IBM recalled my power supply years ago for a similar problem. Being the lazy bastard that I am, I never bothered to send it in. Being the paranoid bastard that I am, I unplug it when I am not using it.
Other than motivating me to put my stuff away when I am not using it, and saving electricity by not keeping it plugged in (I know it's just a tiny bit, but I live in CA), it hasn't been an issue.
Trust me, if I wrote a nice readable program in all three languages, theres no doubt that it would look nice in the OO languages than perl (especially if I used OO in perl, which BLOWS).
It would look nicest in VB! Not much of a way to judge languages.
Unlike info sharing between companies, law enforcement will not sell the data, spam or make marketing calls during dinnertime.
No, but they will leak the data for free to the media, harass your friends/family/associates and seize your assets. If you are really unlucky, they will just break down your door at 4:00am and shoot you when you reach for the phone to call for help.
Given that the majority of these terrorsts were able to take advantage of exsiting flaws in the protection of privacy to travel under stolen identites, this is complete idiocy.
Poor pricay does not equal greater security. Poor privacy means that authentication becomes more difficult.
Note: part of the reason the fire at WTC was so devistating was that the do-gooder environmentalist whackos stopped the use of asbestos from being used to fireproof the steel columns which supported the structure.
Guess what? Asbestos is much more dangerous than terrorism. It just kills you slower, and allows some corporation to profit from your demise.
The building's chief design engineer is on record as saying that any large fire above the 70th floor would cause failure of the structure due to pancaking caused by lack of adequate fireproofing on the support columns.
Either this is a lie, or faulty design played a part in the collapse. You don't have to be an engineer to figure out that the lower the fire, the more likely the collapse due to the increasing weight on the affected area.
I wanted to bludgeon them for talking the talk but not walking the walk. I didn't and therefore proved I had learned something from the course!
I have doen the same, bBut what kind of lesson is this?. Should we really be teaching students that they should keep their mouths shut when someone isn't pulling their weight? This just seems to reinforce counterproductive work habits on the part of hard workers and slackers.
It's circumstantial, but that's all they would need. And then you get stuck with the legal bills, eh?
I think they would need more. They would need to prove that the software was installed by normal means, and that whatever protections weren't removed (without my knowledge) before I installed it. In the case of FrontPage and their no M$ disparagement policy, they would also have to prove that the person who was using it was the person who installed it.
I don't think they could do any of this without an admission on my part.
Has any M$ EULA ever been tested in court? Or is it just a legal stick that they use to menace people into compliance. Being that they never receive any physical proof that you "accepted" anything, it seems unlikely that they could use it against users.
Sure, it covers them from being sued for faulty software. But is it really a threat to users who "missuse" their products?
The problem is, the average "user" is not an admin. How is such a person going to have the knowledge to set themselves up with a user account to protect them from themselves?
In an OS that is designed to be operated by the average user, isn't the de-facto superuser account always going to be an issue?
Personally, I think the beginning years should be individual work as you learn the basics, and the later years group work. You'll have to find a way to account for each person's abliity though, which isn't easy.
Definitely the way to go. Does it not occur to people that group projects are also where some people learn how to slack off and leech off of their peers? As such, students should have to prove their worth as individuals before they are put into situations where they can just coast.
Seriously, there are few things that annoy me more than receiving a Word document from someone. Rarely, if ever, is there any justification for not simply using a plain old ASCII text file. They are smaller, platform independant and if formatted correctly, no harder to read.
While working in teams is gong to be essential to just about any kind of job, people learn at different paces and in different ways. Working in a team is quite different to learning in a team. It seems to me that teamwork is almost a discipline in and of itself.
I think it is high time that there was a large, organized effort to blow these ridiculous patents out of the water. Its obvious that patent officials and the legal system are not doing enough to stop this kind of abuse. Are there any current, large scale efforts to gather prior art and have these patents revoked? Partucularly as companies like M$ buy up patents to quash competition, it seems like it would be in the best interests of the OS community (and everyone else) to organize a resistance.
This would be yet another way to show the world that OS is on the side of the people.
Consumer technology is routinely seen in foreign markets before the US, especially Japan. (As you acknowledge in the case of cell phones, VCD/SVCD, videogames and household appliances).
The cultural and/or economic reasons for this are immaterial to that fact. I don't suppose any conspiracy on the part of Japan or the US. Japanese consumers are simply willing to pay a premuim for new technology. Americans, for the most part, are not. For that reason, the US market is not on the cutting edge (and by that I mean the most advanced at the earliest inception).
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All right, all right. . .Sheesh.
What are you, the Use-Some-Common-Sense-You-Dumb-Bastard Police?
IBM recalled my power supply years ago for a similar problem. Being the lazy bastard that I am, I never bothered to send it in. Being the paranoid bastard that I am, I unplug it when I am not using it.
Other than motivating me to put my stuff away when I am not using it, and saving electricity by not keeping it plugged in (I know it's just a tiny bit, but I live in CA), it hasn't been an issue.
IBM had one too, not too long ago.
Why the hell do you need your PDA to be an MP3 Player?
Maybe because you want a PDA and an MP3 player, and combining the two is cheaper(?) and saves you the trouble of lugging around both?
