You're making a broad assumption that a graduate of a state-sponsored university is equivalent to a man of ideas, which isn't necessarily true even among the so-called elite schools. A central idea of socialism is that everyone is entitled to things like college educations, whether they are men of ideas or not. It doesn't surprise me that a socialist country produces more of something it gives away for free. It's meaningless. All it does is make it harder for the true men of ideas to stand out.
What would surprise me is if the great ideas like the Internet that fueled innovation in recent decades had sprung out of socialist environments. It's not a coincidence that those things happened in the U.S. Even socialistic products like open source software flourish best here.
WHAT!?! Are you saying the Windows limits can't be disabled? TFA didn't say that! Now I'm really mad! (Okay, go ahead and mod me "Lame attempt at humor.")
All kidding aside, I'm thinking they don't really expect to sell any of these things, and it's all political reasons. "See, no one wants to buy the cheap versions. It's just another excuse for piracy." The funny thing is it actually takes more work to make the crippled version they are selling for less.
You should be angry. The feature has been in Linux for years. Stupid Linux hypocrites not getting mad about a feature, just because it is turned off by default.;-)
You mean those few hours that one day several years ago? If you're a windows user, I'll forgive you for thinking operating system configuration is an ongoing expense. Around here, OS configurations outlast the hardware. I'm on my 2nd monitor and 3rd or 4th hard drive since the last time I did anything resembling a reinstall.
Basically, it's not Linux that got this kid in trouble, it's his own stupidity. And he's supposedly a smart CS student, to boot. Where were his 7 proxies?
As one who got into similar trouble in my youth, although thankfully receiving a wake up call before it rose to the level of police involvement, I can say there is a certain dangerous combination of hubris and just enough rope (computer experience) to hang oneself.
Once you have enough experience to know how to actually pull something off and cover your tracks perfectly, it ceases to be a challenge, ceases to be fun, and you aren't even tempted anymore, because actually doing it doesn't prove anything you don't already know, and by that time you are generally wise enough to consider the risks.
Not everyone has the luxury of controlling all the passwords on the systems they are responsible for, but I agree with you for single user systems, especially home systems.
People also forget that not only is this kind of attack unlikely to guess my password, in several years of occasionally being hammered with similar attacks, they have yet to even guess the one username that is allowed ssh access.
I don't know why I'm bothering to correct this fallacy yet again. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment. Prices are set by supply and demand, not by direct cost per unit. Allow me to illustrate in terms of something you sell: your labor. This is your employer or contracted customer speaking, whatever the case may be.
Hey Workers! (all of them!)
You have a problem with overseas outsourcing? Perhaps it's because all of you want to work for an allegedly "fair" wage. Why do you do that?
It doesn't cost you much to come to work. A few bucks for the bus and a lunch. We know you can work for less.
Other workers are much more qualified than you. It's still kind of cumbersome to train someone less skilled... your labor is less valuable to us.
If you greedy BEEP would agree to work for say.... $3 an hour, I'd hire 30 of you right now. If you would work twice as long, I'd hire another 30 right now.
No Way am I paying $25 an hour for a worker.
You brought it on yourselves.
Sound ridiculous? That's the point. If they could generate more total revenue (pdfs and books) by lowering the price, they would do it. They are "greedy BEEP" after all.
Secretary Gates just announced that he is tripling the number of "cyber experts" trained per year. Since he was really picky about which programs actually got increases in funding among several cuts, I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one who wondered why he felt cyberwarfare to be deserving, when we haven't heard much about it in the news. Apparently someone in the media wondered the same thing and set out to answer that question.
Choose to stay employed somewhere so draconian as to actually employ said technology, for one second longer than financially feasible, no.
On the other hand, I don't know what to make of a company who doesn't care that you're posting to slashdot, but is so extremely anal about what web browser you use to do so.
I'd wager that 9/10 stories they report on are nothing more than targeted fluff.
Didn't I just say the good parts only happen when no one is watching? To paraphrase Churchill, Fox News is the most biased tv news channel, except for all the others. Every media outlet is more about entertainment than education nowadays.
If you want real news, you have to form your own opinions from primary sources. A bill is up for debate in Congress, read the bill. The president proposes a budget, read the budget. The Federal Reserve makes a new policy, read their press release. You want to know the administration's policies, read the press conference transcript instead of the filtered version. Subscribe to mailing lists. 95% of the time, when a reporter says "according to _____" you can subscribe directly to their source and get your news hours earlier.
There are two parts to the Fox News Channel: the journalism part and the editorial part. The journalism part is actually pretty "fair and balanced," and that's the part most people refer to when they talk about media bias. Unfortunately, that part comes on while no one is watching.
The editorial part is unabashedly conservative, but even they do a better job than the other channels in at least having someone there to provide token opposition. Their bias is very evident because they provide the contrast right there. Other channels with less obvious bias usually will at best tell you the other side's position in their own words.
I don't understand why a larger key travel would be preferable. I prefer my laptop keyboard precisely because it feels like my fingers barely have to move at all.
Easy, when some politician figures out how to capitalize on it for political gain. Write to your representatives and tell them we need metric conversion jobs to save the economy. If your country already converted to metric, tell them you need to convert back in order to create jobs to save the economy. If we convert back and forth frequently enough, we should be able to stave off another recession indefinitely.
I'd much rather have someone who gets the job done than someone who is tactful.
False choice, people. The vast, vast majority of competent doctors I know (and I know a lot) are both effective and tactful. If a doctor like that told me I needed surgery, I would fire him and shop around for a well-mannered surgeon.
