According to this orlando article, they are discontinuuing this particular service, and are possibly going to go to a different type of wireless service, using private contractors and using different APs, etc. They still like the idea in general, just not the way they were doing it.
I do not have a digital video camera recommendation, but as far as tough goes, the best film camera I own was designed as an underwater camera (low-end hanimex, forget the model, buried in the junk someplace right now). Tough as nails, takes great snapshots on dry land and looks "normal" as cameras go, ie, no weird plexi housing over a regular camera. Perhaps look at those manufacturers who make such UW cameras.
...is more probable and possible, IMO. The tech is more realistic, the training is just training. For instance you can get good personal ballistic armor now,but none of it defends against the actual kinetic force of getting slammed with multiple high speed projectiles, it will still knock you down violently even if it doesn't penetrate the armor. People are frequently hospitalized after they are shot wearing armor. So that Batman stuff is still sorta impossible the way it is portrayed. A "Doc Savage" type superheraux* on the other hand is quite possible, for a large,smart,fast, strong,rich and extraordinarily well trained hoo-mann.
...actually go out of business that way. They start hiring illegals, take them to all their jobs. the guys pay attention and learn the trade. Then they go off and undercut them and take their clients. Sure, that's the "american way", but it's still weird because they do it by skirting laws, violating local housing regs, etc and the government gives them a skate on it. And they do some other sleazy stuff, here's an example. When home depot first opened up, I was one of the first people at their first store, getting there early to get supplies before going to work. After some time I noticed something, the customer service desk started to get a big line in the morning, with illegals returning worn out hardware and demanding replacements. I was flabbergasted, the stuff wasn't new and defective, it was clapped out, but to avoid charges of "racism" Home Depot just sucked it up and gave them new tools! They do this over and over again. Myself, I just would never do anything this skanky. I guess HD just figures it's a cost of business to them, but all the customers pay for it in the long run.
We do all that stuff now from our regular garden, and have already been doing some winter gardening using "hoop houses" over the raised beds. We can or dehydrate a lot of our surplus, or freeze it if there's room in the freezer.
If you can stand the freight for a hardcover book, a friend of mine has an *excellent* piece he wrote called "Strategic Relocation" that covers the whole US and breaks it down so you can pick an area to live based on numerous critical criteria. Authors name is Joel Skousen and he's very well respected in the preparedness and geopolitical buffs communities. He gets a lot of talk show radio time, etc. One of the smarter people I know personally.
url to book off his website, or probably from amazon or b&n, haven't looked
...since I listened to Clark Howard, but I agree, he's a pretty smart guy and knows his "cheap". So I am not surprised that his analysis of that is so good.
that's the spirit! As soon as you can, try to transfer to a rural living situation, even if you primarily do IT/white collar work. land with water is where it's at.. If the economic or social SHTF, it will be "the" place to be. That's why we settled on the farm work, all the normal life necessities are covered, on site. There's no commute. People will always have to eat. Firewood still works. Just this past week we scored a used commercial sized greenhouse. It's dissasembled and transported back here now (THAT was a lot like work in this heat lately), will be assembling it next week or so and already have a local market will take our specialty niche items we plan on selling, like exotic tomatoes, cooking herbs, etc. Those got planted in flats yesterday and today, for teransfer to larger containers later, then into the greenhouse for the fall and winter market. I also plan on trying some modern tech with the installation as well, maybe some indooor aquaculture-fish production, some hydroponics, etc. Who knows, might work out, either way we'll be doing it.
...blue collar guy. In the past couple of decades and change I lost two factory jobs that got shipped overseas. Swell,did the ole "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" thing and went into construction. Had to keep dropping my bids down to about zilch, as I couldn't compete in the area I was in with illegal aliens living a dozen to a single bedroom apartment basically. Moved, it happened again. Finally it was so stupid to do it I just stopped doing it, couldn't even afford to keep my tools and gear in shape.. Swell, went into the tradeshow business doing display set up, watched the labor pool get filled quickly to beyond what was needed as so many blue collar guys who had lost their regular jobs got into it, then the dotcom bubble burst, knocking out a lot of the big booths and shows. Then I got hurt on the job and went broke as I recuperated over 6 months time.
