I seem to remember a case not that long ago where a popular AV product would accidentally flag+nuke an (uninfected) core windows file, rendering systems unbootable.
I'm willing to chalk this one up to stupid - but not deliberate - mistake.
Well, the one major reason I see is the google acquisition of Motorola, which AFAIK is one of the few companies not paying MS royalties. A proxy battle between the big G and the big M might be set to occur if Microsoft pushes patent claims against Motorola. If they don't, well then it's a pretty good signal to everyone else that they're not so sure of their patents after all...
if a debt collector is after you I think you have other things to worry about.
I've had plenty of calls from debt collectors.... ones that are looking for somebody else but had the wrong number. Some of them were professional and did remove me when asked, some were very much not so and insisted that I must know [person X]. So being as I owe them no debt, I fail to see how this is useful advice.
It's also the filesystem that comes by standard on most SD cards, USB drives, etc.
Most people would probably be fairly annoyed if they copied a bunch of pictures/music/whatever on to the card only to have it be reformatted in order to be used on the device...
Some of the best games have had female protagonists or at least strong female characters. See for example Terra (and also Celes) in FFVI (in other games, see Samus in Metroid, Ming+Seth in Lost Odyssey (which, BTW if you liked the older FF games, you should try). Female Sheppard in Mass Effect, etc
Not take FFX-2. The gameplay and much of the storyline reminded me a bit too much of a bad Sailor Moon episode (DressSpheres, cmon!?). Moreover, retarded cutscenes like the hot-springs-breast-comparison were just SAD. Yes, other FF's had scenes that were lame, but in more of an "odd" way rather than the infantile way that FFX-2 was
And being a police officer isn't a free ticket to smashing somebody's face in. Being arrested should be the legal and reasonable answer to illegal activity (civil disobedience or no). Being assaulted is not.
A tablet (iPad style) is *not* a replacement for a PC. For many cases, it serves a niche somewhere between a portable gaming system, a PC (and maybe a book). Yes, you can do things like read email or check facebook, but there are plenty of things you can't do (or not easily, at least). When a tablet can comfortably and conveniently power three displays, type comfortably, play skyrim/Diable3/MW3, manage security systems, render 3d graphics or house designs, download hundreds of gigs of data, serve webpages, play music/video with full HD/surround, re-encode media, edit images, etc etc.. then PC's may be on the out, but more likely they'll evolve.
In the meantime, newegg remains a competitive source for barebones kits, RAM, power supplies, USB gadgets, and much more.
I also once read that, due to the level of fluid absorption rates and/or other factors (between orifice used), normal copulation between straight couples had a lower chance of transmission.
Of course some straight couples don't necessary use the reproductive orifice, but the overall population is at a bit less of a risk of transmission.
Pick up map. Look up destination. Try to find the street on the legend, correspond to a bunch of X/Y grid entries, and get there. Try to determine the best way through all the various highways, one-way streets, etc on the way. Get partway there and run into construction. End up taking a different route. Stop, and re-read map. Plot alternate route. End up discovering that street stops and starts in multiple sections and require a roundabout route to your destination. Arrive at destination, only to discover that it doesn't exist and that you should have been on 1st Ave East and not just 1st ave. (and yes, I've had this experience before).
OR
Turn on location services. Type in "Bob's Market" in your GPS-enabled device. Click "directions." Follow the route given and spoken aloud... which is auto-corrected whenever you are diverted or have to make an unexpected turnoff to pee.
I don't need my GPS when going places in town, but when you're travelling 200+km to a destination you've never visited before, it's sure a nice thing to have...
Most convenient is if you're in an unfamiliar location, and you want to find "Store X." Pop the name into maps, and a few of the most nearby locations pops up for easy navigation.
Indeed. While some people are just dying to buy the next iPhone without even knowing what it'll be, there are still a lot of people who still ask "which is better." I've heard plenty of salespeople expounding the power of the Galaxy S2 vs iPhone 4. Face it, the 4 is older and significantly behind the S2 in terms of most hardware. There's also some neat phones like the evo3d etc (not available here).
Salespeople are going to gravitate towards pushing the highest-margin item that sells. By having the S2 banned, Apple has time to come up with a new phone that they can then sell as the newest and most expensive. It's no coincidence that the iPhone5 was being hyped up prior to *any* specs coming out, it's a way of trying to prevent people from buying "somebody else's phone" but instead waiting for apple. By killing off other choices using lawsuits - even for awhile - Apple can keep those other phone companies from taking away potential "next gen" iDevice sales...
Good memory seems often as much a curse as a blessing. I don't know what causes some things to stick more than others - I can't remember a textbook word-for-word after reading it - but I can remember tons of things that I'd rather I didn't.
