Very true. On a public machine, you never know. But there is a vast perceptual difference between an evil keylogger (which has but one real purpose), and a useful tool from the "Do No Evil" people at Google.
The underpaid, overworked, undertrained library admin who installs a keylogger knows he is installing a keylogger, and is doing so on purpose. He who installs GDS may not realize it does pretty much the same thing. Until this publicity.
Try going to the Dell website and browsing to a PC with Linux.
Dell might technically sell you Linux if you ask for it, but they sure go out of their way to make sure you don't ask about it.
Sure. 3 clicks: Dell|Small Business|Desktops. "Dell Alternative Operating System Desktops" is listed right there with the regular Dimension, Optiplex, and Precision Windows offerings. Granted, you have to choose 'Small Business' instead of 'Home', but it's not that hard.
The very fact that you have been modded informative serves to demonstrate that Dell + RedHat is not an obvious option and most people remain blissfully unaware that it exists.
It might also point to the possibility that people here don't buy 'off the rack'.
Yes, Dell 'recommends' Windows. Prominently. But other options are there, and it's not that hard to get there.
As I have a Dell coming in the mail in a couple of days, I can see exactly how much junkware Dell's come with out of the factory (before I wipe it and install what I want).
note: I haven't bought a retail PC in years, but this was a VERY good deal.
You already can. They are stored in a random access file system (known as the BFS), using a pulpy grey mass as the recording medium. I hear you can even store moving pics and sound as well. You can play them back internally, and you can output the sound portion at will.
The printing mechanism is still a bit rudimentary, using a mechanism similar to a large format plotter (moving a pen in X/Y coordinates). Some models do this better than others. Some are even extraordinary at this. A few work well in 3D space. Unfortunately, if you are saddled with a lower performing output module, you cannot yet buy an upgrade for it, nor install a new one. You are stuck with it as delivered.
I just wish they would pay me for doing my own bagging and scanning!!!!!
By eliminating baggers, they can afford to not raise the prices storewide by 1/2 a cent, as they normally would have done. Now 'lower' prices, just not raise them. You get to pocket that 1/2 cent per item as payment. Which is about right. 50 items in your cart, 25 cents. It takes maybe 2 minutes to bag, so you're getting paid $15/hr to bag your own stuff.
If I really had a hankering for an all in one like this (yeah, right), a Sony VAIO would be better, for about the same price. Better specs, cleaner design, much better company longevity.
No, they're not. Some states and cities have helmet laws, but by far not all, nor even most. And of those that do, mostly it's for under 18's or under 16's.
Why a helmet? The top speed of this thing is probably not much above jogging speed, and its width makes it very stable. And people aren't regularly chastised for running without a helmet.
Seeing as a Segway can fall over, a person of limited mobility would be better off with a more stable platform. A wide stance 3 wheel (2F/1R) would be a lot more stable, even standing.
And without the fancy gyros needed, it could be built a lot cheaper.
Parents, like everyone else, seem to want it both ways...police our children and protect them from all that is dark in the world, but don't tell us how to raise them!
You are talking about two different, mostly nonintersecting sets of parents.
HA. The only real safeguard with data like this is to not allow access by anyone. Which renders it completely useless, so why bother in the first place.
At least one of the people with actual access to the data (and someone HAS to have access to it), will get pissed off at work, and will snag a few million rows of data (yours, maybe) and ftp/p2p/sneakernet it home. Later, when he gets fired for being an ass, he will sell it to various unsavory characters.
It happened at AOL, it's happened with banks, it's happened with credit card companies.
Not many jobs where you have to deal with screaming customers, but IT is one of them
Pretty much anything in the service industry. Having customers scream at you when you get paid $6/hr is way worse than having customers scream at you when you get paid $80k/year.
Why bring Bush into it? This is not strictly a Republican thing. The Kyoto Protocol is/was universally reviled by both the Clinton and Bush administrations. 95-0 against in the Senate under Clinton in 1997. VP Gore signed it, but it was never submitted to the Senate for ratification. Gore's signing was simply for show.
Bush has said he agrees with the general ideas, but not the details of this particular treaty. Accepting a flawed reaty may well prevent you from getting something that actually works.
Major flaws 1. Major producer China is exempted. Net increase in the coming years. 2. Former Soviet Union states are already below their 1990 levels. They are then allowed to sell credits to other states. Net CO2 decrease - zero.
Here's my proposal: Decrease a countries net CO2 output by X%, within Y years. Initial CO2 measuring point being the day it is ratified in that country. No exceptions, no CO2 credits. 'Reduce by X%'. Period. This has several beneficial effects. 1. A level playing field. 2. Encouragement to ratify quickly, before your CO2 output increases even further. 3. Richer countries gain moneymaiking opportunities for helping poorer countries to meet their requirement. 4. Poorer countries get the technology transfer. Alas, this would never fly, because it doesn't give an automatic advantage to some, and penalize others.
I completely agree with you that CO2 output should be reduced. Where we disagree is who. Doing the wrong thing, even under the best of intentions, is usually worse than doing nothing. We all live on the same ball. Let's all work together. I'd really like to see a 10 year comparison of that data rather than a one time shot.
they dumped the documented RTF format, and used the ever changing, proprietary, doc format.
You must be looking at a different version of Office than I am. RTF is alive and well in every vesion I've seen, if underutilized. Is it the default? No. But you can make it the Word default if you want to. It's not the default filetype in OO.o, either.