Swell, now I am a farm worker and am watching NAFTA and GATT destroy agriculture, as farmers try to compete with regions that have about zero environmental laws, etc. They don't put up with that "save the flying three eyed newt so screw you mr. farmer, eat it raw" stuff overseas, in those areas like South America, etc where we have to compete internationally. The only thing that is marginally "saving" ag is the cost of oil is making international transpo more expensive, and that's it. A couple more "free trade" globalisation moves and laws, that's it, all she wrote, buh bye US ag. The multinational agcos are screwing everyone, they don't care,they just want you locked into their seed and packing house and distribution channels, and it don't matter to them if you name is Bubba, Jose, Abdul, N'kummah or Apu, they are equal opportunity screwers. It's near impossible to be an independent now. And it's a catch 22, if the dollar drops, stuff costs more but ag stuff can still sell,but people don't have enough of the dollars to make it worth while, if the dollar goes up, more overall jobs are lost, but what is left can be exported, but the people overseas still won't want anything higher priced than what they can do at home. So that point is moot as well. If the dollar drops oil and energy goes up, which means your cost of productyion goes up past what you can charge realistically, ag is severely energy dependent. And foreign nations don't really want our crap anyway, no GM foods, but that's about all the big agcos are pushing.
You tell me what the fix is because I don't know. I'm competing the best I can, but comes a point you just can't compete with people who can live on 50 bucks a month someplace else. You can't do that in the US. I can re-late to the white collars going through the same thing now, just got many years head start on them, same as millions of other blue collars and I can guarantee you that us guys warned you guys starting years ago it was going to come to you big bucks guys sometime, because the boss class is *the same*, no matter what industry you are in. If you in the US making a middle class salary are replaceable overseas for 1/5th the money or less, they will do it, end of story. Those guys are into it for the short term huge money then get out, they *don't care at all* what happens to you. politicians, globalist business bosses, those guys. what they say and what they do are different, pay attention to only what they do and what happens eventually and you can clearly see it.
In the IT world I have no idea other than to go independent and contract and take any job you can get, bank the loot and/or get out of debt totally as quickly as possible.
Me, I own some solar PV but don't own any big home theater system. We have at least two years of simple food on hand, but I don't go out and blow my cash on movies or entertainments anymore. I can see what's coming and decided on some priorities.
When I grew up I talked to a lot of adults who lived through the great depression. It was bad then but tolerable for people as long as they had the necessities of food/water/shelter, etc. City people really got na
The US standard of living hasn't changed a lot but it will *sometime soon*, and that's because the US consumer (and government for that matter) has been on a massive credit binge. Credit based on equity in their homes primarily. There's a reason that the congress lately passed a law severely limiting bankruptcy for private individuals, and that's because these credit issuers smell it coming, bigtime. it's just math after all..
A lot of people now are so strapped, but still wanting to maintain an illusion of prosperity, that they have no principal mortgages,and are only paying interest in perpetuity on those notes hoping that sometime they can sell out and still make something, and that is only because of the unrealistic bloated housing bubble.
The old expression "eating the seed corn" when starving people ate the seeds they needed for next years crop in thew winter, is also similar to a blue collar tradesman pawning his tools on friday night. Rich for the weekend, come monday he's hurting, then no way to go from there, no work. We've pawned our tools by offshoring still useful jobs. We (the fatcat bosses "we") are in that "rich for the weekend" phase right now. That's our economy, and they keep destroying or transferring wealth producing jobs in exchange for wealth re-arranging jobs.
It is unsustainable in the medium and long term, and it will cause a severe economic crash, especially once the flight from the petrodollar picks up more speed as masses of foreigners realise that they will get stuck with worthless paper IOUs. But the people (high level business leaders and politicians) doing it could care less, they will have gotten theirs ahead of time and probably look forward to being mega-rich in a US reduced to second world nation status, as they can enjoy the lifestyle they now have to travel overseas for, ie, the ultimate power over other humans lifestyle, with all that that entails.
