because we all know the algorithm for discovering the private keys won't be cracked within a year...
With that many eyes really wanting to break your encryption (basically everyone who can break encryption in the entire world) you stand no chance. I wouldn't doubt MS choses some retarded block style assignemnt method that allows you to throw out 90% of the private keys before you even begin to brute force.
yes but you could sue them in that situation (not to mention the criminal charges). You waive the right to sue MS, and the contract would bind you from pressing chargest without a damn good lawyer.. See the difference?
Basically it can be sumed up that the PowerPC 970 is a Power4 minus some "server perks" and manufactured with desktop level reliability in mind (everything becomes majorly cheaper when your chip can stop doing self diagnostics and chips failing in 5 years is slightly acceptable).
They have a slightly divergent instruction set, but considering neither actually perform the instructions they "support" that's not anything worth noting.
It is naive for you to suggest this is understood with certainty. We are a long ways from decoding the interaction of matter and energy, and there are many theories that imply energy and matter might actually be one. For example, it is believed that radioactive substances are really converting matter into pure energy in a way we cannot yet comprehend. If it turns out to be the case, then we may never be able to decode the nature of the universe. For the past century, this new field of physics has hit a barrier as far as our being able to understand how and why things work at the atomic level. There could be an ocean of mechanics and means behind this quantum barrier, but we may never have the capability to see it.
~Slashdot post in 1902
Never understimate the power of an inquisitive human building on the knowledge of all humanity. Human society is the most complex machine in the universe, but I have no doubt in my mind with enough study even a simple human brain is capable of reducing it to symbols.
I discover a fatal flaw in TCPA/Palladum that allows remote hackers to gain pre-bootstrap access to any MS machine. I send MS a bug report, but they decide to cover it up because it's unfixable.
I then have two options: 1: Call CNN and go to jail. 2: Distribute the source and documentation on Freenet, call a random slashdot user I've never met before (google is your friend) using a payphone and tell him to advertise it for me.
I choose number 2. That is a valid use for the system, without any more draconian laws than we have today.
Just to clarify I agree with you. I was pointing out the *sad* state of affairs with fact I can't reliably get to work w/o devoting at least 2 hours each way to get 9 miles (costing a 2 dollars per day, no monthly discounts possible) or walk (biking is out of question because work is up a steep hill from where I live, with a huge valley between). Amtrack doesn't run from the Quad Cities to any destination I want to go to. Greyhound is going to introduce at least a 1 hour wait, (but you still have to be 20m early "just incase" they are on time), and costs $30 for a one day trip to Iowa City.
It often disgusts me that I pass a car that ends up passing me in 60 miles, neither of us carrying cargo, but we both are almost required to drive ourselves (gas costing about $5 for the trip, public transit costing about $30)
Then again, one must ask the most important question.
Who has the most important opinion of the following?
1: The untrained citizen acting in his self interest, with some altruistic feelings on a rare occasion.
2: The "professionally" trained corperation acting in thier own self interest, with the only barriers being the professional morals of the workers.
3: The untrained citizen lofted into the height of public service, trying his best not to make the wrong choice about issues he isn't qualified to deal with.
I think you will see the answer is much less clear than you probably thought before reading this post. It's not a case of "citizen good, corperation bad, big brother satan", it's an exemplifaction of the fact humans aern't perfect.
Corperations are an important element of a "capitalist" society, and corperation involvment in politics is a must if you wan't to avoid a "pesant revolution" (the pesants don't have to be poor, they just have to think they are).
I actually bought something from a spam. It was a slightly topical T-Shirt that I thought was clever. Cost me $15 (PayPal).
The guy who sold it to me was obviouly a late teen, and was making ok money selling shirts at about $5 profit per when I called him.
I think most geeks have no problem with spam itself (in fact targeted spams that interest me often get clicks, I get about two of those a year), they have a problem with the number of scams that are sent using spam.
I'm 30, I live in Hamburg, I have a small company, I travel a lot within Germany (to both big and small cities), I have a driver's license but I don't own a car. I don't expect to buy a car at least within the next five years.
I'm 27, I live in Iowa (USA), I have a corperate job 9 miles from my house, I travel alot to Iowa City (60 miles away) and Clinton (30 miles away) (both big and small cities), I have a driver's license but could not survive without owning a car. I don't expect to ever go back to not having a car within the next five years.
In america the only viable alternative to having a car is to have someone with a car give you a ride. It's disgusting how dependant upon them we are.
Try US Bank. I haven't interacted with a real person to deal with my accounts for months. My checking is the only account with ATM access.
I don't have a morgage yet, so the only important non-transfer transaction is the purchase of CD's for me. I generally do this from whoever has the best interest rate at the time of purchase, and don't worry about them till it's time to cash.
