Not that I give a damn for the implication of his name, but the fact they gave him a prize just for being obama tells me everything i need to know about that 'esteemed' committee..
bias.. the argument being that not everything progressives push for is any good for anyone but their social and economic (yes economic) lobbies. Same as the right. There are some differences on those lobby lists, but as you go up in donations, you start to see the same corporate interests funding both sides...funny eh? I wonder why that is?
The oil companies/need/ that 20 billion dollar subsidy on top of their windfall profits. Because without it, the oil companies will stop delivering oil. Or something. Because the ruling class of the corporations knows better, for all of us.
as opposed to an all-'knowing' government knows better? a government that routinely flouts the rules it expects everyone else to follow (unless they have lots of cash to buy them off).. sound familiar? it doesn't matter which party you support, you're supporting the same thing. the differences are becoming less and less relevant as time goes on..at least as far as solving today's issues goes..
Anyway, since neither party is doing me any favors, I'd like my freedoms back please. I don't need a bogeyman to keep me in line, nor do i want billions spent to fight it.
no.. it just suggests to her that you'll willingly submit to her whims and judgments about your lifestyle when you're married and she asks you (tells you) to sell your hobby (whatever it is) off so 'we' can afford to do whatever is that she thinks is important..
if you like that stuff, keep it.. if she hates it, you're with the wrong girl. just hit it and leave it.
if roads were all we were paying for, we wouldn't be trillions in debt. there's no reason to tag people's cars unless you want to track where they go and grief them while driving...you know, to bring in more money to the bloated state.
I'm not sure there's anything I can say to that other than to open your eyes and have a look around at what's going on in this world. Hypocrites abound man.. law is only as good as the ethics of those who write and those who enforce..and their track records these days are pretty shitty.
why? it's not that other os's don't have flaws, it's that windows is straddled with use-interface expectations that are not compatible with even basic security (user processes kept separate from base system). yes windows has the capability, but the software infrastructure that supports the os does not tolerate it well. the OOTB security configuration is a joke as well,.. all it does is annoy the user into turning them off. governments and their agencies (and banks and corporations) use windows everywhere.. that's why botnets are so effective.
the only reason the botnets are a threat is because the organizations they attack are used to having big daddy government protect them from everyone else. they don't want to take on the time and expense of designing better systems.. they buy shitty middleware and get hacked, and they think ink on paper is going to protect them.. the single best way to mitigate the botnet problem is to take windows off the market, but of course that'll never happen.
I used to believe that latter part, but today I'm not so sure.. Unfortunately voting doesn't take into account relative intelligence and wisdom. Thus, the drooling head babbling soccer moms beat out the geeks every time. As far as implementation goes, there are always a few sellouts.
you want the rest of us to give up privacy AND take on the mantle of defending an online id that will automatically be considered legitimate by governmental bureaucracies just so you don't have a large spam folder? Wow..
Right now, any safety we have online is the fact that online ids are not taken seriously..
Are you that naive? governments make exceptions to due process all the time.. even laws that are well drafted, honed, and focused to begin with get their scopes widened over time by opportunistic politicians selling out to law enforcement and economic lobbies.
editing the registry using the built-in ms tools is a joke.. it literally is like searching for a needle that might not even be there..
I get can have a machine spend years without needing a SINGLE line of CLI, ever. Can YOU do that? Try this experiment if you think Linux is ready for the desktop: Remove ALL shells. C'mon, Linux is modular, yes? Then remove the shell or mod them down so you can NOT use them! I bet the machine won't even make 6 months, and you sure as hell won't be updating the thing, because without CLI Linux falls down like a house of cards.
since when is CLI bad? no, you just don't care to learn it. fine. that doesn't mean it sucks or is backward. guis suck for some tasks too.
at least linux HAS a decent cli to fall back on.. break windows enough and you might as well just reinstall..and we all know how much of a pain it is to rebuild a complex windows setup from scratch..long gone are the days when we could just put binaries in arbitrary directories...now tons of dlls have to be registered to the right GUIDs (talk about a stupid system) that indicate no relevance to anything. user paths are ridiculously long. instead of/home, it's c:\users\\appData\hiddenthis\locked that. Don't get me started about the unmanageable update system that gives no real details of what's being patched or why without digging through technet..hey wait, this is what ms users complain about having to do with linux: read the docs.
god help you if windows update breaks on your computer leaving you with a cryptic log file and NO real documentation about it besides some half-assed help sites on the internet where everyone's guessing anyway. if you do find a solution, more often than not, guess what? you're told to open a cmd.exe as the localSystem account! instead of that being a sudo away, it's "download psexec.exe and type this blahblah". serious network issues? netsh.exe. linux is an example of a cli done right.. windows is an example of it done wrong. the fact it's broken and the fact that people still need to access it to shore up the GUI speaks volumes. CLI is relevant today and it isn't going anywhere.