That's my take on it anyway. It's planned to happen this way on purpose.
I think it's because of cooties. If something is cootie-fied, and you touch it, you get cooties from it. That's why it's called a MS_C_E. Work on and develop and try to fix cooties. Never works.
And if Moz/FF don't look out it's going to get *thoroughly* cootiefied as well, only a matter of time. It happens to everything that touches the big queen mama cootie.
Easy solution. Go to a site that wants ads for the viewing. Swell, give me a checkbox and I'll decide which of your selections are most interesting to me to view during that session.
think about what that sort of cash would do to help out open software in general terms, all the various neato projects done with a few dollars and a lot of skull sweat. Think about if only a fraction of that went to linux kernel development, say something small, like 100 million dollars, 1/20th of what MS spends on "security research"
I am just amazed at this,it is just a staggering sum for those products and their "security features".
I think bigger news might be if sometime some motherboard company makes a breakthrough and produces their own mobos that will run osx natively, even beating intels lock in hardware feature that Apple is supposed to be using for their next gen mactels.
aaak, still can't quite get used to thinking of that -> "mactel". Just seems icky to me.
...in the law. It's called "maintaining an attractive nuisance". People who fail to adequately safeguard their property can and have been accused of a crime themselves, ie, your stereotypical open swimming pool in a back yard with no fencing, toddler falls in, drowns. Joe local bar, always allows crack sales, after a lot of busts, they frequently get shut down permanently.
Sometimes ignorance is no excuse, and today, you simply have to be seriously bogus to not be aware at a minimal level of net security. I think people who are chronically zombiefied are having less and less of an excuse to claim stoopid -> "I'm innocent!" over it. I mean, how many years does the net have to be in widespread human usage before some responsibility for ones actions and machines are expected? And how long will multi hundred billion dollar corporations be allowed to have zero responsibilities in terms of adequate security designs for software pushed to be used for internet connectivity?
Let's be frank about this, the excuses used by -insert that company- and it's users have grown old now, they ring hollow and...well... whiny. It's time they grew up and admitted at least some fair-share personal and corporate responsiblity for what befalls them.
In other words, if this "poor victim" company consistently fails to design lockable "doors",but continues to sell them with an illusion of lockability, and its users also willingly invite who knows who into their homes through these unlockable doors,by not even bothering to understand the raw basics of "home owner security", despite millions of warnings to the contrary over the years, then it's time they just admitted they are aiding and abetting crimes upon their own persons and "door" company. It's become criminal masochism in a way, actual bona fide negligence. Once, unfortunate, twice, a coincidence, 8,953 times makes any reasonable person assume that they just don't care,that they actually seem to almost like their perpetual victimhood status, so why should anyone else care beyond...disgust?
So in that sense, I will argue that it is perfectly moral and ethical -although not technically "legal" at this time due to the official government rather lack of application of various other laws- to just go ahead and revenge back on the offending malwarez spewing boxes, if one is sure of their reality and ID. And in a larger sense, that "insecure door" company needs a bunch of class action suits against it, at least in one instance challenging that ridiculous "not our fault" no normal consumer product warranty EULA. They owe the computing public billions and billions from outright consumer fraud. IMO that insecure "door" company makes the Enron crew look like benevolent philanthropists.
...on this thing in 2015? What will fuel prices be then? Look at the general state of the airline industry now, then general planetary fuel demands and projected demands. Just china alone is planning on adding 2000 airliners, and over 200 million cars during this upcoming decade, and no telling how many more ships. That's just one nation. *It's the fuel* that needs to be addressed and to have some advanced R&D, they already know how to build supersonic airplanes, most first and second world nations already own bunches of them. You civvie them up, supersize, done, an airliner.
They may build this thing but it will be beyond even "ludicrous speed" Concorde ticket prices is my best guess on it.
MS is a big company. Lotsa money. I would be surprised if they didn't have a variety of black project operating systems in development simultaneously. Of course Longhorn is their next premier *public* effort, but that doesn't mean they might not be "exploring" other avenues for contingecies sake. It costs them little when it's a business deduction after all.
