People who have apple products don't upgrade as often because a) they don't know how to upgrade b) their experience is so "controlled" they don't need to upgrade or don't realize it c) it's too expensive to upgrade so they don't d) They paid so much for the thing they can't afford to upgrade e) they've drank so much coolaid they don't want to admit the system is outdated I'm mostly kidding with that though, I think the real answer is B. I am a PC guy and I make money off of PC's, but I was asked this weekend about whether a guy should buy a macbook pro, he has a hookup and can get a model-year-end deal on one. I told him honestly that they are very nice and he would not be disappointed, and especially so if he can get a good discount.
There is so much outcry that the TSA "security theater" is ineffective and many people realize it is just there to make you feel safe. The goons are mostly unskilled and mostly untrained (2 weeks training, you get to grope), and have less security clearance than you do - yet they can make your life miserable and cause you no end of grief if you don't play Janet's game by her rules.
Recall the youtube video by a pilot who was outraged that flight crews had to go through the grope machine, yet any ground crew with a card can swipe into secure areas with no check and freely do whatever with the planes. What about that guy who just recently bribed a ticket agent to check a bag with someone elses name on it?
All of the security policies are based on responses to supposed threats - someone had a bomb in their shoe, everyone take off the shoes. Someone had a bomb in their underwear - full body scan/grope. How about a preventative security policy, not a reactive security policy?
So if they scanned your RFID card would it have a picture of you come up? Or could anyone who stole your card get your access?
If you want to read up on the topics of memory systems, here are some terms to Google:
Loci - a memory system to "walk a path" in your mind, placing objects at predictable locations along the path. Then you re-walk it, and can "see" what objects were left there. Links: 12
Major System - a system that translates digits to consonants, so that numbers can be pictured as words: Links: 12
Link System - a system to chain together 2 objects, so that a list of arbitrary length can be remembered 2 objects at a time. 12
Dominic System - a system that converts numeric values (typically 2 or 3 digit numbers) to memorable people. Links: 1 2
Memory Palace - a way of using loci on a massive scale Link
I can attest to this stuff being legit. I was shown the link system technique years ago and dabbled in it, and it does indeed work. I don't necessarily do it now, but I do have a good memory with some things.
This has my interest piqued again, I need to take a look at this stuff.
Yes, security is inconvenient. I even have a hard time getting organizations to use passwords longer than 3 characters, let alone "complex" and expiring once a quarter. More than one password?!?!?!? It's a disaster. Can't put up with it. Not gonna happen.
I think implementing biometrics is the way to go, swiping a finger is much easier than typing. Also don't have to remember it or write it on the post-it note stuck to the monitor.
Common sense? Well, social engineering is one of the biggest security holes, but I think a hacker would have a hard time with some people I've ran into because they probably wouldn't understand his social engineer questions.
"What's your password?" "You mean the thing I type in first in the morning, or the thing I type in later when I want to fire up the hard drive?" "uhhhh.... The first one?" "Hold on... Mabel! What do I type when I come in? P.. A.. S.. S... W.. O... R... D... What was that last part Mabel? P.... A.... No, not that, The first thing I type!" "!@$#!@#!.... click."
How many elderly people do you think have cell phone only?
Probably a number very close to zero. My parents are ~70 years old, fairly tech savvy - my dad is a retired electrical engineer. They have JUST started getting into the habit of actually taking the cell phone WITH them and turning it ON. I don't think they will ever get rid of their landline.
Anyone in danger of "I've fallen and I can't get up" will most likely have a POTS. My wife and I have not had a landline since 2003 and we probably never will again. We have, however, got a prepaid cell for our kids to learn on. Not having a POTS in the house, and not wanting a kid to call Bangladesh from our cells, has made it an interesting challenge to get them used to using a phone.
Users have, it claims, also complained of missing functionality, a lack of usability and poor interoperability."
Gee, flame me if you want, but it sounds to me like they were using linux in a windows world, not a linux world. You'll have those problems.
For day to day office things - documents, emails, internet, that kind of stuff, why couldn't they have been perfectly productive if everyone was using the same platform. Interoperability? With what? Windows? That's the problem. If everyone you interact with is using linux, you won't have windows interoperability problems.
