I make video DVDs for friends sometimes. Usually there's a few hundred MB free space, so I stash a backup set -- my email, and other documents mostly -- in a data folder, ignored by players (though of course visible on a PC). I use encrypted RAR archives, their encryption is quite strong and uncracked as far as I know. Also of course on my own DVDs, the latter most likely useful in case of computer failure.
We did sit on the sidelines while the UN bungled Rwanda.
Duh. If the US SITS ON THE SIDELINES, the most powerful member of the UN, of course it's going to be "bungled". America wasn't alone in failing to stand up, but if it had, it could have led an effective UN force.
Well, yes, but ALL the money, at least in this case, goes to china
Of course not. Unless you mail order it from Beijing. Where are you going to buy it? In the US. At least half the money will stay in the US.
From Wikipedia
Its executive headquarters are located in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, the home of IBM's former ThinkPad group, and in Beijing, China. It is incorporated in Hong Kong.
As of May 31, 2007, 39.6% of Lenovo is owned by public shareholders, 42.4% by Legend Holdings Limited, 7.9% by IBM and 10.1% by Texas Pacific Group, General Atlantic LLC and Newbridge Capital LLC. Because the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Chinese government agency, owns 65% of Legend Holdings, effectively the Chinese government owns about 27.5% of Lenovo and is the largest shareholder.
Buy a second-hand Thinkpad in the US, then 100% of your cash will stay here.
I have a feeling that a lot of their "cyber crime" investigations are not crimes at all
As TFA notes, most of the arrests are related to kiddie porn. Which is disgusting, but catching guys who like to look at it is only very marginally related to preventing the acts depicted. Consider slasher movies, a popular genre. Lots of people find these diverting. Hardly any actually go on to commit grisly acts of homicide or torture. Just liking to look at photos of perverse acts is not a good indicator of someone who is likely to commit them. There would be some correlation, but the great majority would run screaming from a real life encounter. Similarly for those FBI guys who pretend to be kids online to get perverts to talk dirty to them. For many, talking dirt online as as far as they'd go. See for instance the "To Catch a Predator" sting in Murphy, Texas. An actor, pretending to be a teen boy, got a lawyer to make a "date" with him, which however was never kept. The police went to arrest him anyway, at which point he committed suicide. There was no evidence he had ever gone beyond talking dirty online. There are plenty of real crimes and real criminals walking around without trying to entrap fantasists by playing with them.
In theory. Is it actually happening? What would be the profit in it? What kind of data could one keep on a phone that would be worth anything to a third party (it's valuable to the owner, obviously). Maybe Paris Hilton has more videos on her phone?
If you don't keep your phone updated, then you run a much greater security risk.
Risk of what? Losing data? Surely you would not have your sole copy of anything, even your address list, on a phone, just because they're prone to physical damage and being lost. Data being stolen? Maybe. But unlikely, I feel. Much more likely to have the whole phone stolen.
Basically, the sites affected have two (or more) versions of their site and choose which one to serve depending on the user agent. So in the case, as this, when the browser or proxy agent does not give a useful user agent, don't try to get the mobile company to help you; they obviously are not interested; fall back to ASKING THE USER HIMSELF: just have a little (or big) check box: "click here for desktop, click here for mobile" page. Then store the preferece in the URL and/or cookies (do mobile browsers support cookies?) Or advertise a mobile page, eg: http://m.whatever.com/ instead of http://www.whatever.com./
Give the average user a choice, and they'll say, "I don't know, which one plays X game and runs Word & Excel?"
Fine. But the 1% who want something else should be able to choose. And in a few years, without MS bullying OEMS to shut out competition (as they did for Be, OS/2, e.g.), this will grow. Other OSes will certainly arise. There must be a million geeks who would love to write a new OS, and at least a few of them will have the ability to do something amazing and better. As for compatibility, virtualisation and Moore's Law lets you put anything in its own sandbox and run in a virtual environment if it can't run on the native OS. There are VMS apps running through at least two levels of emulation now, because it's easier to emulate the OS than rewrite the app.
I think </i> but type <?i>. I got to learn to type. I'm used to other forums where if I fuck up formatting I can edit and redo. Preview can be very slow sometimes.
USERS don't give a rats ass what OS their computer runs. Grandma just wants to email the grandkids, who just want to play Halo and their dad wants to run a spreadsheet or other business programs.
Exactly. So if some version of Ubuntu, say, can do all that, and cut $50 from the list price compared to MS's OS, why not let them have it?
