Any piece of hardware can have a backdoor in it, really. If anything, you're probably safer buying the system all in one piece
Alternately, always buy the fastest hardware available. Because if they're locked in a neck and neck battle for speed (think Intel versus AMD), they're not going to waste cycles or transistor real estate on backdoors.
Do you want to require librarians to keep a constant watch over their routers, protecting them from teenagers with paperclips?
Do they lock their fusebox?? Routers should be locked away to, if they're in a public area. As newer buildings are built that account for networking, this should be less of a problem. For now, just stick it in the ceiling is often an effective solution.
But I do agree that a button that only resets the password is asking for trouble. Hell, any time I change ANY setting on my router it resets. Although it's usually not all that noticeable.
I thought about it and realized the reason they DON'T do this in the stories is because then they could probably be sued for intentionally lying about the referrer. Whereas if posters do it, it's their responsibility.
That sounds like cold-war era propoganda to me. Do you have any evidence that this is the case?
Just common sense. The world economy works on trade, because no one place has all the elements they need (well, need is subjective) to live at their current level.
If one country decides to work less, they produce less, their trade deficit goes up, and eventually they run out of money because they're ignoring progress. Essentially they devalue themselves.
This would only work if:
a) everyone changed b) you found an area where a certain number of people could become completely self supporting and isolated.
The country is full of people who are raised and educated into belief that everyone else is responsible for their well-being. Ok, you are not one of them, and if you fall it's your pain.
It's just on Segway you have more people to sue. And often you have to do that, because the treatment of the injuries will cost you a lot of money.
Solution to both these problems - move to Canada. That's why I don't have them.
Accidents and lawsuits were already mentioned, and anyone who pays for the tour definitely expects some level of safety.
I've personally rented mountain bikes and snowshoes at Mt. Tremblant (in different seasons, of course), and was aware that I might hurt myself doing so. And probably signed a waiver to that effect. This could easily be similar....it's a CHOICE.
Yes, however most deposit tickets have your account number on them in magnetic ink. No need to reenter.
Most banks in Canada did away with the deposit tickets long ago. What ScotiaBank does now is have you swipe your card and enter your PIN whenever you go to a teller. Which is a bit of a pain, but solves this problem.
As someone pointed out, you missed TD Canada Trust (until recently two banks). There's also National Bank, and Laurentian (which again was recently acquired by another bank, but still has some locations open under that name).
And we even get stuff like Ethical Funds. Who aren't even the one I was looking for that offers a similar service.
They screwed up and tarnished your reputation -- aren't they big enough to take responsibility for their mistakes?
Exactly. My roommates work for a small auction house, and the owners were in the Dominican (!) when all the paycheques bounced. Causing rent cheques to bounce, etc., etc.
Luckily they came back, fixed the problem, and paid everyone's fees.
Basically, the goal of computing is to mimic and make easier real-life processes. The spreadsheet has no real-life corollary, whereas Java and specifically the Object Oriented paradigm model the real world to a T.
Not to flame...but you sound like a very, very recent OOP convert.
The goal of computing is NOT necessarily to mimic and make easier real-life processes. Look at Tetris. Does that have any real-life equivalent, blinkenlights notwithstanding?
And OOP is really bad (or at least awkward and inefficient) for modelling certain classes of problem.
AmiPro was consistently the best reviewed word processor, then Lotus bought it, destroyed the code base, and started over with WordPro. Which bit large.
AFAIK they didn't develop it, but they definitely buried it.
It gets switched off in the very dialog box I described. My Computer->Properties->Advanced->Settings. Are you trolling?
As I mentioned I've only ever used XP on semi-public terminals, so I never knew about and never tried that. We were also locked out of a lot of 'advanced' settings, so it's quite possible I couldn't even get to it.
Regardless, the fact remains that even the default file views themselves slow things down, reading meta data and in many cases image data from the files.
He does seem to have all the personality and focus of my left shoe though. You'd think the Democrats could have found someone more enticing, what with everything at stake and all for them.
Dean showed a little bit too much personality, and lost all credibility for it. The American (and Canadian, for that matter) political system discourages personality, as it might offend people. Like mainstream beer - it's had all the flavours removed, in case someone doesn't like one of them.
Unforunately, most software licenses have a clause along the lines of "not warranted for suitability for any purpose, including, but not limited to, that for which software is sold".
Well, get together with your friends and pay someone to write some software they WILL warranty. But be prepared to stick to one hardware platform, for instance.