This isn't about using your facebook content as evidence in court, it's about making sure you know when a court date is, and that if you don't show up, the other side is going to get their way. i.e. unemployment disputes, divorces, custody hearings, being sued, etc.
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What would surprise me is if the great ideas like the Internet that fueled innovation in recent decades had sprung out of socialist environments. It's not a coincidence that those things happened in the U.S. Even socialistic products like open source software flourish best here.
WHAT!?! Are you saying the Windows limits can't be disabled? TFA didn't say that! Now I'm really mad! (Okay, go ahead and mod me "Lame attempt at humor.")
All kidding aside, I'm thinking they don't really expect to sell any of these things, and it's all political reasons. "See, no one wants to buy the cheap versions. It's just another excuse for piracy." The funny thing is it actually takes more work to make the crippled version they are selling for less.
You should be angry. The feature has been in Linux for years. Stupid Linux hypocrites not getting mad about a feature, just because it is turned off by default. ;-)
You mean those few hours that one day several years ago? If you're a windows user, I'll forgive you for thinking operating system configuration is an ongoing expense. Around here, OS configurations outlast the hardware. I'm on my 2nd monitor and 3rd or 4th hard drive since the last time I did anything resembling a reinstall.
As one who got into similar trouble in my youth, although thankfully receiving a wake up call before it rose to the level of police involvement, I can say there is a certain dangerous combination of hubris and just enough rope (computer experience) to hang oneself.
Once you have enough experience to know how to actually pull something off and cover your tracks perfectly, it ceases to be a challenge, ceases to be fun, and you aren't even tempted anymore, because actually doing it doesn't prove anything you don't already know, and by that time you are generally wise enough to consider the risks.
Not everyone has the luxury of controlling all the passwords on the systems they are responsible for, but I agree with you for single user systems, especially home systems.
People also forget that not only is this kind of attack unlikely to guess my password, in several years of occasionally being hammered with similar attacks, they have yet to even guess the one username that is allowed ssh access.
Now, that's an endorsement for an OS: "I've repaired it loads of times!"
I don't know why I'm bothering to correct this fallacy yet again. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment. Prices are set by supply and demand, not by direct cost per unit. Allow me to illustrate in terms of something you sell: your labor. This is your employer or contracted customer speaking, whatever the case may be.
Sound ridiculous? That's the point. If they could generate more total revenue (pdfs and books) by lowering the price, they would do it. They are "greedy BEEP" after all.
Thousands of fans who enjoy their legally-obtained pdf copies would disagree with you on the "no harm" part.
Secretary Gates just announced that he is tripling the number of "cyber experts" trained per year. Since he was really picky about which programs actually got increases in funding among several cuts, I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one who wondered why he felt cyberwarfare to be deserving, when we haven't heard much about it in the news. Apparently someone in the media wondered the same thing and set out to answer that question.
Know about the ability, yes.
Choose to stay employed somewhere so draconian as to actually employ said technology, for one second longer than financially feasible, no.
On the other hand, I don't know what to make of a company who doesn't care that you're posting to slashdot, but is so extremely anal about what web browser you use to do so.
I heard they make computers now that can run IE and firefox at the same time!
Seriously, if you hate it that much, have you looked at solutions like this?
Heck, we didn't have the will to do it under the second term of the previous administration. I fear it will take a nuclear 9/11 to wake us up.
Didn't I just say the good parts only happen when no one is watching? To paraphrase Churchill, Fox News is the most biased tv news channel, except for all the others. Every media outlet is more about entertainment than education nowadays.
If you want real news, you have to form your own opinions from primary sources. A bill is up for debate in Congress, read the bill. The president proposes a budget, read the budget. The Federal Reserve makes a new policy, read their press release. You want to know the administration's policies, read the press conference transcript instead of the filtered version. Subscribe to mailing lists. 95% of the time, when a reporter says "according to _____" you can subscribe directly to their source and get your news hours earlier.
There are two parts to the Fox News Channel: the journalism part and the editorial part. The journalism part is actually pretty "fair and balanced," and that's the part most people refer to when they talk about media bias. Unfortunately, that part comes on while no one is watching.
The editorial part is unabashedly conservative, but even they do a better job than the other channels in at least having someone there to provide token opposition. Their bias is very evident because they provide the contrast right there. Other channels with less obvious bias usually will at best tell you the other side's position in their own words.
Hah! The 'last post' achievement is mine!
You cite as an example of becoming a "keeper" a girl who didn't keep you?
I don't understand why a larger key travel would be preferable. I prefer my laptop keyboard precisely because it feels like my fingers barely have to move at all.
If you think anyone at AIG is even suspected of fraud, you really need to get a better news source.
Easy, when some politician figures out how to capitalize on it for political gain. Write to your representatives and tell them we need metric conversion jobs to save the economy. If your country already converted to metric, tell them you need to convert back in order to create jobs to save the economy. If we convert back and forth frequently enough, we should be able to stave off another recession indefinitely.
You're acting like how one behaves towards others is set in stone. Geniuses are more than capable of pretending to be nice.
False choice, people. The vast, vast majority of competent doctors I know (and I know a lot) are both effective and tactful. If a doctor like that told me I needed surgery, I would fire him and shop around for a well-mannered surgeon.
I heard that sometimes in a TV season they don't show all 8760 hours of what happens to those characters in a year.
This isn't about using your facebook content as evidence in court, it's about making sure you know when a court date is, and that if you don't show up, the other side is going to get their way. i.e. unemployment disputes, divorces, custody hearings, being sued, etc.
Since there are dozens of witnesses who know that person offline and use that account to communicate with him online.