I do all the drivers, the updates, give them free antivirus/adware protection, free productivity apps, etc. My cost is $85.00. I know others have higher costs and some lower. When you consider it takes at least 2 hours to just do the Microsoft updates/service packs (including the option software) -- after the OS has been installed with drivers -- before protection apps and then beautification you should be able to see why $85.00 is not out of line. It can take 4-8 hours just to complete the install with everything.
Why stop with the OS, why not outlaw bundling of the computer components? Force everyone to install all components-motherboard, HD, video card, etc. Don't allow a case to be sold with a pre-installed power supply. Think how that will open the market.
Actually, TFA mentions the fact that hardware IS able to be specified by the consumer as the kind of market they want for OSs. Most PC vendors will let you choose from a variety of hard disks, video cards, RAM etc, from competing manufacturers. No such choice is offered for OS. (Except to pay more for a "premium" edition.)
My $0.02 on unbundling Windows is that it would be a bad thing for the reasons the parent specified. The thing about Windows is: it just freakin' works
The proposal is not to ban Windows. It's to give you a choice. Initially you might have a choice of Windows or Linux. Or none if you prefer to get your OS elsewhere. Other proprietary systems might (re)appear given a market. Many might be happy with a DOS style system that was blazing fast and never crashed. Others might like a flashy BeOS style media friendly system. As it is, if Microsoft doesn't want to supply it, you can't have it. Or you pay MS anyway for a system you never use.
Instead, we decided that the best way to approach
competition was simply to insist that operating
systems are purchased separately from desktop
and laptop computers.
This, we believe, would have a significant
effect on the market share of Windows, providing
the competitive marketplace that Ms Kroes has
called for. Price conscious consumers, including
many students, would opt for cheaper operating
systems.
We do not believe this would add complexity
for consumers. Consumers would simply be
asked to insert an operating system DVD when
they first turn on a new computer,which would
then automatically configure itself.
Manufacturers would be able to bundle
special hardware drivers with their computers
(which might be needed to gain the very best
performance), and manufacturers would still be
able to recommend particular operating systems.
It is likely that PC manufacturers would compete
by listing multiple operating systems that their
systems had been certified to run properly,
rather than simply listing Windows compatibility.
Did your government promise to let you outside today if you said that? Did they promise to give you 1 hour on an offshore proxy so you could see the real internet if you said that?
You really don't know anything about Hong Kong, do you? It has its own Internet backbone connecting directly across the Pacific to the US and Australia and thence worldwide. Do a traceroute on a HK ISP if you don't believe me. The Mainland has no control over it at all. You can find dozens of sites documenting the Tianamen Massacre, advocating Taiwanese and Tibetan independence, hosted here.
But seriously for a moment: you want me to distinguish your personal beliefs from that of your nation's. Yet you have been abusing and insulting me for actions and policies of a goverment that actually I have strongly condemned and have demonstrated against.
ou are part of an aggressive evil nation that poisons others, executes 10,000 people per year, have murdered millions, and are taking over Tibet illegally, and plan to subjugate Taiwan. So you can take your self righteousness and cram it up your ass.
Well, talking about invading and subjugating; there's is one country in the world that's been doing that recently, and it isn't mine.
Have you ever been outside your country? Your fortified basement?
I have rights. We have an independent judiciary. Next month I'm taking a holiday in Australia. I could spend hours lisitng the faults of Hong Kong, but it's ludicrous to call it a prison.
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I make video DVDs for friends sometimes. Usually there's a few hundred MB free space, so I stash a backup set -- my email, and other documents mostly -- in a data folder, ignored by players (though of course visible on a PC). I use encrypted RAR archives, their encryption is quite strong and uncracked as far as I know. Also of course on my own DVDs, the latter most likely useful in case of computer failure.
TFA says "computers" were stolen, as well as the "backup device", unspecified.
Duh. If the US SITS ON THE SIDELINES, the most powerful member of the UN, of course it's going to be "bungled". America wasn't alone in failing to stand up, but if it had, it could have led an effective UN force.
If by "made" you mean "assembled from parts made in China", yes.
Actually, Lenovo's executive headquarters are located in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, the home of IBM's former ThinkPad group.
