And that's the point. Now administrators can't even trust their system vendors (Microsoft) to provide security patches, so rather than be pro-active and get patched as soon as possible to prevent exploits, they now have to test everything and slow down the defense process. Way to go Microsoft, you've just gave script kiddies an even larger window of time to operate in!
If you're running exploitable services on the host as well as running virtual machines, you're doing something seriously, seriously wrong. But hey, all security can be screwed up by a sufficiently incompetent admin, right? Just run all processes as root under OpenBSD and see what happens.
Or perhaps switching will cause things like ethanol generation to reach a critical mass where it's actually LESS expensive to use it than it would be to use oil. Go take an economics class, and learn that money != wealth. We won't be poorer unless we end up using a lot more energy to generate an alternative fuel than we do on oil. There's already a lot of investment in alternative solutions, as well as things like Canada's oil shale becoming worthwhile to mine for oil due to the price of oil, which will just increase our supply and stretch it further at current prices. You realize that oil is cheaper now (adjusted for inflation) than it was even in the 1970's, and even in the 1870's? We won't go through any kind of major wars or depression as oil prices increase, just like there was no depression or war when whale oil started dwindling in supply, even though it used to be absolutely vital to a number of industries. Alternatives are being invested in, and finding success in places like Brazil. Economies will shift around for sure, but I really doubt oil will cause any major wars. Rather, any more than it already does.
It's not. He's just saying that turning off security updates are a bad thing to do. Microsoft fucked up, but that doesn't mean you should just not install any security updates. Seriously people... is the reading and comprehension ability coming out of the schools these days really that bad?
I've got a 2GHz Pentium M with 2GB of RAM in my work laptop. Definitely not 64bit, but I'm not seeing it being replaced (or needing to be replaced) within a year. Maybe 2 or 3, but definitely not by 2009. And that's only if 64bit drivers have become more common and stable. There's still going to be a lot of 32bit computing going on well through 2010.
No, we aren't. Oil's just going to get more expensive until alternative technologies are economical, and the research is poured into them to make them usable. That's all there is to it. We will never really "run out" of oil, we'll just supplant a more expensive form of energy with a cheaper one.
The benefit of being able to fly without assistance would be so great that I think it's worthy of dedicating ALL of our research money for anything to it.
If fusion isn't workable in the short term, we're going to lose out. We need to have other research going alongside fusion, simply because you forgot the time element in your calculation of investment to benefit.
Hydrogen is more transportable than uranium, though, and much less polluting (as well as more stable at colder temperatures than oil) Use the uranium to generate the hydrogen, and everyone wins. Or at least, the military wins with the goals it has in mind.
Well, yeah. I don't want a car that has a lag between me starting going and getting up to highway speed that's measurable with the minute hand of a stopwatch. It's just not safe merging onto a 65mph highway at 30.
You contradict yourself in that you agree teachers today aren't as talented as they used to be, but yet you say that there isn't a negative progression in education as time moves forward. If I give you 50 stones, the most you can give someone else is 50, if you even give them that many. You can't give any more. That person having even fewer stones than you did, can pass on even less to the next person. I agree with everything you said but this statement. You can always go pick up more stones by yourself, you aren't dependent on any one person to just give you stones. The problem is that societally we aren't held responsible and cannot fail, as you said, and that passes on to the teachers, some of whom just do the bare minimum to get through and keep their jobs. Which really pisses off the people who love to teach, and are good at it, and actually know what they're talking about.
Are you a lawyer now? Because if not, you just gave legal advice without proper education. Shame on you!
Seriously, are you really that dumb? Who is the authority that says "You are now a mathematician!" or "You are now a behavioral biologist!" Where did they get the authority to issue that decree? From, say, learning about it? There's no magic point where you all of a sudden become an expert, no kind of magical thing that just grants expertise. Most definitely not a degree. Everyone who is an 'expert' is there because they learned about the subject. Whether they do it studying on their own time, through introspection of their own experiences, through an accredited degree program or whatever, the outcome is still largely similar. And it doesn't make them any less of an expert unless you can prove their claims wrong.