From reading TFA it seems like not everything was switched. Some things were dual boot. They mentioned having to write their own drivers for things like scanners. Why not get scanners that work with linux?
I'm getting ready to switch back to linux for my work desktop. I have been using windows 7 since it came out, but now I think I can get along better with a win7 VM and a good linux desktop. When I was last using linux I recall it working just fine with printers and scanners. In fact I was most impressed when linux dutifully went out on it's own and found ALL the printers on the network and started grabbing drivers. I was able to do everything I needed to do being the only linux station amongst a world of windows boxes. I hooked up an old hp scan/print device (with a dead print, but working scan) and it got the driver on it's own. I needed to scan something and I opened gimp and hit "acquire" and boom, there's my scan. No hassles or config required.
Sounds to me like more is going on than TFA is letting on. I think the microsoft marketing team has been hard at work.
It's the stinkin corexit. They were told not to use it, they did anyway. They claimed the oil was just "gone" and claimed success, but no, it was on the floor.
http://www.google.com/search?q=dispersant+corexit
Conspiracy or not, doesn't matter - the rig blew up, they dumped crap in the water, made the problem disappear from view, and now the GOM is messed up and oil is more expensive now.
If your Facebook privacy settings are up all the way (i.e., friends only) then what is there to worry about?
How do you know your "friends" aren't watching YOU? Do you have any FB friends you don't really know? Are you sure?
I may or may not have created a completely bogus account on a popular social networking site, complete with using TOR to create it, fake nationality, language, pictures, names, interests, personal data, email address. I may or may not have quite a number of friends on that account, some from this country, some from other countries.
Lots of people accept friend requests from anyone and everyone. How many times have you got a friend request from "Shaniqua" or some other name and all it is is an account with a pic of a hot babe. Yeah, all of those are real people. Sure.
IndustrialComplex thinks that the weather was nice yesterday, he wishes it could stay like this for the entire weekend.
Decrypt that message. F
So all those "friends" on my facebook mindlessly telling me throughout the day what they are thinking about making for supper, that they have started making supper, how the supper tasted, and what they want for dessert, and that their dog took too long to crap during their walk - might be secret government clandestine communications??!?!
Makes more sense now. It's a perfect cover to put mindless drivel in amongst mindless drivel.
It's all about context. Sure, Google delists sites all the time—for trying to game its algorithm. De-indexing a site in retaliation for some unrelated action is a different ball of wax.
I think that google has enough clout that "losing" the MPAA and all related content would not result in any significant political damage.
Would anyone, not financially benefiting from the MPAA directly, care if they didn't exist tomorrow? And I'm talking about people IN the ??AA and those who they pay off via lobbying.
Most people know that the MPAA and RIAA are obsolete and resorting to shakedowns and thuggery, only surviving by lawsuit and lobbying.
In real everyday business life, using existing documents as a starting point instead of generating new documents from scratch is considered a good business practice. Chances are have "cheated" won't effect their careers at all.
Also in college you can't 100% cheat your way through all the way. You just can't. There's final exams, there's certification type tests in various fields such as accounting or engineering (the EIT), and so on.
Homework, essays, labs, sure. There are some classes that are "total file" where the prof barely changes the assignments and tests from year to year and people can "study the file". You still have to show up and regurgitate the info you "studied" onto the paper. It still gets into the head a little bit.
The bigger problem with college is the massive amount of learning you dont use for years and then later have a need for something and can't remember step 1. I have been told that a university degree is good for 5 to 10 years max. After that it's real world experience that counts for anything.
From all aspects of user-dom. Geeks who want and understand security and power. Grandmas who don't understand the difference between right and left click. Everyone in between.
Free thinkers who might give them ideas so they do what/. says they never do - innovate.
What good will Engineers do? Code-jockeys are idea people now?
Big red letters on the front of the manual. "YOU BRICK IT WARRANTY IS VOID!"
solves the first problem.
Second problem? stop selling hardware crippled that needs to be unlocked with a secret "unlock code" to pump profits. Be honest and sell your $690.00 item for $690.00
How many people would swarm to buy the iphone 4 (I need an iphone 4 with lots of the Gee Bees and the Why Fies!) if the price wasn't subsidized? And how many of the mindless iphone drones jailbreak it? Yeah it is really a powerful device but what percentage are truly using its potential and how many are using it as a facebook posting appendage?