Just like apple maintaining an x86 OSX branch for years, "just in case" is a reality that sometimes proves to be useful when you least suspect it.
So then MS therefore needs d00ds who have a proven track record of original thought as opposed to drudge work. A company needs both kinds, but it has to start with original thinkers before the hard working drudgework drones take over.
for sale-linux and "download and tweak for free" linux. The distros like xandros and linspire, etc are trying to make a user friendly distro,and have to charge cash for those efforts(they have to hire full time guys for this polish work obviously), but they are usually dumped on in this forum as "for noobs". Just reality. I grew up in the early muscle car years in dee-troit, saw the same exact thing, same sort of language, etc. There's people who want a car that just works,just looking for comfortable reliable transportation, then there's fanatical gearheads who want to tweak and tinker and don't mind if this or that works exceedingly well at the expense of something else being ignored and non functional. i.e. something like this -> if want the fastest streetrod you rip out the air conditioning, etc. and those guys are very quick to dump on "normal drivers" and call them names, etc. It's just normal human psychology and behavior near as I can see.
...bad points. Yes, I understand the massive upgrade patch theory. It doesn't have to be that way though, there could be a hybrid middle ware solution that uses dynamic linking with advanced permissions just to change the individual files inside the various apps. a patch only but no running link thingee.
Most of the time there's no outright need to DL the entire app if it's a unixy design with files you would think (at least this rookie thinks that's how it's supposed to be). And with static apps, you can pick and chose which of the now vulnerable apps to keep online with, and to set your permissions corectly, patch those first, then patch the others at your leisure. That's the promise of stuff like xen combined with static compiling.
Anyway, it certainly hasn't hurt apple that I can see. Sometimes the old ways are good, sometimes it's better to admit progress marches on and that the new tradeoffs are worth it. The way linux is now it's a big problem with non compataible package managers and one dynamic link can screw over your whole system. Whyfor do I want that again? I'd rather have it so that I could choose my priorities over "OMG everything is now screwed and you are vulnerable from 16 directions" or "ignore it and take a chance". That's the two choices you have now with bug du jour/dynamic linking and absolutely no standard way for linux packaging. It *sucks*. You can even see it just within the so called debain distro family, allegedly all "debian" yet dozens of ways to do things, yet a vuln can hose a buncha systems and the patches can be quite different because of minute arcane differences in the way they got put together. Now expand that to all the various distros and methods. It's inefficient and buggy to begin with, then it goes downhill from there. Cool thinking 20 years ago no doubt...
There has to be a better way. Full release upgrades suck,why are they even needed??? You should be able to incrementally upgrade in perpetuity, incompatability with app packages sucks the big 1, having a plethora of apps go from working to vulnerable because of one bug in one file in one app/library sucks. It's OK if the fix is that small, but it shouldn't make everything you want to run go useless instantly, that's the major problem, especially for systems that need to stay online 24/7.
No, no DSL yet, currently I just upgrade crap overnight, or that's when I DL mini distros or big apps. Dialup is still a helluva lot better than "no intarweb", heh.
Anyway, I sorta kept track over the past year, the vast majority of security updates I had to patch really wouldn't have effected me much if at all. And I bet it applies to 99% of the computing public, and the other 1% gets paid to dork with that stuff, so it's job security. I don't see a problem with it going to static compiled then. RAM cheap-check. disk space cheap-check. Ability to stick your stuff wherever the heck you want to, double check. if the patch was limited to just the actual fixes and not the whole app, no biggee. DL the files in some sort of permission jail for the patching aspects.
Anyway, something is got to give on this scene, it's gotten beyond outta hand.
IMO, YMMV, IATOOMA (I am talking out of my....) anyway... %^)
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According to this orlando article, they are discontinuuing this particular service, and are possibly going to go to a different type of wireless service, using private contractors and using different APs, etc. They still like the idea in general, just not the way they were doing it.