When I get a morgage I imagine I will set up an automatic bill pay in order to pay it off inside of 10 years or so, which would require no interaction from me after I set it up.
In short, being able to pay my credit card every few days from either banking account while rebalancing my checkbook does simplify the finances quite a bit, in fact I can't imagine doing them any other way again.
The problem is they are a very hard cartel to break up.
It'd be like telling the mafia you decided to start paying your insurance to a competing mafia. They would go kill your new extortioner, and then burn down your house.
Can I ask what company your under the payroll of? This post reaks of AstroTurfing. I cannot imagine anyone honestly thinking the way you apparently do.
You would have done much better off had you left the completly fall tech support accusation at the end.
The rest of your post had several obvious flaws in it, but I'm ignoring those.
You get 1 year of support with the purchase of any new Mac. You can expand that to three years (several "leading" vendors don't allow that anymore -- for any cost) for $249.
From every report I've seen they have either the best or are in the top three for end user post sale support. Perhaps you would like to cite a specific report saying otherwise since I have already disproved the claim that lead to your assertion. I might go and dig up a report to counter you then.
That is important when you do you professional document/web publishing work. Although no one criticezed the quality of fonts in TeX system (LyX if you need it in GUI). I also would remind that Interleaf and FrameMaker are produced originally for Unix. Conclusion: fonts is not a serious reason, just a subjective impression.
I'm sorry? We were talking about display fonts?
You responded to a completly diffrent point, and while I am willing to concede that the fonts that come with TeX are of moderate quality, they are not "the best fonts" out there by any means (except for mathematics). Mac's don't have the "best fonts" either, but they are good enough for a general Word Processing user.
But if you need anything unusal than on Mac OS X it will be either very difficult or it will impossible at all.
On the contrary, I have yet to think of a single thing that a *desktop* machine would need (remember the scope is limited to that) that OS X cannot do as easy or easier than a "hard unix".
The reason geeks like it so much is that it *doesn't* suffer from the "dumb but rigid" design. It was designed by hackers who use it on a daily basis, not by marketers who make PPT presentations on a daily basis. Huge diffrence.
To pull the internationilzation card is worthless. I would be willing to be 99% of computer users don't need arabic fonts *and* glyph fonts on the same computer. I know I could only possibly read french as a very very second language, and I would be willing to bet most people are in a similar situation.
That has nothing to do with the *average desktop users* situation. But to counter I have heard Mac internationalization support is rather amazing (in fact they devote about 30 pages of the HIG and 50 pages of the system manual to it). I could very well be wrong as it's not an important issue to me. I should also point out it's not an important issue to a person who uses CLI tools to manipulate data all day either.
While I'm not going to bother digging up counters. I think I can negate your entire post by pointing out the majority of the financial district in NYC uses linux or another unix on the desktop.
I do believe linux can be, and is, used for productivity. I also concede that the average 17 year (or even 24 year) old linux supporter isn't interested in that so much. Then again how many 17 (or even 24) year old porche owners are interested in real driving?
Just thought I'd point out that the people who get off tweaking linux tend not to intersect the people who use thier linux boxes for work.
I would say QT is far diffrent than the garbage windows does. QT has a very well defined scope, and the reason it's part of the OS is clearly defined (Read the documentation).
IE/WMP have no clearly defined scope, they are just programs that have been mutilated to be inseperable from the OS. They aern't even used by the OS itself unless you run the "programs" (go ahead try it, uninstall all libraries associted with IE and the executable directory itself, you are still able to do everything except launch IE even after reboot).
My typewriter is a method of copyright violation, I have used it as such before.
Ban the typewriter?
I didn't see the Printing press banned when it was created...
Slowing inovation to protect old economic models is never a good thing. The music industry should impliment something better than p2p if they think it's such a big threat.
It's a fairly simple argument, the copyright is granted by the people. If the people no longer honor the copyright, the copyright is no longer granted by the people. Making the people illegal in order to keep the copyright dosen't work well does it?
I know I get 20-30 spams a day. I haven't seen one in a week using iMail as my client.
So in short. Where* to you want to go today**?
*When defining where, one must first check the 15 page UELA to see if it is legal. **Today is a marketing term, we have no reason to believe our OS will even get past the bootstraping inside any 24 hour peroid.
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and what happens when you can no longer turn it off?
(the first shot is always free...)
because we all know the algorithm for discovering the private keys won't be cracked within a year...
With that many eyes really wanting to break your encryption (basically everyone who can break encryption in the entire world) you stand no chance. I wouldn't doubt MS choses some retarded block style assignemnt method that allows you to throw out 90% of the private keys before you even begin to brute force.
It's not generosity, it's tuition costs for a site license.