You say that like it's the GPS's fault. What do you think it runs off, magic fairy dust?
Nope, it was the car's fault for not having a working power plug. That, or it was the fairy's fault for not providing enough dust that day. Come on, fairy! I need to get places, you insensitive little winged clod!
So did the GPS fail because you're on the bottom side of the earth?
(jk)
It's really easy to rely totally on the GPS and get burned. Case in point: If you use it to go to a hotel far away at a place you've never been, and then use it to go to a different place from the hotel, and the battery dies, GOOD LUCK GETTING BACK TO THE HOTEL. (been there done that) The gps works only when the battery is charged. We had a problem with the 12v power plug and couldn't charge in the car.
Except, on the tor network the van is swapped for a bus at its first node, a truck at the second, a fleet of yugo's at the third, etc, etc..
Similarly the homing pigeon is switched with a homing goat, homing otter, homing walking stick, etc.
It's really quite a fascinating process.
Awww come on I thought it was tubes. Now it's trucks, vans and yugos? This is tricky.
IE 7 wasn't too bad, I'll be honest. I never used it regularly, but when I have used it there weren't any real problems. But IE8 is crap. It didn't work when it came out, and it still doesn't work. Just today I was on a state website looking for weather advisories and had to turn on compatibility mode just to view the page.
Many websites such as colleges and schools and medical websites for insurance and other healthcare work simply do NOT work with IE8. Still.
I was working on a brand new 48 port gigabit switch about 3 months ago using a netbook with windows 7 starter on it. I fired up IE8 and went to the switch. I was attempting to configure it, but settings would not take. It gave no errors or indications of what was going on, just nothing would work. I called the manufacturer and after discussing the setup the person on the phone said "try using a different browser like firefox" and wouldn't you know, everything just started working. Even compatibility mode would not work.
So, since Microsoft's flagship OS, their first good OS since XP came out, is tied to a browser that DOESN'T WORK, how can they be surprised that other browsers are gaining in popularity?
This is a joke, really. XP and the machines it is on are dying. No-one bought vista. People are buying win7 machines in droves. They CANNOT use IE7 on win7. IE8 is annoying and has problems. What are the average non-tech savvy users to do? Luckily the average ignorant user will encounter chrome because it pops up now and then bundled with other downloads like maybe Acrobat reader, various freeware apps, etc.
I was talking with a somewhat tech savvy person the other day who (sorta) makes websites. He said he has found and is stunned with the incompatibility that IE8 has with web standards. Stunned. According to him, If MS thinks IE8 should be the main browser out there why wouldn't they at least adhere or work with web standards?
Whatever. FF is good for surfing. I use Chrome for video, it seems to be better for stuff like netflix or other streaming.
Not that people need proof or anything to sue these days, but...
I would have had (at least) one phone with it's battery out (or dead, or both)
Another phone with all it's services turned off, and the phone turned off.
Another phone with all it's services turned off, and the phone left on
Another with it's services on, and the phone off
Another with it's services on, and the phone on
I would then take a second group of all the above phones, and a few times a day, send them a phone call (unanswered) and a text message (unread).
(For the sake of cost efficiency, you could use just one phone in all the above states, it'd just take longer)
Ideally, the phones that are off or dead should have no consumption, those that are on or have services running should have more. There's a non-zero chance the off-but-not-dead are in a "vampire" state, and will still draw a trickle of data.
That's a good scientific study. But these are lawyers, at least they have something. For lawyers that's good.
The nextgenhacker101 tracert video is awesome. I was almost embarrassed for the guy. I work in the computer field and I'll admit I don't know everything by any means. But to actually make a YT video claiming something is something when it is not even close to what you're saying it is - that's amazingly far down the road of dumb.
This guy from tfa is following a list of commands he got from somewhere, but my question is what was the list supposed to accomplish?
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People who have apple products don't upgrade as often because
a) they don't know how to upgrade b) their experience is so "controlled" they don't need to upgrade or don't realize it c) it's too expensive to upgrade so they don't d) They paid so much for the thing they can't afford to upgrade e) they've drank so much coolaid they don't want to admit the system is outdated
I'm mostly kidding with that though, I think the real answer is B.
