I don't think that there are many people out there that would claim that OpenBSD is comfortable to use and would make a good desktop system.
But it has its small niche market and lives there happily. Additionally we all benefit from this project one way or the other (OpenSSH, etc.) It's a bit similar to Minix: interesting and certainly helpful in its own way. But nothing for everyday usage.
claiming that the (snail) mail is responsible for mail bombs. Twitter is just the media, it's still the people that cause a hype or a panic.
A media can make it easier for a panic to spread but would you charge the manufacturer of a knife if someone uses it to kill a person instead of preparing a filet?
When Facebook started to delete pictures of breastfeeding moms as "offensive" there was the same outcry - and a few months later no one really cares anymore.
I bet Amazon is playing the same card. They know very well that people will complain but they also know that people forget faster than a fly.
Are you implying that what you have there is a happy medium? XP without admin rights and without Java and JavaScript is maybe working for you but it wouldn't work here. We are a software development company, developing for multiple platforms. There is no way to keep a capable programmer from accessing anything outside.
Set up a policy if you really have to but wanting to block services is just a waste of time and doesn't add anything to your security unless you have totally incompetent personnel or fully locked down computers. Otherwise they'll start using web clients or simply work around firewall blocks or the like - which at the end might cause more security issues than the usage of the service in the first place.
It's much better to invest this time to educate your people and teach them why it's a bad idea to use MSN.
Lots of companies set up ridiculous firewall rules and think that they are safe - not knowing that the overkill is causing exactly the opposite of what they want to achieve. People don't like to be locked down if they don't understand why.
I had a similar problem to solve in the (small) company that I work for. We ended up with Openfire and Pidgin. This is not safe from the outside but better than what our big mother company did. They force everyone onto Sametime and have their system locked down like no tomorrow - which ends up in people using a multitude of services and wasting a lot of time to work their ways around the firewall to be able to use MSN, Facebook, Jabber & Co. While I know what I have to deal with and act accordingly, teach the people that they please stay away from insecure services on their work PC the mother company trusts in their rules and unintentionally provokes insecurity.
Security never works against the people, only with the people.
What kept them from auto-detecting floppies during a Windows session?
Example: 1. insert floppy, do something, detect mechanism 2. request disk2 3. auto-detect that disk2 has been inserted 4. keep auto-detection during the Windows session 5. after Windows restart goto 1
That sounds seamless to me, is easy to understand and doesn't cause any trouble. (I guess the few people that swapped their floppy drives during a Windows session are negligible.)
... and I don't see it getting replaced anytime soon.
Why would I want to abuse my mobile phone for something it certainly sucks at doing properly? Unless voice recognition is built-in it will always be a inferior replacement for a dedicated remote control, as it lacks the necessary buttons and proper placement.
Not even thinking about things like battery runtime, using the phone while watching TV, sharing the remote with your partner/family, etc.
That's why they shouldn't sell it in the US until you fixed your messed up law system.
It might be still problematic if the car is doing stuff on its own but at least idiotic lawsuits like "I spilled my coke..." won't stand a chance in a sane law system.
Blizzard avoided many mistakes that they made in their first expansion, involved the player much more into the story and added an awesome class.
The death knight quest chain alone is better than any quest chain in the original WoW and TBC - awesome! Gladly it's not the only cool quest chain and I'm not even Level 80 yet (takes a little longer to go from 55 to 80).
Additionally they upgraded the graphics quite some.
I'm totally serious when my thoughts are exactly the same "Thank God!"
After the catastrophic last 8 years it needs something like a "messiah" to fix all the shit that Bush has piled up. Of course Obama will not be able to undo it with a wave of his hand but at least he is the one that CAN bring a change. No matter how much McCain was stating that he is not Bush: he was on Bush's side almost all the way and is still supporting most of his crap.
If there was a chance: Obama is it and I'm damn glad that the Americans finally replaced that retard of a president with a proper person and didn't vote for McBush.
Astonishing that I haven't seen anything about that in the comments (though I haven't read all of it yet): make sure to have appropriate tire pressure can make a huge difference as well. Go with at least the suggested pressure, maybe even a little (up to 0.5 bar) above and you will notice a difference in fuel consumption too.
Don't get over 0.5 bar more than the suggested pressure because it may effect the tire grip in a bad way.
This will affect your fuel efficiency no matter if you drive fast or slow.
Sorry to say, but this is the only reason why I don't buy it. I'm just tired of booting into Windows to play a game, that's why I stick to WoW for now - not because it's better than anything else but because it runs fine on my MacBook.
The idea is cool but I'm not too impressed by the result. From all the hype I expected nothing less but computed 3D models created out of pictures. Instead I get a (quite nice) compilation of pictures that are sorted properly according to the perspective and angle they show. That's pretty neat but not really jaw dropping.
