I would guess that 1.3.42 is probably pretty stable, given that no new features have been added for years, and is only a minor update to version 1.3.41 which is over 2 years old as it is. So I would guess anyone still using 1.3 can continue with 1.3.42 for the forseeable future without worries. And if something really bad did come up, apparently they left the option of issuing a security update open.
All that would accomplish is the school having to clean up the mess. In today's environment, it would be better to put a weapon in the locker. Wouldn't have to be a gun or anything like that, a standard kitchen knife would do. Since the school officials had to open the locker, you could be guaranteed that they saw it.
Are you nuts? In two of the cases, the burglar was inside the home, was armed with a gun, and shot at the occupants. One of the other cases the burglar had broken into the house, and had threatened to kill an elderly man. All three of those cases, the use deadly force is completely justified. The only one that is questionable is the one where the burglars were still outside the house and the occupants opened fire, and even then I would say it's justified as the occupants certainly would have felt threatened.
True, but that's not exclusive to pure water, the same thing will happen if you drink too much regular tap water, spring water, mineral water, most sports drinks, or what have you.
Well, there is also the assumption that other civilizations will advance at approximately the same rate as ours. Is there any reason why the "radio age" of other civilizations couldn't last thousands or even millions of years, therefore greatly increasing the changes we'd detect them?
You either defend your trademark or you lose it. The Woolworths case sounds ridiculous, but that's what you have to do to prove that you're actually defending your trademark.
If that was the case, then the courts would be flooded with cases like Nike constantly suing anyone using anything vaguely checkmarkish, Ford suing anyone using anything roundish and blue, and so forth. Since that's not actually what's happening, I'm going to assume that Apple is just being overly litigious.
That's a big one. It seems that the overdrive gear in most automatics is geared lower than the highest gear in the manual version of the same car. Which means that on the highway, the automatic will be turning less RPMs when moving at the same speed as the manual transmission version of the same car. Naturally, this lowers fuel economy, not to mention increasing engine noise and possibly reducing engine life for the manual. I'm not sure why they do this - do people not like to downshift when they pass on the freeway?
Well, you can put a little asterisk next to Windows as XP cannot do DNS lookups over IPv6, which is kind of a big problem if you want to browse the internet using just IPv6 in XP. I kind of doubt Microsoft is ever going to fix this, as this will end up forcing a bunch of people off of XP if the switch ever happens.
He probably meant a Latitude. While it's true that you can throw in a enough crap to make the low end Vostro cost $700+, for that money you're much better off buying a Latitude (or a Thinkpad...) which compares better.
I don't see how virtualization eliminates the threat. Sure, your host OS should remain safe, but your virtual install of XP can be pwn3d by this just like if it was running on real hardware. Better not have anything important on your virtual machine.
A Celeron E1500 isn't all that bad. I built a new computer last summer when I found that my Sempron 3000 with a 9600 Pro couldn't hack HD resolution mkv files (though granted, it almost could do it, it was only slightly choppy). Other than that I was happy with the performance of the computer. Funny thing is I built that computer back when I found my K6-2 couldn't handle DVD resolution DiVX files.
Horseshit. My Belkin powered USB hub at home charges my iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 2G; my D-Link hub at work and two non-Apple car chargers do the same.
It's able to charge because it's a standard pinout. Go back to Best Buy or whatever it is you do that doesn't require you to know basic stuff like that. A real geek would be ashamed.
Perhaps you should educate yourself before spouting out a bunch of nonsense and insults, because you clearly don't know what you're talking about. The USB standard only allows for a device to draw a nominal amount of power unless the port tells the device it can draw more. Or in other words, a device can't just start charging because it sees 5V across the power pins if it wants to adhere to the specification. Now this presents a problem for a "dumb" charger, which was not considered when the standard was drawn up. The solution that many manufacturers use is to play various tricks with the unused pins in the charger, like put a resistor across them, so the device knows it's hooked up to the dumb charger and can draw more current. Of course, since this is not part of the standard, everyone does it differently, so you can't just pair up any old dumb charger with any old device and expect it to work. Especially when you have companies like Apple who realize that they can sell overpriced chargers this way.