I am a PC guy and I make money off of PC's, but I was asked this weekend about whether a guy should buy a macbook pro, he has a hookup and can get a model-year-end deal on one. I told him honestly that they are very nice and he would not be disappointed, and especially so if he can get a good discount.
There is so much outcry that the TSA "security theater" is ineffective and many people realize it is just there to make you feel safe. The goons are mostly unskilled and mostly untrained (2 weeks training, you get to grope), and have less security clearance than you do - yet they can make your life miserable and cause you no end of grief if you don't play Janet's game by her rules.
Recall the youtube video by a pilot who was outraged that flight crews had to go through the grope machine, yet any ground crew with a card can swipe into secure areas with no check and freely do whatever with the planes. What about that guy who just recently bribed a ticket agent to check a bag with someone elses name on it?
All of the security policies are based on responses to supposed threats - someone had a bomb in their shoe, everyone take off the shoes. Someone had a bomb in their underwear - full body scan/grope. How about a preventative security policy, not a reactive security policy?
So if they scanned your RFID card would it have a picture of you come up? Or could anyone who stole your card get your access?
If you want to read up on the topics of memory systems, here are some terms to Google:
Loci - a memory system to "walk a path" in your mind, placing objects at predictable locations along the path. Then you re-walk it, and can "see" what objects were left there. Links: 1 2
Major System - a system that translates digits to consonants, so that numbers can be pictured as words: Links: 1 2
Link System - a system to chain together 2 objects, so that a list of arbitrary length can be remembered 2 objects at a time. 1 2
Dominic System - a system that converts numeric values (typically 2 or 3 digit numbers) to memorable people. Links: 1 2
Memory Palace - a way of using loci on a massive scale Link
I can attest to this stuff being legit. I was shown the link system technique years ago and dabbled in it, and it does indeed work. I don't necessarily do it now, but I do have a good memory with some things.
This has my interest piqued again, I need to take a look at this stuff.
What's your take on vinyl?
Yes, security is inconvenient. I even have a hard time getting organizations to use passwords longer than 3 characters, let alone "complex" and expiring once a quarter. More than one password?!?!?!? It's a disaster. Can't put up with it. Not gonna happen.
.. A .. S .. S... W .. O ... R... D... What was that last part Mabel? P.... A .... No, not that, The first thing I type!" "!@$#!@#! .... click."
I think implementing biometrics is the way to go, swiping a finger is much easier than typing. Also don't have to remember it or write it on the post-it note stuck to the monitor.
Common sense? Well, social engineering is one of the biggest security holes, but I think a hacker would have a hard time with some people I've ran into because they probably wouldn't understand his social engineer questions.
"What's your password?" "You mean the thing I type in first in the morning, or the thing I type in later when I want to fire up the hard drive?" "uhhhh.... The first one?" "Hold on... Mabel! What do I type when I come in? P
How many elderly people do you think have cell phone only?
Probably a number very close to zero. My parents are ~70 years old, fairly tech savvy - my dad is a retired electrical engineer. They have JUST started getting into the habit of actually taking the cell phone WITH them and turning it ON. I don't think they will ever get rid of their landline.
Anyone in danger of "I've fallen and I can't get up" will most likely have a POTS. My wife and I have not had a landline since 2003 and we probably never will again. We have, however, got a prepaid cell for our kids to learn on. Not having a POTS in the house, and not wanting a kid to call Bangladesh from our cells, has made it an interesting challenge to get them used to using a phone.
Users have, it claims, also complained of missing functionality, a lack of usability and poor interoperability."
Gee, flame me if you want, but it sounds to me like they were using linux in a windows world, not a linux world. You'll have those problems.
For day to day office things - documents, emails, internet, that kind of stuff, why couldn't they have been perfectly productive if everyone was using the same platform. Interoperability? With what? Windows? That's the problem. If everyone you interact with is using linux, you won't have windows interoperability problems.
From reading TFA it seems like not everything was switched. Some things were dual boot. They mentioned having to write their own drivers for things like scanners. Why not get scanners that work with linux?