Of course not. Unless you mail order it from Beijing. Where are you going to buy it? In the US. At least half the money will stay in the US. From Wikipedia
Buy a second-hand Thinkpad in the US, then 100% of your cash will stay here.As TFA notes, most of the arrests are related to kiddie porn. Which is disgusting, but catching guys who like to look at it is only very marginally related to preventing the acts depicted. Consider slasher movies, a popular genre. Lots of people find these diverting. Hardly any actually go on to commit grisly acts of homicide or torture. Just liking to look at photos of perverse acts is not a good indicator of someone who is likely to commit them. There would be some correlation, but the great majority would run screaming from a real life encounter. Similarly for those FBI guys who pretend to be kids online to get perverts to talk dirty to them. For many, talking dirt online as as far as they'd go. See for instance the "To Catch a Predator" sting in Murphy, Texas. An actor, pretending to be a teen boy, got a lawyer to make a "date" with him, which however was never kept. The police went to arrest him anyway, at which point he committed suicide. There was no evidence he had ever gone beyond talking dirty online. There are plenty of real crimes and real criminals walking around without trying to entrap fantasists by playing with them.
In theory. Is it actually happening? What would be the profit in it? What kind of data could one keep on a phone that would be worth anything to a third party (it's valuable to the owner, obviously). Maybe Paris Hilton has more videos on her phone?
Risk of what? Losing data? Surely you would not have your sole copy of anything, even your address list, on a phone, just because they're prone to physical damage and being lost. Data being stolen? Maybe. But unlikely, I feel. Much more likely to have the whole phone stolen.
Basically, the sites affected have two (or more) versions of their site and choose which one to serve depending on the user agent. So in the case, as this, when the browser or proxy agent does not give a useful user agent, don't try to get the mobile company to help you; they obviously are not interested; fall back to ASKING THE USER HIMSELF: just have a little (or big) check box: "click here for desktop, click here for mobile" page. Then store the preferece in the URL and/or cookies (do mobile browsers support cookies?) Or advertise a mobile page, eg:
http://m.whatever.com/ instead of http://www.whatever.com./
So yet again, OO fails to be compatible with the market leader. This is why it will never gain traction.
Why do people keep making lame car analogies here?
should there be a law that no computer may come with an OS and the user is forced to install one or pay someone to install it for them?
Try RTFA. They explain it quite clearly.
Fine. But the 1% who want something else should be able to choose. And in a few years, without MS bullying OEMS to shut out competition (as they did for Be, OS/2, e.g.), this will grow. Other OSes will certainly arise. There must be a million geeks who would love to write a new OS, and at least a few of them will have the ability to do something amazing and better. As for compatibility, virtualisation and Moore's Law lets you put anything in its own sandbox and run in a virtual environment if it can't run on the native OS. There are VMS apps running through at least two levels of emulation now, because it's easier to emulate the OS than rewrite the app.
I think </i> but type <?i>. I got to learn to type. I'm used to other forums where if I fuck up formatting I can edit and redo. Preview can be very slow sometimes.
Exactly. So if some version of Ubuntu, say, can do all that, and cut $50 from the list price compared to MS's OS, why not let them have it?
Man, learn to Slipstream.
See Unattended_Windows. eg: HFSLIP.
Let the computer do the work. You can still charge $85 for inserting the disc.
Actually, TFA mentions the fact that hardware IS able to be specified by the consumer as the kind of market they want for OSs. Most PC vendors will let you choose from a variety of hard disks, video cards, RAM etc, from competing manufacturers. No such choice is offered for OS. (Except to pay more for a "premium" edition.)
The proposal is not to ban Windows. It's to give you a choice. Initially you might have a choice of Windows or Linux. Or none if you prefer to get your OS elsewhere. Other proprietary systems might (re)appear given a market. Many might be happy with a DOS style system that was blazing fast and never crashed. Others might like a flashy BeOS style media friendly system. As it is, if Microsoft doesn't want to supply it, you can't have it. Or you pay MS anyway for a system you never use.
"Innate rights"? As a cowboy?
Anyway, if you elevate this to religion, obviously there's no debate possible.
You really don't know anything about Hong Kong, do you? It has its own Internet backbone connecting directly across the Pacific to the US and Australia and thence worldwide. Do a traceroute on a HK ISP if you don't believe me. The Mainland has no control over it at all. You can find dozens of sites documenting the Tianamen Massacre, advocating Taiwanese and Tibetan independence, hosted here.
But seriously for a moment: you want me to distinguish your personal beliefs from that of your nation's. Yet you have been abusing and insulting me for actions and policies of a goverment that actually I have strongly condemned and have demonstrated against.
A drag queen is running for president? It really will be a diverse campaign.
Well, talking about invading and subjugating; there's is one country in the world that's been doing that recently, and it isn't mine.
Team America! Fuck Yeah!
In the same spirit, you USOA guys have fun blowing the world up and destroying your reputation and economy.
Have you ever been outside your country? Your fortified basement?
I have rights. We have an independent judiciary. Next month I'm taking a holiday in Australia. I could spend hours lisitng the faults of Hong Kong, but it's ludicrous to call it a prison.