Hmmm. It seems whenever there's a posting about companies moving jobs overseas (usually to India) there are a bajillion comments to be made. One of the more interesting things that is always said a hundred times is "where do we get off as Americans thinking we're entitled to xyz".
This is interesting because I can't recall being that much of an apologist for the US since I was a teenager, and I wonder if that's where these comments are coming from? Surely a working adult wouldn't sponsor the idea of their sector moving jobs to another country? Where does this attitude come from? "Please, take my neighbor's job and give it to that poor man in India. Poor, poor Indian man. Here, have my sandwich, too."
OK I'm being silly but there's a point here somewhere.
It's OK to feel a little guilty about having more than someone else I guess, but I think that should clearly stop at the borders of your nation. It's literally dog-eat-dog when you're dealing with other nations, there's no room for mercy or pity or guilt. Nations make war. There's not a policeman (not the UN, nor the US) to seek justice or to help get something back if it's stolen by a nation. It's a big, bad world out there. Genocide is carried out everyday in parts of it.
Conclusion: regarding international affairs, be it the exportation of jobs or unsavory military actions, if it's us or them, I choose us.
Don't give them any ideas. This is exactly this kind of crap they will implement in lieu of fixing security and other bugs. Heck, I bet it's already on the plate for longhorn. I can't imagine a world where microsoft wouldn't be all over this.
You should be aware that this culture of consumer ignorance has long been tolerated and even fostered by Microsoft. Maybe that's because educated consumers would be a threat, maybe not. But the fisher-price interface of XP would seem to indicate the direction Microsoft wants its users to go.
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The Doom movie is still in the pipeline (has been for years).
So totally not the same. The whitehat is closing & locking an open door you didn't even know you had and then leaving. He's not breaking things, not nailing things, I mean really, why is the "slippery slope" theory always applied to everything on this site...
The article, while dead-on in some respects, is entirely of a sarcastic and humorous nature. No one is attempting to get you to "cite this" for a paper. If the tittie-slapping didn't tip you off, the penis jokes should have. I swear to god, you people must be the idiots that keep the Simpsons on the air, lo these many years after it stopped being funny.
The article neglects to mention that the jokes were usually something-somethings-YOU, and were basically references to the harshness of the soviet government or way of life (as affected by the govt). And of course that they were meant to be funny, which the example is apparently not.
Man I spent a week trying to get X to work on a new compaq back in 2000, eventually gave up. Of course that was red hat 5.2 or something, but the point is laptops always have the most closed, mega-proprietary hardware, which even windows users can have trouble finding drivers for should they choose to upgrade or whatever. So don't get too frustrated with yourself or linux.
Assuming this worm is propagating via email or something, it didn't zap your linksys router. The router will just keep connections from coming in, once you have the worm it's a matter of keeping connections from going out, and that's where you really need a firewall of some kind.
Now, if the worm only propagates through the RPC flaw, it doesn't make any sense that your wife would have picked it up while connected thru the router. Unless of course she has having some other unrelated problem first, called DSL help, and they had her connect to the modem directly like good little robots...
Companies will not want to buy expensive things that have no value, i.e., can't be resold. They may go open-source or they may go to another vendor but I just can't see people buying big-ticket stuff with no intrinsic value in this era of pennypinching. Unless of course they are completely ignorant of trends like this, but only a PHB would.... oh yeah. Right. Never mind.
It's not unreasonable to expect 5X when it says 5X right there prominently on the box, and when the throughput is supposed to be about 5 times as much (11 vs 54).
In my situation (all linksys equip, all G, two feet away for testing) I only get about twice what I used to with B, which was of course already much less than advertised. I can accept that 11 doesn't mean 11, but I can't as readily accept that 54 doesn't mean ~5x whatever-11-is.
I'm thinking they should just have a different labeling system for these things. Perhaps rated in terms of a standard 10mbps NIC, because 11mbps and 54mbps are certainly misleading considering how much bandwidth they give compared to the 10mbps NIC.
Reminds me of when I worked for compaq tech support back in the day and the official line was "There is no MS-DOS 7.0, there is only Windows 95. Rebooting into DOS mode is just that - a mode of Windows 95." Man whatta load of crap. But I guess it was true "from a certain point of view."