Yes, how would we figure it out? It's not like you eat corn and immediately get sick, allowing you to quickly associate one with the other. It's something that acts slowly over long periods of time. How would you know it's corn and not one of the many thousands of things people normally come into contact with everyday? You might recall it took thousands of years for people to figure out that lead is bad for you.
The closed-apple key is my favorite way to tell if a Mac user really is one of the ones who has used Apple for all these years, or is one of the more recent switchers who thinks it's hip to say they've always used Apple. It's amazing how many Mac users have no clue what you're talking about.
Virtualization is pretty much useless for this kind of thing, since the virtual environments are unable to interact on a low level with the hardware. You're pretty much stuck running it on the bare metal.
Well, if you assume a display with 2 million pixels, and a 60hz refresh rate, that means the laser will be lighting up each pixel on the order of 10ns per scan. So yes, it's going to have to be pretty bright.
You're way ahead of yourself. You're assuming that in a unencumbered free market, that the victim would even know that it's GM corn that was making them sick, and that Monsanto is the company responsible. I don't see how would even arrive there without government sponsored research to study things like this.
"What I do care is that GM through its connections in the US Government taking money out of my pocket so someone else can buy this car." -- Are you saying that the Japanese car companies have not exhibited similar collusion with their government? I hope not, because the relationship between Japanese car companies reaches a level we aren't even close to. The South Koreans are even worse... Cancel Reply Parent
I don't see how that affects me on the same level as the US government and GM, as the Japanese and Korean governments aren't the ones taxing me.
Did you miss the whole Cash for Clunkers fiasco? Because that's exactly what happened. The government took everyone's taxpayer dollars, and handed them out to people to buy cars. Of course, since the rebates they handed out were only good for new cars, the people who took advantage of the program were the people who could afford a new car. The people who couldn't afford a new car got screwed, then got screwed again when the government destroyed all the trade-ins which further reduced the supply of used cars.
Keep in mind too that cars nowadays also last longer without rusting. Used to be that the typical 10 year old car in Minnesota would be showing visible rust, nowadays a ten year old car is usually still clean, with perhaps some rust in hidden areas.
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I would guess that 1.3.42 is probably pretty stable, given that no new features have been added for years, and is only a minor update to version 1.3.41 which is over 2 years old as it is. So I would guess anyone still using 1.3 can continue with 1.3.42 for the forseeable future without worries. And if something really bad did come up, apparently they left the option of issuing a security update open.
All that would accomplish is the school having to clean up the mess. In today's environment, it would be better to put a weapon in the locker. Wouldn't have to be a gun or anything like that, a standard kitchen knife would do. Since the school officials had to open the locker, you could be guaranteed that they saw it.
If I remember right, wasn't the automatic in the Sidekick a 3-speed? Must have made for a wild ride!
Are you nuts? In two of the cases, the burglar was inside the home, was armed with a gun, and shot at the occupants. One of the other cases the burglar had broken into the house, and had threatened to kill an elderly man. All three of those cases, the use deadly force is completely justified. The only one that is questionable is the one where the burglars were still outside the house and the occupants opened fire, and even then I would say it's justified as the occupants certainly would have felt threatened.
True, but that's not exclusive to pure water, the same thing will happen if you drink too much regular tap water, spring water, mineral water, most sports drinks, or what have you.
Well, there is also the assumption that other civilizations will advance at approximately the same rate as ours. Is there any reason why the "radio age" of other civilizations couldn't last thousands or even millions of years, therefore greatly increasing the changes we'd detect them?
If that was the case, then the courts would be flooded with cases like Nike constantly suing anyone using anything vaguely checkmarkish, Ford suing anyone using anything roundish and blue, and so forth. Since that's not actually what's happening, I'm going to assume that Apple is just being overly litigious.
That's a big one. It seems that the overdrive gear in most automatics is geared lower than the highest gear in the manual version of the same car. Which means that on the highway, the automatic will be turning less RPMs when moving at the same speed as the manual transmission version of the same car. Naturally, this lowers fuel economy, not to mention increasing engine noise and possibly reducing engine life for the manual. I'm not sure why they do this - do people not like to downshift when they pass on the freeway?