Besides the Handspring devices can already do *all* of the stuff you mentioned and more.
Sure, for the same price after you buy all of those dorky modules.
Trust me, if I wrote a nice readable program in all three languages, theres no doubt that it would look nice in the OO languages than perl (especially if I used OO in perl, which BLOWS).
It would look nicest in VB! Not much of a way to judge languages.
Maybe what you say may happen, if you did something wrong.
This is just a re-wording of the old "If you haven't done something wrong, you have nothing to hide."
The fact is that ALL of these things HAVE been done to people who did nothing wrong.
The recognition of the logical extreme of an argument requires the recognition of logic.
Unlike info sharing between companies, law enforcement will not sell the data, spam or make marketing calls during dinnertime.
No, but they will leak the data for free to the media, harass your friends/family/associates and seize your assets. If you are really unlucky, they will just break down your door at 4:00am and shoot you when you reach for the phone to call for help.
Given that the majority of these terrorsts were able to take advantage of exsiting flaws in the protection of privacy to travel under stolen identites, this is complete idiocy.
Poor pricay does not equal greater security. Poor privacy means that authentication becomes more difficult.
Got it. Thanks for the clarification.
Note: part of the reason the fire at WTC was so devistating was that the do-gooder environmentalist whackos stopped the use of asbestos from being used to fireproof the steel columns which supported the structure.
Guess what? Asbestos is much more dangerous than terrorism. It just kills you slower, and allows some corporation to profit from your demise.
The building's chief design engineer is on record as saying that any large fire above the 70th floor would cause failure of the structure due to pancaking caused by lack of adequate fireproofing on the support columns.
Either this is a lie, or faulty design played a part in the collapse. You don't have to be an engineer to figure out that the lower the fire, the more likely the collapse due to the increasing weight on the affected area.
Its called "Walking". There is no possible way you can take down buildings with this new form of travel.
What if you are carrying luggage packed with C4? Or one of these "suitcase nukes" that I keep hearing about?
If these attacks had taken place at street level, even more people would have died.
I wanted to bludgeon them for talking the talk but not walking the walk. I didn't and therefore proved I had learned something from the course!
I have doen the same, bBut what kind of lesson is this?. Should we really be teaching students that they should keep their mouths shut when someone isn't pulling their weight? This just seems to reinforce counterproductive work habits on the part of hard workers and slackers.
It's circumstantial, but that's all they would need. And then you get stuck with the legal bills, eh?
I think they would need more. They would need to prove that the software was installed by normal means, and that whatever protections weren't removed (without my knowledge) before I installed it. In the case of FrontPage and their no M$ disparagement policy, they would also have to prove that the person who was using it was the person who installed it.
I don't think they could do any of this without an admission on my part.
Jupiter is presumed to have no life
'Nuff said.
Has any M$ EULA ever been tested in court? Or is it just a legal stick that they use to menace people into compliance. Being that they never receive any physical proof that you "accepted" anything, it seems unlikely that they could use it against users.
Sure, it covers them from being sued for faulty software. But is it really a threat to users who "missuse" their products?
The problem is, the average "user" is not an admin. How is such a person going to have the knowledge to set themselves up with a user account to protect them from themselves?
In an OS that is designed to be operated by the average user, isn't the de-facto superuser account always going to be an issue?
&, #, 0-9, and ; are all ASCII characters, and those are the only characters I use in my .sig!
(yeah, yeah, you're right about UTF-8 beating ASCII).
Not really, since the "ideograms" must be composed of ASCII characters to appear in a .sig (as far as I know).
Personally, I think the beginning years should be individual work as you learn the basics, and the later years group work. You'll have to find a way to account for each person's abliity though, which isn't easy.
Definitely the way to go. Does it not occur to people that group projects are also where some people learn how to slack off and leech off of their peers? As such, students should have to prove their worth as individuals before they are put into situations where they can just coast.
Seriously, there are few things that annoy me more than receiving a Word document from someone. Rarely, if ever, is there any justification for not simply using a plain old ASCII text file. They are smaller, platform independant and if formatted correctly, no harder to read.
While working in teams is gong to be essential to just about any kind of job, people learn at different paces and in different ways. Working in a team is quite different to learning in a team. It seems to me that teamwork is almost a discipline in and of itself.
I think it is high time that there was a large, organized effort to blow these ridiculous patents out of the water. Its obvious that patent officials and the legal system are not doing enough to stop this kind of abuse. Are there any current, large scale efforts to gather prior art and have these patents revoked? Partucularly as companies like M$ buy up patents to quash competition, it seems like it would be in the best interests of the OS community (and everyone else) to organize a resistance.
This would be yet another way to show the world that OS is on the side of the people.
I think my point was fairly simply stated:
Consumer technology is routinely seen in foreign markets before the US, especially Japan. (As you acknowledge in the case of cell phones, VCD/SVCD, videogames and household appliances).
The cultural and/or economic reasons for this are immaterial to that fact. I don't suppose any conspiracy on the part of Japan or the US. Japanese consumers are simply willing to pay a premuim for new technology. Americans, for the most part, are not. For that reason, the US market is not on the cutting edge (and by that I mean the most advanced at the earliest inception).