I agree, the whole plea bargain thing should be done away with. Either they have the goods on you or they don't, and you should either take the rap or not. Plea bargaining may save the system resources but it also creates a huge hole in the system for (a) innocents to fall into, and (b) actual criminals to slip through to lighter sentences. And of course, once you plea you are forever guilty - innocent people don't cop, as they say. The whole thing stinks.
I read what the guy said and it's mostly FUD and sour grapes. Bottom line, yEnc is here to stay until it gets replaced, and moaning about it and trying to convince users not to use it is a futile exercise.
Now when the new "standard" comes (whenever that happens, it's been coming for a while now which is why yEnc filled the void in the first place) developers will be able to actively promote that standard within their programs with little effort. Setting it as the default, explaining why it is the default when they go to change it, etc. And a true standard will be implemented much more thoroughly than yEnc has been, so people should be able to upgrade their newsreaders without switching software (as I had to do for yEnc, and thankfully so because XNews is way better than Agent was anyway). But they will still bitch and moan as they always have, because the majority of binary NG non-posters are total babies about everything.
It seems there's a bit of a war going on since the advent of yEnc - OE users (and others with non-yEnc compliant newsreaders) don't want to ditch it and so they flame people who post binaries in yEnc format instead of UU or whatever, who in turn flame back. There's like photoshopped insults and everything.
Ummmm, "with purchase of hardware" is what makes it comply with the license agreement.
From MS' OEM System Builder license:...provided it is distributed accompanied with either a fully assembled computer system or nonperipheral computer hardware component (that will be an integral part of the computer system on which the Software Unit will be installed).
Before you go patting Apple's ass too much, remember that (duh) they have total control over all the variables, and thus will have less difficulty rolling out just about any solution to their entire user base.
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i'm with this guy, it was like that lame Andromeda series without the cheap sci-fi "music".
Hmmm. It seems whenever there's a posting about companies moving jobs overseas (usually to India) there are a bajillion comments to be made. One of the more interesting things that is always said a hundred times is "where do we get off as Americans thinking we're entitled to xyz".
This is interesting because I can't recall being that much of an apologist for the US since I was a teenager, and I wonder if that's where these comments are coming from? Surely a working adult wouldn't sponsor the idea of their sector moving jobs to another country? Where does this attitude come from? "Please, take my neighbor's job and give it to that poor man in India. Poor, poor Indian man. Here, have my sandwich, too."
OK I'm being silly but there's a point here somewhere.
It's OK to feel a little guilty about having more than someone else I guess, but I think that should clearly stop at the borders of your nation. It's literally dog-eat-dog when you're dealing with other nations, there's no room for mercy or pity or guilt. Nations make war. There's not a policeman (not the UN, nor the US) to seek justice or to help get something back if it's stolen by a nation. It's a big, bad world out there. Genocide is carried out everyday in parts of it.
Conclusion: regarding international affairs, be it the exportation of jobs or unsavory military actions, if it's us or them, I choose us.
Don't give them any ideas. This is exactly this kind of crap they will implement in lieu of fixing security and other bugs. Heck, I bet it's already on the plate for longhorn. I can't imagine a world where microsoft wouldn't be all over this.
You should be aware that this culture of consumer ignorance has long been tolerated and even fostered by Microsoft. Maybe that's because educated consumers would be a threat, maybe not. But the fisher-price interface of XP would seem to indicate the direction Microsoft wants its users to go.
The Doom movie is still in the pipeline (has been for years).
Haven't seen it but there's no way it's worse than Nothing But Trouble, which is beyond stupefying in concept and execution.
So totally not the same. The whitehat is closing & locking an open door you didn't even know you had and then leaving. He's not breaking things, not nailing things, I mean really, why is the "slippery slope" theory always applied to everything on this site...
The article, while dead-on in some respects, is entirely of a sarcastic and humorous nature. No one is attempting to get you to "cite this" for a paper. If the tittie-slapping didn't tip you off, the penis jokes should have. I swear to god, you people must be the idiots that keep the Simpsons on the air, lo these many years after it stopped being funny.
Somebody needs to tell the economy the recession is over, lol etc.