I'm getting ready to switch back to linux for my work desktop. I have been using windows 7 since it came out, but now I think I can get along better with a win7 VM and a good linux desktop. When I was last using linux I recall it working just fine with printers and scanners. In fact I was most impressed when linux dutifully went out on it's own and found ALL the printers on the network and started grabbing drivers. I was able to do everything I needed to do being the only linux station amongst a world of windows boxes. I hooked up an old hp scan/print device (with a dead print, but working scan) and it got the driver on it's own. I needed to scan something and I opened gimp and hit "acquire" and boom, there's my scan. No hassles or config required.
Sounds to me like more is going on than TFA is letting on. I think the microsoft marketing team has been hard at work.
It's the stinkin corexit. They were told not to use it, they did anyway. They claimed the oil was just "gone" and claimed success, but no, it was on the floor.
http://www.google.com/search?q=dispersant+corexit
Conspiracy or not, doesn't matter - the rig blew up, they dumped crap in the water, made the problem disappear from view, and now the GOM is messed up and oil is more expensive now.
Thanks, BP. Appreciate it. Hope it was worth it.
That's what I said, I accidentally the URL bar! What should I do?
how about "I accidentally the url bar"
If your Facebook privacy settings are up all the way (i.e., friends only) then what is there to worry about?
How do you know your "friends" aren't watching YOU? Do you have any FB friends you don't really know? Are you sure?
I may or may not have created a completely bogus account on a popular social networking site, complete with using TOR to create it, fake nationality, language, pictures, names, interests, personal data, email address. I may or may not have quite a number of friends on that account, some from this country, some from other countries.
Lots of people accept friend requests from anyone and everyone. How many times have you got a friend request from "Shaniqua" or some other name and all it is is an account with a pic of a hot babe. Yeah, all of those are real people. Sure.
IndustrialComplex thinks that the weather was nice yesterday, he wishes it could stay like this for the entire weekend.
Decrypt that message. F
So all those "friends" on my facebook mindlessly telling me throughout the day what they are thinking about making for supper, that they have started making supper, how the supper tasted, and what they want for dessert, and that their dog took too long to crap during their walk - might be secret government clandestine communications??!?!
Makes more sense now. It's a perfect cover to put mindless drivel in amongst mindless drivel.
It's all about context. Sure, Google delists sites all the time—for trying to game its algorithm. De-indexing a site in retaliation for some unrelated action is a different ball of wax.
I think that google has enough clout that "losing" the MPAA and all related content would not result in any significant political damage.
Would anyone, not financially benefiting from the MPAA directly, care if they didn't exist tomorrow? And I'm talking about people IN the ??AA and those who they pay off via lobbying.
Most people know that the MPAA and RIAA are obsolete and resorting to shakedowns and thuggery, only surviving by lawsuit and lobbying.
In real everyday business life, using existing documents as a starting point instead of generating new documents from scratch is considered a good business practice. Chances are have "cheated" won't effect their careers at all.
Also in college you can't 100% cheat your way through all the way. You just can't. There's final exams, there's certification type tests in various fields such as accounting or engineering (the EIT), and so on.
Homework, essays, labs, sure. There are some classes that are "total file" where the prof barely changes the assignments and tests from year to year and people can "study the file". You still have to show up and regurgitate the info you "studied" onto the paper. It still gets into the head a little bit.
The bigger problem with college is the massive amount of learning you dont use for years and then later have a need for something and can't remember step 1. I have been told that a university degree is good for 5 to 10 years max. After that it's real world experience that counts for anything.
Engineers? How about users.
/. says they never do - innovate.
From all aspects of user-dom. Geeks who want and understand security and power. Grandmas who don't understand the difference between right and left click. Everyone in between.
Free thinkers who might give them ideas so they do what
What good will Engineers do? Code-jockeys are idea people now?
this is MS not apple. or google.
Big red letters on the front of the manual. "YOU BRICK IT WARRANTY IS VOID!"
solves the first problem.
Second problem? stop selling hardware crippled that needs to be unlocked with a secret "unlock code" to pump profits. Be honest and sell your $690.00 item for $690.00
How many people would swarm to buy the iphone 4 (I need an iphone 4 with lots of the Gee Bees and the Why Fies!) if the price wasn't subsidized? And how many of the mindless iphone drones jailbreak it? Yeah it is really a powerful device but what percentage are truly using its potential and how many are using it as a facebook posting appendage?
http://www.ufopicture.org/soho_ufo_pictures.html
This was desperately needed because these pictures are crap.