Just think about the software in a car, or an appliance, or a PS2, for that matter.
What would you change in Folder properties? Nice specifics there, pal.
Speaking as someone who had to login in to XP computers at school constantly, that would not save settings between logins, there's quite a bit that annoyed me (I'm a steadfast 2000 user, and tweak it to look as much like 98 as possible).
Problems with folders: - that damn preview pane that takes up all kinds of space, and slows things to a crawl when you've had the window open in many directories over a period of time. - use multiple windows is the default for folders - do not show extensions by default (had a lot of students break their submitted assignments because of this). Not to mention show system files and hidden files. - icon view by default. I can think of very few cases where the detailed list is not the most useful view - I like to sort my mp3s by date when looking for the newest ones to put on my mp3 player. XP by default shows the ID3 information, and no date.
And that's just off the top of my head. You can argue that Gnome/KDE do similar things, but the preview pane and ID3 thing specifically DO have a large performance hit on large directories. And doesn't the icon view try and make icons of all graphic files by default as well? *shudder*
You forgot the most important -- storing two copies of firmware means either a) more money spent on flash that is used so very infrequently or b) less memory for cutesy ringtones or another lame-ass game.
I think you missed the point of storing it in ROM. i.e. READ ONLY memory. Cheap, and useless for anything other than reading its stored image. This is a fairly common feature in routers, motherboards, and many other flashable devices.
I was lucky it didn't wreck my credit rating, but it has become much more of a hassle for me to get a new credit card now. This sort of thing is not a minor inconvenience, it's a major problem, and it can become a devastating problem. You don't want this to happen to you, even if you don't have any money in your account.
Can't you take them to civil court, or at least to the BBB?? Hell, if they continue to jerk you off, take it to Dateline.
About a year ago I had a huge problem getting my school to communicate my registration status to my bank, in order to continue interest free status on my student loan. They both claimed they couldn't fix it, so eventually I got the University ombudsman involved. A week or so later, problem solved, all interest paid back.
Avenues do exist to deal with this sort of thing. Although I agree its not pleasant.
On a side note, every credit card I've gotten in Canada has usually come in a separate envelope than the PIN. And to activate it I have to phone them from the phone number on the account. Hell, they even once put a hold on my account when I changed my address incorrectly and a statement bounced. Who were you dealing with?
Orthoganal seems superfluous to me - Essentially it says that the code patterns will be chosen so that no two transmitters overlap (for lack of a better laymans explanation).
Are you sure you know what OFDM is? It basically involves overlapping signals on a series of overlapping frequencies, but with different intensities at different frequencies. And each channels set of intensities is orthagonal to each other. Which makes the 'O' decidely non-redundant, as this is hardly traditional FDMA. Think of it as CDMA peformed on an FFT.
Your description of CDMA left a little to be desired as well, but its hard to express laymanwise, I agree.
For the record, I never had a problem downloading Mandrake ISOs pre bittorrent. And no more than usual downloading individual files for the full CD. And no problems using BitTorrnet. And there's nowhere near 50% of windows users paying for Mandrake. And the urpmi update sources are awesome, with a little help from the PLF.
You can always download JUST the new kernel from any mirror. You are full of crap. Maybe you only have enough disk space for 98% of the ISO??
A housekeeper, wrinkled shirts, the t-shirt, the golf shirt, permanent press and diligent hanging, less restrictive dress codes for men.
I went to a catholic high school, and although my mother likes ironing (!) many people just put their shirt on a hanger in the bathroom while they showered. Wrinkles gone. Wow.
We're talking about a collapse of the global economy and a return to a way of living that can't support the global population. Famine, disease, abject poverty, devistating wars, genocide. A return to a feudal economy, a breakdown of our civilization and another dark age for my children and grandchildren to live in.
What, you mean like in Africa, and to some extent Asia?? Ahhh, equality.
How about the fact that the 'waste' being used to make oil, could otherwise be used as natural fertilizer?? You're still taking energy out of the system. And have to replace it with synthetic fuel at some point.
I was all happy about the biodiesel thing, then my roommate (a Communications Engineering who grew up on a farm) pointed out that bio 'waste' isn't actually wasted, generally.
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Any piece of hardware can have a backdoor in it, really. If anything, you're probably safer buying the system all in one piece
Alternately, always buy the fastest hardware available. Because if they're locked in a neck and neck battle for speed (think Intel versus AMD), they're not going to waste cycles or transistor real estate on backdoors.
