community. There is a reason why I assign +3 to troll and flamebait posts. Often, these are the most interesting and intelligent!
posted by someone who traveled to 2010 directly from 1992.
I can't believe how many "serious" answers this post has received -- or how it was accepted to the front page of Slashdot!
E-mail is, for all intents and purposes, like a postcard: it is sent in the open for anyone to read. Are postcards off-limits from the 4th amendment? Surely, if there was some threat to the government made on a postcard that a postal-service employee could read, action would be taken.
The solution is to encrypt e-mail that is sensitive.
why is water wet?
I wish I had mod points. I'd mod this post funny!
The government funds lots of research. What about SBIRs?
http://www.sbir.gov/
Are you running an ethernet network? STP is not for ethernet; it has 150 ohm impedence. You should use FTP if you need shielding.
The connectors may have been poor quality, but STP isn't for ethernet anyway. It has 150 ohm impedence instead of 50 ohm. You should use UTP or FTP (if you need shielding) for ethernet.
I consider this a feature, not a fault. In my opinion, anti-aliasing only serves to make text fuzzy and less readable -- even on LCDs.
GTK+ is damned slow. The file manager, Nautilus, has nothing to do with GTK+. Compare a GTK+ v2.0 app to a GTK+ v1.0 app. The GTK+ v1.0 app is orders of magnitude faster.
GTK+ has dog-slow performance. This is common knowledge. The developers are more interested in wiz-bang features than quality high-performance software.
I agree as well -- I guess it's not so much the disagree e-mails themselves, but the commentary. Please don't take this personally, samzenpus, but your commentary is terrible.
What would be very interesting to me are the responses that the Slashdot folks sent to in response to the "disagree" mail. I would be fascinated by that.
I also consider Diablo 2 one of the greatest games of all time and I can't wait for Diablo III. I hate FPS games and the adventure game genre is dead. I have no interest in MMORGs, so that leaves the Diablo!
As for your comment, wasn't Diablo 2 better than Diablo? Wasn't WC II better than WC? Wasn't StarCraft better than WC II? Why do you think that Blizzard will fail with Diablo III?
Thank you for providing such an accurate view of Mac OS X and Apple; my experience with OS X is the same as yours. We don't get that much around here on Slashdot. It's too bad the zealots had to mod you troll. I'd mod your post insightful if I had any mod points.
If you're talking about the Internet 5-10 years ago, yes, you have a point. You may not have used the Internet lately. It is SLOW, broadband or not! There are about 2 websites that you can "click a link and not know what happened": Google and Craigslist. Almost everything else is horrible.
Back in 1996 before the Internet was clogged up with crap, pages loaded instantly with broadband. Now, I'm stuck waiting 30 seconds or more for virtually any website. It's pathetic. How can dial-up users stand it? I can't even stand it WITH broadband. I remember when websites would load relatively quickly on a 56K modem. Even on the T3 at work, pages load at a snails pace today.