The worst ones seem not to be those which happened to me, but stupid things which I did. Many of those were things that seemed OK at the time (hey, I was a big dork/dweeb pre-college), but weren't overly memorable at the moment. Now though, I can remember them as dweebish things I've done, spiteful things I've said, all the way back to early elementary. I don't know WTF caused them to be lodged in my brain, but remembering a jerk'ish thing I've done is a whole lot more painful than remembering things done to me.
I'm hoping that by default it's disabled and requires enabling+password to work.
However, isn't VNC an insecure protocol? Perhaps it had a default SSL layer or something like that (I suppose then it would need an ability to update the cert as well) then it would be a safer solution.
In some cases. But unless it's a well cared-for "classic", then any particular vehicle tends to depreciated with age, rather than appreciate. Sure, new cars may cost most, but there tends to be a fairly noticeable difference in terms of features and design over the decades. Very few people are going to want a car that's 30 years old, but a 30-year-old house has still gone up considerable in price (a good portion of that being attributable to land-value, etc).
To put it simpler, when you tax a company, they raise prices to pay that tax. Customers pay those higher prices to cover that tax.
Or when they don't meet shareholder expectations of continuous rise in profit, etc etc. Just because that's the way it is, doesn't mean it's good. There's also a ceiling to how much you can raise prices. Too much, and suddenly you're uncompetitive and nobody is going to buy your product.
Some people would like the publicity... mega-trolls like this already fall towards the end of "like attention, even when it's negative" so such publicity might be an attraction rather than a deterrent
First: It's good to see that you've taught your child the dangers of peanuts as opposed to the common stance of trying to ban them school-wide. Congrats
Second: I have lots of personal experience with grass/animal allergies. For the pet allergies, the best way to get over those is to get a pet (and not bury your face in it anytime in the near future). I got over allergies to cats and bird that way over time.
Overall, it sounds to me like they need to improve the testing for life-threatening allergies. I'd hate to be banned from something for life only to find that I was never severely allergic in the first place. I do have some life-threatening allergies myself, but knowing how to deal with them is a big part of the battle (and again, congrats on the education vs ban choice).
I used to work in schools. There was one kid who supposedly had one of those look-at-a-peanut-and-die severity of allergies. The school was made peanut free. One "bully" who was apparently ticked off about no longer being able to eat PB&J at lunch decided to take it out on allergy-kid... but mashing a bunch of peanut in his face.
Was there instant peanut-induced choking and death? Not at all. Allergy-kid simply had to clean the peanut off his face... no reaction.
There are people with severe allergies, but a lot of the peanut scare is a farce.
Maybe he doesn't plan on making money from the power industry, but rather from industry that depends on having consistently available and reliable power...
And what exactly are school IT admins supposed to do about facebook etc? How about when an irate parent comes in and starts screaming about how little Johnny put up something nasty about little Bobby on facebook... after school hours... on a home computer...
What do you want to do?
When you've already banned FB and a few dozen proxy sites, but kids still find other proxies or just use their own smartphones.
What do you do?
When you catch kids doing sh*t on the network that is obviously against policy... You can't permaban them because "computers are needed for schoolwork"... The school can't enact punishment because the previously I-don't-give-a-shit parents suddenly explode at the school admins if their little darlin' actually gets a reprimand...
what do you do?
School IT admin isn't as behind as you might think. It *is* often chronically underfunded compared to other areas, but that funding comes from tax dollars.
The problem is you have way too many people screaming for a technical solution to a social problem, mainly because if it were addressed as a social problem they'd have to deal with it themselves.
"All they are asking is Samsung to stop making devices that look EXACTLY like the equivalent Apple devices"
Which ones would those be? I've got a Galaxy S2, which when I compare it to my GF's iPhone doesn't come anywhere NEAR an exact replica. Yes, it's a f*cking smartphone, so it's black with a full-sized touch-LCD. It's got a power button, mic jack, volume button, and a camera (also a front-facing camera, which my laptop had long before and iPhone did).
It's got a square'ish physical "home" button on the bottom, PLUS a touch-sensitive "back" and "menu" button.
In terms of interface, the stock lock screen had a background picture which you swipe to move off (not like iphone, which had a better lock IMHO). There's a menu bar at the bottom for common function buttons (this initially replaces the "physical" buttons present on my previous phones), and general icons above that. It has multiple desktop screens, which is just as much a clone of my Linux desktop as the iPhone.
Oh, and it has a removable battery, standard micro-USB charge port , and an SD card slot. Again, different from the iPhone and a significant part of the reason why I'm happier with the S2 than I was with my previous iPhone.
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I seem to remember a case not that long ago where a popular AV product would accidentally flag+nuke an (uninfected) core windows file, rendering systems unbootable.
I'm willing to chalk this one up to stupid - but not deliberate - mistake.
Why should a court case be inevitable now?