There's a difference.
yes but you could sue them in that situation (not to mention the criminal charges). You waive the right to sue MS, and the contract would bind you from pressing chargest without a damn good lawyer.. See the difference?
You can set it in your prefs so it automatically clicks "no +1" for you, then you have to turn it back on when your karma whoring.
Thats what I do at least.
I think we will have reached the pinacle of home robotics when I go to get my 3am Ice Cream and the fridge says "I'm sorry, I can't do that Dave".
Basically it can be sumed up that the PowerPC 970 is a Power4 minus some "server perks" and manufactured with desktop level reliability in mind (everything becomes majorly cheaper when your chip can stop doing self diagnostics and chips failing in 5 years is slightly acceptable).
They have a slightly divergent instruction set, but considering neither actually perform the instructions they "support" that's not anything worth noting.
It is naive for you to suggest this is understood with certainty. We are a long ways from decoding the interaction of matter and energy, and there are many theories that imply energy and matter might actually be one. For example, it is believed that radioactive substances are really converting matter into pure energy in a way we cannot yet comprehend. If it turns out to be the case, then we may never be able to decode the nature of the universe. For the past century, this new field of physics has hit a barrier as far as our being able to understand how and why things work at the atomic level. There could be an ocean of mechanics and means behind this quantum barrier, but we may never have the capability to see it.
~Slashdot post in 1902
Never understimate the power of an inquisitive human building on the knowledge of all humanity. Human society is the most complex machine in the universe, but I have no doubt in my mind with enough study even a simple human brain is capable of reducing it to symbols.
I can think of one off the top of my head.
I discover a fatal flaw in TCPA/Palladum that allows remote hackers to gain pre-bootstrap access to any MS machine. I send MS a bug report, but they decide to cover it up because it's unfixable.
I then have two options:
1: Call CNN and go to jail.
2: Distribute the source and documentation on Freenet, call a random slashdot user I've never met before (google is your friend) using a payphone and tell him to advertise it for me.
I choose number 2. That is a valid use for the system, without any more draconian laws than we have today.
Just to clarify I agree with you. I was pointing out the *sad* state of affairs with fact I can't reliably get to work w/o devoting at least 2 hours each way to get 9 miles (costing a 2 dollars per day, no monthly discounts possible) or walk (biking is out of question because work is up a steep hill from where I live, with a huge valley between). Amtrack doesn't run from the Quad Cities to any destination I want to go to. Greyhound is going to introduce at least a 1 hour wait, (but you still have to be 20m early "just incase" they are on time), and costs $30 for a one day trip to Iowa City.
It often disgusts me that I pass a car that ends up passing me in 60 miles, neither of us carrying cargo, but we both are almost required to drive ourselves (gas costing about $5 for the trip, public transit costing about $30)
Then again, one must ask the most important question.
Who has the most important opinion of the following?
1: The untrained citizen acting in his self interest, with some altruistic feelings on a rare occasion.
2: The "professionally" trained corperation acting in thier own self interest, with the only barriers being the professional morals of the workers.
3: The untrained citizen lofted into the height of public service, trying his best not to make the wrong choice about issues he isn't qualified to deal with.
I think you will see the answer is much less clear than you probably thought before reading this post. It's not a case of "citizen good, corperation bad, big brother satan", it's an exemplifaction of the fact humans aern't perfect.
Corperations are an important element of a "capitalist" society, and corperation involvment in politics is a must if you wan't to avoid a "pesant revolution" (the pesants don't have to be poor, they just have to think they are).
It will come to a head this century.
I sense that as well.
I'm seriously considering deporting to a safer eu country before 2020 or so.
I actually bought something from a spam. It was a slightly topical T-Shirt that I thought was clever. Cost me $15 (PayPal).
The guy who sold it to me was obviouly a late teen, and was making ok money selling shirts at about $5 profit per when I called him.
I think most geeks have no problem with spam itself (in fact targeted spams that interest me often get clicks, I get about two of those a year), they have a problem with the number of scams that are sent using spam.
I'm 30, I live in Hamburg, I have a small company, I travel a lot within Germany (to both big and small cities), I have a driver's license but I don't own a car. I don't expect to buy a car at least within the next five years.
I'm 27, I live in Iowa (USA), I have a corperate job 9 miles from my house, I travel alot to Iowa City (60 miles away) and Clinton (30 miles away) (both big and small cities), I have a driver's license but could not survive without owning a car. I don't expect to ever go back to not having a car within the next five years.
In america the only viable alternative to having a car is to have someone with a car give you a ride. It's disgusting how dependant upon them we are.
Try US Bank. I haven't interacted with a real person to deal with my accounts for months. My checking is the only account with ATM access.