Do you want to require librarians to keep a constant watch over their routers, protecting them from teenagers with paperclips?
Do they lock their fusebox?? Routers should be locked away to, if they're in a public area. As newer buildings are built that account for networking, this should be less of a problem. For now, just stick it in the ceiling is often an effective solution.
But I do agree that a button that only resets the password is asking for trouble. Hell, any time I change ANY setting on my router it resets. Although it's usually not all that noticeable.
I thought about it and realized the reason they DON'T do this in the stories is because then they could probably be sued for intentionally lying about the referrer. Whereas if posters do it, it's their responsibility.
That sounds like cold-war era propoganda to me. Do you have any evidence that this is the case?
Just common sense. The world economy works on trade, because no one place has all the elements they need (well, need is subjective) to live at their current level.
If one country decides to work less, they produce less, their trade deficit goes up, and eventually they run out of money because they're ignoring progress. Essentially they devalue themselves.
This would only work if:
a) everyone changed
b) you found an area where a certain number of people could become completely self supporting and isolated.
The country is full of people who are raised and educated into belief that everyone else is responsible for their well-being. Ok, you are not one of them, and if you fall it's your pain.
It's just on Segway you have more people to sue. And often you have to do that, because the treatment of the injuries will cost you a lot of money.
Solution to both these problems - move to Canada. That's why I don't have them.
Accidents and lawsuits were already mentioned, and anyone who pays for the tour definitely expects some level of safety.
I've personally rented mountain bikes and snowshoes at Mt. Tremblant (in different seasons, of course), and was aware that I might hurt myself doing so. And probably signed a waiver to that effect. This could easily be similar....it's a CHOICE.
Yes, however most deposit tickets have your account number on them in magnetic ink. No need to reenter.
Most banks in Canada did away with the deposit tickets long ago. What ScotiaBank does now is have you swipe your card and enter your PIN whenever you go to a teller. Which is a bit of a pain, but solves this problem.
Royal, CIBC, Scotiabank, and Bank of Montreal
As someone pointed out, you missed TD Canada Trust (until recently two banks). There's also National Bank, and Laurentian (which again was recently acquired by another bank, but still has some locations open under that name).
And we even get stuff like Ethical Funds. Who aren't even the one I was looking for that offers a similar service.
They screwed up and tarnished your reputation -- aren't they big enough to take responsibility for their mistakes?
Exactly. My roommates work for a small auction house, and the owners were in the Dominican (!) when all the paycheques bounced. Causing rent cheques to bounce, etc., etc.
Luckily they came back, fixed the problem, and paid everyone's fees.
Basically, the goal of computing is to mimic and make easier real-life processes. The spreadsheet has no real-life corollary, whereas Java and specifically the Object Oriented paradigm model the real world to a T.
Not to flame...but you sound like a very, very recent OOP convert.
The goal of computing is NOT necessarily to mimic and make easier real-life processes. Look at Tetris. Does that have any real-life equivalent, blinkenlights notwithstanding?
And OOP is really bad (or at least awkward and inefficient) for modelling certain classes of problem.
AmiPro was consistently the best reviewed word processor, then Lotus bought it, destroyed the code base, and started over with WordPro. Which bit large.
AFAIK they didn't develop it, but they definitely buried it.
in a non-captialist society, we could work less. But since we are all wage slaves, we'll keep working all week.
Nah...because there'd always be someone working harder than you in some other society, and eventually they'd come take your cake. Sad but true.
It gets switched off in the very dialog box I described. My Computer->Properties->Advanced->Settings. Are you trolling?
As I mentioned I've only ever used XP on semi-public terminals, so I never knew about and never tried that. We were also locked out of a lot of 'advanced' settings, so it's quite possible I couldn't even get to it.
Regardless, the fact remains that even the default file views themselves slow things down, reading meta data and in many cases image data from the files.
He does seem to have all the personality and focus of my left shoe though. You'd think the Democrats could have found someone more enticing, what with everything at stake and all for them.
Dean showed a little bit too much personality, and lost all credibility for it. The American (and Canadian, for that matter) political system discourages personality, as it might offend people. Like mainstream beer - it's had all the flavours removed, in case someone doesn't like one of them.
Unforunately, most software licenses have a clause along the lines of "not warranted for suitability for any purpose, including, but not limited to, that for which software is sold".
Well, get together with your friends and pay someone to write some software they WILL warranty. But be prepared to stick to one hardware platform, for instance.