I know it's hard as hell to get something like this up and running but the press release implies nothing less but a revolution while in reality it's a nice piece of software but nothing that will change the world. Inf act I expect Google to come up with something similar integrated in their Maps/Earth solution in the near future (if no stupid software patent is preventing this).
I'm a big fan of encryption but I laugh at everyone that wants to tell me that this kind of warning adds the slightest bit of security. During my work as a sysadmin the last 10 years I have worked with lots of ssl certificates and gotten many of them signed for a huge sum of money. Not ONCE there was a check if the certificate details were right or completely made up. What's the point of using a signed certificated when anyone can create a certificate that can fake your identity? - There is none!
That's why I don't like this "feature" at all and would like to see it removed. All it adds is a lot of extra work without the slightest benefit.
Yes, in Germany the government is voted as well and therefor selected by the "users". That's pretty much the same with Google: don't vote (=use) for it, if you don't like it. The government is voted by the majority and I have to live with it, even if I haven't voted for it. When I choose Google then it's me and noone else that is responsible for this choice.
This is a little bit like saying: "here you have a gun but don't shoot!". If you love capitalism then you have to live with the fact that there are people that will do everything to make money and don't care shit about your privacy (because that doesn't generate money).
Of course they are obfuscating their code as good as possible. Otherwise they could directly ring MS's door bell and tell them "here, we just added that to improve the quality of our search results". This way it takes the competitors at least a little bit of time and effort to figure out what they are doing.
Do you really think that they obfuscate the code so the users will not see what's going on? 99.9% of the google users probably don't even know what the code does, even if you would print it out and document it for them with red arrows "look here".
Why is everyone getting paranoid about Google but noone cares that the government is stripping you naked every time you get close to an airport or the like? There the issues are! Additionally I trust Google more than most (if not all) of the Governments in this world, explicitely including the German and US government.
... the never ending "Google, the data monster will eat us all" hype?
A few years ago the same people were hyping Google for rescuing us from MS and now they are trying to tell us that Google is bad and we should use $random_unknown_startup instead to save our lives.
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I don't think that there are many people out there that would claim that OpenBSD is comfortable to use and would make a good desktop system.
But it has its small niche market and lives there happily. Additionally we all benefit from this project one way or the other (OpenSSH, etc.)
It's a bit similar to Minix: interesting and certainly helpful in its own way. But nothing for everyday usage.
claiming that the (snail) mail is responsible for mail bombs. Twitter is just the media, it's still the people that cause a hype or a panic.
A media can make it easier for a panic to spread but would you charge the manufacturer of a knife if someone uses it to kill a person instead of preparing a filet?
When Facebook started to delete pictures of breastfeeding moms as "offensive" there was the same outcry - and a few months later no one really cares anymore.
I bet Amazon is playing the same card. They know very well that people will complain but they also know that people forget faster than a fly.
I wish I had moderator points and the limit wouldn't be 5 for an excellent post like this.
I cannot really blame timothy for posting the article but it couldn't hurt to check for obvious flaws before posting.
Are you implying that what you have there is a happy medium? XP without admin rights and without Java and JavaScript is maybe working for you but it wouldn't work here. We are a software development company, developing for multiple platforms. There is no way to keep a capable programmer from accessing anything outside.
Set up a policy if you really have to but wanting to block services is just a waste of time and doesn't add anything to your security unless you have totally incompetent personnel or fully locked down computers. Otherwise they'll start using web clients or simply work around firewall blocks or the like - which at the end might cause more security issues than the usage of the service in the first place.
It's much better to invest this time to educate your people and teach them why it's a bad idea to use MSN.
Lots of companies set up ridiculous firewall rules and think that they are safe - not knowing that the overkill is causing exactly the opposite of what they want to achieve. People don't like to be locked down if they don't understand why.
I had a similar problem to solve in the (small) company that I work for. We ended up with Openfire and Pidgin. This is not safe from the outside but better than what our big mother company did. They force everyone onto Sametime and have their system locked down like no tomorrow - which ends up in people using a multitude of services and wasting a lot of time to work their ways around the firewall to be able to use MSN, Facebook, Jabber & Co.
While I know what I have to deal with and act accordingly, teach the people that they please stay away from insecure services on their work PC the mother company trusts in their rules and unintentionally provokes insecurity.
Security never works against the people, only with the people.
What kept them from auto-detecting floppies during a Windows session?
Example:
1. insert floppy, do something, detect mechanism
2. request disk2
3. auto-detect that disk2 has been inserted
4. keep auto-detection during the Windows session
5. after Windows restart goto 1
That sounds seamless to me, is easy to understand and doesn't cause any trouble. (I guess the few people that swapped their floppy drives during a Windows session are negligible.)
One, if really necessary 2 subtle jokes are fine but this bombardement of nonsense is just annoying.
Those "jokes" are so obvious, it's not even remotely entertaining.
- iPhone
- Amiga
- Mac OS 9
- Atari
and many more via there new "really universal binary".
I didn't expect anything different, in fact it would have surprised me if such a comment wouldn't have popped up.