I do not have a digital video camera recommendation, but as far as tough goes, the best film camera I own was designed as an underwater camera (low-end hanimex, forget the model, buried in the junk someplace right now). Tough as nails, takes great snapshots on dry land and looks "normal" as cameras go, ie, no weird plexi housing over a regular camera. Perhaps look at those manufacturers who make such UW cameras.
....this is Slashdot, I should have used "The Lone Gunmen" instead of "Doc Savage" as a more probable reference....
...is more probable and possible, IMO. The tech is more realistic, the training is just training. For instance you can get good personal ballistic armor now,but none of it defends against the actual kinetic force of getting slammed with multiple high speed projectiles, it will still knock you down violently even if it doesn't penetrate the armor. People are frequently hospitalized after they are shot wearing armor. So that Batman stuff is still sorta impossible the way it is portrayed. A "Doc Savage" type superheraux* on the other hand is quite possible, for a large,smart,fast, strong,rich and extraordinarily well trained hoo-mann.
*Yayyy! Crawfish Man!
...actually go out of business that way. They start hiring illegals, take them to all their jobs. the guys pay attention and learn the trade. Then they go off and undercut them and take their clients. Sure, that's the "american way", but it's still weird because they do it by skirting laws, violating local housing regs, etc and the government gives them a skate on it. And they do some other sleazy stuff, here's an example. When home depot first opened up, I was one of the first people at their first store, getting there early to get supplies before going to work. After some time I noticed something, the customer service desk started to get a big line in the morning, with illegals returning worn out hardware and demanding replacements. I was flabbergasted, the stuff wasn't new and defective, it was clapped out, but to avoid charges of "racism" Home Depot just sucked it up and gave them new tools! They do this over and over again. Myself, I just would never do anything this skanky. I guess HD just figures it's a cost of business to them, but all the customers pay for it in the long run.
We do all that stuff now from our regular garden, and have already been doing some winter gardening using "hoop houses" over the raised beds. We can or dehydrate a lot of our surplus, or freeze it if there's room in the freezer.
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If you can stand the freight for a hardcover book, a friend of mine has an *excellent* piece he wrote called "Strategic Relocation" that covers the whole US and breaks it down so you can pick an area to live based on numerous critical criteria. Authors name is Joel Skousen and he's very well respected in the preparedness and geopolitical buffs communities. He gets a lot of talk show radio time, etc. One of the smarter people I know personally.
url to book off his website, or probably from amazon or b&n, haven't looked
http://www.joelskousen.com/Strategic/strategic.ht
...since I listened to Clark Howard, but I agree, he's a pretty smart guy and knows his "cheap". So I am not surprised that his analysis of that is so good.
that's the spirit! As soon as you can, try to transfer to a rural living situation, even if you primarily do IT/white collar work. land with water is where it's at.. If the economic or social SHTF, it will be "the" place to be. That's why we settled on the farm work, all the normal life necessities are covered, on site. There's no commute. People will always have to eat. Firewood still works. Just this past week we scored a used commercial sized greenhouse. It's dissasembled and transported back here now (THAT was a lot like work in this heat lately), will be assembling it next week or so and already have a local market will take our specialty niche items we plan on selling, like exotic tomatoes, cooking herbs, etc. Those got planted in flats yesterday and today, for teransfer to larger containers later, then into the greenhouse for the fall and winter market. I also plan on trying some modern tech with the installation as well, maybe some indooor aquaculture-fish production, some hydroponics, etc. Who knows, might work out, either way we'll be doing it.
only a few times if I recall correctly
...blue collar guy. In the past couple of decades and change I lost two factory jobs that got shipped overseas. Swell,did the ole "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" thing and went into construction. Had to keep dropping my bids down to about zilch, as I couldn't compete in the area I was in with illegal aliens living a dozen to a single bedroom apartment basically. Moved, it happened again. Finally it was so stupid to do it I just stopped doing it, couldn't even afford to keep my tools and gear in shape.. Swell, went into the tradeshow business doing display set up, watched the labor pool get filled quickly to beyond what was needed as so many blue collar guys who had lost their regular jobs got into it, then the dotcom bubble burst, knocking out a lot of the big booths and shows. Then I got hurt on the job and went broke as I recuperated over 6 months time.