Just think about the software in a car, or an appliance, or a PS2, for that matter.
What would you change in Folder properties? Nice specifics there, pal.
Speaking as someone who had to login in to XP computers at school constantly, that would not save settings between logins, there's quite a bit that annoyed me (I'm a steadfast 2000 user, and tweak it to look as much like 98 as possible).
Problems with folders:
- that damn preview pane that takes up all kinds of space, and slows things to a crawl when you've had the window open in many directories over a period of time.
- use multiple windows is the default for folders
- do not show extensions by default (had a lot of students break their submitted assignments because of this). Not to mention show system files and hidden files.
- icon view by default. I can think of very few cases where the detailed list is not the most useful view
- I like to sort my mp3s by date when looking for the newest ones to put on my mp3 player. XP by default shows the ID3 information, and no date.
And that's just off the top of my head. You can argue that Gnome/KDE do similar things, but the preview pane and ID3 thing specifically DO have a large performance hit on large directories. And doesn't the icon view try and make icons of all graphic files by default as well? *shudder*
so technically, it should still be LedOL. Similar to RsBI. Or Attorneys General.
Except that, historically, look and feel have been unpatentable.
Didn't Macromedia finally lose to Adobe for ripping off their entire interface? In that case, they really should have. It was blatant.
You forgot the most important -- storing two copies of firmware means either a) more money spent on flash that is used so very infrequently or b) less memory for cutesy ringtones or another lame-ass game.
I think you missed the point of storing it in ROM. i.e. READ ONLY memory. Cheap, and useless for anything other than reading its stored image. This is a fairly common feature in routers, motherboards, and many other flashable devices.
I was lucky it didn't wreck my credit rating, but it has become much more of a hassle for me to get a new credit card now. This sort of thing is not a minor inconvenience, it's a major problem, and it can become a devastating problem. You don't want this to happen to you, even if you don't have any money in your account.
Can't you take them to civil court, or at least to the BBB?? Hell, if they continue to jerk you off, take it to Dateline.
About a year ago I had a huge problem getting my school to communicate my registration status to my bank, in order to continue interest free status on my student loan. They both claimed they couldn't fix it, so eventually I got the University ombudsman involved. A week or so later, problem solved, all interest paid back.
Avenues do exist to deal with this sort of thing. Although I agree its not pleasant.
On a side note, every credit card I've gotten in Canada has usually come in a separate envelope than the PIN. And to activate it I have to phone them from the phone number on the account. Hell, they even once put a hold on my account when I changed my address incorrectly and a statement bounced. Who were you dealing with?
Orthoganal seems superfluous to me - Essentially it says that the code patterns will be chosen so that no two transmitters overlap (for lack of a better laymans explanation).
Are you sure you know what OFDM is? It basically involves overlapping signals on a series of overlapping frequencies, but with different intensities at different frequencies. And each channels set of intensities is orthagonal to each other. Which makes the 'O' decidely non-redundant, as this is hardly traditional FDMA. Think of it as CDMA peformed on an FFT.
Your description of CDMA left a little to be desired as well, but its hard to express laymanwise, I agree.
For the record, I never had a problem downloading Mandrake ISOs pre bittorrent. And no more than usual downloading individual files for the full CD. And no problems using BitTorrnet. And there's nowhere near 50% of windows users paying for Mandrake. And the urpmi update sources are awesome, with a little help from the PLF.
You can always download JUST the new kernel from any mirror. You are full of crap. Maybe you only have enough disk space for 98% of the ISO??
A housekeeper, wrinkled shirts, the t-shirt, the golf shirt, permanent press and diligent hanging, less restrictive dress codes for men.
I went to a catholic high school, and although my mother likes ironing (!) many people just put their shirt on a hanger in the bathroom while they showered. Wrinkles gone. Wow.
We're talking about a collapse of the global economy and a return to a way of living that can't support the global population. Famine, disease, abject poverty, devistating wars, genocide. A return to a feudal economy, a breakdown of our civilization and another dark age for my children and grandchildren to live in.
What, you mean like in Africa, and to some extent Asia?? Ahhh, equality.
it is found that the process is terminally flawed
How about the fact that the 'waste' being used to make oil, could otherwise be used as natural fertilizer?? You're still taking energy out of the system. And have to replace it with synthetic fuel at some point.
I was all happy about the biodiesel thing, then my roommate (a Communications Engineering who grew up on a farm) pointed out that bio 'waste' isn't actually wasted, generally.