Yeah, especially against children, like when that 18 year old has consensual sex with his 16 year old girlfriend. Let's lock him up and throw away the key. The problem is that the laws as they stand now aren't sane, nor are the punishments (getting years for possessing pot, but months for beating someone into a coma?)
Get those girls to work 24x7, never making a mistake, and you've got yourself a deal. It may have been a "John Henry"-esque situation, but I'd still take the hard drive over all the girls. Besides, they can't update the data that is indexed very quickly.
You do realize that when Windows is preinstalled, it's seriously tweaked to work correctly? Try installing a retail version of XP on a Vaio. You'll need to go out and download all kinds of drivers and such just to be able to get it working right. Linux, at least it's all there and just needs configured. Almost all system resellers (especially with notebooks) do some significant tweaks in order to make their machines behave properly, such as custom wireless and graphics drivers.
That's only if you believe in short-term profits trumping long-term. Lots of business leaders got their education in the 80's, and it's now en-vogue to just cut costs, always cut costs, always show a profit RIGHT NOW, rather than set yourself up for future stability. Microsoft is working to make a profit right now, rather than working to make a product that will be well-received by the public and recommended by IT professionals. They've been riding the "Nobody ever got fired for choosing Microsoft" wave for a long time, but the beach is coming up, and they better figure out what they're gonna do next. Screwing over their customers and alienating technical professionals who actually know something isn't a good idea in the long run.
Naah. It's just you being unable to tell real science from the bullshit that Crichton writes. It's entertaining, sure, but has very little basis in reality. If you really are scared because of something Crichton wrote, do the world a favor and stop having a public opinion on anything scientific, because you're doing more harm than good.
You only run random commands from people on IRC once. And then you learn. It's a hard lesson, but the Internet isn't a sandbox, kids. It's not safe. If you don't protect yourself, you WILL get taken advantage of.
They're already in a saturated market, so MS doesn't give two fucks about them. Sorry, you get to pay. It's all the poor people who haven't yet become indentured to Microsoft's terms that they give the free hit to. They don't give free hits to friends of crackheads, they give free hits to schoolchildren who haven't been exposed to it yet.
Feel guilty? Seems like you'd be doing humanity a favor... not that someone who takes the 3 "laws" as, well, laws, has much of a chance of breeding anyway.
I didn't get any electrons from you... I got them from the power company. Yours may have started some interactions, but they most assuredly are NOT the electrons currently gracing my data storage devices. And I'm already paying the power company for them.
That doesn't change the fact that I'd still rather have this stuff than not. It's not a magic bullet, but it's still freakin' cool, and covers a lot of stuff. Do you also drink sewer water since the water from your sink isn't guaranteed to be perfectly safe?
They didn't have to amend the constitution because they did an end-run around that with the controlled substances act, which basically gives Congress carte blanche when banning substances they deem undesirable politically. It was originally racially motivated (PDF link).
We should also make sure we have written permission from the government before we say anything that might possibly be objectionable. Free speech is bullshit used to pass along evil violent ideas and child pornography. Why won't you think of the children? Someone should be monitoring everything anyone ever says, just to make sure they aren't committing thoughtcrimes!
I assume you'll just handwave that away as an ineffectual argument, or perhaps chicken-little posturing. Which means you're part of the problem.
Make home directories non-executable, and set up the profiles to only get their startup config from a location other than the home directory, one that's protected from user writing? It wouldn't be that hard.
If it's for a bunch of forums, whoop-de-fuck. If you're using the same password for banking as you do for blog posts, what in the hell is wrong with you? Even Bruce Schneier uses the same password for multiple low-priority sites, and uses different, better passwords for sites where it matters more.
Bullshit. The car driver needs to take responsibility for his own safety. Or do you think that it's the person driving on the highway's fault when they hit some moron who went running across 6 lanes to chase a lost ball cap?
And I blame the rise in that on the demise of vocational schools. It's apparently unacceptable for someone to want to become a truck driver any more, everyone has to become college educated and then become a manger somewhere, even if they don't do anything through college but drink and screw.
Hell, they don't even look before they change lanes. I had one force me over a lane just the other day. You do realize that trucks have a much larger blind spot than most cars, and if you just sit there, there's no way he COULD look to see if you're there? You have to take a bit of responsibility for your own safety as well.