Just face the fact that Linux is a SERVER OS, with millions being spent on SERVER tools, and the GUI is an afterthought at best. Sound breaks? Bash, Wireless fucks up? Bash. Video problems? Bash. Hell the answer to EVERY question in Linux is bash.
in windows, when wireless fucks up? try this driver or that one.. oh it still wont stay connected? oh well. read the event logs? oh they don't tell you anything interesting besides the fact the driver stopped with a hex error code you MIGHT find info on if you're lucky? video problems? get the latest drivers? oh they still fucked up your game or autocad? grab the latest ati hotfix..did that solve it? good..oh wait, now your other 3d app isn't working right? linux has similar problems, but it has nothing to do with it's CLI.. problems like this have to do with shitty drivers. blame the vendors, not the os. in the case of logs, at least linux gives you the opportunity to easily enable and search very verbose logs if necessary to get to the bottom of the issue.. you can't do that with windows unless you plan to run the debug version, complete with external slave machine as kernel debugger.
Which is fine if you're an admin, CS grad, or geek with more time than money. For everyone else? News Flash: They ain't touched a CLI in 10 years and they sure as hell ain't about to start now. You show them a command prompt and they think "rinky dink Mickey Mouse OS" and frankly they are right. The fact that Linux can't live without it just shows how far behind it is in the desktop arena. Embedded and server its great, desktop is shit.
last I checked, most CS grads make more than most of the individuals who fall into that 'everyone else' category. 'everyone else' doesn't do what CS grads do. the fact is that there are plenty of functions
the government is large corporate's puppet.. at least here in the states. the bigger the puppet the more damage they can cause with it. I never said the free market will sort anything. governments are becoming the enforcement arms of that global corporation you speak of.
The purchase has to be requested formally, then approved, then ordered, received, and installed
if it costs multiple fractions of the cost of the monitor to get it to the employee, that speaks of really shitty business practices. not the fault of the employee. in this case, the monitor already exists.
The other thing is that sometimes people can be irrational weasels.
And god help the company if someone decides that they don't need a new monitor, but someone else got something cool so they want a better chair. Some people react irrationally to the perceived status inequality behind equipment purchases. It's pure monkey brain at work, but it creates a lot of tiresome whining and bloated spending sometimes.
then it's up to the company execs to grow spines and be the objective leaders they're supposed to be. this requires them to have some knowledge of the subjects they hire people to deal with...not everything, but at least the generalities. in this case they should know enough before oking inter-departmental resource transfers. you don't train a soldier to be an expert marksman and then deploy him with cheap and/or inappropriate hardware. you don't hire a draftsman and pay him going rates to use the latest autocad on a 486. you don't hire a developer at $100,000 a year and then whittle his tool set down solely to appease insecure egos. you just don't. that's terrible leadership..that costs companies money.
Inaft3r left-wingers project their half-truths and willful ignorance of past transgressions caused by government regulation. No, I'm not a right winger.
left and right wingers are stupid. please understand that for them the ideology comes first and they will defend it no matter how much it comes up short in a given situation.. it's nothing more than an emotionally driven religious fervor. it's also why people defend specific politicians no matter how stupid their actions.
most issues are more complex than 'for and against.' thus, the 'fairness doctrine' wasn't really fair at all.. all it did was provide a 'sensibility' sandbox that was defined by popularity, not truth. step outside the box, and you were censored anyway.
it is not facebooks' responsibility to keep it 'safe' for children in the same way it is not the state's responsibility to keep interstate roads safe for kids.. it's the job of the parents to keep kids away from the interstate unless properly restrained in a vehicle..even then there are no guarantees..
a general default policy of openness is what obama ran on for president. refusing to show the pics just suggests to alquada et al that we're weak and fearful. that's what they want. release the damned pics. overall, it would be good for american citizens to see what their government is doing in their name, not just with these pictures, but in general.
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america is not alone in that pasttime..
Not that I give a damn for the implication of his name, but the fact they gave him a prize just for being obama tells me everything i need to know about that 'esteemed' committee..
Doing /anything/ that advances society overall
bias.. the argument being that not everything progressives push for is any good for anyone but their social and economic (yes economic) lobbies. Same as the right. There are some differences on those lobby lists, but as you go up in donations, you start to see the same corporate interests funding both sides...funny eh? I wonder why that is?