Let's rephrase the Subject: "Shouldn't Every Developer (but the French) Understand English?"
some call this a benefit and not a problem
Whoever buys components like this from the laptop vendor itself is just wasting money.
I still don't know what he was going to tell. I stopped reading after the 3rd sentence or so because it was just unbearable and hurt my eyes.
... and I don't see it getting replaced anytime soon.
Why would I want to abuse my mobile phone for something it certainly sucks at doing properly? Unless voice recognition is built-in it will always be a inferior replacement for a dedicated remote control, as it lacks the necessary buttons and proper placement.
Not even thinking about things like battery runtime, using the phone while watching TV, sharing the remote with your partner/family, etc.
That's why they shouldn't sell it in the US until you fixed your messed up law system.
It might be still problematic if the car is doing stuff on its own but at least idiotic lawsuits like "I spilled my coke..." won't stand a chance in a sane law system.
Blizzard avoided many mistakes that they made in their first expansion, involved the player much more into the story and added an awesome class.
The death knight quest chain alone is better than any quest chain in the original WoW and TBC - awesome!
Gladly it's not the only cool quest chain and I'm not even Level 80 yet (takes a little longer to go from 55 to 80).
Additionally they upgraded the graphics quite some.
My rating: 9/10
I'm totally serious when my thoughts are exactly the same "Thank God!"
After the catastrophic last 8 years it needs something like a "messiah" to fix all the shit that Bush has piled up. Of course Obama will not be able to undo it with a wave of his hand but at least he is the one that CAN bring a change.
No matter how much McCain was stating that he is not Bush: he was on Bush's side almost all the way and is still supporting most of his crap.
If there was a chance: Obama is it and I'm damn glad that the Americans finally replaced that retard of a president with a proper person and didn't vote for McBush.
Astonishing that I haven't seen anything about that in the comments (though I haven't read all of it yet): make sure to have appropriate tire pressure can make a huge difference as well.
Go with at least the suggested pressure, maybe even a little (up to 0.5 bar) above and you will notice a difference in fuel consumption too.
Don't get over 0.5 bar more than the suggested pressure because it may effect the tire grip in a bad way.
This will affect your fuel efficiency no matter if you drive fast or slow.
Sorry to say, but this is the only reason why I don't buy it. I'm just tired of booting into Windows to play a game, that's why I stick to WoW for now - not because it's better than anything else but because it runs fine on my MacBook.
The idea is cool but I'm not too impressed by the result. From all the hype I expected nothing less but computed 3D models created out of pictures. Instead I get a (quite nice) compilation of pictures that are sorted properly according to the perspective and angle they show. That's pretty neat but not really jaw dropping.
I know it's hard as hell to get something like this up and running but the press release implies nothing less but a revolution while in reality it's a nice piece of software but nothing that will change the world.
Inf act I expect Google to come up with something similar integrated in their Maps/Earth solution in the near future (if no stupid software patent is preventing this).
I'm a big fan of encryption but I laugh at everyone that wants to tell me that this kind of warning adds the slightest bit of security.
During my work as a sysadmin the last 10 years I have worked with lots of ssl certificates and gotten many of them signed for a huge sum of money.
Not ONCE there was a check if the certificate details were right or completely made up. What's the point of using a signed certificated when anyone can create a certificate that can fake your identity? - There is none!
That's why I don't like this "feature" at all and would like to see it removed. All it adds is a lot of extra work without the slightest benefit.
Maybe they managed to develop a "everything on a chip" solution that doesn't require a dedicated chipset?
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2003/06/59401
more questions?
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Yes, in Germany the government is voted as well and therefor selected by the "users". That's pretty much the same with Google: don't vote (=use) for it, if you don't like it.
The government is voted by the majority and I have to live with it, even if I haven't voted for it. When I choose Google then it's me and noone else that is responsible for this choice.
Quite a difference, isn't it?
This is a little bit like saying: "here you have a gun but don't shoot!". If you love capitalism then you have to live with the fact that there are people that will do everything to make money and don't care shit about your privacy (because that doesn't generate money).
Of course they are obfuscating their code as good as possible. Otherwise they could directly ring MS's door bell and tell them "here, we just added that to improve the quality of our search results". This way it takes the competitors at least a little bit of time and effort to figure out what they are doing.
Do you really think that they obfuscate the code so the users will not see what's going on? 99.9% of the google users probably don't even know what the code does, even if you would print it out and document it for them with red arrows "look here".
Why is everyone getting paranoid about Google but noone cares that the government is stripping you naked every time you get close to an airport or the like? There the issues are!
Additionally I trust Google more than most (if not all) of the Governments in this world, explicitely including the German and US government.
... the never ending "Google, the data monster will eat us all" hype?
A few years ago the same people were hyping Google for rescuing us from MS and now they are trying to tell us that Google is bad and we should use $random_unknown_startup instead to save our lives.
Bring me facts or leave me alone!