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Of limited imagination, are we? You can't envision a scenario whereby it could be used maliciously? That it is not always for the greater good?
I'm glad some of us can.
It helps us track when employees [...] just go goof off which a great many do.
Maybe you should hire different employees. Or maybe they should hire a different boss.
The underpaid, overworked, undertrained library admin who installs a keylogger knows he is installing a keylogger, and is doing so on purpose. He who installs GDS may not realize it does pretty much the same thing.
Until this publicity.
Yes, I forgot the know in my original.
And then the Google cache also. Which, on a public machine, you may or may not is there, and may not have access to.
So is your right to freedom, but if you voluntarily give up that right, you have no one to blame but yourself.
Oh, and it takes a bit more than a single drug offense to get a felony conviction.
Dell might technically sell you Linux if you ask for it, but they sure go out of their way to make sure you don't ask about it.
Sure. 3 clicks:
Dell|Small Business|Desktops. "Dell Alternative Operating System Desktops" is listed right there with the regular Dimension, Optiplex, and Precision Windows offerings. Granted, you have to choose 'Small Business' instead of 'Home', but it's not that hard.
The very fact that you have been modded informative serves to demonstrate that Dell + RedHat is not an obvious option and most people remain blissfully unaware that it exists.
It might also point to the possibility that people here don't buy 'off the rack'.
Yes, Dell 'recommends' Windows. Prominently. But other options are there, and it's not that hard to get there.
You can get a Dell with no OS, and with FreeDOS in the box. Or you can get a Dell Precision with RH pre-installed.
note: I haven't bought a retail PC in years, but this was a VERY good deal.
The printing mechanism is still a bit rudimentary, using a mechanism similar to a large format plotter (moving a pen in X/Y coordinates). Some models do this better than others. Some are even extraordinary at this. A few work well in 3D space. Unfortunately, if you are saddled with a lower performing output module, you cannot yet buy an upgrade for it, nor install a new one. You are stuck with it as delivered.
By eliminating baggers, they can afford to not raise the prices storewide by 1/2 a cent, as they normally would have done. Now 'lower' prices, just not raise them. You get to pocket that 1/2 cent per item as payment. Which is about right. 50 items in your cart, 25 cents. It takes maybe 2 minutes to bag, so you're getting paid $15/hr to bag your own stuff.
If I really had a hankering for an all in one like this (yeah, right), a Sony VAIO would be better, for about the same price. Better specs, cleaner design, much better company longevity.
No, they're not. Some states and cities have helmet laws, but by far not all, nor even most. And of those that do, mostly it's for under 18's or under 16's.
"Two independent hydraulic brake systems; operated by a foot pedal and a hand lever; parking brake function on the foot pedal"
Why a helmet? The top speed of this thing is probably not much above jogging speed, and its width makes it very stable. And people aren't regularly chastised for running without a helmet.
According to Kevin Kushman (CEO of Current Communications), "This [ruling] will spur a national buildout of BPL."
And without the fancy gyros needed, it could be built a lot cheaper.
You are talking about two different, mostly nonintersecting sets of parents.
Yes. I'm sure the judge wants to read all about the GNAA, the goatse guy, and whatever fool(s) thought they got first post, but didn't.
That'll go over REAL well.
2000. Florida. Tossing out as many military absentee ballots as possible. (military voters being presumably somewhat right-leaning)
At least one of the people with actual access to the data (and someone HAS to have access to it), will get pissed off at work, and will snag a few million rows of data (yours, maybe) and ftp/p2p/sneakernet it home. Later, when he gets fired for being an ass, he will sell it to various unsavory characters.
It happened at AOL, it's happened with banks, it's happened with credit card companies.
It will happen.
Canada plans to install
So let's use the blimps now, until these come online.
Or, adapt and redploy the OTH-B.
I believe it was 95-0.
Pretty much anything in the service industry. Having customers scream at you when you get paid $6/hr is way worse than having customers scream at you when you get paid $80k/year.
Bush has said he agrees with the general ideas, but not the details of this particular treaty. Accepting a flawed reaty may well prevent you from getting something that actually works.
Major flaws
1. Major producer China is exempted. Net increase in the coming years.
2. Former Soviet Union states are already below their 1990 levels. They are then allowed to sell credits to other states. Net CO2 decrease - zero.
Here's my proposal:
Decrease a countries net CO2 output by X%, within Y years. Initial CO2 measuring point being the day it is ratified in that country. No exceptions, no CO2 credits. 'Reduce by X%'. Period.
This has several beneficial effects. 1. A level playing field. 2. Encouragement to ratify quickly, before your CO2 output increases even further. 3. Richer countries gain moneymaiking opportunities for helping poorer countries to meet their requirement. 4. Poorer countries get the technology transfer.
Alas, this would never fly, because it doesn't give an automatic advantage to some, and penalize others.
I completely agree with you that CO2 output should be reduced. Where we disagree is who. Doing the wrong thing, even under the best of intentions, is usually worse than doing nothing. We all live on the same ball. Let's all work together.
I'd really like to see a 10 year comparison of that data rather than a one time shot.
How about a different Kyoto? One that doesn't major current and future polluters blameless, and penalize everyone else.
Kyoto is a good start, which is better than nothing. The perfect is the enemy of the merely good.
And the well meaning but fundamentally flawed is the enemy of the good.
You must be looking at a different version of Office than I am. RTF is alive and well in every vesion I've seen, if underutilized. Is it the default? No. But you can make it the Word default if you want to.
It's not the default filetype in OO.o, either.