The oil companies /need/ that 20 billion dollar subsidy on top of their windfall profits. Because without it, the oil companies will stop delivering oil. Or something. Because the ruling class of the corporations knows better, for all of us.
as opposed to an all-'knowing' government knows better? a government that routinely flouts the rules it expects everyone else to follow (unless they have lots of cash to buy them off).. sound familiar? it doesn't matter which party you support, you're supporting the same thing. the differences are becoming less and less relevant as time goes on..at least as far as solving today's issues goes..
Anyway, since neither party is doing me any favors, I'd like my freedoms back please. I don't need a bogeyman to keep me in line, nor do i want billions spent to fight it.
no.. it just suggests to her that you'll willingly submit to her whims and judgments about your lifestyle when you're married and she asks you (tells you) to sell your hobby (whatever it is) off so 'we' can afford to do whatever is that she thinks is important..
if you like that stuff, keep it.. if she hates it, you're with the wrong girl. just hit it and leave it.
no l2 cache installed, eh?
special pleading... I agree that emulation doesn't always get things right, but when it does, it's REALLY nice.
if roads were all we were paying for, we wouldn't be trillions in debt. there's no reason to tag people's cars unless you want to track where they go and grief them while driving...you know, to bring in more money to the bloated state.
I'm not sure there's anything I can say to that other than to open your eyes and have a look around at what's going on in this world. Hypocrites abound man.. law is only as good as the ethics of those who write and those who enforce..and their track records these days are pretty shitty.
yup. my bad.
what the system says one can do and what can actually be done are two different things.
great.. I'd do that instantly. also, do away with expensive taxes-disguised-as-registration-fees...
why? it's not that other os's don't have flaws, it's that windows is straddled with use-interface expectations that are not compatible with even basic security (user processes kept separate from base system). yes windows has the capability, but the software infrastructure that supports the os does not tolerate it well. the OOTB security configuration is a joke as well,.. all it does is annoy the user into turning them off. governments and their agencies (and banks and corporations) use windows everywhere.. that's why botnets are so effective.
the only reason the botnets are a threat is because the organizations they attack are used to having big daddy government protect them from everyone else. they don't want to take on the time and expense of designing better systems.. they buy shitty middleware and get hacked, and they think ink on paper is going to protect them.. the single best way to mitigate the botnet problem is to take windows off the market, but of course that'll never happen.
I used to believe that latter part, but today I'm not so sure.. Unfortunately voting doesn't take into account relative intelligence and wisdom. Thus, the drooling head babbling soccer moms beat out the geeks every time. As far as implementation goes, there are always a few sellouts.
authentication verifies you are who you say you are.. authorization grants or revokes privileges.
you want the rest of us to give up privacy AND take on the mantle of defending an online id that will automatically be considered legitimate by governmental bureaucracies just so you don't have a large spam folder? Wow..
Right now, any safety we have online is the fact that online ids are not taken seriously..
Are you that naive? governments make exceptions to due process all the time.. even laws that are well drafted, honed, and focused to begin with get their scopes widened over time by opportunistic politicians selling out to law enforcement and economic lobbies.
editing the registry using the built-in ms tools is a joke.. it literally is like searching for a needle that might not even be there..
I get can have a machine spend years without needing a SINGLE line of CLI, ever. Can YOU do that? Try this experiment if you think Linux is ready for the desktop: Remove ALL shells. C'mon, Linux is modular, yes? Then remove the shell or mod them down so you can NOT use them! I bet the machine won't even make 6 months, and you sure as hell won't be updating the thing, because without CLI Linux falls down like a house of cards.
since when is CLI bad? no, you just don't care to learn it. fine. that doesn't mean it sucks or is backward. guis suck for some tasks too.
at least linux HAS a decent cli to fall back on.. break windows enough and you might as well just reinstall..and we all know how much of a pain it is to rebuild a complex windows setup from scratch..long gone are the days when we could just put binaries in arbitrary directories...now tons of dlls have to be registered to the right GUIDs (talk about a stupid system) that indicate no relevance to anything. user paths are ridiculously long. instead of /home, it's c:\users\\appData\hiddenthis\locked that. Don't get me started about the unmanageable update system that gives no real details of what's being patched or why without digging through technet..hey wait, this is what ms users complain about having to do with linux: read the docs.
god help you if windows update breaks on your computer leaving you with a cryptic log file and NO real documentation about it besides some half-assed help sites on the internet where everyone's guessing anyway. if you do find a solution, more often than not, guess what? you're told to open a cmd.exe as the localSystem account! instead of that being a sudo away, it's "download psexec.exe and type this blahblah". serious network issues? netsh.exe. linux is an example of a cli done right.. windows is an example of it done wrong. the fact it's broken and the fact that people still need to access it to shore up the GUI speaks volumes. CLI is relevant today and it isn't going anywhere.