Well, you can put a little asterisk next to Windows as XP cannot do DNS lookups over IPv6, which is kind of a big problem if you want to browse the internet using just IPv6 in XP. I kind of doubt Microsoft is ever going to fix this, as this will end up forcing a bunch of people off of XP if the switch ever happens.
He probably meant a Latitude. While it's true that you can throw in a enough crap to make the low end Vostro cost $700+, for that money you're much better off buying a Latitude (or a Thinkpad...) which compares better.
I don't see how virtualization eliminates the threat. Sure, your host OS should remain safe, but your virtual install of XP can be pwn3d by this just like if it was running on real hardware. Better not have anything important on your virtual machine.
As far as I'm aware, all the Thinkpads still have a VGA out on them. It's just that some models also come equipped with DisplayPort.
A Celeron E1500 isn't all that bad. I built a new computer last summer when I found that my Sempron 3000 with a 9600 Pro couldn't hack HD resolution mkv files (though granted, it almost could do it, it was only slightly choppy). Other than that I was happy with the performance of the computer. Funny thing is I built that computer back when I found my K6-2 couldn't handle DVD resolution DiVX files.
Perhaps you should educate yourself before spouting out a bunch of nonsense and insults, because you clearly don't know what you're talking about. The USB standard only allows for a device to draw a nominal amount of power unless the port tells the device it can draw more. Or in other words, a device can't just start charging because it sees 5V across the power pins if it wants to adhere to the specification. Now this presents a problem for a "dumb" charger, which was not considered when the standard was drawn up. The solution that many manufacturers use is to play various tricks with the unused pins in the charger, like put a resistor across them, so the device knows it's hooked up to the dumb charger and can draw more current. Of course, since this is not part of the standard, everyone does it differently, so you can't just pair up any old dumb charger with any old device and expect it to work. Especially when you have companies like Apple who realize that they can sell overpriced chargers this way.
You mean the same ones that have completely failed to hold anyone accountable thus so far?
Yes, how would we figure it out? It's not like you eat corn and immediately get sick, allowing you to quickly associate one with the other. It's something that acts slowly over long periods of time. How would you know it's corn and not one of the many thousands of things people normally come into contact with everyday? You might recall it took thousands of years for people to figure out that lead is bad for you.
The closed-apple key is my favorite way to tell if a Mac user really is one of the ones who has used Apple for all these years, or is one of the more recent switchers who thinks it's hip to say they've always used Apple. It's amazing how many Mac users have no clue what you're talking about.
Virtualization is pretty much useless for this kind of thing, since the virtual environments are unable to interact on a low level with the hardware. You're pretty much stuck running it on the bare metal.
Well, if you assume a display with 2 million pixels, and a 60hz refresh rate, that means the laser will be lighting up each pixel on the order of 10ns per scan. So yes, it's going to have to be pretty bright.
You're way ahead of yourself. You're assuming that in a unencumbered free market, that the victim would even know that it's GM corn that was making them sick, and that Monsanto is the company responsible. I don't see how would even arrive there without government sponsored research to study things like this.
I don't see how that affects me on the same level as the US government and GM, as the Japanese and Korean governments aren't the ones taxing me.
Did you miss the whole Cash for Clunkers fiasco? Because that's exactly what happened. The government took everyone's taxpayer dollars, and handed them out to people to buy cars. Of course, since the rebates they handed out were only good for new cars, the people who took advantage of the program were the people who could afford a new car. The people who couldn't afford a new car got screwed, then got screwed again when the government destroyed all the trade-ins which further reduced the supply of used cars.
What he said is perfectly correct. 2009 was the first time a VW diesel won. The Audi A3 is the 2010 green car of the year.
Keep in mind too that cars nowadays also last longer without rusting. Used to be that the typical 10 year old car in Minnesota would be showing visible rust, nowadays a ten year old car is usually still clean, with perhaps some rust in hidden areas.
How about blatantly ignoring subpoenas from Congress? If Rove wants to ignore the law, then he can rot in jail.