It is not affecting all of the Latitude series, just the ones with the 1920x1440 WUXGA widescreens. Mine has a burn of the Opera window that won't go away. I have my screen saver set for 3 min, but it doesn't matter if you use your computer all day. I tried moving my windows around, and all that did was put more burn marks all around. This can happen in under 2 hours of use, and will stay for days. I have a Dell 2000FP at home, and this never happens, even if left on for days with no screen saver, so I assume that it is just a really bad batch of screens. Apparantly though, Dell is replacing all the screens, so I will have to wait and see what transpires...
Although it has been beaten to death here at Slashdot, and although it may be an unpopular ideology here, open source does not necessarily equal less bugs, and the converse is also true. What is definately good though, is diversity, which will make taking down all of the authoratative name servers with a single exploit much more difficult. The fact that it is not at all based on BIND code will hopefully mean that it isn't vulnerable to any of the same attacks, allowing us to resolve names all day long without worrying about having to use those nasty binary octets to connect to our favorite pr0n hosting servers.
No, they are not all criminal masterminds, but you can bet that after the first mobster got nabbed with a wiretap that the directive came down the line that you had better not say anything stupid on the phone. Do you really think they call in to their thugs and say "I want you to whack Johnny Twinkletoes this weekend." Maybe a long time ago, but not now that it is a known technique. I would be willing to bet that if you are serious about planning a terrorist attack the likes of the bombing at the WTC or the 9/11 plane hijackings, that you are going to be seriously watching your ass nowadays. Before, it was just something that the american public thought was unconcievable (an attack on our homeland, that is), and they knew that noone was really actively looking at them. Post 9/11, what terrorist's paranoia level didn't jump through the roof?
Will you be willing to give up your car if it means preventing automobile accidents? Or the ability to recieve mail if it means it will prevent the possible spread of Anthrax through the postal system? Everyone agrees that the terror attacks were a truly terrible thing to have happen, but this isn't treating the root cause of terrorism, it is only giving the government another way to intrude into the general population's right to privacy, and people who really want to find a way around it will.
I just fail to see how any monitoring of people's personal transmissions, web site viewing habits, etc. can help law enforcement against terrorists. Since 9/11 it isn't only the governmental agencies who are being more cautious about goings on around them, but also the terrorists. I would assume that terror rings, knowing the FBI, CIA, and other national security agencies are monitoring for possible terrorist activities on the internet will be more careful in the future to use public internet terminals, web email accounts, and encryption. This is just another ill fated attempt at law enforcement trying to get more power while they can, using public fears to convince the general population that it is needed.
Minneapolis and a few other cities have had a similar program running very sucessfully here over the last 5 years. I believe a couple of the people who were busted even tried to use the entrapment defense, which was summarily shot down in the courts since no one made them steal the car, or even gave them the idea to.
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It is not affecting all of the Latitude series, just the ones with the 1920x1440 WUXGA widescreens. Mine has a burn of the Opera window that won't go away. I have my screen saver set for 3 min, but it doesn't matter if you use your computer all day. I tried moving my windows around, and all that did was put more burn marks all around. This can happen in under 2 hours of use, and will stay for days. I have a Dell 2000FP at home, and this never happens, even if left on for days with no screen saver, so I assume that it is just a really bad batch of screens. Apparantly though, Dell is replacing all the screens, so I will have to wait and see what transpires...
Although it has been beaten to death here at Slashdot, and although it may be an unpopular ideology here, open source does not necessarily equal less bugs, and the converse is also true. What is definately good though, is diversity, which will make taking down all of the authoratative name servers with a single exploit much more difficult. The fact that it is not at all based on BIND code will hopefully mean that it isn't vulnerable to any of the same attacks, allowing us to resolve names all day long without worrying about having to use those nasty binary octets to connect to our favorite pr0n hosting servers.
No, they are not all criminal masterminds, but you can bet that after the first mobster got nabbed with a wiretap that the directive came down the line that you had better not say anything stupid on the phone. Do you really think they call in to their thugs and say "I want you to whack Johnny Twinkletoes this weekend." Maybe a long time ago, but not now that it is a known technique. I would be willing to bet that if you are serious about planning a terrorist attack the likes of the bombing at the WTC or the 9/11 plane hijackings, that you are going to be seriously watching your ass nowadays. Before, it was just something that the american public thought was unconcievable (an attack on our homeland, that is), and they knew that noone was really actively looking at them. Post 9/11, what terrorist's paranoia level didn't jump through the roof?
Will you be willing to give up your car if it means preventing automobile accidents? Or the ability to recieve mail if it means it will prevent the possible spread of Anthrax through the postal system? Everyone agrees that the terror attacks were a truly terrible thing to have happen, but this isn't treating the root cause of terrorism, it is only giving the government another way to intrude into the general population's right to privacy, and people who really want to find a way around it will.
I just fail to see how any monitoring of people's personal transmissions, web site viewing habits, etc. can help law enforcement against terrorists. Since 9/11 it isn't only the governmental agencies who are being more cautious about goings on around them, but also the terrorists. I would assume that terror rings, knowing the FBI, CIA, and other national security agencies are monitoring for possible terrorist activities on the internet will be more careful in the future to use public internet terminals, web email accounts, and encryption. This is just another ill fated attempt at law enforcement trying to get more power while they can, using public fears to convince the general population that it is needed.
Minneapolis and a few other cities have had a similar program running very sucessfully here over the last 5 years. I believe a couple of the people who were busted even tried to use the entrapment defense, which was summarily shot down in the courts since no one made them steal the car, or even gave them the idea to.