Frankly, they look about as detailed as this: http://www.spaceshooter.com/games/screenshot.php?pid=34&shot=5
The gps works only when the battery is charged.
You say that like it's the GPS's fault. What do you think it runs off, magic fairy dust?
Nope, it was the car's fault for not having a working power plug. That, or it was the fairy's fault for not providing enough dust that day. Come on, fairy! I need to get places, you insensitive little winged clod!
So did the GPS fail because you're on the bottom side of the earth?
(jk)
It's really easy to rely totally on the GPS and get burned. Case in point: If you use it to go to a hotel far away at a place you've never been, and then use it to go to a different place from the hotel, and the battery dies, GOOD LUCK GETTING BACK TO THE HOTEL. (been there done that) The gps works only when the battery is charged. We had a problem with the 12v power plug and couldn't charge in the car.
Mice are fast and hard to see, but I would think rats have a little more brain capacity.
I've got some pet rats and they seem to be a little less hyper and less brainless than the smaller rodents like mice, gerbils and hamsters.
Rodents certainly do have keener senses than humans, and less obvious than dogs.
Note that rats and mice are not kosher.
Didn't Cockerham do this already?
http://cockeyed.com/incredible/solardish/dish01.shtml
Homing pigeons and vans filled with hard drives.
Except, on the tor network the van is swapped for a bus at its first node, a truck at the second, a fleet of yugo's at the third, etc, etc.. Similarly the homing pigeon is switched with a homing goat, homing otter, homing walking stick, etc. It's really quite a fascinating process.
Awww come on I thought it was tubes. Now it's trucks, vans and yugos? This is tricky.
IE 7 wasn't too bad, I'll be honest. I never used it regularly, but when I have used it there weren't any real problems. But IE8 is crap. It didn't work when it came out, and it still doesn't work. Just today I was on a state website looking for weather advisories and had to turn on compatibility mode just to view the page.
Many websites such as colleges and schools and medical websites for insurance and other healthcare work simply do NOT work with IE8. Still.
I was working on a brand new 48 port gigabit switch about 3 months ago using a netbook with windows 7 starter on it. I fired up IE8 and went to the switch. I was attempting to configure it, but settings would not take. It gave no errors or indications of what was going on, just nothing would work. I called the manufacturer and after discussing the setup the person on the phone said "try using a different browser like firefox" and wouldn't you know, everything just started working. Even compatibility mode would not work.
So, since Microsoft's flagship OS, their first good OS since XP came out, is tied to a browser that DOESN'T WORK, how can they be surprised that other browsers are gaining in popularity?
This is a joke, really. XP and the machines it is on are dying. No-one bought vista. People are buying win7 machines in droves. They CANNOT use IE7 on win7. IE8 is annoying and has problems. What are the average non-tech savvy users to do? Luckily the average ignorant user will encounter chrome because it pops up now and then bundled with other downloads like maybe Acrobat reader, various freeware apps, etc.
I was talking with a somewhat tech savvy person the other day who (sorta) makes websites. He said he has found and is stunned with the incompatibility that IE8 has with web standards. Stunned. According to him, If MS thinks IE8 should be the main browser out there why wouldn't they at least adhere or work with web standards?
Whatever. FF is good for surfing. I use Chrome for video, it seems to be better for stuff like netflix or other streaming.
Not that people need proof or anything to sue these days, but...
I would then take a second group of all the above phones, and a few times a day, send them a phone call (unanswered) and a text message (unread).
(For the sake of cost efficiency, you could use just one phone in all the above states, it'd just take longer)
Ideally, the phones that are off or dead should have no consumption, those that are on or have services running should have more. There's a non-zero chance the off-but-not-dead are in a "vampire" state, and will still draw a trickle of data.
That's a good scientific study. But these are lawyers, at least they have something. For lawyers that's good.
The nextgenhacker101 tracert video is awesome. I was almost embarrassed for the guy. I work in the computer field and I'll admit I don't know everything by any means. But to actually make a YT video claiming something is something when it is not even close to what you're saying it is - that's amazingly far down the road of dumb.
This guy from tfa is following a list of commands he got from somewhere, but my question is what was the list supposed to accomplish?