That's funny... I use Linux for my scanner for the same reason. It won't work with Windows Vista, and there are no plans to update the drivers for it to do so. It's a great scanner, and it works perfectly under the absolute latest versions of Linux, and has for years. Perhaps you should upgrade your hardware, or check out Linux again? I've found very few non-cheapie scanners and such that don't work under Linux.
You should blame Microsoft for not allowing Linux to interoperate with it, not support them for their monopolistic behavior. Also, consider using Linux-friendly hardware when you're trying to run Linux. Or do you expect Windows to work on your old Amiga?
Sounds like they need to either charge more and get fewer subscribers, or not advertise it as "unlimited" then. The failure of their business assumptions doesn't mean they get a free pass to do whatever the hell they feel like.
Yeah, screw those people who use bittorrent to download game demos and patches, or Linux ISO's, or public domain movies, or even *GASP* use Lotus Notes!!! I mean, it's not like they're paying customers or anything...
And yes, they ARE blocking it, by forging fake packets from their customers. I don't mind them putting the QoS in the basement for bittorrent, but actively falsifying packets is NOT the way to do it, and it's got a good chance of being illegal.
On Apple's site they give you a very easy to find listing of what they do and don't support. Once I finally found Comcast's Terms of Use (I had to go to Google to find it), and it basically says Comcast will block anything pretty much if they just feel like it. When they're a monopoly in the area, I'd think that is pretty much a no-no when they're the providers of an important service like the Internet (past dial-up, which isn't a competitor in any way). I think that either a) Comcast should be required to open it's network to competitors, or b) play fairly as a common carrier and just transmit data as they supposedly sell it.
I'd think that if they were blocking things, that would imply that they're monitoring content, rather than just being a carrier, and that would make them liable for any kinds of bad stuff that DID get through, even over port 80. But I'm obviously not a lawyer. I just think Comcast is trying to have it's cake and eat it too.
Are they not dissatisfied, or are they not dissatisfied enough to clamor for change? Windows may just be "good enough" for them, even if it isn't good for them. I've found lots of people are resistant to change just because it is change. How's the saying go... "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't"? Many, many people live by that phrase.
If you're the kind of guy who just watches football, I could see that. But I still find it easier to see the details of the game when watching in HD, you can follow the ball easier and see what happens more clearly. But programs on channels like DiscoveryHD are well worth it, and the show is quite different in SD versus HD.
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And that's the point. Now administrators can't even trust their system vendors (Microsoft) to provide security patches, so rather than be pro-active and get patched as soon as possible to prevent exploits, they now have to test everything and slow down the defense process. Way to go Microsoft, you've just gave script kiddies an even larger window of time to operate in!
If you're running exploitable services on the host as well as running virtual machines, you're doing something seriously, seriously wrong. But hey, all security can be screwed up by a sufficiently incompetent admin, right? Just run all processes as root under OpenBSD and see what happens.
Or perhaps switching will cause things like ethanol generation to reach a critical mass where it's actually LESS expensive to use it than it would be to use oil. Go take an economics class, and learn that money != wealth. We won't be poorer unless we end up using a lot more energy to generate an alternative fuel than we do on oil. There's already a lot of investment in alternative solutions, as well as things like Canada's oil shale becoming worthwhile to mine for oil due to the price of oil, which will just increase our supply and stretch it further at current prices. You realize that oil is cheaper now (adjusted for inflation) than it was even in the 1970's, and even in the 1870's? We won't go through any kind of major wars or depression as oil prices increase, just like there was no depression or war when whale oil started dwindling in supply, even though it used to be absolutely vital to a number of industries. Alternatives are being invested in, and finding success in places like Brazil. Economies will shift around for sure, but I really doubt oil will cause any major wars. Rather, any more than it already does.
Oh, you've just got sour grapes that Theo's such a genius... wait a second...
I hear they have cyanide in their seeds...
Or you can get a ton of them for free, legally:
http://www.baen.com/library/
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Information isn't just for pirates any more.
It's not. He's just saying that turning off security updates are a bad thing to do. Microsoft fucked up, but that doesn't mean you should just not install any security updates. Seriously people... is the reading and comprehension ability coming out of the schools these days really that bad?
