You would pay $5 a Banana or Apple so that "american" workers can do it?
Do you really think a person can only pick two fruits per hour? Because that's what would be necessary for prices to have to go up that high as a result of paying the fruit pickers the legal minimum wage. Seriously, do the math.
The sad, simple fact is that you can't fix stupid. No matter how much you try to educate the end user, they don't seem to listen. If Joe Public wasn't so uneducated about it the problem would go away entirely.
We could fix all 7,000,000,000 people in existence, or we could just fix all 3 operating systems that anyone uses. Which is more practical?
The problem is that current OSes make it very easy to install software and give it full privileges, and very hard to install software and give it only limited privileges such that it can't cause you harm (in both Windows and *nix, you have to create a new user account for it, but Windows is worst because most programs can't even be installed unless you're running as administrator)
Reverse the difficulty, and malware relying on "user stupidity" would pretty much disappear.
It's a minor update: just like they didn't keep updating 4.0 when 4.0.1 came out, they don't keep updating 4.0.1 when 4.0.2 came out. But for marketing reasons, they decided that 4.0.2 would be called "5.0".
Most people seem to have this mindset that using RAM is bad, and the more memory you have free and unused the faster your computer will be. These are the same people who think they're increasing their computer's performance by turning off superfetch, etc.The problem with this perception is that it's completely stupid.
Programs load data into memory because memory is fast and your disk and the network are significantly slower; hundreds or thousands of times slower, and pointlessly unloading the data from memory increases the risk of having to go back to the slower disk or network to retrieve it later. If you still have RAM available, it is actually detrimental to your system performance to free this data.
If it were possible for programs to allocate caches that work like the filesystem cache, where old items get discarded automatically to make room for anything more important, then this would make sense. But in real life, when a program written with that "unused memory is wasted memory" philosophy has filled up RAM and you start another program, the first program will have to go to the swapfile. Return to it later and it'll take forever to become usable again, while it gets re-loaded 4kB at a time. (I'll usually just kill the firefox.exe process and restart it when this happens, because that's actually faster)
If you think Apple software is inherently secure, read up on some of the past Pwn2Own contests.
Don't kid yourself - the only reason OS X doesn't have much malware (yet) is that Windows is used by far more people and is therefore a juicier target.
The few people who found out about bitcoin back in 2009 were able to mine a very significant percentage of all the bitcoins that will ever be created, just because there was no competition yet (back then you could create a block with on average 4 billion sha-256 hashes; now it's about a quadrillion). If they hold on to their bitcoins, and bitcoin trading becomes big, they'll be filthy rich just because they found the website before slashdot did.
I'll be staying away from doing any bitcoin transactions. Humanity does not need any more undeserving elites.
I care that my tax dollars are going to be used to keep people in this country's expensive prisons just to benefit a select few corporations. You can boycott the RIAA/MPAA all you want, but you can't boycott the IRS.
IP laws basically state that ideas are private property and can be traded just like any other type of private property.
Physical property: If you build a car, you own it. If I independently build my own car, I own that one. Intellectual property: If you come up with an idea, you can patent it and thus own it. If I independently come up with the same idea, the government lets you sue me.
None that you know about. You can hide a lot in a closed-source binary.
The only "security" iOS has is that you have to shell out $100/year to be a developer. Gives great protection against hobbyist programmers, does absolutely nothing against the Russian mafia.
This might have been a good point in 1987, but today most serious malware spreads by exploiting bugs in legitimate software. Why rely on the user to run your evil program manually when buffer overflows and such are so abundant?
Having an "execute bit" doesn't do anything to stop that (unless you mark all your programs non-executable, of course; that'll make sure you're secure;))
Guess what, America? If someone else is willing to do your job for a quarter of what you are, well, they are going to get the job and you aren't going to.
I would gladly do the job of the CEO of Goldman Sachs for one hundredth of his (8-figure) pay.
But it doesn't work that way, does it? The ruling class doesn't have to worry about losing their own "jobs", simply because they're the ones calling the shots. Capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich; that's what we have in this country.
That's what you get for pricing yourselves out of the market.
Yes, clearly it's all our fault that a Chinese or Indian salary won't even pay the rent here. Do you seriously believe that in America, a worker gets to set the price of all the things he needs to live?
America has made it's choice
The tiny portion of Americans who control the country have made their choice. The rest of us get to suffer the consequences.
The two photos were taken 0.363 seconds apart, and showed an average speed of 35 mph. If you think the tickets, which alleged he hit 50 mph, could still be valid, you're saying his car is capable of accelerating from 20 mph to 50 mph in those 0.363 seconds, which is equivalent to 0 to 60 in 0.726 seconds. Now that's one damn fast car!
Why is it that this is common knowledge on/., yet this seems never to end up on the nightly news shows?