Swell, now I am a farm worker and am watching NAFTA and GATT destroy agriculture, as farmers try to compete with regions that have about zero environmental laws, etc. They don't put up with that "save the flying three eyed newt so screw you mr. farmer, eat it raw" stuff overseas, in those areas like South America, etc where we have to compete internationally. The only thing that is marginally "saving" ag is the cost of oil is making international transpo more expensive, and that's it. A couple more "free trade" globalisation moves and laws, that's it, all she wrote, buh bye US ag. The multinational agcos are screwing everyone, they don't care,they just want you locked into their seed and packing house and distribution channels, and it don't matter to them if you name is Bubba, Jose, Abdul, N'kummah or Apu, they are equal opportunity screwers. It's near impossible to be an independent now. And it's a catch 22, if the dollar drops, stuff costs more but ag stuff can still sell,but people don't have enough of the dollars to make it worth while, if the dollar goes up, more overall jobs are lost, but what is left can be exported, but the people overseas still won't want anything higher priced than what they can do at home. So that point is moot as well. If the dollar drops oil and energy goes up, which means your cost of productyion goes up past what you can charge realistically, ag is severely energy dependent. And foreign nations don't really want our crap anyway, no GM foods, but that's about all the big agcos are pushing.
You tell me what the fix is because I don't know. I'm competing the best I can, but comes a point you just can't compete with people who can live on 50 bucks a month someplace else. You can't do that in the US. I can re-late to the white collars going through the same thing now, just got many years head start on them, same as millions of other blue collars and I can guarantee you that us guys warned you guys starting years ago it was going to come to you big bucks guys sometime, because the boss class is *the same*, no matter what industry you are in. If you in the US making a middle class salary are replaceable overseas for 1/5th the money or less, they will do it, end of story. Those guys are into it for the short term huge money then get out, they *don't care at all* what happens to you. politicians, globalist business bosses, those guys. what they say and what they do are different, pay attention to only what they do and what happens eventually and you can clearly see it.
In the IT world I have no idea other than to go independent and contract and take any job you can get, bank the loot and/or get out of debt totally as quickly as possible.
Me, I own some solar PV but don't own any big home theater system. We have at least two years of simple food on hand, but I don't go out and blow my cash on movies or entertainments anymore. I can see what's coming and decided on some priorities.
When I grew up I talked to a lot of adults who lived through the great depression. It was bad then but tolerable for people as long as they had the necessities of food/water/shelter, etc. City people really got na
The US standard of living hasn't changed a lot but it will *sometime soon*, and that's because the US consumer (and government for that matter) has been on a massive credit binge. Credit based on equity in their homes primarily. There's a reason that the congress lately passed a law severely limiting bankruptcy for private individuals, and that's because these credit issuers smell it coming, bigtime. it's just math after all..
A lot of people now are so strapped, but still wanting to maintain an illusion of prosperity, that they have no principal mortgages,and are only paying interest in perpetuity on those notes hoping that sometime they can sell out and still make something, and that is only because of the unrealistic bloated housing bubble.
The old expression "eating the seed corn" when starving people ate the seeds they needed for next years crop in thew winter, is also similar to a blue collar tradesman pawning his tools on friday night. Rich for the weekend, come monday he's hurting, then no way to go from there, no work. We've pawned our tools by offshoring still useful jobs. We (the fatcat bosses "we") are in that "rich for the weekend" phase right now. That's our economy, and they keep destroying or transferring wealth producing jobs in exchange for wealth re-arranging jobs.
It is unsustainable in the medium and long term, and it will cause a severe economic crash, especially once the flight from the petrodollar picks up more speed as masses of foreigners realise that they will get stuck with worthless paper IOUs. But the people (high level business leaders and politicians) doing it could care less, they will have gotten theirs ahead of time and probably look forward to being mega-rich in a US reduced to second world nation status, as they can enjoy the lifestyle they now have to travel overseas for, ie, the ultimate power over other humans lifestyle, with all that that entails.
That's my take on it anyway. It's planned to happen this way on purpose.