Well, the one major reason I see is the google acquisition of Motorola, which AFAIK is one of the few companies not paying MS royalties. A proxy battle between the big G and the big M might be set to occur if Microsoft pushes patent claims against Motorola. If they don't, well then it's a pretty good signal to everyone else that they're not so sure of their patents after all...
if a debt collector is after you I think you have other things to worry about.
I've had plenty of calls from debt collectors.... ones that are looking for somebody else but had the wrong number. Some of them were professional and did remove me when asked, some were very much not so and insisted that I must know [person X]. So being as I owe them no debt, I fail to see how this is useful advice.
The only ones that can afford to do anything about it - short of a revolution - are the ones that are benefiting from it!
It's also the filesystem that comes by standard on most SD cards, USB drives, etc.
Most people would probably be fairly annoyed if they copied a bunch of pictures/music/whatever on to the card only to have it be reformatted in order to be used on the device...
Some of the best games have had female protagonists or at least strong female characters. See for example Terra (and also Celes) in FFVI (in other games, see Samus in Metroid, Ming+Seth in Lost Odyssey (which, BTW if you liked the older FF games, you should try). Female Sheppard in Mass Effect, etc
Not take FFX-2. The gameplay and much of the storyline reminded me a bit too much of a bad Sailor Moon episode (DressSpheres, cmon!?). Moreover, retarded cutscenes like the hot-springs-breast-comparison were just SAD. Yes, other FF's had scenes that were lame, but in more of an "odd" way rather than the infantile way that FFX-2 was
And being a police officer isn't a free ticket to smashing somebody's face in.
Being arrested should be the legal and reasonable answer to illegal activity (civil disobedience or no). Being assaulted is not.
A tablet (iPad style) is *not* a replacement for a PC. For many cases, it serves a niche somewhere between a portable gaming system, a PC (and maybe a book). Yes, you can do things like read email or check facebook, but there are plenty of things you can't do (or not easily, at least). When a tablet can comfortably and conveniently power three displays, type comfortably, play skyrim/Diable3/MW3, manage security systems, render 3d graphics or house designs, download hundreds of gigs of data, serve webpages, play music/video with full HD/surround, re-encode media, edit images, etc etc.. then PC's may be on the out, but more likely they'll evolve.
In the meantime, newegg remains a competitive source for barebones kits, RAM, power supplies, USB gadgets, and much more.
I also once read that, due to the level of fluid absorption rates and/or other factors (between orifice used), normal copulation between straight couples had a lower chance of transmission.
Of course some straight couples don't necessary use the reproductive orifice, but the overall population is at a bit less of a risk of transmission.
For Canada, they should probably include BC in that too:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/03/18/bc-supreme-ruling-telus-class-action.html
Let's see...
Pick up map. Look up destination. Try to find the street on the legend, correspond to a bunch of X/Y grid entries, and get there. Try to determine the best way through all the various highways, one-way streets, etc on the way. Get partway there and run into construction. End up taking a different route. Stop, and re-read map. Plot alternate route. End up discovering that street stops and starts in multiple sections and require a roundabout route to your destination. Arrive at destination, only to discover that it doesn't exist and that you should have been on 1st Ave East and not just 1st ave. (and yes, I've had this experience before).
OR
Turn on location services. Type in "Bob's Market" in your GPS-enabled device. Click "directions." Follow the route given and spoken aloud... which is auto-corrected whenever you are diverted or have to make an unexpected turnoff to pee.
I don't need my GPS when going places in town, but when you're travelling 200+km to a destination you've never visited before, it's sure a nice thing to have...
Most convenient is if you're in an unfamiliar location, and you want to find "Store X." Pop the name into maps, and a few of the most nearby locations pops up for easy navigation.
Indeed. While some people are just dying to buy the next iPhone without even knowing what it'll be, there are still a lot of people who still ask "which is better." I've heard plenty of salespeople expounding the power of the Galaxy S2 vs iPhone 4. Face it, the 4 is older and significantly behind the S2 in terms of most hardware. There's also some neat phones like the evo3d etc (not available here).
Salespeople are going to gravitate towards pushing the highest-margin item that sells. By having the S2 banned, Apple has time to come up with a new phone that they can then sell as the newest and most expensive. It's no coincidence that the iPhone5 was being hyped up prior to *any* specs coming out, it's a way of trying to prevent people from buying "somebody else's phone" but instead waiting for apple. By killing off other choices using lawsuits - even for awhile - Apple can keep those other phone companies from taking away potential "next gen" iDevice sales...
Good memory seems often as much a curse as a blessing. I don't know what causes some things to stick more than others - I can't remember a textbook word-for-word after reading it - but I can remember tons of things that I'd rather I didn't.