I've got a 2GHz Pentium M with 2GB of RAM in my work laptop. Definitely not 64bit, but I'm not seeing it being replaced (or needing to be replaced) within a year. Maybe 2 or 3, but definitely not by 2009. And that's only if 64bit drivers have become more common and stable. There's still going to be a lot of 32bit computing going on well through 2010.
No, we aren't. Oil's just going to get more expensive until alternative technologies are economical, and the research is poured into them to make them usable. That's all there is to it. We will never really "run out" of oil, we'll just supplant a more expensive form of energy with a cheaper one.
The benefit of being able to fly without assistance would be so great that I think it's worthy of dedicating ALL of our research money for anything to it.
If fusion isn't workable in the short term, we're going to lose out. We need to have other research going alongside fusion, simply because you forgot the time element in your calculation of investment to benefit.
Hydrogen is more transportable than uranium, though, and much less polluting (as well as more stable at colder temperatures than oil) Use the uranium to generate the hydrogen, and everyone wins. Or at least, the military wins with the goals it has in mind.
But what about two of them together?
Well, yeah. I don't want a car that has a lag between me starting going and getting up to highway speed that's measurable with the minute hand of a stopwatch. It's just not safe merging onto a 65mph highway at 30.
Are you a lawyer now? Because if not, you just gave legal advice without proper education. Shame on you!
Seriously, are you really that dumb? Who is the authority that says "You are now a mathematician!" or "You are now a behavioral biologist!" Where did they get the authority to issue that decree? From, say, learning about it? There's no magic point where you all of a sudden become an expert, no kind of magical thing that just grants expertise. Most definitely not a degree. Everyone who is an 'expert' is there because they learned about the subject. Whether they do it studying on their own time, through introspection of their own experiences, through an accredited degree program or whatever, the outcome is still largely similar. And it doesn't make them any less of an expert unless you can prove their claims wrong.
That's funny... I use Linux for my scanner for the same reason. It won't work with Windows Vista, and there are no plans to update the drivers for it to do so. It's a great scanner, and it works perfectly under the absolute latest versions of Linux, and has for years. Perhaps you should upgrade your hardware, or check out Linux again? I've found very few non-cheapie scanners and such that don't work under Linux.
You should blame Microsoft for not allowing Linux to interoperate with it, not support them for their monopolistic behavior. Also, consider using Linux-friendly hardware when you're trying to run Linux. Or do you expect Windows to work on your old Amiga?
No one knows, apparently: cagey
Sounds like they need to either charge more and get fewer subscribers, or not advertise it as "unlimited" then. The failure of their business assumptions doesn't mean they get a free pass to do whatever the hell they feel like.
Yeah, screw those people who use bittorrent to download game demos and patches, or Linux ISO's, or public domain movies, or even *GASP* use Lotus Notes!!! I mean, it's not like they're paying customers or anything...
And yes, they ARE blocking it, by forging fake packets from their customers. I don't mind them putting the QoS in the basement for bittorrent, but actively falsifying packets is NOT the way to do it, and it's got a good chance of being illegal.
On Apple's site they give you a very easy to find listing of what they do and don't support. Once I finally found Comcast's Terms of Use (I had to go to Google to find it), and it basically says Comcast will block anything pretty much if they just feel like it. When they're a monopoly in the area, I'd think that is pretty much a no-no when they're the providers of an important service like the Internet (past dial-up, which isn't a competitor in any way). I think that either a) Comcast should be required to open it's network to competitors, or b) play fairly as a common carrier and just transmit data as they supposedly sell it.
I'd think that if they were blocking things, that would imply that they're monitoring content, rather than just being a carrier, and that would make them liable for any kinds of bad stuff that DID get through, even over port 80. But I'm obviously not a lawyer. I just think Comcast is trying to have it's cake and eat it too.
Have you tried k9copy? I've never used DeVeDe, but I know k9copy works very well for me.
Are they not dissatisfied, or are they not dissatisfied enough to clamor for change? Windows may just be "good enough" for them, even if it isn't good for them. I've found lots of people are resistant to change just because it is change. How's the saying go... "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't"? Many, many people live by that phrase.
If you're the kind of guy who just watches football, I could see that. But I still find it easier to see the details of the game when watching in HD, you can follow the ball easier and see what happens more clearly. But programs on channels like DiscoveryHD are well worth it, and the show is quite different in SD versus HD.