I think it's because of cooties. If something is cootie-fied, and you touch it, you get cooties from it. That's why it's called a MS_C_E. Work on and develop and try to fix cooties. Never works.
And if Moz/FF don't look out it's going to get *thoroughly* cootiefied as well, only a matter of time. It happens to everything that touches the big queen mama cootie.
Easy solution. Go to a site that wants ads for the viewing. Swell, give me a checkbox and I'll decide which of your selections are most interesting to me to view during that session.
...on "security"
uh huh
think about what that sort of cash would do to help out open software in general terms, all the various neato projects done with a few dollars and a lot of skull sweat. Think about if only a fraction of that went to linux kernel development, say something small, like 100 million dollars, 1/20th of what MS spends on "security research"
I am just amazed at this,it is just a staggering sum for those products and their "security features".
...iPods, so this isn't that far fetched.
I think bigger news might be if sometime some motherboard company makes a breakthrough and produces their own mobos that will run osx natively, even beating intels lock in hardware feature that Apple is supposed to be using for their next gen mactels.
aaak, still can't quite get used to thinking of that -> "mactel". Just seems icky to me.
...in the law. It's called "maintaining an attractive nuisance". People who fail to adequately safeguard their property can and have been accused of a crime themselves, ie, your stereotypical open swimming pool in a back yard with no fencing, toddler falls in, drowns. Joe local bar, always allows crack sales, after a lot of busts, they frequently get shut down permanently.
Sometimes ignorance is no excuse, and today, you simply have to be seriously bogus to not be aware at a minimal level of net security. I think people who are chronically zombiefied are having less and less of an excuse to claim stoopid -> "I'm innocent!" over it. I mean, how many years does the net have to be in widespread human usage before some responsibility for ones actions and machines are expected? And how long will multi hundred billion dollar corporations be allowed to have zero responsibilities in terms of adequate security designs for software pushed to be used for internet connectivity?
Let's be frank about this, the excuses used by -insert that company- and it's users have grown old now, they ring hollow and...well... whiny. It's time they grew up and admitted at least some fair-share personal and corporate responsiblity for what befalls them.
In other words, if this "poor victim" company consistently fails to design lockable "doors",but continues to sell them with an illusion of lockability, and its users also willingly invite who knows who into their homes through these unlockable doors,by not even bothering to understand the raw basics of "home owner security", despite millions of warnings to the contrary over the years, then it's time they just admitted they are aiding and abetting crimes upon their own persons and "door" company. It's become criminal masochism in a way, actual bona fide negligence. Once, unfortunate, twice, a coincidence, 8,953 times makes any reasonable person assume that they just don't care,that they actually seem to almost like their perpetual victimhood status, so why should anyone else care beyond...disgust?
So in that sense, I will argue that it is perfectly moral and ethical -although not technically "legal" at this time due to the official government rather lack of application of various other laws- to just go ahead and revenge back on the offending malwarez spewing boxes, if one is sure of their reality and ID. And in a larger sense, that "insecure door" company needs a bunch of class action suits against it, at least in one instance challenging that ridiculous "not our fault" no normal consumer product warranty EULA. They owe the computing public billions and billions from outright consumer fraud. IMO that insecure "door" company makes the Enron crew look like benevolent philanthropists.
...on this thing in 2015? What will fuel prices be then? Look at the general state of the airline industry now, then general planetary fuel demands and projected demands. Just china alone is planning on adding 2000 airliners, and over 200 million cars during this upcoming decade, and no telling how many more ships. That's just one nation. *It's the fuel* that needs to be addressed and to have some advanced R&D, they already know how to build supersonic airplanes, most first and second world nations already own bunches of them. You civvie them up, supersize, done, an airliner.
They may build this thing but it will be beyond even "ludicrous speed" Concorde ticket prices is my best guess on it.
Never used it, just aware of it. Something like this?
MS is a big company. Lotsa money. I would be surprised if they didn't have a variety of black project operating systems in development simultaneously. Of course Longhorn is their next premier *public* effort, but that doesn't mean they might not be "exploring" other avenues for contingecies sake. It costs them little when it's a business deduction after all.