The worst ones seem not to be those which happened to me, but stupid things which I did. Many of those were things that seemed OK at the time (hey, I was a big dork/dweeb pre-college), but weren't overly memorable at the moment. Now though, I can remember them as dweebish things I've done, spiteful things I've said, all the way back to early elementary. I don't know WTF caused them to be lodged in my brain, but remembering a jerk'ish thing I've done is a whole lot more painful than remembering things done to me.
I'm hoping that by default it's disabled and requires enabling+password to work.
However, isn't VNC an insecure protocol? Perhaps it had a default SSL layer or something like that (I suppose then it would need an ability to update the cert as well) then it would be a safer solution.
In some cases. But unless it's a well cared-for "classic", then any particular vehicle tends to depreciated with age, rather than appreciate.
Sure, new cars may cost most, but there tends to be a fairly noticeable difference in terms of features and design over the decades. Very few people are going to want a car that's 30 years old, but a 30-year-old house has still gone up considerable in price (a good portion of that being attributable to land-value, etc).
To put it simpler, when you tax a company, they raise prices to pay that tax. Customers pay those higher prices to cover that tax.
Or when they don't meet shareholder expectations of continuous rise in profit, etc etc. Just because that's the way it is, doesn't mean it's good. There's also a ceiling to how much you can raise prices. Too much, and suddenly you're uncompetitive and nobody is going to buy your product.
You know, maybe if things *had* been done that way, then a $10k house wouldn't cost $300k today...
More than 10k, sure, but a 30x increase, no.
... and somebody with the patent on mousetraps will probably send you a collections letter....
I remember reading somewhere that BC had also enacted a similar law.
Some people would like the publicity... mega-trolls like this already fall towards the end of "like attention, even when it's negative" so such publicity might be an attraction rather than a deterrent
First: It's good to see that you've taught your child the dangers of peanuts as opposed to the common stance of trying to ban them school-wide. Congrats
Second: I have lots of personal experience with grass/animal allergies. For the pet allergies, the best way to get over those is to get a pet (and not bury your face in it anytime in the near future). I got over allergies to cats and bird that way over time.
Overall, it sounds to me like they need to improve the testing for life-threatening allergies. I'd hate to be banned from something for life only to find that I was never severely allergic in the first place. I do have some life-threatening allergies myself, but knowing how to deal with them is a big part of the battle (and again, congrats on the education vs ban choice).
I used to work in schools. There was one kid who supposedly had one of those look-at-a-peanut-and-die severity of allergies.
The school was made peanut free. One "bully" who was apparently ticked off about no longer being able to eat PB&J at lunch decided to take it out on allergy-kid... but mashing a bunch of peanut in his face.
Was there instant peanut-induced choking and death? Not at all. Allergy-kid simply had to clean the peanut off his face... no reaction.
There are people with severe allergies, but a lot of the peanut scare is a farce.
Maybe he doesn't plan on making money from the power industry, but rather from industry that depends on having consistently available and reliable power...
And what exactly are school IT admins supposed to do about facebook etc?
How about when an irate parent comes in and starts screaming about how little Johnny put up something nasty about little Bobby on facebook...
after school hours...
on a home computer...
What do you want to do?
When you've already banned FB and a few dozen proxy sites, but kids still find other proxies or just use their own smartphones.
What do you do?
When you catch kids doing sh*t on the network that is obviously against policy... ...
You can't permaban them because "computers are needed for schoolwork"
The school can't enact punishment because the previously I-don't-give-a-shit parents suddenly explode at the school admins if their little darlin' actually gets a reprimand...
what do you do?
School IT admin isn't as behind as you might think. It *is* often chronically underfunded compared to other areas, but that funding comes from tax dollars.
The problem is you have way too many people screaming for a technical solution to a social problem, mainly because if it were addressed as a social problem they'd have to deal with it themselves.
"All they are asking is Samsung to stop making devices that look EXACTLY like the equivalent Apple devices"
Which ones would those be? I've got a Galaxy S2, which when I compare it to my GF's iPhone doesn't come anywhere NEAR an exact replica. Yes, it's a f*cking smartphone, so it's black with a full-sized touch-LCD. It's got a power button, mic jack, volume button, and a camera (also a front-facing camera, which my laptop had long before and iPhone did).
It's got a square'ish physical "home" button on the bottom, PLUS a touch-sensitive "back" and "menu" button.
In terms of interface, the stock lock screen had a background picture which you swipe to move off (not like iphone, which had a better lock IMHO). There's a menu bar at the bottom for common function buttons (this initially replaces the "physical" buttons present on my previous phones), and general icons above that. It has multiple desktop screens, which is just as much a clone of my Linux desktop as the iPhone.
Oh, and it has a removable battery, standard micro-USB charge port , and an SD card slot. Again, different from the iPhone and a significant part of the reason why I'm happier with the S2 than I was with my previous iPhone.