The corporate media isn't going to educate the masses about our system of legalized corruption, because they benefit from it more than anyone. Not only are they giving bribes (and get laws like the DMCA passed in return), but they are also indirectly a beneficiary of them (expensive campaigns = more demand for TV advertising time = more money for the media co.'s)
According to the page that was linked to, 2.5x does have a redesigned GUI. They use an unconventional version number scheme where 2.50-2.52 were alpha versions and 2.53-2.56 were beta, which explains why such a major change seems to have appeared with a minor version number update - it didn't, but you probably never used the 2.50-2.56 versions.
The 80386 and 68020 didn't have any caches to speak of. Put 16,384 of them together and you'll find yourself several orders of magnitude short of the DRAM bandwidth necessary to keep them occupied.
we'll have an executive order giving the government the authority to wiretap your brain and read your thoughts at any time. Without needing a warrant. They'll say it's justified by the threat of terrorism, as usual.
Of course not - the ignorant masses don't know what IPv6 is yet, so companies will sell IPv4-only devices as long as possible. In a couple years, they will be obsolete and useless, and the masses will have to throw them away and buy new ones. Why would you let someone buy your product only once when you can force them to buy it twice?
It's not always the users fault, but if they download and click on NataliePortmanHotGritsXXX.jpeg.exe and the device obeys them, there's only so much that can be done.
Here's the question that doesn't get asked nearly often enough: Why should running an.exe automatically hand over complete control of the device to it on a silver platter?
The ability to run programs with limited privileges has existed in microcomputers since 1982. (Yes, the Intel 80286 with "protected mode".) But OS programmers have completely failed to make effective use of it. Instead, they just let any program access any file, and blame the user for the inevitable plague of malware. It's somewhat like the situation in parts of the US with the famously ineffective "abstinence-only" sex education. People want to (have sex | run programs), technology exists to make it safer, but the establishment prefers NOT to (teach about | implement) it and instead tell people how they're (going to hell | idiots) for their desires.
Capitalism naturally weeds out situations that are unsatisfactory to the consumer. If you don't like your ISP with its two-tier Internet approach, use another. If there are no other options, assuming there is no government-imposed monopoly in place, then petition companies to start offering service in your area. If enough people get pissed off with poor service then other companies will jump at the chance to fill the void.
99% of people are ignorant. When they see YouTube videos loading at dial-up speeds, they won't realize it's because it's being throttled - the media certainly won't tell them, especially NBC (now a subsidiary of Comcast). They'll just assume Google's servers suck and decide to instead watch some corporate-approved content at Hulu or something.
The 1% of internet users who are savvy enough to know what's going on are an insignificant speck to capitalists. The costs of building last-mile Internet infrastructure are huge enough to ensure that no business will ever try to get in there unless they can expect to control a big fraction of the market.
Capitalism is vulnerable to tyranny of the ignorant.
No no, that's all wrong. Let me show you how it's done:
"I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Apple co-founder/CEO Steve Jobs was found dead in his California home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular computing. Truly an American icon."
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Do you really think a person can only pick two fruits per hour? Because that's what would be necessary for prices to have to go up that high as a result of paying the fruit pickers the legal minimum wage. Seriously, do the math.
We could fix all 7,000,000,000 people in existence, or we could just fix all 3 operating systems that anyone uses. Which is more practical?
The problem is that current OSes make it very easy to install software and give it full privileges, and very hard to install software and give it only limited privileges such that it can't cause you harm (in both Windows and *nix, you have to create a new user account for it, but Windows is worst because most programs can't even be installed unless you're running as administrator)
Reverse the difficulty, and malware relying on "user stupidity" would pretty much disappear.
It's a minor update: just like they didn't keep updating 4.0 when 4.0.1 came out, they don't keep updating 4.0.1 when 4.0.2 came out. But for marketing reasons, they decided that 4.0.2 would be called "5.0".
If it were possible for programs to allocate caches that work like the filesystem cache, where old items get discarded automatically to make room for anything more important, then this would make sense. But in real life, when a program written with that "unused memory is wasted memory" philosophy has filled up RAM and you start another program, the first program will have to go to the swapfile. Return to it later and it'll take forever to become usable again, while it gets re-loaded 4kB at a time. (I'll usually just kill the firefox.exe process and restart it when this happens, because that's actually faster)
That's all well and good in a corporate environment, but do you really expect every home user to have his own personal IT department?
If you think Apple software is inherently secure, read up on some of the past Pwn2Own contests.
Don't kid yourself - the only reason OS X doesn't have much malware (yet) is that Windows is used by far more people and is therefore a juicier target.
The few people who found out about bitcoin back in 2009 were able to mine a very significant percentage of all the bitcoins that will ever be created, just because there was no competition yet (back then you could create a block with on average 4 billion sha-256 hashes; now it's about a quadrillion). If they hold on to their bitcoins, and bitcoin trading becomes big, they'll be filthy rich just because they found the website before slashdot did.
I'll be staying away from doing any bitcoin transactions. Humanity does not need any more undeserving elites.
I care that my tax dollars are going to be used to keep people in this country's expensive prisons just to benefit a select few corporations. You can boycott the RIAA/MPAA all you want, but you can't boycott the IRS.