The article neglects to mention that the jokes were usually something-somethings-YOU, and were basically references to the harshness of the soviet government or way of life (as affected by the govt). And of course that they were meant to be funny, which the example is apparently not.
Man I spent a week trying to get X to work on a new compaq back in 2000, eventually gave up. Of course that was red hat 5.2 or something, but the point is laptops always have the most closed, mega-proprietary hardware, which even windows users can have trouble finding drivers for should they choose to upgrade or whatever. So don't get too frustrated with yourself or linux.
No shit. Windows is fun and games and all but running an ATM is taking it too far.
Ummmm, windows update is windowsupdate.microsoft.com, so why should microsoft give a rat's ass?
Assuming this worm is propagating via email or something, it didn't zap your linksys router. The router will just keep connections from coming in, once you have the worm it's a matter of keeping connections from going out, and that's where you really need a firewall of some kind.
Now, if the worm only propagates through the RPC flaw, it doesn't make any sense that your wife would have picked it up while connected thru the router. Unless of course she has having some other unrelated problem first, called DSL help, and they had her connect to the modem directly like good little robots...
Companies will not want to buy expensive things that have no value, i.e., can't be resold. They may go open-source or they may go to another vendor but I just can't see people buying big-ticket stuff with no intrinsic value in this era of pennypinching. Unless of course they are completely ignorant of trends like this, but only a PHB would.... oh yeah. Right. Never mind.
It's not unreasonable to expect 5X when it says 5X right there prominently on the box, and when the throughput is supposed to be about 5 times as much (11 vs 54).
In my situation (all linksys equip, all G, two feet away for testing) I only get about twice what I used to with B, which was of course already much less than advertised. I can accept that 11 doesn't mean 11, but I can't as readily accept that 54 doesn't mean ~5x whatever-11-is.
I'm thinking they should just have a different labeling system for these things. Perhaps rated in terms of a standard 10mbps NIC, because 11mbps and 54mbps are certainly misleading considering how much bandwidth they give compared to the 10mbps NIC.
Reminds me of when I worked for compaq tech support back in the day and the official line was "There is no MS-DOS 7.0, there is only Windows 95. Rebooting into DOS mode is just that - a mode of Windows 95." Man whatta load of crap. But I guess it was true "from a certain point of view."
I agree, the whole plea bargain thing should be done away with. Either they have the goods on you or they don't, and you should either take the rap or not. Plea bargaining may save the system resources but it also creates a huge hole in the system for (a) innocents to fall into, and (b) actual criminals to slip through to lighter sentences. And of course, once you plea you are forever guilty - innocent people don't cop, as they say. The whole thing stinks.
I read what the guy said and it's mostly FUD and sour grapes. Bottom line, yEnc is here to stay until it gets replaced, and moaning about it and trying to convince users not to use it is a futile exercise.
Now when the new "standard" comes (whenever that happens, it's been coming for a while now which is why yEnc filled the void in the first place) developers will be able to actively promote that standard within their programs with little effort. Setting it as the default, explaining why it is the default when they go to change it, etc. And a true standard will be implemented much more thoroughly than yEnc has been, so people should be able to upgrade their newsreaders without switching software (as I had to do for yEnc, and thankfully so because XNews is way better than Agent was anyway). But they will still bitch and moan as they always have, because the majority of binary NG non-posters are total babies about everything.
It seems there's a bit of a war going on since the advent of yEnc - OE users (and others with non-yEnc compliant newsreaders) don't want to ditch it and so they flame people who post binaries in yEnc format instead of UU or whatever, who in turn flame back. There's like photoshopped insults and everything.
Man I had the same deal in physics 101 or whatever. Wound up with a grade of 20, which was a D with the curve.
if that's what happened to Metallica's new CD. Because man it is hard to take.
Ummmm, "with purchase of hardware" is what makes it comply with the license agreement.
...provided it is distributed accompanied with either a fully assembled computer system or nonperipheral computer hardware component (that will be an integral part of the computer system on which the Software Unit will be installed).
From MS' OEM System Builder license:
Before you go patting Apple's ass too much, remember that (duh) they have total control over all the variables, and thus will have less difficulty rolling out just about any solution to their entire user base.
I feel like I should mention that session cookies don't even get written to disk, so does this law affect them?