I don't have a morgage yet, so the only important non-transfer transaction is the purchase of CD's for me. I generally do this from whoever has the best interest rate at the time of purchase, and don't worry about them till it's time to cash.
When I get a morgage I imagine I will set up an automatic bill pay in order to pay it off inside of 10 years or so, which would require no interaction from me after I set it up.
In short, being able to pay my credit card every few days from either banking account while rebalancing my checkbook does simplify the finances quite a bit, in fact I can't imagine doing them any other way again.
The problem is they are a very hard cartel to break up.
It'd be like telling the mafia you decided to start paying your insurance to a competing mafia. They would go kill your new extortioner, and then burn down your house.
Same thing (sort of)
Hello,
Can I ask what company your under the payroll of? This post reaks of AstroTurfing. I cannot imagine anyone honestly thinking the way you apparently do.
Please reply,
Ealar.
You would have done much better off had you left the completly fall tech support accusation at the end.
The rest of your post had several obvious flaws in it, but I'm ignoring those.
You get 1 year of support with the purchase of any new Mac. You can expand that to three years (several "leading" vendors don't allow that anymore -- for any cost) for $249.
From every report I've seen they have either the best or are in the top three for end user post sale support. Perhaps you would like to cite a specific report saying otherwise since I have already disproved the claim that lead to your assertion. I might go and dig up a report to counter you then.
That is important when you do you professional document/web publishing work. Although no one criticezed the quality of fonts in TeX system (LyX if you need it in GUI). I also would remind that Interleaf and FrameMaker are produced originally for Unix. Conclusion: fonts is not a serious reason, just a subjective impression.
I'm sorry? We were talking about display fonts?
You responded to a completly diffrent point, and while I am willing to concede that the fonts that come with TeX are of moderate quality, they are not "the best fonts" out there by any means (except for mathematics). Mac's don't have the "best fonts" either, but they are good enough for a general Word Processing user.
But if you need anything unusal than on Mac OS X it will be either very difficult or it will impossible at all.
On the contrary, I have yet to think of a single thing that a *desktop* machine would need (remember the scope is limited to that) that OS X cannot do as easy or easier than a "hard unix".
The reason geeks like it so much is that it *doesn't* suffer from the "dumb but rigid" design. It was designed by hackers who use it on a daily basis, not by marketers who make PPT presentations on a daily basis. Huge diffrence.
To pull the internationilzation card is worthless. I would be willing to be 99% of computer users don't need arabic fonts *and* glyph fonts on the same computer. I know I could only possibly read french as a very very second language, and I would be willing to bet most people are in a similar situation.
That has nothing to do with the *average desktop users* situation. But to counter I have heard Mac internationalization support is rather amazing (in fact they devote about 30 pages of the HIG and 50 pages of the system manual to it). I could very well be wrong as it's not an important issue to me. I should also point out it's not an important issue to a person who uses CLI tools to manipulate data all day either.
can I ask what sort of weird mental process caused you to choose "yes" to demonstrate that it was really a bash shell?
While I'm not going to bother digging up counters. I think I can negate your entire post by pointing out the majority of the financial district in NYC uses linux or another unix on the desktop.
I do believe linux can be, and is, used for productivity. I also concede that the average 17 year (or even 24 year) old linux supporter isn't interested in that so much. Then again how many 17 (or even 24) year old porche owners are interested in real driving?
Just thought I'd point out that the people who get off tweaking linux tend not to intersect the people who use thier linux boxes for work.
I would say QT is far diffrent than the garbage windows does. QT has a very well defined scope, and the reason it's part of the OS is clearly defined (Read the documentation).
IE/WMP have no clearly defined scope, they are just programs that have been mutilated to be inseperable from the OS. They aern't even used by the OS itself unless you run the "programs" (go ahead try it, uninstall all libraries associted with IE and the executable directory itself, you are still able to do everything except launch IE even after reboot).
My typewriter is a method of copyright violation, I have used it as such before.
Ban the typewriter?
I didn't see the Printing press banned when it was created...
Slowing inovation to protect old economic models is never a good thing. The music industry should impliment something better than p2p if they think it's such a big threat.
It's a fairly simple argument, the copyright is granted by the people. If the people no longer honor the copyright, the copyright is no longer granted by the people. Making the people illegal in order to keep the copyright dosen't work well does it?
I know I get 20-30 spams a day. I haven't seen one in a week using iMail as my client.
So in short. Where* to you want to go today**?
*When defining where, one must first check the 15 page UELA to see if it is legal.
**Today is a marketing term, we have no reason to believe our OS will even get past the bootstraping inside any 24 hour peroid.
I cannot begin to express how disturbed my mental state is presently.
Please never do that again.
Thank you, and good day.