Physical property: If you build a car, you own it. If I independently build my own car, I own that one.
Intellectual property: If you come up with an idea, you can patent it and thus own it. If I independently come up with the same idea, the government lets you sue me.
Yeah, no difference whatsoever.
YouTube isn't large enough for you?
None that you know about. You can hide a lot in a closed-source binary.
The only "security" iOS has is that you have to shell out $100/year to be a developer. Gives great protection against hobbyist programmers, does absolutely nothing against the Russian mafia.
Or, we could bring back what we used to have before the globalists took over circa 1970 and the standard of living here stopped growing: tariffs.
Although, I suppose throwing the globalists out to do that would probably require an armed revolution too.
This might have been a good point in 1987, but today most serious malware spreads by exploiting bugs in legitimate software. Why rely on the user to run your evil program manually when buffer overflows and such are so abundant?
Having an "execute bit" doesn't do anything to stop that (unless you mark all your programs non-executable, of course; that'll make sure you're secure ;))
I would gladly do the job of the CEO of Goldman Sachs for one hundredth of his (8-figure) pay.
But it doesn't work that way, does it? The ruling class doesn't have to worry about losing their own "jobs", simply because they're the ones calling the shots. Capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich; that's what we have in this country.
Yes, clearly it's all our fault that a Chinese or Indian salary won't even pay the rent here. Do you seriously believe that in America, a worker gets to set the price of all the things he needs to live?
The tiny portion of Americans who control the country have made their choice. The rest of us get to suffer the consequences.
Of course they're going to make sure the US gets near the top.
The two photos were taken 0.363 seconds apart, and showed an average speed of 35 mph. If you think the tickets, which alleged he hit 50 mph, could still be valid, you're saying his car is capable of accelerating from 20 mph to 50 mph in those 0.363 seconds, which is equivalent to 0 to 60 in 0.726 seconds. Now that's one damn fast car!
The corporate media isn't going to educate the masses about our system of legalized corruption, because they benefit from it more than anyone. Not only are they giving bribes (and get laws like the DMCA passed in return), but they are also indirectly a beneficiary of them (expensive campaigns = more demand for TV advertising time = more money for the media co.'s)
According to the page that was linked to, 2.5x does have a redesigned GUI. They use an unconventional version number scheme where 2.50-2.52 were alpha versions and 2.53-2.56 were beta, which explains why such a major change seems to have appeared with a minor version number update - it didn't, but you probably never used the 2.50-2.56 versions.
The 80386 and 68020 didn't have any caches to speak of. Put 16,384 of them together and you'll find yourself several orders of magnitude short of the DRAM bandwidth necessary to keep them occupied.
That was a different case (in Austria, not New Hampshire); this guy only made $8M.
we'll have an executive order giving the government the authority to wiretap your brain and read your thoughts at any time. Without needing a warrant. They'll say it's justified by the threat of terrorism, as usual.
Of course not - the ignorant masses don't know what IPv6 is yet, so companies will sell IPv4-only devices as long as possible. In a couple years, they will be obsolete and useless, and the masses will have to throw them away and buy new ones. Why would you let someone buy your product only once when you can force them to buy it twice?
It's not always the users fault, but if they download and click on NataliePortmanHotGritsXXX.jpeg.exe and the device obeys them, there's only so much that can be done.
Here's the question that doesn't get asked nearly often enough: Why should running an .exe automatically hand over complete control of the device to it on a silver platter?
The ability to run programs with limited privileges has existed in microcomputers since 1982. (Yes, the Intel 80286 with "protected mode".) But OS programmers have completely failed to make effective use of it. Instead, they just let any program access any file, and blame the user for the inevitable plague of malware. It's somewhat like the situation in parts of the US with the famously ineffective "abstinence-only" sex education. People want to (have sex | run programs), technology exists to make it safer, but the establishment prefers NOT to (teach about | implement) it and instead tell people how they're (going to hell | idiots) for their desires.
Capitalism naturally weeds out situations that are unsatisfactory to the consumer. If you don't like your ISP with its two-tier Internet approach, use another. If there are no other options, assuming there is no government-imposed monopoly in place, then petition companies to start offering service in your area. If enough people get pissed off with poor service then other companies will jump at the chance to fill the void.
99% of people are ignorant. When they see YouTube videos loading at dial-up speeds, they won't realize it's because it's being throttled - the media certainly won't tell them, especially NBC (now a subsidiary of Comcast). They'll just assume Google's servers suck and decide to instead watch some corporate-approved content at Hulu or something.
The 1% of internet users who are savvy enough to know what's going on are an insignificant speck to capitalists. The costs of building last-mile Internet infrastructure are huge enough to ensure that no business will ever try to get in there unless they can expect to control a big fraction of the market.
Capitalism is vulnerable to tyranny of the ignorant.
No no, that's all wrong. Let me show you how it's done:
"I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Apple co-founder/CEO Steve Jobs was found dead in his California home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular computing. Truly an American icon."
Sheesh, trolls these days.