Just like apple maintaining an x86 OSX branch for years, "just in case" is a reality that sometimes proves to be useful when you least suspect it.
So then MS therefore needs d00ds who have a proven track record of original thought as opposed to drudge work. A company needs both kinds, but it has to start with original thinkers before the hard working drudgework drones take over.
is OSX really that slow? How do they do it?
for sale-linux and "download and tweak for free" linux. The distros like xandros and linspire, etc are trying to make a user friendly distro,and have to charge cash for those efforts(they have to hire full time guys for this polish work obviously), but they are usually dumped on in this forum as "for noobs". Just reality. I grew up in the early muscle car years in dee-troit, saw the same exact thing, same sort of language, etc. There's people who want a car that just works,just looking for comfortable reliable transportation, then there's fanatical gearheads who want to tweak and tinker and don't mind if this or that works exceedingly well at the expense of something else being ignored and non functional. i.e. something like this -> if want the fastest streetrod you rip out the air conditioning, etc. and those guys are very quick to dump on "normal drivers" and call them names, etc. It's just normal human psychology and behavior near as I can see.
...bad points. Yes, I understand the massive upgrade patch theory. It doesn't have to be that way though, there could be a hybrid middle ware solution that uses dynamic linking with advanced permissions just to change the individual files inside the various apps. a patch only but no running link thingee.
Most of the time there's no outright need to DL the entire app if it's a unixy design with files you would think (at least this rookie thinks that's how it's supposed to be). And with static apps, you can pick and chose which of the now vulnerable apps to keep online with, and to set your permissions corectly, patch those first, then patch the others at your leisure. That's the promise of stuff like xen combined with static compiling.
Anyway, it certainly hasn't hurt apple that I can see. Sometimes the old ways are good, sometimes it's better to admit progress marches on and that the new tradeoffs are worth it. The way linux is now it's a big problem with non compataible package managers and one dynamic link can screw over your whole system. Whyfor do I want that again? I'd rather have it so that I could choose my priorities over "OMG everything is now screwed and you are vulnerable from 16 directions" or "ignore it and take a chance". That's the two choices you have now with bug du jour/dynamic linking and absolutely no standard way for linux packaging. It *sucks*. You can even see it just within the so called debain distro family, allegedly all "debian" yet dozens of ways to do things, yet a vuln can hose a buncha systems and the patches can be quite different because of minute arcane differences in the way they got put together. Now expand that to all the various distros and methods. It's inefficient and buggy to begin with, then it goes downhill from there. Cool thinking 20 years ago no doubt...
There has to be a better way. Full release upgrades suck,why are they even needed??? You should be able to incrementally upgrade in perpetuity, incompatability with app packages sucks the big 1, having a plethora of apps go from working to vulnerable because of one bug in one file in one app/library sucks. It's OK if the fix is that small, but it shouldn't make everything you want to run go useless instantly, that's the major problem, especially for systems that need to stay online 24/7.
No, no DSL yet, currently I just upgrade crap overnight, or that's when I DL mini distros or big apps. Dialup is still a helluva lot better than "no intarweb", heh.
Anyway, I sorta kept track over the past year, the vast majority of security updates I had to patch really wouldn't have effected me much if at all. And I bet it applies to 99% of the computing public, and the other 1% gets paid to dork with that stuff, so it's job security. I don't see a problem with it going to static compiled then. RAM cheap-check. disk space cheap-check. Ability to stick your stuff wherever the heck you want to, double check. if the patch was limited to just the actual fixes and not the whole app, no biggee. DL the files in some sort of permission jail for the patching aspects.
Anyway, something is got to give on this scene, it's gotten beyond outta hand.
IMO, YMMV, IATOOMA (I am talking out of my....) anyway... %^)
static compiled-wave of the future. Disk space=cheap.
...about the high school lad who asked slashdot where to get an intern position? Look for that,last week sometime, there's your sysadmin d00d!
networking, it's all networking!
Terrasoft has announced they have no intention of switching or ceasing Linux development for PPC arch.