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Yeah, especially against children, like when that 18 year old has consensual sex with his 16 year old girlfriend. Let's lock him up and throw away the key. The problem is that the laws as they stand now aren't sane, nor are the punishments (getting years for possessing pot, but months for beating someone into a coma?)
And the first step in that process is to leave some children behind and let them get an F if they screw up.
Better start caching your SSL certs right now, kids
Get those girls to work 24x7, never making a mistake, and you've got yourself a deal. It may have been a "John Henry"-esque situation, but I'd still take the hard drive over all the girls. Besides, they can't update the data that is indexed very quickly.
You do realize that when Windows is preinstalled, it's seriously tweaked to work correctly? Try installing a retail version of XP on a Vaio. You'll need to go out and download all kinds of drivers and such just to be able to get it working right. Linux, at least it's all there and just needs configured. Almost all system resellers (especially with notebooks) do some significant tweaks in order to make their machines behave properly, such as custom wireless and graphics drivers.
That's only if you believe in short-term profits trumping long-term. Lots of business leaders got their education in the 80's, and it's now en-vogue to just cut costs, always cut costs, always show a profit RIGHT NOW, rather than set yourself up for future stability. Microsoft is working to make a profit right now, rather than working to make a product that will be well-received by the public and recommended by IT professionals. They've been riding the "Nobody ever got fired for choosing Microsoft" wave for a long time, but the beach is coming up, and they better figure out what they're gonna do next. Screwing over their customers and alienating technical professionals who actually know something isn't a good idea in the long run.
If someone fucks you over enough times, it becomes foolish to keep forgiving them.
Yeah, well, MY SP2 makes the firewall start BEFORE the networking is enabled. So there.
Wow. You have no self-respect, do you?
Naah. It's just you being unable to tell real science from the bullshit that Crichton writes. It's entertaining, sure, but has very little basis in reality. If you really are scared because of something Crichton wrote, do the world a favor and stop having a public opinion on anything scientific, because you're doing more harm than good.
I think you missed a checkbox...
No matter how intuitive it seems, Macs don't need regular lubrication with apple juice.
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Just sayin'
You only run random commands from people on IRC once. And then you learn. It's a hard lesson, but the Internet isn't a sandbox, kids. It's not safe. If you don't protect yourself, you WILL get taken advantage of.
They're already in a saturated market, so MS doesn't give two fucks about them. Sorry, you get to pay. It's all the poor people who haven't yet become indentured to Microsoft's terms that they give the free hit to. They don't give free hits to friends of crackheads, they give free hits to schoolchildren who haven't been exposed to it yet.
Feel guilty? Seems like you'd be doing humanity a favor... not that someone who takes the 3 "laws" as, well, laws, has much of a chance of breeding anyway.
I didn't get any electrons from you... I got them from the power company. Yours may have started some interactions, but they most assuredly are NOT the electrons currently gracing my data storage devices. And I'm already paying the power company for them.
That doesn't change the fact that I'd still rather have this stuff than not. It's not a magic bullet, but it's still freakin' cool, and covers a lot of stuff. Do you also drink sewer water since the water from your sink isn't guaranteed to be perfectly safe?
Would that mean that it can protect against a BFG9K?
They didn't have to amend the constitution because they did an end-run around that with the controlled substances act, which basically gives Congress carte blanche when banning substances they deem undesirable politically. It was originally racially motivated (PDF link).
We should also make sure we have written permission from the government before we say anything that might possibly be objectionable. Free speech is bullshit used to pass along evil violent ideas and child pornography. Why won't you think of the children? Someone should be monitoring everything anyone ever says, just to make sure they aren't committing thoughtcrimes!
I assume you'll just handwave that away as an ineffectual argument, or perhaps chicken-little posturing. Which means you're part of the problem.
Make home directories non-executable, and set up the profiles to only get their startup config from a location other than the home directory, one that's protected from user writing? It wouldn't be that hard.
If it's for a bunch of forums, whoop-de-fuck. If you're using the same password for banking as you do for blog posts, what in the hell is wrong with you? Even Bruce Schneier uses the same password for multiple low-priority sites, and uses different, better passwords for sites where it matters more.
Bullshit. The car driver needs to take responsibility for his own safety. Or do you think that it's the person driving on the highway's fault when they hit some moron who went running across 6 lanes to chase a lost ball cap?
And I blame the rise in that on the demise of vocational schools. It's apparently unacceptable for someone to want to become a truck driver any more, everyone has to become college educated and then become a manger somewhere, even if they don't do anything through college but drink and screw.