Just face the fact that Linux is a SERVER OS, with millions being spent on SERVER tools, and the GUI is an afterthought at best. Sound breaks? Bash, Wireless fucks up? Bash. Video problems? Bash. Hell the answer to EVERY question in Linux is bash.
in windows, when wireless fucks up? try this driver or that one.. oh it still wont stay connected? oh well. read the event logs? oh they don't tell you anything interesting besides the fact the driver stopped with a hex error code you MIGHT find info on if you're lucky? video problems? get the latest drivers? oh they still fucked up your game or autocad? grab the latest ati hotfix..did that solve it? good..oh wait, now your other 3d app isn't working right? linux has similar problems, but it has nothing to do with it's CLI.. problems like this have to do with shitty drivers. blame the vendors, not the os. in the case of logs, at least linux gives you the opportunity to easily enable and search very verbose logs if necessary to get to the bottom of the issue.. you can't do that with windows unless you plan to run the debug version, complete with external slave machine as kernel debugger.
Which is fine if you're an admin, CS grad, or geek with more time than money. For everyone else? News Flash: They ain't touched a CLI in 10 years and they sure as hell ain't about to start now. You show them a command prompt and they think "rinky dink Mickey Mouse OS" and frankly they are right. The fact that Linux can't live without it just shows how far behind it is in the desktop arena. Embedded and server its great, desktop is shit.
last I checked, most CS grads make more than most of the individuals who fall into that 'everyone else' category. 'everyone else' doesn't do what CS grads do. the fact is that there are plenty of functions
the government is large corporate's puppet.. at least here in the states. the bigger the puppet the more damage they can cause with it. I never said the free market will sort anything. governments are becoming the enforcement arms of that global corporation you speak of.
The purchase has to be requested formally, then approved, then ordered, received, and installed
if it costs multiple fractions of the cost of the monitor to get it to the employee, that speaks of really shitty business practices. not the fault of the employee. in this case, the monitor already exists.
The other thing is that sometimes people can be irrational weasels.
And god help the company if someone decides that they don't need a new monitor, but someone else got something cool so they want a better chair. Some people react irrationally to the perceived status inequality behind equipment purchases. It's pure monkey brain at work, but it creates a lot of tiresome whining and bloated spending sometimes.
then it's up to the company execs to grow spines and be the objective leaders they're supposed to be. this requires them to have some knowledge of the subjects they hire people to deal with...not everything, but at least the generalities. in this case they should know enough before oking inter-departmental resource transfers. you don't train a soldier to be an expert marksman and then deploy him with cheap and/or inappropriate hardware. you don't hire a draftsman and pay him going rates to use the latest autocad on a 486. you don't hire a developer at $100,000 a year and then whittle his tool set down solely to appease insecure egos. you just don't. that's terrible leadership..that costs companies money.
Inaft3r left-wingers project their half-truths and willful ignorance of past transgressions caused by government regulation. No, I'm not a right winger.
left and right wingers are stupid. please understand that for them the ideology comes first and they will defend it no matter how much it comes up short in a given situation.. it's nothing more than an emotionally driven religious fervor. it's also why people defend specific politicians no matter how stupid their actions.
most issues are more complex than 'for and against.' thus, the 'fairness doctrine' wasn't really fair at all.. all it did was provide a 'sensibility' sandbox that was defined by popularity, not truth. step outside the box, and you were censored anyway.
it is not facebooks' responsibility to keep it 'safe' for children in the same way it is not the state's responsibility to keep interstate roads safe for kids.. it's the job of the parents to keep kids away from the interstate unless properly restrained in a vehicle..even then there are no guarantees..
I still don't understand why everyone wants to see the pictures. No, "Because I want to" is not a good reason.
because they should be part of the public record of the event.
No, "Because I want to" is not a good reason.
neither is you being squeamish a reason to censor the truth of what happens in war from those whom a war is being fought in their name.
a general default policy of openness is what obama ran on for president. refusing to show the pics just suggests to alquada et al that we're weak and fearful. that's what they want. release the damned pics. overall, it would be good for american citizens to see what their government is doing in their name, not just with these pictures, but in general.